Need Help with Nvidia Drivers:N/A

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hey guys, I have a problem with setting up nvidia drivers. I used the provided nvidia-inst script and checked using --driver it says series 545 supported.
My system is a HP Laptop with Nvidia Optimus MX250.
I installed drivers using that script, Now when I run inxi -G it says next to my card Drivers: N/A.

inxi -G

 Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] driver: N/A
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4

dmesg | grep -e nvidia:

[    3.156854] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
[    3.157825] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible
[    3.157945] nvidia: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -1
[    3.158203] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 237

nvidia-inst --drivers

NVIDIA card id: 1d13
Fetching driver data from nvidia.com ...

Series 545: supported (nvidia.com: 545.29.06)

I am scratching my head over this since last week, tried reinstalling drivers, Changing kernels, etc.

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Welcome aboard! :smile:

What do commands

nvidia-inst -t
pacman -Qs nvidia

show?

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pacman -Qs nvidia
local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.13-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/ffnvcodec-headers 12.1.14.0-1
    FFmpeg version of headers required to interface with Nvidias codec APIs
local/libva-nvidia-driver-git 0.0.11.r13.g42f563e-1
    VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as a backend (git version)
local/libvdpau 1.5-2
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 545.29.06-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia-dkms 545.29.06-3
    NVIDIA drivers - module sources
local/nvidia-hook 1.5-1
    pacman hook for nvidia
local/nvidia-inst 23.1-1
    Script to setup nvidia drivers (dkms version) in EndeavourOS
local/nvidia-prime 1.0-4
    NVIDIA Prime Render Offload configuration and utilities
local/nvidia-settings 545.29.06-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 545.29.06-3
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/nvtop 3.0.2-1
    GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
local/opencl-nvidia 545.29.06-3
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA

2024-02-03 18:21:00: Info: Running: nvidia-inst v23.1-1
2024-02-03 18:21:00: Info: Command line: nvidia-inst -t
2024-02-03 18:21:00: Info: Selected mode: nvidia
NVIDIA card id: 1d13
Fetching driver data from nvidia.com ...
2024-02-03 18:21:06: Info: Removing packages: nvidia-prime
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COMMANDS TO RUN:
    pacman -Rs --noconfirm --noprogressbar --nodeps nvidia-prime
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Thank you so much for the warm welcome! I’m thrilled to be part of the EndeavourOS community.

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Just to ask the obvious: did you reboot after installing the driver?

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yes I did that, like a 100 times already.

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For the record, can you show the output of

inxi -Fza
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I don’t know if this helps but here’s something strange I noticed when running lspci command.
Why does kernel modules show Nouveau?

02:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX250] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company GP108M [GeForce MX250]
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
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System:
  Kernel: 6.7.3-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    clocksource: tsc available: acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=4d6d85ad-8394-471f-a272-385246a61a35 rw rootflags=subvol=@
    resume=UUID=6445312d-19e3-4d24-9748-e65fcaeb06dc nowatchdog nvme_load=YES
    queit loglevel=3 splash intel_iommu=on vt.global_cursor_default=0
    nvidia-drm.modeset=1
  Desktop: Hyprland info: waybar vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Hyper-Arch
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP ENVY Laptop 17m-ce0xxx
    v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 85E5 v: 30.32 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.18 date: 08/14/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 32.9 Wh (60.6%) condition: 54.3/54.3 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 11.2 min: 11.6 model: 333-54-2C-A LK03055XL type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-8565U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Whiskey Lake
    gen: core 8 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x8E (142) stepping: 0xB (11) microcode: 0xF4
  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: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 600 high: 801 min/max: 400/4600 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 400 3: 800 4: 400
    5: 400 6: 801 7: 400 8: 800 bogomips: 31999
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow 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: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional,
    RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
    ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:3ea0 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: N/A alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia non-free: 545.xx+
    status: current (as of 2023-10; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Pascal code: GP10x
    process: TSMC 16nm built: 2016-2021 pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63
    link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d13
    class-ID: 0302
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
    compositor: Hyprland driver: X: loaded: modesetting dri: iris gpu: i915
    display-ID: 1
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland:
    drv: iris x11: drv: iris
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 23.3.5-arch1.1
    note: incomplete (EGL sourced) renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL
    GT2), llvmpipe (LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits)
  API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl, snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9dc8 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.7.3-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api
    tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.3 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:9df0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A modules: r8169 pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
    class-ID: 0200
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10:3
    chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
    lmp-v: 10 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
    v: 3.0 port: 5060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 55.99 GiB (23.5%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 model: SSD 256GB size: 238.47 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 18E3 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 136.38 GiB size: 136.38 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 55.53 GiB (40.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 1024 MiB size: 1022 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 468.3 MiB (45.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 136.38 GiB size: 136.38 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 55.53 GiB (40.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 136.38 GiB size: 136.38 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 55.53 GiB (40.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
    compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 13.21 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C pch: 50.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 254 Uptime: 55m wakeups: 0 Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est.
  available: 15.35 GiB used: 3.01 GiB (19.6%) Init: systemd v: 255
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 Packages: pm: dpkg
  pkgs: 0 pm: pacman pkgs: 1355 libs: 302 tools: yay Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
  running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.31
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if you’re confused by the distro name, I changed it lol.

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Interesting name!

All looks normal otherwise but wayland is known to have problems with some Nvidia GPUs/drivers.
Also, I’m not using hyprland, so cannot help much with that. But here we have hyprland users, hopefully some will chime in and help.

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ah okay thanks for your help. I can switch to KDE-Plasma if you want because I am facing the same issue there as well.

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With wayland or x11?

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With X11

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In that case I’d recommend looking at the Arch wiki about nvidia. Your gpu might need some special parameter or setting to function properly.

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I have read that wiki completely, have been tinkering with stuff since a week.

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I don’t have many ideas, but trying different kernels might work around the issue. Worth a try unless you didn’t already.

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Welp, Have tried that already. :sob:

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OK. Then I hope some Nvidia guru(s) can chime in. :wink:

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Still one thing: is there a setting in your motherboard BIOS for selecting which GPU is used? If so, it might have the wrong value…