Tested the latest NVIDIA driver – 352.63 – and it is OK with Kernel 4.3, and with the Fedora 23 version of the xorg server.. The only other ‘broken’ Fedora 23 items I have encountered are ffmpegthumbs and Samba.. I downgraded to the FC22 version of Samba # dnf –showduplicates –allowerasing –releasever=22 downgrade samba* ….and – after … Continue reading →
Updated to Kernel 4.4-rc1 on the test system, and VMware 12.0.1 and NVIDIA 358.09 both compile and load/run OK.. I did get an error from vmnet, but – so far – it appears to be working OK despite this: $ vmnet1: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x0000000000004000, left 0x0000000000004800 vmnet8: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x0000000000004000, left 0x0000000000004800 $ … Continue reading →
Updated the DragonBoard 410c to Kernel 4.2.4: # git clone https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/qualcomm/kernel.git -b release/qcomlt-4.2 and this version boot/runs OK.. I am running these systems ‘headless’, so have not been able to test monitor/display capabilities.. Fedora 23 (Twenty Three) Kernel 4.2.4 on an aarch64 (ttyMSM0) ……………… # uname -a Linux rg410c 4.2.4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 11 04:12:36 … Continue reading →
One of the shortcomings of the DragonBoard 410c was that it relied on the Android-phone-centric fastboot for any Kernel updates, but now there is a version of U-Boot available, thanks to Mateusz Kulikowski.. This is very much a work-in-progress, but I thought I would give it a try… I started with the version at https://github.com/hallor/u-boot/tree/dragonboard-2015.11.01, and made … Continue reading →
Although VMware 12.0.1 was installed OK, the desktop app (/usr/bin/vmware) fails, with – frustratingly – no error shown.. According to various comments found, this is due to a change to GCC version 5.1.1 in Fedora 23.. Thanks to Vincent Cojot, on the sgros.blogspot.com blog, there is a slightly convoluted workaround, which basically involves replacing the VMware versions … Continue reading →
Just updated to Fedora 23, and the NVIDIA driver would not load/run.. (tested with the latest – 358.09 and 352.55) ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================ This server has a video driver ABI version of 20.0 that this driver does not officially support. Please check http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X server with a … Continue reading →
Updated to Kernel 4.3 ‘Final’ and the latest versions of VMware (12.0.1) and NVIDIA (tested with 352.55) install and load/run OK, without the need for any patches.. Brief details of changes from -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1511.0/00204.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 4.3.0 #1 SMP Sun Nov 1 17:27:46 PST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. November … Continue reading →