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 →
Just updated my x86_64 Fedora 17 system to kernel 3.5 – just released – and so far, all is working OK. This is compatible with the latest NVIDIA drivers (304.22) and VMware 8.0.4 (patched).. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 3.5.0 #1 SMP Sun Jul 22 09:34:59 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Next step – to try … Continue reading →
Updated the Dreamplug to kernel 3.4.5: rgdreamplug ~]$ uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.4.5 #1 Wed Jul 18 17:46:49 BST 2012 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Tried 3.5-rc7, but that hung on boot, for some reason… More investigation needed..
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 →
Bacula is great for Linux – to – LTO tape backups, but the YUM updates can – at least on my system – sometimes leave it in an unusable state.. For some reason, the update tends to leave the libraries in /usr/lib64 in a mess, with some pointing to postgresql instead of mysql, and some still in … 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 →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 →
Found that the ‘latest’ (11.2.x) Adobe Flash Plugin for Linux (x86_64) makes YouTube videos look like something from a bad trip.. Tried different browsers, but the fault was still there.. Videos from news sites (BBC etc.) seemed to be OK.. So – reverted to 11.1 version of Flash Plugin (from Adobe archives) and all is well, again.. … Continue reading →
Linux kernel version 3.4.1 was not out yet, but there is a 3.5-rc1 already.. Compiled and installed, and the existing (patched) VMWare 8.0.3 installs and runs OK, and the latest NVIDIA driver (295.53) installs cleanly.. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 3.5.0-rc1 #1 SMP Mon Jun 4 13:33:33 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Now – to see … Continue reading →
Kernel 3.4.0 just released… Not on kernel.org yet, so downloaded from github (https://github.com/torvalds/linux). The latest version of the NVIDIA linux drivers (295.53) already supports kernel 3.4x, and the latest ‘weltall‘ patch for VMware (8.0.3) also supports this kernel version, so should be good to go.. Now – to see what’s new/improved/fixed/broken! Update: compiled/installed, and everything seems to … Continue reading →