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[bazzite/nvidia] Plymouth "nvidia kernel module not loaded. Falling back to nouveau"

I switched from kinoite to bazzite with nvidia about a month ago.
With recent updates, I'm getting the message in the title during boot.

My kargs:
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nowatchdog gpu_sched.sched_policy=0 nvidia_drm.modeset=1
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nowatchdog gpu_sched.sched_policy=0 nvidia_drm.modeset=1

❯ lsmod|grep -i nvidia 
nvidia_drm            118784  25
nvidia_modeset       1585152  47 nvidia_drm
nvidia_uvm           3526656  12
nvidia              62394368  1073 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
video                  81920  3 i915,nouveau,nvidia_modeset
❯ lsmod|grep -i nvidia 
nvidia_drm            118784  25
nvidia_modeset       1585152  47 nvidia_drm
nvidia_uvm           3526656  12
nvidia              62394368  1073 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
video                  81920  3 i915,nouveau,nvidia_modeset

❯ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga 

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] [10de:1c03] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device [3842:6161]
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
--
        Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device [3842:6161]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
❯ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga 

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] [10de:1c03] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device [3842:6161]
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
--
        Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device [3842:6161]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

❯ systemctl status  nvidia-fallback.service
● nvidia-fallback.service - Fallback to nouveau as nvidia did not load
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-fallback.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (exited) since Tue 2024-02-13 15:38:39 GMT; 2min 25s ago
    Process: 1121 ExecStart=/sbin/modprobe nouveau (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 1235 ExecStartPost=/bin/plymouth message --text=NVIDIA kernel module missing. Falling back to nouveau (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 1121 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 468ms

Feb 13 15:38:38 akane systemd[1]: Starting nvidia-fallback.service - Fallback to nouveau as nvidia did not load...
Feb 13 15:38:39 akane systemd[1]: Finished nvidia-fallback.service - Fallback to nouveau as nvidia did not load.
❯ systemctl status  nvidia-fallback.service
● nvidia-fallback.service - Fallback to nouveau as nvidia did not load
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-fallback.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (exited) since Tue 2024-02-13 15:38:39 GMT; 2min 25s ago
    Process: 1121 ExecStart=/sbin/modprobe nouveau (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 1235 ExecStartPost=/bin/plymouth message --text=NVIDIA kernel module missing. Falling back to nouveau (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 1121 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 468ms

Feb 13 15:38:38 akane systemd[1]: Starting nvidia-fallback.service - Fallback to nouveau as nvidia did not load...
Feb 13 15:38:39 akane systemd[1]: Finished nvidia-fallback.service - Fallback to nouveau as nvidia did not load.
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