Sorry about that, I should have posted the error from dmesg. I tried a different approach, and it looks promising.
I went back to DS918+
Extracted nvidia modules from DS1618+ pat (there was no nvidia-drm module)
insmod /usr/lib/modules/nvidia.ko
insmod /usr/lib/modules/nvidia-modeset.ko
insmod /usr/lib/modules/nvidia-uvm.ko
Modified and installed NVIDIARuntimeLibrary-dva3221-1.0.1-0014.spk
/usr/local/bin/nvidia-smi gives me:
Sat Dec 12 10:29:13 2020
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 440.44 Driver Version: 440.44 CUDA Version: 10.2 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 106... On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 32% 34C P8 5W / 120W | 0MiB / 6078MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
/usr/local/bin/nvidia-smi -pm 1:
Enabled persistence mode for GPU 00000000:01:00.0.
All done.
I'll work on testing with Plex tonight.
I don't see a /dev/dri is that normal for NVidia? is there something else I should be looking for?
Nevermind, I see it now
ls /dev/modules/nvid*
/dev/nvidia0
/dev/nvidiactl