Category Archives: NVIDIA

NVIDIA – Driver 361.42 – OK with Kernel 4.6-rc2..

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Tested the latest stable NVIDIA driver – 361.42 – with just-released Kernel 4.6-rc2, and it compiles cleanly, with no need for any patches.. …. Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 3 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia.ko Robert Gadsdon.   April 3, 2016. … Continue reading →

KERNEL – 4.6-rc1 Released – OK with Latest VMware, Breaks NVIDIA – and a Possible Fix..

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Just  installed Kernel 4.6-rc1 on the test system. Depending on your configuration, you may encounter a compilation error: CC drivers/thermal/mtk_thermal.o drivers/thermal/mtk_thermal.c: In function ‘mtk_thermal_probe’: drivers/thermal/mtk_thermal.c:560:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘device_reset’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] ret = device_reset(&pdev->dev); ^ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors ……………………………. This is due to a Mediatek thermal driver being ‘selected’ by default (and … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Latest 352.xx Driver – OK with Kernel 4.5-rc1..

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Just installed the latest NVIDIA driver – 352.79 – on the test system, and it compiles and runs OK with Kernel 4.5-rc1.. Release notes etc. are here:  http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/97645/en-us I had been running the ‘beta’ driver 361.18, but found that this was using up large amounts of memory (13GB, out of 16GB) when running VMware and Firefox, and … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.5-rc1 – OK with Latest NVIDIA and VMware..

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Just installed Kernel 4.5-rc1 on the test system, and NVIDIA 358.16 (and ‘beta’ 361.18) and VMware 12.1.0 all compile and load/run OK.. Details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.3/00205.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux 4.5.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Jan 24 15:39:14 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon.   January 24, 2016. … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – New Beta 361.18 – OK with Plasma/KDE5..

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Just installed the latest NVIDIA beta driver – 361.18 – and it is now OK with Plasma and KDE5.. Release notes and download link here:   http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/97474/en-us Notes include: ”Fixed a bug in the EGL driver where a mutex was unlocked more than once. This triggers undefined behavior, and in particular, if lock elision is enabled in glibc, … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.4 Released – OK with Latest NVIDIA and VMware..

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Updated to Kernel 4.4 ‘Final’ on the test system, and the latest VMware (12.1.0) and NVIDIA (358.16) compile and run OK..   The ‘beta’ driver 361.16 should be OK, but has multiple userland issues on my systems. – see previous post.).. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 4.4.0 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 22:00:41 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Beta Driver 361.16 Breaks Plasma/KDE5..

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Updated the tests system to the latest ‘beta’ driver 361.16, and this broke Plasma/KDE5..    This driver is supposed to introduce the ‘vendor neutral’ libglvnd option: $ ll /usr/lib64/libGLX* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 7 10:17 /usr/lib64/libGLX_indirect.so.0 -> libGLX_nvidia.so.361.16 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 7 10:17 /usr/lib64/libGLX_nvidia.so.0 -> libGLX_nvidia.so.361.16 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1115368 Jan 7 … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Latest Driver OK with Kernel 4.3 – and Fedora 23..

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Tested the latest NVIDIA driver – 352.63 – and it is OK with Kernel 4.3, and with the Fedora 23 version of the xorg server.. The only other ‘broken’ Fedora 23 items I have encountered are ffmpegthumbs and Samba..    I downgraded to the FC22 version of Samba # dnf –showduplicates –allowerasing –releasever=22 downgrade samba* ….and  – after … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.4-rc1 – OK with Latest NVIDIA and VMware..

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Updated to Kernel 4.4-rc1 on the test system, and VMware 12.0.1 and NVIDIA 358.09 both compile and load/run OK..   I did get an error from vmnet, but – so far – it appears to be working OK despite this: $ vmnet1: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x0000000000004000, left 0x0000000000004800 vmnet8: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x0000000000004000, left 0x0000000000004800 $ … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Incompatible with Fedora 23 Xorg – and a Workaround..

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Just updated to Fedora 23, and the NVIDIA driver would not load/run.. (tested with the latest – 358.09 and 352.55) ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================ This server has a video driver ABI version of 20.0 that this driver does not officially support. Please check http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X server with a … Continue reading →