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

On 3/15/26 7:00 PM, Dale wrote:
> 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
>
> :-)  :-)
>


Update.  None of this worked.  Everything I disabled resulted in a 
failed kernel make.  I had to go back to the original config.  It 
appears the things I have enabled must be enabled for the kernel to 
finish the make process.

I'm going to try to reboot in a bit.  Supposed to be storms here shortly 
and power may fail and I'll have to shutdown anyway.  The storms look 
kinda ugly on the radar.  o_O

Any more ideas?  Maybe the re-emerge of nvidia-drivers will work. One 
can hope.

Dale

:-)  :-)