Sadly – as has already been reported – the latest NVIDIA 331.13 driver still won’t compile with 3.11 kernels.. I did manage to get it to work, by applying the 3.11-only patch originally created for 325.15.. It would appear that a ‘legal’ patch for 3.12 kernels would be a non-trivial task, but the 3.11 patch is so … Continue reading →
I have several dar archives created some years ago, using the late-lamented kdar (now obsolete.) and all were created with passwords.. I recently came to extract one, but found to my dismay that the latest (2.4.x) version of dar was unable to do this, and failed with the following error message: “FATAL error, aborting operation Current implementation … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to kernel 3.10-rc7, and the patched NVIDIA drivers for 310.51 and 319.23 compile OK, as before. VMware 9.02 – with the vmnet patch – compiles OK, except for vmblock.. I still can’t find a patch for vmblock and kernel 3.10-rcN, but VMware can run without vmblock, so just stop it from trying to … Continue reading →
Just installed kernel 3.9-rc7 on my test system, and VMware (9.02) and the latest NVIDIA ‘stable’ (310.44) and ‘beta’ (319.12) drivers all compile without problems.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.9.0-rc7 #1 SMP Mon Apr 15 09:40:44 BST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux One additional piece of information… I am running Fedora 18, but using the ‘official’ … Continue reading →
Ever since first running yum on the Dreamplug, over a year ago, I have had intermittent problems with yum/rpm ‘hanging’ for no apparent reason. There were no errors reported, and – for a time – everything just seemed to work OK.. Now I have just attempted to do an install of xfce4 on the system, with approximately … Continue reading →
Just updated to 3.7.9, but forgot to do the usual ‘softlink’ for correct compilation of VMware.. # ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.7.9/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.7.9/include/linux/version.h I ran the compilation for the the latest ‘stable’ NVIDIA driver (310.32), but discovered that – with 3.7.9 – this failed, as well! To save time, I had been creating the softlink after compiling the latest … Continue reading →
Kernel 3.6.8 is just business as usual, and everything works as expected.. There might not have been a need for another -rc before 3.7 was released, but apparently there was a late rush of changes and bugfixes, so now there is 3.7-rc7.. Same caveats apply as for -rc6.. NVIDIA driver (310.19) compiles OK, and VMware 9.0.1 still … Continue reading →
Just updated the kernel on my test system to 3.7-rc6, and discovered – sadly – that the standard VMware (re)compile/install script – vmware-modconfig – still doesn’t find the ‘relocated’ version.h in the 3.7 series kernels. So, although the VMware new-install/update script (VMware-Workstation-Full-9.0.1-894247.x86_64.bundle, in this case), does recognise the 3.7 change, the (re)compilation script doesn’t.. # vmware-modconfig –console … Continue reading →
Kernel updates are coming thick and fast, these days.. Updated my ‘main’ system to 3.6.6, with no problems, and updated the ‘test’ system to 3.7-rc4.. Same comments as before apply regarding NVIDIA and VMware compatibility, and both work fine on 3.6.6 (with the VMware 3.5 patch) and can be made to work on 3.7-rc4 (with the VMware … Continue reading →
Odd problem with kernel 3.6-rc3 on the Dreamplug… I had the usual /etc/fstab entry, with both the ext4 root and vfat boot devices configured, but now – despite LVM / RAID not being enabled in the kernel, the init/systemd process insisted on treating the vfat device as a LVM/RAID device, and failing, and dropping to the ’emergency’ … Continue reading →