Modprob cannot load Nvidia driver

I?m trying to install nvidia driver for my Kali Linux machine, it was running well with the default nouveau driver.

I followed this tutorial https://www.kali.org/docs/general-us...on-kali-linux/

After the installation, display resolution become very low. So I checked device status with

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lspci -s 26:00.0 ?v

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And the output is like this

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26:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Device 7377:1501
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10, IOMMU group 15
    Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
    I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
    Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel modules: nvidia

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Kernel modules does show Nvidia, but the

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kernel driver in use

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is not shown.

I noticed that during boot up, there is an error of

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System[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

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So I checked with

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systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service

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command. The output shows nvidia-current and nvidia-current-modeset could not be found as following

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    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static)
    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2022-06-02 00:54:24 HKT; 7h left
      Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
            man:modules-load.d(5)
    Process: 446 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Main PID: 446 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 10ms

Jun 02 00:54:24 kali systemd-modules-load[455]: modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia-current not found in directory /lib/modules/5.15.0-kali3-amd64
Jun 02 00:54:24 kali systemd-modules-load[453]: modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:990 command_do() Error running install command 'modprobe -i nvidia-current ' for module nvidia: retcode 1
Jun 02 00:54:24 kali systemd-modules-load[453]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Invalid argument
Jun 02 00:54:24 kali systemd-modules-load[459]: modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia-current-modeset not found in directory /lib/modules/5.15.0-kali3-amd64
Jun 02 00:54:24 kali systemd-modules-load[451]: modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:990 command_do() Error running install command 'modprobe nvidia ; modprobe -i nvidia-current-modeset ' for module nvidia_modeset: retcode 1
Jun 02 00:54:24 kali systemd-modules-load[451]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_modeset': Invalid argument
Jun 02 00:54:24 kali systemd-modules-load[464]: modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia-current-drm not found in directory /lib/modules/5.15.0-kali3-amd64
Notice: journal has been rotated since unit was started, output may be incomplete.

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Here is the Nvidia related files under /lib/modules

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./modules/5.15.0-kali3-amd64/kernel/drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/typec_nvidia.ko
./modules/5.15.0-kali3-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.ko

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Besides purge all nvidia packages and re-install, I tried to add nouveau to the nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf, still the same result. I remember that I have successfully installed this driver once before (about 1-1.5 years ago), I am not sure what went wrong here, any advice is welcomed. Thanks.

GPU: RTX2060 CPU: R5-2600

5.18 kernel does not yet have support for that card

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Originally Posted by Fred Sheehan

5.18 kernel does not yet have support for that card

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Wow ! as I do not succeed in installig Nvidia drivers despite tremendous efforts ;) I wonder if it is the case for me ;) ?

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lspci -s 01:00.0 -v                                                                                                  ─╯
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 130, IOMMU group 1
        Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: nouveau
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_current_drm, nvidia_curren

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So i do have ASUS-ROG-SCAR with only a GeForce card on it

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lspci | grep -i vga                                                                                                  ─╯
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] (rev a1)

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my version is :

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uname -a                                                                                                         
Linux rog-scar 5.18.0-kali5-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 5.18.5-1kali6 (2022-07-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Any clues welcomed, thanks in advance