This is a summary of the changes I made to the NVIDIA proprietary ‘kernel’ code to get driver 580.119.02 working with Kernel 6.19-rc3.. This is a hack, and is not made by a professional, so use at your own risk, and do not use in a business-critical environment! As mentioned in the previous article, I have tested … Continue reading →
Nasty Hack Time… This is a summary of the changes I made to the NVIDIA ‘kernel-open‘ MIT/GPL code to get driver 580.119.02 working with Kernel 6.19-rc1.. This is a hack, and is not made by a professional, so use at your own risk, and do not use in a business-critical environment! As mentioned in the previous article, … Continue reading →
The latest NVIDIA drivers failed with Kernel 6.19-rc1, as detailed in an earlier post, and after some more research I was able to work out a hack to fix this, and in the process discovered a bit of a surprise.. I managed to get the NVIDIA-proprietary code for 580.119.02 to compile successfully, but then: ………………………… ERROR: modpost: … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.16-rc4 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2506.3/09013.html The latest NVIDIA driver 575.64 compiles and loads/runs OK but may fail when installed using the NV…..run file, but will be OK is installed manually, for some reason.. UPDATE: NVIDIA 575.64.03 is out, which seems to fix the need for manual compile etc… https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/249044/ VMware 17.6.3 with … Continue reading →
I have recently been involved in bug reports etc for a new problem in Fedora 40, where a recent update has effectively broken all QT applications, resulting in KDE not functioning, and even # make xconfig is broken. The Fedora bug report is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272758 The problem is: # kwrite Illegal instruction (core dumped) # kate Illegal … Continue reading →
After more testing, I found a potential fix for the ‘Kernel 6.0-rc0’ compile problem.. In NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-helper.c: Around Line 30: add: #include <drm/drm_framebuffer.h> And the compile completes successfully: ……………………….. ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o MODPOST /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/Module.symvers CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-peermem.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-peermem.ko CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o … Continue reading →
Tested the newly released Kernel 5.3-rc1 (brief details here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1907.2/04769.html ) The latest NVIDIA (430.34) compiles and runs OK, and (patched) VMware 15.1.0 vmnet compiles OK, but vmmon fails: ……… CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-Kk5UU0/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o /tmp/modconfig-Kk5UU0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_SetFastClockRate’: /tmp/modconfig-Kk5UU0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:3406:10: error: too many arguments to function ‘force_sig’ 3406 | force_sig(SIGKILL, linuxState.fastClockThread); | ^~~~~~~~~ In file included from ./include/linux/taskstats_kern.h:12, from … Continue reading →
I am setting up an HP Z820 as – primarily – a video creating/editing/restoring system, but I need to be able to boot into Windows 7 Pro (for Vegas Pro, AviSynth, Prodrenalin, Mercalli, etc. etc..) and Linux (Fedora).. I had set up dual-boot systems before, and I am still using Windows 7 Pro SP1, but this time … Continue reading →
I am setting up an HP Z820 as – primarily – a video creating/editing/restoring system, but I need to be able to boot into Windows 7 Pro (for Vegas Pro, AviSynth, Prodrenalin, Mercalli, etc. etc..) and Linux (Fedora).. I had set up dual-boot systems before, and I am still using Windows 7 Pro SP1, but this time … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 4.9-rc3, and the patch for NVIDIA mentioned in my article for -rc2 still works OK.. I Compiled 370.28 and 375.10 successfully.. As I could not find any patches for VMware – and the latest version 12.5.1 still fails to compile, I created a nasty hack myself.. Warning – This is not … Continue reading →