{"id":3388,"date":"2025-12-18T05:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:41:33","slug":"nvidia-hack-to-get-kernel-6-19-support-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3388","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA – Hack to Get Kernel 6.19 Support – Just…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest NVIDIA drivers failed with Kernel 6.19-rc1<\/strong>, as detailed in an earlier post, and after some more research I was able to work out a hack to fix this, and in the process discovered a bit of a surprise..<\/p>\n

I managed to get the NVIDIA-proprietary code for 580.119.02<\/strong> to compile successfully, but then:
\n…………………………
\nERROR: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__vma_start_write'<\/span><\/strong>
\nERROR: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia-drm.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__vma_start_write'<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[4]: *** [\/usr\/src\/linux-6.19-rc1\/scripts\/Makefile.modpost:147: Module.symvers] Error 1<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[3]: *** [\/usr\/src\/linux-6.19-rc1\/Makefile:2004: modpost] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[2]: *** [\/usr\/src\/linux-6.19-rc1\/Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[2]: Leaving directory '\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.119.02\/kernel'<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-6.19-rc1'<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake: *** [Makefile:138: modules] Error 2 <\/span><\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n

I was testing this on a\u00a0laptop with a GTX980M, which is still supported with this driver..<\/p>\n

So, I decided to try hacking the MIT\/GPL code in the kernel-open<\/em> directory..
\nAfter getting this compile successfully, I got a ‘no device found<\/strong>‘ error after # modprobe nvidia<\/strong><\/span>, and assumed I had got something wrong.. After more testing, I found that the MIT\/GPL (‘kernel-open<\/em>‘) code would not work at all with this GPU, although the NVIDIA (‘kernel<\/em>‘) code for the same driver version did! It seems the ‘kernel-open<\/em>‘ code has already dropped support for ‘older’ GTX GPUs, and only worked with newer RTX models..
\n……………….
\n[ 1029.103879] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237<\/span><\/strong>
\n[ 1029.103887] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:01:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:13d7)<\/span><\/strong>
\nNVRM: installed in this system is not supported by open<\/span><\/strong>
\nNVRM: nvidia.ko because it does not include the required GPU<\/span><\/strong>
\nNVRM: System Processor (GSP).<\/span><\/strong>
\nNVRM: Please see the 'Open Linux Kernel Modules' and 'GSP<\/span><\/strong>
\nNVRM: Firmware' sections in the driver README, available on<\/span><\/strong>
\nNVRM: the Linux graphics driver download page at<\/span><\/strong>
\nNVRM: www.nvidia.com.<\/span><\/strong>
\n[ 1029.107031] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: probe with driver nvidia failed with error -1<\/span><\/strong>
\n[ 1029.107118] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).<\/span><\/strong>
\n[ 1029.107120] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA devices were initialized.<\/span><\/strong>
\n[ 1029.107666] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 237 <\/span><\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n

Switching to a system with an RTX 3050 GPU, I was able to get the hacked driver to load and run successfully..
\n……………………..
\nCC [M] nvidia.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC [M] .module-common.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] nvidia.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC [M] nvidia-uvm.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] nvidia-uvm.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC [M] nvidia-modeset.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] nvidia-modeset.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC [M] nvidia-drm.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] nvidia-drm.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC [M] nvidia-peermem.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] nvidia-peermem.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[2]: Leaving directory '\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.119.02\/kernel-open'<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-6.19-rc1' <\/strong><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

So far, this seems to be working correctly (tested with KDE\/Plasma, 4K video, and VMware with Win10 Guest).\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I will publish the ‘hack’ details – and appropriate warnings – in a separate article..<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon. December 18th 2025..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest NVIDIA drivers failed with Kernel 6.19-rc1, as detailed in an earlier post, and after some more research I was able to work out a hack to fix this, and in the process discovered a bit of a surprise.. I managed to get the NVIDIA-proprietary code for 580.119.02 to compile successfully, but then: ………………………… ERROR: modpost: …<\/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":[5,6,11,14,15,18,19],"tags":[1689,182,2788,2792,277,1175,2793],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-gpl-issues","tag-hack","tag-kernel-6-19","tag-kernel-open","tag-nvidia-2","tag-success","tag-support-surprise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","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=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}