Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

[Andrew Lowe]

On 30/07/16 14:09, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thank you for your reply ! :)
> I have to use the nvidia drivers, because I am using Blender, which
> renders via CUDA on the GPU...
>
> Best regards
> Meino
>
>
>
>
> Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku <jigme.datse@×××××××××××××××.com> [16-07-30 08:04]:
>> I have an earlier version of the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers installed (361.28), but if I recall, I couldn't get x11 to use them.  Or maybe they are already using them, but I don't know it (but I believe I couldn't get the tools to recognize that they were being used).  My understanding is that using the correct framebuffer drivers is as good, if not better than using the official nvidia ones.  But as I don't believe I have had the opportunity to do so, I can't really say.
>>
>> Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku
>>
>> On 2016-07-29 22:36, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> trying the new kernel linux-4.7 (vanilla, downloaded from
>>> ftp.kernel.org) with nvidia drivers
>>> (Installed versions:  367.35-r1^md(03:00:46 07/30/16)(X driver kms
>>> multilib uvm -acpi -compat -gtk3 -pax_kernel -static-libs -tools
>>> -wayland KERNEL="linux -FreeBSD")).
>>> The kernel compiled fine, the nvidia-drivers does not.
>>>
>>> Anuone else with the same problem (read: This has to be
>>> fixed by nvidia/Linus) or am I the only one (so it is
>>> my problem...which does not neccessarily imply that I
>>> know how to fix that ... ;) ???
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Meino

	There is a duplicate definition of a function[1], the kernel apparently 
has a function and a certain parameter list and then someone at nVidia 
managed to use the same name but a different parameter list - hence the 
duplicate definition.

	I hit this last night, went back one kernel but the latest nvidia 
driver only works with the 4.7 series kernel so had to go one back with 
the drivers as well. It's known so just hang tight a day or two and all 
should be well.

	Andrew

[1] From memory at 2am and after a lot of chocolate so could be slightly 
wrong here