Monthly Archives: June 2020

NVIDIA – New Drivers – OK with Kernel 5.7. Existing Patch Works for 5.8.

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NVIDIA have released new drivers 440.100 and (beta) 450.51, and details are here:  https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/160175/en-us and https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/160555/en-us Both compile OK with Kernel  5.7 (tested with 5.7.5) and the existing Kernel 5.8 patch for 440.82 still works with both versions – with some offsets.  (compile tested with Kernel 5.8-rc2). Robert Gadsdon.   June 24th 2020. … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.8-rc2 – Still Catastrophic Failure with VMware Runtime.

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Kernel 5.8-rc2 has been released, and brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2006.2/08747.html There is no change to the problem with VMware runtime, and vmware-modconfig still segfaults, and the system still reboots immediately, when a VM open is attempted. To check that this was not due to a kernel misconfiguration, I installed the Fedora (Rawhide) version of Kernel 5.8-rc1 … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.8-rc1 Released – Problem with VMware Runtime..

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Kernel 5.8-rc1 has been released, and details are here:   http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2006.1/07293.html NVIDIA 440.82 with the 5.7 and 5.8 patches seems to be OK, but I have encountered a serious problem with VMware, and have now confirmed the same fault on two different systems (both Fedora 32 x86_64) The VMware 15.5.6 vmmon/vmnet modules compile/run OK with the kernel 5.7 … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.8 Pre-testing.. Fix for NVIDIA. Problems with VMware Runtime.

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There is now an interim patch available, for NVIDIA 440.82 and Kernel 5.8, at https://gitlab.com/snippets/1986228 This should be applied as well as the 5.7 patch, and I have tested this with pre-release Kernel 5.8-git version from June 12th, and it works OK.    Note that this is an interim patch, and may be updated once 5.8-rc1 is released.. … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.8 Pre Testing.. Patched VMware OK, NVIDIA Not..

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Kernel 5.8-rc1 is due out soon, and I created the latest (git) version for testing, to see what might break.   Bear in mind, that there will be changes from this version to the ‘released’ RC1.. VMware: VMware 15.5.6 – with the latest patches for vmmon and vmnet – compiles OK. NVIDIA: NVIDIA driver 440.82 with the Kernel … Continue reading →

VMware – Another Update – 15.5.6 – Fails with Kernel 5.7 – Fix Available.

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VMware have just released another update – Workstation 15.5.6, and details are here:  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/15.5/rn/VMware-Workstation-1556-Pro-Release-Notes.html .    This time, there are some Linux Client-related fixes included.. This fails to compile with Kernel 5.7, but there is a fix available (tested with 5.7.2), at:  https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-15.5.6 Robert Gadsdon.   June 10th 2020. … Continue reading →