Thanks to Isaak I. Aleksandrov, there is a fix available for the latest NVIDIA driver and Kernel 5.0. See comment under previous article for details, and link to patch: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2476

I have applied the patch to driver 415.27, and it now compiles OK, with Kernel 5.0-rc3:

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86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv-memdbg.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv-ibmnpu.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv-report-err.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv-rsync.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv-msi.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nv_uvm_interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/nvlink_linux.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.o
ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 4 modules
CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o
LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko
CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o
LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko
CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o
LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko
CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia.mod.o
LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.27-50/kernel/nvidia.ko
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-5.0-rc3'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-5.0-rc3'

And runtime tested OK with KDE/Plasma/VMware (Fedora 29).

Robert Gadsdon. January 21, 2019.