But if you say, it won’t work with this, I’ll go back to the 390 series. I just wonder … I bought my notebook September 2019, it doesn’t seem that old to me.
Even with the driver loaded, trying to start nvidia-settings says:
(nvidia-settings:105746): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:51:02.700: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:73:46: The style property GtkScrolledWindow:scrollbars-within-bevel is deprecated and shouldn't be used any
more. It will be removed in a future version
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system
And when I try prime-run steam, I get
Running Steam on manjarolinux 20.2.1 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Steam client's requirements are satisfied
/home/titus/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
[2021-02-09 17:52:31] Startup - updater built Feb 8 2021 05:16:36
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1612763122)
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Thank you very much for your time and effort! It is so great not to be left alone with the problem.
Before I do sudo modprobe nvidia after reboot, both commands don’t work (the first gives out: NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.)
After the modprobe command, prime-run nvidia-smi gives out:
Wed Feb 10 10:01:41 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 460.39 Driver Version: 460.39 CUDA Version: 11.2 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce MX150 Off | 00000000:02:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 34C P0 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 2002MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Strange. I removed all three blacklist-commands for nvidia, mhwd-nvidia.conf now reads:
##
## Generated by mhwd - Manjaro Hardware Detection
##
blacklist nouveau
blacklist ttm
blacklist drm_kms_helper
blacklist drm
Still, the driver is not loaded (“N/A” in inxi -G), until I do modprobe nvidia.
I cannot do prime-run nvidia-smi before I did that. Afterwards it now reads:
Wed Feb 10 13:43:28 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 460.39 Driver Version: 460.39 CUDA Version: 11.2 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce MX150 Off | 00000000:02:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 50C P0 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 2002MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
It might be nothing, but I noticed since the reboot the ventilation of my notebook is on a high level (already before I did modprobe nvidia), as if it would be heavily working, even though I don’t do much. And in prime-run nvidia-smi it now says 50C, while before it were 34C.
Did I delete too much, should I put blacklist nvidia-modeset and blacklist nvidia-uvm back in?
That didn’t do anything bad, but didn’t do anything good either. My mhwd-nvidia.conf now looks like this:
blacklist nouveau
blacklist ttm
The driver still isn’t loaded, until I do modprobe nvidia by hand. I would gladly do that every time I boot up, if only prime-run would work! But it doesn’t, even after his modprobe command.
On my system, lsmod | grep drm now looks like this.
But it didn’t help the driver to be loaded. (I thought it might be from a different version of the driver and somehow hinder the new version to load properly.)
Now that it isn’t blacklisted anymore, could it be that the nvidia driver needs to be added somewhere? I wish I knew more about all this … Thank you for fighting through the thicket together with me.
Since we dropped the support of old Nvidia drivers, it seems it got worse. At some point we might need to drop also 390, which will leave us with only the latest Nvidia drivers in rolling. So we have to see on how that will go.
