Nvidia-inst kernel 6.1.7 install boot failure

[AceFour]

So my big question and I cannot find it anywhere is if nvidia-inst is only supported in linux-lts kernels and not latest such as 6.1.7. I did find a reference that Fedora had a bug in their kernel and was missing a kernel hack https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/10dd2fe/psa_nvidia_drivers_are_broken_on_linux_kernel_61x/ which was fixed in 6.1.7 for Fedora but the error looks similar to what I am seeing here.

installer log from live session: https://0x0.st/ohRa.txt

Hardware information: https://0x0.st/ohRm.txt

Boot log: https://0x0.st/oh7H.txt

snippet

Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: traps: Missing ENDBR: _nv012307rm+0x0/0x10 [nvidia]
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:255!
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: CPU: 10 PID: 256 Comm: systemd-modules Tainted: P           OE      6.1.7-arch1-1 #1 a2d6f1dcaa775aaae1f25aaf758ae968e3493665
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME Z690M-PLUS D4, BIOS 0605 11/12/2021
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: RIP: 0010:exc_control_protection+0xc2/0xd0
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: Code: fa ff 45 31 c9 49 89 d8 b9 09 00 00 00 48 8b 93 80 00 00 00 be fc 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 e1 e1 a3 82 e8 53 f4 47 ff e9 64 ff ff ff <0f> 0b 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 66 0f 1f 00 55 53 48 89
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffa96780fcbba8 EFLAGS: 00010002
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: RAX: 0000000000000033 RBX: ffffa96780fcbbc8 RCX: 0000000000000027
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff954cdfca1660
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffa96780fcba40
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffff832cb828 R12: 0000000000000000
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: FS:  00007f8717ced080(0000) GS:ffff954cdfc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: CR2: 00007f8715aeb000 CR3: 0000000103d4a005 CR4: 0000000000f70ee0
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: PKRU: 55555554
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: Call Trace:
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel:  <TASK>
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel:  asm_exc_control_protection+0x26/0x30
Jan 22 23:52:13 acefour-1 kernel: RIP: 0010:_nv012307rm+0x0/0x10 [nvidia]

What nvidia-inst says:

$ nvidia-inst --drivers
NVIDIA card id: 13c2
Fetching driver data from nvidia.com ...

Series 525: supported (nvidia.com: 525.85.05)

$ nvidia-inst --series 525 -t
2023-01-23 09:09:43: Info: Running: nvidia-inst v1.9-1
2023-01-23 09:09:43: Info: Command line: nvidia-inst --series 525 -t
2023-01-23 09:09:43: Info: Selected mode: nvidia
2023-01-23 09:09:43: Info: Installing packages: nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings nvidia-hook
2023-01-23 09:09:43: Info: Removing packages: xf86-video-nouveau
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COMMANDS TO RUN:
    pacman -Rs --noconfirm --noprogressbar --nodeps xf86-video-nouveau
    pacman -Syuq --noconfirm --noprogressbar --needed nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings nvidia-hook
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The good news is the system eventually gave me console to perform nvidia-inst -n and go back to a graphical display.

[ricklinux]

The installer supports the kernels. You need the kernel parameter ibt=off
Which boot loader did you install with? grub or systemd-boot? It’s placement is different depending on which one you are using.

[AceFour]

systemd-boot

[ricklinux]

You need to add ibt=off to /etc/kernel/cmdline and then run sudo reinstall-kernels and reboot.
Then you should be able to install Nvidia with the nvidia-inst installer.

If you want you could run it in test mode first. nvidia-inst -t If no errors then you install with the -t.

Edit: Hopefully it boots okay with the kernel parameter on nouveau before installing nvidia drivers.

[AceFour]

That did the trick! Did not see that on the wiki write up. Maybe someone could update https://discovery.endeavouros.com/nvidia/new-nvidia-driver-installer-nvidia-inst/2022/03/

Thank you!

[ricklinux]

What does it show now?

inxi -Ga

[AceFour]

$ inxi -Ga
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia
    v: 525.85.05 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 525.xx+
    status: current (as of 2022-12) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx
    process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: none off: DP-1 empty: DP-2, DP-3, DVI-I-1, HDMI-A-1
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:13c2 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.6 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.7
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 530x301mm (20.87x11.85")
    s-diag: 610mm (24")
  Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DP-0 note: disabled model: Dell E2420H
    serial: 8WVNLY2 built: 2020 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2
    size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.85.05 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX
    970/PCIe/SSE2 direct render: Yes

[ricklinux]

Awesome!