[SOLVED] nvidia binary driver module cannot be loaded

[linux_matt]

Tried to install the nvidia binary driver having followed the Gentool HOWTO. I have this successfully installed on another gentoo system using portage. The binary driver compiles against the correct kernel sources but appears to be removed from the kernel module database on installation. Directly downloading and installing the driver from the nvidia site works (the X server was not running at this point) but for maintainability I would rather install through portage.

These are the steps I took with the build log further down.

(1) loadable module support is compiled into the kernel
(2) ebuild successfully tests for MTRR
(3) uname -r returns: 3.12.6-gentoo and the kernel symlink is correct

[1] linux-3.2.12-gentoo
[2] linux-3.7.1-gentoo
[3] linux-3.11.0-gentoo
[4] linux-3.12.5-gentoo
[5] linux-3.12.6-gentoo *

(4) The video card is a legacy card and (through masking) the correct binary driver is emerged
(5) Possibly the issue is at the installation stage?
* Removing x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39 from moduledb.
(6) modprobe nvidia, modprobe -i nvidia return:

modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found

insmod nvidia returns:

insmod: ERROR: could not load module nvidia: No such file or directory

Here is the build log:

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39
* NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg0.run SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ... [ ok ]
* Determining the location of the kernel source code
* Found kernel source directory:
* /usr/src/linux
* Found kernel object directory:
* /lib/modules/3.12.6-gentoo/build
* Found sources for kernel version:
* 3.12.6-gentoo-nvidia
* Checking for MTRR support ... [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/': File exists
>>> Unpacking NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg0.run to /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work
>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work
>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work ...
* Applying NVIDIA_glx-defines.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying NVIDIA_glx-glheader.patch ... [ ok ]
* Converting /usr/src/nv/Makefile.kbuild to use M= instead of SUBDIRS= [ ok ]
>>> Source prepared.
>>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work ...
>>> Source configured.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work ...
* Preparing nvidia module
make -j1 HOSTCC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= ARCH=i386 IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1 SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux SYSOUT=/lib/modules/3.12.6-gentoo/build CC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc clean module
NVIDIA: calling KBUILD...
make -C /lib/modules/3.12.6-gentoo/build \
KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo \
KBUILD_EXTMOD="/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv" -f /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/Makefile \
modules
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo >&2; \
echo >&2 " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo >&2 " include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \
echo >&2 ; \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.tmp_versions/*
make -f /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/scripts/Makefile.build obj=/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.nv.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/include -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/linux/kconfig.h -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fno-pic -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -mtune=generic -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-stack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"173.14.39\" -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(nv)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.tmp_nv.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nv.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.nv-vm.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/include -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/linux/kconfig.h -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fno-pic -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -mtune=generic -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-stack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"173.14.39\" -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(nv_vm)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.tmp_nv-vm.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nv-vm.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.os-agp.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/include -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/linux/kconfig.h -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fno-pic -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -mtune=generic -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-stack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"173.14.39\" -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(os_agp)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.tmp_os-agp.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/os-agp.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.os-interface.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/include -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/linux/kconfig.h -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fno-pic -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -mtune=generic -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-stack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"173.14.39\" -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(os_interface)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.tmp_os-interface.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/os-interface.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.os-registry.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/include -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/linux/kconfig.h -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fno-pic -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -mtune=generic -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-stack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"173.14.39\" -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(os_registry)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.tmp_os-registry.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/os-registry.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.nv-i2c.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/include -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/linux/kconfig.h -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fno-pic -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -mtune=generic -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-stack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"173.14.39\" -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(nv_i2c)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.tmp_nv-i2c.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nv-i2c.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.nvacpi.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/include -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/linux/kconfig.h -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fno-pic -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -mtune=generic -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-stack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"173.14.39\" -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(nvacpi)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.tmp_nvacpi.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvacpi.c
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvacpi.c:63:9: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
.remove = nv_acpi_remove,
^
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvacpi.c:63:9: warning: (near initialization for 'nv_acpi_driver_template.ops.remove') [enabled by default]
i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld -r -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvidia.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nv-kernel.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nv.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nv-vm.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/os-agp.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/os-interface.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/os-registry.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nv-i2c.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvacpi.o
(cat /dev/null; echo kernel//var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko;) > /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/modules.order
make -f /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/scripts/Makefile.modpost
find /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.tmp_versions -name '*.mod' | xargs -r grep -h '\.ko$' | sort -u | sed 's/\.ko$/.o/' | scripts/mod/modpost -m -i /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/Module.symvers -I /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/Module.symvers -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/Module.symvers -S -w -s -T -
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/.nvidia.mod.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/include -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/include/linux/kconfig.h -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fno-pic -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -mtune=generic -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-stack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"173.14.39\" -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia.mod)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia)" -DMODULE -c -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld -r -T /usr/src/linux-3.12.6-gentoo/scripts/module-common.lds --build-id -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvidia.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/work/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.o
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
>>> Source compiled.
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39

>>> Install nvidia-drivers-173.14.39 into /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/image/ category x11-drivers
* Installing nvidia module
>>> Completed installing nvidia-drivers-173.14.39 into /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39/image/

ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/doc
ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/man

>>> Installing (1 of 1) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39
Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface... done
* Removing x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.39 from moduledb.
Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface... done
* Updating module dependencies for 3.12.6-gentoo-nvidia ... [ ok ]
* Adding module to moduledb.
Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface... done
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

