> On Nov 8, 2016, at 5:50 AM, Andrey Skvortsov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 16-11-07 23:26, Daniel Bokser wrote: >> >>> On Nov 3, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Matias Mucciolo <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >> >> Thanks everyone! So I compiled keyboard, SATA, and BTRFS drivers in and was >> able to get further, but it looks like it had trouble starting up LXDE (it >> was repeatedly starting and stopping LXDE). Booting up in single user mode, >> I was able to get a prompt. I attempted startx but it failed. I looked and >> it looked like it was attempting to use the Nvidia modules, but they weren’t >> in the /lib/modules/4.9.0… directory (I have an Nvidia 670). It looks like >> they are stored as extra modules in the extramodules softlink in my default >> installation (now kernel 4.8). >> >> So I am gathering that many of the modules used in my default installation >> are not making it over to 4.9. When running make localmodconfig, I am >> noticing error messages related to Nvidia and virtual box. Some examples: >> >> Nvidia config not found!! > > You have used proprietary driver from Nvidia. It is not included in > the kernel. I think this is the reason for your problem with LXDE. > > The best way would be to use open source driver that is supported by > the mainline kernel - nouveau (config option DRM_NOUVEAU). > According to the nouveau site [1], your chip is supported. Try it. > > 1. https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ > > -- > Best regards, > Andrey Skvortsov
Thanks! I tried to use nouveau. It seems that the kernel cannot load any dynamically linked module, including nouveau. I am kicked to the emergency console (after statically linking all the necessary drivers to ready my SSD). When I do a modprobe nouveau, I get a bunch of Unknown symbol errors similar to the errors I stated in my previous email. It errors out stating ERROR: could not insert nouveau: Invalid argument Some examples include: drm: no known symbol version for memcpy drm: Unknown symbol memcpy (err -22) drm: no known symbol version for __put_user_4 drm: Unknown symbol __put_user_4 (err -22) It seems there is an underlying problem with loading the dynamically linked modules. lsmod reveals exactly 2 modules: crc16 and hid_generic. Honestly I am surprised there are any modules here. As was stated before, there might have been a problem compiling these modules. Has anyone encountered this issue before? Thanks! -Daniel _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
