Debian 9.2 & Nvidia drivers

[qunt]

Hey all. I'm having a tough time getting Nvidia drivers to work on my Debian 9.2 laptop. I've actually tried installing them in a number of different ways and am running out of ideas so I'd greatly appreciate any help.. The GPU is GTX 1050.

First I tried going at it with the guide at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#stretch for Debian 9 "Stretch". This results in "failed to load Kernel modules" message at boot and hangs.

Next I realized (or atleast hoped) that I was using the wrong guide, since it says on that same wiki page that if the command lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga" gives 2 lines of output, you have an optimus graphics chipset. This does give me 2 lines of output:

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root@Laptop:/home/user# lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:591b] (rev 04)
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:1c8d] (rev a1)


Thus I tried the bumblebee guide. Following this guide results in the computer freezing at the login screen after entering the password. The mouse won't move and the desktop won't get loaded. Progress though, I guess?

I also tried installing from the Nvidia .run file, but this also hangs at boot without giving any information why. Maybe this could be read from logs or something but I'm kinda new to Linux environments and am not sure where/how to interpret the logs. If anyone is willing to help though, I'm more than willing to go through the installation process again and provide any log info you may need

Thanks.

[duncang]

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

[dilberts_left_nut]

The nvidia .run method breaks things and is not recommended at all.

The bumblebee install won't work if you already have the nvidia proprietary driver installed in the standard configuration.

You should start from a clean state and just follow the bumblebee instructions.

Depending on how new your system is, a fresh install may be your quickest option.

Otherwise, there is the nvidia-installer-cleanup package that should remove and repair the .run mess.
Then remove any remaining nvidia packages from your original package install and revert any nouveau module blacklisting, remove any generated xorg.conf etc then try the bumblebee install again.

[qunt]

Thanks for the answers. I did as suggested and reinstalled the OS and then followed the Bumblebee wiki to the word. Still doesn't work.

First I had the issue:

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[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver

So I did as the wiki instructed:

You must edit /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf using your preferred editor as root, and change "KernelDriver=nvidia" to "KernelDriver=nvidia-current", then restart the bumblebee daemon

And I'm getting another error:

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root@Laptop:/home/user# optirun glxgears
[  115.310542] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[  115.310586] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?


grep bumblebeed /var/log/syslog

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Nov  9 18:58:40 Laptop systemd[1]: bumblebeed.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Nov  9 18:58:40 Laptop bumblebeed[1478]: [  377.428856] [ERROR]Module 'bbswitch' not found.
Nov  9 18:58:40 Laptop bumblebeed[1478]: [  377.429532] [WARN]No switching method available. The dedicated card will always be on.
Nov  9 18:58:40 Laptop bumblebeed[1478]: [  377.430152] [ERROR]Module 'nvidia-current' is not found.
Nov  9 18:58:40 Laptop systemd[1]: bumblebeed.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov  9 18:58:40 Laptop systemd[1]: bumblebeed.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov  9 18:58:40 Laptop systemd[1]: bumblebeed.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.


Any ideas?

[qunt]

I actually got both GPU's running by installing linux-headers-4.9.0-3-amd, but after reboot, the computer hangs at the login screen again after inputting password.

[maximus1978]

Did you get this working?

[qunt]

Did you get this working?

Not yet. Been quite busy with other stuff. I noticed this thread though:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=135209

In which it appears a backport kernel could do the trick, in case you're looking for a possible solution.

[maximus1978]

Please install nvidia-detect

apt-get install nvidia-detect

Please run this and post the output.

Please run lsmod

lsmod

Please post the output

[qunt]

I don't know if this is helpful now, since I purged all the nvidia and bumblebee stuff to get my pc to boot in graphical mode, but here they are:

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root@Laptop:/home/user# nvidia-detect
No NVIDIA GPU detected.


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root@Laptop:/home/user# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   98304  3
rfcomm                 77824  2
ctr                    16384  4
ccm                    20480  2
bnep                   20480  2
nls_ascii              16384  1
nls_cp437              20480  1
vfat                   20480  1
fat                    69632  1 vfat
hid_generic            16384  0
joydev                 20480  0
uvcvideo               90112  0
btusb                  45056  0
videobuf2_vmalloc      16384  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops       16384  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_v4l2         24576  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_core         36864  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_v4l2
btrtl                  16384  1 btusb
videodev              176128  3 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core,videobuf2_v4l2
media                  40960  2 uvcvideo,videodev
usbhid                 53248  0
arc4                   16384  2
iwlmvm                245760  0
rtsx_pci_ms            20480  0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     49152  1
memstick               20480  1 rtsx_pci_ms
mac80211              671744  1 iwlmvm
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nouveau              1544192  0
intel_rapl             20480  0
x86_pkg_temp_thermal    16384  0
intel_powerclamp       16384  0
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r8169                  81920  0
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i915                 1232896  13
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btintel                16384  2 hci_uart,btusb
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ghash_clmulni_intel    16384  0
pcspkr                 16384  0
psmouse               135168  0
efi_pstore             16384  0
i2c_hid                20480  0
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video                  40960  2 nouveau,i915
sg                     32768  0
xhci_pci               16384  0
cfg80211              589824  3 iwlmvm,iwlwifi,mac80211
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snd_hda_intel          36864  6
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mei_me                 36864  0
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usbcore               249856  5 uvcvideo,usbhid,xhci_pci,btusb,xhci_hcd
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shpchp                 36864  0
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scsi_mod              225280  3 sd_mod,libata,sg
thermal                20480  0


[maximus1978]

Please post

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lspci | grep VGA

[qunt]

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user@Laptop:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04)
user@Laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 5910 (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Skylake PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 05)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H Thermal subsystem (rev 31)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H CSME HECI #1 (rev 31)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 31)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #7 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H LPC Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PMC (rev 31)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device a171 (rev 31)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SMBus (rev 31)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c8d (rev a1)
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8411B PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 24fd (rev 78)


[maximus1978]

01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c8d (rev a1)

GeForce GTX 1050 1C8D

LINUX X64 (AMD64/EM64T) DISPLAY DRIVER

Version: 384.98
Release Date: 2017.11.2
Operating System: Linux 64-bit
Language: English (US)

You need to download this driver.

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverRe ... 6577/en-us

Run this command to clear up conflicting nvidia packages.

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apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*

Go to a terminal.

CTRL ALT F1

Login as root

Stop the xserver. I am assuming your running lightdm.

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/etc/init.d/lightdm stop

If you are running something else then run the correct command to stop the xserver.

Go to the directory where you downloaded the file from Nvidia.
chmod the file to give it permissions so you can execute the file.

execute the install package from nvidia

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./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98.run

Now you will probably be missing some packages.

Lets go one step at a time.

Please post the messages that the package installer gives you.

[qunt]

WARNING: Unable to find a suitable destination to install 32-bit compatibility libraries. Your system may not be set up for 32-bit compatibility. 32-bit compatibility files will not be installed; if you wish to install them, re-run the installation and set a valid directory with the --compat32-libdir option.

Installation of the kernel module for the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 (version 384.98) is now complete.

Seemed to go pretty well thus far.

[maximus1978]

Is your system 32bit?

[qunt]

Is your system 32bit?

Nope.