Nvidia drivers potentially borked.

AlucardNoir2

I'm running Solus on an ASUS Tuf FX505GT with an Nvidia GTX1650. The update two weeks ago, did not get me to the GUI so I just rolled back the update and waited since I read Solus intended to move to the 510.xx branch. Today I tried updating a second time and once more I did not get to the GUI - but again the TTI was accesable via ctr+alt+f2 - f6. This time in place of rolling back the update I did the usaucl check and when everything passed I tried removing the nvidia drivers and rebooting. This brought me to the GUI and on Nuveau.

I tried reinstalling the drivers via the tool but once more, upon reboot I never arive at the GUI, the ASUS logo just freezes on the screen. Wile in TTI - with the drivers installed, nvidia-smi tells me something like NVM driver/library version mismatch.

While this isn't some top of the line gaming laptop it is a gaming laptop with a dedicated GPU. I'd apreciate any help in getting it to work once more.

AlucardNoir2

Ok, so I think I might have found the problem, apparently I'm still on 5.14.21 in place of the latest kernel. I have no idea why the system hasn't updated to the latest kernel though. Any ideas?

EDIT. So uname -r gives me 5.15.21-210.current while the software center tells me I'm on the latest kernel. 5.15.43.215. I'm on an UEFI system so I don't get the boot meny by default. I'll see if the help center is of any help and try to get to it to see if that's the problem - and if it is I'm really wondering how I got stuck to a kernel that's a quite a few months out of date.

Harvey

AlucardNoir2 how I got stuck to a kernel that's a quite a few months out of date.

It usually happens when you have a boot/EFI partition smaller than 500mb~

Default install will have enough space but if you create a custom partition smaller or multiboot too many operating systems without taking into account the space needed, it can become full and thus unable to update the kernel image.

AlucardNoir2

Harvey I have a 513 MB partition. Checked with Gnome Disks.

Good new though, I got the drivers to work by manually selecting the latest kernel. Rebooted, pressed space until I got the kernel selection screen, selected the latest kernel and it works.

Bad news, I'm stuck with light theme in all gnome apps indifferent of the setting in Budgie settings and rebooting or closing and restarting auto selects the 5.14 kernel. Since I haven't messed with the boot loader since I installed Solus on this machine 1 year and a half ago I have to wonder why this is happening though it probably happened when Josh pushed the 5.15 back and forced us to go back to 5.14.21. But that was half a year ago...

Anyway, anyone know how to solver the kernel selection problem I have? also, any mod that can change the name and category of the topic to something more appropriate since the problem seems to be less nvidia related and more default kernel selection related, please feel free to do so. (I'd do it myself but I don't think I'm allowed to change topic names)

EDIT, Ok, so sudo clr-boot-manager update fixed the system not actually using the latest kernel. Now I just have to find out why Gnome aps are ignoring the dark more theme as set in Budgie setting and how I got stuck with 5.14.21 for six months.

hdansin

The theme problem might be related to the recent adwaita/gnome update. Try launching gnome-control-center from the terminal and navigating to the appearance section, from there you can choose the dark theme option. I believe there is a thread about this but I can't find it.

More info: Link

AlucardNoir2

hdansin Thank you for your reply. It did solve my problem.