NVidia drivers 375.26 uses the KMS API from the kernel. As of gentoo-sources-4.4.39 at least, having CONFIG_DRM enabled but no specific cards enabled (because I don’t have any cards that need in-tree kernel drivers) results in CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=n, and that option is not user-configurable through menuconfig. Having that option clear results in module load failures due to missing symbols. The URL I will provide has some more information. Hacking Kconfig to forcefully enable CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER, as recommended in comment 6 at that URL, makes the drivers work fine.
$ emerge --info Portage 2.3.0 (python 3.4.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.9.4, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.4.39-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.4.39-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3770_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.3 KiB Mem: 16421368 total, 10217460 free KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16777212 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 18:15:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p48-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p48-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.22.3_rc4::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.12::gentoo, 3.4.5::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.6.3::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.3::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.22.4::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.4::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r2::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.4::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.22-r4::gentoo Repositories: steam-overlay location: /var/cache/repos/steam sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 1 gentoo-dev location: /var/cache/repos/gentoo-dev priority: 2 gentoo location: /var/cache/repos/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: 3 hawk777 location: /var/cache/repos/hawk777 masters: gentoo priority: 4 Installed sets: @admin, @android, @cups, @datacenter, @desktop, @emulation, @fonts, @games, @lisp, @magicalgame, @media, @minetest, @misc, @net, @office, @vim, @web ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-11.x dlj-1.1 Google-TOS Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs 2 --load-average 4 --with-bdeps y --complete-graph y -1" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fakeroot fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" 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avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en en-CA" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_CA" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby21" SANE_BACKENDS="plustek" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XFCE_PLUGINS="logout menu" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, 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I’m not entirely sure why things used to work. Either it’s something that changed from kernel 4.4.26 (the old stable) to 4.4.39 (though I also didn’t have CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER activated there) or something that changed from nvidia-drivers 361.28 (the old stable) to 375.26, as I got those at the same time.
Could you describe the problem in a single sentence?
Sure. TLDR: Install gentoo-sources-4.4.39, build with CONFIG_DRM=y, install nvidia-drivers-375.26, X fails to start, dmesg says missing symbols; follow the workaround in the URL to force CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y, X starts, no more missing symbol messages.
Closing due to inactivity
I haven’t been updating the version numbers, but nothing has changed and this problem still exists: nvidia-drivers-440.100-r2 requires CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPERS to be set (it even has an ewarn message when you install it via the CONFIG_CHECK variable), yet gentoo-sources-5.4.72 does not have this option as a user-selectable option in menuconfig.
Will be adding a error message as to how to set this. For example you can set CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION instead and it'll side-enable it. Many other options but that one is the smallest. Also it's not always required, I personally have DRM and DRM_KMS_HELPERS disabled and nvidia-drm loads fine. This is mostly for when want to use nvidia-drm.modeset=1 (typically for wayland).
While testing I did find something. If both DRM and DRM_KMS_HELPER are unset there's no issue, e.g. what I had. If you enable DRM, the kernel enables DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION by default (and thus KMS_HELPER) so that's fine too. If you enable DRM but disable DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION you now only have CONFIG_DRM, and that's causing build failures in modpost due to missing symbols (at least on 460.56). I assume related to your issues. I'm thinking to patch the test to ignore CONFIG_DRM if KMS_HELPER is not set and remove config check for DRM, but I'll look into this further.
Ah, yes, you’re right. I am able to run with CONFIG_DRM=n. I previously thought that was impossible. That was partly because the ebuild warns me that that config value is needed; actually it isn’t, so that should probably change, which I think is what you’re suggesting doing. However, it is also partly because I needed to add a Device section to my xorg.conf; it worked fine without one when CONFIG_DRM=y, but with CONFIG_DRM=n it could not find any cards until I added a Device section—somehow the presence of CONFIG_DRM=y allowed the nvidia driver to be autodetected. I haven’t done anything with Wayland; I am only running xorg-server here. I had CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=n because I wasn’t using it; this is an EFI system so my fbdef is simplefb instead. All told, I’m happy with my new configuration, so I think this bug can be reduced to removing the config check warning (and possibly mentioning that with CONFIG_DRM=n you have to write some text in xorg.conf, but maybe that is unnecessary).
It should work with defaults either way (or at least on common setups), if you have your own xorg configs then I can't say. Also yes, I'm removing CONFIG_DRM check and with fix it'll no longer fail in a situation where you have DRM set but KMS_HELPER isn't.
(In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #10) > It should work with defaults either way (or at least on common setups), if > you have your own xorg configs then I can't say. Or wait, I may need to recheck that, been testing more with a generic kernel lately.
(In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #11) > (In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #10) > > It should work with defaults either way (or at least on common setups), if > > you have your own xorg configs then I can't say. > Or wait, I may need to recheck that, been testing more with a generic kernel > lately. It didn’t for me. I did not have any xorg config related to video cards for years. With CONFIG_DRM=y that worked fine just autodetecting things (and it was definitely using nvidia-drivers; I don’t have any other drivers installed, and even if I did, I would quickly notice the terrible performance in games), but with CONFIG_DRM=n X would not start (I’ll attach my Xorg.0.log in case it’s of interest to you). I had to add a config file with a Device section to get X to start with CONFIG_DRM=n.
