AC100_enablement

trusty with mainline kernel on the ac100

Asked by herrtimson

I don't know if anyone reads this here, or if there is still someone using this device, however I tried to find a way to upgrade my old and now unsupported ubuntu 12.04 installation with the nvidia kernel. While finding many articles with appropiate adivce, most of them were not up to date as the rootfs tarballs couldn't be accessed anymore - mostly fedora and arch linux based guides.

So, if there is anyone having the same problem, this guy here took matter in his own hands, and he might be happy about some support with coding and suggestions to improve his effort. It seems fairly stable - see https://github.com/nthchild/ubuntu-ac100

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Nicolás Wolovick (nwolovick) said : 		#1

Geee, that is good. I have 2 AC100 and the EOL of Ubuntu 12.04 was a pitty.
Thank you very much for the pointer.

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:43 PM, herrtimson <
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> New question #633609 on AC100_enablement:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ac100/+question/633609
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> I don't know if anyone reads this here, or if there is still someone using
> this device, however I tried to find a way to upgrade my old and now
> unsupported ubuntu 12.04 installation with the nvidia kernel. While finding
> many articles with appropiate adivce, most of them were not up to date as
> the rootfs tarballs couldn't be accessed anymore - mostly fedora and arch
> linux based guides.
>
> So, if there is anyone having the same problem, this guy here took matter
> in his own hands, and he might be happy about some support with coding and
> suggestions to improve his effort. It seems fairly stable - see
> https://github.com/nthchild/ubuntu-ac100
>
>
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herrtimson (herrtimson) said : 		#2

Well, if you don't mind to keep the nvidia kernel 3.0.27, it is possible to update to 14.04 without any problems.

Though the mainline kernel seems to solve a lot of nasty, itchy and annoying problems - please fork this, or use my fork if you want to collaborate on developing - https://github.com/stefson/ubuntu-ac100

The original posterdoes not allow pull requests or the opening of issues/bug reports.

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Alessandro Scarozza (xan.scale) said : 		#3

why 14.04 and not more recent?

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herrtimson (herrtimson) said : 		#4

I think he wanted to start with 14.04 and later go ahed to 16.04 ; there was another repo on his git hub account with stuff for 16.04 but he stated at the same time that it was really bleeding edge and certainly highly unstable. The interesting part is, in my opinion, the mainline kernel made working - one can upgrade to 14.04 userland from 12.04, but has to stick to the nvidia-kernel 3.0.27

The 16.04 repo seems to have been deleted, but I may still have a local copy. If you are interested I'll try to find/upload them.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#5

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