Installed Kernel 4.0-rc2 on the test system, and details of changes from -rc1 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1503.0/01963.html Radeon on the HP6830 laptop is still broken: [drm r600_ring_test [radeon]] *ERROR* radeon: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0x8504)=0xFFFFFFFF) radeon 0000:01:00.0: disabling GPU acceleration << HANG >> Same comments apply as for -rc1 – the patched NVIDIA 346.47 driver and VMware 11.1 … Continue reading →
Now that the DreamPlug has a stable power supply (see previous post..) I decided to live dangerously and update the u-boot version and install a modern ‘device tree’ plus kernel.. It has been mentioned many times before that the u-boot update for a DreamPlug is fraught, and can result in a ‘brick’.. There should be a way … Continue reading →
I finally got my old DreamPlug working again, but found that the power would fail intermittently.. After checking for software faults, I tracked the problem down to the power supply cable ‘clip-on’ connector.. The problem was caused by the internal connection between the two external pins and the internal slide-on metal tabs being loose, and causing … Continue reading →
The CuBox-i4 Pro booted Kernel 4.0-rc1 OK, but – although eth0 was present – there was no network connection possible.. I found a similar problem described on the Linux Arm Kernel mailing list: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-February/325249.html According to the info there, I changed linux/arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imx6q.c as follows: Around line 214, change clksel = ptp_clk == enet_ref ? IMX6Q_GPR1_ENET_CLK_SEL_ANATOP : IMX6Q_GPR1_ENET_CLK_SEL_PAD; … Continue reading →
I have hacked together a kernel-version-friendly fix for the latest NVIDIA driver (346.35) which works with Kernel 4.0-rc1 (and later) and also for previous kernel versions.. Thanks are due to juston_li for producing the actual code changes needed.. https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/813458/linux/linux-4-0-rc1-346-35-build-error-_cr4-functions-fix/ Unpack the NVIDIA driver: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.35.run -x Edit NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.35/kernel/nv-pat.c Around line 34, change { unsigned long cr0 = read_cr0(); … Continue reading →
After my tests compiling the new armv7 Pi 2 Kernel – with ‘device tree’ – I decided to try the same with the ‘classic’ armv6 Pi (B+).. You will need the latest version of the Pi /boot files, including the latest config.txt with the necessary parameters for device tree boot, sound config, etc.. For cross-compilation, I created … Continue reading →
Finally got the Raspberry Pi 2, and installed Fedora 21 (armv7hl) with no problems.. Temporarily used object code 3.18.7-v7+ from the repository, and then tested kernel compile options.. The system seems (so far..) to be relatively sluggish compared to my other quad-core armv7 systems.. Compiling on the Pi 2 itself seemed relatively slow, but at least it … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to VMware Workstation 11.1, and – unfortunately – this is still incompatible with Kernel 3.19.. The only good news is.. The vmnet patch for 11.0 still applies, and fixes the problem.. http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1281 The release notes (for what it’s worth!) are here: https://www.vmware.com/support/ws/doc/workstation-111-release-notes.html As you can see – quite a lot of ‘known … Continue reading →
Updated the Odroid U3 to the latest version of odroid-3.19.y (# git clone -b odroid-3.19.y –single-branch https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid ). After checking that all the pwm-fan and temperature options were selected in the kernel config, I set ‘Default Thermal governor‘ to ‘step-wise‘. After compiling/installing, I tried some more tests: Using ‘stress’ to raise the temperature: # stress –cpu 4 … Continue reading →
I had occasion to install an ancient GTK+ app, recently, and had to use # rpmbuild –rebuild xxxxx.src.rpm to (re)create some old RPMs from source.. I got the following error: /home/rgadsdon/rpmbuild/BUILD/php_gtk-1.0.2/main/php_gtk_object.c: In function ‘php_gtk_args_from_hash’: /home/rgadsdon/rpmbuild/BUILD/php_gtk-1.0.2/main/php_gtk_object.c:410:4: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security] php_error(E_WARNING, buf); ^ So, I needed to remove the –Werror=format-security parameter … Continue reading →