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pako

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Registered: 2023-12-08

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] NVIDIA drivers installed but not loaded

After the last update of my system (and after removing some kernels, which I don't need, because my boot partition was full) it does not load the NVIDIA driver anymore.
I am on standard kernel with nvidia-dkms drivers installed.

$ modprobe nvidia

modprobe: ERROR: could not find module by name='off'
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'off': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

I don't understand why he is searching for "off".

$ dkms status

nvidia/545.29.06, 6.6.4-arch1-1, x86_64: installed

I rebuild the nvidia packages and also rebuild the initramfs. Any idea here?

Last edited by pako (2023-12-08 14:25:08)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,725

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA drivers installed but not loaded

What do you have in /etc/modprobe.d/?

pako

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Registered: 2023-12-08

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA drivers installed but not loaded

More or less this was the problem. Another program puts there a file which aliases the NVIDIA drivers as off, if I switch to an integrated graphic card on my laptop. Thanks for the help