Just installed kernel 3.9-rc7 on my test system, and VMware (9.02) and the latest NVIDIA ‘stable’ (310.44) and ‘beta’ (319.12) drivers all compile without problems..<\/p>\n
# uname -a<\/em><\/strong> One additional piece of information…\u00a0\u00a0 I am running Fedora 18, but using the ‘official’ kernel.org compiled<\/em> kernels…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you are using a standard Rawhide (F19) kernel, then the NVIDIA compile will fail..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is – apparently – due to the fact that these Rawhide kernels have debugging features enabled, which will effectively block any non-GPL code from compiling for them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are non-debug versions of Rawhide kernels available, and details are at: https:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/RawhideKernelNodebug<\/a> \u00a0 Thanks to benedikt<\/em> for reporting this problem (see comments on previous post https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=700<\/a>). Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 April 15, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just installed kernel 3.9-rc7 on my test system, and VMware (9.02) and the latest NVIDIA ‘stable’ (310.44) and ‘beta’ (319.12) drivers all compile without problems.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.9.0-rc7 #1 SMP Mon Apr 15 09:40:44 BST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux One additional piece of information…\u00a0\u00a0 I am running Fedora 18, but using the ‘official’ …<\/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":[5,10,14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[120,148,497,498,499,1175,463,418],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fedora","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-compile","tag-fail","tag-kernel-3-9-rc7","tag-nvidia-310-44-319-12","tag-rawhide-kernel","tag-success","tag-vmware-9-02","tag-workaround"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","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=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Linux rg6830l 3.9.0-rc7 #1 SMP Mon Apr 15 09:40:44 BST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nIt is also possible that the VMware (re)compile may fail, with standard Rawhide kernels, although I have not tested this, myself..<\/p>\n