There is a fix\/patch available now, for NVIDIA driver 378.13 on Kernel 4.11, but it involves modifying the licence on NVIDIA code, and so is not legal..<\/p>\n
Details – and links to discussions – here:\u00a0 https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/995636\/?comment=5101210<\/a><\/p>\n Some previous changes to Kernel code enforcing GPL-only licensing had been reverted, but looking at the correspondence on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, it seems that this may not<\/span> happen, in this case…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So.. it would be up to NVIDIA themselves to make the necessary changes to their code..<\/p>\n The LKML discussion includes the comment that NVIDIA are currently ‘designing …… new open-source drivers<\/em>‘, but more details are not given..<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 March 8, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a fix\/patch available now, for NVIDIA driver 378.13 on Kernel 4.11, but it involves modifying the licence on NVIDIA code, and so is not legal.. Details – and links to discussions – here:\u00a0 https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/995636\/?comment=5101210 Some previous changes to Kernel code enforcing GPL-only licensing had been reverted, but looking at the correspondence on the Linux Kernel …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[5,1238,11,14,15,18],"tags":[1021,1087,1173,1554,1557,242,1556,1555],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fix","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","tag-fix-available","tag-gpl-only","tag-kernel","tag-kernel-4-11","tag-licence-modification","tag-linux","tag-not-legal","tag-nvidia-378-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","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=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}