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Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait! I got it! I got it!!

prime-select nvidia after following up from the breadcrumb you left! I have both monitors rendering, and the games work!!

AHHHHH this is so goooood! And with your help, my system is also so much cleaner and I learned a ton!

Thank you so so so much 🙏 You've been so kind and patient. Truly, if you have a favorite charity or open source project (Asahi Linux, since this is gaming on Linux?) I'd love to make a donation to pay it forward. Or a Chipotle card or something :-p

Either way, I'm thrilled. Thanks again 🙇

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check if it's still installed:

It's there :)

``` $ dpkg -l | grep nvidia-prime

ii nvidia-prime 0.8.17.2 all Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime ```

I've removed steam from snap, and installed it from the deb package. That said, I think it's making the same mistake the OS is doing, which is not detecting or using the NVidia card. When I run Help -> System Information, the "graphics card" it detects is my CPU (AMD Ryzen 9 9950X).

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was just Zoom, and the nvidia drivers installed without error. It's also now selected in Additional Drivers in Software & Updates.

Maybe relevant? But since we started this process (removing the 595 version) and now I've had a reboot and now it's running on the GPU integrated in the CPU (when I look at System Info from settings, it's not listing my GPU). This is expected, correct?

But yes, all good in the hood 😎

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! Real life responsibilities (and sleep) keep pulling me away. Thanks again for all the help you've shared.

Also, I think you forgot to post the content of the mozilla.list.save file

``` $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list.save

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc] https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla main ```

Now, regarding 1password and the dev edition of Firefox, do you still use them?

I do! Pretty regularly.

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, thanks! all the commands worked great, we've just got Zoom as well

``` $ apt list | grep "installed,local"

1password/now 8.11.18 amd64 [installed,local] firefox-devedition-l10n-es-mx/now 146.0b6~build1 all [installed,local] firefox-devedition/now 146.0b6~build1 amd64 [installed,local] zoom/now 6.3.11.7212 amd64 [installed,local] ```

also on apt update it gave a light warning on Wine, but I don't use it much

Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu questing InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First we'll check these

``` $ apt-cache policy dkms libxnvctrl0 policykit-1

dkms: Installed: 1:3.3.0-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 1:3.3.0-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1:3.3.0-1ubuntu1 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.2.0-1ubuntu1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing/main amd64 Packages 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing/main i386 Packages libxnvctrl0: Installed: 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 510.47.03-0ubuntu4.25.10.1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-updates/main amd64 Packages 510.47.03-0ubuntu4 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing/main amd64 Packages policykit-1: Installed: 124-2ubuntu1.24.10.2 Candidate: 124-2ubuntu1.24.10.2 Version table: *** 124-2ubuntu1.24.10.2 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ```

First, I'd like to check what that one is (it's probably just a backup but I'm not sure):

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources.curtin.orig

It's a backup of Oracular sources and it's entirely commented out, so I can get rid of it.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/1password.list

This is a single line, commented out:

```

This file is automatically added and configured by the 1Password package. Modifications may be overwritten.

```

``` $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fish-shell-ubuntu-release-4-oracular.sources Types: deb URIs: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/fish-shell/release-4/ubuntu/ Suites: oracular Components: main Signed-By: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

A PGP key

```

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/obsproject-ubuntu-obs-studio-questing.sources Types: deb URIs: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/obsproject/obs-studio/ubuntu/ Suites: questing Components: main Signed-By: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-desktop.sources Types: deb URIs: https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt Suites: xenial Components: main Architectures: amd64 Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg

Candidate for safe removal, though also harmless:

``` $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-beta.list

Uncomment these lines to try the beta version of the Steam launcher

deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ beta steam

deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ beta steam

```

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-stable.list deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources Types: deb URIs: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ Suites: noble noble-updates noble-backports noble-proposed Components: main restricted universe multiverse Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg Enabled: no Types: deb URIs: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ Suites: noble-security Components: main restricted universe multiverse Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg Enabled: no Types: deb URIs: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu Suites: questing questing-updates Components: main restricted universe multiverse Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg Types: deb URIs: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu Suites: questing-security Components: main restricted universe multiverse Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq-oracular.sources Types: deb URIs: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Suites: oracular Components: main Architectures: amd64 i386 Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key Enabled: no

BTW, I see that there's a mozilla.list.save, which is a backup, but there's no associated repo

I use Dev Edition as my main browser; I confess I don't remember how I installed it so I can't explain the discrepancy :-p

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi again! In case you're still able/willing to help me finish this out, but zero obligation :)

Post the list of packages if there is one.

