nvidia-470xx drivers not loading after update to 6.4 kernel

marol · 2023-07-04 20:10:27

I have the same problem after I updated my desktop on Monday.
I tried to install lts kernel, reinstalled nvidia-470xx packages - nothing worked. I checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log - tit output error

"failed to initialize the nvidia kernel module"

. I stuck at this problem for 2 days and nobody, nothing can help me.
I've found discussion here but I didn't get how to make that patch. I cloned it to my home directory and couldn't makepkg. What's wrong I did and what should I do? Help me please. [SOLVED]

Last edited by marol (2023-07-05 19:30:02)

seth · 2023-07-04 20:24:12

"failed to initialize the nvidia kernel module"

I severely doubt that this is the same problem, but please post a complete system journal and the complete Xorg log.

marol · 2023-07-05 06:46:37

Journal
I tried to find how to post Xorg log, but I couldn't.

 lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Gk208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)
Subsystem: ASUStek Computre Inc. GT710-4H-SL-2GD5
Kernel modules: nouveau

It's wierd... Whole year I used nvidia-470-xx and it worked flawlessly till Monday.

seth · 2023-07-05 07:06:13

cat /path/to/your/xorg.0.log | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

Nouveau is blacklisted and there's no kernel module for 6.1.37-1-lts,

pacman -Qs 470xx; dkms status

Edit: the xorg log is currently not relevant.

Last edited by seth (2023-07-05 07:06:29)

marol · 2023-07-05 10:55:52

seth wrote:

cat /path/to/your/xorg.0.log | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

Thank you! Done

Nouveau is blacklisted and there's no kernel module for 6.1.37-1-lts,

So, it means that there's no need to remove it from blacklist and to install it?

pacman -Qs 470xx; dkms status
Edit: the xorg log is currently not relevant.

Here it is:

local/libxnvctrl-470xx 470.199.02-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/mhwd-nvidia-470xx 470.94-1
    mhwd-nvidia-470xx PCI ID database
local/nvidia-470xx-dkms 470.182.03-2
    NVIDIA drivers - module sources
local/nvidia-470xx-settings 470.199.02-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-470xx-utils 470.182.03-2
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia-470xx 470.182.03-2
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
nvidia/470.182.03: added

loqs · 2023-07-05 11:13:31

nvidia/470.182.03: added

No modules have been built by dkms for nvidia/470.182.03. Lack of kernel headers? This proves the issue is unrelated to alu1's.
Please ask a moderator to split your issue off.

Last edited by loqs (2023-07-05 11:14:06)

marol · 2023-07-05 11:27:38

Reported.

V1del · 2023-07-05 11:44:11

Split from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=286951

marol · 2023-07-05 13:22:46

I removed xf86-video-amdgpu, which I wanted to use as integrated videocard. And linux-lts, which I thought could work instead of linux kernel. I followed some advices, given in other themes here. No result.

$ grep -Er '(nvidia|nouveau)' /{etc,usr/share}/X11/xorg.conf.d

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf:	Driver "nvidia"
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf:    Identifier "nvidia"
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf:    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf:    Driver "nvidia"
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf:    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"

I copied 10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d - didn't work.

lspci -k
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GT710-4H-SL-2GD5
	Kernel modules: nouveau

Xorg.0.log

seth · 2023-07-05 13:23:56

loqs wrote:

Lack of kernel headers?

pacman -Qs headers

Otherwise rebuild the dkms modules and post the build log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … ld_modules

marol · 2023-07-05 13:34:59

seth wrote:

loqs wrote:
Lack of kernel headers?
pacman -Qs headers

local/acl 2.3.1-3
    Access control list utilities, libraries and headers
local/amf-headers 1.4.29-1
    Header files for AMD Advanced Media Framework
local/libcups 1:2.4.6-1
    OpenPrinting CUPS - client libraries and headers
local/linux-api-headers 6.3-1
    Kernel headers sanitized for use in userspace
local/linux-headers 6.4.1.arch2-1
    Headers and scripts for building modules for the Linux kernel
local/spice-protocol 0.14.4-1
    Headers for SPICE protocol
local/vulkan-headers 1:1.3.256-1 (vulkan-devel)
    Vulkan header files
local/xorgproto 2023.2-1
    combined X.Org X11 Protocol headers

seth · 2023-07-05 13:43:58

Did you look at it? How many header packages for the LTS kernel did you see?

marol · 2023-07-05 13:48:08

seth wrote:

Did you look at it? How many header packages for the LTS kernel did you see?

