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nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 package

  1. Bug #1737750
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 1737750

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Linard Verstraete (linardv) wrote : Re: nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 304.137-0ubuntu2 ADT test failure with linux 4.15.0-1.2 [error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’]

I have hardware (nVidia GeForce 8400M GS) for a runtime test.
The card is supported upstream by the 340.x branch until 2019 [1].
The release notes of the latest released patch (340.107-0) seem to be mention that they resolved the problem [2].
The patch is available and packaged for Ubuntu, currently only for 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" [3].

To confirm, I ran Ubuntu 18.10 from the daily liveDVD [4], verified it ran linux-4.15.x, installed nvidia-340 340.107-0ubuntu1 and noted that it built successfully [5].

Anyone an idea who can make the "nvidia-340 340.107-0ubuntu1" package available affected versions:
* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus (HWE introduced kernel 4.15 there [6])
* Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver (started on kernel 4.15)

Thanks,
Linard.

[1] http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142
[2] http://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/135245/en-uk
[3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-340/+publishinghistory
[4] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
[5] See attachment to this bug report: "nvidia-340.1070-linux-4.15-install-log.txt"
[6] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=16.04.x+Ubuntu+Kernel+Support+Schedule.svg