I know there are multiple Topic regarding nvidia drivers but I checked them and tried their stuff, still doesn’t work. I’m on Fedora 40 and I’ve been trying to set up gpu for pytorch-cuda. I tried many thing but it didn’t worked. At some point I was able to run nvcc --version, but nvidia-smi always …

First, I never recommend installing nvidia drivers nor cuda from any location other than the rpmfusion repo. Guidance on doing that is available here. https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration https://rpmfusion.org/Howto The current release of cuda for fedora is 12.4 and is installed as shown with tho…

Re-installed as per the instruction still same error. polaris@fedora:~$ rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-550.78-1.fc40.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-550.78-1.fc40.x86_64 nvidia-modprobe-550.78-1.fc40.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-550.78-1.fc40.x86_64 nvidia-settings-55…

That shows most of the packages are installed but does not show the driver is loaded. It also does not show the nvidia-gpu-firmware package which is mandatory for use of almost all nvidia gpus. Please reinstall that package with sudo dnf install nvidia-gpu-firmware After reinstalling the firmware…

Sorry for reviving this thread, but I have exactly the same issue: gallia@fedora:~$ 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. gallia@fedora:~$ modinfo -F version nvidia 595.80 I have se…

[image] Gallia Felwinter: My GPU is NVIDIA Quadro P520 if you need to know this. Your card isn’t supported by the 595 drivers - see this topic for instructions on how to move back to the 580 drivers .

For Fedora 40, `nvidia-smi` does not work even after re-installing multiple times

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pg-tips (P G) June 18, 2026, 3:13pm 6

Your card isn’t supported by the 595 drivers - see this topic for instructions on how to move back to the 580 drivers.

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For Fedora 40, `nvidia-smi` does not work even after re-installing multiple times

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