Nvidia driver issues

[Plynx]

Hi all, love the operating system; after seeing it on Retro Recipes I wanted to try it out for myself. I installed it to a partition and got it working, updated the kernel, ran sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade and fixed some of the errors I received from repositories, etc.

But when I run the Nvidia driver installer or install nvidia drivers manually, I only boot to a black screen with a blinking underscore cursor at the top left. I have an Nvidia RTX 3080Ti on an AMD Ryzen 9 5900x connected via HDMI to an LG C2 TV. I tried purging, uninstalling, and reinstalling the drivers many times, blacklisting nouveau manually, manually editing xorg.conf, making sure secure boot is off, installing development branch drivers, etc, but so far nothing has worked. I tend to get errors like (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:0a:00.0 -19 or

Ultimately I’m forced to go back to the terminal and restore the open source drivers to get back to the desktop. Any ideas?

[LeoNigro]

The process to follow would be for Debian Bullseye.

Perhaps these instructions will help:
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsD ... ullseye.22

[Plynx]

Thanks for these instructions! I followed them carefully and still got the same problems. I think that the issue may be that the linux kernel headers for Bullseye aren’t new enough for the current NVidia drivers, and they don’t seem to be in backports either. I have seen reports that the drivers work fine on Debian 12 (bookworm). Unfortunately, my card is not support by the older NVidia drivers, so until either the kernel headers are backported or the OS moves to bookworm I maybe at an impasse.

[mexiace]

Hi all,

Trying to get Commodore OS working with my nVidia GTX 1080 video card.

1. Installed multiple times from scratch with and without card installed.
2. Updated kernel with and without card installed.
3. Installed nvidia-detect (sees the card just fine).
4. Installed nvidia-driver
5. Upon reboot it doesn't boot all the way, stuck at a screen repeating:
" ath10k_pci Error of this agent is reported first"

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

[mexiace]

I have a GTX 1080 with the same issue you are having. Can you share how to install older nVidia drivers to see if it resolves my issue?

[LeoNigro]

Did you try the installer from:
System --> Control Centre
then the icon Additional Tools
then the NVidia driver installer icon.

[LeoNigro]

Hmmm. Did you download and install via this?

https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverR ... 875/en-us/

[mexiace]

Yes. From a fresh install and trying to run System->Control Centre->Additional Tools->Install Nvdia Driver I get:

"There was a problem with the apt-get update......."

Most likely something wrong with the default repositories.

[digtic]

I'm trying install with GTX960 and I have same problem. Any clue what trying next?

[LeoNigro]

I really hope this is not the problem.

I've noticed that there are some apps that do not have public keys, which could be breaking the install script.
We need to either get the public keys for Google Earth and Tor Project or get apt to trust them.

You can see the problem immediately: (Trying to fix and going in circles.)

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sudo apt update -y --fix-missing --allow-unauthenticated
sudo apt upgrade -y --fix-missing --allow-unauthenticated
sudo apt autoremove -y