Current nvidia390 hangs kernel as soon as anything tries to use it. Booted into text mode, with module loaded, just an 'nvidia-smi' causes kernel to hang. It looks like some hunks of this patch: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/kernel-5.7.patch?h=nvidia-390xx are still missing in Cauldron package, all the pgtable-related stuff. I modified sources by hand (the patch does not apply cleanly, some parts seem already in), and now system boots and runs. Can you please take a look ? TIA
Thank you for this helpful report. I am surprised that the M8 pre-release ISO testing has not shown this; perhaps no-one uses this exact driver. Can you post just the "VGA compatible controller" section of: $ lspci -v output, to provide a context. Assigning to the kernel/drivers team.
Assignee: bugsquad => kernel
I've added the referenced patch. We had an earlier version, which just fixed the driver build problems. Please test nvidia390-390.132-9.mga8 when it reaches the mirrors. I've checked that the kernel module builds and loads, but don't have the necessary hardware to test whether it actually works.
CC: (none) => mageia
It is an old GTX 740: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF100 [GeForce GTX 470] (rev a3) leda:~/bin# nvidia-smi Sat Jun 20 01:23:04 2020 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 390.132 Driver Version: 390.132 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce GTX 470 Off | 00000000:02:00.0 N/A | N/A | | 40% 64C P12 N/A / N/A | 41MiB / 1218MiB | N/A Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Type Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0 Not Supported | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ I can confirm that this build works fine. It even works in GLVND mode after removing all redundant stuff and 32bit binaries (??): #D=/usr/lib64/nvidia-current D=/usr/lib64/nvidia390 rm -f $D/libGLdispatch.so.0 rm -f $D/libGL.* $D/libOpenGL.* rm -f $D/libEGL.* rm -f $D/libGLESv1_CM.* $D/libGLESv2.* rm -f $D/libOpenCL.* rm -rf /usr/lib/nvidia390 ldconfig -i
The 32-bit libraries are presumably there to allow 32-bit applications to work. Thanks for confirming it works.
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED
I completed the 5.6 patchset for the timeval nv testing (backported from newer nvidia drivers), so that it would work also with older kernels.
CC: (none) => ghibomgx