{"id":780,"date":"2013-07-15T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T10:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2013-07-15T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T10:16:47","slug":"kernel-3-11-rc1-first-impressions-vmware-ok-nvidia-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Kernel 3.11-rc1 &#8211; First Impressions &#8211; VMware OK, NVIDIA not.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just installed the newly-released kernel 3.11-rc1 on the test system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>VMware Workstation 9.02 &#8211; with the 3.10 patches for <strong><em>vmnet<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>vmblock<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; compiles OK, but &#8211; for some reason &#8211; the modules don&#8217;t install using the usual command (<strong># vmware-modconfig &#8211;console &#8211;install-all<\/strong>)..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But, the &#8216;user&#8217; command <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">does<\/span> work, (<strong># vmware-modconfig &#8211;icon=vmware-workstation &#8211;appname=VMware<\/strong>, or just type<strong> # vmware<\/strong>, from an X console).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This means that the usual <em>auto-recompile<\/em> when booting a &#8216;new&#8217; kernel won&#8217;t work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA driver <strong>319.32<\/strong>, with the kernel 3.10 patch, does <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> compile:<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310\/kernel\/os-interface.c: In function \u2018os_get_system_memory_size\u2019:<br \/>\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310\/kernel\/os-interface.c:255:21: error: \u2018num_physpages\u2019 undeclared (first use in this function)<br \/>\nreturn (((NvU64)NV_NUM_PHYSPAGES * PAGE_SIZE) \/ RM_PAGE_SIZE);<br \/>\n^<br \/>\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310\/kernel\/os-interface.c:255:21: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in<br \/>\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310\/kernel\/os-interface.c:256:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n^<br \/>\nmake[4]: *** [\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310\/kernel\/os-interface.o] Error 1<br \/>\nmake[3]: *** [_module_\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310\/kernel] Error 2<br \/>\nmake[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2<br \/>\nNVIDIA: left KBUILD.<br \/>\nnvidia.ko failed to build!<br \/>\nmake[1]: *** [module] Error 1<br \/>\nmake: *** [install] Error 2<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 15, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just installed the newly-released kernel 3.11-rc1 on the test system&#8230; VMware Workstation 9.02 &#8211; with the 3.10 patches for vmnet and vmblock &#8211; compiles OK, but &#8211; for some reason &#8211; the modules don&#8217;t install using the usual command (# vmware-modconfig &#8211;console &#8211;install-all)..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But, the &#8216;user&#8217; command does work, (# vmware-modconfig &#8211;icon=vmware-workstation &#8211;appname=VMware, or just type # <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=780\"><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":[5,6,11,14,15,18,20,25],"tags":[554,552,555,553,463,407],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-performance-2","category-vmware","tag-kernel-3-10-patches","tag-kernel-3-11-rc1","tag-nvidia-319-32","tag-nvidia-fail","tag-vmware-9-02","tag-vmware-ok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}