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Kernel – 5.17-rc5 Compile Fail, and Fix..

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This one fell between the cracks, and should have been fixed before -rc5 was released… ……………….. AR net/netfilter/built-in.a LD [M] net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.o CC [M] net/netfilter/xt_socket.o net/netfilter/xt_socket.c: In function ‘socket_mt_destroy’: net/netfilter/xt_socket.c:224:17: error: implicit declaration of function ‘nf_defrag_ipv6_disable’; did you mean ‘nf_defrag_ipv4_disable’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] 224 | nf_defrag_ipv6_disable(par->net); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | nf_defrag_ipv4_disable cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:288: … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Fix for ‘Legacy’ 390.xx and Kernel 5.17..

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I have an old HP 8760W laptop, which needs the NVIDIA ‘legacy’ 390.xx driver series, and Nouveau is (yet again) not working as it should.. From the patch for kernel 5.17 support and driver 470.94, at https://gist.github.com/joanbm/6c7b027b9436bf31ce979927e544e9d5 it seemed that the changes necessary should be simple.. In fact this patch can be used, with the following change.. … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Patch for 495.44, Kernel 5.16-rc1 Support..

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Thanks to Gerd, there is now a patch for NVIDIA driver 495.44 and Kernel 5.16-rc1, which can be found under the comments on my previous article:  https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2974 Of course, take care to cut/paste in text mode, as html will ruin the formatting etc.. I have applied this, and 495.44 now appears to compile/load/run OK, with kernel 5.16-rc1.. … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.14-rc4 – VMware 16.1.2 Fix Already Available..

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Kernel 5.14-rc4 is out, and brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2108.0/00269.html The most recent – patched – NVIDIA driver 470.57.02 is OK, but if you have an earlier version of the VMware 16.1.2 patchset, you may encounter an error when booting a Windows guest: “The operation on file “/home/rgadsdon/vmware/Windows_XP_Pro-SP3-2/Windows_XP_Pro-000001-cl3-s002.vmdk” failed.”  … etc … – followed by boot failure.. … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Patch for Kernel 5.14-rc. Support..

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Thanks (again) to Joan Bruguera, there is a patch available for NVIDIA driver 465.31, at https://gist.github.com/joanbm/144a965c36fc1dc0d1f1b9be3438a368 I have tested this with the latest beta driver – 470.42.01 – and kernel 5.14-rc1, and it does apply OK (with some offsets): …… patching file a/kernel/common/inc/nv-time.h Hunk #2 succeeded at 215 (offset 9 lines). patching file a/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c Hunk #2 succeeded … Continue reading →

ARM64 – Pi 4 USB Problems – And a Messy Fix..

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After some delay, I finally had a ‘good’ cooling solution for my 8GB Pi4, and resumed testing.. The last Kernel version I had running on it was 5.9-rc4, and everything seemed to be working OK (including 8GB of memory recognised). I then updated to 5.11.18, and found that none of the USB ports worked: # dmesg |grep … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Patch for Kernel 5.13 Support..

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There is now a patch for NVIDIA 465.27 with Kernel 5.13-rc.. at: https://gist.github.com/joanbm/4a9d392e6f2d45c93ef434bda78174e5  – click on ‘Raw’ to download the source.. Thanks (again) to Joan Bruguera for the patch, and Willy Frissen for the notification.. I have tested this with Kernel 5.13-rc1, and the driver now compiles OK, and loads/runs.. Robert Gadsdon.   May 10th 2021. … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Patch for Kernel 5.12 Support.

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Thanks to Willy Frissen for the info, and joanbm for the patch, which can be found at https://gist.githubusercontent.com/joanbm/7a034ac4b79396c3841040e410ef7e91/raw/b21e792dc0b6f891a4a83d182e0ba9b24b36bd80/nvidia-fix-linux-5.12.patch I have applied this to 460.56, with Kernel 5.12-rc1, and it compiles successfully, and appears to work OK.     Unable to do a longer test, as my 5.12-rc1 system still crashes with a USB error, after the KVM switches out.. … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.10-rc1 Out – Fix for NVIDIA, Problem with VMware..

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Kernel 5.10-rc1 is finally released, and brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2010.3/00552.html Thanks to Joan Bruguera, there is a work-in-progress fix for NVIDIA 455.28, here:  https://gist.github.com/joanbm/beaccedd729589df98332d70a1754e9a (and thanks to Willy Frissen for the notification..) ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o MODPOST /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/Module.symvers CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD … Continue reading →

Kernel – Fix for 5.9-rc6 Compile Fail..

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A fix has now been produced, for the dax compile fail with 5.9-rc6: Reported: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2009.2/07060.html Fix: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=88b67edd7247466bc47f01e1dc539b0d0d4b931e I have tested this, and the kernel now compiles OK, and loads/runs as expected.. Robert Gadsdon.   September 21st 2020. … Continue reading →