dkms | Dynamic Kernel Module Support

I bought a new HP 15t (Pavilion) and installed Linux Mint/Ubuntu (after the pain of fighting with the BIOS). The touch pad according to Windows 11 devices is made by Elan, and in Linux Mint it simply doesn't work.

If I do grep -i "Using input driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log it is as if the touchpad doesn't exist. Flip flopping between the various xserver-xorg-inputs, has not helped.

Also various websites downloading code and trying to use dkms to get things to work hasn't worked either.

Is there any way to declare in Puppet's language that packages in an array should installed in the order they are given in the array?

I want to automate the installation of CUDA, which requires nvidia-driver-latest-dkms, cuda and cuda-drivers (on RHEL7 as an example) to be installed in that order. I do not want to hard-code the array of packages, because I need to support different distributions, which require different packages. Therefore, an array holding the packages provided via Hiera seemed to be a good idea.

My first solution was ensure_packages($packages_parameter_filled_via_hiera), which stopped working recently (probably due to changes in NVIDIA's packages). The problem seems to be that this code installs the packages in a random order, and you cannot install nvidia-driver-latest-dkms (any more) if any of the other packages is already installed.

My next approach,

I have started EC2 instance from L=amazon linux 2 AMI.

I am trying to install syslog-ng with yum but I am getting error.

Commands used :

Some programs already uses -O2 flag, if I use -O3 flag, the program compiles with both -O2 and -O3 as shown by the task manager or by /proc/PID/cmdline.

For example, I'm using a Linux kernel built with Clang and full LTO. Even though I have these lines in the dkms configuration:

Not so much as a question as a documentation.

This is regarding a failing apt-get install or update related to virtualbox 6.1.10, Ubuntu 20.04, and virtualbox-dkms package failing to build.

I had an issue recently with Ubuntu 20.04 and Virtual Box 6.1.10 that's similar to what has been documented here and here.

The issue was that installing virtual box from the ubuntu software center installed v6.1.10 which is incompatible with the current ubuntu kernel version, v 5.8.xx.

These are all known issues, however my problem arose when I erroneously tried reinstalling vbox from the package store. Previously, virtualbox-dkms, had been compiled and reinstalling removes the functioning package and which fails with an error (status 10). So I ended up with an error like this:

Whenever I see the update manager glowing that I have an update I get annoyed and click it, so I'm almost always updating something and usually this has gone fine without any problems...

Recently it told me there was a new kernel update, so I clicked install like I usually do but it just got stuck, for hours. When I examined the terminal output it was hanging on a DKMS installation step, so I grabbed all the active DKMS processes and found that the specific thing it was hanging on was installing something called EVDI (which is related to the DisplayLink Ubuntu driver, I think). After letting it sit there doing nothing for more than a day I killed it and had to Timeshift back to before I had done the installation as it corrupted my kernel.

I examined the log file in /var/lib/dkms/evdi/5.2.14/build/make.log and found that it has many errors reported, and the one that starts the chain is:

I would like to set up AMD Radeon for Deep Learning on Ubuntu. The main libraries for my work are keras and pytorch. I followed strictly on ROCm installation guideline here but failed at the 3rd step with the command sudo apt install rocm-dkms. Error messages were shown as follows.

I am trying to set up VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04 but when I try to run it says:

Virtualbox fails to load kernel module after updating Debian from Stretch to Buster. I have Virtualbox 6.1 and the next kernel version: