Nvidia card recognized but not functional

Operating System ZimaOS
1

Hello, I’m having a problem; I’m using Zima OS v1.5.4 .
The graphics card is recognized, but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything. Do you have any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks.

Device info

CPU Intel(R) Core™ i5-6300HQ CPU @ 2.30GHz 4 Cores2.80 GHz4 Threads
GPU Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] (rev a2)

nvidia-smi

Fri Apr 3 09:00:38 2026
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.105.08 Driver Version: 580.105.08 CUDA Version: 13.0 |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+
| 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 GeForce GTX 950M On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 44C P8 N/A / 200W | 0MiB / 2048MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+

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

2

You’re actually in a good spot, your GPU is already working.

nvidia-smi showing the card with no errors means the driver and CUDA are installed correctly. The reason you’re seeing 0% usage and no processes is simply because nothing is using the GPU yet.

ZimaOS doesn’t use the GPU automatically. It will only be used if a container or app is specifically configured to use it (for example Jellyfin, Ollama, etc.).

So this isn’t a detection issue, it’s just that no workload is running on the GPU.

One thing to keep in mind as well is that the GTX 950M is quite an older mobile GPU, so support is limited depending on what you’re trying to run (especially newer AI workloads).

If you can share what app you’re trying to use the GPU with, we can guide you on how to enable it properly.