how to install nvidia 820m drivers

BossKartela · 2025-03-27 20:14:19

I'm new to Linux but I noticed that the integrated video card works, that is, from the processor, but the 820m video card doesn't work from NVIDIA, everything was fine on Windows. I also read and found out that Linux is not friends with NVIDIA, so to speak, what can be done in this case?

Scimmia · 2025-03-27 20:30:39

What exactly do you mean by "doesn't work"? Have you read the Optimus wiki page? Or the NVIDIA or nouveau wiki pages, depending on which driver you want?

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-03-27 20:34:14)

BossKartela · 2025-03-27 20:41:51

Well, I didn't really try, but I at least tried to install drivers specifically for 820m, the laptop was able to detect it but it was without load and I deleted the drivers because there were some conflicts

Last edited by BossKartela (2025-03-28 05:05:36)

BossKartela · 2025-03-27 20:56:49

а and how do I understand what drivers I need, for a discrete video card, the Nvidia 820m

Last edited by BossKartela (2025-03-28 05:06:22)

WorMzy · 2025-03-27 20:58:37

Mod note: moving to Other Languages

schard · 2025-03-28 07:16:13

Mod note: Moving back to Newbie Corner after language was changed to English.

seth · 2025-03-28 07:45:02

а and how do I understand what drivers I need, for a discrete video card, the Nvidia 820m

So I googled "nvidia 820m chip" what told it that it's a Fermi chip which acording to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation means you need the 390xx drivers or nouveau.
What was hard about that?

I deleted the drivers because there were some conflicts

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

BossKartela · 2025-03-28 14:02:30

Well, I seem to have installed the drivers for the video card using yay -S nvidia 390xx-dkms, Well, I also installed Nvidia Utils but deleted it because Linux complained about a conflict, is that right?

BossKartela · 2025-03-28 14:04:36

to be more precise nvidia-libgl conflict with Nvidia-utils

BossKartela · 2025-03-28 14:05:53

I understood everything, I downloaded the outdated ones

BossKartela · 2025-03-28 14:43:36

I somehow can't install the drivers, I'm writing yay -S nvidia-390xx nvidia-390xx-utils но при вводе nvidia-smi I get an error

Last edited by BossKartela (2025-03-28 14:45:08)

seth · 2025-03-28 14:48:20

· LC_ALL=C
· dony't use yay
· don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

BossKartela · 2025-03-28 14:54:45

when writing a command nvidia-smi I get this, everything is fine and the drivers are installed and working? I just noticed here in the line disabled

z@z-PC ~]$ nvidia-smi
Fri Mar 28 16:53:36 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 390.157 Driver Version: 390.157 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce 820M Off | 00000000:08:00.0 N/A | N/A |
| N/A 50C P0 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 1985MiB | N/A Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 Not Supported |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Last edited by BossKartela (2025-03-28 14:55:13)

loqs · 2025-03-28 15:16:03

What is the output of:

pacman -Qs nvidia

Please use code tags for commands and their outputs.

BossKartela · 2025-03-28 15:21:13

thanks for helping, this is what the team gives out

[z@z-PC ~]$ pacman -Qs nvidia

•local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.18-1
~EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
•local/libvdpau 1.5-3
~Nvidia VDPAU library
•local/nvidia-390xx-dkms 390.157-14
~NVIDIA drivers - module sources
•local/nvidia-390xx-utils 390.157-14
~NVIDIA drivers utilities

loqs · 2025-03-28 15:27:30

That looks fine apart from the lack of code tags. What is the output for:

lspci -nnkd 10de:
dkms status
# dmesg

BossKartela · 2025-03-28 15:37:52

in my understanding the code tag is like this, is it correct?

1)OUTPUT WHEN WRITING lspci -nnkd 10de

z@z-PC ~]$ lspci -nnkd 10de
lspci: -d: At least two fields must be given

2)OUTPUT WHEN WRITING dkms status

[z@z-PC ~]$ dkms status
broadcom-wl/6.30.223.271, 6.13.8-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
nvidia/390.157, 6.13.8-arch1-1, x86_64: installed

3)OUTPUT WHEN WRITING dmesg

[z@z-PC ~]$ dmesg
dmesg: reading kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted

WorMzy · 2025-03-28 15:43:06

Please use code tags as advised.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … s_and_code
https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

Note that a '#' signifies that the command that follows should be run as the root user.

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues, as nvidia-390xx is not supported by Arch.

Last edited by WorMzy (2025-03-28 15:43:36)

seth · 2025-03-28 15:47:47

Also

lspci -nnkd 10de:

The colon isn't a mistake.

And add

glxinfo -B

but there's no indication for the nvidia drivers not being in use.
Certain nvdia-smi features aren't supported by Fermi chips - that's normal.

BossKartela · 2025-03-28 16:06:42

So it turns out I installed everything correctly and they will be used as usual?

#this is what it gives out when writing lspci -nnkd 10de:

08:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] [10de:1140] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Dell GeForce 820M [1028:0652]
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

#also here is the next command glxinfo -B and its conclusion

[z@z-PC ~]$ glxinfo -B
name of display: :1
display: :1  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
    Device: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) (0xa16)
    Version: 25.0.2
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 1536MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.6
    Max compat profile version: 4.6
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
OpenGL vendor string: Intel
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.0.2-arch1.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.0.2-arch1.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.0.2-arch1.2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

Last edited by BossKartela (2025-03-28 16:23:03)

Scimmia · 2025-03-28 21:51:12

That depends on what you mean "used as usual". You still haven't told us what didn't work.

seth · 2025-03-29 07:05:10

More specifically

Scimmia wrote:

Have you read the Optimus wiki page?

Try https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME

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