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amigrewal

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Registered: 2024-12-03

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] Module available but not loading at boot

Hi, I've been using the frogging family nvidia drivers and so far so good but after a recent upgrade to kernel 6.12 suddenly nvidia_drm isn't getting probed at boot. The other nvidia drivers are. I can modprobe load it and it'll load fine but i'd really like it to work out of the box. I've tried adding it to modules.d and to the kernel parameters but no luck. I get a horrible feeling something is blacklisting it somewhere but don't really know where to start looking for that outside of the files in modprobe.d and modules.d.

After plasma wayload login lsmod | grep nvidia gives:

nvidia_modeset       1671168  10
video                  81920  1 nvidia_modeset
nvidia_uvm           3837952  0
nvidia              77520896  193 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset

/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf:

# generated by nvidia-installer
blacklist nouveau

options nvidia-drm modeset=1
options nvidia-drm fbdev=1
options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
options nvidia NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp
options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 

/etc/modules-load.d/nvidia-dkms-tkg.conf

nvidia-uvm
nvidia-drm
nvidia-modeset
nvidia

efibootmgr entry:

efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/nvme0n1 --part 1 --label "Arch Linux" --loader /vmlinuz-linux --unicode 'root=UUID=34b317d8-e248-4c68-8216-af501ab96589 rw loglevel=3 quiet modules_load=nvidia_drm,nvidia  nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev

Last edited by amigrewal (2024-12-03 16:29:16)

amigrewal

Member

Registered: 2024-12-03

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Module available but not loading at boot

Nevermind, i read a bit more on the wiki and found the magical folder /usr/lib/modprobe.d/ which had a file blacklisting nvidia-drm. Removed offending file and its all fixed now. Will mark as solved.