I'm sorry, I'm not so much advanced in Linux. I removed lts kernel and I see no mention "lts" at this list. I can only guess it's linux-api-headers 6.3-1.

seth · 2023-07-05 13:57:58

https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86 … s-headers/

Scimmia · 2023-07-05 14:00:49

marol wrote:

I removed lts kernel

Why?

marol · 2023-07-05 14:35:36

seth wrote:

https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86 … s-headers/

Excuse me, but how this link can help me to solve my problem? There are lists of Dependencies, Required By along with Package Contents and Links to so-names. It's a huge amount of information. Please, can you point out what I should remove/install which commands to enter, so that I can see my computer is working as it was?
Thank you.

marol · 2023-07-05 14:36:34

Scimmia wrote:

marol wrote:
I removed lts kernel
Why?

Because after I installed it and edited boot-manager, nothing changed. May be I missed something... IDK.

V1del · 2023-07-05 14:38:28

You need to install linux-lts and linux-lts-headers packages so that nvidia-470xx-dkms package can build the nvidia module for the LTS kernel so that you can boot the LTS kernel and a working graphical session until the drivers have received an update for the 6.4 kernel.

Last edited by V1del (2023-07-05 14:39:06)

loqs · 2023-07-05 14:40:14

Please read Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support#Installation

marol · 2023-07-05 14:53:32

@V1del and @loqs - THANK YOU!!! It worked! The only thing - I see my screen only after I enter tty2 and make "startx".

V1del · 2023-07-05 15:07:41

FWIW there's a modified and patched version of the PKGBUILD available in the comments: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nvidi … ent-922190 -- but going by the general confusion you might want to stick to the LTS kernel for now until the package is updated by the maintainer/nvidia themselves potentially.

As for the the additional quirk of you seeing the screen only after doing that. Is sddm not starting? Can you post a new journal as well as /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Might have to enable early loading to make sure the drivers are up before SDDM tries to launch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

loqs · 2023-07-05 15:08:50

V1del wrote:

You need to install linux-lts and linux-lts-headers packages so that nvidia-470xx-dkms package can build the nvidia module for the LTS kernel so that you can boot the LTS kernel and a working graphical session until the drivers have received an update for the 6.4 kernel.

I missed 470xx had not been updated for 6.4

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/nvidia-470xx-utils.git
$ cd nvidia-470xx-utils/
$ curl -o PKGBUILD.diff http://ix.io/4zP5 # Download patch
$ git apply -v PKGBUILD.diff # Apply patch
$ makepkg -rsi # Build and install updated 470xx packages

Edit:
Note I have not included the 6.4 patch as it is not needed.

(6/6) Install DKMS modules
==> dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/470.199.02 -k 6.4.1-arch2-1
==> depmod 6.4.1-arch2-1

Last edited by loqs (2023-07-05 15:18:58)

V1del · 2023-07-05 15:24:45

Ah so they did provide an update already, looks like we'd need to get a more active maintainer there.

marol · 2023-07-05 18:45:29

loqs wrote:

Edit: ...

Yes, I had similar result.

V1del wrote:

FWIW there's a modified and patched version of the PKGBUILD available in the comments: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nvidi … ent-922190 -- but going by the general confusion you might want to stick to the LTS kernel for now until the package is updated by the maintainer/nvidia themselves potentially.

Thank you, I read that topic and I couldn't make that patch. To me it's too sophisticated and complicated I'd like to stick to LTS until there will be stable patch for nvidia-470xx.

V1del wrote:

As for the the additional quirk of you seeing the screen only after doing that. Is sddm not starting? Can you post a new journal as well as /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Might have to enable early loading to make sure the drivers are up before SDDM tries to launch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

I don't use SDDM or any other DM. Only autostart X by means of xinitrc.

Xorg.0.log

loqs · 2023-07-05 18:59:10

marol wrote:

loqs wrote:
Edit: ...
Yes, I had similar result.

You mean 470.199.02 worked for you too without requiring a patch for linux 6.4?

marol wrote:

V1del wrote:
FWIW there's a modified and patched version of the PKGBUILD available in the comments: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nvidi … ent-922190 -- but going by the general confusion you might want to stick to the LTS kernel for now until the package is updated by the maintainer/nvidia themselves potentially.
Thank you, I read that topic and I couldn't make that patch. To me it's too sophisticated and complicated I'd like to stick to LTS until there will be stable patch for nvidia-470xx.

Waiting for https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/li … 4F3LTLESO/ to be actioned.

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#1 2023-07-04 20:10:27

Re: nvidia-470xx drivers not loading after update to 6.4 kernel

#2 2023-07-04 20:24:12

Re: nvidia-470xx drivers not loading after update to 6.4 kernel

#3 2023-07-05 06:46:37