Hi,
I tried to install nvidia-driver on Debian Buster but it does not seem to work. On startup, it says that nvidia-persistence.service did not start : " nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize."
nvidia-detect tells me that nvidia-driver is the recommended package for my GeForce GTX 860M. Please note that only the Intel GPU is currently running on my OS and that I am unable to change it to the Nvidia card because the Nvidia switcher does not start (it is a Optimus laptop).
I also tried beforehand the Nvidia installer (.run), to no avail. I still have the log of the installer in my log files, so I attach it to this message.
Thank you for your assistance.
nvidia-bug-report.log (502.6 KB)
nvidia-installer.log (3.9 KB)
The driver is unloaded and bbswitch is used to turn off the nvidia gpu. Seems you have bumblebee installed. Does optirun work?
To be honest, I tried to install primus this afternoon. My X server would not start anymore and I had to reinstall my OS nvidia-bug-report.log (1.9 MB) on my fresh install. I installed nvidia-driver
, nvidia-smi
, nvidia-driver-libs-i386
, nvidia-vulkan-icd
and nvidia-vulkan-icd-i386
. The main problem is that nvidia-settings
does not start. nvidia-settings -V
says :
WARNING: NV-CONTROL extension not found on this Display.
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system
Furthermore, nvidia-smi
seems to tell that the graphic card is off :
Mon May 11 20:55:45 2020
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 418.113 Driver Version: 418.113 CUDA Version: N/A |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 860M On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 56C P8 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 4046MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
optirun
is not installed anymore.
Please see this:
Optimus Howto