{"id":1970,"date":"2017-05-05T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2017-05-10T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:32:08","slug":"nvidia-new-driver-with-4-11-workaround-not-a-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA – New Driver With 4.11 Workaround, Not a Fix…"},"content":{"rendered":"

NVIDIA have released driver 375.66<\/strong>, and the details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/driverResults.aspx\/118290\/en-us<\/a><\/p>\n

The details include the following:<\/p>\n

“Installation of the nvidia-drm kernel module is now optional. The new ‘- -no-drm’<\/span> option can be used to prevent nvidia-installer from building and installing nvidia-drm, on systems where this kernel module fails to build and\/or load<\/em><\/span>.”<\/p>\n

This does not mention Kernel 4.11 and GPL issues specifically, but this is what this ‘new feature’ is actually designed for..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is a workaround, but not a solution..<\/p>\n

Using the new option – -no-drm <\/em><\/span>when executing NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66.run<\/span><\/strong>, the nvidia-drm<\/strong> modules are simply ignored..<\/p>\n

To use this feature when just compiling the kernel modules themselves, from ~\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66\/kernel<\/span><\/strong>, do the following:<\/p>\n

# export NV_EXCLUDE_KERNEL_MODULES=nvidia-drm<\/strong><\/span>\r\n# make<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n
– and the compile will ignore the troublesome nvidia-drm<\/strong> modules, and complete successfully, without them:<\/p>\n
.............<\/strong><\/span>\r\n Building modules, stage 2.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n MODPOST 3 modules<\/strong><\/span>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.ko<\/strong><\/span>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.ko<\/strong><\/span>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66\/kernel\/nvidia.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66\/kernel\/nvidia.ko<\/strong><\/span>\r\nmake[2]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.11'<\/strong><\/span>\r\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.11'<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n
I have tested this on 4.11, and it all seems to work as advertised…<\/p>\n
It would seem that NVIDIA is having difficulty in re-writing the offending code in nvidia-drm<\/strong> to embrace the changes to licensing enforcement, and it may be – from initial correspondence on the kernel mailing list – that they were counting on the Kernel code changes being reverted, which they were not..<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 May 5, 2017.\u00a0 (reformatted to show two-dashes correctly..)
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NVIDIA have released driver 375.66, and the details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/driverResults.aspx\/118290\/en-us The details include the following: “Installation of the nvidia-drm kernel module is now optional. The new ‘- -no-drm’ option can be used to prevent nvidia-installer from building and installing nvidia-drm, on systems where this kernel module fails to build and\/or load.” This does not mention 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":[1238,11,14,15,18,19],"tags":[1596,1599,1597,1598,1595,418],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fix","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-no-drm-option","tag-compile-options","tag-for-kernel-4-11","tag-not-a-fix","tag-nvidia-375-66","tag-workaround"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","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=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}