Failed to initialized NVIDIA card
I’ve disabled secure boot in bios and still got the same error. Any suggestions?
- Nvidia GTX1050
- Ubuntu 17.04
- Kernel: 4.12.0-13-generic
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acpi=force is a boot parameter which states ::
Activates the ACPI system even if your computer BIOS is prior to 2000. This parameter overwrites acpi=off and can also be used with current hardware if the ACPI support is not activated despite apm=off.
It overrides the acpi=off and also put the irq in polling mode which eventually reduces driver initialization failures due to shared interrupts.
Once you make any changes to /etc/default/grub you have to run update-grub for it to be effective by next boot up.
Tried to fix this by setting
Worked for once, then the same problem again.
Update
sudo update-grub seems to solve the problem. Although I don’t quite understand why acpi=force has anything to do with the loading of a graphic card. If anyone has more info, please post an answer. Thanks!
Why is my device IRQ not appearing?
I have an USB external audio interface that constantly throws BSoD with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL when plugged in.
(The vendor drivers are definitely to blame here, but they are unmaintained and I need this interface to work).
I’m trying to check if there isn’t an IRQ conflict between the audio interface and some other device, that would typically cause this error, but the device isn’t showing in devmgmt.msc when sorted by resource.
The device does show up under ‘Audio Controllers’ :
But doesn’t appear anywhere when I sort by resources :
I tried plugging the audio interface in all the USB ports with no luck.
Why isn’t my interface showing in the devices when sorted by IRQ ?
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Make sure the Line 6 drivers are up to date — https://line6.com/software/index.html
Remove any extraneous audio drivers — NVidia especially is a known crasher. In fact you can live without 9/10th of NVidia’s "Experience" stuff. Uninstall the whole lot if you don’t use it & only install the actual graphics drivers.
I’ve not known Realtek to ever get in the way, so that’s probably safe to leave in. Steam I have no dealings with, so that would be your call.
2010, so the community can consider this is a 'Won't fix' from Line6. As for the NVidia stuff, I also use that computer for gaming so I cannot really get rid of the whole NVidia suite. I'll try to strip as much as I can but this doesn't really look good
I actually can’t provide a definite answer to your question, because I do not possess this hardware. However, two possible solutions come to my mind:
The first thing I would try is to install the drivers for your device in compatibility mode. Whenever you run an executable under Windows 10, you can run it in compatibility modes back to Windows 95. To do that, right-click the executable in question and choose "Properties". Then go to the "Compatibility" tab, check "Run this program in compatibility mode for:", select the appropriate Windows version from the drop-down and hit "OK".
At the end of this answer, I have attached a screenshot which shows the respective dialog (to create the screenshot, I have used the first executable I came across when writing this answer, which was the Teamviewer setup program; this is purely random).
The good thing is that I have seen working this method in many cases. For example, I originally thought I could throw away my beloved CanoScan 8800F when having upgraded all of my PCs to Windows 10, because Canon does not provide Windows 10 drivers for this device, and I definitely won’t use the crippled WIA after having been happy for years with the much more advanced Canon TWAIN drivers. There was absolutely no chance to install the Windows 7 drivers for that device in Windows 10.
But one day, more accidentally than by intent, I tried the installation of the Canon drivers using Windows 7 compatibility mode, and guess what: The scanner is working in Windows 10 via TWAIN like a charm since.
I am describing my issues with a hardware which is totally unrelated to yours just to make clear that the compatibility mode not only helps with running old applications, but also with installing old drivers. To stress it again, you would of course run the driver setup program in compatibility mode, not the drivers themselves after having installed them.
There is no guarantee, though. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. In every case, it is worth a try, and it is worth the time to try all different compatibility modes which are offered.
If you can’t get it to work that way, there is a second idea. Coming back to the problem with my scanner: Before I had success with the compatibility mode, I had installed Windows 7 in a VM (VirtualBox), had passed through the USB port where the scanner was attached to into the VM, and have installed the Canon software there. While this has many drawbacks (who wants to fire up a VM just to use a scanner, and who wants to manage another O/S installation?), it seemed the only way to keep using that precious piece of hardware.
You could perhaps do the same. Chances are good because it is a USB device in your case as well. On the other hand, latency is a key feature for audio devices, and I have no clue if latency would be acceptable when you operate your audio hardware from within a VM via a USB port which is passed from the host into the VM. But I am afraid that this is your only option to keep using the device with Windows 10 if the first method I have described above fails.
As a last resort which always will work, you can buy a used PC for a small price on eBay, install Windows 7 there (or whatever the latest O/S supported by your device is), leave it disconnected from the internet and never attach unknown USB sticks to it, and use it exclusively for the purpose of working with your audio hardware.
Premis
I tried pretty much everything I could find, I will list the attempts below.
Question structured as follows: Premis, Problem, Question, Attempts.
My PC:
- Gigabyte X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI Mini ITX AM4
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600x (Zen3)
- Palit Dual GeForce RTX 3060Ti 8GB
- MX500 1TB (Ubuntu)
- Sabrent Rocket 4.0 500GB (Windows)
- MX500 2TB (storage)
Also:
- Secure Boot is Disabled (so also CSM is disabled)
Objective
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Installation for Machine Learning development, mainly GPU accelerated:
- CUDA is needed
- Nouveau drivers are not optimal, hence they are currently blacklisted
- NVIDIA drivers are needed
Problem
The driver is recognized as:
- It is shown in the Software & Updates as installed
But it is clearly not used as I’m writing this in 1024×768 (4:3).
Taking a look at drivers/what is recognized:
Trying to install drivers with autoinstall, output:
Ignoring this means installing the drivers specifying the version, so with:
It does its thing, then trying nvidia-smi, output:
Is the kernel module loaded? Seems like it is:
Trying again to see if nvidia is seen:
Question & Recap
Doesn’t work, but the drivers are seen? I am clueless now.
The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS used for this is a fresh install.
What I think can be a major hint is this output, since NVIDIA modules are not found in the kernel modules directory.
- What am I supposed to do now?
Attempts (all failed)
- Purge and reinstall (multiple)
- Changing to 515 drivers instead of 530 (twice)
- (did I install the wrong version. )
- Disabling Secure Boot (and try again everything)
- Fresh Ubuntu install
- Test on Windows (it works there, no hardware problems)
- Headers update, 0 updates
- (I would like to avoid manual installation through download)
- Give up (not an option)
Useful but unrelated information
When I built the PC I had to update the BIOS since the motherboard didn’t offer native support for the Zen3 architecture of the Ryzen 5 series.
I mention this only because at startup, I see the fast terminal gibberish and at the top there is written something about the AMD not being recognized. Although I highly doubt it is somehow related or of importance, since it works afterwards.
"IRQ Not Used"
Stands for "Interrupt Request." PCs use interrupt requests to manage various hardware operations. Devices such as sound cards, modems, and keyboards can all send interrupt requests to the processor. For example, when the modem needs to run a process, it sends an interrupt request to the CPU saying, "Hey, hold up, let me do my thing!" The CPU then interrupts its current job to let the modem run its process.
now why your GTX1050ti doesn’t use any is a good question I run a GTX970 and in device manager > Display adapter >. Video card Name > Resources.
I see IRQ listed, maybe you need to check there. it could be misreported by AMD