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NVIDIA – New Vulkan Driver – Still Needs Patching for Kernel 5.6.

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NVIDIA have released the latest Vulkan beta driver 440.66.02, and details are here:  https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver The kernel-related code seems to be unchanged from 440.64, and the Kernel 5.6 patch for that version still applies, and can be found here: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1945940 The driver then compiles OK: …………….. ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o MODPOST 4 modules CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o … Continue reading →

GCC – Fun with GCC 10, and the Kernel, NVIDIA, VMware..

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I have updated some test systems (x86_64 and aarch64) to pre-beta Fedora 32, which now includes GCC 10: $ gcc –version gcc (GCC) 10.0.1 20200216 (Red Hat 10.0.1-0.8) There have been a couple of problems with kernel compilation, but in each case there was already a patch/workaround available.. https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-arm/msg13193.html and https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/29/494 The most serious problem was a … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – New Driver 440.59 – OK with Kernel 5.5, and No Tombstone..

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NVIDIA have just released driver 440.59, and brief details – and download links – are here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1070838/announcements-and-news/linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-440-59-long-lived-branch-release-/ I have tested this with Kernel 5.5.1, and it installs OK, and – for the first time – there is no ‘tombstone’ when # startx is executed. Robert Gadsdon.   February 3rd 2020. … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Beta Driver 440.48.02 – Compiles OK with Kernel 5.5..

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NVIDIA have a Beta driver available, and this compiles OK with kernel 5.5.   Available from link here:  https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver I have installed this and – interestingly – it still gives a ‘tombstone’ at # startx, but appears to run OK despite that ?: [60044.039448] ————[ cut here ]———— [60044.043355] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. [60044.047445] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 45401 … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Driver 440.31 Released – Finally, Compiles Cleanly with Kernel 5.4..

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NVIDIA have just released driver 440.31, and details are here:  https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1065987/announcements-and-news/linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-440-31-long-lived-branch-release-/ I have tested this with Kernel 5.4-rc6, and – as mentioned in the release notes – there is no annoying ‘Module.symvers…‘ message any more. Robert Gadsdon.  November 4th, 2019. … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Kernel 5.4-rc Patch for 435.21

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Thanks to loqs, there is a patch for driver 435.21 and kernel 5.4-rc, at http://ix.io/1MRE . I have tested this with 5.4-rc2, and it now compiles successfully: ………………………………. WARNING: module nvidia uses symbol filp_open from namespace /NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-435.21-54rc2/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-user-memory.o: $(deps_/home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-435.21-54rc2/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-user-memory.o), but does not import it. WARNING: module nvidia uses symbol cpufreq_get from namespace VIDIA-Linux-x86_64-435.21-54rc2/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-user-memory.o: $(deps_/home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-435.21-54rc2/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-user-memory.o), but does not import … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – New ‘Legacy’ Driver, OK with Latest Kernel

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NVIDIA have just released driver version 430.40, and ‘legacy’ driver 390.129, which is also OK with the latest Kernel (tested with 5.3-rc2): ………………………. ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.129/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.129/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.129/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.129/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.129/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.129/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.129/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.129/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.129/kernel/nvidia.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.129/kernel/nvidia.ko make[1]: Leaving … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – New Drivers – OK with Kernel 5.0, Fix for Kernel 4.4

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NVIDIA have released new drivers 418.43 and 410.104, which support Kernel 5.0, and also include a fix for a compile problem with ‘legacy’ Kernel 4.4.168.   There is also a new ‘legacy’ 3xx driver 390.116. which – finally –  provides support for Kernel 5.0. Details for 418.43 are here:   https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1047710/unix-graphics-announcements-and-news/linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-418-43-long-lived-branch-release-/ – and for 390.116:  https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1047708/unix-graphics-announcements-and-news/linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-390-116-legacy-for-gf1xx-quot-fermi-quot-gpus-/ I have tested … Continue reading →

Compiler – GCC 9 – First Impressions..

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Just updated to the pre-release Fedora 30 (Rawhide) on the test system, and tried out the new version of GCC: $ gcc –version gcc (GCC) 9.0.1 20190209 (Red Hat 9.0.1-0.4) Kernel 5.0-rc7 compiled successfully, and runs OK.    As expected, there were quite a lot of compiler ‘warnings’: ………………….. CC net/ipv4/proc.o CC drivers/hid/hid-samsung.o CC net/ipv4/fib_rules.o CC drivers/hid/hid-sunplus.o fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.c: … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – New Driver, Supposed to Fix Kernel 4.20 Issues – but Doesn’t?

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NVIDIA have released driver 415.22, which is supposed to fix compile problems with Kernel 4.20.   Details are here:  https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/141072/en-us Unfortunately, this still fails to compile (tested with 4.20-rc5): ………………………….. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.22/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.22/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.c: In function ‘nvswitch_os_snprintf_time’: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.22/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.c:1585:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘time_to_tm’; did you mean ‘time64_to_tm’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] time_to_tm(time_nsec / NVSWITCH_NSEC_PER_SEC, 0, &t); ^~~~~~~~~~ time64_to_tm cc1: some … Continue reading →