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Monthly Archives: August 2016

X86_64 – UP Board – ‘Cherry Trail’ – Sound – Working..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 26, 2016 by RGAugust 26, 2016

The only missing OS component on the new UP Board (x5-Z8350) was that sound (HDMI) was not present..    After a bit of digging, I found some patches for Kernel 4.5, and a later patched kernel version that was supposed to work.. I tried the patched version of 4.7.0 from here:  https://github.com/plbossart/sound/tree/byt-cht-hdmi-v4.7  but found that the compile failed: … Continue reading →

Posted in Cherry Trail, compilation, Crash and Burn.., Fedora, fix, Hacks, Intel Atom, kernel, Linux, Opinion, Performance, UP Board | Tagged 4.7.0, cherry trail, compiler fix, hdmi sound, intel, kernel, linux, patched kernel, success, up board, Z8350 | 8 Replies

NVIDIA – Driver for Kernel 4.7.. Patch for 4.8 Still Works

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 16, 2016 by RGAugust 16, 2016

NVIDIA have released their latest driver – 370.23 – which (finally!) works with Kernel 4.7, without any patches.. The driver fails to compile with Kernel 4.8, but the previous 367.35 patch fixes this (See article here: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1788). Tested with 4.8-rc2: ………….. ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.23-patched/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., kernel, Linux, NVIDIA | Tagged 370.23, 4.8-rc2, new driver, nvidia, patch for 4.8, success, works with 4.7 | 2 Replies

X86_64 – Up Board – New Pi-Sized System, with Intel Atom SoC..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 16, 2016 by RGNovember 10, 2016

Just taken delivery of the Up Board – an Intel Atom powered SoC system, with the same form factor as a Pi.. It was quite a novelty to be able to plug a Fedora 24 Live USB stick in, and install directly to the device..      I booted the Live system first, and then used the ‘install to … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Fedora, Intel Atom, kernel, Linux, UP Board | Tagged fedora 24, install, intel atom, kernel 4.8-rc2, soc, success, up board | 2 Replies

KERNEL – 4.8-rc1 Out – Breaks VMware and NVIDIA – and Fixes..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 8, 2016 by RGAugust 8, 2016

Kernel 4.8-rc1 is out, and brief details are here:   http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1608.0/04804.html VMware 12.1.1 – with the previous 4.6/4.7 patches, fails to compile vmmon: /tmp/modconfig-gfkQLR/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_EstimateLockedPageLimit’: /tmp/modconfig-gfkQLR/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1597:47: error: ‘NR_ANON_PAGES’ undeclared (first use in this function) Further research revealed that NR_ANON_PAGES has been changed to NR_ANON_MAPPED in 4.8, and so the fix is quite simple.. In ~/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c, around … Continue reading →

Posted in fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Performance, VMware | Tagged additional patches, breaks vmware and nvidia, compiles ok, hostif.c, kernel 4.8-rc1, nvidia 367.35, nvidia-drm, patches available, vmmon, vmware 12.1.1 | 8 Replies
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