nvidia-580xx-dkms

gcb · Yesterday 07:02:42

trying to follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

my card is a "pascal" that uses nvidia-580xx-dkms. It is one of the awfull optimus/bumblebee setups though.

But I am 100% lost, as those pages mention nothing besides installing the driver, and installing the driver doesn't seem to be enough.

the AUR git builds 3 packages. utils, dkms, opencl. I install the three of them fine. They place no modules anywhere i can see, they pretend to re-run mkinitcpio as if they added something to the system, but as far as i can see, there's nothing.

i see some modprobe configs but they are in /usr/lib/modprobe.d, not even sure those are picked up normally. For example, one things those files contains, they try to blacklist nouveau, but after i reboot, i still have nouveau loaded.

I can't find any modules anywhere

there's a binary in the utils package called nvidia-modprobe, but it just return error code 1 and does/output nothing.

$ lspci -k -d ::03xx
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Kaby Lake-H GT2 [HD Graphics 630] (rev 04)
DeviceName: Onboard IGD
Subsystem: Dell Device 07be
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Dell Device 07be
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau

$ lsmod | grep nvidia

$ lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau 3780608 1
gpu_sched 77824 1 nouveau
drm_gpuvm 57344 1 nouveau
drm_exec 12288 2 drm_gpuvm,nouveau
drm_ttm_helper 20480 1 nouveau
mxm_wmi 12288 1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 24576 2 i915,nouveau
ttm 155648 3 drm_ttm_helper,i915,nouveau
video 81920 4 dell_wmi,dell_laptop,i915,nouveau
drm_display_helper 303104 2 i915,nouveau
wmi 40960 9 video,intel_wmi_thunderbolt,dell_wmi,wmi_bmof,dell_smm_hwmon,dell_smbios,dell_wmi_descriptor,mxm_wmi,nouveau

Nov 01 06:28:16 kernel: pci 0000:01:00.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status dynamic power,
Nov 01 06:28:16 kernel: VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle
Nov 01 06:28:16 kernel: nouveau: detected PR support, will not use DSM
Nov 01 06:28:16 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007)
Nov 01 06:28:16 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GP107 (137000a1)
Nov 01 06:28:16 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 86.07.3e.00.1c
Nov 01 06:28:16 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: pmu: firmware unavailable
Nov 01 06:28:16 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 4096 MiB GDDR5
Nov 01 06:28:16 kernel: vga_switcheroo: enabled

loqs · Yesterday 07:10:34

What is the output of `dkms status`. Please use code tags.

seth · Yesterday 09:17:24

On a limb, read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … stallation three times as well as https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … rly%20boot.

gcb · Today 04:03:49

$ dkms status
bbswitch/0.8, 7.2.11-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
nvidia/580.196.07, 7.2.11-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
v4l2loopback/0.15.4, 7.2.11-arch1-1, x86_64: installed

> read https://wiki ...

I did try my best to follow all the "Install" sections I could find from those pages.

Edit:
If I blacklist the nouveau module, card is not detected at all

$ lspci -k -d ::03xx
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Kaby Lake-H GT2 [HD Graphics 630] (rev 04)
        DeviceName:  Onboard IGD
        Subsystem: Dell Device 07be
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

seth · Today 07:16:56

The modules will have no impact on the presence of the pci device.
Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | nc termbin.com 9999

WorMzy · Today 09:16:48

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

gcb · Today 19:52:11

boot with fresh arch install, no AUR or proprietary drivers whatsoever
https://termbin.com/lg5l3

 # journalctl -b -11 | grep -i nvidia
 nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GP107 (137000a1)

Card shows up on lspci just fine.

boot with AUR drivers built, and no bumblebee/bswitch installed
AUR driver blocks nouveau.
https://termbin.com/mfs5

# journalctl -b -5 | grep -i nvidia
 nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
 nvidia: module license taints kernel.
 nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 510
 NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.

card doesn't show up on lspci

lastly, with AUR driver and bumblebeed+bbswitch
https://termbin.com/lkjt
...i think this made things worse as bumblebee disables the AUR driver at boot too?

# journalctl -b 0  | grep -i nvid
 Module 'nvidia' is deny-listed (by kmod)
 Module 'nvidia_modeset' is deny-listed (by kmod)
 Module 'nvidia_uvm' is deny-listed (by kmod)
 Module 'nvidia_drm' is deny-listed (by kmod)
 Configuration file /etc/systemd/system/nvidia-enable.service is marked world-inaccessible. This has no effect as configuration data is accessible via APIs without restrictions. Proceeding anyway.

The lot of pcie errors everywhere, i'm thinking it have to do with the thunderbolt dock.

# mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset bbswitch nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
BINARIES=()
FILES=()
HOOKS=(systemd keyboard autodetect microcode modconf kms sd-vconsole block sd-encrypt lvm2 filesystems resume fsck acpi_override)
COMPRESSION="zstd"
COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=(-v --long -9)
MODULES_DECOMPRESS="yes"

BIOS have no option to disable optimus or either of the GPUs

GPU is soldered on the same mainboard as CPU, not external/thunderbolt in any way.

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