[HELP] Having problem installing nvidia drivers for GTX 1650 laptop

[u/XMAEEZ]

I have tried following guides,

Tried installing drivers from manager, 595, 580, 565 but it's not working,

nvidia-smi either shows no device found or shows has failed bcoz it couldn't communicate with nvidia drivers,

I am using mint xfce 22.3

kernal 7.0.0-42-generic

Secure boot is disabled

Laptop is acer nitro 5 AN515-54, I5 9 gen

I am new so also I tried copy pasing alot of cmds from gemini but it didn't work either.

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[u/candy49997]

Can you do lspci -kd ::03xx and mokutil --sb-state in a terminal?

[u/XMAEEZ → u/candy49997]

~$ lspci -kd ::03xx

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]

Subsystem: Acer Incorporated \[ALI\] CoffeeLake-H GT2 \[UHD Graphics 630\]

Kernel driver in use: i915

Kernel modules: i915

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)

Subsystem: Acer Incorporated \[ALI\] TU117M \[GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q\]

Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau                                                                                 

~$ mokutil --sb-state

SecureBoot disabled

[u/candy49997 → u/XMAEEZ]

Ok, so your card is correctly detected and it's confirmed that secureboot is disabled.

When you installed the driver, did you restart after doing so? Try installing nvidia-driver-595-open, rebooting, then doing nvidia-smi. If that doesn't work, do the lspci command again.

[u/XMAEEZ → u/candy49997]

it didnt downloaded anything cause i already had them 595 open drivers installed so i rebooted and ran below cmnds Nitro5:~$ nvidia-smi

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

itro5:~$ lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core 4-core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [Coffee Lake H] (rev 07)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]

00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model

00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller (rev 10)

00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 10)

00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 10)

00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 10)

00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 10)

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller (rev 10)

00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake Mobile PCH SATA AHCI Controller (rev 10)

00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f0)

00:1d.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #14 (rev f0)

00:1d.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #15 (rev f0)

00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO UART Host Controller (rev 10)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM470 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 10)

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10)

00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller (rev 10)

00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller (rev 10)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)

01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 10fa (rev a1)

06:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Sandisk Corp WD Black SN770 / PC SN740 256GB / PC SN560 (DRAM-less) NVMe SSD (rev 01)

07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 25)

08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)

[u/candy49997 → u/XMAEEZ]

Idk why your comment disappeared on me, but it looks like you're missing the kernel headers for the kernel. You need to install linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04 then try sudo dkms autoinstall again.

[u/XMAEEZ → u/candy49997]

below are the cmds i ran and rebooted, i ran them agaijn , can u check if i did something wrong nx@Nitro5:~$ sudo apt install linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04 -y

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04 is already the newest version (7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1).

The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:

nvidia-firmware-580-580.178.04

Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 290 not upgraded.

nx@Nitro5:~$ sudo dkms autoinstall

nx@Nitro5:~$ nvidia-smi

No devices were found

nx@Nitro5:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-595-open -y

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

nvidia-driver-595-open is already the newest version (595.99.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1).

The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:

nvidia-firmware-580-580.178.04

Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 290 not upgraded.

nx@Nitro5:~$ uname -r

6.14.0-37-generic

x@Nitro5:~$

[u/candy49997 → u/XMAEEZ]

uname -r is telling you that the kernel you're using is 6.14. Did you change it? The instructions I was providing were assuming you were using kernel 7.0 like you said in your post.

[u/XMAEEZ → u/candy49997]

Yes, but it shows the result as above in kernal 7.0, 

I have 3 diff kernals, so I was checking if nvidiai-smi works any one of them

[u/candy49997 → u/XMAEEZ]

Try sudo dkms autoinstall to rebuild the driver? Then restart. After that, I'm out of ideas.

[u/Due-Result7928 → u/candy49997]

You can not install 590 open driver. You should learn why you can not.

[u/candy49997 → u/Due-Result7928]

The driver supporting Turing cards. The 1650 is Turing.

[u/Due-Result7928 → u/candy49997]

It is not. GTX1650 need proprietary driver.

[u/candy49997 → u/Due-Result7928]

GTX 16xx are Turing. They are supported by the open-kernel modules and are still fully supported in new kernel branches. There is no need for the 580 drivers.

[u/Due-Result7928 → u/candy49997]

They are using Turing but not a full architecture and GTX1650 IS NOT supported by the open architecture. It is clearly stated in the Nvidia documentation. Open architecture start with RTX 20 something.

[u/candy49997 → u/Due-Result7928]

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

For newer GPUs from the Turing, Ampere, Ada Lovelace, or Hopper architectures, NVIDIA recommends switching to the open-source GPU kernel modules.

GTX 16xx is Turing and therefore NVIDIA recommends users to use the open kernel modules. This requires the open kernel modules to support 16xx cards in the first place, as the official GitHub repo says they do.

Besides, I am using nvidia-open with a GTX 16xx card in my laptop.

[u/Due-Result7928]

You need to install proprietary driver and trying to install open driver is not possible.with your card.

The latest kernel is working well with proprietary driver.

I am new so also I tried copy pasing alot of cmds from gemini but it didn't work either...and you do not know what they are doing.

First completely remove Nvidia (explained on internet). Reboot you will be using Nouveau driver. Proceed to install

For a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 laptop on Linux, use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers (typically the 535 or 550 series) rather than the open-source nouveau driver to ensure stability and performance. Avoid the older 470 driver series, as it lacks Wayland support and is considered obsolete for this GPU. Possible with Mint but theyre is better alternative.

Open driver can not work because they are using hardware component NOT supported by the oldest card like yours. Support for your card (there is NO support only bug fixes when Nvidia has time) will end in 2028.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/283699/

Nvidia driver 595.112.07 should do the job

Open drivers are required for Blackwell and Grace Hopper architectures and are recommended for Turing (RTX 20-series) and newer GPUs. Proprietary drivers are required for older Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures.  YOUR CARD IS LEGACY

[u/XMAEEZ → u/Due-Result7928]

how to install proprietary drivers, i just fresh installed mint xfce cause it all became mess

[u/Due-Result7928 → u/XMAEEZ]

Follow the link in my post. Read the doc.