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murrcurt09

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Registered: 2015-12-02

Posts: 25

NVIDIA Drivers

I'm using a gtx 980 on an arch install that I made a couple of weeks ago, however I don't think that the drivers are working properly. I get screen tearing watching videos (vlc/youtube), and have tried to run a few games but the frame rate is worse than 1fps for couterstrike. Also trying to benchmark using unigine-valley I get less than 1fps.

I tried following a guide to update nvidia drivers as follows

# wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L … 352.21.run
# chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-352.21.run
# sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-352.21.run

this is the output when I try and run NVIDIA-Linux-x86-352.21.run

Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 352.21......

Welcome to the NVIDIA Software Installer for Unix/Linux

Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8.

ERROR: An NVIDIA kernel module 'nvidia' appears to already be loaded in your
       kernel.  This may be because it is in use (for example, by the X
       server), but may also happen if your kernel was configured without
       support for module unloading.  Please be sure you have exited X before
       attempting to upgrade your driver.  If you have exited X, know that your
       kernel supports module unloading, and still receive this message, then
       an error may have occured that has corrupted the NVIDIA kernel module's
       usage count; the simplest remedy is to reboot your computer.

ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file
       '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find suggestions
       on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
       driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

The log it says to go to seems to display the same information as above

Any ideas fam?

murrcurt09

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Registered: 2015-12-02

Posts: 25

Re: NVIDIA Drivers

This is the output of lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 980] (rev a1)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: NVIDIA Drivers

Arch repos have the 358.16 driver. Give that a try.

murrcurt09

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Registered: 2015-12-02

Posts: 25

Re: NVIDIA Drivers

I think I fucked up. I tried installing bumblebee as per the arch wiki for nvidia/Intel. I got up to the step where you enable bumblebeed.service
Now when I reboot it hangs on "running early hook [udev]"

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,261

Re: NVIDIA Drivers

Are you on a notebook? If not then there's no reason to install bumblebee. To fix the boot hang edit your kernel loading line from your boot loader and add a 'nomodeset' parameter because you probably installed some mesa packages and nouveau can't start. If you managed to  boot with that, install the Nvidia drivers as detailed on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Installing remove any notion of mesa-libgl and xf86-video-intel or xf86-video-nouveau (to be absolutely certain it might be benefitial to disable the internal gpu in your bios, provided you don't need it for anything)

If setting nomodeset didn't help append loglevel=7 and check the messages you receive and post them here

Last edited by V1del (2015-12-03 16:26:52)

murrcurt09

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Registered: 2015-12-02

Posts: 25

Re: NVIDIA Drivers

I'm using syslinux for the first time and not too sure where to add the nomodeset
I tried
# nano /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg

and added nomode set to the APPEND line but no luck

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: NVIDIA Drivers

@murrcurt09

APPEND line should work fine: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … parameters

Try reinstalling syslinux after making that change.