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JoR-Coder

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Registered: 2019-10-15

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] nvidia modules not found

Tried to find someone else who has had this issue, didn't find...

This morning I did usual

pacman -Suy

.
then reboot.
After that I've struggled alot to get nvidia modules to get installed.

I did

pacman -S linux-headers
pacman -R lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings nvidia
pacman -S lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings nvidia
depmod
modprobe nvidia

modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/5.3.6-arch1-1-ARCH

Rebooted, but no nvidia.

Tried to copy those ko.gz files directly to

/lib/modules/5.3.6-arch1-1-ARCH/

But that just resulted in

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Exec format error

I got this...

#> uname -a
5.3.6-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 11 18:28:05 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

#> pacman -Q linux-headers linux nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils
linux-headers 5.3.6.arch1-1
linux 5.3.6.arch1-1
nvidia 435.21-11
nvidia-utils 435.21-1
lib32-nvidia-utils 435.21-1

dmesg | grep nvidia  #gives me nothing

Edit:
Okey???
So I tried

pacman -S nvidia-dkms

instead.
And it works.
So now my question is, what happened to the default nvidia-package.

Last edited by JoR-Coder (2019-10-15 21:46:23)

loqs

Member

Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,335

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia modules not found

I have pacman -R lots'of'nvidia'this'n'that
followed with pacman -S all the packs I just removed

Tried a few more things but...
Every effort results in this...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Also please use code tags for commands and their outputs.

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,076

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia modules not found

Your default nvidia package is outdated, so you either did not run  a pacman -Syu or your mirror was outdated for a while. Your nvidia package should be at nvidia 435.21-12

JoR-Coder

Member

Registered: 2019-10-15

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia modules not found

Nice!
I'll blame the mirror, because I just did pacman -suy again for a few seconds ago, and still no new package.
Probably check my list of mirrors then.

Thanks :-)