As we seem to be stuck for some time with NVIDIA drivers incompatible with the latest kernels, patching seems to be more of a necessity, now.<\/p>\n
Thanks to a comment from Giordano<\/strong>, I have learned of a way to ‘automatically’ patch any NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file directly, and re-create a corresponding NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file which includes<\/span> the patch..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The help function does not go into much actual detail, but by the usual trial and error I managed to figure it out!<\/p>\n The command format is:<\/p>\n – and will give a corresponding ‘patched’ self-extracting\/executing file called NVIDIAxxxxxx-custom<\/em>.run<\/strong><\/p>\n The only quirk, is that the patch file itself needs to be in a certain format..<\/p>\n Many patch files contain a specific reference to the files to be patched, as follows:<\/p>\n Or – in some cases:<\/p>\n But – for the ‘auto patch’, this needs to be changed to<\/p>\n Then (for example):<\/p>\n This patched NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.60-custom.run<\/strong> can then be used in place of the original..<\/p>\n Of course, as I write this, and after many weeks of waiting, I have just noticed there is – finally – an updated NVIDIA driver on the download site!<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 October 23, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we seem to be stuck for some time with NVIDIA drivers incompatible with the latest kernels, patching seems to be more of a necessity, now. Thanks to a comment from Giordano, I have learned of a way to ‘automatically’ patch any NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file directly, and re-create a corresponding NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file which includes the patch..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The help …<\/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],"tags":[678,277,296,679,1175],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","tag-format","tag-nvidia-2","tag-patch","tag-run","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}# .\/NVIDIAxxxxxx.run --apply-patch <patch-file-name>\r\nor (on some systems)<\/em>\r\n# sh .\/NVIDIAxxxxxx.run --apply-patch <patch-file-name><\/pre>\n
--- NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.60\/kernel\/nv-drm.c\u00a0 2013-09-26 01:02:38.000000000 +0400\r\n+++ NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.60\/kernel\/nv-drm.c\u00a0 2013-09-26 01:02:38.000000000 +0400<\/pre>\n
--- a\/kernel\/nv-drm.c\u00a0 2013-09-26 01:02:38.000000000 +0400\r\n+++ b\/kernel\/nv-drm.c\u00a0 2013-09-26 01:02:38.000000000 +0400<\/pre>\n
--- kernel\/nv-drm.c\u00a0 2013-09-26 01:02:38.000000000 +0400\r\n+++ kernel\/nv-drm.c\u00a0 2013-09-26 01:02:38.000000000 +0400<\/pre>\n
# .\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.60.run --apply-patch nvidia_312_patch_run.patch<\/strong>\r\nVerifying archive integrity... OK\r\nUncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 319.60.............\r\n.....................................................................................\r\npatching file kernel\/nv-drm.c\r\npatching file kernel\/nv-linux.h\r\n.................\r\nAdding files to archive named \"NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.60-custom.run\"...\r\n.\/libvdpau.so.319.60\r\n.\/.manifest\r\n.\/glxext.h\r\n.\/glx.h\r\n.\/mkprecompiled\r\n.\/libGL.la\r\n.\/glext.h\r\n<long list of files...><\/em>\r\n.\/nvidia-smi.1.gz\r\n.\/nvidia-persistenced\r\n.\/libnvidia-ml.so.319.60\r\n.\/nvidia-installer.1.gz\r\n.\/gl.h\r\n.\/libnvidia-ifr.so.319.60\r\n\r\nCRC: 2418980242\r\nMD5: d593f39a7b899b47502c7f1c3e808e96\r\n\r\nSelf-extractible archive \"NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.60-custom.run\" successfully created.<\/pre>\n