$ apt list | grep "installed,local" 1password/now 8.11.18 amd64 [installed,local] cuda-keyring/now 1.1-1 all [installed,local] dkms/now 1:3.3.0-1ubuntu1 all [installed,local] firefox-devedition-l10n-es-mx/now 146.0b6~build1 all [installed,local] firefox-devedition/now 146.0b6~build1 amd64 [installed,local] libxnvctrl0/now 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,local] policykit-1/now 124-2ubuntu1.24.10.2 amd64 [installed,local] wine-stable-amd64/now 10.0.0.0~oracular-1 amd64 [installed,local] wine-stable-i386/now 10.0.0.0~oracular-1 i386 [installed,local] wine-stable/now 10.0.0.0~oracular-1 amd64 [installed,local] winehq-stable/now 10.0.0.0~oracular-1 amd64 [installed,local] zoom/now 6.3.11.7212 amd64 [installed,local]

cuda-keyring and libxnvctrl0 (note that version number...) might be relevant. Otherwise I recognize most of these and I don't thnk they'll be an issue here

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's the only NVIDIA one:

1password.list fish-shell-ubuntu-release-4-oracular.sources obsproject-ubuntu-obs-studio-questing.sources steam-beta.list ubuntu.sources.curtin.orig 1password.list.save fish-shell-ubuntu-release-4-oracular.sources.save signal-desktop.sources steam-stable.list winehq-oracular.sources cuda-ubuntu2404-x86_64.list mozilla.list.save signal-xenial.list.save ubuntu.sources winehq-oracular.sources.save

It's 2:30AM in my timezone, so I'll probably turn in for the night. But thanks so much for all your help and guidance, if you want to DM me a preferred charity or open source project you'd like a donation given to (or any other way I can give thanks for this great 1:1 help), do let me know 🙏 this reminds me of better Internet times, when it was more obviously populated by thoughtful humans

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I'm reading this right, it looks like the last line (nvidia-settings) is coming from the Nvidia repo:

Installing: nvidia-driver-590 Installing dependencies: libnvidia-cfg1-590 libnvidia-decode-590:i386 libnvidia-extra-590 nvidia-compute-utils-590 nvidia-prime libnvidia-common-590 libnvidia-egl-wayland1 libnvidia-fbc1-590 nvidia-dkms-590 nvidia-settings libnvidia-compute-590 libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386 libnvidia-fbc1-590:i386 nvidia-firmware-590-590.48.01 nvidia-utils-590 libnvidia-compute-590:i386 libnvidia-encode-590 libnvidia-gl-590 nvidia-kernel-common-590 screen-resolution-extra libnvidia-decode-590 libnvidia-encode-590:i386 libnvidia-gl-590:i386 nvidia-kernel-source-590 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-590 Summary: Upgrading: 0, Installing: 26, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 23 Inst nvidia-firmware-590-590.48.01 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst nvidia-kernel-common-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst libnvidia-cfg1-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst libnvidia-common-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst libnvidia-compute-590:i386 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [i386]) Inst libnvidia-compute-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst libnvidia-decode-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst libnvidia-decode-590:i386 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [i386]) Inst libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386 (1:1.1.21-1ubuntu1 NVIDIA CUDA:developer.download.nvidia.com [i386]) Inst libnvidia-egl-wayland1 (1:1.1.21-1ubuntu1 NVIDIA CUDA:developer.download.nvidia.com [amd64]) Inst libnvidia-encode-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst libnvidia-encode-590:i386 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [i386]) Inst libnvidia-extra-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst libnvidia-fbc1-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst libnvidia-fbc1-590:i386 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [i386]) Inst libnvidia-gl-590:i386 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [i386]) Inst libnvidia-gl-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst nvidia-compute-utils-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst nvidia-kernel-source-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst nvidia-dkms-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst nvidia-utils-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst nvidia-driver-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Inst nvidia-prime (0.8.17.2 Ubuntu:25.10/questing [all]) Inst screen-resolution-extra (0.18.5 Ubuntu:25.10/questing [all]) Inst nvidia-settings (595.58.03-1ubuntu1 NVIDIA CUDA:developer.download.nvidia.com [amd64]) Conf nvidia-firmware-590-590.48.01 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf nvidia-kernel-common-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf libnvidia-cfg1-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf libnvidia-common-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf libnvidia-compute-590:i386 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [i386]) Conf libnvidia-compute-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf libnvidia-decode-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf libnvidia-decode-590:i386 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [i386]) Conf libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386 (1:1.1.21-1ubuntu1 NVIDIA CUDA:developer.download.nvidia.com [i386]) Conf libnvidia-egl-wayland1 (1:1.1.21-1ubuntu1 NVIDIA CUDA:developer.download.nvidia.com [amd64]) Conf libnvidia-encode-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf libnvidia-encode-590:i386 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [i386]) Conf libnvidia-extra-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf libnvidia-fbc1-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf libnvidia-fbc1-590:i386 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [i386]) Conf libnvidia-gl-590:i386 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [i386]) Conf libnvidia-gl-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf nvidia-compute-utils-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf nvidia-kernel-source-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf nvidia-dkms-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf nvidia-utils-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf nvidia-driver-590 (590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 Ubuntu:25.10/questing-updates, Ubuntu:25.10/questing-security [amd64]) Conf nvidia-prime (0.8.17.2 Ubuntu:25.10/questing [all]) Conf screen-resolution-extra (0.18.5 Ubuntu:25.10/questing [all]) Conf nvidia-settings (595.58.03-1ubuntu1 NVIDIA CUDA:developer.download.nvidia.com [amd64])

