On 04/12 10:54, Dale wrote: > Alexey Eschenko wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I've just read regular @world build log and found this: > > > >> * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396.18-r1: > >> > >> * ***** WARNING ***** > >> * > >> * You are currently installing a version of nvidia-drivers that is > >> * known not to work with a video card you have installed on your > >> * system. If this is intentional, please ignore this. If it is not > >> * please perform the following steps: > >> * > >> * Add the following mask entry to /etc/portage/package.mask by > >> * echo ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391.0.0" > > >> /etc/portage/package.mask/nvidia-drivers > >> * > >> * Failure to perform the steps above could result in a non-working > >> * X setup. > >> * > >> * For more information please read: > >> * http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html > > > > I'm very surprised because I have GTX 1080 GPU: > > > >> # lspci | fgrep VGA > >> 42:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce > >> GTX 1080] (rev a1) > > Is this some kind of maintainer's mistake or does NVIDIA really messed > > up with drivers again? > > > > It looks to me like the 396 versions of nvidia-drivers is not compatible > with your card. Most likely, you have to stick with the 391 series. I > for example have a older card that requires the 340 series. I have to > mask anything above that. You for example may need to mask anything 396 > or above. > > You should be able to go to the nvidia website and find out exactly what > series of drivers you need and then mask anything above that. Once that > is done, you shouldn't have this problem again. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Hi Dale, I was also hit by this message... For me it looks like that sticking to a certain version of the nvidia-drivers will also bind me to an - then older - kernel version. In my case I would be bound to the 390.* versions of that drivers. This drivers compile fine with the linux-kernel 4.16.2 ... but the boot throws me back to the console. dmesg shows this then: [ 32.227140] nvidia: Unknown symbol swiotlb_map_sg_attrs (err 0) [ 32.281875] nvidia: Unknown symbol swiotlb_map_sg_attrs (err 0) Do I really need to buy a new nvidia card (I am using Blender a lot) just to be able to update the kernel?? Slightly alarmed Meino
