On March 15, 2018 1:14:58 PM UTC, Aleksander Okonski <aleksander....@gmail.com> wrote: >Hey Joost, > >Thank you! This was my problem, rebuilt the kernel and then everything >worked smoothly. > >Aleks > >On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:53 PM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> >wrote: > >> On Thursday, March 15, 2018 12:09:23 PM CET Aleksander Okonski wrote: >> > Hey, >> > >> > I have run into a strange problem with my nvidia drivers and >gentoo. I am >> > currently running kernel 4.14.14 and I upgraded my >> > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers to 390.42 from 390.25. Once the new >drivers >> were >> > installed I rebooted my laptop. Once rebooted I was unable to start >the >> > xorg server using startx and was greeted with errors. The >> > /var/logs/xorg.0.log said that the problem was with the kernel >module. >> > Looking at dmesg I see that I am getting the error: >> > >> > NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 390.42, but this >kernel >> > module has version 390.25. please make sure that this kernel module >and >> all >> > NVIDIA driver components have the same version. >> > >> > I therefor thought that maybe I forgot to "emerge @module-rebuild" >so I >> ran >> > that and rebooted to make sure that everything was ok. However I am >still >> > getting the same problem. >> > >> > Looking at /usr/src/linux it is pointing to the correct kernel of >4.14.14 >> > and running "modinfo nvidia" it shows that "filename: >> > /lib/modules/4/14/14-gentoo/video/nvidia.ko" and that version is >390.42. >> > The other nvidia modules (nvidia-drm, nvidia-modeset, and >nvidia-uvm) >> show >> > that they are built for the correct kernel and that they are also >version >> > 390.42. >> > >> > I have tried to debug this issue however all the recourse that I >was able >> > to find mostly said to reboot or perform rmmod nvidia then modprobe >> nvidia. >> > However when I try to rmmod nvidia it is dependent on >nvidia-modeset and >> > nvidia-drm. Trying to rmmod nvidia-drm will not work as I get the >error >> > "rmmod error: module nvidia_drm in in use". >> > >> > I therefor cannot understand why and where the error is coming from >as it >> > seems like the kernel has the correct nvidia modules loaded. Any >ideas on >> > how to fix it or any other suggestions? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Aleks >> >> Do you use an initramfs? And if yes, does it maybe contain the nvidia >> module? >> >> -- >> Joost >> >> >>
Aleksander, You might want to change your initramfs config to not include the nvidia module to avoid this in future. I don't have it in my initramfs and don't experience any issues as it ends up being loaded correctly after the initramfs. -- Joost Ps. Please do not top-post -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
