can't get nvidia drivers to load

[Ashleyyyy]

so i've been messing around with pci-e passthrough, and gotten that to work. 

 

however in the process i seem to have messed up my nvidia drivers. my 780Ti is running on nouveau even though the nvidia drivers are installed...

[Willowwizard]

Can you check the output of lsmod to see if the 'nvidia' module is loaded?
$ lsmod | grep -i "nvidia"

If it isn't, nvidia might be blacklisted in a .conf file in /etc/modprobe.d/

[Ashleyyyy]

18 minutes ago, TakataruMC said:

$ lsmod | grep -i "nvidia"

this returned nothing

 

i checked modprobe.d but it doesn't seem like it's blacklisted. 

[riklaunim]

nouveau may have priority and thus nvidia won't load. You would have to blacklist nouveau first.

[Ashleyyyy]

5 minutes ago, riklaunim said:

nouveau may have priority and thus nvidia won't load. You would have to blacklist nouveau first.

tried that a number of times. 

 

weirdly the nvidia 390 driver has issues, but 340 works just fine