As NVIDIA still seem to be unable to produce an up-to-date driver, there are a bewildering number of ‘patches’ out for various kernel versions and driver combinations.. I have found a good link to a ‘3.11’ patch for NVIDIA driver 331.17 and kernel 3.12 (patching just nv-linux.h) here: http://pastebin.com/gxKDqu9N I would normally credit the author, but it … Continue reading →
Just updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.12, and – as predicted by Adam Baxter in a recent comment – the ‘mdio/ethernet’ patch was not included.. Details of the patch are in an earlier article: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=897 With the patch, everything seems to be OK.. I still get occasional ‘hangs’ when running yum/rpm, but that has been a problem … Continue reading →
I updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.12-rc7, but found that the network problem from 3.12-rc6 was still there, so applied the ‘Ethernet patch’ mentioned in my earlier article – http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=897, and it works OK, now. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.12.0-rc7 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 28 10:07:38 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. October 28, … Continue reading →
I had assumed that my previous article on ‘auto patching’ was going to be redundant… However, I discovered to my dismay that even the newly-released NVIDIA driver – 331.17 still fails to compile and install on 3.11 and 3.12 kernels.. It appears that nv-drm.c has been fixed, but not nv-linux.h. This means that – for both 3.11 … Continue reading →
As we seem to be stuck for some time with NVIDIA drivers incompatible with the latest kernels, patching seems to be more of a necessity, now. Thanks to a comment from Giordano, I have learned of a way to ‘automatically’ patch any NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file directly, and re-create a corresponding NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file which includes the patch.. The help … Continue reading →
Soon after updating the DreamPlug to 3.12-rc6, I noticed that the Ethernet connection kept dropping, even though the # route command still showed it as OK.. I found a patch for the problem, and it works – for me.. http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg281285.html Be aware…. this patch is still being tested, and may be changed before it is ‘officially’ released, … Continue reading →
After a lot of ‘frantic testing’, and help from the linux-arm-kernel mailing list, I now have 3.12-rc6 running on the DreamPlug, using the new/improved ‘device tree’.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.12.0-rc6 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………………. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.12.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 21 13:29:27 BST 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux My … Continue reading →
I now have my replacement Hudl 7in tablet, and have been trying out the various options for working browsers – with Flash support. On my phone, I found that Chrome worked well, but this tablet always gets the ‘full’ website, rather than the ‘mobile’ version, and so Flash doesn’t work, any more. Even implicitly typing in the … Continue reading →
Just installed Kernel 3.12-rc4 on the test system, and I can confirm – as expected – that it does include the ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL‘ fix, which allows the NVIDIA 3.12 patch to work correctly. Details of changes are here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/6/148 Patched NVIDIA drivers 331.13 and 319.60 both compile OK Robert Gadsdon. October 7, 2013 … Continue reading →
I have several dar archives created some years ago, using the late-lamented kdar (now obsolete.) and all were created with passwords.. I recently came to extract one, but found to my dismay that the latest (2.4.x) version of dar was unable to do this, and failed with the following error message: “FATAL error, aborting operation Current implementation … Continue reading →