Hi! I’m working on msi creator 17m laptop with 1660ti integrated nvidia gpu W/o any updates installatios my external display stopped working today Checked some forum topics, used some commands: $ nvidia-settings ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded ERROR: Unable to load info from any available …

secureboot: Secure boot enabled Please try disabling secure boot in bios

Thx. It hepled! Could you pls describe how did you find this solution? Is it a common problem with drivers+secure boot?

The logs contain the output of lspci -k which lists modules available and modules in use. nvidia was available but not used (and also no other one), which has three posible reasons, from most to least common: secure boot enabled and module is unsigned module is blacklisted module is incompatible …

(nvidia-settings:7578): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:00:43.745: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Graphics / Linux Linux

Polzovatel1507 November 10, 2021, 4:39pm 5

Interesting!

Thank you!

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(nvidia-settings:7578): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:00:43.745: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

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