Well, I’m confused. Normally when there’s an error building NVIDIA modules, someone has already posted info or/and patches to fix it and this time around there’s none: LD [M] /tmp/1/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.40.07/kernel/nvidia.o LD [M] /tmp/1/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.40.07/kernel/nvidia-modeset…

Driver 545 is outdated and wasn’t updated, only 535 and 550.

this worked for me for both 6.7.3 and 6.8.0-rc2

I’m also having this problem on NixOS as of an update this morning.

For those that do not want to wait for NVIDIA’s fixed releases, I wrote a quick workaround patch for Gentoo that does not need to modify the kernel. Not very tested but not seeing how it could cause problems (well, it lacks the kernel’s race fix but should be no worse than it was before and that ma…

Looks like they backported it to 6.6.15 as well.

Is the open kernel module better than the closed ones? In the future it might be temping to use open kernel module to avoid problems with kernel.

Hi All, We are aware of the issue and is being tracked internally via bug 4336331. Fix will be available in future released drivers.

Thank you. Please release a fix for the 470xx series as well…

Is the open kernel module better than the closed ones? In the future it might be temping to use open kernel module to avoid problems with kernel. If you’re talking about Nvidia’s official open GPU kernel modules, they work fine, but lack certain key features, the biggest one being the ability to …

Liquorix released a 6.7.3 kernel with a patch to solve this. I particularly prefer XanMod, but I will use what I have to keep updated.

Linux 6.7.3 + 545.29.06/550.40.07: ERROR: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__rcu_read_lock'

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SoftExpert February 2, 2024, 7:04am 22

Thank you for the patch, seems to works well in Manjaro / Arch with kernels 6.7.3, 6.6.15 and 6.1.76 and nvidia driver 470.223.02.

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