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Nvidia drivers installed, but not used

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I have an Asus UL30JT. It has Nvidia Optimus technology which I am not really interested in.
I currently rarely use this laptop with it being connected to power. And I want to be able to play video at high res, play games and do some OpenCL coding.

In the BIOS I switched it to NVIDIA only (non windows 7).
Previously, this worked just fine, using the nvidia driver.

After upgrading everything was broken. I have added nomodeset and blacklist.nouveau=1 as kernel options.
The nvidia drivers install without error. However they are not found/used.

jockey-text -l

kmod:nvidia_310_updates - nvidia_310_updates (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)

kmod:nvidia_304_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)

kmod:nvidia_313_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)

kmod:nvidia_310 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)

kmod:nvidia_304 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)

Trying to load the module manually fails as well.

sudo modprobe nvidia

FATAL: Module nvidia not found.

Xorg.0.log show the following:

[    12.028] Loading extension GLX

[    12.028] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"

[    12.037] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia

[    12.037] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"

[    12.037] (II) Unloading nvidia

[    12.037] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)

[    12.037] (==) Matched nvidia as autoconfigured driver 0

[    12.037] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 1

[    12.037] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 2

[    12.037] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 3

[    12.038] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 4

[    12.038] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout

[    12.038] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"

[    12.038] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia

[    12.038] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"

[    12.038] (II) Unloading nvidia

[    12.038] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)

[    12.038] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"

[    12.039] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveau

I have installed the kernel headers, of the correct kernel.
I verified that the kernel options are in the grub configuration.
I have purged all nvidia packages and tried to reinstall (multiple times...)

Currently I am at a loss.
I have checked the following question:
Nvidia driver installation error
But nothing there worked for me.

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answered 3 Years ago warrdel · Accepted Answer

Okay, I found out of it.

I did a full apt-get purge nvidia* and apt-get dist-upgrade etc. But the thing that fixed it was actually to set the alternative correct. I guess this would've worked from the start. So here's how:

$ sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf



  Selection    Path                                       Priority   Status

------------------------------------------------------------

  0            /usr/lib/nvidia-310/ld.so.conf              9702      auto mode

  1            /usr/lib/nvidia-310/ld.so.conf              9702      manual mode

* 2            /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf   500       manual mode

As you see, for me, this setting was wrongly set. So I used 0 instead, and lo' and behold. Lots more nvidia- utilities in the PATH.

If you're not on 64-bit, then use i386 instead of x86_64.