Can't load NVIDIA kernel module even though /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates does contain nvidia*.ko

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#1

Hi,

After I seemed to fix this previous thread’s issues I rebooted. Only to find that the NVIDIA kernel module wasn’t loading. I have run:


sudo modprobe -a nvidia

but that returns:


modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device

even though lspci -k clearly shows a NVIDIA device does exist. Namely this is lspci -k’s output:


00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel modules: ie31200_edac
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
        Kernel modules: xhci_pci
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: mei_me
        Kernel modules: mei_me
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
        Kernel modules: ehci_pci
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev d5)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d5)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev d5)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #7 (rev d5)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
        Kernel modules: ehci_pci
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM87 Express LPC Controller (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
        Kernel modules: lpc_ich
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
        Kernel modules: i2c_i801
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208M [GeForce GT 740M] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 219c
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2154
        Kernel driver in use: wl
        Kernel modules: bcma, wl
09:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
        Kernel modules: rtsx_pci
0f:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1966
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169

I have also run:


sudo modprobe -a nvidia-drm

but that fails and returns:


modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_drm': No such device

By-the-way the kernel modules for both nvidia and nvidia-drm do exist in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates, namely there are the following modules with nvidia in their name in said folder:


nvidia-drm.ko  nvidia.ko  nvidia-modeset.ko  nvidia-uvm.ko

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time,
Brenton

#2

What kernel is running there?
Where did you get the Nvidia driver?
And if kernel 4.10, do you patch the nvidia drivers?

#3

Sure did patch the NVIDIA drivers (using the Ubuntu patch https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/nonfree/nvidia-kmod.git/plain/kernel_4.10.patch), 4.10 is my kernel and I use the official NVIDIA driver. If you need more details here is my OBS repository that provides this package. I have been told that other users have found that my OBS package works perfectly, without this problem.

#4

This is my patch:
http://openmafia.org/~osf/Downloads/buildfix_kernel_4.10.patch

Also from Ubuntu.
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-375/nvidia-graphics-drivers-375_375.39-0ubuntu2.diff.gz
You need only the kernel 4.10 Patch.

nvidia-settings -v

nvidia-settings:  version 378.13  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-05)  Tue Feb  7 19:35:55 PST
2017
  The NVIDIA X Server Settings tool.

  This program is used to configure the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.
  For more detail, please see the nvidia-settings(1) man page.

No nvidia in /updates:

ls -al /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates
insgesamt 6112
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      36 28. Feb 19:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     422 28. Feb 19:19 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4715744 28. Feb 18:29 r8168.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1538320 28. Feb 18:29 smi2021.ko

They are in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/video/

ls -al /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/video/
insgesamt 50408
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      154 28. Feb 19:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      820 28. Feb 18:24 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      384 28. Feb 18:24 backlight
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      302 28. Feb 18:24 fbdev
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3236816 28. Feb 19:19 nvidia-drm.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23514624 28. Feb 19:19 nvidia.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1409680 28. Feb 19:19 nvidia-modeset.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23432728 28. Feb 19:19 nvidia-uvm.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    16272 28. Feb 11:41 vgastate.ko

Edit:
You have the same Patch???..

#5

I just switched over to your patch and it’s made no difference. I still don’t autoload the NVIDIA module.

#6

I’ve even installed NVIDIA’s own modprobe program https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-modprobe via running:


wget -cqO- https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-modprobe/archive/378.13.tar.gz | tar xz
cd nvidia-modprobe-378.13
make
sudo make install

then I ran:


sudo /usr/local/bin/nvidia-modprobe

and still lspci -k shows the NVIDIA module is not loaded! Running optirun glxgears still returns:


  442.906050] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver


  442.906107] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

just to be clear I’m not yelling at you, I know you’re trying to help me. Just having a little temper tantrum at the situation as it makes no sense.