[SOLVED]Removing non-pacman NVIDIA drivers

buzzwallard · 2021-06-03 16:36:29

I installed NVIDIA via https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Lin … 4/390.143/ (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-465.31.run) I had to do this because the gpu is so old that I have to go to NVIDIA's basement for it.

I'm having a number of issues with this driver so now want to roll back to the nouveau -- already installed. However pacman doesn't know about the driver so how do I get rid of it other than hacking about madly. The wiki is up-to-date with the available drivers so where do I go?

Last edited by buzzwallard (2021-06-03 19:58:46)

loqs · 2021-06-03 16:42:21

Did you try:

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-465.31.run --help

Did you missing the warning from NVIDIA#Installation, when you installed the driver directly from nvidia.com?

Slithery · 2021-06-03 16:58:03

When you have uninstalled the drivers from the website bear in mind that there are older versions packaged for Arch available in the AUR.

buzzwallard · 2021-06-03 17:12:32

loqs wrote:

Did you try:
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-465.31.run --help
Did you missing the warning from NVIDIA#Installation, when you installed the driver directly from nvidia.com?

I saw that warning but I needed a driver not available through pacman. Perhaps I misunderstood. Much new information here to process.

So :

"--advanced-options" reveals "--uninstall".

Thanks.

However...

After running that nugget it looks like I'm real trouble.

Yah. Coming to you from an entirely different machine.

Last edited by buzzwallard (2021-06-03 17:13:28)

loqs · 2021-06-03 17:19:25

If it is X failing try Ctrl+Alt+F2 or Systemd#Change_current_target to multi-user.target. Then post the output of:

# pacman -Qkk 2>&1 | grep -Fv '0 altered files'

See the tip box from pastebin to post from the console.

buzzwallard · 2021-06-03 19:14:54

loqs wrote:

If it is X failing try Ctrl+Alt+F2 or Systemd#Change_current_target to multi-user.target. Then post the output of:
# pacman -Qkk 2>&1 | grep -Fv '0 altered files'
See the tip box from pastebin to post from the console.

The NVIDIA uninstall left a lot of nviidia files in /lib

pacman's altered files:

https://pastebin.com/80L9wwja

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

https://pastebin.com/U0P67XGF

loqs · 2021-06-03 19:50:46

[    28.388] (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M GPU installed in this system is
[    28.388] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     supported through the NVIDIA 390.xx Legacy drivers. Please
[    28.388] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
[    28.388] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     information.  The 465.31 NVIDIA driver will ignore this
[    28.388] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     GPU.  Continuing probe...

After you uninstalled the .run file from nvidia.com did you install nvidia and nvidia-utils and not mention it?

buzzwallard · 2021-06-03 19:58:13

- ran the nvidia installer ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-version.run --uninstall

- deleted the blacklisting files in /etc/modprobe.d/ (there was another somewhere under /lib but I missed putting it to my notes.)

- added a nouveau.conf (empty file) to /etc/modprobe.d

- Ran find from root for all files with iname nvidia and deleted every damn one of them.

There was a bit of extra coaxing required but they were always obvious from the log files.

loqs · 2021-06-03 20:03:22

You still have nvidia and nvidia-utils tracked by pacman because you manually removed the files? If so the files will be replaced on the next update of those packages.

buzzwallard · 2021-06-03 20:28:17

I did not use pacman to install the nvidia driver. Is it watching anyway?

loqs · 2021-06-03 20:35:10

buzzwallard wrote:

I did not use pacman to install the nvidia driver. Is it watching anyway?

warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libEGL_nvidia.so.0 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.1 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libGLESv2_nvidia.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libGLESv2_nvidia.so.2 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libGLX_nvidia.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libGLX_nvidia.so.0 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libcuda.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libcuda.so.1 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvcuvid.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvcuvid.so.1 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.1 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-eglcore.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-encode.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-encode.so.1 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-fbc.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-fbc.so.1 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-glcore.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-glsi.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-ifr.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-ifr.so.1 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-ml.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-ml.so.1 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler.so.1 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so (Modification time mismatch)
warning: nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 (Modification time mismatch)

pacman -Qs nvidia

Edit:
No pacman does not monitor file activity. Check /var/log/pacman.log to see what caused nvidia-utils to be installed.

Last edited by loqs (2021-06-03 20:36:58)

buzzwallard · 2021-06-03 21:31:42

Ah, yes. It does not tell me why it was installed through pacman but it certainly was so I removed it. The log shows many pacman -R for nvidia which I don't remember running so I'm guessing that was called by some other de-installer.

It looks clean now, but perhaps there's something else I should be checking?

root@asgl:/var/log# pacman -Ss | grep -i nvidia | grep installed
root@asgl:/var/log#

Last edited by buzzwallard (2021-06-03 21:32:12)

loqs · 2021-06-03 22:05:51

If there are no nvidia packages installed you can remove /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf it would have been overriding /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf owned by the nvidia package.
Avoid running installers other than pacman as root that way they can not remove packages or overwrite system files.

Last edited by loqs (2021-06-03 22:06:12)

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