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asbg

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Registered: 2021-10-31

Posts: 4

Issues with NVIDIA Quadro K2100M GPU after update

Hi,

It seems that the update I initiated today (Oct 31) on my Dell M4800 included kernel update to 5.14.15 and  also brought an update of the nvidia-driver and related packages to 495.44. This broke support (the driver ignores the GPU) for the installed NVIDIA Quadro K2100M GPU. Apparently it is only supported to NVIDIA 470.xx-drivers. (see output below from journalctl and Xorg.0.log)

I am wondering about my options:

Should i attempt to downgrade to nvidia-470.74.1 (dkms,utils,settings) ? Does that also imply downgrading to 5.14.14? Will I be stuck at this version without being able to upgrade? Or is it possible to just blacklist nvidia-packages? Is there another way to solve this problem? Any help would be appreciated.

Current kernel after update:

5.14.15-arch1-1

Currently installed versions of nvidia-related packages:

nvidia-dkms 495.44-3
nvidia-prime 1.0-4
nvidia-settings 495.44-1
nvidia-utils 495.44-3

from pacman.log:

[2021-10-26T13:02:09+0200] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> dkms install --no-depmod -m nvidia -v 470.74 -k 5.14.14-arch1-1
[2021-10-31T19:56:09+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> dkms remove --no-depmod -m nvidia -v 470.74 -k 5.14.14-arch1-1
[2021-10-31T19:56:17+0100] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-utils (470.74-1 -> 495.44-3)
[2021-10-31T19:56:17+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] If you run into trouble with CUDA not being available, run nvidia-modprobe first.
[2021-10-31T19:56:36+0100] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-dkms (470.74-1 -> 495.44-3)
[2021-10-31T19:56:36+0100] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-settings (470.74-1 -> 495.44-1)
[2021-10-31T19:56:41+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> dkms install --no-depmod -m nvidia -v 495.44 -k 5.14.15-arch1-1

from journalctl -e:

Oct 31 22:58:51 vargen kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 509
Oct 31 22:58:51 vargen kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA Quadro K2100M GPU installed in this system is
                               NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 470.xx Legacy drivers. Please
                               NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
                               NVRM:  information.  The 495.44 NVIDIA driver will ignore
                               NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
Oct 31 22:58:51 vargen kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Oct 31 22:58:51 vargen kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 509

From ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log

[    73.371] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[    73.371] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[    73.372] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[    73.372] 	compiled for 1.6.99.901, module version = 1.0.0
[    73.372] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    73.372] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  495.44  Fri Oct 22 06:11:21 UTC 2021
[    73.372] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[    73.372] xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
[    73.372] (EE) No devices detected.
[    73.372] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[    73.372] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[    73.372] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help.  

unnilquadium

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Registered: 2017-08-27

Posts: 70

Re: Issues with NVIDIA Quadro K2100M GPU after update

I *think* nvidia has dropped support for cards older than Maxwell with driver version 495.

You should be able to continue to use the 470xx driver that's now in the AUR here.

asbg

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Registered: 2021-10-31

Posts: 4

Re: Issues with NVIDIA Quadro K2100M GPU after update

I *think* nvidia has dropped support for cards older than Maxwell with driver version 495.

You should be able to continue to use the 470xx driver that's now in the AUR here.

Thank you for the info and the pointer. I will continue in that direction.

BR

TheUnknowen

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Registered: 2020-03-21

Posts: 13

Re: Issues with NVIDIA Quadro K2100M GPU after update

I *think* nvidia has dropped support for cards older than Maxwell with driver version 495.

You should be able to continue to use the 470xx driver that's now in the AUR here.

Installing the 470xx drivers solved it for me on my PC, thanks a bunch!
Additionally I had to uninstall NVIDIA-utils / nvidia due to conflicts.

rserge9

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Registered: 2021-09-09

Posts: 1

Re: Issues with NVIDIA Quadro K2100M GPU after update

I had the same problem yesterday.

My Dell Precision M4800 laptop has this card: NVIDIA Corporation GK106GLM [Quadro K2100M].

I upgraded (pacman -Syu ) and this brought me from nvidia-470.74-2 to nvidia 495.44-3. The upgrade also included the dependency on the nvidia-utils package. So, nvidia-utils-470.74-1 was also upgraded to nvidia-utils-495.44-3.

After the upgrade the Light Display Manager (lightdm.service) was failing so I had no graphical environment.

I downgraded both packages to version  470.74-1. This did not solve the problem of the failing display manager. I did not attempt to troubleshoot any further and I reverted to the nouveau driver (package xf86-video-nouveau). I have the impression that nouveau will not drop support for old hardware, so this sounds like the best long term option, which is important to me.

One option I considered was to search and fix the issue, make my laptop work with the 470X driver, then instruct pacman to ignore the nvidia related packages in all future upgrades. But I worried that there were too many dependencies to ignore in future upgrades and some day the upgrade of something else would break things anyway. So, the nouveau driver sounded a sensible option. It would be good to know what others did about this and why.

Last edited by rserge9 (2021-11-06 13:16:47)

archey

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Registered: 2012-10-07

Posts: 2

Re: Issues with NVIDIA Quadro K2100M GPU after update

oups, my bad (can be deleted)

Last edited by archey (2021-11-09 21:58:31)