As my APCs are being held to ransom, until I get an invoice for UK customs duty and taxes (by post!!) and am then able to pay it (online?).. I decided to add another flavour of cross-compiler to the ones I already have installed. This one comes from the self-contained OpenELEC environment which is used to create … Continue reading →
As the complete source code for the APC is still unavailable, and it seems that the ‘standard’ Android OS on the device does not include some sort of console, the only way to get control (at least of the boot process) would appear to be by using the UART port on the board, and a pinout / … Continue reading →
Kernel version 3.5 has not been out for very long, but now there is 3.6-rc1 already – available from http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=summary Compiling now, and will be interesting to see if anything breaks! Update: Compiled and installed OK, and VMware 8.0.4 (patched) compiles OK, but – unusually – the NVIDIA driver (304.30) compilation fails: ……………………….from /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.30/kernel/nv-acpi.c:15: /usr/src/linux-3.6-rc1/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h: In function ‘copy_from_user’: … Continue reading →
As the APCs are still ‘awaiting customs clearance’, I decided to try to cross-compile the kernel source available at github: https://github.com/apc-io/apc-8750 Unfortunately, many of the APC-specific drivers (‘wmt’) are currently missing.. The system is an Android 2.3 one, and the kernel is based – as you would expect – on Linux kernel version 2.6.32. (In this case … Continue reading →
Been trying the ‘released’ version of kernel 3.5 on my Dreamplug, and at first the hang appeared to be due to the fact that 3.5 didn’t detect the Marvell Orion USB controller, but now there is another problem (see Update below..): ‘Good’ boot (3.4.5): mv_xor mv_xor.3: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy ) Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 … Continue reading →
I had a (rare) problem with power to my computers recently. The battery in my UPS had died (causing really annoying beeping warnings..) and the power also went out briefly, causing all systems to suffer a genuine power fail condition. The Linux systems all came back (after some extra – brief – systemd-fsck operations) in – literally … Continue reading →
If you are seeing a lot of these: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8801c4be7b80 idx:2 val:1 -repeated ad nauseam, then there is a fix coming! https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/9/47 I have applied the patch, and (so far..) it appears to have fixed the ‘problem’..
Continue reading →So – after (literally) years, there is a new 4.0 version of Skype for Linux available (the download button still says 2.2, but the 4.0 version is downloaded) Still no 64-bit version, sadly.. The cynic in me would wonder if this sudden change of heart might have something to do with support for the new ‘inline targeted … Continue reading →
I have just pre-ordered one* of the new VIA ‘APC’ $49 Android bare-bones computers: http://apc.io/product/ * The shipping charges (from Taiwan) were almost as much as the device costs, so I have ordered two, and will see if I can hack one and install Linux on it (of course..) Should be shipping sometime in July, but I … Continue reading →
Ran 3.5-rc2 for while.. Seemed stable at first, but now getting USB3 XHCI errors: xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD usb 10-1.1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd usb 10-1.1: Parent hub missing LPM exit latency info. Power management will be impacted. xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with … Continue reading →