post-installation stuff (nvidia and i3) | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:35 AM

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Nvidia smi failed and i3 status_command

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NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:42 AM

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pacman -Qs "(mesa|nvidia|nouv|xf86-video|optimus)"

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and are you using the default linux kernel?

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:42 AM

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vocal plaza and are you using the default `linux` kernel?

yes

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:42 AM

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vocal plaza `pacman -Qs "(mesa|nvidia|nouv|xf86-video|optimus)"`

what does this do?

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:43 AM

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just list the packages you have installed related to those words

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:43 AM

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local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.11-4 EGLStream-based Wayland external platform local/libvdpau 1.5-1 Nvidia VDPAU library local/mesa 23.0.3-1 An open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification local/nvidia-open 530.41.03-9 NVIDIA open kernel modules local/nvidia-utils 530.41.03-1 NVIDIA drivers utilities

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:43 AM

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ok you have nvidia-open, that might be the reason :)

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:43 AM

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aw arch wiki asked me to install it

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:43 AM

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replace it with the closed-source official nvidia driver?

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nah, the lame driver by nvidia is by far the best.
nvidia-open is new and limited

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:44 AM

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i see

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:44 AM

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vocal plaza replace it with the closed-source official nvidia driver?

how do i do it?

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:44 AM

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For the Maxwell (NV110/GMXXX) series and newer, install the nvidia package (for use with the linux kernel) or nvidia-lts (for use with the linux-lts kernel) package.
If these packages do not work, nvidia-betaAUR may have a newer driver version that offers support.
Alternatively for the Turing (NV160/TUXXX) series or newer the nvidia-open package may be installed for open source kernel modules on the linux kernel (On other kernels nvidia-open-dkms must be used).
**This is currently alpha quality on desktop cards, so there will be issues. **Due to nvidia-open issue #282, it does not work on systems that have AMD integrated GPUs.

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:45 AM

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oh

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:45 AM

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pacman -S nvidia should replace it.

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:46 AM

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done

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:46 AM

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actually it seems not.
so do pacman -Rns nvidia-open afterwards

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:46 AM

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$ sudo pacman -Rns nvidia-open error: target not found: nvidia-open

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:46 AM

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ok then it did replace :D

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:47 AM

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:D

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so i now reboot and see if it works?

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:47 AM

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ok, now make sure boot partition is mounted

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and do sudo mkinitcpio -P

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:47 AM

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vocal plaza ok, now make sure boot partition is mounted

how to check ?

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:47 AM

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usually a mkinitcpio is needed after installing / updating nvidia

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keep that in mind for the future

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lsblk to check boot and its current mount point (should be /boot)

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:48 AM

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vocal plaza keep that in mind for the future

oke

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mounted

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:48 AM

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vocal plaza and do `sudo mkinitcpio -P`

ran

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:48 AM

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reboot and check

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:48 AM

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okkok

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it works!

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now the i3 error

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:50 AM

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nice!

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:50 AM

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Error: status_command process exited unexpectedly (exit 1)

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 4:50 AM

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hmm i don't know i3
what is the command exactly?

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and how are you starting i3?

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 4:51 AM

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i use systemctl to start it

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i thin

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think

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idk

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maybe fix that later cuz i gtg

hot jacinth May 9, 2023, 9:08 AM

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hot jacinth `Error: status_command process exited unexpectedly (exit 1)`

$ i3status Could not set locale. Please make sure all your LC_* / LANG settings are correct.

vocal plaza May 9, 2023, 3:02 PM

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cat /etc/locale.conf

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locale (should list LC_ variables)

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see if they are set

hot jacinth May 10, 2023, 4:09 AM

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i somehow got it later

#post-installation stuff (nvidia and i3)