NVIDIA have released the latest of the ‘new feature branch’ drivers – 615.71.09 – and details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/278450/ I tested this with Fedora/Plasma/KDE and Kernel 7.2.4, and it failed, with a black screen with no background or toolbar, although I could still get a console with the right-button menu, but kwin-x11 crashed multiple times.. I … Continue reading →
Kernel 7.3-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2608.3/12250.html After the pre-tests recently, there were no surprises, and the latest NVIDIA (610.57.04) and VMware (26H1) compile and load/run OK.. Robert Gadsdon. August 30th 2026..
Continue reading →Kernel 7.3-rc1 is due out soon, and I tested the latest (August 27th) GIT version, from https://github.com/torvalds/linux The latest NVIDIA (610.57.04) and VMware (26H1) both compile and load/run OK.. Of course, more changes will be made before RC1 is released.. Robert Gadsdon.. August 28th 2026..
Continue reading →VMware install on Fedora 45 fails: Reloading systemd: [ OK ] Starting vmware (via systemctl): Failed to start vmware.service: Unit vmware.service not found. [FAILED] For some reason, VMware still relies on the ancient SysV Init scripts, and previous versions of systemd included automatic conversions of these to be systemd-compatible With Fedora 45, this has finally been removed, … Continue reading →
Kernel 7.2 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2608.2/00630.html As expected, this is OK with the latest NVIDIA driver 610.57.04 and VMware 26H1.. Robert Gadsdon August 16th 2026..
Continue reading →NVIDIA have just released driver version 610.57.04, and details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/274513/ This now works OK with Kernel 7.2 – tested with 7.2-rc6.. The install on my system (Fedora 44) took longer to run than normal, but eventually completed successfully.. Robert Gadsdon August 3rd 2026..
Continue reading →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..
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