L4T Ubuntu
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Intro
L4T Ubuntu is a version of Linux based on nvidia's linux for tegra project. It uses a different kernel compared to previous releases which allows it to use features not yet in mainline. Such as audio, docking support and vulkan.

Join our discord: https://discord.gg/53mtKYt

We have a wiki !
To facilitate our work we will only update our wiki from now on in order to avoid multiple outdated references, please refer to the following link instead of this page
https://wiki.switchroot.org/en/Linux/Ubuntu-Install-Guide

Credits
Bylaws,
Langerhans,
Ave,
Natinusala,
CTCaer(most of the hard stuff),
Gavin_Darkglider,
DanielOgorchock(Joycon drivers/joycond),
stary2001 (reboot2payload),
NVIDIA,
Azkali
Everyone else in switchroot - more info on that in the future.

 

[timewolf]

I was able to SSH into the switch and use putty from my windows machine to install dolphin. Netflix is almost 100% not gonna work. I’ve tried everything

me too...seems that it's impossible to install any widevine

 

[Taorn]

Just for exposure: https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutoria...ling-moonlight-embedded-on-l4t-ubuntu.537429/
ZeroFX posted a nice tutorial on how to compile moonlight-embedded for your Switch.

With this you can stream Games from your PC to your Switch, if you've installed an Nvidia card, that is.

 

[MartianMSK]

Guys I've been searching for an hour but I can't find a way or a file to install the droidmote server for Ubuntu... Can someone help me?

 

[tabnk]

Will wait for version 2

 

[spenat]

The right Joy Con stick was fixed in 1.1. Are you sure you applied the update? You have to download the separate package, it's not built in to the img file.

Yes, I am positive - I have manually applied the 1.1 update from the separate package. Just to be sure, just installed the update 1.1 again and it is working now - fixed

 

[yaymuffins]

Hello

You forgot to put the appropriate kernel modules inside /lib/modules , it is a serious issues as anything that might try to re-create a initramfs will fail.

 

[orangpelupa]

Video players that are working

Smplayer (smooth frames and scaling)
Kodi (smooth scaling, uneven frames)

Not working
VLC (crash on file opened)

 

[parkerlreed]

Or

yes works fine the only issue I had is you either compile every core yourself “bc of arm64” or you take the ones from the Lakka switch release which you can open the blank system file with the archive manager and find the so files and drop them and the info files in the right directories

No need to compile every core. The nightly PPA has aarch64 builds (and I'm fairly certain stable does too)

 

[Kargaroc]

Well I hope that USB-OTG is possible, since that would be incredible!

 

[GAMERZEROZ1]

Ok

 

[spenat]

GAMERZEROZ1: Don't misinform people - KODI is working fine. You are very probably entering KODI environment, which you can select from the login screen. Switch it back to Unity and it will work fine.

 

[GAMERZEROZ1]

Video players that are working

Smplayer (smooth frames and scaling)
Kodi (smooth scaling, uneven frames)

Not working
VLC (crash on file opened)

VLC worked for me but Kodi caused me a lot of problems when i rebooted.

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GAMERZEROZ1: Don't misinform people - KODI is working fine. You are very probably entering KODI environment, which you can select from the login screen. Switch it back to Unity and it will work fine.

I did not know that thank's

 

[iotdevnet]

VLC worked for me but Kodi caused me a lot of problems when i rebooted.

vlc is crashing from the beginning to me

Kodi works perfect , smplayer works , smtube works mpv works

but all use opengl only we need to find method to use nvidia dsp hw-decoder and we will have 4k h265

 

[Kargaroc]

Will there be a KDE version, or at least a version without a GUI at all so we can choose for ourselves? I think you can uninstall all the gnome stuff, but without instructions I wouldn't really know what to do.

 

[PokOeLe]

I need some help. When I boot the image with Hekate I see a black screen with the screen backlight on but then the switch reboots ( in my case to RCM since I have auto RCM mode on). Someone in this thread mentioned that the SD may not compatible, I'm running this on a 64 GB genuine Samsung SD card. What kind of SD are you running this on?

The linux image was written on the sd on a Mac OSX with etcher.

I've tried so far this combos:
1) Wrote Img to SD, booted into switch - not working
2) Wrote Img to SD, updated boot files on the SD from the update file given in this thread - not working
3) Now I'm writing the image with dd from mac OSX... waiting for it to finish.

Please help <3

 

[KingAsix]

Is anyone having an issue with the wifi disconnecting?

 

[GAMERZEROZ1]

Is anyone having an issue with the wifi disconnecting?

Yes

 

[crazyembereks]

Great work! It is possible to make this an NSP that can be booted from the switch menu and just reserves a partition of the existing SD card? That would be way more convenient than having to reboot and use a dedicated SD card. Will this be possible in the future?

 

[iotdevnet]

Yes

i use 2 days no even single issue with wifi

 

[PokOeLe]

I need some help. When I boot the image with Hekate I see a black screen with the screen backlight on but then the switch reboots ( in my case to RCM since I have auto RCM mode on). Someone in this thread mentioned that the SD may not compatible, I'm running this on a 64 GB genuine Samsung SD card. What kind of SD are you running this on?

The linux image was written on the sd on a Mac OSX with etcher.

I've tried so far this combos:
1) Wrote Img to SD, booted into switch - not working
2) Wrote Img to SD, updated boot files on the SD from the update file given in this thread - not working
3) Now I'm writing the image with dd from mac OSX... waiting for it to finish.

Please help <3

Also option 3 didn't work...
I'm starting to believe that during the initial expansion of the SD card the switch may need to reboot and there is a problem with Auto RCM.
Do someone of you have Auto RCM active? and are able to make this work? I'm asking just to cross out also this option.