Ubuntu 21.10 - "Failed to grab modeset ownership" with 495.44

HI All,
The warning message is expected. When a client (such as the modesetting driver) attempts to open our DRM device node while modesetting permission is already acquired by something else (like the NVIDIA X driver), it has to fail, but the kernel won’t let us return a failure after v5.9-rc1, so we print this message. It won’t impact functionality of the NVIDIA X driver that already has modesetting permission. Safe to ignore as long as long as you didn’t need the other client to actually get modesetting permission. If you want to suppress the error, you would need to find which client is attempting to open the NVIDIA DRM device node and prevent it from doing so.

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