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Please don't flag this package out-of-date unless a new version has been released by NVIDIA.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

PACKAGE NEEDS LONG TERM MAINTAINER

I have adopted the 390xx packages to keep them secure. I do not run any 390xx hardware so will not notice any breakages and cannot test any changes.

Until such time as someone else steps up to maintain these packages - ideally someone who actually has 390xx hardware - I have to rely on you to tell me what changes are needed.

Don't expect a response if you post only "this doesn't work", and do not email me to complain about the package not working!

Use this forum thread for discussion: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1946926

A binary package is also available in my kernel-lts unofficial user repository.

sfranchi : Kernel and headers packages added to my pacman ignore list what exactly did you add ? so that I can do this as well,Thank :)

Many thanks did that, works perfectly. I'll now will wait until the maintainer has time to update the kernel

Thanks for the heads-up @drankinatty. Kernel and headers packages added to my pacman ignore list until the patch is out.

Oh Joy, the Linux 6.9 kernel was just released by Linus and crew, so we should probably start looking for patches. Arch is probably a week or two away from getting the package out. I'll start looking at the current driver changes. If anybody comes up with a 6.9 kernel patch -- post a link.

@rodrigorc thank's to share.

Work's fine on my system.

I got an error dkms error WARNING:dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/390.157 -k 6.8.8-arch1-1' exited 10`.

I don't understand why dkms still building with kernel 6.8.8 when I'm using kernel 6.8.9 but with kernel 6.8.9-arch-1-2 building successfully but OpenGL not working at all. :/

Back to nouveau for now.

EDIT: removed old modules from /usr/lib/modules and compiled this package again with @aruncveli linked patch, now work. :)

I hadn't read this thread, so I fixed it myself, with this patch:

--- a/kernel/Kbuild
+++ b/kernel/Kbuild
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@

 EXTRA_CFLAGS += -I$(src)/common/inc
 EXTRA_CFLAGS += -I$(src)
-EXTRA_CFLAGS += -Wall -MD $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) -Wsign-compare -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error
+EXTRA_CFLAGS += -Wall -MD $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) -Wsign-compare -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -fpermissive
 EXTRA_CFLAGS += -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"390.157\" -Wno-unused-function -Wuninitialized -fno-strict-aliasing -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -DNV_UVM_ENABLE -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-format-extra-args
 EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=undef,)
 EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DNV_SPECTRE_V2=$(NV_SPECTRE_V2)
@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@
 NV_CONFTEST_CMD := /bin/sh $(NV_CONFTEST_SCRIPT) \
  "$(CC)" "$(HOST_CC)" $(ARCH) $(NV_KERNEL_SOURCES) $(NV_KERNEL_OUTPUT)

-NV_CONFTEST_CFLAGS := $(shell $(NV_CONFTEST_CMD) build_cflags)
+NV_CFLAGS_FROM_CONFTEST := $(shell $(NV_CONFTEST_CMD) build_cflags)
+
+NV_CONFTEST_CFLAGS = $(NV_CFLAGS_FROM_CONFTEST) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -fno-pie

 NV_CONFTEST_COMPILE_TEST_HEADERS := $(obj)/conftest/macros.h
 NV_CONFTEST_COMPILE_TEST_HEADERS += $(obj)/conftest/functions.h

I think this is more proper, GCC itself recommends using -fpermissive if there is need for the legacy behavior: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/porting_to.html

The change about NV_CONFTEST_CFLAGS I copied from the nvidia-470xx-utils file. They are mostly identical, but this one were missing that extra bit that forwards the extra flags to the conftest script.

Thank you @aruncveli - that patch does work. I thought it would take much more than that? But I just built the package with the patch (applied - patch -Np2 -i ../../gcc-14.patch) and both LTS and the normal kernel modules built fine. This patch works.

For the build issue on 6.8.9-arch1-2, this patch worked for me.

If someone else can confirm too, maybe it can be added to this repo.

Thanks.

WOW - 6.8.9-Arch1 was fine, 6.8.9-Arch2 broke the build (I suspect this is not the kernel, but a related package - likely util-linux).

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.8.9-arch1-2 (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/make.log for more information. ==> WARNING: `dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/390.157 -k 6.8.9-arch1-2' exited 10

Details are "error: #error wait_on_bit_lock() conftest failed!", "error: initialization of ‘void *’ from ‘int’ makes pointer from integer without a cast", and "error: implicit declaration of function ‘ioremap_nocache’;"

I'll start snooping, anybody else have a patch, please post it.

It's GCC. Not sure what changed, but Doug Newgard ID'd gcc as the culprit.

Looks like we will have to cobble a patch from the info in https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-modules-build-failure-with-upcoming-gcc-14-and-recent-kernels-due-to-misfiring-conftest-sh-test-heads-up/279072 unless somebody has a link to an already create patch for the 470 driver we can draw from.