Dear all,
I have a Dell XPS 9560 laptop running Ubuntu 18.10 and up-to-date. Without apparent reasons, it seems as though I have lost access to the discrete GPU. I had been using drivers 396 successfully until now, and have upgraded to 415 to see if that would help me diagnose the problem, to no avail.
nvidia-smi does not see the device, I have manually managed to get it to show up again for a little while, by using PRIME to switch back and forth between the Intel GPU and the mobile GTX 1050, but the screen was full of red dots and chequered black squares with the Nvidia GPU, and unresponsive.
$ lspci | grep 3D
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (rev a1)
$ nvidia-smi
No devices were found
The relevant parts of the kernel messages are below
$ dmesg| grep -iE 'nvi|NVRM'
[ 8.546940] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 8.546950] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 8.558484] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 8.568429] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 235
[ 8.690810] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 415.27 Thu Dec 20 17:25:03 CST 2018 (using threaded interrupts)
[ 8.695220] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 415.27 Thu Dec 20 17:06:08 CST 2018
[ 8.702188] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[ 10.049082] NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:01:00: GPU-aef5b373-444a-6e8d-f987-95d562a0e13a
[ 10.049085] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 62, 0a7c(2ab0) 00000000 00000000
[ 30.604010] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x53:0x65:1914)
[ 30.604029] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 30.604073] [drm:nv_drm_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice
[ 30.604245] [drm:nv_drm_probe_devices [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to register device
[ 30.618388] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver in 8 mode, major device number 511
[ 30.678619] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 30.678648] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 30.972572] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 30.972606] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 34.356478] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 34.356528] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 36.389830] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 36.389855] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 36.551046] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 36.551070] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 36.713788] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 36.713807] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 36.869363] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 36.869396] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 37.031913] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 37.031940] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 37.186996] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 37.187016] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 37.337333] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 37.337351] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 37.490194] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 37.490216] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[ 37.665751] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
[ 37.665772] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
Each time I try to run nvidia-smi
, a new dmesg appears as
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1098)
NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
exactly like someone posted earlier here with a damaged 2080ti to RMA. I do not fully understand whether this NVRM message is also meaningful for mobile GPU’s.
The XID 62 code may apparently indicate a hardware or driver failure.
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (543 KB)