HELP: Internet and Headphones not connecting after graphics card update

[Ellie04]

I have a computer with Linux Mint
So I updated my driver by following a tutorial online, in the following tutorial I input these commands into the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa


sudo apt update


sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall


sudo reboot now

Which worked when I try to run games! But then it does not connect to the internet, I tried looking at other tutorials online but couldn't find any that have helped me. Right now I am using my phone, because I have no other computer devices.
Both internet won't connect nor my headphones, so I have no audio either. It worked before I rebooted

 

[kc1di]

Hello @Ellie04
Welcome to the Linux.org forum!
Give us a Little more info on the video card and machine. What distro version are you using?
if you can get to the terminal do this.

sudo apt install inxi

Then

inxi -Fxxzr

post the output here.

 

[Ellie04]

Hello @Ellie04
Welcome to the Linux.org forum!
Give us a Little more info on the video card and machine. What distro version are you using?
if you can get to the terminal do this.

sudo apt install inxi

Then

inxi -Fxxzr

post the output here.

Okay, I am assuming you are interested in the Systethe terminal gives me:

 

[bob466]

Welcome to the Forum.

In Linux Mint...you can check for Graphic Card updates with the Driver Manager and the Update Manager will also tell you if an update is available.

I would never follow some online tutorial because that's asking for trouble.

Here is the correct and safe way to do it...System Settings...

As for your problem...if it were me I'd remove those ppas and do the above.

 

[kc1di]

Since you have no internet access at this point I would reinstall Mint and do not follow that ppa again.

 

[deb_user]

Using ppas is a one-way ticket to grief. Blindly following online tutorials is a one-way ticket to grief. Tutorials are useful, but only if you understand what they are advising. It does take experience and some knowledge to understand that before doing what they say. In reality, the track is almost always follow bad advice, somehow recover from it, and remember what went wrong and why. Apparently the poorly written firmware package in the ppa removed essential firmware for other devices. Feces occur, but if you learn from it you're ahead in the long run.

 

[Ellie04]

When I launch a game or anything with the ppa, it ran butterly smooth!
I install a new distro. And the internet and headphones works again, YAY!
But despite using the driver manager, its running like a potato. It can barely run

 

[Fae3iSUx]

When I launch a game or anything with the ppa, it ran butterly smooth!
I install a new distro. And the internet and headphones works again, YAY!
But despite using the driver manager, its running like a potato. It can barely run

If you reinstalled the system (a new distro you said) and problem went away, then that's great!
Now, please paste the same inxi command result as before, only this time, select and copy text directly from the terminal, do not make a photo. Paste output here using copy/paste.
Describe what you mean by this new slowness, I presume in games? What games? How many FPS?

 

[Ellie04]

System:
  Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.41 wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM
    Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME H310M-D v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: ASUS_MB_CNL UEFI: American Megatrends
    v: 0803 date: 06/20/2018
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i3-8100 bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Coffee Lake rev: B cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/3600 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
    bogomips: 28800
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A
    arch: Pascal pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1c81
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6
    compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nouveau
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: swrast gpu: N/A display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: Unknown-1 mapped: None-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: swrast
    x11: drv: swrast inactive: gbm,wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.2 256 bits)
    device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: cpu driver: N/A
    device-ID: 10005:0000
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9
  API: ALSA v: k6.14.0-37-generic status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK RTL8111H driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 29.33 GiB (2.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0
    size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 915.32 GiB used: 29.32 GiB (3.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2154 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2143 pm: flatpak pkgs: 11
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com zena main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Memory: total: 24 GiB available: 23.39 GiB used: 3.52 GiB (15.1%)
  Processes: 248 Power: uptime: 31m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 running-in: xfce4-terminal
    inxi: 3.3.34

 

[Ellie04]

I apologize, yes I meant games don't run proper. Maybe 1 to 5 FPS. Also trying to run nvidia-smi gives me the following message:
"NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.", though I did install the latest in the driver manager

 

[Fae3iSUx]

No problem. Thanks for pasting the command result.
I see here:

loaded: modesetting,nouveau

You have basic open source driver loaded for your GeForce 1050. No Nvidia closed source drivers installed. That's why you have low FPS.

Now, do go Driver Manager and make screenshot or photo what do you see there?

Example:

Hardware drivers — Linux Mint Installation Guide documentation

linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io

 

[Ellie04]

 

[Fae3iSUx]

I see. You have a driver installed here. I am no Nvidia expert, so let's wait for someone who can help.

@CaffeineAddict this is what I was telling you about in #6 but you were not listening

 

[kc1di]

I would give the 580 driver a shot if that does not work for you revert back to the 535. Unfortunately Nvidia and Linux do not always work well together. This is not Linux's fault. It's that Nvidia does not opensource it's drivers so there is little that can be done.
But that being said. your only hope is most likely to use a different distro than Mint. Mint is a fine Distro but not always cutting edge and you may find another distro that works better with that video card. I would try Cachy or Endeavor or even Fedora.

