Nvidia dgpu laptop problems

Hi! I am having issues with nvidia-powerd.service failing to start after rebasing to bazzite-nvidia from silverblue-nvidia, I attached the output of

systemctl status nvidia-powerd.service

systemctl status nvidia-powerd.service

, any ideas how I should start with trying to diagnose this problem? Its a mobile RTX 2060.
An nvidia-powerd.service error message that was also appearing on my laptop's screen every boot, which was how I knew to check, if you are wondering.

systemctl_status.txt1.21KB

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:28 PM

If you're using secure boot, have you enrolled the key?

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:28 PM

Powerd failing can be normal, not all GPUs support it

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:29 PM

Make sure the Nvidia kernel module is loaded

LeafOP•9/24/23, 5:38 PM

not currently using secure boot, would you recommend enabling it? also when looking for how to check if the Nvidia kernel module is loaded, I discovered this
cat: /proc/driver/nvidia/version: No such file or directory

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:39 PM

Hmm, are there any issues besides powerd? What's your output for

LeafOP•9/24/23, 5:40 PM

here you go

modinfo_nvidia.txt4.67KB

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:40 PM

That looks good at least

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:40 PM

Let's try uhh

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:40 PM

LeafOP•9/24/23, 5:41 PM

https://paste.centos.org/view/ea541a07

LeafOP•9/24/23, 5:42 PM

woah, fpaste is new to me! thats pretty neat

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:51 PM

LeafOP•9/24/23, 5:57 PM

https://paste.centos.org/view/a84ace69

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:58 PM

There we go, you appear to be missing all the kargs

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:58 PM

Which is weird, those should auto apply

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 5:58 PM

There's a just command do it

LeafOP•9/24/23, 5:59 PM

nvidia-set-kargs?

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 6:00 PM

Yea

LeafOP•9/24/23, 6:00 PM

ok, just a minute

LeafOP•9/24/23, 6:05 PM

https://paste.centos.org/view/e1bdfc08

LeafOP•9/24/23, 6:06 PM

same output after running the commands and rebooting. hmm

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 6:07 PM

Okay that is extremely weird

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 6:07 PM

You could try running the karg command manually

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 6:07 PM

See if there's any difference

LeafOP•9/24/23, 6:07 PM

yeah, I ran it, it told me to systemctl reboot, and nothing happened

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 6:07 PM

All right, give me just a bit here I'll poke around and see if I can find anything

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 6:08 PM

I don't believe we ever remove those settings, we only ever add them

LeafOP•9/24/23, 6:33 PM

This is all, just starting to look like I just did one too many rebases. Especially since I was coming from the fedora 39 beta.
if you think it could be relevant and hard to fix, I could do a reinstall instead of just trying to make rebasing work. Also, if all the secure boot stuff is working, I could reenable that. I only had it disabled because a while back ublue was having secure boot issues.

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 6:39 PM

Yeah feel free to, it should all just work

LeafOP•9/24/23, 7:06 PM

I’m confused. I’m still getting TPM issues when trying to install from the main image. should I keep TPM and secure boot stuff off during install?

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 7:06 PM

If you can disable one and not the other I would just turn TPM off

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 7:06 PM

Otherwise there's nothing wrong with both off at all

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 7:06 PM

System 76 scheduler can't change your CFS parameters if secure boot is on, so it's probably objectively better on a laptop anyway

LeafOP•9/24/23, 7:07 PM

Cool. Also, I’m not seeing bazzite in the main installer, is that normal or did I just miss the right menu?

LeafOP•9/24/23, 7:30 PM

Well, I reinstalled, and the issues aren’t over yet

LLeaf Well, I reinstalled, and the issues aren’t over yet

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 7:31 PM

If that's the first boot that's normal, it should set the kargs and then reboot again with Nvidia loading

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 7:31 PM

We can't set kargs in the installer yet

LeafOP•9/24/23, 7:31 PM

OK, I’ll get back to you afterwards

LeafOP•9/24/23, 7:55 PM

[leaf@fedora leaf]$ just enroll-secure-boot-key
sudo mokutil --import /etc/pki/akmods/certs/akmods-ublue.der
input password:
input password again:
echo 'Enter password "ublue-os" if prompted'
Enter password "ublue-os" if prompted

LeafOP•9/24/23, 7:56 PM

so... not only does the nvidia gpu not seem to work, I can't get the secure boot script to work

LeafOP•9/24/23, 7:56 PM

I keep entering ublue-os as password, but it just doesn't like me.

LLeaf [leaf@fedora leaf]$ just enroll-secure-boot-key sudo mokutil --import /etc/pki/a...

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 7:56 PM

That looks right, don't see any errors

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 7:56 PM

When you reboot it'll boot to your bios and enroll the key

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 7:56 PM

Or at least should

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 7:57 PM

@bsherman might need you on this one if you have time

LeafOP•9/24/23, 7:59 PM

OK, I just thought the message was broken since after entering the password twice it told me what I should’ve entered and then shut down the script.

LeafOP•9/24/23, 8:00 PM

I just rebooted, and it came back to the desktop. Should I run just bios after running the script again? Or just bios without running the script again

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 8:13 PM

Script again I think

Kyle Gospo•9/24/23, 8:13 PM

Since once you leave that screen it's done trying to add the key

bsherman•9/24/23, 8:21 PM

So, I think the timeline here is:

system was running
rebased to
service is failing
then enabled secureboot and disable dtpm in bios ?
then attempted to enroll secureboot keys?