{"id":609,"date":"2013-01-25T22:08:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2013-01-25T22:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T22:08:05","slug":"3-8-rc5-already-works-with-patched-softlinked-vmware-and-old-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"3.8-rc5 Already &#8211; Works with Patched \/ Softlinked VMware, and &#8216;Old&#8217; NVIDIA.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just installed kernel <strong>3.8-rc5<\/strong> &#8211; recently released..<\/p>\n<p>This release has the same dependencies as -rc4, for VMware and NVIDIA..<\/p>\n<p>For VMware, apply Tim&#8217;s <strong>vmci<\/strong> patch (see previous article for -rc4) and use the softlink:<br \/>\n<strong><em>$ ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-3.8-rc5\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-3.8-rc5\/include\/linux\/version.h<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For NVIDIA, use the &#8216;old&#8217; driver <strong>310.14<\/strong>, as the newer 3.7-compatible drivers still won&#8217;t compile with 3.8..<\/p>\n<p><strong>$ <em>uname -a<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Linux rg6830l 3.8.0-rc5 #1 SMP Fri Jan 25 21:13:42 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 January 25th, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just installed kernel 3.8-rc5 &#8211; recently released.. This release has the same dependencies as -rc4, for VMware and NVIDIA.. For VMware, apply Tim&#8217;s vmci patch (see previous article for -rc4) and use the softlink: $ ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-3.8-rc5\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-3.8-rc5\/include\/linux\/version.h For NVIDIA, use the &#8216;old&#8217; driver 310.14, as the newer 3.7-compatible drivers still won&#8217;t compile with 3.8.. $ <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=609\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[5,10,14,15,18,25],"tags":[230,278,297,342,1175,393,402],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fedora","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-vmware","tag-kernel-3-8-rc5","tag-nvidia-310-14","tag-patched","tag-softlink","tag-success","tag-version-h","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}