Fedora 39: With Kernel versions after 6.6.2-201 the nvidia driver doesn't work properly. [Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice]

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Hello,
Like I said in the title, with Kernel versions after 6.6.2-201 the nvidia driver doesn’t work properly and I get this errors in logs:

[drm:nv_drm_register_drm_device [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to register device
[drm:nv_drm_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice
fedora kernel: NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed!

❯ nvidia-smi
Mon May  6 14:05:26 2024       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.78                 Driver Version: 550.78         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 RTX 3070 ...    Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   37C    P8             16W /  115W |       1MiB /   8192MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

❯ lspci | grep NVIDIA
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA104M [Geforce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU] (rev a1)
0000:01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GA104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

❯ sudo dmesg | grep -i nvidia\\\|nvrm
[sudo] password for vnm_rzv: 
[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.8.8-200.fc39.x86_64 root=UUID=e281fdfb-17d3-4104-904b-8d787dacd632 ro rootflags=subvol=root rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init rhgb quiet initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init nvidia-drm.modeset=1 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau
[    0.043324] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.8.8-200.fc39.x86_64 root=UUID=e281fdfb-17d3-4104-904b-8d787dacd632 ro rootflags=subvol=root rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init rhgb quiet initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init nvidia-drm.modeset=1 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau
[    7.042330] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input23
[    7.042404] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input24
[    7.042452] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input25
[    7.042504] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input26
[    7.652688] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    7.652692] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[    7.652694] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[    7.652694] nvidia: module license taints kernel.
[    7.775535] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 510
[    7.776153] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[    7.776258] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[    7.823534] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  550.78  Sun Apr 14 06:35:45 UTC 2024
[    7.875522] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols nvUvmInterfaceDisableAccessCntr from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[    7.943308] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 508.
[    7.978179] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  550.78  Sun Apr 14 06:23:31 UTC 2024
[    7.982712] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[    8.415869] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x24:0x72:1556)
[    8.415897] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0
[    8.416017] [drm:nv_drm_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice
[    8.416110] [drm:nv_drm_register_drm_device [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to register device

❯ uname -a
Linux fedora 6.8.8-200.fc39.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Apr 27 17:42:13 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thank you!

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Is that a Lenovo laptop? I have the same graphic card and I get the same error. Only kernel < 6.5 will show no issue. You’re not the only one and I wonder which could be the culprit. Obviously something kernel related…

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Yes, I have Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16IAH7H, for me the latest that work is 6.6.2-201.

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Exactly the Same laptop here. Now it happens to work even with the latest kernel (tasted right yesterday) but I tried to benchmark Cyberpunk 2077 and the fps are 50% lower than 6.4.x kernel

5

If you use Nvidia card exclusively (no Optimus) benchmarks are quite the same as older kernels

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I am using Optimus, but for me nvidia driver doesn’t work properly with the later kernels. What kernel do you use right now that works?

In my case something strange happened when I installed the latest kernel, after reboot nvidia-smi gave me No running processes found, but after that, I deleted the kmod for that kernel and used akmods --force to rebuild the modules and it worked after another reboot, but after I shut down the laptop and started again it didn’t work anymore, and after that I posted here the problem, after so many kernels that I tested and don’t work. I tried deleting again the kmod and use akmods --force once more, doesn’t work.

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The only kernel that works decently with fairly good framerates is the 6.4.14 (with Optimus it works fine) and that’s the one I’m using right now

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I tried now the latest 6.8.9-200.fc39.x86_64 kernel and it seems to work properly, at least for steam games, I will need to test the HDMI monitor, too, because that didn’t work either when nvidia driver stopped working. I will need to keep using this kernel to be sure, at first it was ok, after a shutdown nvidia driver stopped working and now after another shutdown it’s back on track. For now this kernel worked for me after 6.6.2-201, all the others didn’t work at all. Finger crossed. :))

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Yes it works but the frame rate is not on par with 6.4 (at least for me) Did you run some benchmark to see if performances are ok?

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No, I didn’t benchmark it, for me neither kernel worked at all beside 6.6.2-201, I mean the nvidia driver didn’t worked.

11

Ok but you said you tested some game (with steam) and what are your impressions?

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I don’t sense any performance difference right now, I noticed a drop in frame rate for dota2 a few days ago that persisted to now(something like from ~110fps to ~90fps ), but it was on kernel 6.6.2-201 and on this new one it’s the same, I don’t know why it happened and if it’s not only in my mind. I’m using Driver Version: 550.78.

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I’ve upgraded to Fedora 40 and with 6.8.9-300.fc40.x86_64 kernel, the nvidia driver works as expected on random boots, with newest kernel 6.8.10, 6.8.11, it doesn’t work at all, it says like in the main post: No running processes found