On Fri, Jul 6, 2018, 5:57 AM Matthew Crews <mattcr...@mattcrews.com> wrote:
> On 07/05/2018 06:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no > >> problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16 > >> and it broke the nvidia driver. > >> > >> Running 'dkms autoinstall --all' does not help, it complains > >> about not finding kernel headers (which are installed) and quits. > >> > >> Any ideas on how I can rebuild the kernel module for the new > >> kernel version? > >> > >> Thanks > >> Francisco > >> > > This requires a workaround, a kernel parameter at boot. > > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y" > > > > Edit the config file like this, > > > > $sudo gedit /etc/default/grub > > > > Then run $sudo update-grub. > > > > As an aside, thank you for posting this fix. Although my drivers were > not broken, I did have a problem where xorg would not start correctly > with the 4.16 kernel and nvidia drivers 390.48 (both from Stretch > backports). That GRUB command seemed to resolve it my issue. > > Cheers. > > I have 304xx working fine dkms with 4.16. of course these are now > deprecated. If only nouveau would work. I prefer it..