You may find help here with mint also.

Speed Up your Mint!

Easy tips, tweaks and tricks for Linux Mint and Ubuntu, both for beginners and for advanced users. Complete starter's guide with simple how-to's.

easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com

 

[MikeWalsh]

Mm. Well, @Ellie04 won't be able to run the most up-to-date drivers, because Nvidia dropped support for the 10-series "Pascal" cards back in November. This is consistent with their supporting cards for 10 years.....in November, that 10 years was up for "Pascal".

So an older one will be on the cards, whichever way you look at it. I believe most distro repositories do offer a small selection of drivers, in order to cater for newer AND older GPUs.

However; although an official driver is installed, as @Fae3iSUx points out, Mint is not using it ATM. I suspect this is down to "nouveau" not having been blacklisted, hence this is what the kernel is still loading at boot-time.

This is where I pass the buck to our GPU experts. It's no use me telling you what we do in 'Puppy' Linux, since our Pup does stuff very differently to mainstream distros.....and the way WE handle this won't work for Mint.

(shrug...)

I have to assume that in the normal course of events, the Mint Driver Manager should automatically 'blacklist' the "nouveau" in-kernel driver as part of the installation process.....so the question then becomes, why didn't it?

Unless, of course, I'm not understanding the way that Mint "handles" this kind of thing.


Mike.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

@CaffeineAddict this is what I was telling you about in #6 but you were not listening

You probably quoted me while editing your post because I received no notification.
GPU that the OP is using is no longer supported likey @MikeWalsh said:

Mm. Well, @Ellie04 won't be able to run the most up-to-date drivers, because Nvidia dropped support for the 10-series "Pascal" cards back in November. This is consistent with their supporting cards for 10 years.....in November, that 10 years was up for "Pascal".

And also he/she is using a driver ending with "*ubuntu" in its name, that tells me they didn't use a *.run driver from nvidia site.

 

[Fae3iSUx]

You probably quoted me while editing your post because I received no notification.
GPU that the OP is using is no longer supported likey @MikeWalsh said:



And also he/she is using a driver ending with "*ubuntu" in its name, that tells me they didn't use a *.run driver from nvidia site.

Yes that's, right, I've added you later. Sad story for the OP, no easy one line fix here.


@MikeWalsh Similar story here.
I installed an NVIDIA 1070 Ti (an ex-miner card I bought from a friend for £50) into my home server to use with local LLMs.
After a full teardown, clean, and rebuild, it works fine. Devuan OS, which I use, offered the NVIDIA driver 550.163.01 - I installed it, and that’s what I’ll stick with.
That said, I know what I’m doing, and my experience might not translate to success for the OP, who has a slightly different issue.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@Fae3iSUx :-

In my case, prior to the GT 1030 I'd had a GT 710 - both 'passive-coolers'. The last driver series for the latter was the 470-series. The same driver already supported the GT 1030, so I didn't even bother re-installing a different driver.....I simply swapped cards, re-booted & carried-on like that.

It works fine like this.

The beauty of leaving things as they are is that should anything go wrong with the newer card, all I'll need to do is to simply swap cards again.....and it'll continue to run as well as it ever did.

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Bearing in mind that we in Puppyland usually install drivers from the .run files on Nvidia's website, the one major downside is that there's no easy way to uninstall if required; it would have to be done manually, then various items from the original ISO would have to be replaced. If I want to revert to using 'nouveau' for any reason, I would need to completely re-build my 'save'.....which means I'd have to re-do all my 1001 customizations/tweaks, etc.

This is why with half of my Puppies, I haven't installed the official drivers at all. I've simply left them using nouveau by default...

It does mean I always have at least a couple of fully-functional systems, whatever the hardware/software setup should happen to be at any given moment.

(shrug...)


Mike.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Puppyland usually install drivers from the .run files on Nvidia's website, the one major downside is that there's no easy way to uninstall if required; it would have to be done manually, then various items from the original ISO would have to be replaced. If I want to revert to using 'nouveau' for any reason, I would need to completely re-build my 'save'.....which means I'd have to re-do all my 1001 customizations/tweaks, etc.

Not sure why, the only thing that needs rebuild is initramfs.
And for uninstalling it's as "simple" as running runfile.run -s --uninstall
-s stands for silent and is useful to avoid a ton of prompts, however since this is done in text mode then you also need to set nouveau driver in same run prior switching to GUI.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@CaffeineAddict :-

Ah, but you're forgetting.....Puppy runs totally differently to the mainstream.

We don't use an initramfs.....we use our own, unique take on this called initrd.gz which is decompressed into RAM via the AUFS layering system at boot.

Is that command above specifically for working with .run files?

What makes it doubly awkward is that the Nvidia driver either overwrites OR completely removes certain OpenGL items when it's installing itself. Puppy also doesn't use standard repos.....AND it uses its own unique package manager....so cannot simply re-install these from the repos in the same way as 'mainstream' distros would.

We generally find ways round this, though...


Mike.