NVIDIA GK107GL problems on MX-21 [Solved]

[Sakis Migdalas]

Hi!
I installed MX-21 KDE version and for a few days things worked flawlessly. Then the response time to any mouse click started approaching that of a minute!
Thus, I turned to MX Tools and installed the proprietary Nvidia drive, rebooted ...and guess, it ended up with "starpar: service(s) returned failure".
OK, I restored the open source driver with "sudo ddm-mx -p nividia", rebooted ... and guess, it ended up with "startpar: service(s) returned failuer: plymouth ... failed!"

Is there any way to get this thing working? Here below follows the sysifo of my machine (with open source driver).

Thank you in advance!

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System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-21-amd64 [5.10.162-1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-21-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: MX-21.3_KDE_x64 Wildflower September 18  2022 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Precision T5610 v: 01 serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 7 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0WN7Y6 v: A01 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A06 date: 02/28/2014 
CPU:       Info: 2x 6-Core model: Intel Xeon E5-2630L 0 bits: 64 type: MCP SMP arch: Sandy Bridge 
           family: 6 model-id: 2D (45) stepping: 7 microcode: 71A cache: L2: 30 MiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 47958 
           Speed: 1385 MHz min/max: 1200/2500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1385 2: 1329 3: 2392 
           4: 2377 5: 1285 6: 1363 7: 1296 8: 1347 9: 2362 10: 2380 11: 2488 12: 2396 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations 
           Type: retbleed status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, RSB filling, 
           PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK107GL [Quadro K2000] driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.0 
           chip-ID: 10de:0ffe class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
           unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1200 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x317mm (40.0x12.5") 
           s-diag: 1064mm (41.9") 
           Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 94 size: 518x324mm (20.4x12.8") 
           diag: 611mm (24.1") 
           Monitor-2: DP-1 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 94 size: 518x324mm (20.4x12.8") 
           diag: 611mm (24.1") 
           OpenGL: renderer: NVE7 v: 4.3 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel C600/X79 series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1d20 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.1 
           chip-ID: 10de:0e1b class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-21-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel 
           port: 9040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:1502 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel C600/X79 series SATA RAID Controller driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 9020 
           bus-ID: 00:1f.2 chip-ID: 8086.2826 rev: 06 class-ID: 0104 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 2.29 TiB used: 606.37 GiB (25.9%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD SM841 2.5 7mm 512GB 
           size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD 
           serial: <filter> rev: 1D0Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 468.68 GiB size: 460.25 GiB (98.20%) used: 23.63 GiB (5.1%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 4.2 MiB (0.1%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 0.0 C mobo: 0.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C gpu: nouveau temp: 45.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1007 gpu: nouveau fan: 1950 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2839 lib: 1518 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 main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list 
           1: deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://linux.dropbox.com/debian sid main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/megasync.list 
           1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/meganz-archive-keyring.gpg] https://mega.nz/linux/repo/Debian_11/ ./
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mxlinux.org/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mxlinux.org/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:      Processes: 300 Uptime: 29d 3h 56m wakeups: 1 Memory: 62.85 GiB used: 11.83 GiB (18.8%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

[Huckleberry Finn]

The Nvidia Driver Installer has ben updated very recently (for similar issues to fix them).

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sudo apt update ; sudo apt dist-upgrade -y

Then try the Nvidia installation again.

(You can also install the 6.1 kernel from "MX Package Installer" then reboot with and try, but do the full upgrade as above in all cases)

[Huckleberry Finn]

... If still not: /var/log/ddm.log

(just after the Nvidia installation)

(You can also post ddm.log simply using the "Quick System Info" from menu, click the drop-down menu (where the pointer is in the below picture) when you start that ...)

[Sakis Migdalas]

The Nvidia Driver Installer has ben updated very recently (for similar issues to fix them).

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sudo apt update ; sudo apt dist-upgrade -y

Thank you but that updated only mx-welcome :-) Clearly the system was quite up to date

Then try the Nvidia installation again.

Done it, rebooted and now it works! :-)

Thank you!

(You can also install the 6.1 kernel from "MX Package Installer" then reboot with and try, but do the full upgrade as above in all cases)

[Huckleberry Finn]

...
Thank you but that updated only mx-welcome :-) Clearly the system was quite up to date

Then try the Nvidia installation again.

Done it, rebooted and now it works! :-)

Thank you!..

Thank you, too for the feedback. Maybe (since NDI was already the new one in your case) just an "update" was needed (to re-scan the sources and install the new 5.20 (5.10 was the problematic driver and 5.20 has been added to ahs repo)) and that was done by that. (In fact NDI already asks whether to update first but one needs to answer yes).