NDIVIDA MX250 driver installation fails

[jarkky]

The "Nvidia driver installer" in the Applications->MxTools menu says:

Candidate is:
Installed is:

nvidia driver not available, check your repo sources

Press <Enter> to exit

when I try to install the NVIDIA driver for the laptop with MX250...

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System:
  Kernel: 6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 Distro: MX-23.5_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>
  Mobo: HP model: 85E5 v: 30.32 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.18 date: 08/14/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 44.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 44.1/44.1 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.9 min: 11.6 model: 333-54-2C-A LK03055XL status: full
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-8565U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check rev: C cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2399 high: 2400 min/max: 400/4600 cores: 1: 2400 2: 2400
    3: 2400 4: 2400 5: 2400 6: 2400 7: 2399 8: 2400 bogomips: 31999
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: N/A arch: Pascal bus-ID: 02:00.0
  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 24.2.2-1~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 bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  API: ALSA v: k6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
  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
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0
    lmp-v: 5.1
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
    v: 3.0 bus-ID: 00:17.0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.59 TiB used: 248.74 GiB (15.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN520
    SDAPNUW-256G-1006 size: 238.47 GiB temp: 32.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM048-2E7172 size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: HP model: x796w size: 462.32 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 46.55 GiB used: 30.88 GiB (66.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
  ID-2: /boot size: 989.4 MiB used: 110 MiB (11.1%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 112.2 MiB (43.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 457.38 GiB used: 217.64 GiB (47.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4 GiB used: 512 KiB (0.0%) file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 78.0 C pch: 67.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 277 Uptime: 4d 4h 52m Memory: 15.35 GiB used: 3.47 GiB (22.6%)
  Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: 2618
  Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 inxi: 3.3.26

[Eadwine Rose]

Please put code output in code tags, like so: [code]code output here[/code]

Also, post your full QSI using the copy for forum button. No edits. Thanks.

[dolphin_oracle]

there is also a "ddm.log" file that might be helpful. also available in the quick-system-info tool, or under /var/log/ddm.log

[jarkky]

ddm.log

[dolphin_oracle]

it looks like you've got a mix of drivers from out side our repositories. this is a guess since you have not provided your Quick System Info. I suggest the following:

1. purge off your drivers.

sudo ddm-mx -p nvidia

2. start with the -N switch

sudo ddm-mx -i nvidia -N

follow the prompts. recent changes to ddm-mx make the steps in my youtube video unnecessary. they should still work, but they aren't necessary.

[jarkky]

I get the below problem now:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-kernel-dkms : Depends: firmware-nvidia-gsp (= 535.216.03) or
firmware-nvidia-gsp-535.216.03
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
POSTINSTALL

ddm.log

[dolphin_oracle]

we do not have enough information to answer your question.