Well, it seems I’m again having issues with my nvidia gpu and Linux.
After daily driving Manjaro for a while, I was extremely happy. When I had to dual boot windows and Linux again, I decided to upgrade my Manjaro install media from Ornara to Qonos and installed the video-nvidia-470xx driver and rebooted, it would always say “Failed to load kernel modules” and get stuck. I would then reinstall Manjaro and try again, but to no avail. Because of my monitor setup, I can’t use the open source driver. I need to use the proprietary driver, but I am unable to. What can I do?
Did you run the mkinitcpio after installing the NV driver.
nVidia needs the DKMS kernel module to load at boot to hook to their driver. If your system is not automagically making the initramfs after install, that is probably the issue. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#mkinitcpio
The other issue is that maybe the nVidia driver is not compatible with the kernel that you are using, if you are upgrading both at the same time. You should be able to live boot and tell pacman to install the previous nVidia driver. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#pacman_hook
I use ArchLinux so that would be the go to since Manjaro is based on it. however, I now Manjaro makes some one off changes everyonce in while since their aim to is to make a noob friendly version of ArchLinux. Noble in idea, but sometimes they miss the mark between upgrades.
Fair enough, about manjaro. While I’m definitely not new, I don’t know enough to just think of these things off-hand. I’ll try it, but I think it does it on its own, as I was just trying to use the GUI to update it. My current kernel version is 5.15, which is the default in Qonos. I do know that 5.10 and 5.17 work with video-nvidia-470xx, but it may be my kernel. Just in case, I’ll install 5.10 if I need to select a different one through GRUB, so that I might not need to reinstall.
Thanks for your replies. I have tried different kernels, but to no avail. I had to reinstall again. While I enjoy the humor of blaming all my computer problems on nvidia, I can say that over 80% of my computer problems have been nvidia’s fault. This is probably no different. Anyways, mhwd -li gave me
Warning: config '/var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/network_drivers/r8168/MHWDCONFIG' is invalid!
Warning: config '/var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/network_drivers/rt3562sta/MHWDCONFIG' is invalid!
Installed PCI configs:
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
nvidia-smi gave me nothing, as I am not able to install the nvidia driver.
This is the constant struggle with team Green on GNU/Linux, BSD, and Solaris. That is why the sentiment against nVidia in the open source community is so strong.
I don’t know about Manjaro, but you can visit the front page of the ArchLinux wiki or the ArchLinux site to see what currently know issues are. It is possible that this is a known issue for your setup and has not been mitigated. At least on the ArchLinux sites, they tell you what you need to do to mitigate it or will advise not updating until a solid path forward has been reproduced.
if you get a bunch of errors and listed files that cant be overwritten you may need to remove them first. use the sudo rm cmd and then re-run the sudo mhwd -f -i pci video-nvidia cmd.
it can also help after installing the driver updating grub to make sure its pointing to the right kernal so run sudo update-grub
Hello, all. Thank you SO much for all of your replies, especially @Mastic_Warrior. Your suggestion to check the Arch Linux forums and bug reports had not even crossed my mind. Ultimately, I did find out that there is a pretty huge bug with nvidia’s GP107-based cards. While mine isn’t technically GP107, it is GP107GL. They’re basically the same, with the GL being cut down. I hope to find a fix for this soon, but I guess I’ll have to wait until someone much smarter than I fixes it. I’ll update this thread if anything changes.