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Botten

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Registered: 2025-01-01

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[SOLVED] The nvidia_drm module is missing

Hello, the day before the new year, I decided to revive my old friend, who was made in 2010. Configuration of an old friend: Intel Core i5-480M (2.667 GHz), Nvidia GT GeForce 420M, 8 GB of RAM
I installed archlinux version 6.6.68-1-lts on it.
Everything was going well enough until it was the turn to install nvidia video drivers. According to the instructions https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA
I have successfully installed the "nvidia-390xx-dkms" drivers and some packages that were associated with these drivers. In point 1, point 2 of the instructions, I have to enable the nvidia module in the kernel by Grub config. But there is no nvidia_drm module in my system. I searched the Internet and found the answer that this module was previously installed with the "nvidia_lts" package, which does not exist now.
Is there a package that contains the module I need, or am I doing something wrong?
I thank you in advance to everyone who read and tried to help.

Here are the results of running some commands so that you can better understand my problem.

yay -Qs nvidia

 local/egl-gbm 1.1.2-1
    The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.17-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-x11 1.0.0-1
    NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils 390.157-2
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit), 390xx legacy branch
local/lib32-opencl-nvidia-390xx 390.157-2
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA (32-bit), 390xx legacy branch
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.143-1
    mhwd-nvidia-390xx PCI ID database
local/nvidia-390xx-dkms 390.157-13
    NVIDIA drivers - module sources
local/nvidia-390xx-utils 390.157-13
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/nvidia-prime 1.0-5
    NVIDIA Prime Render Offload configuration and utilities
local/nvtop 3.1.0-1
    GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
local/opencl-nvidia-390xx 390.157-13
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA 

sudo modprobe nvidia_drm

 modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia_drm not found in directory /lib/modules/6.6.68-1-lts .

sudo dmesg | grep nvidia

 [    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux-lts root=UUID=8b4e46a9-593f-4f13-9bec-a2056dca3504 rw loglevel=3 CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM=y ibt=off drm.debug=14 log_buf_len=16M rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 nvidia.NVreg_RegistryDwords=EnableBrightnessControl=1 i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 i915.modeset=1
[    0.075842] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux-lts root=UUID=8b4e46a9-593f-4f13-9bec-a2056dca3504 rw loglevel=3 CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM=y ibt=off drm.debug=14 log_buf_len=16M rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 nvidia.NVreg_RegistryDwords=EnableBrightnessControl=1 i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 i915.modeset=1 .

Last edited by Botten (2025-01-02 22:56:26)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,553

Re: [SOLVED] The nvidia_drm module is missing

The instructions you linked also point you to the dkms page if using a dkms package. Have you checked that? Did the module actually build when you installed it?

Botten

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Registered: 2025-01-01

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] The nvidia_drm module is missing

The instructions you linked also point you to the dkms page if using a dkms package. Have you checked that? Did the module actually build when you installed it?

Thank you so much! It turned out that I had the dkms error "your kernel headers for 6.6.68-1-lts cannot be found at". I downloaded "linux-lts-headers 6.6.68-1" via aur and it installed the driver packages!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 62,401

Re: [SOLVED] The nvidia_drm module is missing

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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