How to install NVidia driver?

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Ingvar Von Bjork2018-09-02 23:43:22

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Ingvar Von Bjork, 2018-09-02 23:43:22

There is a laptop with integrated Intel graphics and discrete NVidia GF 720M. Installed nvidia package, bumblebee and bbswitch.
systemctl status bumblebeed:

● bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2018-09-02 23:02:50 MSK; 35min ago
 Main PID: 420 (bumblebeed)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 10.5M
   CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service
           └─420 /usr/bin/bumblebeed

сен 02 23:02:50 kolik systemd[1]: Started Bumblebee C Daemon.
сен 02 23:02:53 kolik bumblebeed[420]: [   22.689970] [INFO]/usr/bin/bumblebeed 3.2.1 started
сен 02 23:03:50 kolik bumblebeed[420]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
сен 02 23:03:50 kolik bumblebeed[420]: [   78.526160] [ERROR]Module nvidia could not be loaded (timeout?)
сен 02 23:03:50 kolik bumblebeed[420]: [   78.526191] [ERROR]Could not load GPU driver
сен 02 23:03:52 kolik bumblebeed[420]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
сен 02 23:03:52 kolik bumblebeed[420]: [   80.788150] [ERROR]Module nvidia could not be loaded (timeout?)
сен 02 23:03:52 kolik bumblebeed[420]: [   80.788179] [ERROR]Could not load GPU driver

modprobe says:

modprobe: INFO: custom logging function 0x55d580d0f920 registered
insmod /lib/modules/4.18.5-arch1-1-ARCH/extramodules/nvidia.ko.gz
modprobe: INFO: Failed to insert module '/lib/modules/4.18.5-arch1-1-ARCH/extramodules/nvidia.ko.gz': No such device
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
modprobe: INFO: context 0x55d581d00460 released

And lspci -k:

01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)
  Subsystem: Lenovo GeForce GT 720M
  Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Actually, as I understand it, when you try to turn on the video card, the arch considers that it is not there. What to do?

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Ingvar Von Björk, 2018-09-03
@DeboshiR

Installing nvidia-390xx packages helped

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Alexey Skobkin, 2018-09-03
@skobkin

Perhaps he is nouveaualready using the device and therefore nvidiacannot boot (I don’t remember exactly what the error is in the case of an already loaded module for the device). What does he say about this lsmod?
Is the video card generally supported by this driver version?

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xibir, 2018-09-03
@xibir

In /etc/default/grub add nouveau.modeset=0 parameter to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT value
Run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
After reboot bumblebeed will start normally.
bbswitch package is not needed