tried vanilla driver (370.23) including non-beta (367.44) and also 370.23 with patch for kernel 4.8.0-rc2
i got from here : https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957804/linux/-patch-370-23-kernel-4-8-0-rc2/
here is the first 200 lines of error log inside nvidia-installer.log
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Wed Aug 31 12:15:02 2016
installer version: 370.23
PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
nvidia-installer command line:
./nvidia-installer
-a
Unable to load: nvidia-installer ncurses v6 user interface
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> Detected 4 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 4.
WARNING: You do not appear to have an NVIDIA GPU supported by the 370.23 NVIDIA Linux graphics driver installed in this system. For further details, please see the appendix SUPPORTED NVIDIA GRAPHICS CHIPS in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
-> License accepted by command line option.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 370.23.
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="/usr/bin/cc".
-> Kernel source path: '/usr/src/linux'
-> Kernel output path: '/usr/src/linux'
-> Performing rivafb check.
-> Performing nvidiafb check.
-> Performing Xen check.
-> Performing PREEMPT_RT check.
-> Cleaning kernel module build directory.
executing: 'cd ./kernel; /usr/bin/make -k -j4 clean NV_EXCLUDE_KERNEL_MODULES="" SYSSRC="/usr/src/linux" SYSOUT="/usr/src/linux"'...
rm -f -r conftest
/usr/bin/make "CC=cc" KBUILD_VERBOSE= -C /usr/src/linux M=/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel ARCH=x86_64 NV_KERNEL_SOURCES=/usr/src/linux NV_KERNEL_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux NV_KERNEL_MODULES="nvidia nvidia-uvm nvidia-modeset nvidia-drm" INSTALL_MOD_DIR=kernel/drivers/video clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.8-rc4'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.8-rc4'
-> Building kernel modules
executing: 'cd ./kernel; /usr/bin/make -k -j4 NV_EXCLUDE_KERNEL_MODULES="" SYSSRC="/usr/src/linux" SYSOUT="/usr/src/linux"'...
/usr/bin/make "CC=cc" KBUILD_VERBOSE= -C /usr/src/linux M=/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel ARCH=x86_64 NV_KERNEL_SOURCES=/usr/src/linux NV_KERNEL_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux NV_KERNEL_MODULES="nvidia nvidia-uvm nvidia-modeset nvidia-drm" INSTALL_MOD_DIR=kernel/drivers/video modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.8-rc4'
SYMLINK /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-kernel.o
SYMLINK /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-kernel.o
CONFTEST: INIT_WORK
CONFTEST: remap_pfn_range
CONFTEST: vmap
CONFTEST: follow_pfn
CONFTEST: set_pages_uc
CONFTEST: set_memory_uc
CONFTEST: set_memory_array_uc
CONFTEST: change_page_attr
CONFTEST: pci_get_class
CONFTEST: pci_choose_state
CONFTEST: vm_insert_page
CONFTEST: acpi_device_id
CONFTEST: acquire_console_sem
CONFTEST: console_lock
CONFTEST: kmem_cache_create
CONFTEST: on_each_cpu
CONFTEST: smp_call_function
CONFTEST: acpi_evaluate_integer
CONFTEST: ioremap_cache
CONFTEST: ioremap_wc
CONFTEST: acpi_walk_namespace
CONFTEST: pci_domain_nr
CONFTEST: pci_dma_mapping_error
CONFTEST: sg_alloc_table
CONFTEST: sg_init_table
CONFTEST: pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot
CONFTEST: get_num_physpages
CONFTEST: efi_enabled
CONFTEST: proc_create_data
CONFTEST: pde_data
CONFTEST: proc_remove
CONFTEST: pm_vt_switch_required
CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_set_busid
CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_gem_prime_res_obj
CONFTEST: xen_ioemu_inject_msi
CONFTEST: phys_to_dma
CONFTEST: get_dma_ops
CONFTEST: write_cr4
CONFTEST: of_parse_phandle
CONFTEST: for_each_online_node
CONFTEST: node_end_pfn
CONFTEST: pci_bus_address
CONFTEST: request_threaded_irq
CONFTEST: remap_page_range
CONFTEST: address_space_init_once
CONFTEST: kbasename
CONFTEST: fatal_signal_pending
CONFTEST: list_cut_position
CONFTEST: vzalloc
CONFTEST: wait_on_bit_lock_argument_count
CONFTEST: bitmap_clear
CONFTEST: usleep_range
CONFTEST: radix_tree_empty
CONFTEST: drm_dev_unref
CONFTEST: drm_reinit_primary_mode_group
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_set_mode_for_crtc
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_clean_old_fb
CONFTEST: get_user_pages_remote
CONFTEST: drm_gem_object_lookup
CONFTEST: i2c_adapter
CONFTEST: pm_message_t
CONFTEST: irq_handler_t
CONFTEST: acpi_device_ops
CONFTEST: acpi_op_remove
CONFTEST: outer_flush_all
CONFTEST: proc_dir_entry
CONFTEST: scatterlist
CONFTEST: sg_table
CONFTEST: file_operations
CONFTEST: vm_operations_struct
CONFTEST: atomic_long_type
CONFTEST: pci_save_state
CONFTEST: file_inode
CONFTEST: task_struct
CONFTEST: kuid_t
CONFTEST: dma_ops
CONFTEST: dma_map_ops
CONFTEST: noncoherent_swiotlb_dma_ops
CONFTEST: fault_flags
