Hi. I normally do updates approximately monthly and I use the gnome
overlay, so I get the latest gnome. I am also using ~amd64 version of
gentoo.
Now, this time when I went from version 4.1.17 to 4.1.20 kernel and did
my monthly update at the same time, two things happened. On the 4.1.17
kernel, if I try to start gdm, I get a blank screen. Logs look good in
that the screen is detected and the gnome session runs, but I get a
blank screen. This is true even if I use startx instead of starting
gdm. Now with 4.1.20 the nvidia drivers I am using get an invalid
argument when trying to modprobe it. Its version 355.11-r4. If I try
the latest version, I get modeset errors, although it stops giving me
the invalid argument.
So, I have really two separate problems here, the blank screen and the
nvidia driver problem, either one of which makes X totally unusable for
me.
Any thoughts on this matter would be appreciated.
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