Monthly Archives: December 2024

NVIDIA – New Driver 550.142 – Finally Fixes Kernel 6.13 Softlink Error..

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NVIDIA have released driver 550.142, and brief details are here:  https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/237853/  The ‘Release Highlights’ section is especially frugal on specifics.. The ‘softlink  / file not found’ error when compiling with Kernel 6.13 has finally been fixed (tested with 6.13-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 … Continue reading →

Kernel – 6.13-rc1 Released, VMware OK, NVIDIA Fails – and Fix..

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Kernel 6.13-rc1 is out, and brief details are here:   https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2412.0/00203.html VMware 17.6.1 compiles OK, with patches from here: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/?h=vmware-workstation  There are now multiple patchsets available… NVIDIA 550.35 throws an odd error, and compile/load fails: ….. SYMLINK nvidia/nv-kernel.o LD [M] nvidia.o ld: cannot find ./nvidia/nv-kernel.o: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.13-rc1/scripts/Makefile.build:387: nvidia.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** … Continue reading →