NVIDIA – Epic Fail?
I had assumed that my previous article on ‘auto patching’ was going to be redundant… However, I discovered to my dismay that even the newly-released NVIDIA driver – 331.17 still fails to compile and install on 3.11 and 3.12 kernels..
It appears that nv-drm.c has been fixed, but not nv-linux.h. This means that – for both 3.11 and 3.12 – the original 3.11 patch for nv-linux.h will apply.
I have tested this patch with 331.17 and kernels 3.11.6 and 3.12-rc6, and they both compile OK..
One interesting point to note, is that the install includes ”Building Unified Memory Kernel Module” now..
I must admit to being concerned at this fiasco… NVIDIA are adding ‘features’ to the Linux driver, but seem to be incapable of fixing relatively-simple – and well documented – issues with the latest kernel/s..
Robert Gadsdon. October 23. 2013
thanks for mentioning. i suggest install nvidia 325(no drm patch needed), its very stable, 331 series, its unstable over 3d desktop/flash. freeze xorg on every hour if we use intensive desktop whit effect on (kde 4.11) i fail compile 331.17, no drm patch, fail to build, whit drm fail to patch(diff dont match)!i use 3.12rc5,probabily the compile success,is kernel related,rc6 🙂 i test this this weekend 🙂
Build fail,is relative as unified memory… For build this on 3.12rc i set –no-unified-memory (dont support for now by hardware)… Yes,drm is fixed… Performance is excellent,but,same freezes of 331.13 (kde 4.11.2/xorg 1.13)
Could you please provide a link to the “original” 3.11 patch Robert Gadsdon? I’ve tried a few, but they’ve failed; so I’m wondering which version of the 3.11 patch you are using…
The patch that works – for me – is the one referenced here: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=814
Scroll down the DevZone thread until you get to the pastebin link, for the patch itself.
RG.