GPU driver not working properly

rayhsiao88 · January 28, 2021, 8:12am

After installing nvidia driver 418 on ubuntu 16.04, the login GUI keeps crashes after login and here is the error log file, .xsession-errors

X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
Value in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 27
Current serial number in output stream: 28
openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at :0
upstart: gnome-session (Unity) main process (2638) terminated with status 1
upstart: logrotate main process (2478) killed by TERM signal
upstart: update-notifier-release main process (2546) killed by TERM signal
upstart: hud main process (2599) killed by TERM signal
upstart: indicator-bluetooth main process (2661) killed by TERM signal
upstart: indicator-power main process (2662) killed by TERM signal
upstart: indicator-datetime main process (2666) killed by TERM signal
upstart: indicator-printers main process (2672) killed by TERM signal
upstart: indicator-session main process (2673) killed by TERM signal
upstart: indicator-application main process (2732) killed by TERM signal
upstart: Disconnected from notified D-Bus bus
upstart: bamfdaemon main process (2585) killed by TERM signal
upstart: unity-panel-service main process (2642) killed by TERM signal
upstart: indicator-sound main process (2671) killed by TERM signal

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

driver is nvidia

$ prime-select query
nvidia

nvidia-settings does not work
$ sudo DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/var/run/lightdm/root/:0 nvidia-settings

ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

After checking /etc/X11, xorg.conf is not there
I ran a bug report as attached.

After this, I ran nvidia-xconfig to generate xorg.conf file, and it only generates 1 GPU config file, but I have 8 GPUs.

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig

nvidia-xconfig: version 418.56

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout0”
Screen 0 “Screen0”
InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer”
EndSection

Section “Files”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
# generated from default
Identifier “Mouse0”
Driver “mouse”
Option “Protocol” “auto”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “no”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
# generated from default
Identifier “Keyboard0”
Driver “kbd”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0”
VendorName “Unknown”
ModelName “Unknown”
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option “DPMS”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “NVIDIA Corporation”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0”
Device “Device0”
Monitor “Monitor0”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

I rebooted and ran lightdm and it pops,

** (process:2249): WARNING **: Failed to open CK session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files
/etc/modprobe.d is not a file
/etc/modprobe.d is not a file
/etc/modprobe.d is not a file
/etc/modprobe.d is not a file
/etc/modprobe.d is not a file
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for x86_64-linux-gnu_gfxcore_conf

And nvidia-settings still has same error as preivously shown.
$ sudo DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/var/run/lightdm/root/:0 nvidia-settings

ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

And I ran a 2nd bug report as attached.
I have looked up the solutions online, and reinsall driver does not fix this.

nvidia-bug-report.log1.gz (3.4 MB)
nvidia-bug-report.log2.gz (4.5 MB)

generix · January 28, 2021, 8:24am

Your desktop is running on an AST server graphics.

rayhsiao88 · January 28, 2021, 9:33am

Sorry, I don’t get this. How can I fix it?

generix · January 28, 2021, 10:07am

What are you trying to achieve? Where did you connect the monitor to?

rayhsiao88 · January 28, 2021, 12:30pm

The server is connected to a monitorwith remote access functions.
I want to login with GUI and be able use nvidia-settings to config my GPUs.
Currently, both are not working.
Thanks!

generix · January 28, 2021, 12:39pm

Then you’ll have to connect the monitor to a nvidia gpu and possibly disable the ast graphics in bios.

rayhsiao88 · January 28, 2021, 2:20pm

Thanks for the suggestion. The system worked with current hardware, and bios configuration. Any idea why they do not work after I reinstalled the system? The privious system was installed by someone else, and I kept the hard drive untouched. Is there anything I can do with the old system to figure out the root cause?

rayhsiao88 · February 1, 2021, 1:12am

I disabled AST graphics in bios and still didn’t work. :(

generix · February 1, 2021, 8:48am

Please create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf

Section "OutputClass"
	Identifier "Nvidia"
	MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
	Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "true"
EndSection

I guess the previous OS install used a headless nvidia driver install, meaning the desktop was running on AST while the nvidia gpus were only used for compute.
nvidia-settings can’t be used in this kind of setup which doesn’t matter since it’s only for graphics settings.
If you want to use nvidia-settings (for whatever reasons), the Xserver has to run on the nvidia gpus. Since 16.04 is an outdated non-glvnd system, it’s also not possible to have the AST and Nvidia GLX loaded at the same time.