{"id":911,"date":"2013-10-30T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T10:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2013-10-30T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T10:56:13","slug":"nvidia-what-is-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA &#8211; What is Going On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Opinion:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually write pure &#8216;op\/ed&#8217; pieces, but this situation &#8211; I think &#8211; warrants further comment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am becoming concerned at the apparent inability of NVIDIA to adequately support Linux..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the past, the company was able to very quickly produce a driver version that supported the latest changes to the Linux kernel, but not any more, it seems..<\/p>\n<p>The 3.11 kernel has been out for very nearly two months, now, and there is still no official released version of a NVIDIA Linux driver that supports it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The recent release of driver version <strong>331.17<\/strong> was an embarrassment, and only patched some of the code (for kernel 3.12 support) and missed the trivial change needed for kernel 3.11 and 3.12 support.<\/p>\n<p>The infrequent posts from NVIDIA staffers on the DevZone forum made reference &#8211; in the past &#8211; to a &#8216;Kernel Guru&#8217;, but if this is true, then that person must be busy on &#8216;Special Projects&#8217;, as they seem to have had no input\u00a0 on driver releases for some time now..<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that someone at NVIDIA is still monitoring the Linux section of their DevZone forum, one can only hope that they get the messages of frustration that are appearing there&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now that there is a real probability that high-end <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mainstream<\/span> gaming is coming to the Linux platform (thanks to <strong>Steam<\/strong>, and others) one would think that Linux kernel support would be a high priority &#8211; more so now, than in the past!<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 October 30, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: I don&#8217;t usually write pure &#8216;op\/ed&#8217; pieces, but this situation &#8211; I think &#8211; warrants further comment&#8230; I am becoming concerned at the apparent inability of NVIDIA to adequately support Linux..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the past, the company was able to very quickly produce a driver version that supported the latest changes to the Linux kernel, but not <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=911\"><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":[14,15,18,19],"tags":[1173,690,242,689,277,288,493],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-kernel","tag-latest-kernel-versions","tag-linux","tag-missing","tag-nvidia-2","tag-opinion-2","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}