Proprietary NVIDIA drivers stopped working as of 10/24/22 update

[Jim Rothrock]

Ubuntu Release: 22.04.1.LTS

Problem:

On 10/24/22, I installed the latest Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS updates. I don't know what was updated, but many of the packages had "oem" or "oracle" in their names, which I don't remember seeing before. Before updating, I had a NVIDIA driver from the "Software & Updates/Additional Drivers" list installed and I was using X11. I don't remember the driver version number, but it was the highest. After updating, Settings/About/Graphics changed from a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti to "llvmpipe (LLVM 13.0.1, 256 bits)". Windowing system was still X11. My three-monitor setup reverted to one monitor, and the display was of low resolution. I tried proprietary NVIDIA drivers 515, 510, and 470, but none restored the system to three monitors and high resolution. However, the Nouveau driver did restore the system. Settings/About/Graphics changed to NV162.

Work-Around:

I am now using the driver installed via "sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.76.run", from NVIDIA's website.

[Jim Rothrock (rothrockj)]

When I selected proprietary driver 515 and rebooted, I found these NVIDIA-related errors in /var/log/kern.log:

Oct 25 15:29:27 office kernel: [ 20.554599] [drm:nv_drm_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice
Oct 25 15:29:27 office kernel: [ 20.554852] [drm:nv_drm_probe_devices [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to register device

I have attached the kern.log file.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jim Rothrock (rothrockj)]

As of the 12/6/22 update to Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, the NVIDIA driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-525 works. I have not tested the other NVIDIA drivers.

[vasek125 (vasek)]

No version if nvidia driver is working for my laptop HP HP ZBook Fury 15.6 inch G8 Mobile Workstation PC/8870, BIOS T95 Ver. 01.11.00 10/17/2022. It also worked before. Now I get:
[ 10.159857] [drm:nv_drm_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice
[ 10.160067] [drm:nv_drm_probe_devices [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to register device

[vasek125 (vasek)]

I can confirm the original .sh NVIDIA driver works well. After uninstalling ubuntu nvidia driver, disabling nouveau, I installed .sh driver downloaded from NVIDIA pages + nvidia-prime. Everything works fine now. Ubuntu made some very bad bug in their packages.