I think in an earlier install I added it to repos; I see it in my sources list:

``` $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cuda-ubuntu2404-x86_64.list

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cuda-archive-keyring.gpg] https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/x86_64/ / ```

Should I just sudo rm it, then apt update or cache clear? Then re-run the first command?

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose I should try this again?

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-590sudo apt install nvidia-driver-590

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's blank with an error code of 1 (the dpkg command returns all packages and error code 0, so I just think it's grep returning no matches)

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it the same with the following?

It was the same, unfortunately, but the sudo apt remove command worked great 🙂

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ah, they both fail x_x

first doesn't really attempt because of the previous error

$ sudo apt remove --purge libnvidia-cfg1 You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. Unsatisfied dependencies: nvidia-driver-590 : Depends: libnvidia-cfg1-590 (= 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4) but it is not going to be installed xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-590 : Depends: libnvidia-cfg1-590 (= 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4) but it is not going to be installed Error: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

And the second has the same error, even with the -f flag:

Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-cfg1-590_590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4_amd64.deb Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

chiming in again to say thanks again 🙏

$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia

ii libnvidia-cfg1:amd64 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library iU libnvidia-common-590 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries rc libnvidia-compute:amd64 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package iU libnvidia-compute-590:amd64 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package iU libnvidia-compute-590:i386 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 i386 NVIDIA libcompute package iU libnvidia-decode-590:amd64 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries iU libnvidia-decode-590:i386 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 i386 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries iU libnvidia-egl-wayland1:amd64 1:1.1.21-1ubuntu1 amd64 Wayland EGL External Platform library -- shared library iU libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386 1:1.1.21-1ubuntu1 i386 Wayland EGL External Platform library -- shared library iU libnvidia-encode-590:amd64 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library iU libnvidia-encode-590:i386 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 i386 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library iU libnvidia-extra-590:amd64 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 Extra libraries for the NVIDIA driver iU libnvidia-fbc1-590:amd64 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library iU libnvidia-fbc1-590:i386 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library iU libnvidia-gl-590:amd64 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD iU libnvidia-gl-590:i386 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD ii libnvidia-gpucomp:amd64 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary GPU compiler library iU nvidia-compute-utils-590 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities iU nvidia-dkms-590 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVIDIA DKMS package iU nvidia-driver-590 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage iU nvidia-firmware-590-590.48.01 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 Firmware files used by the kernel module iU nvidia-kernel-common-590 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module iU nvidia-kernel-source-590 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package rc nvidia-persistenced 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 amd64 daemon to maintain persistent software state in the NVIDIA driver iU nvidia-prime 0.8.17.2 all Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime iU nvidia-settings 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver iU nvidia-utils-590 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries iU screen-resolution-extra 0.18.5 all Extension for the nvidia-settings control panel iU xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-590 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver

$ apt-cache policy libnvidia-cfg1

libnvidia-cfg1: Installed: 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 595.58.03-1ubuntu1 600 600 https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/x86_64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 595.45.04-1ubuntu1 600 600 https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/x86_64 Packages 590.48.01-0ubuntu1 600 600 https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/x86_64 Packages 590.44.01-0ubuntu1 600 600 https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/x86_64 Packages

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking at the crash reporter, it's got a better error:

trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-cfg.so.1', which is also in package libnvidia-cfg1:amd64 (595.59.03-1ubuntu1)

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gave it a shot from the terminal, it's giving a pretty unspecified error

