Re: Latest NVIDIA driver (346.96) issue

[Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com>]

Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> Since yesterday update of NVIDIA 346.96-1 I get an error about uvm
> module:
>
> The module is compiled (dkms):
>
> $ ls -la /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nv*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11730792 Jan 20 09:08
> /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   111776 Jan 20 09:08
> /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current-uvm.ko
>
> But cannot be loaded:
>
> $ sudo modprobe nvidia-current-uvm
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current_uvm': Invalid argument
>
Check the documentation to see if your chipset is still supported. I had
this problem with the upgrade, as the Quadro in my laptop is no longer
supported by the mainline driver.

Mart

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