I had a (rare) need to test the latest NVIDIA driver 575.64.03 with the Fedora 42 kernel (6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64) and found that I was getting unexpected SSL errors, and ‘device not found’ when trying to load the modules.. After some more research. I found that Fedora had already included the new open-source NovaCore drivers as standard, and these … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.16-rc4 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2506.3/09013.html The latest NVIDIA driver 575.64 compiles and loads/runs OK but may fail when installed using the NV…..run file, but will be OK is installed manually, for some reason.. UPDATE: NVIDIA 575.64.03 is out, which seems to fix the need for manual compile etc… https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/249044/ VMware 17.6.3 with … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.15 is out, and brief details of the latest changes are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2505.3/00645.html The latest NVIDIA driver 570.153.02 is OK with this kernel, and with GCC 15 (Fedora 42 etc..) and can be found here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/245669/ A VMware vmmon/vmnet fix for 17.6.3 was already documented in a previous article: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=3321 Robert Gadsdon. May 25th 2025. … Continue reading →
NVIDIA driver 570.153.02 is out, and brief details etc are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/245669/ Not mentioned in the summary, this version compiles/loads/runs successfully on Fedora 42 with GCC 15, and also with the latest Kernel 6.15 – tested with 6.15-rc7 and an RTX3050 Robert Gadsdon. May 19th 2025. … Continue reading →
Now that Fedora 42 is out, including GCC 15 (currently GCC 15.1.1-1) there is a simple workaround for compilation, thanks to Rudi Heitbaum. The change is documented at https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/pull/841/commits/448b236d893170edc8fc4dff029044948516352b, and must be seen as a workaround, not a fix, as it effectively removes some of the warnings/errors flagged by the latest GCC version.. For NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.144/kernel/Kbuild, add the … Continue reading →
Thanks to efforts by Willy Frissen and Joan Bruguera Micó, I have managed to cobble together a patch for NVIDIA driver 575.51.02 and Kernel 6.15 – tested with 6.15-rc2.. The compilation failed with Kernel 6.15 due principally to changes removing obsolete EXTRA_CFLAGS and replacing it by ccflags-y, and del_timer_sync replacement by timer_delete_sync: …………………… nvidia/nv.c:31:10: fatal error: nv-firmware.h: … Continue reading →
Just tested Kernel 6.15-rc1 with the latest NVIDIA 570.133.07, and the compile fails completely: ………………….. CONFTEST: drm_atomic_available CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_refcount_inc CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_refcount_dec_and_test CONFTEST: drm_alpha_blending_available CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd CONFTEST: ib_peer_memory_symbols CC [M] nvidia/nv.o nvidia/nv.c:30:10: fatal error: nv-firmware.h: No such file or directory 30 | #include “nv-firmware.h” | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make[4]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.15-rc1/scripts/Makefile.build:203: nvidia/nv.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.14 has been released – a bit later than usual – and brief details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2503.3/00718.html As expected after -rc testing, this release works OK with the latest NVIDIA 570.133.07 and VMware 17.6.3.. Robert Gadsdon. March 24th 2025. … Continue reading →
Recently updated the test system to Fedora 42, and everything seemed OK (including the latest VMware Workstation) – except the NVIDIA driver install.. The latest driver 570.124.04 compiles and installs OK with GCC14 and Fedora 41, on 6.13.x and also 6.14-rc kernels, but the NVIDIA source install scripts/tests etc. seem to be completely useless when compiling under … Continue reading →
Systems are Intel Dual-Xeon with Fedora 41 and GCC 14.2.1.. Kernel compiled from kernel.org source.. Starting with driver 550.144.03, and now with the latest driver 570.86.16 I have been experiencing odd and inconsistent problems with the usual install process.. Running ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.86.16.run fails with “ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module ‘nvidia-drm.ko’.” and later “-> Kernel module load … Continue reading →