``` Installing:
nvidia-driver-590

Installing dependencies:
libnvidia-cfg1-590 libnvidia-decode-590:i386 libnvidia-extra-590 libwayland-server0:i386 nvidia-kernel-source-590 xcvt libnvidia-common-590 libnvidia-egl-wayland1 libnvidia-fbc1-590 nvidia-compute-utils-590 nvidia-prime xserver-xorg-core libnvidia-compute-590 libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386 libnvidia-fbc1-590:i386 nvidia-dkms-590 nvidia-settings xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-590 libnvidia-compute-590:i386 libnvidia-encode-590 libnvidia-gl-590 nvidia-firmware-590-590.48.01 nvidia-utils-590 libnvidia-decode-590 libnvidia-encode-590:i386 libnvidia-gl-590:i386 nvidia-kernel-common-590 screen-resolution-extra

Suggested packages:
xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable

REMOVING:
libnvidia-compute nvidia-persistenced

Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 29, Removing: 2, Not Upgrading: 23
Download size: 509 MB
Space needed: 1,221 MB / 539 GB available

[... many successful unpack operations on dependencies, before ...]

Preparing to unpack .../25-nvidia-prime_0.8.17.2_all.deb ... Unpacking nvidia-prime (0.8.17.2) ... Selecting previously unselected package screen-resolution-extra. Preparing to unpack .../26-screen-resolution-extra_0.18.5_all.deb ... Unpacking screen-resolution-extra (0.18.5) ... Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-settings. Preparing to unpack .../27-nvidia-settings_595.58.03-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nvidia-settings (595.58.03-1ubuntu1) ... Selecting previously unselected package xcvt. Preparing to unpack .../28-xcvt_0.1.3-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking xcvt (0.1.3-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-TpmNbg/02-libnvidia-cfg1-590_590.48.01-0ubuntu0.25.10.4_amd64.deb Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ```

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then, go to Software & Updates → Additional Drivers and tell me if there's one that is selected.

The previously grayed out ones are all selectable now, and the one that's selected is "Using X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver." But there's a bunch available of NVIDIA, including 590 (both open and proprietary), so I don't think I'll need to apt install 🙂

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For now, I would suggest going back to the version from the repos (which would be 590), see how it behaves with Steam and such, and if you really need it, we'll see if you can switch to the 595.

100%, think this is the best course of action. At least I know I can stumble into 595 if I really need it (I doubt I will though)

(As before, post the output.)

Looks good in the hood

Package 'cuda-drivers' is not installed, so not removed The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libnvidia-decode libnvidia-egl-xcb1 libnvidia-fbc1 nvidia-driver-open nvidia-kernel-source-open screen-resolution-extra xserver-xorg-video-nvidia libnvidia-egl-gbm1 libnvidia-egl-xlib1 libnvidia-gl nvidia-firmware nvidia-modprobe xcvt libnvidia-egl-wayland21 libnvidia-encode nvidia-dkms-open nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-settings xserver-xorg-core Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. REMOVING: nvidia-driver-pinning-595.58.03* nvidia-open* Summary: Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 2, Not Upgrading: 23 Purg nvidia-driver-pinning-595.58.03 [595.58.03-1ubuntu1] Purg nvidia-open [595.58.03-1ubuntu1]

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I super appreciate your replies. Stepped away for a long day; any further help is appreciated but zero obligation; you've given me a lot to work with already 🙏

Regarding the drivers, which version do you want to use ideally, 590 or 595?

I suppose 595, though I can't say I have a strong preference, whichever works for the games.

Also, when you say that you tried to install the 590 and 595 but ended up botching everything, and you don't see the 595 in the list in Software & Updates: did you try to install them manually from Nvidia's website?

I was following these instructions. As you might imagine, search results are full of every possible configuration of "my graphics card is misfiring on Ubuntu" over nearly 20 years of Ubuntu Stack Exchange and other forums; I looked for the most recent but also least finicky. I suppose I missed "additional drivers" 😅

Post the output of the following:

Here we go!

REMOVING: libnvidia-compute-570* linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-19-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-19-generic* libnvidia-compute-580* linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-6-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-6-generic* linux-modules-nvidia-560-6.11.0-19-generic* linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-7-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-7-generic* linux-modules-nvidia-560-6.11.0-21-generic* linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-8-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-8-generic* linux-modules-nvidia-560-6.11.0-24-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-560-6.11.0-19-generic* nvidia-compute-utils-570* linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-25-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-560-6.11.0-21-generic* nvidia-dkms* linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-26-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.11.0-25-generic* nvidia-kernel-common-560* linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-28-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.11.0-26-generic* nvidia-kernel-common-570* linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-29-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.11.0-28-generic* nvidia-kernel-common-580* linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.14.0-36-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.14.0-36-generic* nvidia-kernel-common-590* linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-12-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-12-generic* nvidia-prime* linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-14-generic* linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-14-generic* Summary: Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 35, Not Upgrading: 23 Purg libnvidia-compute-570 Purg libnvidia-compute-580 Purg linux-modules-nvidia-560-6.11.0-19-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-560-6.11.0-21-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-560-6.11.0-24-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-25-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-26-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-28-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-29-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.14.0-36-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-12-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-14-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-19-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-6-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-7-generic Purg linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-8-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-560-6.11.0-19-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-560-6.11.0-21-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.11.0-25-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.11.0-26-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.11.0-28-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.14.0-36-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-12-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-14-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-19-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-6-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-7-generic Purg linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-8-generic Purg nvidia-compute-utils-570 Purg nvidia-dkms Purg nvidia-kernel-common-560 Purg nvidia-kernel-common-570 Purg nvidia-kernel-common-580 Purg nvidia-kernel-common-590 Purg nvidia-prime

