NVIDIA driver fails to install

[jarkky]

Attached is the nvidia-installer.log or the last 50 lines of it.
I can't get the installation working.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 [6.5.3-1~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
    init=/lib/systemd/systemd
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.2_ahs_x64 Libretto October 15  2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux
    12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP ENVY Laptop 17-ce0xxx v: Type1ProductConfigId
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 85E5 v: 30.32 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: F.16
    date: 11/02/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 49.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 49.7/49.7 Wh (100.0%) volts: 12.8 min: 11.6
    model: 333-54-2C-A LK03055XL type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: full
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-8565U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check
    gen: core 8 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8E (142)
    stepping: 0xC (12) microcode: 0xF8
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2500 min/max: 400/4600 scaling: driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave
    cores: 1: 2500 2: 2500 3: 2500 4: 2500 5: 2500 6: 2500 7: 2500 8: 2500 bogomips: 31999
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: retbleed mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  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: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3ea0 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A alternate: nouveau
    non-free: 530.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Pascal code: GP10x process: TSMC 16nm
    built: 2016-21 pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1d13 class-ID: 0302
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0825 built: 2018 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 128
    gamma: 1.2 size: 382x215mm (15.04x8.46") diag: 438mm (17.3") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl, snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9dc8 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:9df0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-10:5 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1
    sub-v: 100 hci-v: 5.1 rev: 100
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
    service-classes: rendering, capturing, audio, telephony
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 5060
    bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 220.42 GiB (18.8%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN520 SDAPNUW-256G-1006
    size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: 20110006 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM048-2E7172 size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0001 scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 47.6 GiB size: 46.55 GiB (97.80%) used: 14.29 GiB (30.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9 maj-min: 259:9
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 1024 MiB size: 989.4 MiB (96.62%) used: 110.9 MiB (11.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8 maj-min: 259:8
  ID-3: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) used: 112.1 MiB (43.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-4: /home raw-size: 465.76 GiB size: 457.38 GiB (98.20%) used: 205.92 GiB (45.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 75.0 C pch: 64.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2270 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2261 libs: 1212 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 pm: snap pkgs: 9
  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 bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/expressvpn.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/expressvpn.asc] mirror+file: /usr/lib/expressvpn/repo_mirror.list any-version main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
Info:
  Processes: 326 Uptime: 1h 30m wakeups: 5 Memory: 15.35 GiB used: 5.63 GiB (36.7%) Init: systemd
  v: 252 target: graphical (5) default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

[Eadwine Rose]

Please post the full QSI, thanks.

[dolphin_oracle]

the installer log posted does not appear to be the entire log. I presume this is from nvidia's installer tool, because its not from our package based ddm-mx tool.

however, it likely just means nouveau was loaded at the time of the build, and reboot will clear that up. either than, or the nvidia tool will need to be run with nouveau unloaded.

[Stevo]

Plus it's an Optimus laptop, with all that entails.

Would suggest that the Nvidia 535 driver installed from the .run file be removed, and then the MX Nvidia Installer tool be used. Installing and running "nvidia-installer-cleanup" can be used to remove the 535 files first.

Furthermore using the nvidia-installer .run file to install a new version of the drivers is prevented as long as this package is installed.

[jarkky]

How to run this "nvidia-installer-cleanup" ?

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nvidia-installer-cleanup is already the newest version (20220217+3~deb12u1).
$ nvidia-installer-cleanup
nvidia-installer-cleanup: command not found

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$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

I had installed the driver from mx-tools menu, but still after rebooting I get below messages:

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$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
02:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX250] [10de:1d13] (rev a1)

Checking card:  NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX250] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by all driver versions.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 470 drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
    nvidia-driver
package.

[trawglodyte]

I get the same message with nvidia-detect.

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$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] [10de:1c03] (rev a1)

Checking card:  NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by all driver versions.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 470 drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
    nvidia-driver
package.

But when I do sudo nvidia-settings

nvidia-settings.png

my nvidia driver is installed and working. So, I don't know if yours is, but don't worry about that message from nvidia-detect.

[Stevo]

Plus it's an Optimus laptop, with all that entails.

....

Repeating the first line of my post.

[jarkky]

No idea what to do... The logs seem not that useful.

[Stevo]

No idea what to do... The logs seem not that useful.

OK, have you read the MX wiki about how to have apps use the Nvidia card on an Optimus system? tl;dr: just precede the command with nvidia-run-mx

Just to see if it's working, try in a terminal:

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nvidia-run-mx inxi -G

[jarkky]

$ nvidia-run-mx inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] driver: N/A
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: Mesa Intel UHD
Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)