More distro-specific than usual posts, but hopefully ‘useful’.. I found that Kodi on Fedora 25 would no longer play M2T/MTS files. Frustratingly, there was no error shown, or apparent debug clue, but the program just exited without any messages, when playback of one of these file types was selected. After checking associated libraries and not getting any … Continue reading →
UPDATE: The vmware runtime fix shown here has not worked since version 12.5.6, and the solution is in a later article: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1992 I have recently updated one crash-and-burn system to Fedora 26 (alpha/testing) and have encountered two problems with VMware and the ‘bleeding edge’ version of GCC included.. The first problem sounded very familiar, and it is a … Continue reading →
Thanks to Jerome Brunet, there is now a fix for the long-standing Ethernet hang problem on the C2.. Details are here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2016-November/001538.html The patch is an attachment – named ‘attachment.bin‘, and so will need to be renamed to something appropriate.. I applied this to the 4.9-rc3-derived version of the C2 patched kernel, from https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-amlogic.git/log/?h=v4.10/integ.. There is a … Continue reading →
Managed to update the Hikey ARM64 SoC to the latest kernel – 4.7 Final. Fedora 24 (Twenty Four) Kernel 4.7.0 on an aarch64 (ttyAMA0) ………………………. # uname -a Linux rghikey 4.7.0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 24 19:53:54 EDT 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux On boot, and when the network initialised, polkitd segfaulted again, the same as … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.7 has been released – slightly later than usual – and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1607.3/00150.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 4.7.0 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 14:34:37 PDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Neither VMware nor NVIDIA have drivers that work with this kernel version, but the 4.7-rc patched versions of VMware 12.1.1 and NVIDIA … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.7-rc7 is out, and 4.7 Final should be next, but the latest NVIDIA driver released – 367.35 – still fails to compile with 4.7-rc7.. The patch for 367.xx still works OK… Details here: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1750 In case you need to create an executable (NVxx.xxx.run) incorporating the patch, details on how to do this are in an older … Continue reading →
Thanks to juston_li on the NVIDIA Devtalk forum, there is specific detail of the changes needed for Kernel 4.7 compatibility.. Details are at https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/938665/linux/linux-4-7-rc1-367-18-build-errors/ The first issue is interesting, as it is due to a Kernel Dev. deciding to introduce a new variable – radix_tree_empty – in Kernel 4.7-rc1, that happens to have the same name as … Continue reading →
Thanks to g, from their comment on my previous article ( http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1746 ), there may be a more correct vmnet fix than simply ‘commenting out the code’.. Replace dev->trans_start = jiffies with netif_trans_update(dev) in netif.c I have made this change, and VMware 12.1.1 is – so far – loading and running OK, as usual.. Robert Gadsdon. May 30, … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.6-rc5 is out, and brief details of changes from -rc4 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.3/00178.html Kernel 4.6 seems to have a habit of continuing later-rc breakages with VMware and NVIDIA, compared to previous kernel releases.. The VMware 12 fix for 4.6-rc4 (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1706 ) still works OK with 4.6-rc5, but even the latest NVIDIA driver – 364.19 breaks … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.5-rc7 had booted successfully on the Radxa Rock2, but 4.5 Final failed, as the SDcard was ‘loaded’ just too late: mmc_host mmc1: Bus speed (slot 0) = 400000Hz (slot req 400000Hz, actual 400000HZ div = 0) dwmmc_rockchip ff0f0000.dwmmc: 1 slots initialized ……………………… VFS: Cannot open root device “mmcblk1p1” or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 ………………………… Kernel panic – … Continue reading →