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 →
A recent announcement that Red Hat and CentOS have ”Joined Forces” is interesting, and should lead to an improved development/release cycle for both.. Red Hat: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-hat-and-centos-join-forces CentOS: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html Potentially, this would certainly result in CentOS versions being released earlier, after the corresponding Red Hat Enterprise release date.. It may be that the release of both versions will … Continue reading →
ARM devices on Linux are rapidly moving to use the ‘device tree‘ format to specify the CPU / SoC characteristics at kernel compile time, for producing the boot image… For systems such as the DreamPlug, this means that the old # make uImage is no longer applicable.. For the DreamPlug, this is an example of the … 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 →
There has been some speculation about the ‘Unified Memory’ module found in the latest drivers, but details are somewhat sparse.. From the product Release Highlights: ……….. ”Added nvidia-uvm.ko, the NVIDIA Unified Memory kernel module, to the NVIDIA Linux driver package. This kernel module provides support for the new Unified Memory feature in an upcoming CUDA release.” More … Continue reading →
I originally wrote an article on cross-compiling for ARM systems, some time ago – before I got my first Raspberry Pi – and this is a more up-to-date version. This is how I cross-compile ARM kernels, on x86_64. There are – of course – other ways of doing this, but this works, for me.. The following info … Continue reading →
Just updated the raspberry Pi to kernel 3.11.7.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.11.7-pi+ on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ……….. # uname -a Linux rgpi 3.11.7-pi+ #1 PREEMPT Fri Nov 8 12:19:17 GMT 2013 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux The Pidora project seemed to show promise, now that armV5 updates are no longer provided after Fedora 18, but … Continue reading →
Kernel 3.12 is out, and the same comments apply as for the later -rc versions.. VMware 10.0.1 compiles and runs OK, and NVIDIA 331.17 – with the patch mentioned in previous articles – works. Details of changes are here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1589267 As you will see, this post includes some interesting comments on future kernel releases, and a possible … Continue reading →
Opinion: I don’t usually write pure ‘op/ed’ pieces, but this situation – I think – warrants further comment… I am becoming concerned at the apparent inability of NVIDIA to adequately support Linux.. In the past, the company was able to very quickly produce a driver version that supported the latest changes to the Linux kernel, but not … Continue reading →
VMware has just released version 10.0.1, and – as with 10.0 – it compiles and installs OK on the ‘latest’ kernels – 3.11.6 and 3.12-rc6. How times have changed… Previous ‘new’ versions of VMware always seemed to need patching for the latest Linux kernel version, and NVIDIA were always right up-to-date… Now, it seems, the reverse is true.. … Continue reading →