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NVIDIA – Inconsistent Install Problems with Latest Drivers..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on February 3, 2025 by RGFebruary 3, 2025

Systems are Intel Dual-Xeon with Fedora 41 and GCC 14.2.1..  Kernel compiled from kernel.org source.. Starting with driver 550.144.03, and now with the latest driver 570.86.16 I have been experiencing odd and inconsistent problems with the usual install process.. Running ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.86.16.run fails with “ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module ‘nvidia-drm.ko’.” and later “-> Kernel module load … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Hacks, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion | Tagged code quality, inconsistent, install failures, manual compile workaround, nvidia | 1 Reply

NVIDIA – GPL Problem with Kernel 4.18, But only for Some.. Fixed in 4.18-rc7.

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 1, 2018 by RGAugust 1, 2018

Thanks to towo, for pointing out that some others have had GPL issues with the latest NVIDIA drivers and Kernel 4.18-rc6, even though they compiled/loaded OK on my test system, as reported in an earlier article.. …………… ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion | Tagged fixed in 4.18-rc7, gpl, inconsistent, kernel 4.18, no error on some systems, nvidia, __put_devmap_managed_page | Leave a reply

NVIDIA – GPL Problem with Kernel 4.18, But only for Some.. Fixed in 4.18-rc7.

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 1, 2018 by RGAugust 1, 2018

Thanks to towo, for pointing out that some others have had GPL issues with the latest NVIDIA drivers and Kernel 4.18-rc6, even though they compiled/loaded OK on my test system, as reported in an earlier article.. …………… ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion | Tagged fixed in 4.18-rc7, gpl, inconsistent, kernel 4.18, no error on some systems, nvidia, __put_devmap_managed_page | Leave a reply
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