{"id":2061,"date":"2017-09-21T12:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2017-09-21T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:29:39","slug":"nvidia-new-driver-same-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2061","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA &#8211; New Driver &#8211; Same Problems.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA have just released a new driver version &#8211; <strong>384.90<\/strong> &#8211; and brief details are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/driverResults.aspx\/123918\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/driverResults.aspx\/123918\/en-us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This version appears to be runtime bug-fixes only, and still fails to compile with Kernel 4.1.-rc1 without the patch mentioned in a previous article ( <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2056<\/a> ), and still suffers from the GPL issue:<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong> .........<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>Building modules, stage 2.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong> MODPOST 4 modules<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'acpi_device_fwnode_ops'<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>make[3]: *** [\/usr\/src\/linux-4.14-rc1\/scripts\/Makefile.modpost:91: __modpost] Error 1<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>make[2]: *** [\/usr\/src\/linux-4.14-rc1\/Makefile:1502: modules] Error 2<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>make[2]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.14-rc1'<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>make[1]: *** [Makefile:145: sub-make] Error 2<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>make[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.14-rc1'<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>make: *** [Makefile:81: modules] Error 2<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>There was some mention of a &#8216;completely new&#8217; driver from NVIDIA some time ago, but this seems to have been forgotten, now..?<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 September 21, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA have just released a new driver version &#8211; 384.90 &#8211; and brief details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/driverResults.aspx\/123918\/en-us This version appears to be runtime bug-fixes only, and still fails to compile with Kernel 4.1.-rc1 without the patch mentioned in a previous article ( https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2056 ), and still suffers from the GPL issue: &#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Building modules, stage 2. 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