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ephemeral

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Registered: 2020-08-06

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[SOLVED] Failing to install NVIDIA drivers on laptop

Got a hybrid laptop (Dell Precision 5570) with both integrated graphics and an Nvidia gpu.
I've installed from scratch a couple of times now. Sometimes intel, sometime nvidia. Never managed to get the nvidia drivers working.

One thing I'm noticing is that for the life of me I can't modprobe the nvidia module. It used to crash, now it just hangs...

$ cat /proc/modules | grep -e nvidia 
nvidia 46981120 1 - Loading 0x0000000000000000 (POE+)

$ lsmod  | grep nvidia
nvidia              45367296  1

$ sudo modprobe nvidia -vv
modprobe: INFO: custom logging function 0x5625b6a76af0 registered
insmod /lib/modules/5.18.12-arch1-1/extramodules/nvidia.ko.xz 
<HANGS HERE>

Looking at messages

$ sudo dmesg | grep -e nvidia -e gpu 
[    2.082063] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    2.082068] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[    2.091968] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[    2.180020] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 235
[    2.180047] traps: Missing ENDBR: _nv011433rm+0x0/0x10 [nvidia]
[    2.180481] RIP: 0010:_nv011433rm+0x0/0x10 [nvidia]
[    2.180781]  ? _nv034913rm+0x20/0x20 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.180997]  _nv011431rm+0x24/0xe0 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.181215]  _nv034914rm+0xe/0xa0 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.181422]  _nv034917rm+0x1d/0x30 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.181632]  _nv034919rm+0x2f/0x40 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.181843]  _nv015567rm+0x15/0x70 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.181994]  _nv000642rm+0x9/0x20 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.182152]  rm_init_rm+0x17/0x60 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.182315]  nvidia_init_module+0x242/0x613 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.182470]  ? nvidia_init_module+0x613/0x613 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.182622]  nvidia_frontend_init_module+0x50/0x91 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.182774]  ? nvidia_init_module+0x613/0x613 [nvidia 0ed3e84150ca9bfc7e573a7fd9bcd2632fd3bcda]
[    2.183063] Modules linked in: pcc_cpufreq(-) acpi_cpufreq(-) nvidia(POE+) uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common videodev mc dm_multipath dm_mod sg crypto_user fuse bpf_preload ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc32c_generic crc16 mbcache jbd2 rtsx_pci_sdmmc serio_raw atkbd mmc_core libps2 vivaldi_fmap nvme crc32c_intel xhci_pci rtsx_pci nvme_core xhci_pci_renesas i8042 serio

Not sure what to make of this...

$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 0b1a
	Kernel driver in use: i915
--
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107GLM [RTX A2000 8GB Laptop GPU] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 0b1a
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

$ pacman -Q | grep -i -e mesa -e nvidia -e "^linux" -e "intel "
lib32-mesa 22.1.3-1
lib32-nvidia-utils 515.57-1
linux 5.18.12.arch1-1
linux-api-headers 5.17.5-2
linux-firmware 20220708.be7798e-1
linux-firmware-whence 20220708.be7798e-1
linux-headers 5.18.12.arch1-1
mesa 22.1.3-1
mesa-utils 8.5.0-2
nvidia 515.57-6
nvidia-utils 515.57-1
vulkan-intel 22.1.3-1
xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+916+g31486f40-2

Last edited by ephemeral (2022-07-19 18:26:44)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Failing to install NVIDIA drivers on laptop

Read the blue note in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation and add ibt=off to your kernel parameters.

While we are here, remove xf86-video-intel you really don't want that on an Alder Lake GPU

And if you "can't  find no way to use the nvidia GPU in general": https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … er_offload

Last edited by V1del (2022-07-19 07:21:09)

ephemeral

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Registered: 2020-08-06

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Failing to install NVIDIA drivers on laptop

Setting ibt=off did the trick. Thank you!