{"id":2565,"date":"2019-05-17T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2019-05-17T15:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:58:30","slug":"nvidia-kernel-5-1-fix-also-works-with-legacy-driver-390-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA – Kernel 5.1 fix also works with Legacy driver 390.116"},"content":{"rendered":"

After some serious problems on my test system with plasma-workspace<\/strong> 5.15.x and nouveau<\/strong> (to be described in a separate article..) I had to contemplate moving back to the proprietary nvidia driver, but found – of course – that older cards were not supported by the ‘latest’ drivers.<\/p>\n

I did find that at least one of the older drivers – 390.116<\/strong> – could be patched to work with kernel 5.1, using the fix originally developed for driver 418.56 ( https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2533<\/a> and https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2530<\/a> ) and compiled OK:<\/p>\n

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\nld -r -o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.116\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-modeset-interface.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.116\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nvidia-modeset-linux.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nBuilding modules, stage 2.<\/strong><\/span>
\nMODPOST 4 modules<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.116\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.116\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.116\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.116\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.116\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.116\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.116\/kernel\/nvidia.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.116\/kernel\/nvidia.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[2]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-5.1'<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-5.1'<\/strong><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this driver was still too ‘new’ for my old GX9800 card, so off to eBay for an inexpensive currently-supported replacement!<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon. May 17, 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After some serious problems on my test system with plasma-workspace 5.15.x and nouveau (to be described in a separate article..) I had to contemplate moving back to the proprietary nvidia driver, but found – of course – that older cards were not supported by the ‘latest’ drivers. I did find that at least one of the older …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[2074,2073,283,2054],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fix","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-kernel-5-1-fix","tag-nvidia-390-116","tag-ok","tag-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}