[SOLVED] NVIDIA Driver 515.57 starting properly

[bishop f4]

SOLVED:

Reinstall the drivers from scratch and reboot after uninstalling from host and container before installing again.



uname -r shows 5.15.53-1-pve

Installing 515.57 drivers to GPU passthrough my GTX960 to a Plex container.
I am following this guide on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Us8KPOhOCY

root@SZ-pve1:~# dmesg | grep nvidia
[    5.182889] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    5.182902] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[    5.202812] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 235
[    5.203795] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[    5.325177] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  515.57  Wed Jun 22 22:31:08 UTC 2022
[    5.384286] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[    5.391559] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 508.
[    5.412456] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[    5.412458] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
[   14.262280] audit: type=1400 audit(1663388695.324:4): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="nvidia_modprobe" pid=2921 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   14.262285] audit: type=1400 audit(1663388695.324:5): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="nvidia_modprobe//kmod" pid=2921 comm="apparmor_parser

Running nvidia-smi -a -d UTILIZATION shows:

==============NVSMI LOG==============

Timestamp                                 : Fri Sep 16 19:12:07 2022
Driver Version                            : 515.57
CUDA Version                              : 11.7

Attached GPUs                             : 1
GPU 00000000:01:00.0
    Utilization
        Gpu                               : 0 %
        Memory                            : 0 %
        Encoder                           : 0 %
        Decoder                           : 0 %
    GPU Utilization Samples
        Duration                          : Not Found
        Number of Samples                 : Not Found
        Max                               : Not Found
        Min                               : Not Found
        Avg                               : Not Found
    Memory Utilization Samples
        Duration                          : Not Found
        Number of Samples                 : Not Found
        Max                               : Not Found
        Min                               : Not Found
        Avg                               : Not Found
    ENC Utilization Samples
        Duration                          : Not Found
        Number of Samples                 : Not Found
        Max                               : Not Found
        Min                               : Not Found
        Avg                               : Not Found
    DEC Utilization Samples
        Duration                          : Not Found
        Number of Samples                 : Not Found
        Max                               : Not Found
        Min                               : Not Found
        Avg                               : Not Found

Motherboard: MSI C236A Workstation
CPU: E3-1240v6

I can't seem to find anything in the BIOS settings about there being a hardware block for the GPU to not be initialized but also this worked before I moved it to this system and upgraded to a new kernel bit. Is this a kernel issue?? I have lot's of questions to why it might not be working.