[HOWTO] make a xzm module driver for NVIDIA video card

[Rava]

Must the nvidia driver be built on the machine that actually has the target nvidia GPU?!

Not sure.
You need the blacklist for disabling the generic driver. You need the kernel booted you want the driver compiled for, and you need the 005-devel and crippled-kernel-sources modules as well all activated for the very same kernel.

Because of the need for the blacklisting of the generic driver I presume it would not work trying to compile the driver on a different machine.
When I recall correct while compiling the driver checks the available GPU hardware - but I could be mistaken on that. After all I made my last driver on 2020-04-09 (YYYY-MM-DD) - that's approx 2 1/2 years ago.

[Rava]

I have a question: must the nvidia driver be built on the machine that actually has the target nvidia GPU?! I understand the compiling system has to have the same kernel version it's meant for, but if it doesn't actually have to have the GPU, then in principle it could be a part of the "Porteus Kernel Builder"

Like I wrote in the other thread:

Must the nvidia driver be built on the machine that actually has the target nvidia GPU?!

Not sure.
You need the blacklist for disabling the generic driver. You need the kernel booted you want the driver compiled for, and you need the 005-devel and crippled-kernel-sources modules as well all activated for the very same kernel.

Because of the need for the blacklisting of the generic driver I presume it would not work trying to compile the driver on a different machine.
When I recall correct while compiling the driver checks the available GPU hardware - but I could be mistaken on that. After all I made my last driver on 2020-04-09 (YYYY-MM-DD) - that's approx 2 1/2 years ago.

(the eyes rolling is not towards you but towards the long time since I compiled an NV driver.)

[fulalas]

Must the nvidia driver be built on the machine that actually has the target nvidia GPU?!

I believe so, yes. At least I couldn't find another way. AFAIR, the driver installer detects which video card you have before proceeding. But once you have the module it should work with all Nvidia video cards that this driver supports, not just yours.

[Rava]

once you have the module it should work with all Nvidia video cards that this driver supports, not just yours.

It should, but always only with the very same kernel you compiled it under.

Therefore I recommend a NV driver module you share having two version number in its name, like mine do.

To demonstrate I use quote (no colours when using [ code ]) and colour red for the kernel and green for the NV driver version:

010-nvidia-340.108-k.5.4.30-porteus-v5.0-x86_64_rava.xzm

[ncmprhnsbl]

Must the nvidia driver be built on the machine that actually has the target nvidia GPU?!

i have once compiled the 515* driver(now it's up to 525) on a machine with a 470* driver card and while the installer told me that the resulting driver wouldn't work with my card, it completed successfully ..
though i couldn't test it myself, i was told it worked for someone who had a newer card..
now, what would happen with a completely different ie. amd or intel card idk.. the installer may just nope out of it.
at the very least, as Rava says, an appropriate blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d would be needed.

[beny]

hi Rava i have found something very interesting and i...well the script have build a patched nvidia driver for the 340.108 version with the new kernel and xorg too,you have to check if is ok i have used the porteus stock kernel but i think you can use also the 6.0 version
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jvn6gzsm ... 0.run/file

[Rava]

hi Rava i have found something very interesting and i...well the script have build a patched nvidia driver for the 340.108 version with the new kernel and xorg too,you have to check if is ok i have used the porteus stock kernel but i think you can use also the 6.0 version
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jvn6gzsm ... 0.run/file

Currently downloading it, but once more mediafire.com is abysmal slow. (average 17 KB/s and --.-KB/s - approx download time 10 minutes 20 minutes 40 minutes 98 minutes )
Do you have its md5sum?

[beny]

d3dc02eafae5d88c67e80e86d16ff51d

[Rava]

d3dc02eafae5d88c67e80e86d16ff51d

Thanks. Hopefully the download will finish in my lifetime.
I had to stop wget via Ctrl+C several times already since it kept saying -- KB/s and restart it via wget -c URL

Added in 54 seconds:
e.g.:

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Length: 101933419 (97M), 74031467 (71M) remaining [text/x-shellscript]
Saving to: ‘NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108-patched-kernel-6.0.run’

IA-Linux-x86_64-340  32%[+++++>              ]  31.78M  --.-KB/s    eta 41m 50s

Added in 2 minutes 5 seconds:
Hopefully the md5sum will match after all the Ctrl+C and wget -c.
Mediafire really sucks.

Added in 23 minutes 57 seconds:
Yay, the md5sum matches. Lucky me.

[Rava]

Now that I successfully (judged by matching md5sum) downloaded the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108-patched-kernel-6.0.run …

are there recent but not experimental / rc / unstable recent kernels (e.g. the standard kernel for x86-64 Porteus 5.0) available as vmlinuz & 005-devel and crippled-kernel-sources but with all the flags enabled to use nftables - as discussed here: Nf_tables modules not found. ?