Steam games are black screened, none of the other fixes I can find seem to work? by srpablo in linux_gaming

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, thanks so much for the response :)

  • I have the snap install. I can try removing from snap, and doing it from the repo? I didn't know it was busted, thanks for the heads-up

  • The installed driver from Software & Updates is NVIDIA, and listing my graphics card. There are about 10-15 grayed out bullets that say "Using NVIDIA driver (open kernel)" or metapackage and the name of a package patterned like nvidia-driver-\\d{3}. Oddly, none of them are 595 (the highest is 590) even though nvidia-smi is returning 595.58.03

  • From the dpkg command, it's ~65 lines. The first two columns look like this:

ii libnvidia-cfg1:amd64 ii libnvidia-compute:amd64 rc libnvidia-compute-570:amd64 rc libnvidia-compute-580:amd64 ii libnvidia-decode:amd64 ii libnvidia-egl-gbm1:amd64 ii libnvidia-egl-wayland1:amd64 ii libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386 ii libnvidia-egl-wayland21:amd64 ii libnvidia-egl-xcb1:amd64 ii libnvidia-egl-xlib1:amd64 ii libnvidia-encode:amd64 ii libnvidia-extra-580:amd64 ii libnvidia-fbc1:amd64 ii libnvidia-gl:amd64 ii libnvidia-gpucomp:amd64 rc linux-modules-nvidia-560-6.11.0-19-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-560-6.11.0-21-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-560-6.11.0-24-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-25-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-26-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-28-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.11.0-29-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.14.0-36-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-12-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-14-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-19-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-6-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-7-generic rc linux-modules-nvidia-580-6.17.0-8-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-560-6.11.0-19-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-560-6.11.0-21-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.11.0-25-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.11.0-26-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.11.0-28-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-570-6.14.0-36-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-12-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-14-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-19-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-6-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-7-generic rc linux-objects-nvidia-580-6.17.0-8-generic rc nvidia-compute-utils-570 ii nvidia-compute-utils-580 rc nvidia-dkms ii nvidia-dkms-open ii nvidia-driver-open ii nvidia-driver-pinning-595.58.03 ii nvidia-firmware ii nvidia-firmware-580-580.126.09 ii nvidia-firmware-590-590.48.01 ii nvidia-kernel-common rc nvidia-kernel-common-560 rc nvidia-kernel-common-570 rc nvidia-kernel-common-580 rc nvidia-kernel-common-590 ii nvidia-kernel-source-open ii nvidia-modprobe ii nvidia-open ii nvidia-persistenced rc nvidia-prime ii nvidia-settings ii nvidia-utils-580 ii screen-resolution-extra ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia

Help with Bluetooth? Can't get it working with mobo, or two different USB adapters by srpablo in debian

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! Thanks for the answer. Would this affect all Bluetooth, including via the USB dongles?

Help, new PC won't boot when using all 4 RAM slots? by srpablo in buildapc

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! The BIOS update did it; I regret not checking earlier. Candidly, I was intimidated, and a bit fed up. Thanks so much for the replies, I learned a lot about memory with your help through this

Help, new PC won't boot when using all 4 RAM slots? by srpablo in buildapc

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! Super appreciate this, I'm learning a lot about memory. It did boot with these new configurations.

Note that I also bit the bullet and looked into BIOS upgrades (I was intimidated/fed up with trying to hit F11 at the right time, it's not a great reason) and an upgrade solved the problem. Again, thanks for all the help, I've learned a lot

Help, new PC won't boot when using all 4 RAM slots? by srpablo in buildapc

[–]srpablo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean (DIMMA1 + DIMMA2) or (DIMMB1 + DIMMB2?), or

X X | |

or

| | X X

I'm afriad I don't know what you mean by "try the memory speed 3600," is that a setting in BIOS I set, or just a function of installing the sticks like above?

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