{"id":901,"date":"2013-10-23T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T08:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=901"},"modified":"2013-10-23T09:48:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T08:48:29","slug":"nvidia-epic-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA – Epic Fail?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had assumed that my previous article on ‘auto patching’ was going to be redundant…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, I discovered to my dismay that even the newly-released NVIDIA driver – 331.17<\/strong> still<\/span> fails to compile and install on 3.11 and 3.12 kernels..<\/p>\n

It appears that nv-drm.c<\/em><\/strong> has been fixed, but not nv-linux.h<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 This means that – for both 3.11 and 3.12 – the original<\/span> 3.11 patch for nv-linux.h will apply.<\/p>\n

I have tested this patch with 331.17 and kernels 3.11.6<\/strong> and 3.12-rc6<\/strong>, and they both compile OK..
\nOne interesting point to note, is that the install includes ”Building Unified Memory Kernel Module<\/em>” now..<\/p>\n

I must admit to being concerned at this fiasco…\u00a0\u00a0 NVIDIA are adding ‘features’ to the Linux driver, but seem to be incapable of fixing relatively-simple – and well documented – issues with the latest kernel\/s..<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 October 23. 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had assumed that my previous article on ‘auto patching’ was going to be redundant…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, I discovered to my dismay that even the newly-released NVIDIA driver – 331.17 still fails to compile and install on 3.11 and 3.12 kernels.. It appears that nv-drm.c has been fixed, but not nv-linux.h.\u00a0\u00a0 This means that – for both 3.11 …<\/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":[5,6,11,14,15,18,19],"tags":[601,682,681,148,680,683],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-3-11","tag-3-11-patch-needed","tag-3-12","tag-fail","tag-nvidia-331-17","tag-patch-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}