Error: "`nvidia.ko` not found"

[ThisNekoGuy]

I was trying to run the following as a test for a personal script I was going to write later: modinfo /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko | grep ^version

When I unexpectedly ran into an error: modinfo: ERROR: Module /usr/lib/modules/5.14.21-239-tkg-pds-llvm/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko not found.

I run linux-tkg, and I'm running the driver right now as I'm typing this so I'm really confused how nvidia.ko just doesn't exist where it should?

[Snoop05]

If you are using dkms its probably in /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko.zst (or different extension depending on what compression you have configured)

At least for Arch, precompiled modules they distribute are in /usr/lib/$(uname -r)/extramodules/

[ThisNekoGuy]

It's been some time; apologize for that, my motherboard crapped-out and I needed a new one

This issue would happen, for some reason, often times when re-building nvidia-all/nvidia-tkg when running the linux-tkg kernel; for whatever reason, a very similar error about the same item would pop-up claiming to be missing unless I rebuild the kernel after updating the nvidia driver or when upgrading the linux-tkg kernel, which is odd, because that really shouldn't be necessary

[Snoop05]

Hello again, it appears that you are not building DKMS variant of nvidia-all which is likely the issue requiring you to rebuild it after every kernel update.

simply set _dkms="true" in customization.cfg and nvidia rebuilding should be handled automatically