NVIDIA have just released a new version of their ‘legacy’ 304-series driver – 304.119, but it still needs the usual patch for kernel 3.13.. modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘nvidia’: Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) make[1]: *** [package-install] Error 1 make: *** [install] Error 2 Hopefully NVIDIA will release really up-to-date drivers soon, … Continue reading →
Setting up a test system for the usb/uvcvideo tests, I have found another kernel 3.13 issue – this time with Linux as a VMware guest.. The shared folders – which work OK with 3.12, do not work with 3.13. Normally shared folders are found under /mnt/hgfs, but with 3.13 the hgfs directory is corrupted in some odd … Continue reading →
After some problems with uvcvideo / usb under 3.13 producing non-working camera and audio, and producing a ‘tombstone’, I have reverted to 3.12.8 for the time being.. More research is needed, and I have set up a 3.13 ‘guest’ under VMware to conduct further tests, without the ‘kernel taint’ of NVIDIA drivers, etc.. [50677.696508] cannot submit urb … Continue reading →
ARM devices on Linux are rapidly moving to use the ‘device tree‘ format to specify the CPU / SoC characteristics at kernel compile time, for producing the boot image… For systems such as the DreamPlug, this means that the old # make uImage is no longer applicable.. For the DreamPlug, this is an example of the … Continue reading →
A circular fail with a recent version of YUM – yum-3.4.3-119 – leads to a whole load of the following errors: http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. updates | 4.6 kB 00:00:00 http://mir01.syntis.net/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. updates | 3.4 kB 00:00:00 … Continue reading →
Just updated to Kernel 3.12.5, and quickly reverted to 3.12.4.. Update: the problem turned out to be a badly-timed coincidental update to MariaDB (5.5.34).. Reverting to the previous version (5.5.33a) fixed the problem.. Now running 3.12.5.. With 3.12.5, Avahi mDNS failed, and – more importantly – MariaDB would not start: mariadb.service – MariaDB database server Loaded: … Continue reading →
Thanks to more detective work by Adam Baxter, I have found a work-in-progress patch for the compile failure on 3.13-rc.. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/282669 So.. I now have Kernel 3.13-rc3 running on the DreamPlug: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc3 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) ………………….. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc3 #2 PREEMPT Sat Dec 7 15:02:56 GMT 2013 … Continue reading →
Updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.12.2, and the orion / mdio patch mentioned in the article for 3.12.1 is still needed.. (http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=941) I have tried to compile 3.13-rc kernels for the device, but the compilation fails: /linux-3.13-rc2/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h: In function ‘__virt_to_phys’: ……………… /linux-3.13-rc2/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h:244:40: error: ‘PHYS_OFFSET’ undeclared (first use in this function)…………………… make[1]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1 make: *** … Continue reading →
Although the latest NVIDIA drivers compile OK on kernel 3.13-rc1, they do not load/run correctly, and may only give low-res output… The same problem exists with the newest version just released – 319.76.. nvidia: Unknown symbol acpi_os_wait_events_complete (err 0) There is a fix available, in this thread from DevZone: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/644906/331-20-on-3-13-rc1-kernel/ – but note the logic correction mentioned … Continue reading →
Thanks to a comment from Mace Moneta, I learned that there is an ‘alpha release’ of Pidora 19 now available: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2013-November/007021.html It was a little odd that no mention of this could be found on the Pidora website or Wiki, but hopefully these will be updated in due course.. Pidora release 19 (Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix) Kernel … Continue reading →