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Please don't flag this package out-of-date unless a new version has been released by NVIDIA.

The DKMS package guidelines are explicit that linux-headers should not be a dependency of any DKMS package.

As a concrete example of why including that as a hard dependency is a bad idea, what happens when linux is not an installed kernel?

Found the problem. On line 59 of PKGBUILD it must be: patch -Np1 -i ../../kernel-6.3.patch

instead of: patch -Np1 -i ../kernel-6.3.patch

@vnctdj, the patch doesn't works here:

patch: **** Can't open patch file ../kernel-6.3.patch : No such file or directory

I've pushed a new version of the PKGBUILD.

Thanks for providing the new patch and for testing it. Unfortunately I don't have the time to test it myself for the moment...

@vnctdj can you please add the following patch to the PKGBUILD: https://gitlab.com/herecura/packages/nvidia-390xx-dkms/-/blob/36af321ae3f3a1e177dd36c92ccd8f7ae3c8f1aa/kernel-6.3.patch

it is neccecsary for making this driver compatible with linux kernel v6.3 thank you so much for maintaining the driver so far !

@BlackIkeEagle,it works fine on linux6.3.0-x64v1-xanmod1-1

Since it looks like 6.3 will be out next week, anybody confirmed the 6.3 patch results in a working driver?

a patch for the upcoming 6.3 kernel: https://gitlab.com/herecura/packages/nvidia-390xx-dkms/-/blob/36af321ae3f3a1e177dd36c92ccd8f7ae3c8f1aa/kernel-6.3.patch

I have no idea if that makes the drivers work, it makes them build on 6.3rc6

Tested and everything works fine with linux kernel 6.2.6 and Nvidia 390.157-3 with Kernel 6.2 patch, but for some reason I get this older linux headers error.

Packages Installed:

• Kernel: linux-6.2.6.arch1-1-x86_64
• Headers: linux-headers-6.2.6.arch1-1-x86_64
• API-Headers: linux-api-headers-6.1.9-1-any
• Package: nvidia-390xx-dkms-390.157-3-x86_64
• Video-Driver: nvidia-390xx-dkms-390.157-3-x86_64 (ERROR HERE)
• Video-Utils: nvidia-390xx-utils-390.157-3-x86_64
• Video-OpenCL: opencl-nvidia-390xx-390.157-3-x86_64

Error From Nvidia 390xx Driver

ERROR: Missing 6.1.8-arch1-1 kernel modules tree for module nvidia/390.157

Since we are in need of a long-term maintainer, and since @vnctd did such a good job handling the patches for glibc-2.37 and the 6.2 kernel patch, I would nominate @vnctd as the new maintainer -- if he will do it.

I fumbled around getting the package to build without the patch to the point of drm failure, but then would have been stuck until I could find an existing patch for it. I know C and understood the errors

nv-acpi.c:77:19: error: initialization of XXX  from incompatible pointer type YYY
    77 |         .remove = nv_acpi_remove_two_args,

and

nvidia-drm-drv.c:244:21: error: ‘struct drm_mode_config’ has no member named ‘fb_base’
  244 |     dev->mode_config.fb_base = 0;

However, it would likely have taken me a bit more time to arrive at a full solution -- so I'm not the guy. Anyone else have a 2nd or other thoughts?