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Pena

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Registered: 2019-10-04

Posts: 82

Nvidia Drivers unstable/unusable

2-3 Weeks ago i started to notice that my system is not behaving well to nvidia-dkms latest changes, i began noticing a lot of black screens, freezes along with messages on kernel from nvidia firmware.

I've tried to variate a lot so one message from the journal wont magically debug it but basically: if it doesnt crash xorg it will be so unstable that it will inevitably throw the entire system down with a random freeze.
Right now the only way i can make the system usable is to intentionally install nvidia package which for some reason makes optimus-manager unable to find the nvidia stuff which causes a fallback to the integrated graphics because for some reason(i havent properly checked it), i have a feeling that the integrated part can't launch via optimus(i know this doesn't make a lot of sense but i really just want to fix nvidia for now)

so let's start with some logs:
this one was made with what i believe with nvidia-dkms
http://0x0.st/XEVx.txt
and heres the full text
http://0x0.st/XEVg.txt
and this with nvidia-beta-dkms
http://0x0.st/XEVl.txt
full journal:
http://0x0.st/XEVU.txt

I've disabled some firmware flag as a kernel parameter hoping to fix aforementioned and i dont think it did nothing

Pena

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Registered: 2019-10-04

Posts: 82

Re: Nvidia Drivers unstable/unusable

Ah i forgot about my system:
The graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile (Pascal)
The cpu Intel i5-7300HQ (4) @ 3.500GHz
Im running 6.6.52-1-lts and i've also tried the latest kernel too
Im running xorg  + optimus-manager
and although i used sddm with the whole plasma 6 i've installed lightdm

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,307

Re: Nvidia Drivers unstable/unusable

fbdev got enabled by default which potentially doesn't play ball with certain use cases. Try 'nvidia_drm.fbdev=0' instead of the gpu firmware parameter (which is inert, that one only has relevance on Turing+ GPUs

Pena

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Registered: 2019-10-04

Posts: 82

Re: Nvidia Drivers unstable/unusable

fbdev got enabled by default which potentially doesn't play ball with certain use cases. Try 'nvidia_drm.fbdev=0' instead of the gpu firmware parameter (which is inert, that one only has relevance on Turing+ GPUs

thank you, i think it solved it give me 1 hour or so to push it to see if it actually fixed it or its still unstable

regardle... well it crashed twice/three times(i guess one didnt count i didnt even boot it fully), but it seems a lot more stable than before,
heres the new logs with (journalctl -b -3 -e -g nvidia)

http://0x0.st/XEkl.txt

Last edited by Pena (2024-10-08 18:55:02)

Pena

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Registered: 2019-10-04

Posts: 82

Re: Nvidia Drivers unstable/unusable

hmm upon watching the logs closely it appears the kernel params havent changed even though i changed ./etc/default/grub and updated grub

Last edited by Pena (2024-10-12 08:34:17)