nvidia driver 440 xconfig coolbits help

[Snowarch]

I installed ubuntu 20.04 on my new drive. 16.04 is on the other one. Since i use a prime setup, need to manually edit the xcofig to enable things. 440 changed xconfigs layout in suck a way enabling " Option "Coolbits 12" no longer works. just freezes the entire pc to the point the entire config file must be deleted in tty1. so, could anyone with coolbits 12 (fancontrol and clock offsetting) screen shot their xconfig so i may try adding it to mine? thanks.

[igormp]

Here's mine with the 4th bit also enabled to allow overvoltage, everything is working just fine. Note that I'm on driver 450.57

[Snowarch]

@igormp

 

not sure what i did last time, but which ones the xconfig?

[igormp]

You can find the proper file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Guest]

Delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make the following file

 

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

Section "Device"
	Identifier "Nvidia Card"
	Driver "nvidia"
	VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
	Option "NoLogo" "1"
	Option "Coolbits" "12"
EndSection

 

xorg.conf itself is mostly considered depreciated in favor of independent config files.

I however don't know if NVIDIA has made that move however, so YMMV with using NVIDIA's control panel.

[Snowarch]

@Grumpy Old Man

i clicked the "generate xconfig file" in the driver and got this. it looks vary diffrent from my driver 418 config. going to replace the screen with the modified version. 

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 440.82

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "P102-100"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Virtual     1920 1080
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[Snowarch]

that just force booted me to terminal, so i can't do anything at all besides reinstall the os... again. any more ideas?

[Snowarch]

what do you mean usb memory? and i can login to the terminal. would do the same thing? 

 

cd /etc/x11 && ls x11 

 

del (xconfig) 

 

 if so what else should i try for enabling coolbits? @Grumpy Old Man

 

[Snowarch]

problem is gwe requires the coolbits. i use it on 16.04 drive 

[Snowarch]

@Nayr438

 

The xconfig change broke my entire ubuntu install. again. there is no such directory. the xconfig before changing it to what was suggested was created by nvidia settings. it wasn't there before. this directory you speak of. theres no such thing otherwise. wouldn't i need the rest of it? its missing a lot of info. coolbits can't be added to nothing. an xconfig has much more info. the original screen shot of this post was the"working" no coolbits directory of x11.

 

[C2dan88]

To enable coolbits, use nvidia-xconfig commnd

sudo nvidia-config --cool-bits=12

This should add the necessary information to xconfig for enabling coolbits.

[Snowarch]

does this look right? if it does, i shall install ubuntu on the nvme yet again. copied the stuff from my 16.04/driver 418 working xconfig and added things from the generated file on 440. also added nvenc as that seams to have been not added by some miustake. hope thats the right module name. i also changed the server layout by a bit to match the 16.04 in hopes of fixing the screen recorders on 440.   @igormp @Grumpy Old Man

 

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout"
    Screen 0 "nvidia"
    Inactive "intel"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "nvenc"
EndSection
Section "Device"
    Identifier "intel"
    Driver "modesetting"
    BusID "PCI:0@0:2:0"
    Option "AccelMethod" "None"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "intel"
    Device "intel"
EndSection
Section "Device"
    Identifier "Nvidia Card"
    Driver "nvidia"
         BusID "PCI:1@0:0:0"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
        BoardName      "P102-100"
    Option "NoLogo" "1"
    Option "Coolbits" "12"
        Option         "SLI" "Off"
        Option         "MultiGPU" "On"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Device "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on"
    Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
    Option "ForceCompositionPipeline" "on"
EndSection

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Snowarch said:

@Nayr438

 

The xconfig change broke my entire ubuntu install. again. there is no such directory. the xconfig before changing it to what was suggested was created by nvidia settings. it wasn't there before. this directory you speak of. theres no such thing otherwise. wouldn't i need the rest of it? its missing a lot of info. coolbits can't be added to nothing. an xconfig has much more info. the original screen shot of this post was the"working" no coolbits directory of x11.

 

It should work and is also referenced by the Arch Wiki. xorg itself mostly auto populates the information it needs and overriding some of that can cause issues.

My entire AMD xorg is 5 lines.

 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Configuration

 

They do have a nice warning for Nvidia Cards on the Arch Wiki However

Quote

Note: Xorg may not start or crash on startup after saving nvidia-settings changes. Adjusting or deleting the generated ~/.nvidia-settings-rc and/or Xorg file(s) should recover normal startup.

 

Maybe one of these links will be of some help.

 

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/solved-coolbits-without-xorg-conf/37305/2

 

I am seeing settings refrenced such as

BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"

You can get the BusID from lspci

 

and

/etc/gdm3/custom.conf

waylandenable=false

 

Otherwise the only thing I can think of is that its related to Wayland, as I think Ubuntu uses Wayland by default now if you have a compatible driver and I can't speak for that. Could also be just a buggy NVIDIA Driver build. I don't have a NVIDIA card anymore or use Wayland to diagnose it unfortunately.

[Snowarch]

i did get those bus ids from lspci on 16.04, where coollbits works no issue.  xconfig itself is fine, but ubuntu 20.04's/440 driver's bugs are making me get terminal/tty1's on boots, and an error about "a bad usb port 7" continually scrolls across my screen even so i cannot even type cds, or any other terminal command to delete the offending file. all my usb ports work fine, tried swapping the keyboard between them. so that is why i needed to reinstall again, if you were wondering. does my xconfig look right right? its kind of frankenstined from working file, of old driver, and y'all suggestions.

3 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

It should work and is also referenced by the Arch Wiki. xorg itself mostly auto populates the information it needs and overriding some of that can cause issues.

My entire AMD xorg is 5 lines.

 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Configuration

 

They do have a nice warning for Nvidia Cards on the Arch Wiki However

 

Maybe one of these links will be of some help.

 

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/solved-coolbits-without-xorg-conf/37305/2

 

I am seeing settings refrenced such as

BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"

You can get the BusID from lspci

 

and

/etc/gdm3/custom.conf

waylandenable=false

 

Otherwise the only thing I can think of is that its related to Wayland, as I think Ubuntu uses Wayland by default now if you have a compatible driver and I can't speak for that. Could also be just a buggy NVIDIA Driver build. I don't have a NVIDIA card anymore or use Wayland to diagnose it unfortunately.

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Snowarch said:

i did get those bus ids from lspci on 16.04, where coollbits works no issue.  xconfig itself is fine, but ubuntu 20.04's/440 driver's bugs are making me get terminal/tty1's on boots, and an error about "a bad usb port 7" continually scrolls across my screen even so i cannot even type cds, or any other terminal command to delete the offending file. all my usb ports work fine, tried swapping the keyboard between them. so that is why i needed to reinstall again, if you were wondering. does my xconfig look right right? its kind of frankenstined from working file, of old driver, and y'all suggestions.

 

in grub drop down to the editor and add loglevel=0 to the kernel param,  before quiet spash, before you boot. It should make the USB errors go away temporarily so you can use the terminal.

Your xorg.conf looks fine to me. You might try disabling wayland as I did see that mentioned.

[Snowarch]

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