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From the long list of bug fixes and changes outlined in the release notes:
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.....Updated the Module.symvers sanity check, which is part of the NVIDIA kernel module build process, to accommodate the recent addition of a new field in the Module.symvers file format. This fixes the error "The Module.symvers file is missing [...]" seen during driver installation or DKMS rebuilds with Linux 5.4 RC kernels.
Fixed kernel module build problems with Linux kernel 5.4.0 release candidates.....
This is welcome news. Thank you for pointing it out. I have come into possession of a system with an integrated Quadro p620, and a little online research indicated neither the nouveau driver nor Nvidia's linux driver are that great for it, even for 2D. I'm holding off on even trying to use it until the drivers improve, and this new long-term driver sounds promising.
The sooner -current switches to 5.4, the sooner the community can chase out the bugs and find a version suited to a stable release.
Predictions are for 5.4 to hit at the end of this month, so hopefully a move into -current would be very soon after that and then we can stop crossing our fingers and start helping out on a 15.0 beta.
From the long list of bug fixes and changes outlined in the release notes:
Thank you very much. It worked a treat. I'm now running my -Current/Ktown install on 5.4-rc2 (soon to be rc6 if not the full release). The nvidia 440 driver installed via .run from runlevel 3 was fast and uneventful. My system uses ever so slightly more CPU and RAM at idle than it does with 5.0.20 but it feels very solid and responsive.
Here's a link to a full screen screenie w/ a large Conky and a normal screenfetch for anyone who'd like to check the stats or just see a decent desktop
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Another round of kernel updates has been scheduled for release Wednesday night, 6 November 2019, at approximately 21:00, GMT.
If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning (depending on your time zone).
There will be 163 patches to the 5.3.9 kernel update, 149 to 4.19.82, 95 to 4.14.152, 62 to 4.9.199, and, finally, 46 patches to the 4.4.199 kernel update.
Another round of kernel updates has been scheduled for release Wednesday night, 6 November 2019, at approximately 21:00, GMT.
If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning (depending on your time zone).
There will be 163 patches to the 5.3.9 kernel update, 149 to 4.19.82, 95 to 4.14.152 and 46 patches to the 4.4.199 kernel update.
At the moment it appears 4.9.199 will have 62 patches, but there has been an editing error. We'll have to wait until the error has been corrected.
4.19.81-generic based, slightly tweaked 5.4.0-rc6 on "current" runs ok here since it was released.
Gaming on vega10 (Doom 2016 of course), desktop (plasma-5), web browsing, nfs and dhcp serving,
routing. All seems to work normally . Virtualbox will not compile it's modules, but that's to
be expected.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Many thanks to Mr. Volkerding for making the 5.4.0 kernel available for testing.
Just installed it, but, unfortunately, the Nvidia-440.31 kernel module would not build.
The 4.19.82 kernel update will, mostly likely, be available tomorrow. In the meantime, back to 4.19.81.
Last edited by cwizardone; 11-05-2019 at 07:09 PM.
Many thanks to Mr. Volkerding for making the 5.4.0 kernel available for testing.
Just installed it, but, unfortunately, the Nvidia-440.31 kernel module would not build.
The 4.19.82 kernel update will, mostly likely, be available tomorrow. In the meantime, back to 4.19.81.
Out of curiosity (since I'm also using the blob Nvidia drivers) what's the error?
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. Virtualbox will not compile it's modules, but that's to 