[Ed_P]

the script have build a patched nvidia driver for the 340.108 version with the new kernel and xorg too,you have to check if is ok

A 1000+ line bash script whose main command is echo!!

How does one execute this .run file??

[raja]

make the file executable...chmod +x ;

double click.

[beny]

well you have to boot in init 3 and as root sh your software.run or if you have extract the run ./nvidia-installer,i suppose that only Rava have the trouble with nvidia and the kernel version and also xorg version,i have patched a version with gentoo patch but no luck so i have found this one that work,if the user want to see the core of this .run can use --extract-only.

[Ed_P]

Thank you guys. I will have to check it out later.

[Rava]

well you have to boot in init 3 and as root sh your software.run or if you have extract the run ./nvidia-installer,i suppose that only Rava have the trouble with nvidia and the kernel version and also xorg version,i have patched a version with gentoo patch but no luck so i have found this one that work,if the user want to see the core of this .run can use --extract-only.

Is there somewhere a driver version V340.108 available for a newer kernel?
Where the vmlinuz and the 000-kernel and the matching 05-devel are all available?

Anyhow, you need the blacklist module activated, you need the correct matching 05-devel for the kernel you are loading activated, you also need the crippled-kernel-sources module activated.
And like beny wrote, you need to boot into mode 3 (text mode) and log into the system as root. Also no starting of X at all during the creation or prior the creation of the NV kernel module. At All.
And then you need to create a module out of what the NV *.run put into your system.
Even when you use a changes cheatcode you do not want any new changes that occurred during that boot unrelated to the NV driver be part of the NV driver but only the NV driver stuff. And that includes also a blacklist for the generic X driver.

Blaze created a script but that keeps some individual stuff in it that gets created during my boot. So in the end I always create my NV driver module manually by only copying what is needed and nothing else.

As you might have guessed by now: Creating a functioning NV driver is not that trivial.

Maybe a listing of what is in my nV driver is helpful to anyone attempting creating one themselves:

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root@porteus:/mnt/live/memory/images/010-nvidia-340.108-k.5.4.30-porteus-v5.0-x86_64_rava.xzm# find .
.
./etc
./etc/OpenCL
./etc/OpenCL/vendors
./etc/OpenCL/vendors/nvidia.icd
./etc/X11
./etc/X11/xorg.conf
./etc/modprobe.d
./etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf
./etc/profile.d
./etc/profile.d/vdpau.sh
./lib
./lib/modules
./lib/modules/5.4.30-porteus
./lib/modules/5.4.30-porteus/kernel
./lib/modules/5.4.30-porteus/kernel/drivers
./lib/modules/5.4.30-porteus/kernel/drivers/video
./lib/modules/5.4.30-porteus/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
./usr
./usr/bin
./usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh
./usr/bin/nvidia-cuda-mps-control
./usr/bin/nvidia-cuda-mps-server
./usr/bin/nvidia-debugdump
./usr/bin/nvidia-installer
./usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe
./usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced
./usr/bin/nvidia-settings
./usr/bin/nvidia-smiAt All.
./usr/bin/nvidia-uninstall
./usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig
./usr/lib64
./usr/lib64/libEGL.so
./usr/lib64/libEGL.so.1
./usr/lib64/libEGL.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libGL.la
./usr/lib64/libGL.so
./usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
./usr/lib64/libGL.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libGLESv1_CM.so
./usr/lib64/libGLESv1_CM.so.1
./usr/lib64/libGLESv1_CM.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libGLESv2.so
./usr/lib64/libGLESv2.so.2
./usr/lib64/libGLESv2.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libXvMCgallium.so
./usr/lib64/libcuda.so
./usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1
./usr/lib64/libcuda.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvcuvid.so
./usr/lib64/libnvcuvid.so.1
./usr/lib64/libnvcuvid.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-cfg.so
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-cfg.so.1
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-cfg.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-compiler.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-eglcore.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-encode.so
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-encode.so.1
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-encode.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-fbc.so
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-fbc.so.1
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-fbc.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-glcore.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-glsi.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-ifr.so
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-ifr.so.1
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-ifr.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-ml.so
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-ml.so.1
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-ml.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-opencl.so.1
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-opencl.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libnvidia-tls.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/libvdpau_nvidia.so
./usr/lib64/tls
./usr/lib64/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/vdpau
./usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1
./usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/xorg
./usr/lib64/xorg/modules
./usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers
./usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
./usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions
./usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
./usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.340.108
./usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libnvidia-wfb.so.1
./usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libnvidia-wfb.so.340.108
./usr/share
./usr/share/applications
./usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop
./usr/share/doc
./usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0
./usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/nvidia-settings.png
./usr/share/nvidia
./usr/share/nvidia/monitoring.conf
./usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-340.108-key-documentation
./usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-340.108-rc
./usr/share/nvidia/pci.ids

Some of these are symlinks.

HTH.