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Morta

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[SOLVED]Nvidia Driver issue on Arch Linux GeForce GT 1030

dmesg
[495024.575045] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 495.44, but
                NVRM: this kernel module has the version 470.74.  Please
                NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
                NVRM: components have the same version.

lspci

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] (rev a1)

What is wrong and how I can fix it?

Last edited by Morta (2021-11-04 11:12:06)

Raynman

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia Driver issue on Arch Linux GeForce GT 1030

Like the message says, you have a version mismatch. Failed to regenerate the initramfs (for early KMS) after an upgrade? Or what did you do before this happened?

Morta

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia Driver issue on Arch Linux GeForce GT 1030

I does nothing specaily I checked dmesg and saw this error.

So I have to do mkinitcpio -P ?

Raynman

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia Driver issue on Arch Linux GeForce GT 1030

Well, the nvidia package was updated in the last week. I'm just guessing; you're not providing a lot of info and I don't use nvidia myself. So I say: if you're using early loading for KMS, not running mkinitcpio could result in something like this (and it's a somewhat common mistake). It's your system, you should at least know whether you're using that and whether you ran mkinitcpio after you saw the nvidia update or not. Or you could be using a pacman hook as the wiki suggest, but then this shouldn't happen unless there are other problems.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

Morta

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia Driver issue on Arch Linux GeForce GT 1030

Ok thanks I will add this hook and check if the error goes away after a reboota and update initramfs.

UltimateLambda

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia Driver issue on Arch Linux GeForce GT 1030

Support for my card seemed to be dropped from the default nvidia driver, as well (650M).  I installed the nvidia-470xx-dkms package from AUR.  This solved the problem of loading the nvidia module for me.  I'm still having issues getting proton via steam to use the gpu, however.  Let me know if you intend to try this, as well.

Last edited by UltimateLambda (2021-11-03 22:04:10)

Morta

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia Driver issue on Arch Linux GeForce GT 1030

Support for my card seemed to be dropped from the default nvidia driver, as well (650M).  I installed the nvidia-470xx-dkms package from AUR.  This solved the problem of loading the nvidia module for me.  I'm still having issues getting proton via steam to use the gpu, however.  Let me know if you intend to try this, as well.

Where is a list with supported cards?

The GT1030 is a newer one but a simple one. They do what they should do for me.

https://www.nvidia.de/Download/driverRe … /181584/de

Seems that driver from octobre 2021 is working.

Last edited by Morta (2021-11-03 22:20:51)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia Driver issue on Arch Linux GeForce GT 1030

This isn't an issue of the card support that got dropped, this only affects the kepler series i.e. 600 up to 720 or so. The message can be taken at face value, if nvidia was upgraded you need to reboot, if that didn't help you need to regenerate your initramfs. Maybe post your cuirrent versions

pacman -Qs nvidia
pacman -Q linux

What was the result of your rebooting/regenerating the initramfs?

If your issue got fixed please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in the first post, UltimateLambda should open a new thread for their issue.

Last edited by V1del (2021-11-04 10:48:53)

Morta

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia Driver issue on Arch Linux GeForce GT 1030

This isn't an issue of the card support that got dropped, this only affects the kepler series i.e. 600 up to 720 or so. The message can be taken at face value, if nvidia was upgraded you need to reboot, if that didn't help you need to regenerate your initramfs. Maybe post your cuirrent versions

pacman -Qs nvidia
pacman -Q linux

What was the result of your rebooting/regenerating the initramfs?

If your issue got fixed please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in the first post, UltimateLambda should open a new thread for their issue.

I hadn’t time to test it, but I have to reboot. The card seems to be dropped because on the nvidia website the latest driver is from 10.2021 and version 470.

I will do a reboot and look if the message in dmesg disappears, if not I will change the driver to 470 from AUR.

Morta

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia Driver issue on Arch Linux GeForce GT 1030

A simple reboot fixed the error message