Setting up vGPU on NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada and error with the Display Mode Selector tool

[hakai.chris]

Hello,

I am having an issue running the Display Mode Selector tool to be able to put my NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada into the "physical_display_disabled" mode required to set up vGPU in Proxmox.

I have searched both the Proxmox forums and the NVIDIA forums and while I have seen others with this error, I have not seen a solution.

Here is the error I am running into:

./displaymodeselector --gpumode

NVIDIA Display Mode Selector Utility (Version 1.67.0)
Copyright (C) 2015-2021, NVIDIA Corporation. All Rights Reserved.


WARNING: This operation updates the firmware on the board and could make
         the device unusable if your host system lacks the necessary support.

Are you sure you want to continue?
Press 'y' to confirm (any other key to abort):
y
Select a number:
<0> physical_display_enabled_256MB_bar1
<1> physical_display_disabled
<2> physical_display_enabled_8GB_bar1

Select a number (ESC to quit):
1

Specifed GPU Mode "physical_display_disabled"


Update GPU Mode of all adapters to "physical_display_disabled"?
Press 'y' to confirm or 'n' to choose adapters or any other key to abort:
y

Updating GPU Mode of all eligible adapters to "physical_display_disabled"

Apply GPU Mode <4> corresponds to "physical_display_disabled"

Reading EEPROM (this operation may take up to 30 seconds)

Reading EEPROM (this operation may take up to 30 seconds)

Provided version is older than factory version 95.02.59.00.09

ERROR: Downgrading to a version older than the factory version is not allowed.

It appears the GPU BIOS is 95.02.59.00.08 on my card.

Has anyone run into this error and is there a solution?

Thanks!

 

[l.leahu-vladucu]

Hello hakai.chris! Could you please provide us with the output of:

• nvidia-smi
• lspci -d 10de:

What you are describing sounds like a bug in Nvidia's displaymodeselector tool, but the output of the commands above should give us a bit more information.

 

[hakai.chris]

Hi l.leahu-vladucu, Thank you for your reply.

Here are the outputs you are after:

nvidia-smi
Tue Mar 25 07:57:31 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.124.03             Driver Version: 570.124.03     CUDA Version: N/A      |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Gene...    Off |   00000000:0D:00.0 Off |                  Off |
| 30%   43C    P0             98W /  300W |       0MiB /  49140MiB |      2%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

and

lspci -d 10de:
0d:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation AD102GL [L6000 / RTX 6000 Ada Generation] (rev a1)
0d:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation AD102 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

Thanks for your help.

Chris

 

[l.leahu-vladucu]

Thanks for the info! You are right that you need to flash the card, but as you noticed, the displaymodeselector does not work properly for you. Unfortunately, there is little Proxmox can do at this point. My guess is that the displaymodeselector tool has some out of date / invalid info, causing the issues you are describing. You will need to contact Nvidia - they will be able to help you further.