The reason the 4.9 kernel works is because Meltdown fixes haven't been applied to it yet.
** Description changed: Laptops like my Thinkpad W510 cannot use newer drivers than nvidia-340 because support for their old GPU was dropped in newer revisions. Meltdown/Spectre is upon us and I got 4.13.0-26 today, but nvidia-340's dkms driver will not build, for the common reason most nvidia drivers won't build against the new kernels. Looking at nvidia's official announcement I did not see a plan or release date for updates to nvidia-340, yet. - Since my laptop is my own, I'm running with the pre-KPTI 4.1.0-42 for + Since my laptop is my own, I'm running with the pre-KPTI 4.10.0-42 for now, but figured I should report this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1742449 Title: nvidia-340.104 dkms fails to build against 4.13.0-26 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-340/+bug/1742449/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
