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archline

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[Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

Hello community,

I am the owner of a 9510 XPS laptop , which comes with both an integrated GPU (Intel) and a GTX 3050 Ti (Nvidia)

While I was checking to push a bit further the machine I realized that I cannot have the Nvidia running.

Here are some output information:

nvidia-smi                            
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x46 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 4 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting

I installed everything following the NVIDIA Link

I also have no detection of GPU from nvidia-xconfig

 nvidia-xconfig 

WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.


WARNING: Unable to parse X.Org version string.


ERROR: Unable to find any GPUs in the system.


ERROR: Unable to write to directory '/etc/X11'.

I made sure I had not blacklisted anything with the name "nvidia" in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 01)
	DeviceName: Onboard - Video
	Subsystem: Dell TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
--
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Dell GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile]
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

As I have a NV170 model, I installed the Turing series option with the nvidia-open package
I tried installing proprietary drivers nvidia with utils and tools, but same result. I just installed also the xf86-vide-nouveau and similar result.

lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"                                                                                             SIGPIPE  1 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 01)
	DeviceName: Onboard - Video
	Subsystem: Dell TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
--
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Dell GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile]
	Kernel modules: nouveau

I also tried to blacklist nouveau from the grub config file, no change.

I am not really sure where to check again, what elements are missing or to be done?

Last edited by archline (2024-02-28 19:12:33)

Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

Did you follow all 6 steps in the link you gave? Every one of them is important.

archline

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

Thanks for quick reply!
I believe so, here is a recap:

Step 1:
RTX 3050TI

Step2:
NV170

Step3:
I went fo the NV160 version model, with nvidia-open package

Step 4:
I installed lib32-nvidia-utils

Step 5:
I removed kms from the HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.con
I regenerated with

mkinitcpio -P

Step 6:
I rebooted.

Then I tried again with the nvidia package instead of the nvidia-open package. Same.

Last edited by archline (2024-02-27 21:14:06)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

I also have no detection of GPU from nvidia-xconfig

Don't run that!
(It produces a lot of cruft and an unnecessary static server config that will come back to bite you later)

Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

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archline

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

Noted, thank you.

Here is the result:
https://0x0.st/HR1S.txt

seth

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

Feb 27 22:04:34 Archlinux-XPS15 systemd-modules-load[298]: Error running install command '/bin/false' for module nvidia: retcode 1

You blacklisted the nvidia module?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … probe.d/_2

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archline

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

Alright I realize that I have an old file in the modprobe.
The following one:

install nvidia /bin/false

I do not remember exactly why. so I removed it and ran mkinitcpio -P, but it crashed at rebooted.
I could log into Arch but could not launch X anymore, with coredump and fatal errors

here is the output of the failing boot session:
http://0x0.st/HR1x.txt

Last edited by archline (2024-02-28 00:04:59)

Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

                                                        #7  0x00007364c26c58b0 n/a (libnvidia-gpucomp.so.545.29.06 + 0x4c58b0)
                                                        #8  0x00007364adceb9eb n/a (libnvidia-eglcore.so.550.54.14 + 0xaeb9eb)

Somehow you have different versions of these installed, when both should be coming from the nvidia-utils package. Reinstall that. Did you, at some point, run the installer from the nvidia site?

archline

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

Did you, at some point, run the installer from the nvidia site?

Yes, since it is one of the option presented in the wiki.
However, the installer did not execute entirely and ended in an error as well, I gave up on that one since the wiki says this solution is to avoid and we should privilege the pacman option particularly for update purposes..

                                                        #7  0x00007364c26c58b0 n/a (libnvidia-gpucomp.so.545.29.06 + 0x4c58b0)
                                                        #8  0x00007364adceb9eb n/a (libnvidia-eglcore.so.550.54.14 + 0xaeb9eb)

Somehow you have different versions of these installed, when both should be coming from the nvidia-utils package. Reinstall that.

What would be the cleanest way to reinstall it?

sudo pacman -Rsn nvidia-utils nvidia-prime nvidia-open    

These are all the "nvidia" packages installed, and re-install them?
Issue is, I am unsure it would delete all those that were installed by the nvidia*.run from the official website.
I already installed the ones above after trying to execute the official script from nvidia.

seth

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

Warning: Avoid installing the NVIDIA driver through the package provided from the NVIDIA website. Installation through pacman allows upgrading the driver together with the rest of the system.

The wiki just says to use the website to look up what driver version is appropriate for your GPU if you only know the marketing name…

I already installed the ones above after trying to execute the official script from nvidia.

And you did not run into file conflicts?

Either way, the repo version updated to 550xx, tehre should be no 545xx versions around.
Try "pacman -Syu" first, pay attention to any errors and

Feb 28 00:53:05 Archlinux-XPS15 sudo[1255]: archline : TTY=tty1 ; PWD=/home/archline ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/mv /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nvidia.conf.bak /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nvidia.conf

remove that file.

Then post an updated journal

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archline

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

Things are now working properly, I tried an update before but I guess I messed up somewhere.

For the details:

I tried a "pacman -Syu" which returned some conflicts and failed.
The list comes from nvidia-utils.

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/550.54.14/gsp_ga10x.bin exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/550.54.14/gsp_tu10x.bin exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libEGL_nvidia.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libGLESv2_nvidia.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libGLX_nvidia.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libcuda.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libcudadebugger.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvcuvid.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-allocator.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-gbm.so.1.1.1 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-eglcore.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-encode.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-fbc.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-glcore.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-glsi.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-glvkspirv.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-gpucomp.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-ml.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-ngx.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-nvvm.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-opticalflow.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-pkcs11-openssl3.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-pkcs11.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-rtcore.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvoptix.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-550.54.14-key-documentation exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-550.54.14-rc exists in filesystem
opencl-nvidia: /usr/lib/libnvidia-opencl.so.550.54.14 exists in filesystem

I then followed the steps in the official Wiki: Pacman failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

I checked all of the files in conflict manually with "pacman -Qo /pathToFile"
=> It returned everytime that no packages owned them, so I just renamed them all, as explained in the above link.

I then could make my update without any error.
At reboot I had a faillure at the launch of X, I followed the errors which was from a file in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d that was supposed to help for the dual cards (nvidia + internal)

the content was taken from Wiki's NVIDIA Optimus info:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "intel"
    MatchDriver "i915"
    Driver "modesetting"
EndSection

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

The output of "Nvidia-smi" is now:

nvidia-smi                                                                                    main 
Wed Feb 28 11:15:17 2024       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.54.14              Driver Version: 550.54.14      CUDA Version: 12.4     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 ...    Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   60C    P0             12W /   40W |      13MiB /   4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      1642      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                                   4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

and to xrandr --listproviders

 
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x48 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 5 outputs: 5 associated providers: 0 name:Intel
Provider 1: id: 0x1e7 cap: 0x0 crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 associated providers: 0 name:NVIDIA-G0

FYI the latest journal: http://0x0.st/HRLe.txt

Thank you!

Can we consider it solved or are there a few extra checks to make?

Last edited by archline (2024-02-28 10:17:36)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Unable to install Nvidia drivers

No, you can mark the thread as solved.

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