Just updated the test system to Kernel 3.13-rc6, which has a smaller changelog, due to the ‘holidays’.. Details are here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1621119/ As before, patched NVIDIA drivers 331.20 and 319.76 compile and load OK, as does VMware 10.0.1.. Robert Gadsdon. December 30, 2013
Continue reading →Updated the test system to kernel 3.13-rc4, and VMware 10.0.1 and (patched) NVIDIA 331.20 compile and load OK.. NVIDIA appear to have pulled driver version 319.76 from their ftp download site – ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/, for some reason.. Robert Gadsdon. December 16, 2013.
Continue reading →Just updated the test system to kernel 3.13-rc1, and VMware 10.0.1 and NVIDIA drivers 331.20 and 319.72 all compile OK.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.13.0-rc1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 22 23:48:06 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Very brief details of changes, here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1599956 (scroll down, to get to the ‘list’..) Update: The NVIDIA driver … Continue reading →
Just updated to Kernel 3.12.1, and VMware 10.0.1 and NVIDIA 331.20 (and 319.72) all compile OK (with the kernel.org compiled Kernel) More details here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.1 FYI.. I have been running compiled kernels – from kernel.org – on all my Linux systems, since around 1998.. Robert Gadsdon. November 21, 2013.
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 →
VMware has just released version 10.0.1, and – as with 10.0 – it compiles and installs OK on the ‘latest’ kernels – 3.11.6 and 3.12-rc6. How times have changed… Previous ‘new’ versions of VMware always seemed to need patching for the latest Linux kernel version, and NVIDIA were always right up-to-date… Now, it seems, the reverse is true.. … Continue reading →
Thanks to dominator008, this is a link to information and patches for VMware 9.0.2 with Kernel 3.12.: http://dominator008.com/constructionyard/2013/10/03/vmware-9-0-2-vmblock-patch-for-linux-kernel-3-12/ As I have already updated to VMware 10.0, I have not been able to test these myself, but as you will see, they have been tested by the author.. Robert Gadsdon. October 17, 2013
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 →
I had been experiencing occasional problems with X and KDE with the previous 3.11 kernel versions, and had reverted to 3.10.12, but have just updated to 3.11.2, and it seems to be better – so far…. VMware 10 compiles and runs OK, and NVIDIA 319.49 – with the 3.11 patch – works OK. I have seen reports … Continue reading →
Just installed kernel 3.12-rc1 on the test system, and VMware 10.0 compiles OK.. NVIDIA 325.15 (with the 3.11 patch) fails: /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-325.15/kernel/nv-drm.c: At top level: /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-325.15/kernel/nv-drm.c:109:15: error: ‘drm_fasync’ undeclared here (not in a function) .fasync = drm_fasync, ^ /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-325.15/kernel/nv-drm.c: In function ‘nv_alloc_os_descriptor_handle’: /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-325.15/kernel/nv-drm.c:205:9: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be ret = drm_gem_private_object_init(nvl->drm, &nv_obj->base, size); … Continue reading →