I got started with another Switch unit that sometimes crashes to an orange screen on the stock OS. Luckily, I'm able to save this unit by booting it into RCM mode and pushing Hekate to it. To my joy, this L4T Ubuntu boots up nearly flawlessly even on this broken unit.
However, the following things prevent me from making full use of this OS:
- Wi-Fi icon is not present and it isn't detected. I haven't found out why it isn't working at all on my particular unit.
- Bluetooth appears as turned off, but attempting to turn it on makes airplane mode appear.
- After logging in, the NVIDIA logo will appear, causing my screen to turn sideways/portrait mode, and I also am unable to put the screen back into landscape mode. If there was a way to have the screen rotate by orientation, that's better, but even the stock OS is set to landscape all the time, so I'd like to follow it for simplicity.
- I would like to turn on verbose logging so that I can see the kernel messages scroll by every time I boot up L4T.
- As noted by @bylaws, USB OTG isn't working at all. I currently don't have a dock with me, only multiport hubs with power delivery. I haven't known if I charge the battery while running L4T yet.
Without a way to use USB devices or access the internet in this unit's current state, it's hard to take full advantage of what can be offered. I have a Raspberry Pi 3B that uses the same 64-bit ARM architecture as the Nintendo Switch does, so all I need to do is boot up a 64-bit OS image on that, and chroot into the L4T system so that I install some more packages to it. I hate the fact that I lost some convenience for the time being, but I'll have to live with it until things get better or someone steps in to guide me where I should go from here.
