I recently obtained one of the newly-released (- to the ‘public’..) Pine64 ARM64 systems… My first reaction, was that it is a bit on the large side.. The board is over twice the size of the Odroid C2.. As usual, the ‘standard’ U-Boot was a heavily-customised old version, that only mounted Android-format Kernel ‘blob’s, but a hacked … Continue reading →
Thanks to Justin Palermo, there is a patch for VMware 12 vmmon and vmnet problems he identified with the later Kernel 4.6-rcs. See comments on my earlier 4.6-rc1 article for details: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1679 I have applied the patch to VMware 12.1.0, on Kernel 4.6-rc4, and VMware now compiles and runs OK.. Robert Gadsdon. April 22, 2016. … Continue reading →
I had been running Kernel 4.6-rc2 on the Radxa Rock2 without any issues, and decided to update to recently-released Kernel 4.6-rc4.. Brief details of changes from -rc3 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.2/00610.html The boot failed, and I then compiled/installed 4.6-rc3 to see if that would have been OK, and it was.. I then noticed something odd in the failed … Continue reading →
Tested the latest stable NVIDIA driver – 361.42 – with just-released Kernel 4.6-rc2, and it compiles cleanly, with no need for any patches.. …. Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 3 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42/kernel/nvidia.ko Robert Gadsdon. April 3, 2016. … Continue reading →
After a lot of searching – and more testing (mostly unsuccessful..) I finally have a set of two patches that fix the Ethernet driver problem with the Rock2 in 4.6-rc1.. The problem is that the stmmac driver is common to several SOC setups, and each maintainer seems to have produced their own version of a fix.. The … Continue reading →
Updated the Rock2 to Kernel 4.6-rc1: ……… Fedora 23 (Twenty Three) Kernel 4.6.0-rc1 on an armv7l (ttyS2) ……………….. # uname -a Linux rgrock2 4.6.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Mar 27 03:47:06 EDT 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux The stmmac Ethernet driver bug from 4.5 Final has still not been fixed, and the driver code has changed in 4.6-rc1, … Continue reading →
I recently acquired a vintage (2006?) Minolta Elite 5400 II scanner, and – according to the VueScan support info, I needed to ”set up libusb device protections”.. That info included a link to a somewhat ancient SANE USB support page – last changed in 2003!.. That rang a bell, and I guessed that I had to mess … Continue reading →
Just installed the latest NVIDIA beta driver – 361.18 – and it is now OK with Plasma and KDE5.. Release notes and download link here: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/97474/en-us Notes include: ”Fixed a bug in the EGL driver where a mutex was unlocked more than once. This triggers undefined behavior, and in particular, if lock elision is enabled in glibc, … Continue reading →
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 →
Recently tried the latest standard release of u-boot from ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ , and it now works OK with the SDCard in the Odroid U3. You still have to incorporate the ‘special’ secure-boot binaries and shell script from the hardkernel version ( in directory sd_fuse) from https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot/tree/odroid-v2010.12 and change the reference to u-boot.bin to u-boot-dtb.bin in sd_fusing.sh. U-Boot 2015.10-rc3 … Continue reading →