Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

[tuxic@posteo.de]

On 04/12 10:54, Dale wrote:
> Alexey Eschenko wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've just read regular @world build log and found this:
> >
> >>  * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396.18-r1:
> >>
> >>  * ***** WARNING *****
> >>  *
> >>  * You are currently installing a version of nvidia-drivers that is
> >>  * known not to work with a video card you have installed on your
> >>  * system. If this is intentional, please ignore this. If it is not
> >>  * please perform the following steps:
> >>  *
> >>  * Add the following mask entry to /etc/portage/package.mask by
> >>  * echo ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391.0.0" >
> >> /etc/portage/package.mask/nvidia-drivers
> >>  *
> >>  * Failure to perform the steps above could result in a non-working
> >>  * X setup.
> >>  *
> >>  * For more information please read:
> >>  * http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html
> >
> > I'm very surprised because I have GTX 1080 GPU:
> >
> >> # lspci | fgrep VGA
> >> 42:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce
> >> GTX 1080] (rev a1)
> > Is this some kind of maintainer's mistake or does NVIDIA really messed
> > up with drivers again?
> >
> 
> It looks to me like the 396 versions of nvidia-drivers is not compatible
> with your card.  Most likely, you have to stick with the 391 series.  I
> for example have a older card that requires the 340 series.  I have to
> mask anything above that.  You for example may need to mask anything 396
> or above. 
> 
> You should be able to go to the nvidia website and find out exactly what
> series of drivers you need and then mask anything above that.  Once that
> is done, you shouldn't have this problem again.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 
> 

Hi Dale,

I was also hit by this message...

For me it looks like that sticking to a certain version of the
nvidia-drivers will also bind me to an - then older - kernel version.

In my case I would be bound to the 390.* versions of that drivers.
This drivers compile fine with the linux-kernel 4.16.2 ... but the
boot throws me back to the console.

dmesg shows this then:
[   32.227140] nvidia: Unknown symbol swiotlb_map_sg_attrs (err 0)
[   32.281875] nvidia: Unknown symbol swiotlb_map_sg_attrs (err 0)

Do I really need to buy a new nvidia card (I am using Blender a lot)
just to be able to update the kernel??

Slightly alarmed
Meino