Kernel 5.2 is out – slightly later than usual – and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1907.0/05444.html As expected, the latest NVIDIA (430.26) and patched VMware 15.1.0 compile and run OK. Robert Gadsdon. July 7 2019. … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.2-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1905.2/02345.html OK this time, with the latest NVIDIA (430.14), and with patched VMware 15.1.0. It still includes the annoying weird logic change to # make xconfig, so I will be producing an – unofficial – patch to revert this, soon. Robert Gadsdon. May 19, 2019. … Continue reading →
After some serious problems on my test system with plasma-workspace 5.15.x and nouveau (to be described in a separate article..) I had to contemplate moving back to the proprietary nvidia driver, but found – of course – that older cards were not supported by the ‘latest’ drivers. I did find that at least one of the older … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.1 is out, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1905.0/03532.html The latest NVIDIA driver (430.09) and patched VMware 15.0.4 both compile and run OK. One odd quirk, is that the behaviour of # make xconfig has changed, and if you have your custom configs saved out-of-tree, then the save option tries to save them back to the … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.1-rc3 has been released, and brief details of changes since -rc2 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1903.3/08402.html NVIDIA 418.56 with the 5.1 patch compiles and runs OK, but if you are still using VMware 15.0.3 – with the vmmon/vmnet patches – the installer may fail, with a rather vague error message: ………. make[1]: ‘postbuild’ is up to date. make[1]: … Continue reading →
NVIDIA have released driver 418.56, and details are here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1048767/announcements-and-news/-linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-418-56-long-lived-branch-release-/ This version has almost the same problems with Kernel 5.1-rc1 as 418.43, but the fix mentioned in the previous article still applies, after the fixes for ‘list_is_first‘ in ~/kernel/common/inc/nv-list-helpers.h and ~/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_range_tree.c have been removed, as these are no longer required, and would now cause the compile to … Continue reading →
I have done some more investigation into the NVIDIA compile failures with Kernel 5.1-rc1, and now have a – rather inelegant – solution. I found clues to some of the errors in a post relating to nouveau: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/20/50 and the rest were due to content removed from /include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h in Kernel 5.1-rc1: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.1-rc1/source/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h compared to: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.0.3/source/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h. I also … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.1-rc1 has been released, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1903.2/00496.html VMware with the Kernel 5.0 patches fails to compile vmmon, but thanks to Michal Kubeček, a fix is currently available at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-15.0.3-test. I have applied this, and VMware 15.0.3 compiles and loads/runs OK with Kernel 5.1-rc1. NVIDIA 418.43 compile fails soon after commencing: …………………. /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.43/kernel/common/inc/nv-list-helpers.h:94:19: error: … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.0 has been – finally – released, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1903.0/01288.html As expected, the latest NVIDIA driver (tested with 418.43) compiles and loads OK, and VMware 15.0.2 – with the 5.0 patch – also works OK. Robert Gadsdon. March 3, 2019. … Continue reading →
NVIDIA have released new drivers 418.43 and 410.104, which support Kernel 5.0, and also include a fix for a compile problem with ‘legacy’ Kernel 4.4.168. There is also a new ‘legacy’ 3xx driver 390.116. which – finally – provides support for Kernel 5.0. Details for 418.43 are here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1047710/unix-graphics-announcements-and-news/linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-418-43-long-lived-branch-release-/ – and for 390.116: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1047708/unix-graphics-announcements-and-news/linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-390-116-legacy-for-gf1xx-quot-fermi-quot-gpus-/ I have tested … Continue reading →