MX-21 Need help getting nvidia drivers to install [Solved]

[mmikeinsantarosa]

I could use some help getting my nvidia graphics card working with nvidia drivers. This box has been very picky about which kernel/nvidia combinations worked on MX-19 and I have yet to get nvidia drivers to install correctly since upgrading to MX21. I have to revert to the nouveau driver. - mike

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Snapshot created on: 20211215_1132
System:    Kernel: 5.17.0-2.3-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: audit=0 intel_pstate=disable hpet=disable 
           BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.17.0-2.3-liquorix-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.1_x64 Wildflower October 20  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Z840 Workstation v: N/A 
           serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 6 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 2129 v: 1.01 serial: <filter> 
           UEFI-[Legacy]: Hewlett-Packard v: M60 v02.38 date: 11/08/2017 
CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell 
           family: 6 model-id: 3F (63) stepping: 2 microcode: 49 cache: L2: 20 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 76621 
           Speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1200/2401 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1197 
           2: 1198 3: 1198 4: 1199 5: 1198 6: 1200 7: 1199 8: 1199 9: 1198 10: 1197 11: 1197 
           12: 1197 13: 1197 14: 1198 15: 1202 16: 1203 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK107GL [Quadro K420] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau 
           v: kernel alternate: nvidiafb bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0ff3 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
           bus-ID: 3-11:6 chip-ID: 046d:0825 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver: 
           loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1600 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x423mm (26.7x16.7") 
           s-diag: 798mm (31.4") 
           Monitor-1: DP-1 res: 2560x1600 hz: 60 dpi: 109 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2") 
           diag: 685mm (27") 
           OpenGL: renderer: NVE7 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel C610/X99 series HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8d20 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e1b class-ID: 0403 
           Device-3: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
           bus-ID: 3-11:6 chip-ID: 046d:0825 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
           Device-4: Cambridge Silicon Radio Avantree Priva III type: USB 
           driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-5:5 chip-ID: 0a12:1004 
           class-ID: 0300 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.0-2.3-liquorix-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e v: kernel 
           port: 4040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:15a0 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel I210 Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: igb v: kernel 
           port: 1000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1533 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-3: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 1000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-1:2 
           chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2 
           sub-v: 24bf hci-v: 5.2 rev: 24bf 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 3.66 TiB used: 617.75 GiB (16.5%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Micron model: MTFDDAK1T0TBN-1AR1ZABHA 
           size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: SSD 
           serial: <filter> rev: 0013 scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST3000DM001-1ER166 size: 2.73 TiB 
           block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> 
           rev: HP52 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 951.92 GiB size: 935.9 GiB (98.32%) used: 21.55 GiB (2.3%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
           ID-2: /home raw-size: 2.73 TiB size: 2.69 TiB (98.39%) used: 596.21 GiB (21.7%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.95 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 28.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 42.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 2250 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 3097 lib: 1715 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye non-free contrib main
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list 
           1: deb https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list 
           1: deb https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb/ stable main
Info:      Processes: 332 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 1 Memory: 62.73 GiB used: 1.42 GiB (2.3%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: quick-system-info-mx 
           inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)

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[anticapitalista]

You probably need to use an older kernel or wait until the 17 series gets nvidia support.

[dolphin_oracle]

what does

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nvidia-detect

tell you?

[mmikeinsantarosa]

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$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [Quadro K420] [10de:0ff3] (rev a1)

Checking card:  NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [Quadro K420] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by all driver versions.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 460 drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 450 drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 418 drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
    nvidia-driver
package.

btw, I tried installing nvidia booted to the following kernels:
4.19.2.202
5.10.0-10
5.10.0-11
5.10.0-12
5.10.0-13
5.14.0-4
5.15.0-2
and finally steveo's latest liquorix 5.17.0-2-3

[dolphin_oracle]

what's the symptom of having the drivers installed? black screen? incorrect resolutions?

[mmikeinsantarosa]

resolution is topped out @ 1024 x 768

[dolphin_oracle]

resolution is topped out @ 1024 x 768

were the drivers loaded? or were you stuck with vesa?

[mmikeinsantarosa]

resolution is topped out @ 1024 x 768

were the drivers loaded? or were you stuck with vesa?

I forget what the graphics driver field had in it but it wasn't nvidia and it wasn't nouveau.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

the

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nvidia-detect

indicates that nvidia 418 & 450's support my card but and we have nvidia-telsa drivers but I don't know if they are the same thing or not.

[dolphin_oracle]

resolution is topped out @ 1024 x 768

were the drivers loaded? or were you stuck with vesa?

I forget what the graphics driver field had in it but it wasn't nvidia and it wasn't nouveau.

that 1024x768 is what vesa maxes out at usually. my current theory is that for some reason the nvidia-driver didn't load, and nouveau was blacklisted (which shouldn't have happened if the nvidia driver didn't build), which would have forced the system to vesa most likely.

is a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file conflicting?