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
>
>
>
