Automate reloading of nvidia-drivers on Gentoo so that a reboot after updating is not required. Simple convenience script to turn a small handful of commands into a single command.

reload_nvidia_xorg.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Convenience script for the times when 'nvidia-drivers' updates
# and I don't feel like rebooting. This script is intended to be run
# from a TTY as it will bring down Xorg and reload the nvidia drivers
#
# There is no error checking for now. Just bang out commands so I don't
# have to.
#
# Mar 08, 2020 - ncdulo

# Goodnight, Xorg
sudo /etc/init.d/xdm stop

# Remove old drivers from running kernel
sudo rmmod nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia

# Insert updated drivers (Does this need to be on multiple lines?)
# I think we only need to modprobe nvidia_drm and the rest will pull
# in automatically. Test this, someday.
sudo modprobe nvidia_drm
sudo modprobe nvidia_modeset
sudo modprobe nvidia

# Welcome back!
sudo /etc/init.d/xdm start