Package Details: nvidia-beta-dkms 370.28-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/nvidia-beta-dkms.git (read-only)
Package Base: nvidia-beta-dkms
Description: NVIDIA kernel module sources (DKMS) - BETA version
Upstream URL: http://www.nvidia.com/
Licenses: custom:NVIDIA
Conflicts: nvidia
Provides: nvidia=370.28, nvidia-dkms
Submitter: alucryd
Maintainer: anish (Det)
Last Packager: Det
Votes: 37
Popularity: 0.607310
First Submitted: 2013-03-12 11:21
Last Updated: 2016-09-09 11:14

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Det commented on 2016-06-14 14:26

Reverted.

Vash63 commented on 2016-06-14 05:20

Similar to last major release:

patch: **** Can't open patch file ../linux-4.7.patch : No such file or directory

Once again commenting out the line in the PKGBUILD fixes it... which I ended up doing as after I applied the patch the module failed to compile on my 4.6 kernel (can provide logs if they help).

Anyway, issue with the PKGBUILD was bad pathing. Fixed it by adjusting lines 46-49:
45 sh ${_pkg}.run --extract-only
46 cd ${_pkg}
47 # patches here
48 patch -p1 --no-backup-if-mismatch -i ../linux-4.7.patch
49 cd kernel
50

Unfortunately it seems this patch breaks 4.6 compatibility so I ended up reverting back to just commenting out the patch line for now.

Det commented on 2016-05-20 02:28

Fixed.

Vash63 commented on 2016-05-19 21:09

Today's version is failing pretty early on:

Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 367.18........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
patch: **** Can't open patch file ../linux-4.6.patch : No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
Aborting...

As I'm still on 4.5, I just commented out the patch in the PKGBUILD and it builds and works fine now.

Det commented on 2016-03-23 15:31

No.

droidmahn commented on 2016-03-23 09:39

Seems like it wants to install mesa libraries which end up conflicting when installing nvidia-utils-beta.

Xaero252 commented on 2015-10-18 03:31

Thanks - I realized today I had forgotten to reply to this. Yeah, I just put it in modules-load.d. At least they are making progress in positive direction.

anish commented on 2015-10-15 15:34

From the release notes : 'nvidia-modeset.ko does not provide any new user-visible functionality or interfaces to third party applications. However, in a later release, nvidia-modeset.ko will be used as a basis for the modesetting interface provided by the kernel's direct rendering manager (DRM).'

So as of now, putting it in the
initramfs would provide no actual use

Xaero252 commented on 2015-10-15 15:29

So is the new kernel module intended by loaded via modules-load.d or wrapped into the initramfs? I'll give it a go either way and I knew I was overlooking something obvious that's what I get for skimming patch notes.

Det commented on 2015-10-15 05:34

I changed the PKGBUILD internals quite a lot, because the previous pushd/eval/popd (x2) thing was just a mess:

- old: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=nvidia-beta-dkms&id=2ffc2341789ed6392a267d3f1023af6c742f79ae
- new: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=nvidia-beta-dkms

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