Ubuntu Utopic for nvidia shield tv

[heebe]

A note to the enforced rebooting of 3.0 / 3.1 systems, a possible cause is,
in addition to the kernel config, the device tree configuration of the tegra watchdog timer. Since version 3.0 the timer´s heartbeat is set to 120 seconds.
Within this time interval the system software, e.g. systemd, has to send at least
one ping to the watchdog device, otherwise the system reboots after a hardware
reset. In order to avoid that with systemd, in /etc/systemd/system.conf the option RuntimeWatchdogSec must be set to a non-zero value, e.g. 40s :
RuntimeWatchdogSec=40
(See man page of systemd-system.conf)
systemd will now send a ping to the hardware every 20 seconds.

Perfect, you saved my day! Now it runs stable and smooth. I had to tweak also /etc/resolv.conf from Xenial image to make networking work.

However, all kernels seem to be running single core only. /proc/cpuinfo reports only one processor. Is there any tweak to utilize all 8 cores of A57 & A53?

 

[tailslol]

wow,interesting . I was not expecting Ubuntu on shield TV.
for the 500gb it is OK but for the 16gb I was more expecting chromium OS.
for the video acceleration I guess you will find something in some pixel c sources I hope.

 

[sashavingardt]

Hi folks,

my apologies if this is not the right thread. Just received my brand new Shield. It automatically upgraded to 3.2. I have unlocked it. But whenever I try to do anything else fastboot related I get the "waiting for any device" message. adb devices works perfectly fine. I'm on a mac (tried it on linux too to no avail). Should I downgrade anything for it to work? What am I missing?

Thank you so much in advance!

 

[dietgert]

current state ?

Whats the current state of this ubuntu "port" ?

I was not able to boot the images with the current 3.2 nvidia software installed.
After downgrading with the recovery image to 2.1 this was possible.
However, I was not able to set the resolution to 4k - I doubt, this is possible with the provided boot-image.
Question: Did somebody succeed in setting the resolution to 4K ?

BR
didi

 

[derern]

AFAIK it works with the L4T images from @yahoo2016

 

[Stevio2]

Should we partition Google for official Linux support? With x86 binary transliteration to run code, and that system that allows Ubuntu and redhat applications (professional software use) on the system. They probably burnt half their sales by not having it when released, as it was so ahead.

 

[j-m-s]

But whenever I try to do anything else fastboot related I get the "waiting for any device" message. adb devices works perfectly fine.

If you see the device with "adb devices", then you do "adb reboot-bootloader".
After that, you can check with "sudo fastboot devices".

 

[Seattleweather]

I can not get fast-boot mode. Plug into PC did nothing. Any other way to reflash the firmware? Thanks.

 

[fruithat]

The guys who hacked the Nintendo Switch managed to get the GPU to work under Linux. The console used the same gpu and cpu.

Are there any better methods to install Ubuntu on the box? Is there a better way than flashing the OS onto the recovery partition? Does it work for 2017?

Maybe a new kernel works by now?