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Just got a new GPU, why is it so hard to use it? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 days ago by OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hey all, just got a Geforce 5070 to replace my 2070 from years ago. Ubuntu's been pretty smooth sailing for me until now, and I'm not exactly the best at navigating this stuff.

When Ubuntu starts to boot, the GPU stops outputting display to my monitor. As though it doesn't detect the new GPU. I tried putting the 2070 back in and downloading the 570 drivers but it didn't change anything. I found a tutorial for what seemed to be my issue that asked me to change the kernel, but halfway through the tutorial, commands that worked on their machine started failing on mine. I wish I'd documented what the error messages were because when I went to poke around more today, I got a message about kernel panic and can't even boot with the 2070. Where do I go from here?

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you have at least Ubuntu 24.10 and the NVIDIA 570.133.07 driver installed with the 2070, it should be plug and play with the new card.

If you put the 2070 in are you able to get a working system?

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was able to boot on the 2070. I'll try on a newer version of Ubuntu.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Can you run nvidia-smi and confirm you're on the 570 driver?

Also after you do a failed boot with the 5070 put the 2070 back in and try run this command journalctl -b -1 -p 0..2 to check the log from the previous boot and filter for only high priority issues. This should give some insight on whats failing when you try and boot with the 5070.

Another dumb check but have you got the display cables plugged into the gpu?

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah the display cable is definitely plugged in. It displays the TUF logo on startup and I can get into BIOS settings while the monitor is plugged into the GPU. I only get 'no input detected' once I try to boot.

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nvidia-smi output:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 2099 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 143MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2358 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 105MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2950 G ...exec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 10MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 5684 G .../6565/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 167MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 8244 G /usr/bin/nautilus 13MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 8333 G ...tcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher 20MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Can you run Journalctl and take a look at the logs from one of the boots with the 5070? You can use journalctl -b -0 for current boot -1 for the previous boot -2 for two boots ago etc. -p 0..2 to limit the output to events from critical to severe priority.

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think I'm on 24.04.3 LTS. May I ask what is in 24.10 that would make a difference?

[–] Auth@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

24.10 is a minimum. If you're on 24.04 that means you are very up to date and have the 6.14 kernel which is new enough. So we can rule that out as an issue.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

6.14 is 25.04, not 24.04

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My bad, I got it from this website and assumed it was correct. https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-24-04-3-lts-released-with-bug-fixes-and-security-updates/