Nvidea Geforce RTX 3060 [FAILED] Errors on booting

makem · 01-06-2022, 02:29 PM

I have just installed an ASUS TUF Nvidea Geforce RTX 3060 OC graphics card in a desktop machine which was using the Processor GPU previously.

I am using Ubuntu 21.04.

After installing the card I went straight to Windows from grub and am currently setting up the drivers because I thought it more likely to work immediately to show that the card was installed and working ok. (First time I have installed such a monster card!)

I rebooted and chose ubuntu from grub and received the following errors:

[FAILED] Failed to start Detect the available GPUs and deal with any system changes.
[FAILED] Failed to start Light Display Manager.

I did see a mention of Nouveau during the boot.

Cursor blinking, no mouse, no keyboard. Only way out is hard reboot. I am unable to get any information to assist in this post.

Can anyone assist

camorri · 01-06-2022, 05:42 PM

Code:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/184163/en-us

Here is the layest Nvidia driver for that card. You may be able to install it from your package manager, or from the Nvidia site.

You will have to blacklist the Nouveau driver also.

You may have to go into the BIOS ( or UEFI ) and disable the on board video hardware. I had to do that on an older machine. It may not be necessary on newer hardware, just keep that in mind if you have problems.

makem · 01-06-2022, 07:38 PM

Thank you. I did take a look in bios but didn't see any refernece to onboard video hardware. The machine is new and does have a gpu in the processor which I have been using. Took me a year to get it mostly working and now I don't need it!

As I cannot get into the system in any way other than recovery mode I have no idea how to blacklist Nouveau or install the new driver. Nvidia have a .run driver file which I have been advised not to use. I tried using add/remove software when I did once get into the system and selected the Nvidia driver but still got the same error.

camorri · 01-06-2022, 08:16 PM

I do not use Ubuntu, so I do not know the specifics of that system. FWIW, I do use the Nvidia .run files on two systems using Slackware.

Nvidia does give you an oportunity to blacklist the Nouveau driver on the installation. Basically, it prevents that drover from loading when you boot the system. You could ask for a how to on the Ubuntu forum. Peolple there should know how to install the driver you need. It should be in the Ubuntu repos.

obobskivich · 01-07-2022, 06:40 AM

Just a 'side question' - do you know the card actually works? Like are you sure the issue is with the linux install/compatibility, and not hardware?

My advice: try live booting Ubuntu (also you should probably try this with 21.10 as 21.04 is EOL) and see if that goes along fine - if everything works there, and barring someone having really slick advice (that won't take hours to implement), I'd probably just re-install fresh 21.10 and then load the nvidia driver from Ubuntu's 'Additonal Drivers' setup (as opposed to downloading the raw driver from nvidia's site and trying to execute it). Remember to reboot after doing that (oftentimes 'Additional Drivers' will not prompt but it is required).

Daedra · 01-08-2022, 01:35 PM

Try editing grub before boot and add "nouveau.modeset=0" to your kernel boot line.

camorri · 01-08-2022, 01:58 PM

You shoudl have a directory for blocking modules you do not want loaded. On my system it is /etc/modprobe.d/

If you have that directory, here is what blocks nouveau on my system. The file containing these lines is called: nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf I don't think the name matters, as long as it ends in .conf

Code:

# generated by nvidia-installer
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0