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Didek

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Registered: 2020-06-06

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Vulkan initialize problem with nvidia-390xx drivers

Hi, i have problem to properly setup vulkan drivers for my graphics card (that the lastest working nvidia driver is 390) on Arch.

I have installed nvidia-390xx-dksm, nvidia-390xx-utils and vulkan-icd-loader.

vulkaninfo output:

ERROR at /build/vulkan-tools/src/Vulkan-Tools-1.2.140/vulkaninfo/vulkaninfo.h:240:vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties failed with ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

vkcube output:

vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices reported zero accessible devices.

Do you have a compatible Vulkan installable client driver (ICD) installed?
Please look at the Getting Started guide for additional information.

The output of "ls /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/" is:

nvidia_icd.json

I have Nvidia GeForce GT 730 and AMD processor.

Thanks in advance for any help.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Vulkan initialize problem with nvidia-390xx drivers

The 730 is listed as a legacy card but it is listed as supported by the current nvidia driver 440.82 on https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverR … 9360/en-us
Have you tried the nvidia driver and it failed to work?

Didek

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Registered: 2020-06-06

Posts: 4

Re: Vulkan initialize problem with nvidia-390xx drivers

Yes, tried that before. Versions after 390 are not working with this GPU. It is listed incorrectly on Nvidia site and I must use legacy version.

Last edited by Didek (2020-06-07 00:46:01)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Vulkan initialize problem with nvidia-390xx drivers

730 is a low-level entry card and you most likely have the OEM rebranded fermi model, thus nvidia-390xx is correct... and no vulkan for you that's only for kepler+ (and pretty bad on the kepler generation anyway so you will want something more recent regardless)

So yeah there are multiple "versions" of 730 two of them are "Kepler" and will work with nvidia and vulkan and one of them is actually of the previous generation and will not.

To confirm, what's your lspci output for the nvidia card?

Last edited by V1del (2020-06-07 10:03:46)

Didek

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Registered: 2020-06-06

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Re: Vulkan initialize problem with nvidia-390xx drivers

Output is

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 730] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)

V1del

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Re: Vulkan initialize problem with nvidia-390xx drivers

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 730] (rev a1)

That GF108 is what identifies this as fermi, so yes, you can't get Vulkan on that. You usually can't buy this card and it's only part of  OEM pre-built offerings. It's a pretty scammy thing to do and I'm not sure how and why this is legal but oems often sell "higher numbered" cards that are actually based on the previous generation. One of my older rigs was similarly affected and had a 630 with the same ramifications.

Didek

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Registered: 2020-06-06

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Re: Vulkan initialize problem with nvidia-390xx drivers

Yeah, that must be it.
I was convinced that this would be supported

Thanks you a lot for your help and explanation

Last edited by Didek (2020-06-07 17:27:49)