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 > > >
