Nvidia drivers non-functional for Geforce GTX 1660

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modified
rebooted
no change

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Please post that output

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borgrel@coffeehouse:~$ ls /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
10-amdgpu.conf  10-quirks.conf  40-libinput.conf
10-nvidia.conf  10-radeon.conf  70-wacom.conf
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Well this confirms it is not an errant config file.

Disabling HW accel did nothing.
The drivers show as loaded.
It's falling back to LLVMPipe.

I am at a loss at this point.

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swapping back to neaveou
..... ok working

well, looks like the system is back to what it was before the purge

should i test 470 again? without a purge

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Sure, let's try it.

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i guessing i will need to remove that option soon, before i forget its been placed there for if i ever do get the nvidia drivers working
does that option in nvidia.conf disable what accel that neaveou can manage on a nvidia card or does the conf apply to neaveou drivers too??

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I am actually not sure, since I am not sure what parts Nouveau Open Source Nvidia drivers depend on and what it supplies on its own.

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and
.....presto flamingo

temp

not sure if i should try any other versions or just stick to this until a driver above 535 is out

also, i dont know what to mark as the solution
it feels like we got it working by accident, rather than fixing/bypassing the error between the newer kernals and the newer nvidia drivers

guess i need to turn the accel back on and see if 470 keeps working

is there a simple way to test hardware acceleration?

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This is what I was thinking. The disabling of Hardware Acceleration is what was needed to get Nvidia to stop falling back to llvmpipe.

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if that was the case then it would have worked when we disabled it, since it was defaulted to nvidia-535-open-server (recommended, tested) driver

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Not necessarily. I won't use the 535 driver because it is so absurdly buggy. I would not be in the least bit surprised if it was a problem in its own right.
It's not a viable control against which to experiment against.

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erm .....

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/xorg"
EndSection

changing drivers overrode the conf file, acceleration is not disabled

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LOL

Welp...

Problem Solved!
Anything else I can help you with?
:roll_eyes: :woozy_face:

(I marked post #29 as the "solution" in which the post clearly states that the solution is currently unknown).

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probably not, now i need to work on getting video codecs working
but thats mostly well documented so i just follow the process
also, a hdd disappeared with the purge too, so i need to test it

and then i get to play with wine ... fun fun

many
many
many
many
many
many thanks

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