I’m trying to get the GTX 750 to work, but all I’m getting is
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffffffff:1218)
NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
NVRM: nvidia_frontend_open: minor 0, module->open() failed, error -5
and either a blinking cursor at the top left or a garbled screen.
I’ve tried the following things:
Use my archlinux install with nvidia-340
no graphics, tried also to boot with acpi=noirq, noapic
boot with nolapic and acpi=off results in a very unresponsive system or a non-accessible system
trying it on a recent Kubuntu 14.10 Development Version.
drivers from the xorg-edgers PPA – didn’t work
delete the drivers again and then
use the install-script from the nvidia website
But no matter what I’m still getting the above error. And I need to boot with “nomodeset” to be able to access the systems through the console.
My PC runs totally fine with my old (ATI HD 4550) graphics card.
The NVIDIA card also was successfully tested in a Windows-PC.
And what also was obvious: The fonts starting from the BIOS startup screen look smoother with the old card.
Is it possible that my PSU causes trouble because it is rather old and I needed to plug it in the mainboard through a 20-to-24pin adapter?
1: I’ve put the card into the PCIe-x4 slot – no change, no image, the same NVRM messages as before.
2: If I plug my old ATI HD 4550 into the x16 slot the system works totally normal and I can login into my desktop.
3: I only bought the NVIDIA card recently, so I’m trying to get it running for the first time on Linux.
Arch shows (with manually installed driver 340.23) a screen filled with cursors (one of them is blinking)
whereas Kubuntu (with manually installed driver 343.22) only shows a black screen
Oh and the NVIDIA was tested successfully in a Windows-PC which doesn’t have a GPU inside the CPU. So I would say the problem is neither the NVIDIA card nor my PCIe slot.
It was tested in a system with an i5-3350P. So there’s no GPU except the GTX 750.
There was an image and games like torcs could be played at highest settings with 60fps.
% sudo nvclock -i
It seems your card isn't officialy supported in NVClock yet.
The reason can be that your card is too new.
If you want to try it anyhow [DANGEROUS], use the option -f to force the setting(s).
NVClock will then assume your card is a 'normal', it might be dangerous on other cards.
Also please email the author the pci_id of the card for further investigation.
[Get that value using the -i option].
Is there some other way to get the vbios version?
Regarding the nouveau driver:
It wasn’t ever installed on arch afair. You see it’s not loaded in the second log I posted in message #3.
It was installed on kubuntu but blacklisted to not be loaded (see attached Xorg-log).
So I guess the nouveau driver can’t be a problem.
FYI: In the next days I’ll plug the GPU in the Windows PC where the card was tested and try to get it to work under Linux there. Maybe this will give some clues on what’s going wrong. Is there anything special I should check? Otherwise I would just collect the usual logs.
celsion, Any update about testing : "FYI: In the next days I’ll plug the GPU in the Windows PC where the card was tested and try to get it to work under Linux there. Maybe this will give some clues on what’s going wrong. Is there anything special I should check? Otherwise I would just collect the usual logs. "
I tested the GPU in the Windows-PC:
First on Windows again because I saw, that the Mainboard also has a GPU on it, but when I deactivated the NVIDIA GPU, there was a clear difference in behaviour.
Conclusion: NVIDIA GPU works on Windows
Then I plugged in my HDD and installed a fresh Kubuntu 10.10 and I got it to work!
It was a big difference to my system because even with the LiveCD I was able to get rudimentary graphics (vesa) whereas on my system I only got a black screen. I needed to plug in my old graphics card to be able to install Kubuntu on my system.
Conclusion: NVIDIA GPU also works under Linux on that machine.
But still no change on my PC:
I tried out 3 different (but quite old) PSUs. One 400W and two 300W.
The only parts connected are:
PSU, Mainboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, 1 HDD.
I’ll get a new PSU next week… Maybe the GPU draws too much power from the PSU?
I’ll attach the nvidia-smi -q which gave me the vbios version on the Windows-PC.