Kernel 3.16 – Final, No Need for -RC8, After All..
Just installed Kernel 3.16 (Final), and – as expected – the latest VMware (10.0.3) and NVIDIA (340.24) drivers compile, install, and run OK..
More details of changes since -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1408.0/00797.html
$ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 3.16.0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 4 10:07:04 PDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Robert Gadsdon. August 4, 2014.
I don’t get the nVidia driver to work, it compiles fine, but I get the following error when trying to start X, this applies to kernel 3.15.7 (3.15.6 I do get it to work, but my MSI motherboard tries to write to NX protected memory and I get a kernel panic, so I’m down on 3.10, while my Asus motherboard is stable on 3.15.6).
Aug 6 20:20:18 quad kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: irq 74 for MSI/MSI-X
Aug 6 20:20:30 quad kernel: NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x38:1203)
Aug 6 20:20:30 quad kernel: NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
Aug 6 20:20:30 quad kernel: NVRM: nvidia_frontend_open: minor 0, module->open() failed, error -5
Aug 6 20:20:28 quad kdm[2528]: X server died during startup
Aug 6 20:20:28 quad kdm[2528]: X server for display :1 cannot be started, session disabled
Sounds like there may be other problems with the configuration, apart from NVIDIA..?
If you haven’t already done this, I would recommend posting to the NVIDIA forum, at https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/board/98/
RG.