{"id":2628,"date":"2019-10-17T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2019-11-04T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:22:02","slug":"nvidia-driver-440-26-released-compiles-with-kernel-5-3-after-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA – Driver 440.26 Released – Compiles with Kernel 5.4 – after Workaround.."},"content":{"rendered":"

NVIDIA driver 440.26<\/strong> is out, and details can be found here:\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/1065039\/announcements-and-news\/-linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-440-26-beta-release-long-lived-branch-release-\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I have tested compilation with Kernel 5.4-rc3<\/strong>, and it still complains about Module.symvers<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

$ make<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Entering directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-5.4-rc3'<\/span><\/strong>
\nThe Module.symvers file is missing, or does not contain any<\/span><\/strong>
\nsymbols exported from the kernel. This could cause the NVIDIA<\/span><\/strong>
\nkernel modules to be built against a configuration that does<\/span><\/strong>
\nnot accurately reflect the actual target kernel.<\/span><\/strong>
\nThe Module.symvers file check can be disabled by setting the<\/span><\/strong>
\nenvironment variable IGNORE_MISSING_MODULE_SYMVERS to 1.<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[2]: *** [\/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/Kbuild:183: module_symvers_sanity_check] Error 1<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: *** [Makefile:1649: \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26<\/span><\/strong><\/code>\/kernel] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-5.4-rc3'<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake: *** [Makefile:81: modules] Error 2<\/span><\/strong><\/code>
\nFixed, by:
\n$ export IGNORE_MISSING_MODULE_SYMVERS=1<\/strong><\/span>
\n$ make<\/strong><\/span><\/code>
\n– and then compiles successfully..
\n………………….
\nld -r -o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-modeset-interface.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nvidia-modeset-linux.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-kthread-q.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nBuilding modules, stage 2.<\/span><\/strong>
\nMODPOST 4 modules<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.ko<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.ko<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.ko<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.26\/kernel\/nvidia.ko<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-5.4-rc3'<\/span><\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n

I have not been able to test runtime<\/em> performance, yet…<\/p>\n

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

NVIDIA driver 440.26 is out, and details can be found here:\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/1065039\/announcements-and-news\/-linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-440-26-beta-release-long-lived-branch-release-\/ I have tested compilation with Kernel 5.4-rc3, and it still complains about Module.symvers: $ make make[1]: Entering directory ‘\/usr\/src\/linux-5.4-rc3’ The Module.symvers file is missing, or does not contain any symbols exported from the kernel. This could cause the NVIDIA kernel modules to be built against …<\/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":[1238,14,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fix","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","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=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}