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ttofano

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Registered: 2025-02-06

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Unusable system after Nvidia 615 updates

Hello all!

I am running into several issues with the latest Nvidia driver update on my system rendering it virtually unusable. I have a MSI Nvidia RTX 3060 (not the ti version, the one with capped bitcoin hash rates) and since the 6xx nvidia-open drivers release, nothing works as it would before.

First, I had black screens during boot. System was starting, but the screen would hang at the "Loading console fonts" (or something of the sorts) and never get to a login prompt. Reinstalling the system only worked until installing the Nvidia drivers again, which would bring me back to the same problem.

After a lot of recovery attempts with no success, I got it fixed by: 1) migrating to linux-zen latest kernel before installing the nvidia drivers; and 2) adding

"module_blacklist=simpledrm initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init"

to my kernel parameters (using GRUB here) (source: this thread. Now I can boot back into the system and 'startx' into an i3 session.

However, now I have a horrid performance even on desktop. Just moving the mouse around causes severe stutters and freezes. Just watching a YT video became impossible: the video pauses constantly and eventually it crashes completely, forcing me to reload (shift+F5, as a simple F5 refresh doesn't even work) the page to make it run again for another minute or so. After my third full OS reinstall in less than a week, I have not even installed Steam to test games yet. To add insult to injury, DP/HDMI audio is just awful, with a constant low-volume buzzing/crackling in background. Works ok on my headphones.

On my attempts, I tried installing M$ Windows 11 to test if it was a hardware issue, and it doesn't seem so, as it all works fine there. Also tried live-isos and they all seem ok (tried Pop!_OS and CachyOS, had some lags with Cachy, but given I was running from a usb stick, I guess its fine?). I tried installing Cachy and had the same experience with the black screens on boot, so I just reinstalled Arch - back to zero.

I have tried to use downgrade (from AUR) to install previous driver versions: 610.xx had the same issues - black screen on boot, terrible performance when booted with the kernel options workaround; 590.xx wouldn't even load nvidia modules - nvidia MODULES (namely, "nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm") throws "module not found" errors with "mkinitcpio -P".

Reading the Nvidia's official release post for the latest driver I see loads of issues, but nothing as severe as mine, so I am lost. Any suggestions? Every help is much appreciated!

Some (possibly) useful info about my system:

• dmidecode

• lspci

• pacman -Qs nvidia

• journalctl -b

Any other info needed, please let me know.
[ps.: sorry for the long post, its been a hell of a month since all of this started...]
Thanks in advance, guys!

seth

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Re: Unusable system after Nvidia 615 updates

out 24 16:25:14 horizons kernel: NVRM: nvAssertFailedNoLog: Assertion failed: GPPut < WATCHDOG_GPFIFO_ENTRIES @ kernel_rc_watchdog.c:1608
out 24 16:25:21 horizons kernel: NVRM: krcWatchdog_IMPL: RC watchdog: GPU is probably locked!  Notify Timeout Seconds: 7
out 24 16:25:21 horizons kernel: NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:01:00: GPU-4ec3f08f-ae40-5200-4508-025f793f7178
out 24 16:25:21 horizons kernel: NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 8, pid=655, name=Xorg, channel 0x00000002
out 24 16:25:21 horizons kernel: NVRM: krcCheckBusError_KERNEL: PCI-E corelogic: FATAL_ERROR_DETECTED

Which driver are you using on the other distros?
nouveau? Some older Nvidia one (tried the 580xx drivers)?

Edit please also post xorg log and your xinitrc.

Last edited by seth (Today 07:16:26)

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