I currently get the error:
NVIDIA Persistence Daemon Failed to Start
I tried several drivers, but only the 515 sometimes work. The recommended one gives me a black screen.
I have a RTX 3070 grafic card and use Ubuntu 20.04.
The driver doesn’t load at all, the whole log is flooded with
Feb 20 14:55:15 daniel-legion kernel: [ 6012.781222] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 507
Feb 20 14:55:15 daniel-legion kernel: [ 6012.781227] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
Feb 20 14:55:15 daniel-legion kernel: [ 6012.782107] NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as:
Feb 20 14:55:15 daniel-legion kernel: [ 6012.782107] NVRM: nouveau, rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv
Feb 20 14:55:15 daniel-legion kernel: [ 6012.782107] NVRM: was loaded and obtained ownership of the NVIDIA device(s).
Feb 20 14:55:15 daniel-legion kernel: [ 6012.782108] NVRM: Try unloading the conflicting kernel module (and/or
Feb 20 14:55:15 daniel-legion kernel: [ 6012.782108] NVRM: reconfigure your kernel without the conflicting
Feb 20 14:55:15 daniel-legion kernel: [ 6012.782108] NVRM: driver(s)), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
Feb 20 14:55:15 daniel-legion kernel: [ 6012.782108] NVRM: again.
Feb 20 14:55:15 daniel-legion kernel: [ 6012.782109] NVRM: No NVIDIA devices probed.
Furthermore, it seems you have installed a runfile driver over a packaged driver. Please uninstall everything, then use Software&Updates to install the driver.
Hi again, I meanwhile switched to Ubuntu 22.04 and for a while everything worked.
Now I am again getting the same error, even though I have nouveau blacklisted and the recommended driver (530).
I am not the best in understanding the log, but from what I understand is that Nouveau gets called even though being blacklisted.
Edit: also want to add that I blacklisted also nvidiafb and also added following lines in nvidia-graphics-drivers-kms.conf, which was created when installing the driver:
blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
Also the xorg.conf.d directory is empty (should it be empty?) and there is no Xorg.conf I had to delete.