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| General | |
| Author | Gavin_Darkglider |
| Type | Operating systems |
| Version | 2019 |
| License | Mixed |
| Last Updated | 2019/06/07 |
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First and foremost, Gavin_Darkglider has been working on a build for about a year. This build utilizes the mainline 5.0 kernel and mesa drivers, and it has standard Linux issues that still apply before L4T Ubuntu.
Second, Gavin_Darkglider will not provide support for this build. Although Gavin_Darkglider is aware of the issues, there are no plans to fix them. The system is not optimized correctly, randomly freezes, and only seems to recover partially. An update was started but not finished, resulting in some non-working apps. The Chromium browser included in the build features both Wedevine and Flash Player, but it does not play most flash videos, possibly because it is not linked against ffmpeg. Despite the numerous issues, Gavin_Darkglider has used this build for the past six months as a portable music and video player, and it seems to perform reasonably well in that regard.
Third, the battery meter in Kodi is inaccurate, and there are fixes available. However, the fixes were implemented in a plugin that changes skin variables. Unfortunately, the skin used in the build requires permission from the developers to be used with any Kodi release, resulting in its removal.
The password for both the root and switch user is "switch".
It should be noted that all settings, game files, and personal data have been removed from the build. As a result, users will need to provide BIOS files for RetroArch and configure Joycons for both RetroArch and Kodi.
Media
Why Gentoo Linux? - (Open Source Slayer)
Instructions
- Extract the Tarball. Inside you will find 2 more tarballs.
- Partition the SD card. This was set up to use swap space, and I didnt change any of the configs for this release. So partition your sd card as such.
- boot(fat32)
- Linux Swap(Could be any size, but standards say 2x the size of ram(8gb))
- Linux Root(ext4)
- Once the partitions are created, extract the 32bit_boot tarball to the boot partition of the sdcard, and the 32bit_root tarball to the root partition on the sdcard.
- Re create home directories. Simple enough, just copy and paste this command:
- cd <ext4_mountpath>;mkdir root; chown 0:0 root; mkdir home/switch; chown 1000:1000 home/switch
- boot with hekate, and enjoy.