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I've been using Ubuntu 20.04 alongside ROS Noetic for my course in my previous laptop which had an AMD CPU with an iGPU, so never really had to struggle with drivers. I had to get a new laptop (ASUS TUF Gaming F15 2022) which has an Intel i7-12700H and an RTX 3060. The 12th gen processor (as far as I know) means I had to install a newer kernel (which was a hassle by itself because the laptop wouldn't boot to GUI (or not at all in some cases, had to do a minimal install with no updates and no extra drivers/proprietary software and unplug the ethernet cable during the whole process)).

I ended up using mainline to install the 5.16.20 kernel via the Ctrl + Alt + F2 CLI, but it still didn't boot into GUI until I sudo apt installed the nvidia drivers 470. Seeing that this worked I would have thought that the NVIDIA GPU was the one rendering the desktop, but when I run nvidia-smi it outputs the "not installed or not running" error.

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aaron@lap-aarongrt:~$ sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for aaron:
*-display UNCLAIMED

description: VGA compatible controller
product: NVIDIA Corporation
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:620-61f memory:5f000000-5fffffff memory:6000000000-61ffffffff memory:6200000000-6201ffffff ioport:3000(size=128) memory:60000000-6007ffff
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 0c
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: iomemory:620-61f iomemory:400-3ff memory:622e000000-622effffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff memory:4010000000-4016ffffff memory:4020000000-40ffffffff


aaron@lap-aarongrt:~$ nvidia-settings


ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded


ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system


(nvidia-settings:6371): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 18:28:45.665: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** Message: 18:28:45.667: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 18:28:45.667: PRIME: is it supported? no

I spent the whole yesterday trying out solutions, including the prime-select nvidia one and a bunch more. I also disabled Secure Boot and Fast Boot and am running Dual Boot with Windows11. I have the nvidia-bug-report if it's of any use to you guys, I can't really tell anything from it. If you have any clue of what's going on please let me know!

Thanks!

Aarón RT

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  • Did you try adding pcie=rescan to the kernel boot parameters (file /etc/default/grub at the "quiet splash" words). Then sudo update-grub and reboot. – ubfan1 Apr 26 '22 at 01:19
  • @ubfan1 I changed it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash pcie=rescan", updated the file, rebooted but sadly nvidia-smi shows the same error. – aaron Apr 26 '22 at 02:14
  • Sorry should have been pci=realloc See https://askubuntu.com/questions/1401935/nvidia-causes-problem-with-my-system#comment2433286_1401935 – ubfan1 Apr 26 '22 at 02:43
  • I believe I had tried that one to no avail. I did a fresh install though, so maybe I'll give it another shot and let you know. – aaron Apr 26 '22 at 13:25
  • Also check that the firmware from the vendor is up-to-date. And recheck every now and then, new laptops are usually a few revs out of date. – ubfan1 Apr 26 '22 at 15:26
  • @ubfan1 I fixed it! Check my answer below. Thanks a lot for your help my guy! – aaron Apr 26 '22 at 15:46

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I fixed it following generix's answer on this post

Go to https://liquorix.net/#install and follow the kernel install instructions for ubuntu:

Run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damentz/liquorix && sudo apt-get update

then:

sudo apt-get install linux-image-liquorix-amd64 linux-headers-liquorix-amd64

reboot the system, if you choose "Advanced settings for Ubuntu" you'll see the newly installed kernel (5.17 liquorix something something). Select it.

After booting I could already use my GPU, but since I have a 12th gen Intel CPU generix said I had to also install these files.

Open a new terminal and run:

cd Downloads/


wget https://packages.ubuntu.com/de/impish-updates/all/linux-firmware/download

After it finishes downloading run:

sudo dpkg -i linux-firmware_1.201.5_all.deb

Change the name of the downloaded file if needed.

Reboot and I was done!

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