Created attachment 689853 [details] Xorg.0.log booting with CONFIG_DRM=n and no Device section in xorg.conf
Yes it's possible that's why I corrected myself, auto-detection is based on nvidia-drm outputclass, I'll have a look later. But at best it'll just mean giving a better error message so people don't wonder what happened if they're not setting requested options.
So yes, you were right and can reproduce. So to resume I'll: 1. remove CONFIG_DRM message 2. if config CONFIG_DRM is set but KMS_HELPER isn't, act as if DRM is not set (to avoid build failures or symbol issues) 3. if DRM_KMS_HELPER is not set, display a custom warning message about auto-detection by Xorg, nvidia-drm.modeset=1, and briefly explain how to set it in menuconfig. I don't intend to make it forced so people with their own config (also described on the wiki, or with the questionable nvidia-xconfig), don't need to set this for nothing. Hopefully that'll reasonably cover everything.
(In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #15) > 3. if DRM_KMS_HELPER is not set, display a custom warning message [...] And a different message for 390.xx because that would cause the glx workaround to not work as it uses the outputclass check. Looking back that explains why some users had problems with the workaround not working.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=26146d1510fd678538b7d02400c1eb8e66e20212 commit 26146d1510fd678538b7d02400c1eb8e66e20212 Author: Ionen Wolkens <sudinave@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2021-03-21 15:52:10 +0000 Commit: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-03-21 15:52:10 +0000 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: bump to 460.67 with refactored ebuild ebuild carries a lot of history and, rather than cleanups, it needed something closer to a rewrite. Bugfixes: - Removed all udev rules to solve long standing issues (bug #454740) - Install libraries with no X11 dependencies with USE=-X, notably for headless OpenCL/CUDA (bug #561706) - Install systemd unit for persistenced + nvpd user (bug #591638) - Add custom error message for DRM_KMS_HELPER and ensure driver doesn't attempt building DRM support without it (bug #603818) - Warn about AMD SME if enabled by default (bug #652408) - Distribute extra sources to lift RESTRICT="bindist mirror", the nvidia-driver.eclass is no longer used (bug #732702) - Build modprobe and persistenced from source (bug #747145) - Use system locations for vulkan icd/layers (bug #749600) Others: - Dropped IUSE=compat/multilib/kms/uvm/wayland > compat: was for non-GLVND variants and currently a no-op > multilib: obsolete, abi_x86_32 does all that's needed > kms/uvm: modules are loaded by nvidia-modprobe as-needed and there's not much sense in skipping installation. Will also save OpenCL/CUDA packages from having to depend on [uvm] > wayland: library is provided by gui-libs/egl-wayland instead which now also provides pkgconfig files and can be a newer version. optfeature warning was added for awareness. - Dropped REQUIRED_USE, all USE can now be used independently, e.g. now possible to get libXNVCtrl.a (static-libs) without the deps-heavy USE=tools - Dropped locale patch, the offending code it was meant to fix is gone. - Dropped linker patch, uses right linker even with -native-symlinks. - Added modprobe.d .conf to blacklist nouveau by default. - Patched nvidia-modprobe to respect nvidia.conf's permissions when creating uvm devices, was previously created as world read-write. - No longer installing libOpenCL.so loader (not needed to use OpenCL, was used by the no longer available eselect-opencl). - nvidia-persistenced init script simplified and updated for nvpd user. - nvidia-smi init script removed (all it did was query cards every 300 seconds), mentioned behavior is no longer observable (fan scales normally without X) and it wasn't intended for this purpose. - Removed I2C_NVIDIA_GPU check as it caused unnecessary noise for gentoo-kernel-bin users (built as module), and being a bad thing even if loaded is questionable. - Attempt to reduce message noise. The only fatal CONFIG_CHECK is fairly rare so there's little reason to check twice with pkg_pretend. - ... but added new conditional messages to explain important things often seen as common sense but that a new user likely won't know. - Replaced the nvidia-driver.eclass legacy test with a compact version that reads supported-gpus.json (usable on >450). - More strict deps, some may sound strange but nvidia-settings only use headers for some of these (dbus/Xrandr/Xv/vdpau). > X? libs kept separate as it's the only one needing multilib deps. > pax-utils now unconditional for scanelf as libraries are always installed. Alternatively could've generated those, but prefer to leave it easier to maintain for future generations. > virtual/opencl removed, no sense in the drivers depending on this and it's instead applications using opencl that should. > Added MODULES_OPTIONAL_USE="driver" to handle linux-mod deps - Added MIT license for persistenced - Added ZLIB license for supported-gpus.json - NV_KERNEL_MAX (previously NV_KV_MAX_PLUS) set to be <=5.11 form rather than <5.12 given that often confused users thinking it meant 5.12 support from quick looks. - arm64 support "should" work but runtime untested - And a long list of cleanups that "hopefully" won't cause new issues. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/454740 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/561706 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/591638 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/603818 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/652408 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/732702 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/747145 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/749600 Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <sudinave@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/Manifest | 7 + .../files/nvidia-blacklist-nouveau.conf | 3 + .../files/nvidia-modprobe-390.141-uvm-perms.patch | 12 + .../nvidia-drivers/files/nvidia-persistenced.confd | 7 + .../nvidia-drivers/files/nvidia-persistenced.initd | 12 + .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-460.67.ebuild | 391 +++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 432 insertions(+)
