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NVIDIA – What is Going On?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 30, 2013 by RGOctober 30, 2013

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 →

Posted in kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion | Tagged kernel, latest kernel versions, linux, missing, nvidia, opinion, support | Leave a reply

DreamPlug to 3.12-rc7 – Still Needs Patch..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 28, 2013 by RGOctober 28, 2013

I updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.12-rc7, but found that the network problem from 3.12-rc6 was still there, so applied the ‘Ethernet patch’ mentioned in my earlier article – http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=897, and it works OK, now. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.12.0-rc7 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 28 10:07:38 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon.  October 28, … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Dreamplug, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Performance | Tagged dreamplug, ethernet patch, kernel 3.12-rc7, orion mdio, success | 2 Replies

VMware – 10.0.1 Released..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 25, 2013 by RGOctober 25, 2013

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 →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, Opinion, VMware | Tagged kernel 3.11.6, kernel 3.12-rc6, success, vmware 10.0.1 | Leave a reply

NVIDIA – Epic Fail?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 23, 2013 by RGOctober 23, 2013

I had assumed that my previous article on ‘auto patching’ was going to be redundant…    However, I discovered to my dismay that even the newly-released NVIDIA driver – 331.17 still fails to compile and install on 3.11 and 3.12 kernels.. It appears that nv-drm.c has been fixed, but not nv-linux.h.   This means that – for both 3.11 … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion | Tagged 3.11, 3.11 patch needed, 3.12, fail, nvidia 331.17, patch success | 4 Replies

NVIDIA – Auto-Patching..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 23, 2013 by RGOctober 23, 2013

As we seem to be stuck for some time with NVIDIA drivers incompatible with the latest kernels, patching seems to be more of a necessity, now. Thanks to a comment from Giordano, I have learned of a way to ‘automatically’ patch any NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file directly, and re-create a corresponding NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file which includes the patch..    The help … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA | Tagged format, nvidia, patch, run, success | Leave a reply

DreamPlug – 3.12-rc6 – Fix for Ethernet..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 21, 2013 by RGOctober 21, 2013

Soon after updating the DreamPlug to 3.12-rc6, I noticed that the Ethernet connection kept dropping, even though the # route command still showed it as OK.. I found a patch for the problem, and it works – for me..   http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg281285.html Be aware…. this patch is still being tested, and may be changed before it is ‘officially’ released, … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Dreamplug, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Performance | Tagged dreamplug, ethernet problem, kernel 3.12-rc6, patch, solution | Leave a reply

DreamPlug – 3.12-rc6 Success..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 21, 2013 by RGOctober 21, 2013

After a lot of ‘frantic testing’, and help from the linux-arm-kernel mailing list, I now have 3.12-rc6 running on the DreamPlug, using the new/improved ‘device tree’.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.12.0-rc6 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………………. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.12.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 21 13:29:27 BST 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux My … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Dreamplug, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM | Tagged arm, dreamplug, example config, kernel 3.12, linux, success | Leave a reply

VMware 9.0.2 – Patches for 3.12..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 18, 2013 by RGOctober 18, 2013

Thanks to dominator008, this is a link to information and patches for VMware 9.0.2 with Kernel 3.12.: http://dominator008.com/constructionyard/2013/10/03/vmware-9-0-2-vmblock-patch-for-linux-kernel-3-12/ As I have already updated to VMware 10.0, I have not been able to test these myself, but as you will see, they have been tested by the author.. Robert Gadsdon.   October 17, 2013 … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, VMware | Tagged instructions, kernel 3.12, patches, vmware 9.0.2 | Leave a reply

Android: The Browser/Flash Saga Continues..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 17, 2013 by RGOctober 17, 2013

I now have my replacement Hudl 7in tablet, and have been trying out the various options for working browsers – with Flash support. On my phone, I found that Chrome worked well, but this tablet always gets the ‘full’ website, rather than the ‘mobile’ version, and so Flash doesn’t work, any more.    Even implicitly typing in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Hacks, Opinion, Performance | Tagged android, custom user agent, dolphin, flash support, hudl, mobile website version, success, tablet | Leave a reply

NVIDIA – Still Waiting….

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 16, 2013 by RGOctober 16, 2013

There is still no up-to-date NVIDIA driver for kernel 3.11 or 3.12 support, and the many patch references on the DevZone forum are getting somewhat confusing.. I had previously linked to a thread there which included a link to a suitable patch, but this is a direct link, which is actually on the old NVNews NVIDIA forum, … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion | Tagged delays, direct link, kernel 3.11, kernel 3.12, nvidia patch, patch modification | 4 Replies

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