NVIDIA have released driver 319.82, and now 331.38, and they install OK on kernel 3.12, but – unfortunately – still need the patch for kernel 3.13, despite the fact that 3.13 Final is due in about a week from now.. modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘nvidia’: Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) make[1]: *** [package-install] … Continue reading →
3.13-rc8 is out, and 3.13 Final should be out in about a weeks time – or so.. Changes are here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg568052.html Same comments apply for VMware and NVIDIA drivers on x86_64 as for -rc7, and the DreamPlug (armv5tel) still gives the usual batch of mvsdio f1090000.mvsdio: unhandled interrupt status=0x0810 en=0x0100 pio=0 errors on boot, but otherwise runs … Continue reading →
After some time, and ‘the holidays’, Kernel 3.12.7 has been released, and – as usual – the latest NVIDIA and VMware versions compile and run OK.. This time, the changelog is quite long: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.7 On my main system, I had been running into very infrequent (once every two/three weeks) X ‘freezes’ with NVIDIA driver 331.20, but have … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 3.13-rc7, and VMware 10.0.1 and (patched) NVIDIA 319.76 and 331.20 compile and install OK.. Details of the NVIDIA runtime patch were in an earlier article: https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=948 Details of changes are here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg563675.html According to the announcement, there may be a 3.13-rc8 release, before 3.13 Final.. Robert Gadsdon. January 5, 2014.
Continue reading →Just updated the test system to Kernel 3.13-rc6, which has a smaller changelog, due to the ‘holidays’.. Details are here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1621119/ As before, patched NVIDIA drivers 331.20 and 319.76 compile and load OK, as does VMware 10.0.1.. Robert Gadsdon. December 30, 2013
Continue reading →Updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.13-rc5, and still getting some mvsdio f1090000.mvsdio: unhandled interrupt status=0x0810 en=0x0000 pio=0 messages on boot, but otherwise the system seems to be running OK… Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc5 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) ………………….. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc5 #1 PREEMPT Sun Dec 22 21:44:57 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to kernel 3.13-rc4, and VMware 10.0.1 and (patched) NVIDIA 331.20 compile and load OK.. NVIDIA appear to have pulled driver version 319.76 from their ftp download site – ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/, for some reason.. Robert Gadsdon. December 16, 2013.
Continue reading →Just updated the DreamPlug to Kernel 3.13-rc4, and the compile-fix patch for -rc3 is no longer needed.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc4 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………………… # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc4 #1 PREEMPT Sun Dec 15 23:26:14 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. December 15, 2013.
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 →