NVIDIA Driver for GeForce GT 1030

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I am having trouble getting the nvidia drivers to work. Any directions are highly appreciated!

Here’s my machine info:

uname -r
6.2.0-2-rt3-MANJARO

inxi -Fazy
System:
  Kernel: 6.2.0-2-rt3-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.2-rt-x86_64
    root=UUID=028bb8fc-c355-4219-a437-52861b4449fa rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: i3 v: 4.23 with: i3bar tools: avail: i3lock,xautolock vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: PC Specialist product: N85_N870HL v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: Notebook type: 10
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: CLEVO model: N85_N870HL serial: <superuser required> part-nu: 1297215
    uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.05.02
    date: 06/12/2017
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 25.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 25.1/59.9 Wh (41.9%)
    volts: 12.7 min: 11.1 model: Notebook BAT type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    status: full
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-7700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake
    gen: core 7 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: 0xF8
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
    L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1300 high: 2800 min/max: 800/3800 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 2800
    5: 800 6: 2800 7: 800 8: 800 bogomips: 44798
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX150] vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: N/A
    alternate: nouveau non-free: 545.xx+ status: current (as of 2024-06;
    EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx process: TSMC 28nm
    built: 2014-2019 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 4 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1d10 class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: Chicony USB 2.0 Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-2:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b5a7
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display 0x056d built: 2016 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
    dpi: 128 gamma: 1.2 size: 382x215mm (15.04x8.46") diag: 438mm (17.3")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
    device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
    inactive: gbm,wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.3-manjaro1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2)
    device-ID: 8086:591b memory: 7.57 GiB unified: yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a171
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: GN Netcom Jabra EVOLVE Link MS driver: jabra,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-4:4
    chip-ID: 0b0e:0305 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  API: ALSA v: k6.2.0-2-rt3-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.2.1 status: off tools: pw-cli
  Server-4: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active with: 1: pulseaudio-alsa
    type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0f1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: br-113e3d098f65 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-3: vethb588726 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Info: services: mld, NetworkManager, sshd, systemd-timesyncd,
    wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2b
    class-ID: e001
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2
    lmp-v: 8 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 202.7 GiB (90.7%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SUV400S37240G
    size: 223.57 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 37R5 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 222.59 GiB size: 218.04 GiB (97.95%)
    used: 202.7 GiB (93.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 3.7 MiB (0.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C pch: 52.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.5 GiB used: 2.48 GiB (16.0%)
  Processes: 252 Power: uptime: 22m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 6.19 GiB services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager
    Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Packages: 2203 pm: pacman pkgs: 2201 libs: 484 tools: pamac,yay pm: snap
    pkgs: 2 Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.1.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
    running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.35

I tried installing the video-nvidia, video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime, video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime and video-nvidia-470xx drivers.

I did this through

sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia

and I also tried this which is supposed to automatically pick the right version

sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300

I’ve tried running

sudo mkinitcpio -P

after the installations in addtion to

sudo update-grub

After rebooting, I test to see whether the drivers are working:

nvidia-smi                                                               [130]
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

Note that I got this error for each of the attempted version of the drivers above.

I tried running something like this:

sudo modprobe nvidia                                                       [9]
modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/6.2.0-2-rt3-MANJARO

When running

journalctl -xe | grep nvidia

I get the following output:

░░ Subject: A start job for unit nvidia-persistenced.service has begun execution
░░ A start job for unit nvidia-persistenced.service has begun execution.
Jul 22 00:46:35 MACHINE_NAME nvidia-persistenced[851]: Started (851)
Jul 22 00:46:35 MACHINE_NAME nvidia-persistenced[851]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 143 has read and write permissions for those files.
Jul 22 00:46:35 MACHINE_NAME nvidia-persistenced[846]: nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
Jul 22 00:46:35 MACHINE_NAME nvidia-persistenced[851]: Shutdown (851)
Jul 22 00:46:35 MACHINE_NAME systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
░░ An ExecStart= process belonging to unit nvidia-persistenced.service has exited.
Jul 22 00:46:35 MACHINE_NAME systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ The unit nvidia-persistenced.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit nvidia-persistenced.service has failed
░░ A start job for unit nvidia-persistenced.service has finished with a failure.
Jul 22 00:47:01 MACHINE_NAME sudo[2017]:  USERNAME : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/USERNAME ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/modprobe nvidia
Jul 22 00:47:34 MACHINE_NAME sudo[2165]:  USERNAME : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/USERNAME ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/pacman -S nvidia-prime nvidia-dkms
Jul 22 01:14:40 MACHINE_NAME sudo[6049]:  USERNAME : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/USERNAME ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/modprobe nvidia

Could anyone please give me some ideas on things to try?

Thank you in advance!

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I am in the process of setting up a laptop with a Nvidia hybrid setup for the first time, so I am learning this too.

But I am fairly sure you want the video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime one. The module it’s trying to load is located at: ls -lh /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extramodules/nvidia.ko.xz So if it’s not there, that at least helps on not troubleshooting things like prime, SMI, etc. The kernel module needs to be loaded first before bothering with any of that.

You’re also running kernel 6.2, the current LTS kernels are currently 6.1 and 6.6, with the latest at 6.10. Did you try any of those?

Otherwise, I’ll just sit here eating :popcorn:.

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Extremely helpful response, thank you!

I had another kernel installed which is 5.15 and the module was there. I didn’t even need to do an explicit modprobe. I get some error now but at least the module is loading and I can continue troubleshooting:

Mon Jul 22 08:53:16 2024
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.100                Driver Version: 550.100        CUDA Version: 12.4     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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  NVIDIA GeForce MX150           On  |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   37C    P8             N/A / ERR!  |       5MiB /   2048MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      1072      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                                   4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Thank you one more time :slight_smile:

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It seems that torch is using the graphics card so not sure what the error from the previous post is about.

torch.cuda.get_device_name(0)
'NVIDIA GeForce MX150'

Anyways, I think this can be marked as resolved.

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