{"id":2254,"date":"2018-03-29T17:43:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T00:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2018-03-29T17:43:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T00:43:36","slug":"nvidia-new-driver-384-130-still-fails-with-4-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA – New Driver 384.130 – Still Fails with 4.16.."},"content":{"rendered":"

NVIDIA have released driver 384.130<\/strong>, and details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/download\/driverResults.aspx\/132524\/en-us<\/a><\/p>\n

The ‘Release Highlights’ clearly specify ”Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels<\/em>.”, and yet it still<\/span> fails with Kernel 4.16 (tested with 4.16-rc7<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

..................<\/span><\/strong>\r\nld -r -o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-modeset-interface.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/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\nWARNING: \"swiotlb_map_sg_attrs\" [\/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia.ko] undefined!<\/span><\/strong>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia.ko<\/span><\/strong>\r\nmake[2]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.16-rc7'<\/span><\/strong>\r\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.16-rc7'<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Speculation:<\/em>
\nIt is just possible that this update has been released in error, as Kernel 4.16 is due to be out very soon, and – typically – the phrase ”Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.” signifies compatibility with the next major release, and the previous version – 384.111 – was already compatible with Kernel 4.15…<\/em><\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 March 29, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NVIDIA have released driver 384.130, and details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/download\/driverResults.aspx\/132524\/en-us The ‘Release Highlights’ clearly specify ”Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.”, and yet it still fails with Kernel 4.16 (tested with 4.16-rc7): ……………… ld -r -o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-modeset-interface.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules WARNING: “swiotlb_map_sg_attrs” [\/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia.ko] undefined! CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.ko CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.130\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD …<\/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":[14,15,18,19,20],"tags":[1851,1852,277,1820],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-384-130","tag-fails-with-kernel-4-16","tag-nvidia-2","tag-swiotlb_map_sg_attrs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","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=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}