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NPU not detected after installing the driver

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I installed 1.23.0 drivers from the release page https://github.com/intel/linux-npu-driver/releases

when i try to list devices NPU is not available.

```
>>> import openvino as ov
...
... core = ov.Core()
...
... core.available_devices
...
['CPU', 'GPU']

```

```
sudo dmesg | grep "vpu"
[ 9.019352] intel_vpu 0000:00:0b.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 9.023673] intel_vpu 0000:00:0b.0: [drm] Firmware: intel/vpu/vpu_40xx_v0.0.bin, version: Jul 23 2025*NPU40xx*build/ci/npu-fw-ci-main-20250721_233537-27032-2-g52e7ebee50a*52e7ebee50a93a07d14a1f162226cd55ad3999f0
[ 9.023676] intel_vpu 0000:00:0b.0: [drm] Scheduler mode: OS
[ 9.047819] [drm] Initialized intel_vpu 1.0.0 for 0000:00:0b.0 on minor 0
[ 12.972463] intel_vpu 0000:00:0b.0: [drm] Firmware: intel/vpu/vpu_40xx_v0.0.bin, version: Mar 6 2025*NPU40xx*ci_tag_ud202512_vpu_rc_20250306_1130*5064b5debc377e1c4b74f69dc14e2e536dba393d
[ 12.972473] intel_vpu 0000:00:0b.0: [drm] Scheduler mode: OS
[ 13.081734] [drm] Initialized intel_vpu 1.0.0 for 0000:00:0b.0 on minor 0

```

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