Bug#999670: nvidia module parameters NVreg_RegistryDwords is not applied which breaks DDC/CI

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 14/11/2021 17.30, themightydeity wrote:
> Package: nvidia-driver
> Version: 470.82.00-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: newcomer
> X-Debbugs-Cc: themightydeity at gmail.com
> 
> As mentioned here: https://www.ddcutil.com/nvidia/ for ddcutil (DDC/CI) (i2c
> communication) to work properly in nvidia's proprietary driver. This conf is
> needed in modprobe:
> 
> options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords=RMUseSwI2c=0x01;RMI2cSpeed=100

You have these settings in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-extra.conf

Please try
   options nvidia-current key=value...
Perhaps the options don't get activated because of the module renaming ...

I noticed you have a /etc/modules-load.d/nouveau.conf ... does it 
somehow interfere?


Andreas