The nvidia-driver in the LMDE5 seems problematic to install as well:
$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
In the LMDE5 the nvidia-driver is not installed by the default/option
and I had to install it later by using commands: sudo apt install nvidia-driver nvidia-xconfig nvidia-settings
The LMDE5 didn’t include the prime-select. I may try install it from different distribution.
The bug report after blacklisting the nouveau is below: nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (144.1 KB)
After installing the prime-select it gives an error as:
$ sudo prime-select nvidia
Error: no integrated GPU detected.
So, I didn’t find how to disable it. I think I “blacklisted” it as in what they said.
Maybe in the LMDE5 the blacklisting does not work similarly as in UbuntuFossa…
The required file to edit probably is:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
And I should check it again.
The options is as shown above and that is the 5.10.xx kernel.
And now I tried to boot with both kernel there is and both case it fails.
$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
02:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX250] [10de:1d13] (rev a1)
Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX250] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by the default drivers.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 470 drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 460 drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 450 drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 418 drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
nvidia-driver
package.
It seems it can not detect the driver installed:
$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-driver is already the newest version (470.103.01-1~bpo11+1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
The ‘apt’ says driver already installed and with newest version…
Maybe something is wrong with the used version?
Not sure where/how to set the kernel parameters.
Maybe as: gedit /etc/default/grub
So I edit that file as: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nouveau.modeset=0"
but it is still not working (even after update-grub)
I did it and it didn’t get working still.
Do I send you the nvidia-bug-report after each modification? nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (153.8 KB)
$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
It is working now…
The problem is the multi-boot that loades from the MX-linux.
So the grub need update both in linuxmint & MX-linux before
it gets working.
$ nvidia-smi
Fri Apr 8 18:36:59 2022
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.103.01 Driver Version: 470.103.01 CUDA Version: 11.4 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 ... On | 00000000:02:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 61C P8 N/A / N/A | 4MiB / 4042MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 840 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
But then problem remains how to get the processes (also other than Xorg) to use the driver.
The process list looks very short…