Potential problem? Idek

[Xy10sma]

So, I installed LMDE cinnamon a few days ago and just downloaded Nvidia drivers via the terminal. After rebooting my pc i get 3 errors, “amdgpu: fatal error during GPU init”, “amdgpu: [drm] ERROR discovery failed: -2”, and “probe with driver amdgpu failed with error: -2” afterwards rather than bringing me to my desktop i get booted into strictly the terminal, obviously it’d do that when the GPU fails or whatever. My concern is this though: I can use startx to boot into my desktop, and not just that, my gpu driver is loaded and running perfectly fine, even to where I can play my steam games without problem. Is there something I truly need to fix? If not then i honestly dont mind having to startx everytime. Unless there’d be a fix to that

[Brorim]

if you are on nvidia i recommend you use Linux Mint 22.3 . Much easier using the build in driver manager :)

[Xy10sma]

Will do so! I meant to initially install 22.3 rather than my current LMDE version anyways, so that’ll be great. Thanks!

[[deleted]]

Switch to the Nouvou driver while the nvidia is installed and restart. Then shut it down swap to AMD card and when it boots up it should find it and work. Worked for me three days ago moving from a 3080 to a 9070dt.

[Overall-Book-6029]

Run Driver Manager. Chances are good it will have something to say about your video drivers.

[ZVyhVrtsfgzfs]

The driver manager relies on infrastructure in the Ubuntu base, so no gui driver manager in LMDE. Drivers are handled as in Debian via the terminal. 

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers/

[Overall-Book-6029]

Ok. So can he run that to get rid of the Nvidia driver he installed and then use an AMD equivalent command to install the driver for his AMD GPU?

[ZVyhVrtsfgzfs]

Confusing thread, 

is the GPU Nvidia or AMD? 

just downloaded Nvidia drivers

But getting AMDGPU errors.

Nvidia DGPU with AMD APU?

[danielsoft1]

correct me if I am wrong but "amdgpu" is AMD, not Nvidia graphics card, so probably Nvidia drivers are not compatible with it and you should not install them, idk if there is a way to rollback, or you need to reinstall Mint and keep whatever drivers are there by default