NDIVIDA MX250 driver installation fails
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:39 am
The "Nvidia driver installer" in the Applications->MxTools menu says:
when I try to install the NVIDIA driver for the laptop with MX250...Candidate is:
Installed is:
nvidia driver not available, check your repo sources
Press <Enter> to exit
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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