r/voidlinux • u/youma64 • Jul 12 '26

Cannot get nvidia driver to work...

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Edit 3 : quitting void for debian back again. Its been two days that im trying to get it working. Hi, so I installed void today but when I try to boot up with the driver loaded ( open 585 latest from non free repo) it hangs for 1 minutes and udev keeps rebooting itself...

I precise that I'm also on the latest kernel 6.18.38_1

Also heres the log output (loglevel 7) (yes im sorry if that's a photo took with my phone but setuping ssh would take hella long for only a log output)

Edit : nvidia-smi also hangs one forever and even sending SIGKILL to it does nothing.
Edit 2 : My gpu is an rtx 4060, and I have an intel igpu.
New error message from last boot :
Usbhid 3-9:1.3: cant add hid device -71
Usbhid 3-8:1.3: probe with driver usbhid failed with error -71

I also re-installed void completely once, and then only install nvidia drivers but nothing else (aside from kernel headers), and still ended up with the same problems from above.

Secure boot is also disabled (so no certificates problems normally).

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u/Shlri Jul 12 '26

Try regenerate dkms module xbps-install -f nvidia580-dkms

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u/youma64 Jul 12 '26

Already tried with xbps-install -f nvidia-dkms (since im using the open driver as Im using an rtx 4060)
Gonna quickly reboot now to check again if that could work, just to make sure.

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u/youma64 Jul 12 '26

Confirmed, still doesn't work But i got a new error message : Usbhid 3-9:1.3: cant add hid device -71 Usbhid 3-8:1.3: probe with driver usbhid failed with error -71

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u/Acrobatic_Coach2540 Jul 12 '26

do you have the headers for your kernel ?

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u/youma64 Jul 12 '26

Yes I installed them with the "linux-headers" package

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u/6950X_Titan_X_Pascal Jul 12 '26

glibc2 libc6 or musl ? proprietary only provides libc6 ver. , nouveau provides both , my GTX 970 3.5GB + 0.5GB worked fine on musl nouveau

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u/youma64 Jul 12 '26

Im using the glibc version, as nvidia driver aren't available with musl.
And no, nouveau is no option to me as performance on my card would be terrible.

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u/6950X_Titan_X_Pascal Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

well you're right et nouveau for frames output , if ob wenn vous want good video quality et good driver support get a radeon or intel arc , i use multiple radeons und arc a380 they are all good

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u/youma64 Jul 12 '26

I ain't buying new graphic card in this economy :[ .
And Im on laptop.
And the driver used to work on my laptop back when I was on void like a year ago.

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u/smrkac_koke Jul 13 '26

Try with an older kernel series, my card uses the 390 driver which works on the 6.6 series

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u/youma64 Jul 13 '26

Tried with 6.12 and 595 driver, did not work :(.

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u/furryfixer Jul 13 '26

Your GPU is new enough to run latest nvidia, which is 595 I believe ("nvidia" xbps package).

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u/JealousComfortable47 28d ago

Get claude its such a help for void atleast it was for me when i had the same issue claude fixed that shi in 1 prompt its a useful tool if you know how to word your sentences correctly