{"id":790,"date":"2013-07-22T00:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2013-07-22T00:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:42:27","slug":"3-11-rc2-nvidia-patch-vmblock-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"3.11-rc2 &#8211; NVIDIA Patch, Vmblock Workaround.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installed kernel 3.11-rc2, and found a patch for the NVIDIA driver 325.08, which can be accessed via the dev Forum:<br \/>\n<a title=\"https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/557110\/linux\/linux-3-11_rcx-compatibility\/\" href=\"https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/557110\/linux\/linux-3-11_rcx-compatibility\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/557110\/linux\/linux-3-11_rcx-compatibility\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With VMware, it turned out that &#8211; even with the 3.10 patch &#8211; vmblock fails to compile, yet again:<\/p>\n<p>So.. the workaround is the same as for 3.10 before that vmblock patch was created..\u00a0\u00a0 Simply edit \/etc\/vmware\/config to prevent the compilation of vmblock, and remember that you need to use <strong><em># vmware-modconfig &#8211;icon=vmware-workstation &#8211;appname=VMware<\/em><\/strong> (after deleting any existing kernel module files in the <strong>&#8230;.\/misc<\/strong> directory) for this to work..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon..\u00a0\u00a0 July 22, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installed kernel 3.11-rc2, and found a patch for the NVIDIA driver 325.08, which can be accessed via the dev Forum: https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/557110\/linux\/linux-3-11_rcx-compatibility\/ With VMware, it turned out that &#8211; even with the 3.10 patch &#8211; vmblock fails to compile, yet again: So.. the workaround is the same as for 3.10 before that vmblock patch was created..\u00a0\u00a0 Simply edit <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=790\"><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":[5,6,10,11,14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[562,563,564],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-kernel-3-11-rc2","tag-nvidia-325-08-patch","tag-vmware-vmblock-workaround"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}