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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver missing symbols
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 15:54:16
Message-Id: 911437e3-f3a9-58b4-0ccb-37ccab0b75cc@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver missing symbols by Corbin Bird
1 On 01/05/2017 06:12 AM, Corbin Bird wrote:
2 >
3 > On 01/04/2017 10:52 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
4 >> So I updated my nvidia driver and got the following:
5 >>
6 >> [ 75.557567] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major
7 >> device number 247
8 >> [ 75.557583] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 375.26
9 >> Thu Dec 8 18:36:43 PST 2016 (using threaded interrupts)
10 >> [ 75.701289] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver
11 >> for UNIX platforms 375.26 Thu Dec 8 18:04:14 PST 2016
12 >> [ 75.769472] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
13 >> drm_atomic_helper_plane_destroy_state (err 0)
14 >> [ 75.769479] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_kms_helper_poll_fini (err 0)
15 >> [ 75.769491] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_kms_helper_poll_disable
16 >> (err 0)
17 >> [ 75.769497] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_kms_helper_poll_init (err 0)
18 >> [ 75.769514] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
19 >> drm_atomic_helper_disable_plane (err 0)
20 >> [ 75.769527] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
21 >> drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes (err 0)
22 >> [ 75.769531] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_helper_hpd_irq_event (err 0)
23 >> [ 75.769538] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
24 >> drm_atomic_helper_crtc_destroy_state (err 0)
25 >> [ 75.769565] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_check (err 0)
26 >> [ 75.769567] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
27 >> drm_atomic_helper_connector_destroy_state (err 0)
28 >> [ 75.769573] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
29 >> drm_atomic_helper_plane_duplicate_state (err 0)
30 >> [ 75.769603] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_plane_reset
31 >> (err 0)
32 >> [ 75.769606] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
33 >> drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes (err 0)
34 >> [ 75.769610] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct
35 >> (err 0)
36 >> [ 75.769622] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_set_config
37 >> (err 0)
38 >> [ 75.769624] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
39 >> drm_atomic_helper_connector_duplicate_state (err 0)
40 >> [ 75.769630] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset
41 >> (err 0)
42 >> [ 75.769636] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event
43 >> (err 0)
44 >> [ 75.769644] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_swap_state
45 >> (err 0)
46 >> [ 75.769646] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_page_flip
47 >> (err 0)
48 >> [ 75.769648] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
49 >> drm_atomic_helper_connector_reset (err 0)
50 >> [ 75.769653] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
51 >> drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state (err 0)
52 >> [ 75.769656] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_update_plane
53 >> (err 0)
54 >>
55 >> I've traced this to needing KMS helper support in the kernel.
56 >>
57 >> For the life of me, I can't find it to enable it. When searching the
58 >> kernel, it shows up but doesn't say exactly where it is.
59 >>
60 >> Surely someone else has run across this and has a way to enable:
61 >>
62 >> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER
63 >> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER
64 >> CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION
65 >>
66 >> ??
67 >>
68 >> I am thinking it needs something as a prerequisite but I can't grok that
69 >> line in the kernel.
70 >>
71 >> Dan
72 >>
73 >
74 > More info, please.
75 >
76 > Question #1 : is this a (U)EFI based system?
77
78 No, it's an old BIOS based system.
79
80 > Question #2 : which FB(s) are enabled?
81 >
82
83 I just looked, the EFI-based one is the only one selected. nvidia
84 doesn't like the nvidia framebuffer, so I had to deselect it.
85
86 Dan

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver missing symbols "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver missing symbols Corbin Bird <corbinbird@×××××××.net>