{"id":1957,"date":"2017-04-23T19:08:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T02:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2017-04-23T19:08:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T02:08:57","slug":"nvidia-still-no-4-11-solution-but-a-good-patch-for-old-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA &#8211; Still no 4.11 Solution, but a &#8216;Good&#8217; Patch for Old Version.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 4.11 &#8216;final&#8217; has been delayed for a week, and -rc8 has been released..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4.11-patched VMware 12.5.5 is OK, but there is still only a &#8216;Bad&#8217; (illegal licence modification) patch for the latest NVIDIA driver..\u00a0\u00a0 (see <a href=\"https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/1002820\/linux\/-patch-381-09-kernel-4-11-rc5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/1002820\/linux\/-patch-381-09-kernel-4-11-rc5\/<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>But, if you have an older card, there is a valid patch for driver 340.102 &#8211; which does <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> include the controversially-licensed code..<\/p>\n<p>Details can be found here:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/1005209\/linux\/fully-working-patch-for-nvidia-driver-340-102-compiler-installer-file-and-linux-kernel-4-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/1005209\/linux\/fully-working-patch-for-nvidia-driver-340-102-compiler-installer-file-and-linux-kernel-4-11\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can confirm that this compiles OK with Kernel 4.11-rc8, but cannot test any further, as it does not support my &#8211; fairly new &#8211; card.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 April 23, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 4.11 &#8216;final&#8217; has been delayed for a week, and -rc8 has been released..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4.11-patched VMware 12.5.5 is OK, but there is still only a &#8216;Bad&#8217; (illegal licence modification) patch for the latest NVIDIA driver..\u00a0\u00a0 (see https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/1002820\/linux\/-patch-381-09-kernel-4-11-rc5\/ ) But, if you have an older card, there is a valid patch for driver 340.102 &#8211; which does not <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1957\"><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":[5,6,11,1298,14,15,18,19,1533,20],"tags":[1582,1580,1581,1504],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-hardware","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-patches","category-performance-2","tag-good-patch-for-old-driver-340-102","tag-kernel-4-11-rc8-released","tag-no-valid-patch-for-latest-nvidia","tag-ok-with-patched-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","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=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}