Updated the main system (x86_64) to kernel 3.8.4, and (incrementally..) updated the Raspberry Pi (armv6), as well.. Latest VMware (9.02) and NVIDIA (313.26 and 310.40) drivers all compile without any patches.. Precise details here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.4 # uname -a Linux rglinux 3.8.4 #1 SMP Thu Mar 21 02:03:44 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ‘Incremental’ patch from 3.8.3 … Continue reading →
Installed Kernel 3.9-rc3 on the test system.. VMware 9.0.2, and NVIDIA 310.40 (main) and 313.26 (beta) all compile OK.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.9.0-rc3 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 12:21:27 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. March 19th, 2013. … Continue reading →
Installed kernel 3.9-rc2 on the test system – and VMware 9.0.2, and both the latest ‘stable’ (310.40), and ‘beta’ (313.26) NVIDIA drivers, all compile successfully.. $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.9.0-rc2 #1 SMP Mon Mar 11 17:36:47 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. March 11th, 2013. … Continue reading →
Recently updated my main system to 3.8.1, without any fuss.. As before, the (patched) VMware 9.01 works fine, and the latest NVIDIA ‘stable’ driver 310.32 compiles OK, too.. Don’t forget to include the obligatory softlink, before compiling VMware! ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.8.1/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.8.1/include/linux/version.h There is a later version of the 3.7 branch available – 3.7.10, but this is … Continue reading →
Just updated to 3.7.9, but forgot to do the usual ‘softlink’ for correct compilation of VMware.. # ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.7.9/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.7.9/include/linux/version.h I ran the compilation for the the latest ‘stable’ NVIDIA driver (310.32), but discovered that – with 3.7.9 – this failed, as well! To save time, I had been creating the softlink after compiling the latest … Continue reading →
Just compiled 3.8-rc2 on my test system, and the situation regarding NVIDIA and VMware is similar to -rc1.. For NVIDIA, the two ‘latest’ driver versions – 310.19 and 313.09 – fail to compile, but the earlier version – 310.14 – compiles OK.. Version 310.14 does not compile with kernel 3.7, so it would appear that the changes … Continue reading →
After more testing, I discovered that – unusually – the very latest driver (313.09) fails to compile with kernel 3.8-rc1, but an earlier driver – 310.14 – does compile OK! I won’t do too much more testing, as 3.8-rc1 breaks some KDE apps (see Linus’ angry rant on the LKML!). Hopefully 3.8-rc2 will be out soon.. Robert Gadsdon. … Continue reading →
Finally, kernel 3.7 is released… I updated my main x86_64 system, and all seems to be OK, as expected. The latest NVIDIA driver – 310.19 – compiles and runs OK, and VMware 9.0.1 compiles after the usual workaround for version.h: # ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.7/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.7/include/linux/version.h Note that this example is for the official source from kernel.org. You … Continue reading →
Kernel 3.6.8 is just business as usual, and everything works as expected.. There might not have been a need for another -rc before 3.7 was released, but apparently there was a late rush of changes and bugfixes, so now there is 3.7-rc7.. Same caveats apply as for -rc6.. NVIDIA driver (310.19) compiles OK, and VMware 9.0.1 still … Continue reading →
The latest NVIDIA driver – 310.19 – compiles cleanly on Kernel 3.7-rc versions, without the need for any patch or workaround. So – the latest versions of VMware (9.0.1) and NVIDIA (310.19) both compile without problems on 3.7-rc kernels. Robert Gadsdon. November 14, 2012. … Continue reading →