SOLVED Beta closed source drivers: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module

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Is anyone able to point me in the right direction to solve this issue please?

I installed the nvidia-beta drivers (Arch) and tested out Starfield. All is good. Then next time I try to startx, I get X failed to start etc.

Following the logs I get to:

` [ 1711.739] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 545.23.06 Sun Oct 15 17:26:55 UTC 2023

...

[ 1711.740] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the

[ 1711.740] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages and

[ 1711.740] (EE) NVIDIA: consult the NVIDIA README for details.

`

Wierd. Install nvidia instead, y to remove conflicts/nvidia-utils etc, and it's all working. Try to install beta drivers again, same issue, rebooted, etc.

The beta drivers definitely did work. But now they magically aren't.

Any tips?

I did try running sudo mkinitcpio -P but no change.

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I installed the nvidia-beta drivers (Arch) and tested out Starfield. All is good. Then next time I try to startx, I get X failed to start etc.

Did you reboot after changing to the beta driver? If you did not you were still using the previously installed nvidia driver, unless you manually reloaded the nvidia kernel modules via rmmod and modprobe (I'd discourage doing this though, rebooting is way less error prone)

Yes, definitely rebooted. I just reinstalled the betas, so I can try get more logs.

[ 1711.740] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages and

Maybe try this then? Kernel log can be read via

$sudo dmesg

or

$journalctl -k

I'd recommend journalctl, best to also append -b to only get the kernel logs for the current boot

For easier navigation enter a / and input nvidia, this will search your journal. Press n to go to the next result and shift + n to go to the previous one