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 →
Tried Kernel 4.0-rc1 on the CuBox-i4 Pro (from kernel.org) and the Odroid U3 (from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-4.0.y), and the results are a bit of a mixed bag.. The CuBox boots OK, but – although eth0 appears to be present – networking doesn’t work.. Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.0.0-rc1 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) ……………. [root@rgcubox ~]# uname -a … 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 →
Just tested Kernel 4.0-rc1 – announced here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.2/04059.html As you will see – not much actual detail on what has changed, and I have already run into a couple of ‘issues’… The Radeon drm driver on my laptop refuses to load, and the boot hangs immediately with drm r600_ring_test [radeon] *ERROR* radeon: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0x8504)=0xFFFFFFFF) … 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.. https://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 →
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 →
Updated the Odroid U3 to (patched) Kernel 3.19, from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-3.19.y Thanks to work by tobiasjakobi, this now includes the preliminary patches – updated for 3.19 – for fan control on the Odroid U3, originally posted by Lukasz Majewski at http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-samsung-soc/msg42259.html So, (on a Fedora 21 system) you can now control the fan, as follows: # echo “0” … Continue reading →
Updated the Odroid U3 to Kernel 3.19-rc7, from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-3.19.y Had to ‘refresh’ the config, by # make exynos4412_odroid_defconfig, and then (re)enable selinux etc… One feature is that the CPU fan no longer runs constantly, but I need to do more tests, to see if it is now capable of running at all.. The temperature is OK, at … Continue reading →
Installed Kernel 3.19-rc7 on the test system, and the same comments apply as for -rc6. The latest NVIDIA driver (346.35) and VMware 11.0 – with the vmnet patches – install and load/run OK.. Changelog summary here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.0/00273.html $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.19.0-rc7 #1 SMP Mon Feb 2 19:00:25 PST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux It appears … Continue reading →