Not sure if my Nvidia drivers are working 5.10

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Hi.

I recently had an unexpected problem. I eventually solved the problem and Manjaro runs again. However, I do not think I have the benefit of my Nvidia card yet. If I run a VULKAN game from STEAM it works fine. Non-vulkan titles from STEAM seem unsupported. I have not explored CUDA yet.

I am now running 5.10.32-1 (LTS).

inxi -f:

CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-3570 bits: 64 type: MCP cache: 
  L2: 6 MiB 
  Speed: 3600 MHz min/max: 1600/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3600 2: 3600 
  3: 3600 4: 3600 
  Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov 
  constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb 
  ept erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs 
  ida lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx 
  pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts 
  rdrand rdtscp rep_good sep smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 
  stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid 
  x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr

pacman -Q linux && uname -r

linux419 4.19.188-1
5.10.32-1-MANJARO

pacman -Q | grep headers

ffnvcodec-headers 11.0.10.1-1
linux-api-headers 5.10.13-1
linux510-headers 5.10.32-1
linux54-headers 5.4.114-1
opencl-headers 2:2020.12.18-1

lsmod | grep nvidia

nvidia_modeset       1232896  1
nvidia              34172928  79 nvidia_modeset

sudo pacman -Ss nvidia | grep installed

core/mhwd-nvidia 460.73.01-1 [installed]
core/mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.143-1 [installed]
extra/egl-wayland 1.1.6-1 [installed]
extra/ffnvcodec-headers 11.0.10.1-1 [installed]
extra/libvdpau 1.4-1 [installed]
extra/linux419-nvidia 460.73.01-1 (linux419-extramodules) [installed]
extra/linux510-nvidia 460.73.01-1 (linux510-extramodules) [installed]
extra/linux54-nvidia 460.73.01-1 (linux54-extramodules) [installed]
extra/nvidia-utils 460.73.01-1 [installed]
extra/opencl-nvidia 460.73.01-1 [installed]
community/bumblebee 3.2.1-22 [installed]
multilib/lib32-libvdpau 1.4-1 [installed]
multilib/lib32-nvidia-utils 460.73.01-1 [installed]
multilib/lib32-opencl-nvidia 460.73.01-1 [installed]

mhwd-gpu

:: status
  xorg configuration file: '/etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf'

mhwd -l

video-nvidia            2020.11.30               false            PCI
video-linux              2018.05.04                true            PC
video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI\

mhwd -li

video-nvidia            2020.11.30               false            PCI
video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
 video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI

I do not see the 460xx list in my Manager Hardware Settings manager. Just the box for Nvidia drivers without version number.

The Nvidia X Server settings do show driver 460.73.01 but the non-vulkan games run like claymation under Steam.

Thanks.

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Hi @MaskedMakrel,

I might be wrong, but I suspect the best would be to remove all drivers currently installed, and replace them. Well, that’s what I would’ve done.

To see which are installed, run:

$ mhwd -li

As you’ve done there. Then, remove them all, so that mhwd -li reports nothing. But do not restart. Now install the latest nvidia drivers:

$ sudo mhwd -i video-nvidia

Then, hold your thumb, not that hard, cross you heart and reboot.

Theoretically, your graphics drivers should be back and you can feel free to heap on the praise. You can verify this with:

$ mhwd -li

If not work, well, then I’m innocent. Or/and MIA.

P.S.:
Please wrap your output from the console in tripple backticks (```) so that it appears like this

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instead of like this

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or

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It makes it much easier to read.

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Thank you for your suggestion. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, but it does not seem to have worked.

The good news is I can play any Vulkan based game without problem. Also, CUDA appears to work in Blender for rendering. I guess the other stuff may just have to wait.

I also reformatted my post to make it more readable with backticks. Anyway, it’s a low priority issue for me, so I guess I will relax.

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What’s the output of:

$ mhwd -li

And thank you for the formatting. It looks much better, does it not?

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mhwd -li

   video-nvidia            2020.11.30               false            PCI
   Warning: No installed USB configs!

I’m thinking it might be a Steam related since CUDA would probably not work in Blender if the correct driver was not installed.

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