{"id":1975,"date":"2017-05-10T13:45:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2017-05-10T13:45:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:45:44","slug":"nvidia-another-new-driver-4-11-fix-still-needed-may-be-fixed-in-kernel-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA – Another New Driver – 4.11 Fix Still Needed – May be ‘Fixed’ in Kernel, Soon.."},"content":{"rendered":"

New NVIDIA driver 381.22<\/strong> has been released, and details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/driverResults.aspx\/118524\/en-us<\/a><\/p>\n

The 4.11 ‘workaround’ still applies (see https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1970<\/a> ).<\/p>\n

It seems now that the reason the fix was – still – not made by NVIDIA, is that the problem may well be ‘fixed’ in a future Kernel release..<\/p>\n

Changes to ‘revert’ the licensing have been proposed, as mentioned in a comment from this post: https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/1008121\/linux\/nvidia-drivers-381-22-linux-4-11-patch-is-still-required-really-nvidia-\/<\/a>\u00a0 The comment mentions ”4.12 kernel should work<\/span><\/em>” but I hope the patch will be applied to a later release of 4.11.x..<\/p>\n

The proposed Kernel patch can be found at:
\nhttps:\/\/git.kernel.org\/pub\/scm\/linux\/kernel\/git\/torvalds\/linux.git\/commit\/?id=d557d1b58b3546bab2c5bc2d624c5709840e6b10<\/a><\/p>\n

The comment with the patch includes “….. changing api markings isn’t considered “nice”, so let’s fix this up.<\/span> <\/em>”<\/p>\n

I applied the patch to Kernel 4.11.0<\/strong> (with quite a lot of ‘fuzz’..) and can confirm that it does – as expected – fix the licensing issue, for 375.66 and 381.22:<\/p>\n

..................<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nvidia-modeset-linux.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n Building modules, stage 2.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n MODPOST 4 modules<\/span><\/strong>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\nmake[2]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.11'<\/span><\/strong>\r\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.11'<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 May 10, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n
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New NVIDIA driver 381.22 has been released, and details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/driverResults.aspx\/118524\/en-us The 4.11 ‘workaround’ still applies (see https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1970 ). It seems now that the reason the fix was – still – not made by NVIDIA, is that the problem may well be ‘fixed’ in a future Kernel release.. Changes to ‘revert’ the licensing have been proposed, …<\/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":[5,1238,11,14,15,18,19,1533],"tags":[1601,1602,1600,277,1501],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fix","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-patches","tag-4-11-fix-still-applies","tag-kernel-patch-proposed","tag-new-driver-381-22","tag-nvidia-2","tag-tested"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","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=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}