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jemofthewest

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Registered: 2012-02-27

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[SOLVED] NVIDIA proprietary driver issues

So I've been trying to switch from nouveau to the proprietary NVIDIA drivers because my gaming performance is terrible. I have a GTX 460 which can run Kerbal Space Program at max specs without blinking on Windows 7, but can barely make min specs in Linux.

I followed the wiki to install the nvidia and lib32-nvidia-libgl packages. I tried this both with the basic config in the wiki and the one using nvidia-xconfig. startx would fail with "failed to initialized the NVIDIA kernel module". lsmod showed that nouveau was loaded, so after much struggling I finally got it blacklisted in the kernel parameters (/etc/modprobed.d/* shenanigans didn't work).

lsmod | grep nouv

returned nothing. I still got this error:

http://sprunge.us/EFID

Is there something I'm missing? I thought I read somewhere that Xinerama+NVIDIA doesn't work well lately.

Last edited by jemofthewest (2015-03-01 22:08:03)

graysky

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA proprietary driver issues

Did you install from nvidia's website or from [extra]?

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lucke

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA proprietary driver issues

See what "modprobe nvidia" returns and see what dmesg has to say.

jemofthewest

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Registered: 2012-02-27

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA proprietary driver issues

SOLVED! Keeping information below for reference. Turns out after using uname -r to share, I was booting into my LTS kernel. All the blacklisting issues went away too. Thanks! Double check your kernel...

Did you install from nvidia's website or from [extra]?

I installed from [extra].

See what "modprobe nvidia" returns and see what dmesg has to say.

I get the error:

modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found.

And it doesn't log anything to dmesg.