Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols

[Corbin Bird]

On 01/09/2017 02:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
> 170105 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 01/05/2017 08:05 AM, wabe wrote:
>>> Make sure that you have also enabled CONFIG_DRM.
>>> CONFIG_DRM=y
>>> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y
>>> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y
>>> CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y
>> For nvidia, these need to be all disabled.  Then it should work.
> I had a previous thread re Kernel 4.9.0 + Nvidia 375.26 (now stable).
> I tried recompiling that kernel with DRM disabled,
> & remerged Nvidia 375.26 , but X won't start.
> Here are the last lines of  Xorg.0.log :
>
>  (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
>  (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
>  If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
>  (II) Loader magic: 0x809c80
>  (II) Module ABI versions:
>  	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
>  	X.Org Video Driver: 20.0
>  	X.Org XInput driver : 22.1
>  	X.Org Server Extension : 9.0
>  (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:104a:1043:8496 rev 161, Mem @ 0xfd000000/16777216, 0xf0000000/134217728, 0xf8000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
>  (II) LoadModule: "glx"
>  (II) Loading /usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so
>  (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>  	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
>  	Module class: X.Org Server Extension
>  (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  375.26  Thu Dec  8 17:59:51 PST 2016
>  (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0
>  (==) Matched nv as autoconfigured driver 1
>  (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 2
>  (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 3
>  (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 4
>  (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
>  (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
>  (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveau
>  (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau"
>  (II) Unloading nouveau
>  (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)
>  (II) LoadModule: "nv"
>  (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nv
>  (II) UnloadModule: "nv"
>  (II) Unloading nv
>  (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
>  (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
>  (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
>  (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>  	compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 1.18.4
>  	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>  	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
>  (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
>  (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
>  (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
>  (II) Unloading fbdev
>  (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
>  (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
>  (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
>  (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>  	compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 2.3.4
>  	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>  	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
>  (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
>  (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
>  (--) using VT number 7
>
>  (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
>  (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
>  (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
>  vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver
>  (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
>  (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
>  (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
>  (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
>  (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
>  (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
>  (EE)
>  error:
>  (EE) no screens found(EE) -- final lines snipped
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions ?
>

Questions, more info please.

What are your local / global USE flags for "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"?

Did you try setting up a "*|/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf|*" file?

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Reference Link : https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVidia/nvidia-drivers