After some delay, I finally had a ‘good’ cooling solution for my 8GB Pi4, and resumed testing.. The last Kernel version I had running on it was 5.9-rc4, and everything seemed to be working OK (including 8GB of memory recognised). I then updated to 5.11.18, and found that none of the USB ports worked: # dmesg |grep … Continue reading →
I have been carrying out some preliminary tests to see how feasible it is to compile the Linux Kernel, and NVIDIA drivers, and VMware, using the ‘alternative’ to GCC – CLANG.. The kernel compile is relatively easy, and well documented: # make CC=clang HOSTCC=clang -j8 (for a 4-core system) The compile seems to be slower than GCC, … Continue reading →
I have recently acquired an Odroid N2 (4GB) and managed – with some difficulty – to get it to run a ‘modern’ U-Boot, Kernel 5.6-rc2, with EFI support, and Fedora 31. This time, there were no clues from OpenSuse, and all the examples I found still used the ancient/custom Hardkernel u-boot and a kernel.img ‘blob. Fortunately, the … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.4-rc2 has been released, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1910.0/07213.html The odd behaviour of VMware and NVIDIA compiles still occurs, but there are patches submitted (see comments under -rc1 article http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2614 for more details). So far, I have not seen a fix for the NVIDIA compile failure. Robert Gadsdon. October 7th 2019. … Continue reading →
Testing Fedora 31 – which is still work-in-progress, of course.. Tried to use # rpmbuild –rebuild to create a missing RPM from a F30 source RPM, and found the following error: ………….. Illegal char ‘)’ (0x29) in: Obsoletes:………. I found a reference to this error in the buglist, but it had been flagged as ‘rawhide’, and closed, … Continue reading →
When the Odroid C2 was first released way back in 2016, I spent ages trying to get it to function correctly with a mainstream kernel, and tested innumerable development versions of U-Boot, including functionality that was working OK at that time, but that – for some reason – then failed to be included in the ‘mainstream’ U-Boot.. … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.1 is out, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1905.0/03532.html The latest NVIDIA driver (430.09) and patched VMware 15.0.4 both compile and run OK. One odd quirk, is that the behaviour of # make xconfig has changed, and if you have your custom configs saved out-of-tree, then the save option tries to save them back to the … Continue reading →
This is one of those not-sure-if-bug-or-feature issues.. On my dual-boot Fedora/Win7 system, I needed to access a ‘shared’ NTFS (ntfs-3g) partition. When I came to add a softlink to the NTFS partition on the Plasma Desktop, the link existed, but nothing showed on the Desktop. Other softlinks – to EXT4 partitions – displayed OK. I tested with … Continue reading →
Setting up an old HP8000 desktop small-form-factor system as a crash-and-burn test system, with dual-boot Fedora 29 and Windows 7, on separate drives. First slight gotcha with the Fedora install: The installation utility shows the two disks, the first of which has Windows 7 (sda) and the second – additional – was for the Fedora Linux install … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.18-rc2 has been released, and brief details of changes from -rc1 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1806.3/00112.html This includes the cmdline fix, which enables the VMware runtimes to execute correctly. The VMware 14.1.2 vmmon patch is still required (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2322 ) NVIDIA 390.67 compiles OK, with the nvidia-drm-drv.c patch (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2315 ) Robert Gadsdon. June 24, 2018. … Continue reading →