Re: No console anymore. How to figure this out.

Dale <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/15/26 3:17 PM, Dale wrote:
> On 3/15/26 10:49 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> I think these mentioned needing to disable some of the kernel flags like
>> CONFIG_DRM_... and CONFIG_FB_...  Might it be you've got a CONFIG_...
>> option wrongly set, and that didn't matter for the previous version of
>> the driver, but does now?
>
> Both links are the same URL.  I read the one.  I changed the settings 
> to match what the dev posted.  I had some set correctly already but 
> changed a couple.  We'll see.  I may change the other settings below 
> as well then build and reboot if you think it will help.

I went ahead and disabled those and when I was building the kernel, I 
got a LOT of things like this.



depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_modeset_drop_locks
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_mode_config_cleanup
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_dev_alloc
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_connector_attach_hdr_output_metadata_property
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_update_plane
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_compat_ioctl
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_dev_register
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_atomic_get_connector_state
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_prime_gem_destroy
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_plane_create_color_properties
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_release
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/6.12.31-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko needs 
unknown symbol drm_gem_prime_export



It would appear that disabling drm might not be a good idea.  It didn't 
finish building the kernel either.  It just stopped.

I'm going to turn drm back on.  See if it will build then.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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