Nvidia drivers on Fedora 18 with kernel 3.8

It appears the workaround to allow the Nvidia 313.18 driver installation on Fedora 18 running 3.7.x kernels doesn’t work with the recently released 3.8.1 kernel. I found another workaround to install the Nvidia drivers for 3.8 kernels, so here it is:

 

Create a patch file and save it on your machine.

cat ~/nvidia_patch

--- a/conftest.sh
+++ b/conftest.sh
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ build_cflags() {

     if [ "$ARCH" = "i386" -o "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
         CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$SOURCES/arch/x86/include"
+        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$SOURCES/arch/x86/include/uapi"
         CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$OUTPUT/arch/x86/include/generated"
         CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$OUTPUT/arch/x86/include/generated/uapi"
     elif [ "$ARCH" = "arm" ]; then

 

I also uploaded the patch here to make it easier for copy & paste.

 

Go to the Nvidia source dir and apply the patch

cd /usr/src/nvidia-313.18
sudo patch < ~/nvidia_patch

 

Now run dkms and it should build without errors

sudo dkms install -m nvidia -v 313.18 -k 3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64

 

Confirm the module was built successfully

sudo dkms status nvidia
nvidia, 313.18, 3.7.9-201.fc18.x86_64, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 313.18, 3.7.9-205.fc18.x86_64, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 313.18, 3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64, x86_64: installed

 

Hope this helps. Cheers.

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