NVIDIA have just released a new version of the 580.xx driver – 580.126.09 – and details etc. are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/261243/ This now compiles/loads/runs OK with Kernel 6.19 (tested with 6.19-rc5): ……………………. CC [M] .module-common.o LD [M] nvidia.ko CC [M] nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] nvidia-uvm.ko CC [M] nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] nvidia-modeset.ko CC [M] nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] nvidia-drm.ko CC [M] … Continue reading →
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 →
After (still..) waiting for an updated version of the NVIDIA 580.xx drivers, I decided to do some more investigation of the GPL-only fail after my hack of the ‘proprietary’ branch of driver 580.119.02.. I soon found that the “… GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘__vma_start_write’ ..” issue had first occurred with Kernel 6.15, so (once again) … Continue reading →
NVIDIA have just release driver version 590.48.01, and details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/259042/ This compiles/loads/runs successfully with Kernel 6.19 (tested with 6.19-RC1): ……………………. CC [M] nvidia.mod.o CC [M] .module-common.o LD [M] nvidia.ko CC [M] nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] nvidia-uvm.ko CC [M] nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] nvidia-modeset.ko CC [M] nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] nvidia-drm.ko CC [M] nvidia-peermem.mod.o LD [M] nvidia-peermem.ko make[2]: Leaving … 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 →
NVIDIA have released the first beta of the 590.xx stream of drivers – 590.44.01 – and this now drops support for almost all GTX drivers, as can be seen from the ‘Supported Products’ list in the release notes here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/258750/ The still-under-development Nova driver will apparently only support ‘Turing’ and later cards, so older cards will in … Continue reading →
NVIDIA have released a new driver 580.82.09, and details etc. are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/254126/ This now compiles OK with Kernel 6.17 (tested with 6.17-rc6) and seems to have (again?) fixed the ‘blank screen’ issue on older DVI/HDMI systems.. Robert Gadsdon.. September 14th 2025.. … Continue reading →
Thanks to Oscar (for identifying the code change) and Willy Frissen (for producing the patch) there is now a fix for NVIDIA driver 580.65.06 and Kernel 6.17 (tested with 6.17-rc1), and this can be found at https://github.com/babiulep/my-kernel-patches/blob/main/NVIDIA/nvidia-6.17-580.65.06.patch .. I have applied this, and tested with Kernel 6.17-rc1 (from kernel.org) and Fedora 42 KDE/Plasma and VMware (win10 client) … Continue reading →
NVIDIA driver 570.153.02 is out, and brief details etc are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/245669/ Not mentioned in the summary, this version compiles/loads/runs successfully on Fedora 42 with GCC 15, and also with the latest Kernel 6.15 – tested with 6.15-rc7 and an RTX3050 Robert Gadsdon. May 19th 2025. … Continue reading →