Hello,
After various issues, I have come to the conclusion that something is pretty wrong with my video driver, based on my GPU’s driver being listed as “N/A”. I would provide a better conclusion, but I am not very knowledgeable in these matters and the command outputs probably speak better than me. I just believe many of my video issues are likely symptoms of this.
The story (may be unnecessary, but adding context just in case it’s helpful): Finally having a computer (laptop) with a dGPU (RTX 3060) for the first time, I was hoping to do some good gaming on Linux…nope. Nothing would use my dGPU so in my confused search for solutions I installed the nvidia-all drivers (don’t even know why), which ended up not being a solution and I wanted to go back to the ones provided by mhwd. Since then I have experienced additional issues, such as Vulkan, external HDMI displays not working, and nvidia-settings not recognizing my GPU… Yes, there are multiple issues here, and I do not want to make this post about them, but if they are helpful in fixing this one issue – the weird driver situation – then I want to give the full story of how I got to this point.
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System:
Kernel: 5.18.14-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.18-x86_64
root=UUID=ad936496-7268-4a7f-912e-82c498da5f79 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.3 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Alienware product: Alienware m15 R6 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Alienware model: 0Y6YVC v: A02 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Alienware v: 1.14.0 date: 06/09/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 76.0 Wh (93.9%) condition: 80.9/84.3 Wh (96.0%)
volts: 12.4 min: 11.4 model: BYD DELL M59JH1A type: Li-poly serial: <filter>
status: discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.37 GiB used: 4.21 GiB (27.4%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11800H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11 built: 2020 process: Intel 10nm family: 6
model-id: 0x8D (141) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x3E
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 640 KiB desc: d-8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 10 MiB desc: 8x1.2 MiB
L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 844 high: 1032 min/max: 800/4600 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 1028 2: 801 3: 801 4: 801
5: 801 6: 904 7: 872 8: 803 9: 889 10: 800 11: 801 12: 795 13: 801 14: 801
15: 1032 16: 778 bogomips: 73744
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx512_bitalg avx512_vbmi2
avx512_vnni avx512_vp2intersect avx512_vpopcntdq avx512bw avx512cd
avx512dq avx512f avx512ifma avx512vbmi avx512vl bmi1 bmi2 bts cat_l2
cdp_l2 clflush clflushopt clwb cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16
cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority
flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr gfni ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp
hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ibt ida intel_pt invpcid
invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe movdir64b
movdiri msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm
pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdpid rdrand rdseed
rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep sha_ni smap smep split_lock_detect ss ssbd
sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc
tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq umip vaes vme vmx vnmi
vpclmulqdq vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
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: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen12.1 process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a60
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Dell
driver: N/A alternate: nouveau non-free: 515.xx+
status: current (as of 2022-06) arch: Ampere process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-22 pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6
speed: 64 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2560 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 3-5:4 chip-ID: 0c45:672c class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00")
s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display 0x0690 built: 2020 res: 2560x1440
hz: 60 dpi: 189 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 2560x1440
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.3
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: Dell
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:43c8 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.14-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi vendor: Rivet Networks
driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:43f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie:
speed: Unknown lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s port: 3000
bus-ID: 2d:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:2600 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp45s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 3-14:7 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 139.96 GiB (14.7%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: PC711 NVMe 1TB
size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 41001131 temp: 43.9 C scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 200 GiB size: 195.8 GiB (97.90%) used: 139.88 GiB (71.4%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9 maj-min: 259:9 label: N/A
uuid: ad936496-7268-4a7f-912e-82c498da5f79
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 296 MiB (98.67%)
used: 85.5 MiB (28.9%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: ESP uuid: 78AD-A0FC
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.45 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7 label: N/A
uuid: dfce739f-67b5-4de2-b5d8-a2c23b2e80d9
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 128 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 674.31 GiB fs: ntfs label: OS
uuid: B892B00A92AFCB68
ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 990 MiB fs: ntfs
label: WINRETOOLS uuid: E8CAAC02CAABCB60
ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 size: 16.79 GiB fs: ntfs label: Image
uuid: 444CAC214CAC102A
ID-5: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6 size: 1.38 GiB fs: ntfs
label: DELLSUPPORT uuid: 083C77B83C779F7E
ID-6: /dev/nvme0n1p8 maj-min: 259:8 size: 52.55 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
uuid: a7d5f22f-2bb1-48f6-bb43-c68487cce884
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Razer USA Naga Pro type: Mouse,Keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 1532:0090 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 3-5:4 info: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: Video
driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 0c45:672c class-ID: 0e02
Device-3: 3-7:5 info: Alienware LED controller type: HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 187c:0550 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-4: 3-8:6 info: Darfon type: Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 16mA chip-ID: 0d62:3740
class-ID: 0301
Device-5: 3-14:7 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 20 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 323 Uptime: 2h 5m wakeups: 8 Init: systemd v: 251
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 alt: 11
clang: 14.0.6 Packages: 1693 pacman: 1665 lib: 487 flatpak: 22 snap: 6
Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.19
mhwd -li
> Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime 2021.12.18 false PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
Main question is: How do I properly repair or reinstall my nvidia drivers? Bonus points + possible shrine in my closet if this fixes my other issues, or if you have additional solutions for them.
I’m bad at these kinds of posts, and tend not to know how to even start presenting the problem, so apologies if most of my rambling was confusing and/or unneeded. Please tell me if there is any additional and/or clarifying information I can provide. Thank you for your time and assistance!