As NVIDIA still seem to be unable to produce an up-to-date driver, there are a bewildering number of ‘patches’ out for various kernel versions and driver combinations.. I have found a good link to a ‘3.11’ patch for NVIDIA driver 331.17 and kernel 3.12 (patching just nv-linux.h) here: http://pastebin.com/gxKDqu9N I would normally credit the author, but it … Continue reading →
Kernel 3.12 is out, and the same comments apply as for the later -rc versions.. VMware 10.0.1 compiles and runs OK, and NVIDIA 331.17 – with the patch mentioned in previous articles – works. Details of changes are here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1589267 As you will see, this post includes some interesting comments on future kernel releases, and a possible … Continue reading →
Opinion: I don’t usually write pure ‘op/ed’ pieces, but this situation – I think – warrants further comment… I am becoming concerned at the apparent inability of NVIDIA to adequately support Linux.. In the past, the company was able to very quickly produce a driver version that supported the latest changes to the Linux kernel, but not … Continue reading →
I had assumed that my previous article on ‘auto patching’ was going to be redundant… However, I discovered to my dismay that even the newly-released NVIDIA driver – 331.17 still fails to compile and install on 3.11 and 3.12 kernels.. It appears that nv-drm.c has been fixed, but not nv-linux.h. This means that – for both 3.11 … Continue reading →
As we seem to be stuck for some time with NVIDIA drivers incompatible with the latest kernels, patching seems to be more of a necessity, now. Thanks to a comment from Giordano, I have learned of a way to ‘automatically’ patch any NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file directly, and re-create a corresponding NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file which includes the patch.. The help … Continue reading →
There is still no up-to-date NVIDIA driver for kernel 3.11 or 3.12 support, and the many patch references on the DevZone forum are getting somewhat confusing.. I had previously linked to a thread there which included a link to a suitable patch, but this is a direct link, which is actually on the old NVNews NVIDIA forum, … Continue reading →
Just installed kernel 3.12-rc5 on the test system, and – as expected – VMware 10.0 compiles and runs OK, and NVIDIA drivers 319.60 and 331.13 – both with the 3.12 patch – compile OK. Changes, here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1578296 $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.12.0-rc5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 14 11:09:39 BST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Sadly, … Continue reading →
Just installed Kernel 3.12-rc4 on the test system, and I can confirm – as expected – that it does include the ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL‘ fix, which allows the NVIDIA 3.12 patch to work correctly. Details of changes are here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/6/148 Patched NVIDIA drivers 331.13 and 319.60 both compile OK Robert Gadsdon. October 7, 2013
Continue reading →It seemed there was no ‘legal’ way to fix the problem with NVIDIA driver compilation on Kernel 3.12-rc, but now – unusually – there is a kernel patch to fix this: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/acpi/scan.c?id=6585925b62fa4dd2f4aecf634b0f8956577aa981 Thanks to conky_vs_julian (on the NVIDIA Devtalk forum) for this info. More details – including a link to a 3.12 patch for NVIDIA drivers – … Continue reading →
Sadly – as has already been reported – the latest NVIDIA 331.13 driver still won’t compile with 3.11 kernels.. I did manage to get it to work, by applying the 3.11-only patch originally created for 325.15.. It would appear that a ‘legal’ patch for 3.12 kernels would be a non-trivial task, but the 3.11 patch is so … Continue reading →