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imartemy1524

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Registered: 2024-09-26

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Failed to initialize NVIDIA drivers from ZEN kernel in rEFInd

I recently tried migrating to zen kernel (BTW waydroid was the only reason), and everything was great except for nvidia drivers: they didn't run. For some reason nouveau was loaded instead, however for default arch kernel this didn't happen.

My configuration:

When I'm booting to zen kernel and run

 lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"

it gives me next output:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 01)
        DeviceName: Onboard - Video
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 132e
--
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 132e
        Kernel modules: nouveau

While in normal kernel I get next message:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 01)
        DeviceName: Onboard - Video
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 132e
--
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 132e
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia

pacman -Qs nvidia output:

local/egl-gbm 1.1.2-1
    The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.16-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/libnvidia-container 1.16.1-1
    NVIDIA container runtime library
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 560.35.03-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia 560.35.03-6
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-container-toolkit 1.16.1-3
    NVIDIA container toolkit
local/nvidia-settings 560.35.03-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 560.35.03-3
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia 560.35.03-3
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA

pacman -Qs linux-{zen,}:

local/linux-zen 6.10.10.zen1-1
    The Linux ZEN kernel and modules
local/linux-zen-headers 6.10.10.zen1-1
    Headers and scripts for building modules for the Linux ZEN kernel

refind.conf (comments removed):

timeout 20

use_nvram false

fold_linux_kernels false

# Added linux-zen here
extra_kernel_version_strings linux-zen,linux

include themes/refind-ambience/theme.conf

menuentry Linux {
    icon EFI/refind/icons/os_linux.png
    volume 904404F8-B481-440C-A1E3-11A5A954E601
    loader bzImage-3.3.0-rc7
    initrd initrd-3.3.0.img
    options "ro root=UUID=5f96cafa-e0a7-4057-b18f-fa709db5b837"
    disabled
}

menuentry "Arch Linux" {
    icon     /EFI/refind/icons/os_arch.png
    volume   "Arch Linux"
    loader   /boot/vmlinuz-linux
    initrd   /boot/initramfs-linux.img
    options  "root=PARTUUID=/dev/sda2 rw add_efi_memmap nouveau.modeset=0 nvidia_drm.modeset=1"
    submenuentry "Boot using fallback initramfs" {
        initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
    }
    submenuentry "Boot to terminal" {
        add_options "systemd.unit=multi-user.target"
    }
    disabled
}

menuentry Ubuntu {
    loader /EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
    icon /EFI/refind/icons/os_linux.png
    disabled
}

menuentry "ELILO" {
    loader \EFI\elilo\elilo.efi
    disabled
}

menuentry "Windows 7" {
    loader \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
    disabled
}

menuentry "Windows via shell script" {
    icon \EFI\refind\icons\os_win.png
    loader \EFI\tools\shell.efi
    options "fs0:\EFI\tools\launch_windows.nsh"
    disabled
}

menuentry "My macOS" {
    icon \EFI\refind\icons\os_mac.png
    volume "macOS boot"
    loader \System\Library\CoreServices\boot.efi
    disabled
}

menuentry "macOS via BootNext" {
    icon /EFI/refind/icons/os_mac.png
    firmware_bootnum 80
    disabled
}

I also removed `kms` from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (

HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode modconf keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)

) and regenerated initramfs.

Do I need to do smthng else?

Any help would be appreciated.

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,724

Re: Failed to initialize NVIDIA drivers from ZEN kernel in rEFInd

Well you only installed the drivers for the regular kernel, so that all makes sense. See the nvidia wiki page.