{"id":1797,"date":"2016-08-16T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2016-08-16T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:49:08","slug":"nvidia-driver-for-kernel-4-7-patch-for-4-8-still-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA &#8211; Driver for Kernel 4.7..  Patch for 4.8 Still Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA have released their latest driver &#8211; <strong>370.23<\/strong> &#8211; which (finally!) works with Kernel 4.7, without any patches..<\/p>\n<p>The driver fails to compile with Kernel 4.8, but the previous 367.35 patch fixes this (See article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1788\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1788<\/a>).<br \/>\nTested with <strong>4.8-rc2<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">..............<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">ld -r -o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-modeset-interface.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nvidia-modeset-linux.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> Building modules, stage 2.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> MODPOST 4 modules<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">make[2]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.8-rc2'<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">make[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.8-rc2'<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 August 16, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA have released their latest driver &#8211; 370.23 &#8211; which (finally!) works with Kernel 4.7, without any patches.. The driver fails to compile with Kernel 4.8, but the previous 367.35 patch fixes this (See article here: https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1788). Tested with 4.8-rc2: &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. ld -r -o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-modeset-interface.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1797\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,14,15,18],"tags":[1421,1424,1069,277,1423,1175,1422],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","tag-370-23","tag-4-8-rc2","tag-new-driver","tag-nvidia-2","tag-patch-for-4-8","tag-success","tag-works-with-4-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}