Just in time for 4.14 ‘Final’, a patch has been submitted to fix the NVIDIA / AMD ‘Secure Memory Encryption’ GPL issue.. (See previous article https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2070 for more info) Details are here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/87df26175e67c26ccdd3a002fbbb8cde78e28a19 Robert Gadsdon. November 9, 2017.
Continue reading →Just in time for 4.14 ‘Final’, a patch has been submitted to fix the NVIDIA / AMD ‘Secure Memory Encryption’ GPL issue.. (See previous article https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2070 for more info) Details are here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/87df26175e67c26ccdd3a002fbbb8cde78e28a19 Robert Gadsdon. November 9, 2017.
Continue reading →Kernel 4.14-rc8 is out, and brief details of changes since -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1711.0/03395.html This might have been 4.14 ‘final’ but there were still too many changes to warrant that.. Th 4.14 ‘final’ release may be slightly delayed, as it would now clash with the US ‘Thanksgiving’ holiday.. The latest NVIDIA drivers (384.98 and 387.22 beta) both … Continue reading →
After some considerable time, there is a new major version of Audacity – 2.2.0 – with a new-improved UI, amongst other things.. As I needed this ASAP, and did not want to wait for the (uncrippled) RPM to come out, I decided to compile it myself, with all useful options included.. I got the following error on … Continue reading →
I had found that although VMware 14.0.0 installed OK with Kernel 4.13, the runtime performance was rather ‘sluggish’, and others have reported more serious memory issues… There is a patch that may help with this – and thanks to Roke for reporting this, and to mkubecek for the actual patch.. Details are in this posting, on the … Continue reading →
I had found that although VMware 14.0.0 installed OK with Kernel 4.13, the runtime performance was rather ‘sluggish’, and others have reported more serious memory issues… There is a patch that may help with this – and thanks to Roke for reporting this, and to mkubecek for the actual patch.. Details are in this posting, on the … Continue reading →
When running VMware 14 (14.0.0) from the command line, I noticed the following message: $ vmware Fail to open executable: No such file or directory Further research suggested that this ‘missing’ item was in fact /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-unity-helper.so/libvmware-unity-helper.so, which is indeed not included with VMware 14.0.0.. I found a copy of this in an old backup, and tried to … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.13.6 has only been out for two days, but there has just been another update – 4.13.7 – with the following changes: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.13.7 If you are running 4.13.6, then update is – presumably – recommended ASAP! Robert Gadsdon. October 14, 2017.
Continue reading →Kernel 4.13.6 has only been out for two days, but there has just been another update – 4.13.7 – with the following changes: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.13.7 If you are running 4.13.6, then update is – presumably – recommended ASAP! Robert Gadsdon. October 14, 2017.
Continue reading →NVIDIA driver 387.12 is out, and details are here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/125399/en-us The driver compiles/loads OK with Kernel 4.14-rc3 on Intel, without any patches, and is OK with AMD as long as its Secure Memory Encryption feature is de-selected ( see https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2070 ). ………………… ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.12/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.12/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.12/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD … Continue reading →