Nvidia driver seems to be not installed

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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A certain program that needs a graphics card installed, is not working properly.

When I check the ‘System Settings > About This System’ GUI tab, I see no graphics card installed:

Operating System: EndeavourOS 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Kernel Version: 6.1.58-1-lts (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NV136

If anyone can guide me with installation of the driver.

inxi -Fxxc0z | eos-sendlog

System:
  Kernel: 6.1.58-1-lts arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.8 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
    Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: Z68 Pro3 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: P1.60 date: 07/13/2011
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-2600K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3562 high: 3689 min/max: 1600/3800 cores: 1: 3532
    2: 3496 3: 3689 4: 3665 5: 3487 6: 3486 7: 3652 8: 3493 bogomips: 54294
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
    vendor: ASRock driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6 ports: active: none
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3, VGA-1
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0122
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] vendor: PNY driver: nouveau
    v: kernel arch: Pascal pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: HDMI-A-4 empty: DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1c03 temp: 48.0 C
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv,vesa
    dri: nouveau,crocus gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-4 mapped: HDMI-4 model: ViewSonic VX3276-QHD
    res: 2560x1440 dpi: 93 diag: 801mm (31.5")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: crocus device: 1 drv: nouveau
    device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: crocus surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11:
    drv: nouveau inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 23.2.1-arch1.2 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NV136 device-ID: 10de:1c03
  API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: ASRock 6 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:1c20
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: PNY
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f1
  Device-3: JMTek LLC. TKGOU PnP USB Microphone
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-1.4:3 chip-ID: 0c76:1467
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.58-1-lts status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.82 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: d000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: wgpia0 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.74 TiB used: 27.54 GiB (1.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Transcend model: TS512GSSD230S size: 476.94 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0A-00SM50
    size: 465.76 GiB speed: <unknown> serial: <filter>
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-07WN4A0
    size: 931.51 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
  ID-4: /dev/sdd vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-00WN4A0
    size: 931.51 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 914.85 GiB used: 27.54 GiB (3.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 998 MiB used: 288 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdd1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 38.6 MiB (7.5%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 48.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 0
Info:
  Processes: 294 Uptime: 1h 42m Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.54 GiB
  used: 8.43 GiB (54.3%) Init: systemd v: 254 default: graphical Compilers:
  gcc: 13.2.1 Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1063 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.30
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Have you tried installing the driver manually using the official nvidia website and open the console (tty) by pressing ctrl + alt + f2 or f3. once you have login to your console, you can temporarily stop the display manager and de by typing:

sudo systemctl stop lightdm or gdm

sudo systemctl stop graphical.target (this may be the incorrect way to stop your DE)

Once you have stop all the grahpical interface, run this command where you have downloaded your NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-535.113.01.run (remember to make this executable by using chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-535.113.01.run):

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-535.113.01.run

Once you have installed the driver, remember to restart your pc and hopefully :crossed_fingers: that will solved the issue. If that doesn’t work, I think this may help too new-nvidia-driver-installer

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that borks systems. NEVER install anything from websites on Linux especially graphic drivers.

that is the only way to safely install graphic drivers.

you are correct, you only have the free driver installed. Nvidia sucks with free drivers.
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thank you for the replies.
I installed nvidia-inst and it seems it has solved the problem. :slightly_smiling_face:

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