CONFTEST: atomic64_type
CONFTEST: address_space
CONFTEST: backing_dev_info
CONFTEST: kernel_write
CONFTEST: strnstr
CONFTEST: iterate_dir
CONFTEST: kstrtoull
CONFTEST: mm_context_t
CONFTEST: drm_bus_present
CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_bus_type
CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_get_irq
CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_get_name
CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_legacy_dev_list
CONFTEST: drm_crtc_state_has_connectors_changed
CONFTEST: drm_init_functions_have_name_arg
CONFTEST: drm_mode_connector_list_update_has_merge_type_bits_arg
CONFTEST: drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct_has_const_mode_cmd_arg
CONFTEST: dom0_kernel_present
CONFTEST: drm_available
CONFTEST: nvidia_grid_build
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_available
CC [M] /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-frontend.o
CC [M] /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-instance.o
CC [M] /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv.o
CC [M] /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-acpi.o
In file included from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/common/inc/conftest.h:5:0,
from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/common/inc/nv-linux.h:15,
from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-frontend.c:13:
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:13:2: error: #error kmem_cache_create() conftest failed!
#error kmem_cache_create() conftest failed!
^
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:14:2: error: #error on_each_cpu() conftest failed!
#error on_each_cpu() conftest failed!
^
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:15:2: error: #error smp_call_function() conftest failed!
#error smp_call_function() conftest failed!
^
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:20:2: error: #error acpi_walk_namespace() conftest failed!
#error acpi_walk_namespace() conftest failed!
^
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:22:2: error: #error pci_dma_mapping_error() conftest failed!
#error pci_dma_mapping_error() conftest failed!
^
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:48:2: error: #error wait_on_bit_lock() conftest failed!
#error wait_on_bit_lock() conftest failed!
^
In file included from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/common/inc/conftest.h:7:0,
from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/common/inc/nv-linux.h:15,
from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-frontend.c:13:
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/macros.h:1:2: error: #error INIT_WORK() conftest failed!
#error INIT_WORK() conftest failed!
^
In file included from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/common/inc/conftest.h:5:0,
from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/common/inc/nv-linux.h:15,
from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-instance.c:13:
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:13:2: error: #error kmem_cache_create() conftest failed!
#error kmem_cache_create() conftest failed!
^
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:14:2: error: #error on_each_cpu() conftest failed!
#error on_each_cpu() conftest failed!
^
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:15:2: error: #error smp_call_function() conftest failed!
#error smp_call_function() conftest failed!
^
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:20:2: error: #error acpi_walk_namespace() conftest failed!
#error acpi_walk_namespace() conftest failed!
^
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:22:2: error: #error pci_dma_mapping_error() conftest failed!
#error pci_dma_mapping_error() conftest failed!
^
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:48:2: error: #error wait_on_bit_lock() conftest failed!
#error wait_on_bit_lock() conftest failed!
^
In file included from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/common/inc/conftest.h:7:0,
from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/common/inc/nv-linux.h:15,
from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-instance.c:13:
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/macros.h:1:2: error: #error INIT_WORK() conftest failed!
#error INIT_WORK() conftest failed!
^
In file included from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/common/inc/conftest.h:5:0,
from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/common/inc/nv-linux.h:15,
from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-acpi.c:15:
/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23/kernel/conftest/functions.h:13:2: error: #error kmem_cache_create() conftest failed!
#error kmem_cache_create() conftest failed!
anyone know which latest kernel does nvidia driver tested to work?
thank you