NVIDIA have released an updated driver 610.43.03, and details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/274183 This still fails to compile with Kernel 7.2-rc2, but the existing fix still applies ( see https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=3479 ) for details and link.. Robert Gadsdon. July 7th 2026..
Continue reading →Kernel 7.2-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2606.3/07038.html As with the pre-RC tests in a previous article, VMware 26H1 is OK, and NVIDIA 610.43.02 fails, but there are patches available to fix this – See https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=3479 for details, and a link to the patches.. Robert Gadsdon. June 28th 2026.
Continue reading →Kernel 7.2-rc1 is due out next Sunday, but – as usual – I have tested the latest (June 23rd) GIT version, to see what breaks.. The latest VMware (26H1) is OK, but NVIDIA 610.43.02 compilation throws many errors, due to changes to drm_atomic_state and strncpy.. Thanks to Willy Frissen, there is already a set of patches for … Continue reading →
Kernel 7.1 is out, and changelog details are here: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v7.x/ChangeLog-7.1 After earlier testing, it is confirmed that the latest NVIDIA (610.43.02) and VMware (25H2) both compile and load/run OK.. Robert Gadsdon. June 15th 2026..
Continue reading →The latest NVIDIA driver 595.71.05 has been released, and details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/267223/ This version fixes the compile problem with Kernel 7.1 (tested with 7.1-rc2): …………………….. ld -r -o nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o MODPOST Module.symvers 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] … Continue reading →
Kernel 7.1-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2604.3/03000.html As with the pre-tests in the previous post, VMware is OK, and NVIDIA has a simple fix.. – see https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=3460 Robert Gadsdon. April 27th 2026
Continue reading →Kernel 7.1-rc1 will be out soon, and I tested the latest GIT code to see if there are any issues… VMware installs without any problems: # vmware-modconfig –console –install-all [AppLoader] GLib does not have GSettings support. Stopping vmware (via systemctl): [ OK ] Starting vmware (via systemctl): [ OK ] root@rgenvy17:/home/rgadsdon# vmware –version VMware Workstation 25.0.1 25219725 … Continue reading →
The Linux Kernel is now on Version 7, and the brief details of 7.0-rc1 are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2602.2/07107.html As with the pre-test last week, the latest NVIDIA 590.48.01 and VMware 25.0 drivers compiled and loaded/ran successfully.. Robert Gadsdon. February 22nd 2026.
Continue reading →NVIDIA have released the latest version of the GTX-friendly 580.XX drivers – 580.126.18 – and details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/264090/ This supposed to fix problems compiling with Kernel 6.19 – but the previous version – 580.126.09 – worked OK on my system with Kernel 6.19.0.. It is possible that this release may fix issues with Distro-supplied kernels? BTW, … Continue reading →
For the upcoming Kernel 7.0, the current git version (February 15th) was tested, and the latest NVIDIA 590.48.01 and VMware 25.0 drivers compiled and loaded/ran successfully.. Of course, there will be more changes before Kernel 7.0-rc1 is released in a weeks time.. Robert Gadsdon.. February 15th 2026..
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