On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Aleksander Okonski <aleksander....@gmail.com> 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
Just to clarify, does: modinfo nvidia display version 390.42 or 390.25?
