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.servicereturns a few errors:Allocate client failed 38andFailed 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
Purge any existing NVIDIA driver packages with
sudo apt purge ~nnvidia. Runsudo apt autoremoveto remove any remaining orphaned packages on the system. And then install the current driver withsudo apt install nvidia-driver-525. After rebooting, you should get stats when runningnvidia-smiin a terminal.Thank you for the really quick reply! I copy and pasted each of those commands exactly, and did a reboot before and after the install, but I’m still experiencing the same issues.
nvidia-smireturns the following:NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.It seems like a very strange issue.
Are you able to update the initramfs manually with
sudo update-initramfs -c -k all? Besides custom kernels or relying on an oldkern boot, that’s the only thing I can think of that might be causing a difference between what’s in the initramfs and what’s installed on the system.So I ran that command (it took a while, but completed successfully) then tried
nvidia-smiboth 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?
If you open a terminal and run
sudo apt install system76-driver-nvidiawhat output do you get?Wow you guys work fast! I ran that line and got the following:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done system76-driver-nvidia is already the newest version (20.04.79~1683832504~22.04~3e9def1). 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
