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shailesz

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Registered: 2021-01-10

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] nvidia card not working

I have a legacy Nvidia card.
I followed the wiki on Nvidia drivers here

i have installed nvidia-390xx-dkms

i know my card works because i had this card working on my current lts kernel until had to repartition and do a fresh install.

i am on a laptop, with i5 4200U.

output of:

lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 05f4
	Kernel driver in use: i915
--
08:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Dell GeForce GT 720M
	Kernel modules: nouveau

output of :

uname -r

5.4.87-1-lts

Last edited by shailesz (2021-01-10 13:35:58)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,351

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia card not working

reads like 390xx didn't install properly, what is/was the install log? Did you make sure to have the linux-lts-headers installed?

shailesz

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Registered: 2021-01-10

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia card not working

the 390xx is installed properly there was no error message. but i do not have linux-lts-headers installed. i will follow up asap.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,351

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia card not working

Without the kernel headers the DKMS package cannot compile the kernel module that would be necessary.

shailesz

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Registered: 2021-01-10

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia card not working

thank you sir
i seem to have solved the issue with your help.
i had not installed linux-lts-headers and nvidia-390xx-dkms was not installed on my device.
also had to use bumblebee : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee
turns out need this to run display managers when on a laptop with a integrated and discrete graphics card.
again, thank you sir.