Linux: NVIDIA Driver 375.39 vs Kernel 4.10

[anthonyh]

I run Fedora on my primary desktop at home and just updated to kernel 4.10. NVIDIA's later driver has a bug that causes it to fail to compile with this kernel. Posting the workaround in case anyone else runs into this issue.

Source: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/995429/failed-installed-nvidia-with-kernel-4-10/

Extract the installer:

sudo chmod +x ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.39.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.39.run -x

CD into driver directory and download patch:

 cd ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.39
 wget https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/nonfree/nvidia-kmod.git/plain/kernel_4.10.patch

Apply patch:

 patch -p1 < kernel_4.10.patch

Run the driver installer:

sudo ./nvidia-installer

Driver should install successfully!