Installed ZoneMinder ( https://zoneminder.com ) for some IP and WiFi cameras, and the first thing to remember is to not use the Fedora version! This is due to the lack of ffmpeg and vlc support in that version, which makes the software somewhat less than useful.. Fortunately, there is good Fedora support, with a fully-functional version – … Continue reading →
Just got a ‘BananaPro‘ ARMv7 board, and updated it to Kernel 4.4-rc4 (from kernel.org) and Fedora 23. More details are here: http://linux-sunxi.org/LeMaker_Banana_Pro I compiled U-Boot from the latest (2015.10) released version, from ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ : # cd u-boot # make Bananapro_defconfig # make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- (or whatever cross-compiler you are using) Then as root, copy to the SDCard … Continue reading →
Updated to the latest Plasma Desktop, on one of my systems (Fedora 23, x86_64), and found that the ‘Favorites’ had all vanished, apart for xterm.. My other x86_64 system updated OK, with all the ‘Favorites’ intact.. Rather than hunt down all the apps and ‘add to favorites’ for each one, I found the old Favorites again, as … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to VMware 12.1.0 – Release notes are here: https://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/workstation/12pro/workstation-121-release-notes.html Frustratingly, this release still has a runtime (# vmware) incompatible with Fedora 23.. The original workaround was documented in an earlier article – http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1601 – but the Fedora 23 library versions have now changed, so the copy commands are now (as of December … Continue reading →
Tested the latest NVIDIA driver – 352.63 – and it is OK with Kernel 4.3, and with the Fedora 23 version of the xorg server.. The only other ‘broken’ Fedora 23 items I have encountered are ffmpegthumbs and Samba.. I downgraded to the FC22 version of Samba # dnf –showduplicates –allowerasing –releasever=22 downgrade samba* ….and – after … Continue reading →
One of the shortcomings of the DragonBoard 410c was that it relied on the Android-phone-centric fastboot for any Kernel updates, but now there is a version of U-Boot available, thanks to Mateusz Kulikowski.. This is very much a work-in-progress, but I thought I would give it a try… I started with the version at https://github.com/hallor/u-boot/tree/dragonboard-2015.11.01, and made … Continue reading →
Although VMware 12.0.1 was installed OK, the desktop app (/usr/bin/vmware) fails, with – frustratingly – no error shown.. According to various comments found, this is due to a change to GCC version 5.1.1 in Fedora 23.. Thanks to Vincent Cojot, on the sgros.blogspot.com blog, there is a slightly convoluted workaround, which basically involves replacing the VMware versions … Continue reading →
Just updated to Fedora 23, and the NVIDIA driver would not load/run.. (tested with the latest – 358.09 and 352.55) ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================ This server has a video driver ABI version of 20.0 that this driver does not officially support. Please check http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X server with a … Continue reading →
Installed Mariadb, Apache etc, and phpMyAdmin on the Fedora 22 Intel i7 system, and the database was all OK, but phpMyAdmin showed a blank window.. Searching for this issue produced a wealth of reasons – usually ‘operator/config’ problems.. My config was just a clone of a known/good system, and I eventually found a simple reason for the … Continue reading →
Just updated the Odroid U3 to Kernel 4.2-rc7, from here: https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-4.2.y Fedora release 23 (Twenty Three) Kernel 4.2.0-rc7 on an armv7l (ttySAC1) ……………… ]# uname -a Linux rgodroid 4.2.0-rc7 #1 SMP Fri Aug 21 11:30:26 PDT 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux The workflow is as before ( http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1297 ), with the exception that # make exynos4412_defconfig is … Continue reading →