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From: thelma@×××××××××××.com
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:52:39
Message-Id: e6e7d829-90f9-5127-1b1b-06d2242f5159@sys-concept.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 On 12/13/2020 05:48 PM, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > I'm loading nvidia via: /etc/modules-load.d/video.conf
3 >
4 > but when kernel boots, there is a error message:
5 >
6 > Failed to load nvidia
7 >
8 > dmesg |grep nvidia
9 > nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
10 > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
11 > nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 246
12 > nvidia 0000:08:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
13 > nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 455.28 Wed Sep 30 00:58:12 UTC 2020
14 > [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000800] Loading driver
15 > [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:08:00.0 on minor 0
16 > nvidia-smi (1442) used greatest stack depth: 12624 bytes left
17 > caller _nv000708rm+0x1af/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs
18 >
19 > Why this error message?
20
21 and yes, I run:
22 emerge -1 @module-rebuild