Unable to switch to nvidia drivers

VantaBlack · 2022-07-09 06:05:44

Hey, so I originally used Proprietary nvidia drivers and switched to nouveau drivers recently, nouveau drivers didn't really work well for me, a few programs I use didn't support it and it was laggy... So I ran 'sudo Pacman -S nvidia' then blacklisted the nouveau drivers and rebooted, after rebooting there is no GUI, I can access the terminal using Ctrl alt F2, and i ran " lspci -mnk | grep -i vga -A3 | grep 'in use' " and it gives an empty output, then I ran 'dmesg | grep nvidia' and 'dmesg | grep nouveau' and 'lsmod | grep nvidia' and 'lsmod | grep nouveau' all of them giving empty outputs, then I tried 'modprobe nvidia' which gives "Module nvidia not found in directory/lib/modules/5.18.5-arch1"

What I'm understanding from this is that neither nvidia not nouveau drivers are running

And mkinitcpio -p linux gives "module not found: 'nvidia' "

How to I fix this?

Last edited by VantaBlack (2022-07-09 06:06:36)

seth · 2022-07-09 07:58:48

nvidia-utils auto-blacklists nouveau.

I ran 'sudo Pacman -S nvidia'

Module nvidia not found in directory/lib/modules/5.18.5-arch1

You either ran a partial update or botched the kernel update.

pacman -Qs '(nvidia|linux)'
uname -a

VantaBlack · 2022-07-09 09:06:01

You either ran a partial update or botched the kernel update.

What exactly do I do now?

Also, running "uname -a" gives "Linux vanta-home 5.15.53-1-lts #1 SMP Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:38:20 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

seth · 2022-07-09 09:16:19

Post the required pacman output?

The running kernel doesn't match the previously posted error message, but you'll of course need the nvidia-lts package along the LTS kernel.

VantaBlack · 2022-07-09 13:59:11

seth wrote:

The running kernel doesn't match the previously posted error message, but you'll of course need the nvidia-lts package along the LTS kernel.

I used "cd /lib/modules/" and then ls shows "5.15.53-1-lts 5.18.9-arch1-1" is this normal? then I downloaded the lts drivers and I finally have gui again, but everything is extremely laggy, how do I fix this?

VantaBlack · 2022-07-09 14:10:00

seth wrote:

Post the required pacman output?

alright, here:

local/alsa-lib 1.2.7.1-1 An alternative implementation of Linux sound support local/alsa-utils 1.2.7-1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - Utilities local/archlinux-keyring 20220424-1 Arch Linux PGP
keyring
local/avahi 0.8+22+gfd482a7-3 Service Discovery for Linux using mDNS/DNS-SD -- compatible with Bonjour local/base 2-2 Minimal package set to define a basic Arch Linux installation local/betterdiscordctl
2.0.1-1
A utility for managing BetterDiscord on Linux local/brltty 6.5-1 Braille display driver for Linux/Unix local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.10-1 EGLStream-based Wayland external platform local/filesystem
2021.12.07-1
Base Arch Linux files local/flatpak 1:1.12.7-1 Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework (formerly xdg-app) local/iptables 1:1.8.8-1 Linux kernel packet control tool (using legacy
interface)
local/keyutils 1.6.3-1 Linux Key Management Utilities local/kmod 30-1 Linux kernel module management tools and library local/komorebi 2.2.1-1 A beautiful and customizable wallpaper manager for Linux
local/lib32-alsa-lib 1.2.7.1-1
An alternative implementation of Linux sound support (32 bit) local/lib32-keyutils 1.6.3-1 Linux Key Management Utilities (32-bit) local/lib32-libxshmfence 1.3-2 a library that exposes a event API on
top of Linux futexes (32-bit)
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 515.57-1 NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit) local/lib32-util-linux 2.38-1 Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux (32-bit) local/libaio 0.3.113-1 The Linux-native asynchronous I/O
facility (aio) library
local/libcap-ng 0.8.3-1 A library for Linux that makes using posix capabilities easy local/libiec61883 1.2.0-6 A higher level API for streaming DV, MPEG-2 and audio over Linux IEEE 1394
local/libimobiledevice 1.3.0-5
Library that talks the protocols to support iPhone and iPod Touch devices on Linux local/libraw1394 2.1.2-3 Provides an API to the Linux IEEE1394 (FireWire) driver local/liburing 2.2-1 Linux-native
io_uring I/O access library
local/libva 2.15.0-1 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux local/libvdpau 1.5-1 Nvidia VDPAU library local/libxnvctrl 515.57-1 NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension local/libxshmfence 1.3-3 a library that exposes
a event API on top of Linux futexes
local/linux 5.18.9.arch1-1 The Linux kernel and modules local/linux-api-headers 5.17.5-2 Kernel headers sanitized for use in userspace local/linux-headers 5.18.9.arch1-1 Headers and scripts for building
modules for the Linux kernel
local/linux-lts 5.15.53-1 The LTS Linux kernel and modules local/mdadm 4.2-2 A tool for managing/monitoring Linux md device arrays, also known as Software RAID local/multipath-tools 0.9.0-1 Multipath tools
for Linux (including kpartx)
local/ndctl 73-1 Utility library for managing the libnvdimm (non-volatile memory device) sub-system in the Linux kernel local/net-tools 2.10-1 Configuration tools for Linux networking local/nvidia 515.57-3
NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-lts 1:515.57-3 NVIDIA drivers for linux-lts local/nvidia-settings 515.57-1 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver local/nvidia-utils 515.57-1 NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia 515.57-1
OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA local/pacman-mirrorlist 20220605-1 Arch Linux mirror list for use by pacman local/python-distro 1.7.0-1 Linux OS platform information API local/python-evdev 1.5.0-1
Python bindings for the Linux input subsystem
local/ttf-linux-libertine 5.3.0-8 Serif (Libertine) and Sans Serif (Biolinum) OpenType fonts with large Unicode coverage local/util-linux 2.38-1 Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux
local/util-linux-libs 2.38-1
util-linux runtime libraries local/v4l-utils 1.22.1-1 Userspace tools and conversion library for Video 4 Linux

