I’m trying for months to install a driver for my RTX3090 card on Ubuntu 20.04 but met a confusing problem. I met this while installing, but I can use nvidia-settings successfully.
Unable to load the ‘nvidia-drm’ kernel module modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:838 kmod_module_insert_module() could not find module by name='off
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'off': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)'
However, I still cannot use nvidia-smi as imagined
NVIDIA-SMI has falled because it couldn't communtcate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
I tried everythings including modprobe, nvidia-prime, acpi, pci=noacpi,…nothings works. dkms seems correctly.
When I use ppa or apt to install, lightdm service will fail.
I really hope someone to help me, I have tried everything I know
Attached is the install log nvidia-installer.log (94.3 KB)
Thank you very much for your reply! I have just done sudo prime-select nvidia in tty1 and found nvidia-smi worked correctly!
However, I made a reboot afterwards and found lightdm dead, so I have to run sudo prime-select intel and reboot to make lightdm work.
So now every time I want to use nvidia card, I have to select intel card first ,and then go to tty1, run sudo prime-select nvidia to make nvidia-smi work correctly.
In addition, I did not find a file containing blacklist nvidia, but find blacklist nvidiafb in blacklist-framebuffer.conf, I did not remove it. Should I remove blacklist nvidiafb in this file?
I run
grep nvidia /etc/modprobe.d/* /lib/modprobe.d/*
and get
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:#blacklist nvidiafb
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf:blacklist nvidiafb
/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-kms.conf:#This file was generated by nvidia-prime
/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-kms.conf:options nvidia-drm modeset=1
Sorry to reply late. I have update my kernel to 5.13.0-30-generic, and installed the driver again. But things seems to go worse (•︵•) . It said the installation done successfully, and the lightdm was active running after sudo service lightdm restart. But I got a black screen immediately. I tried many times such as reboot, sudo prime-select inteland reboot(and the computer will go dead), reinstall the driver, but nothing works.
Attached is the nvidia-bug-report and the install log. Looking forward to your reply nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (278.1 KB) nvidia-installer.log (36.1 KB)
You installed the driver from runfile using pointless options like no-opengl-files.
Please uninstall it and install the driver using Software&Updates application.
and get 510 drivers again. However, if I use sudo prime-select nvidia, then I will get a black screen (just a little line like - on the left top of the screen, but lightdm seems active running)
If I use sudo prime-select intel, then I will get my desktop but nvidia-smi cannot use. However, I can use nvidia-settings to see only PRIME Profiles and select my GPU to use.
Here is my nvidia-bug-report, thank you very much! nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (263.7 KB)
and tried to install nvidia driver from either sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall or run file.
However, for the first case, nvidia-smi cannot run correctly even when I use sudo prime-select nvidia and reboot. In the second case, I can use nvidia-smi only in tty1 with a black screen and can never get my desktop (•︵•) , so I use sudo Nvidiaxxx.run -uninstall in recovery mode finally.
Here is my nvidia-bug-report and the install log. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (99.1 KB) nvidia-installer.log (36.6 KB)
At least the intel gpu is running correctly now. The log show that there are still parts of a 470 driver installed, so the 510 driver failed to run properly. Please post the output of
dpkg -l |grep nvidia
Oh yes (^▽^), I do found some lines containing nvidia-470 drivers. Here are the results
ii libnvidia-cfg1-510:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii libnvidia-common-510 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries
rc libnvidia-compute-390:i386 390.144-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-compute-510:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-compute-510:i386 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-decode-510:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii libnvidia-decode-510:i386 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii libnvidia-encode-510:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-encode-510:i386 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-extra-510:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 Extra libraries for the NVIDIA driver
ii libnvidia-fbc1-510:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii libnvidia-fbc1-510:i386 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii libnvidia-gl-510:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii libnvidia-gl-510:i386 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii linux-modules-nvidia-510-5.13.0-30-generic 5.13.0-30.33~20.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-30
ii linux-modules-nvidia-510-generic-hwe-20.04 5.13.0-30.33~20.04.1 amd64 Extra drivers for nvidia-510 for the generic-hwe-20.04 flavour
ii linux-objects-nvidia-510-5.13.0-30-generic 5.13.0-30.33~20.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-30 (objects)
ii linux-signatures-nvidia-5.13.0-30-generic 5.13.0-30.33~20.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel signatures for nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-30-generic
ii nvidia-compute-utils-510 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities
ii nvidia-driver-510 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii nvidia-kernel-common-510 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module
ii nvidia-kernel-source-510 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package
ii nvidia-prime 0.8.16~0.20.04.1 all Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 470.57.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.3 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-utils-510 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii screen-resolution-extra 0.18build1 all Extension for the nvidia-settings control panel
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-510 510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
It’s a bit odd, there’s one 390 package installed but that shouldn’t really matter. Most of all, this seems to be a -no-dkms driver so please remove all nvidia packages
It works!!! (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ There are really some old drivers, I use the following lines to remove them completely. (PS: If I only run the first line, then there are still some packages remaining.)
In addition, I noticed a little display problem near the cursor, but cannot use screenshot to record it. Is this related to the current driver? Thank you!
Ths might be either a sync or a display-panel pm issue. Please set kernel parameter
nvidia-drm.modeset=1
and reboot. If the issue is still present, please additionally set kernel parameter
i915.enable_psr=0
and reboot.
I used to see a lot of these lines when booting with old kernel
AER PCIe BUS Error: serverity=corrected, type=Physical layer
Someone said this setting would help, so I added pci=nommconf to grub
But now there is no difference can be seen whether I add it or not, the same for this issue
Ok, that’s a common (bad) advice, just set
pci=noaer
nommconf also disables aer but also different things.
Please create and attach a new nvidia-bug-report.log
