Mint 17 nouveau drivers failing with NVIDIA GTX 750 [SOLVED]

tdrhart · Post by **tdrhart** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 11:49 pm

I've just installed Mint 17 64-bit on a system with a NVIDIA GTX 750 video card and it comes up with a warning about software rendering. The Device Manager list of drivers is completely empty. I searched the forums and found an article on manually installing NVIDIA drivers. The first step, Ctrl Alt F1 to switch to terminal, only displays a black screen, no prompt.

Running 'inxi -G' gives the following:

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Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] 
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: FAILED: fbdev,vesa,nouveau Resolution: 1600x1200@0.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.0

Anyone have suggestions on how to get by the default failed drivers.

My hardware listed by 'lspci':

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev d4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation H87 Express LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fbc (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)

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Relatively new to Linux so still trying to figure out a lot of things.

Thanks,
Todd

Edit: Updated title to be more descriptive and added [SOLVED]

txba516 · Post by **txba516** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:03 pm

Hi TDR,

If you are able to reach the desktop, then you can run the commands from the manual install method in a Terminal window.

Cheers!

gtsfer · Post by **gtsfer** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:36 pm

For some reason I don't understand yet "inxi -G" seems to only give part of the info on graphics. Can you do this command and post back the results?

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inxi -Fx

tdrhart · Post by **tdrhart** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 6:53 pm

To txba516, I need to shut down X11 which I believe if I do that from a terminal on the desktop then I loose the desktop and terminal with it.

For gtsfer, here's the 'inxi -Fx' output.

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System:    Host: pc-thart Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine:   System: ASUS product: All Series
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: H87M-E version: Rev X.0x Bios: American Megatrends version: 0703 date: 10/30/2013
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-4770 CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 27139.5 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz 3: 800.00 MHz 4: 3200.00 MHz 5: 800.00 MHz 6: 800.00 MHz 7: 800.00 MHz 8: 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: FAILED: fbdev,vesa,nouveau Resolution: 1280x1024@0.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA Device 0fbc driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller 
           driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 74:d0:2b:90:1f:98
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2000.4GB (0.3% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST1000DM003 size: 1000.2GB 
           2: id: /dev/sdb model: ST1000DM003 size: 1000.2GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 60G used: 4.5G (8%) fs: ext4 ID: /boot size: 464M used: 45M (11%) fs: ext4 
           ID: /tmp size: 30G used: 48M (1%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 797G used: 190M (1%) fs: ext4 
           ID: swap-1 size: 32.77GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 197 Uptime: 6 min Memory: 932.7/32115.6MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4

I'm hooked up to a secondary smaller monitor but the error is the same.

tdrhart · Post by **tdrhart** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 7:49 pm

Additionally, running 'lspci -v' as root gives me:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
	Memory behind bridge: f6000000-f70fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000f1ffffff
	Capabilities: [88] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Capabilities: [a0] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [140] Root Complex Link
	Capabilities: [d94] #19
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
	Memory at f7200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
	Memory at f721a000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [8c] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Kernel driver in use: mei_me

00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
	Memory at f7218000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
	Capabilities: [98] PCI Advanced Features
	Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8576
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
	Memory at f7210000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
	Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot-), MSI 00
	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 3
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev d4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
	Memory behind bridge: f7100000-f71fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f2100000-00000000f21fffff
	Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 3
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
	Memory at f7217000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
	Capabilities: [98] PCI Advanced Features
	Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation H87 Express LPC Controller (rev 04)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
	Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
	I/O ports at f070 [size=8]
	I/O ports at f060 [size=4]
	I/O ports at f050 [size=8]
	I/O ports at f040 [size=4]
	I/O ports at f020 [size=32]
	Memory at f7216000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA v1.0
	Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 14
	Memory at f7215000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	I/O ports at f000 [size=32]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device 2753
	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16
	Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at f7000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [78] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [250] Latency Tolerance Reporting
	Capabilities: [258] L1 PM Substates
	Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
	Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
	Capabilities: [900] #19

01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fbc (rev a1)
	Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device 2753
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	Memory at f7080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8554
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
	I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
	Memory at f7100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Memory at f2100000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
	Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-
	Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 01-00-00-00-68-4c-e0-00
	Capabilities: [170] Latency Tolerance Reporting
	Kernel driver in use: r8169

gtsfer · Post by **gtsfer** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:30 am

tdrhart wrote:Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: FAILED: fbdev,vesa,nouveau Resolution: 1280x1024@0.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.0 Direct Rendering: Yes

It looks like the Xorg driver is failing to load. What I don't understand is how it can say all the GLX stuff in the following line looks OK. Never the less I'm going to look and see what drivers are available for that nVidia card. Maybe a "driver person with much experience" will chime in to help too.

tdrhart · Post by **tdrhart** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:10 pm

Did more digging and found that nVidia provides it's drivers in PPA. This makes updating much simpler; no Ctrl-Alt-F1 terminal is needed.

As stated above, inxi -Gx showed the drivers failed and GL was running in software mode:

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Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] bus-ID 01:00.0
           X.Org 1.5.1 drivers: FAILED: fbdev,vesa,nouveau Resolution 1280x1024@0.0hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.0 Direct Rendering: Yes

Running glxgears and glmark2 returned 1172 fps and 241 score respectively.

I added the xorg-edgers PPA and installed the latest nVidia drivers. This site has warnings about experimental sources but has worked for me.

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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-340

I rebooted and checked inxi -Gx again.

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Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GM107 [Geforce GTX 750] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau) Resolution: 1280x1024@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 750/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.24 Direct Rendering: Yes

Next, I installed the NVIDIA X Server Settings so I could configure the driver.

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$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings

Finally, I reran glxgears and glmark2 which now return 21280 fps and 7606 score respectively.

My system is now running properly in hardware mode. Also, launching Driver Manager no longer comes up blank but instead lists the last three nVidia drivers (334, 337, and 340) and the xserver-org-video-nouvea driver.

Success

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