seth · 2022-07-09 15:06:15

Please use code tags, https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

You don't have the nvidia pacakge installed (for the 5.18.9 kernel) and idk. what you did there, but nvidia-utils isn't in the list either, so when you look at your xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General you'll likely find that you're running on the VESA driver - with all the advanced graphical technology of the mid 90ies…

seth · 2022-07-10 07:50:48

Don't mindlessly copy and paste from teh code boxes. Read at least the whole section.
There's certainly no Xorg.0.log in your $HOME or your porn folder or whatever $PWD currently happens to be.

WorMzy · 2022-07-10 12:15:52

VantaBlack, it is unclear from your report whether you want your last post deleted, or the entire topic. If the latter, please bear in mind that everyone makes mistakes, and by sharing what the actual problem and solution was, you may help someone else who runs into the same issue.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … way_street

That being said, if you still want a post or the topic deleted, please clarify which and the mod team can action it. Thanks.

V1del · 2022-07-10 12:17:30

Closing by request.

However if you've found the solution of a somewhat lengthy support thread, consider marking it as [SOLVED] instead and actually mentioning the solution you've come across: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … way_street

Edit: Wormzy was first, look at their post as well.

Last edited by V1del (2022-07-10 12:18:23)

VantaBlack · 2022-07-10 14:35:06

WorMzy wrote:

VantaBlack, it is unclear from your report whether you want your last post deleted, or the entire topic. If the latter, please bear in mind that everyone makes mistakes, and by sharing what the actual problem and solution was, you may help someone else who runs into the same issue.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … way_street
That being said, if you still want a post or the topic deleted, please clarify which and the mod team can action it. Thanks.

just wanted the my last post to be deleted, ty

Last edited by VantaBlack (2022-07-10 15:10:28)

VantaBlack · 2022-07-10 14:48:48

seth wrote:

Don't mindlessly copy and paste from teh code boxes. Read at least the whole section.
There's certainly no Xorg.0.log in your $HOME or your porn folder or whatever $PWD currently happens to be.

My bad, I read it right after posting that, anyway, I think I'll just get a fresh install. Thanks for you help...

Last edited by VantaBlack (2022-07-10 15:10:11)

WorMzy · 2022-07-10 15:22:22

VantaBlack wrote:

WorMzy wrote:
VantaBlack, it is unclear from your report whether you want your last post deleted, or the entire topic. If the latter, please bear in mind that everyone makes mistakes, and by sharing what the actual problem and solution was, you may help someone else who runs into the same issue.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … way_street
That being said, if you still want a post or the topic deleted, please clarify which and the mod team can action it. Thanks.
just wanted the my last post to be deleted, ty

Thanks for clarifying, done.

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