Old nvidia drivers detected

jacopastorius · 2019-03-27 10:52:42

Hi all. I need to use a software called obs which is a software for screen recording that uses nvidia drivers. For a few days i was able to use it launching ir from shell with primusrun obs.
After latest update i can't use it anymore, because trying to start the screen record it says:

[h264_nvenc @ 0x562b88840800] Driver does not support the required nvenc API version. Required: 9.0 Found: 8.1
[h264_nvenc @ 0x562b88840800] The minimum required Nvidia driver for nvenc is 390.25 or newer

My nvidia drivers are:

[du@du ~]$ sudo pacman -Qs nvidia*
[sudo] password di du: 
local/bumblebee 3.2.1-20
    NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux through VirtualGL
local/lib32-libvdpau 1.2-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils 390.116-2
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit), 390xx legacy branch
local/libvdpau 1.2-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 418.56-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia-390xx 390.116-8
    NVIDIA drivers for linux, 390xx legacy branch
local/nvidia-390xx-utils 390.116-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/nvidia-settings 418.56-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

Bumblebee seems to work

[root@du du]# primusrun glxspheres64
Polygons in scene: 62464 (61 spheres * 1024 polys/spheres)
Visual ID of window: 0x110
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GTX 860M/PCIe/SSE2
61.610256 frames/sec - 68.757046 Mpixels/sec
60.059396 frames/sec - 67.026286 Mpixels/sec

It is strange that the nvidia drivers are 390.116 but it detects an older version. What can i do? Thank you for your help

Last edited by jacopastorius (2019-03-27 11:20:10)

Lone_Wolf · 2019-03-27 12:34:43

local/libxnvctrl 418.56-1
local/nvidia-settings 418.56-1

local/lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils 390.116-2
local/nvidia-390xx 390.116-8
local/nvidia-390xx-utils 390.116-1

You're mixing 418 and 390 drivers.

your card appears to be a GTX 860M with a GK104 chipset , from the NVE0 kepler family.
That card is supported by the 418 driver.

replace the 390xx pacakges with their 418 counterparts.

jacopastorius · 2019-03-28 07:32:17

Ok thank you! Do i have to use these? https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extr … vidia-lts/ or these? https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia/

Last edited by jacopastorius (2019-03-28 08:06:47)

V1del · 2019-03-28 09:52:30

Depends on the kernel, if you use linux the latter, if you use linux-lts the former, if you use both, both.

jacopastorius · 2019-03-29 15:49:33

thank you. I just installed the right 418 drivers and the system is working fine except for steam that can't launch games. I think because 418 is missing the lib32 packages that are instead available for 390xx. What do you think i can do about that?

V1del · 2019-03-29 15:52:47

The same thing you did so far, install the relevant lib32- variant...

archeryfor · 2019-07-26 03:44:25

I am having the same problem (but without mixed drivers installed):

obs-studio error:

[h264_nvenc @ 0x560109352240] Driver does not support the required nvenc API version. Required: 9.0 Found: 8.1
[h264_nvenc @ 0x560109352240] The minimum required Nvidia driver for nvenc is 390.25 or newer

Strange, since I have 390.116 which is certainly greater than 390.25.

My drivers:

$ sudo pacman -Qs nvidia*
local/cuda 10.1.168-4
    NVIDIA's GPU programming toolkit
local/lib32-libvdpau 1.2-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils 390.116-2
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit), 390xx legacy branch
local/libvdpau 1.2-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl-390xx 390.116-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension, 390xx legacy branch
local/nvidia-390xx-dkms 390.116-38
    NVIDIA driver sources for linux, 390xx legacy branch
local/nvidia-390xx-settings 390.116-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver, 390xx legacy branch
local/nvidia-390xx-utils 390.116-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia-390xx 390.116-1
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA

Nvidia card information:

$ nvidia-smi
Thu Jul 25 23:42:24 2019
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 390.116                Driver Version: 390.116                   |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Quadro 600          Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 44%   57C    P8    N/A /  N/A |    449MiB /   962MiB |     37%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

seth · 2019-07-26 07:19:27

"Quadro 600" - the GPU doesn't support nvenc, sorry.

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#1 2019-03-27 10:52:42

Old nvidia drivers detected

#2 2019-03-27 12:34:43

Re: Old nvidia drivers detected

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