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iFlxy

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Registered: 2023-01-07

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Issues with legacy NVIDIA drivers

Hello Arch community,

I'm encountering an issue with legacy NVIDIA drivers on Arch Linux. The Xorg logs indicate that "The NVIDIA kernel module does not appear to be receiving interrupts generated by the NVIDIA GPU". I'm unable to start xcfe4 using "startxfce4" or "startx".

Here are the logs for reference:
Xorg Logs
Journalctl Logs

And some files on my system that might be useful:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf
~/.xinitrc

My GPU and drivers:
NVIDIA driver: nvidia-340xx (From the AUR)
GPU: NVIDIA Corporation G98M [GeForce G 105M] (rev a1)

I tried various kernel parameters described here, but none of them worked.

If anyone has insights or suggestions on resolving this issue, I'd appreciate your help.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Issues with legacy NVIDIA drivers

Dec 02 20:00:12 swirkpcrx580 kernel: caller _nv000788rm+0xe4/0x1c0 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs
Dec 02 20:00:12 swirkpcrx580 kernel: resource: resource sanity check: requesting [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff], which spans more than PCI Bus 0000:00 [mem 0x000d4000-0x000e3fff window]
Dec 02 20:00:12 swirkpcrx580 kernel: caller _nv013517rm+0x57/0xa0 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs
Dec 02 20:00:16 swirkpcrx580 kernel: NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1915)
Dec 02 20:00:16 swirkpcrx580 kernel: NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
Dec 02 20:00:16 swirkpcrx580 kernel: NVRM: nvidia_frontend_open: minor 0, module->open() failed, error -5

Does the LTS kernel still work?

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iFlxy

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Re: Issues with legacy NVIDIA drivers

Does the LTS kernel still work?

I tried installing the LTS kernel and drivers, but nothing changed.
Journalctl: http://0x0.st/HxWx.txt

seth

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Re: Issues with legacy NVIDIA drivers

"sudo journalctl -b" will print only the current boot.
Try adding

pcie_aspm=off rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1

to the kernel parameters.

Does the chip still respond if you boot some other OS (eg. some live distro)?

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iFlxy

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Registered: 2023-01-07

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Re: Issues with legacy NVIDIA drivers

"sudo journalctl -b" will print only the current boot.
Try adding

pcie_aspm=off rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1

to the kernel parameters.

I tried adding it to the kernel parameters, the Xorg error seems to be the same.

sudo journalctl -b: http://0x0.st/HxWR.txt

Does the chip still respond if you boot some other OS (eg. some live distro)?

I remember that Linux Mint used to work on it.

seth

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Re: Issues with legacy NVIDIA drivers

"used to" doesn't really say much - most things on the landfill "used to" be useful at some point.
The question is whether the chip still responds *now*

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