Hello! I am having issues getting my PopOS install to recognize and use my RTX 2070, and am really hoping someone might be able to help as I’m out of ideas and don’t want to start from scratch.

Symptoms:

  • I can boot to and use my desktop however the frame rate is stuck at 93.00fps@1440p (I cant change either of these settings), and I get weird visual glitches.
  • The ‘about’ section in settings says my graphics is llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6, 256 bits)
  • Running lsmod | grep -E 'nvidia|nouveau' returns no results
  • Running systemctl status nvidia-powerd.service returns a few errors: Allocate client failed 38 and Failed to initialize RM Client

What I’ve tried:

  • Updating via apt
  • Purging and re-installing the nvidia drivers in apt as instructed on the PopOS website
  • Installing a gpu profile selector and changing to both nvidia and intel profiles (strangely always reverts to hybrid after reboot)
  • Running PopOS off of a usb drive (it works perfectly, 2070 is detected)

Let me know if I can get any other logs or information, I am not very knowledgeable in this area and don’t know what might be useful

  • @Sf298OPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    So I ran that command (it took a while, but completed successfully) then tried nvidia-smi both before and after a reboot. Sadly its still in the same position.

    From what I understood in the docs, it creates/updates a ramdisk for each kernel I have installed? By the look of it, I might have a load of kernel versions still installed, is it worth removing some of them?