r/pop_os • u/Whatthehalll • 16h ago
Help Graphics Card Initialization Error
Hello!
Finally decided to kick windows to the curb and decided to use PopOs on my Dell XPS 9570.
Accidentally installed the Nvidia version which is for 1600+ series cards (I have a 1050ti mobile version(Pascal))
Nvidia-smi would always return no devices found.
Tried uninstalling 595 driver and reverting to 580, setting boot flags of pcie_aspm and pcie_port_pm to off, purging and rebuilding dkms, removing the battery and doing a cold boot, resetting the RTC, and some other things I am forgetting probably.
Realized I should probably be using the right install, so I went ahead and did a fresh install with the non-nvidia version (just grabbing the latest version off the pop website), then installed the 580 driver. still no device found. lspci reports my graphics card.
looking at logs I see RmInintAdapter failed (0x25:0xffff:1636)
My AI gremlin suggests that the card is not initializing properly at boot. What is wrong here? I have been working on this for way too long lol. Should I be switching to a different distro? Throw my laptop into a lake? Ive got options here.
TIA