SOLVED Beta closed source drivers: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module
SOLVED Beta closed source drivers: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module
Is anyone able to point me in the right direction to solve this issue please?
I installed the nvidia-beta drivers (Arch) and tested out Starfield. All is good. Then next time I try to startx, I get X failed to start etc.
Following the logs I get to:
` [ 1711.739] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 545.23.06 Sun Oct 15 17:26:55 UTC 2023
...
[ 1711.740] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[ 1711.740] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages and
[ 1711.740] (EE) NVIDIA: consult the NVIDIA README for details.
`
Wierd. Install nvidia instead, y to remove conflicts/nvidia-utils etc, and it's all working. Try to install beta drivers again, same issue, rebooted, etc.
The beta drivers definitely did work. But now they magically aren't.
Any tips?
I did try running sudo mkinitcpio -P but no change.
Maybe some sort of DKMS issue? Hard to tell without the "other" side of the logs. Check dmesg, usual syslogs, X, wm logs...etc. I'm not sure I remember seeing that Nvidia had their own logs for the driver on startup, just building.
Sorry for double commenting but you could also try this instead of the aur nvidia-beta package
And I'd generally recommed using -dkms versions of the nvidia driver
Installing the DKMS drivers fixed it!
Thanks!
You're welcome
Have fun playing Starfield :)
I installed the nvidia-beta drivers (Arch) and tested out Starfield. All is good. Then next time I try to startx, I get X failed to start etc.
Did you reboot after changing to the beta driver? If you did not you were still using the previously installed nvidia driver, unless you manually reloaded the nvidia kernel modules via rmmod and modprobe (I'd discourage doing this though, rebooting is way less error prone)
Yes, definitely rebooted. I just reinstalled the betas, so I can try get more logs.
[ 1711.740] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages and
Maybe try this then? Kernel log can be read via
$sudo dmesg
or
$journalctl -k
I'd recommend journalctl, best to also append -b to only get the kernel logs for the current boot
For easier navigation enter a / and input nvidia, this will search your journal. Press n to go to the next result and shift + n to go to the previous one