Setting up an old HP8000 desktop small-form-factor system as a crash-and-burn test system, with dual-boot Fedora 29 and Windows 7, on separate drives. First slight gotcha with the Fedora install: The installation utility shows the two disks, the first of which has Windows 7 (sda) and the second – additional – was for the Fedora Linux install … Continue reading →
NVIDIA has released driver 418.30, and details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/142166/en-us Although there is no mention of it in the ‘release notes’, this compiles/loads OK with Kernel 5.0 (tested with 5.0-rc4): …………………….. ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.30/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.30/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.30/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.30/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.30/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.30/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.30/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] … Continue reading →
Thanks to Isaak I. Aleksandrov, there is a fix available for the latest NVIDIA driver and Kernel 5.0. See comment under previous article for details, and link to patch: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2476 I have applied the patch to driver 415.27, and it now compiles OK, with Kernel 5.0-rc3: ……………………….. 86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv-memdbg.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv-ibmnpu.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv-report-err.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv-rsync.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv-msi.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv_uvm_interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nvlink_linux.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.o ld -r … Continue reading →
Apologies for the non-availability of the site, due to unsubtle hack attempts.. Hopefully all is now OK, (until the next time…) RG. January 20, 2019 … Continue reading →
Thanks – again – to Michal Kubeček, there are now patches available for VMware with Kernel 5.0-rc1, here: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules . There are patched vmmon and vmnet versions available for the latest 12.x, 14.x and 15.x releases, so for 15.0.2, do: # git clone -b workstation-15.0.2 https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git I have applied these, and can confirm that VMware 15.0.2 now … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.0-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1901.0/02536.html Compiling NVIDIA 410.93 fails: …………………….. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.93/kernel/nvidia/os-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.93/kernel/nvidia/os-interface.c: In function ‘os_get_current_time’: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.93/kernel/nvidia/os-interface.c:434:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘do_gettimeofday’; did you mean ‘efi_gettimeofday’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] do_gettimeofday(&tm); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ efi_gettimeofday cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[3]: *** [/usr/src/linux-5.0-rc1/scripts/Makefile.build:277: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.93/kernel/nvidia/os-interface.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux-5.0-rc1/Makefile:1553: _module_/home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.93/kernel] Error 2 make[2]: … Continue reading →
Speculation, but there are some signs in submissions for the next major Kernel release.. Kernel 4.21 may actually be Kernel 5.0? Robert Gadsdon. January 7, 2019. … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.20 has just been released, in time for the Festive Season, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1812.2/06158.html . As expected, the latest NVIDIA (415.25) and VMware (15.0.2) both compile and load/run OK. Robert Gadsdon. December 23, 2018. … Continue reading →
After the embarrassment of driver 415.22 not actually compiling with Kernel 4.20, NVIDIA have now released 415.23. Very brief details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/141300/en-us This version does compile with Kernel 4.20 (tested with 4.20-rc6) but shows repeated warnings: ………………………………. In file included from /home/rgadsdon/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.23/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_gpu.h:31, from /home/rgadsdon/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.23/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_mmu_test.c:24: /home/rgadsdon/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.23/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm_linux.h:263:2: warning: #warning “atomic64_t unavailable, demoting to atomic_t!” [-Wcpp] #warning “atomic64_t unavailable, … Continue reading →
NVIDIA have released driver 415.22, which is supposed to fix compile problems with Kernel 4.20. Details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/141072/en-us Unfortunately, this still fails to compile (tested with 4.20-rc5): ………………………….. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.22/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.22/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.c: In function ‘nvswitch_os_snprintf_time’: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.22/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.c:1585:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘time_to_tm’; did you mean ‘time64_to_tm’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] time_to_tm(time_nsec / NVSWITCH_NSEC_PER_SEC, 0, &t); ^~~~~~~~~~ time64_to_tm cc1: some … Continue reading →