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maintainer JerryXiao changend something at 20250206

i saw, many thanks to him that he hard working for support this legacy driver!)

woow, at my Artix(nosystemd fork of Arch) now i am install kernel 6.12.0(non lts) and gcc 14.1.1, driver installed and working good, but without dkms, maybe i will test dkms at near future and report here how it works.

And one yet great thing, here at dual boot i have Fedora41, and i use patcher from if-not-true-then-false(based at JerryXiao patches) and even after update to kernel 6.14.5 and gcc 14.2.1, 340.108 driver still working good and dkms too! Its awesome!)

@freeartist First English isnt my native language, second i`m not an expert. The maintainer JerryXiao changend something at 20250206 and then I could run the paru uninstall and install commands, and after installing the package automatically runs dkms install. this is the only thing I reported earlier. Perhaps someone would expound this, who has more expertise, best regards

@bigjuck Thanks a lot for info man!) I am found another thread at AUR nvidia-340xx(non lts) idk what this mean?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-340xx

There also are useful comments.

So. You build 340.108 with no dkms but lts? And what version gcc are you using for build 340xx-lts?

@freeartist until 6.12.12 there isn`t no problem, look my comment 250206

No more new patches for kernel 6.8+?

Same thing for me against linux-lts 6.12.27

I can't compile the driver against linux-lts 6.12.26.

The way it runs for me,

paru -R nvidia-340xx-lts (or any other aur-package manager) and then paru -S nvidia-340xx-lts

Hope this helps

Strange but my Xserver doesn't start with the new 6.12 kernel, though the module was compiled without issues. Here's the tail of my Xorg.log: (downgrading to the previous LTS 6.6.72 kernel works OK)

[  4559.179] ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================
[  4559.179] This server has a video driver ABI version of 25.2 that this
driver does not officially support.  Please check
http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X
server with a supported driver ABI.
[  4559.179] =================================================================
[  4559.179] (WW) NVIDIA: The driver will continue to load, but may behave strangely.
[  4559.179] (WW) NVIDIA: This driver was compiled against the X.Org server SDK from commit e6ef2b12404dfec7f23592a3524d2a63d9d25802 and may not be compatible with the final version of this SDK.
[  4559.179] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  340.108  Wed Dec 11 14:06:00 PST 2019
[  4559.179] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[  4559.180] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[  4559.180] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[  4559.180] (II) Module "fb" already built-in
[  4559.180] (WW) Unresolved symbol: fbGetGCPrivateKey
[  4559.180] (II) Loading sub module "wfb"
[  4559.180] (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
[  4559.180] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
[  4559.180] (II) Module wfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  4559.180]    compiled for 1.21.1.15, module version = 1.0.0
[  4559.180]    ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[  4559.180] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[  4559.180] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[  4559.180] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[  4559.281] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[  4559.281] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages and
[  4559.281] (EE) NVIDIA:     consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[  4559.281] (EE) No devices detected.
[  4559.281] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[  4559.281] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[  4559.281] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
     at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[  4559.281] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  4559.281] (EE) 
[  4559.285] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Thank you very much, incredible quick reaction