Although VMware 12.0.1 was installed OK, the desktop app (/usr/bin/vmware) fails, with – frustratingly – no error shown.. According to various comments found, this is due to a change to GCC version 5.1.1 in Fedora 23.. Thanks to Vincent Cojot, on the sgros.blogspot.com blog, there is a slightly convoluted workaround, which basically involves replacing the VMware versions … Continue reading →
Just updated to Fedora 23, and the NVIDIA driver would not load/run.. (tested with the latest – 358.09 and 352.55) ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================ This server has a video driver ABI version of 20.0 that this driver does not officially support. Please check http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X server with a … Continue reading →
Updated to Kernel 4.3 ‘Final’ and the latest versions of VMware (12.0.1) and NVIDIA (tested with 352.55) install and load/run OK, without the need for any patches.. Brief details of changes from -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1511.0/00204.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 4.3.0 #1 SMP Sun Nov 1 17:27:46 PST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. November … Continue reading →
UPDATE: After more tests, I found a solution.. Rather than ‘update’ from 12.0.0 to 12.0.1, you have to deinstall 12.0.0 first: # vmware-installer –uninstall-product vmware-workstation – remembering to answer ‘yes‘ to the ”Do you wish to keep your configuration files?” message. Then install 12.0.1 as a new install.. # ~/VMware-Workstation-Full-12.0.1-3160714.x86_64.bundle Now everything seems to be working OK, … Continue reading →
Installed Mariadb, Apache etc, and phpMyAdmin on the Fedora 22 Intel i7 system, and the database was all OK, but phpMyAdmin showed a blank window.. Searching for this issue produced a wealth of reasons – usually ‘operator/config’ problems.. My config was just a clone of a known/good system, and I eventually found a simple reason for the … Continue reading →
Thanks to info from zezaocapoeira, there is a patch – from efferre79 – for VMware vmmon to fix the compile problem with kernel 4.3.. https://github.com/efferre79/vmware/blob/master/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/308-4.03-00-misc_deregister.patch I have tested the vmmon part of this with Workstation 12 and Kernel 4.3-rc5, and everything now compiles and loads/runs OK.. VMware vmci for Workstation 12 is now included with the standard … Continue reading →
The latest (beta) NVIDIA driver – 358.09 – compiles and install/runs OK with Kernel 4.3 (tested with 4.3-rc5). Release notes, and download, at http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/92712 Robert Gadsdon. October 12, 2015.
Continue reading →Just updated to Kernel 4.2.2, and the long-standing NVIDIA GPL-only issue is finally fixed.. From the changelog: commit 4f7760e963db10618dd3617bcf6254d896094e37 Author: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Date: Tue Aug 4 11:26:04 2015 -0600 workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modules And I can confirm that NVIDIA 355.11 compiles OK, without any patches.. The complete changelog is here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.2.2 … Continue reading →
Tried the ‘release candidate’ version of Kernel 4.2.1 (via patch, at https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review), and the GPL_only issue with NVIDIA drivers is still there… Exactly why we have to wait for Kernel 4.3 for this to be fixed is a mystery, as the simple one-line patch was proposed weeks ago, for 4.2-rc5.. Robert Gadsdon. September 19, 2015.
Continue reading →I had been running Kernel 4.2 on my main system since it was released, but have been experiencing vague and inconsistent problems with sluggish applications, which sometimes hung for about half-a-second.. Nothing specific, and no apparent errors reported.. I reverted to Kernel 4.1.7, and everything seems to be back to normal.. I will try 4.2.1 as soon … Continue reading →