Comment 5 for bug 1725169

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Tim O'Callaghan (timo-linux) wrote :

Currently using the graphics team ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers

This is an issue with the nvidia driver (in my case 387.12) not supporting the low latency kernel. during nvidia DKMS compilation an error is generated making the module compile fail.

root# cat /var/crash/nvidia-378.0.crash
ProblemType: Package
DKMSKernelVersion: 4.13.0-16-lowlatency
Date: Sun Nov 19 22:49:50 2017
Package: nvidia-378 378.13-0ubuntu0~gpu17.04.3
PackageVersion: 378.13-0ubuntu0~gpu17.04.3
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-378
Title: nvidia-378 378.13-0ubuntu0~gpu17.04.3: nvidia-378 kernel module failed to build

```
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-378/378.13/build/nvidia/nv-cray.o
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-378/378.13/build/nvidia/nv-dma.c:15:0:
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-378/378.13/build/common/inc/nv-linux.h:227:2: error: #error "This driver requires the ability to change memory types!"
 #error "This driver requires the ability to change memory types!"
  ^~~~~
```

I suspect we need the newer dkms driver 387.22? according to arch linux:
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/nvidia