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cryptokronos

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Registered: 2018-06-10

Posts: 1

Nvidia drivers not working

I've updated my entire OS to the latest version packages, and after upgrading the Kernel to 4.16.13-2, the nvidia drivers stopped working. I've tried some tutorials and read the official wiki manuals with regards to Bumblebee, Nvidia and Optimus, but i still doesn't got my GPU working yet. Here are some outputs from common commands i've read in the guidelines:

Testing optirun:

$ optirun glxspheres

[49435.131315] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver

[49435.131390] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

Trying to run nvidia settings

$ nvidia-settings 

ERROR: Unable to find display on any available system

Trying to enable Nvidia module

$ modprobe nvidia

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device

I don't really know what is happening. It used to work properly. I'm using GNOME, and a GeForce 820M notebook series.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,544

Re: Nvidia drivers not working

does the current driver support your card?

Askannz

Member

Registered: 2016-10-22

Posts: 36

Re: Nvidia drivers not working

Maybe you did that already, but just in case, check if the card is on :

$ cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch

You should have bbswitch installed if you followed the official instructions.
If it reports "OFF" instead of "ON", try to power on the card :

$ sudo tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<<ON

Additionnally :

• To rule out any hardware issue, check if the card is properly detected (lspci | grep VGA)

• What is your nvidia driver version ?

Last edited by Askannz (2018-06-11 06:10:59)

nnt

Member

Registered: 2018-06-27

Posts: 19

Re: Nvidia drivers not working

Just registered to say that I have the exact same problem, with exact same video card. Until I updated today, everything worked perfectly, but now for some reason modprobe can't find the nvidia module anymore. Anyone has any idea how to solve this?

Output of "systemctl status bumblebeed.service":

Jun 27 21:21:10 hyperborea systemd[1]: Started Bumblebee C Daemon.
Jun 27 21:21:10 hyperborea bumblebeed[9843]: [  647.170408] [INFO]/usr/bin/bumblebeed 3.2.1 started
Jun 27 21:21:15 hyperborea bumblebeed[9843]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
Jun 27 21:21:15 hyperborea bumblebeed[9843]: [  652.261319] [ERROR]Module nvidia could not be loaded (timeout?)
Jun 27 21:21:15 hyperborea bumblebeed[9843]: [  652.261350] [ERROR]Could not load GPU driver

Edit:
Immediately after I solved it, I realized the answer was here. Seems it's a pretty recent change. Installling nvidia-390xx and dependencies fixed the problem. I hope this helps anyone else searching for the same problem.

Last edited by nnt (2018-06-27 19:31:50)