Just compiled 3.8-rc2 on my test system, and the situation regarding NVIDIA and VMware is similar to -rc1..<\/p>\n
For NVIDIA, the two ‘latest’ driver versions – 310.19 and 313.09 – fail to compile, but the earlier<\/span> version – 310.14<\/strong> – compiles OK..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Version 310.14 does not compile with kernel 3.7, so it would appear that the changes to the ‘later’ drivers for kernel 3.7 break<\/span> compilation for 3.8..<\/p>\n For VMware, the same ‘softlink’ workaround as for 3.7 and later, still works..<\/p>\n # ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-3.8-rc2\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-3.8-rc2\/include\/linux\/version.h<\/strong><\/em> # uname -a<\/strong><\/em> With -rc1, there were several ‘issues’..\u00a0 and the fan on my HP laptop was running 100% of the time, which was not good..\u00a0\u00a0 I will now do some further test with -rc2, to see if these have been fixed!<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon..\u00a0\u00a0 January 3rd, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just compiled 3.8-rc2 on my test system, and the situation regarding NVIDIA and VMware is similar to -rc1.. For NVIDIA, the two ‘latest’ driver versions – 310.19 and 313.09 – fail to compile, but the earlier version – 310.14 – compiles OK..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Version 310.14 does not compile with kernel 3.7, so it would appear that the changes …<\/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":[5,6,11,14,15,18,25],"tags":[66,1172,1173,242,277,1175,402,419],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-vmware","tag-3-8-rc2","tag-compilation","tag-kernel","tag-linux","tag-nvidia-2","tag-success","tag-vmware-2","tag-workarounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","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=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n# vmware-modconfig –console –install-all<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nLinux rg6830l 3.8.0-rc2 #1 SMP Thu Jan 3 13:08:27 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n