[SOLVED] Updated -current, cannot install NVidia driver (nvidia-modeset.ko)

dugan · 11-21-2017, 09:56 PM

Am I the only one having this problem? I updated -current, saw that there was a 32-bit mesa updated, switched inittab to runlevel 3, and then rebooted to run the NVidia installer (384.98).

Although I'd successfully run the installer with the 4.14.0 kernel just a couple of days ago, it didn't succeed this time. It failed with:

Quote:

ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module `nvidia-modeset.ko`. This happens most frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver such as rivafb, nvidiafb, or nouveau is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device(s), or no NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is supported by this NVIDIA Linux graphics driver releases.

(I'm retyping, not pasting).

I'm using a multilib+ktown setup, and I think that the kernel-headers update might have come in between the time that it was working and the time it broke. Nouveau is, of course, blacklisted.

dugan · 11-21-2017, 11:16 PM

Fixed.

Renamed /lib/modules/4.4.10, reinstalled the kernel modules, reran the NVidia installer.

SavoTU · 01-05-2018, 01:00 PM

Thanks did the trick for me as well.

dugan · 01-05-2018, 02:01 PM

I've since found that you just need to remove nvidia-modeset.ko from /lib/modules/$(uname -r), and then try again.

SavoTU · 01-07-2018, 05:17 PM

That was my first thought but i was already having other problems so was trying to find a cause when i happened on your post. Will just remove nvidia-modeset.ko if it happens again.

Cheers

Sav