!!! existing preserved libs:
>>> package: dev-libs/libcdio-0.90-r1
* - /usr/lib/libcdio.so.13
* - /usr/lib/libcdio.so.13.0.0
* used by /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/libmythmusic.so (media-plugins/mythplugins-0.27_p20131124)
>>> package: dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.6.0
* - /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11
* - /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11.8.2
* used by /opt/google/chrome/chrome (www-client/google-chrome-32.0.1700.68_beta1)
* used by /usr/bin/gpg-agent (app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.22)
* used by /usr/bin/gpg2 (app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.22)
* used by 12 other files
>>> package: x11-libs/gtksourceview-3.8.2
* - /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-3.0.so.0
* - /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-3.0.so.0.0.0
* used by /usr/lib/sushi/libsushi-1.0.so (gnome-extra/sushi-3.8.1)
>>> package: media-gfx/imagemagick-6.8.7.5
* - /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.5
* - /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.5.0.0
* used by /usr/bin/spumux (media-video/dvdauthor-0.7.1)
>>> package: net-analyzer/net-snmp-5.7.2-r1
* - /usr/lib/libsnmp.so.15
* - /usr/lib/libsnmp.so.15.1.2
* used by /usr/bin/wmnd (x11-plugins/wmnd-0.4.17)
>>> package: kde-base/libkdcraw-4.12.0
* - /usr/lib/libkdcraw.so.22
* - /usr/lib/libkdcraw.so.22.1.1
* used by /usr/bin/dngconverter (media-plugins/kipi-plugins-3.5.0)
* used by /usr/bin/photolayoutseditor (media-plugins/kipi-plugins-3.5.0)
* used by /usr/lib/kde4/kipiplugin_debianscreenshots.so (media-plugins/kipi-plugins-3.5.0)
* used by 20 other files
>>> package: media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.6
* - /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.53
* - /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.53.61.100
* used by /usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.so (media-libs/libquicktime-1.2.4)
* - /usr/lib/libavutil.so.51
* - /usr/lib/libavutil.so.51.35.100
>>> package: kde-base/marble-4.12.0
* - /usr/lib/libmarblewidget.so.0.16.1
* - /usr/lib/libmarblewidget.so.16
* used by /usr/lib/libkgeomap.so.1.0.0 (media-libs/libkgeomap-3.5.0)
>>> package: media-libs/libraw-0.16.0_beta1-r1
* - /usr/lib/libraw.so.9
* - /usr/lib/libraw.so.9.0.0
* used by /usr/lib/libkdcraw.so.22 (preserved)
* used by /usr/lib/libkdcraw.so.22.1.1 (preserved)
>>> package: media-libs/jpeg-8d
* - /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8
* - /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8.4.0
* used by /opt/icedtea-bin-6.1.11.1/jre/lib/i386/libsplashscreen.so (dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.1.11.1)
* used by /usr/bin/greycstoration (media-gfx/greycstoration-2.9-r1)
* used by /usr/bin/jpegtopnm (media-libs/netpbm-10.61.00)
* used by 13 other files
>>> package: dev-libs/boost-1.53.0
* - /usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so.1.52.0
* used by /usr/bin/cmis-client-0.2 (dev-cpp/libcmis-0.2.3-r1)
* - /usr/lib/libboost_date_time.so.1.52.0
* used by /usr/lib/libcmis-0.2.so.2.0.3 (dev-cpp/libcmis-0.2.3-r1)
>>> package: media-libs/glew-1.10.0-r2
* - /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.1.9
* - /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.1.9.0
* used by /usr/lib/libprojectM.so.2.1.0 (media-libs/libprojectm-2.1.0)
>>> package: media-libs/x264-0.0.20130912
* - /usr/lib/libx264.so.125
* used by /usr/bin/mytharchivehelper (media-plugins/mythplugins-0.27_p20131124)
* used by /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/libmytharchive.so (media-plugins/mythplugins-0.27_p20131124)
* used by /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/libmythbrowser.so ()
* used by 4 other files
Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries

[ulenrich]

/me helped to build xorg-server and mesa once more afterwards nvidia

[linux_matt]

[<3]

can you post the location on your drive where the module is located?

[linux_matt]

[mv]

The same nvidia version builds here fine against 3.12.6-hardened-* (with an additional patch for hardened), so in principle the ebuild should work.
Maybe it helps if you use my useflag settings: USE="acpi -multilib -tools".
According to your build log, the drivers seems to be compiled against the correct kernel version, but for some reason after the compilation there seems no file to exist which should be installed, not even the doc files, or did you delete the corresponding lines from the log? I would guess some symlink or permission problems are confusing the ebuild, but it is hard to guess what is the real cause. Do you have enough space on your build partition?

[creaker]

I had the same issue in past. System can't to find nvidia module that was built by emerge, because module was put in inappropriate place.
I just installed a driver in default NVidia way (by running 'sh NVidia-***.run').
Later I found where emerge put a module, but I don't remember where exactly nvidia.ko was placed.
I just leave the module that was built by NVidia script

[i92guboj]

Please, don't go advising to use the nvidia binary installer in Gentoo.

Then you will have leftovers that will make impossible the diagnose of problems related to the opengl stack.

First, there's a tool to find files, it's called "find". Use it to locate where the thing is putting the module.

[NeddySeagoon]

linux_matt,

[linux_matt]

[NeddySeagoon]

linux_matt,

Some external kernel modules do not respect LOCALVERSION in the kernel configuration.
Its safest not to use it.
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NeddySeagoon

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