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[SOLVED] Problems with nvidia drivers
Post by ForeverNoob » Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:48 am
Got a strange thing here: After installing mint (20) I tried to install newest nvidia drivers (455) using Driver Manager. They didn’t work. I tried every other version and the only one that worked was 340, so I stayed with it. After a couple of weeks tried again, this time 455 installed and worked fine. Today it stopped working, and this time I was only able to install 390. Any clues?
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Re: Problems with nvidia drivers
Post by SMG » Tue Nov 24, 2020 6:25 pm
ForeverNoob wrote: ⤴ Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:48 am Got a strange thing here: After installing mint (20) I tried to install newest nvidia drivers (455) using Driver Manager. They didn’t work.
What does «didn’t work» mean? Did you check to make sure they were installed properly, because that sometimes is an issue.
Please give us information about your install by entering this command in a terminal:
Select from the mini toolbar above the textbox where you type your reply and enclose the results of the command between the code markers [code] Results [/code] . This will let us know how Mint sees your hardware.
Please also provide the results of the below command and place the results within code tags. It is possible your system now has files from multiple driver packages since Driver Manager has been known to not always completely remove packages from prior drivers.
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Re: Problems with nvidia drivers
Post by FlanVicieux » Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:12 pm
Hello, I have the same issue with the 455 nvidia drivers, that was working properly, but today (Tue Nov 24) they stop working this after this update :
The drivers no longer work (low resolution / material acceleration disabled)
I restore open source driver / restart / try this commands :
sudo apt-get remove —purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
and tried to reinstalled 455 drivers but they don’t work anymore.
I reinstalled 450 drivers and they work.
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Re: Problems with nvidia drivers
Post by antikythera » Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:20 pm
Stick with 450 branch if possible as that is the newest long-lived driver series, 455 is a brand new short-lived release and also won’t carry any benefits for a GTX750 ti. Linux driver releases from nvidia aren’t like the windows ones and do not carry the game optimizations, so there’s no need to update unless they address a bug you are encountering with video playback, vulkan, openGL or general desktop acceleration.
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Re: Problems with nvidia drivers
Post by SMG » Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:09 pm
antikythera wrote: ⤴ Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:20 pm Stick with 450 branch if possible as that is the newest long-lived driver series, 455 is a brand new short-lived release and also won’t carry any benefits for a GTX750 ti. Linux driver releases from nvidia aren’t like the windows ones and do not carry the game optimizations, so there’s no need to update unless they address a bug you are encountering with video playback, vulkan, openGL or general desktop acceleration.
The original poster has the GTX750 ti and has not yet responded. He/she may have a different issue because of installing so many drivers.
FlanVicieux wrote: ⤴ Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:12 pm Hello, I have the same issue with the 455 nvidia drivers, that was working properly, but today (Tue Nov 24) they stop working this after this update :
I reinstalled 450 drivers and they work.
You actually may have had a different issue than the original poster, but I agree with antikythera that you should just keep using the 450 Driver and for the reason stated (it’s in the long-lived branch).
A woman typing on a laptop with LM20.3 Cinnamon.
Re: Problems with nvidia drivers
Post by ForeverNoob » Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:02 am
ForeverNoob wrote: ⤴ Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:48 am Got a strange thing here: After installing mint (20) I tried to install newest nvidia drivers (455) using Driver Manager. They didn’t work.
What does «didn’t work» mean? Did you check to make sure they were installed properly, because that sometimes is an issue.
Please give us information about your install by entering this command in a terminal:
Select from the mini toolbar above the textbox where you type your reply and enclose the results of the command between the code markers [code] Results [/code] . This will let us know how Mint sees your hardware.
Please also provide the results of the below command and place the results within code tags. It is possible your system now has files from multiple driver packages since Driver Manager has been known to not always completely remove packages from prior drivers.
1. By «not working» I mean: a: Computer boots into low-res display, and b: A message displayed about no hardware acceleration with a button to open driver manager.
2. Output of inxi -Fxxxrz:
System: Kernel: 5.4.0-54-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 wm: muffin 4.6.3 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: H110M-A/M.2 v: Rev X.0x serial: UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 1801 date: 05/17/2016 CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 L2 cache: 8192 KiB flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 54398 Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 390.138 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1380 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.138 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a170 Device-2: NVIDIA GM107 High Definition Audio [GeForce 940MX] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fbc Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-54-generic Network: Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f000 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15b8 IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: Device-2: Realtek USB3.0 802.11ac 1200M Adapter type: USB driver: rtl88x2bu bus ID: 1-8:9 chip ID: 0bda:b812 serial: IF: wlx1cbfce089d61 state: down mac: IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.46 TiB used: 123.00 GiB (4.9%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC M.2 PCIe SSD size: 953.87 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: rev: ECFM22.6 scheme: GPT ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: rev: 1B6Q scheme: MBR ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: rev: A750 scheme: GPT ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Intel model: SSDSC2CT180A3 size: 167.68 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: rev: 300i scheme: MBR Partition: ID-1: / size: 457.45 GiB used: 61.83 GiB (13.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 34 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 33% Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list 1: deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gambas-team-gambas3-focal.list 1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gambas-team/gambas3/ubuntu focal main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-focal.list 1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu focal main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main 2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse 3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse 4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse 5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse 6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 1: deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main Info: Processes: 284 Uptime: 18h 16m Memory: 15.58 GiB used: 4.24 GiB (27.2%) Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38ii libnvidia-cfg1-390:amd64 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library ii libnvidia-common-390 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries ii libnvidia-common-455 455.45.01-0ubuntu0~0.20.04.1 all Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries ii libnvidia-compute-390:amd64 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package ii libnvidia-compute-390:i386 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVIDIA libcompute package rc libnvidia-compute-455:amd64 455.45.01-0ubuntu0~0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package ii libnvidia-decode-390:amd64 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries ii libnvidia-decode-390:i386 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries ii libnvidia-encode-390:amd64 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library ii libnvidia-encode-390:i386 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library ii libnvidia-fbc1-390:amd64 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library ii libnvidia-fbc1-390:i386 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library ii libnvidia-gl-390:amd64 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD ii libnvidia-gl-390:i386 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD ii libnvidia-ifr1-390:amd64 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback runtime library ii libnvidia-ifr1-390:i386 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback runtime library rc nvidia-340 340.108-0ubuntu2 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 340.108 ii nvidia-compute-utils-390 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities rc nvidia-compute-utils-455 455.45.01-0ubuntu0~0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities ii nvidia-dkms-390 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA DKMS package rc nvidia-dkms-455 455.45.01-0ubuntu0~0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA DKMS package ii nvidia-driver-390 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage ii nvidia-kernel-common-390 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module rc nvidia-kernel-common-455 455.45.01-0ubuntu0~0.20.04.1 amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module ii nvidia-kernel-source-390 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package rc nvidia-opencl-icd-340 340.108-0ubuntu2 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD ii nvidia-prime 0.8.14 all Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime ii nvidia-prime-applet 1.2.3 all An applet for NVIDIA Prime ii nvidia-settings 440.82-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver ii nvidia-utils-390 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries ii screen-resolution-extra 0.18build1 all Extension for the nvidia-settings control panel ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-390 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver