L4T Ubuntu - A fully featured linux on your switch

gbazone · Jun 27, 2019

I'm using an old 16gb red SanDisk micro SD. I think the speed is only 33 or something. Will everything run better if I use a modern 128gb SanDisk?

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 27, 2019

NANASHI89 said:
So, how do I remove said partition, so I can get complete access to the whole memory card?

google gparted, or even better partedmagic.

gbazone said:
I'm using an old 16gb red SanDisk micro SD. I think the speed is only 33 or something. Will everything run better if I use a modern 128gb SanDisk?

That is an interesting question. Things will load/save quicker, with a fast sdcard, but once it is in ram it should perform about the same, unless the process is constantly accessing data from the sdcard, in which case it would be slower. So yes, using a faster sdcard is not a bad idea, but not needed either.

uyjulian · Jun 28, 2019

BruhBoy said:
Any way to turn off sleep mode

Press the power button to get out of sleep mode

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 28, 2019

uyjulian said:
Press the power button to get out of sleep mode

if that doesnt work plug it in, and it should wake up.

DevinG70 · Jun 28, 2019

Hey I don't know if I keep doing something wrong but whenever I go to shut off the switch after going through the whole setup process and confirming that everything is working, I can't ever boot it back up using hekate, it just sits there on a black screen without and indication of anything working. It's not until I put the switch into the dock that I see a terminal on my tv screen going through a bunch of unreadable text that's going by too fast. Also whenever I do actually use it without turning it off, is it just me or is it really slow, because it doesn't take much for the screen to turn gray and frozen, and it stays that way for a good bit, which is why I tried turning it off and on again in the first place. Also I've reinstalled it a few times now lol

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 28, 2019

DevinG70 said:
Hey I don't know if I keep doing something wrong but whenever I go to shut off the switch after going through the whole setup process and confirming that everything is working, I can't ever boot it back up using hekate, it just sits there on a black screen without and indication of anything working. It's not until I put the switch into the dock that I see a terminal on my tv screen going through a bunch of unreadable text that's going by too fast. Also whenever I do actually use it without turning it off, is it just me or is it really slow, because it doesn't take much for the screen to turn gray and frozen, and it stays that way for a good bit, which is why I tried turning it off and on again in the first place. Also I've reinstalled it a few times now lol

Boot horizon, then turn off and then boot linux. I dont know what causes this, but booting horizon fixes it.

DevinG70 · Jun 28, 2019

Huh... really... well dang I never would've guessed that lol, thanks if it works!

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 28, 2019

DevinG70 said:
Huh... really... well dang I never would've guessed that lol, thanks if it works!

You are welcome.

In other news, Gentoo repo has been started. official repo can be found at: https://github.com/bell07/gentoo-switch_overlay

My fork is much further along, as not all of my changes have been tested, and merged yet, but will get there eventually. It can be found here: https://github.com/GavinDarkglider/gentoo-switch_overlay

I warn you that both of these repositories are still in early development, but on mine, there should be enough to build a bootable system, and have most of the hardware set up for you. I still need to make a nintendo-switch meta package that makes it easier to install all required packages.

globalc · Jun 29, 2019

gbazone said:
I'm using an old 16gb red SanDisk micro SD. I think the speed is only 33 or something. Will everything run better if I use a modern 128gb SanDisk?

I had corruptions on my noname 32GB card, got a new one advertised with 100MB/sec. According to iozone, I can read from the card with the switch card reader with 80MB/sec.

GreinSpider · Jul 1, 2019

Okay, I'm a complete Noob here. Uline I have not used Linux in any form and the only type of packing I'm used to is on the 3DS.
So explain what's wrong with my switch trying to boot:
*I burned the image to the SD card.
*Deleted boot & boot.scr from root fat32 partition
*ejected sd from pc inserted into switch
*booted to "doss"-like menu with options LAUNCH & CONFIGS
*selected CONFIGS
*selected L4T
*screen goes black. Backlight turn off then on.

And that's where I'm stuck.
So, help me Obi-Wan Kenobi you're my only hope

gbazone · Jul 1, 2019

GreinSpider said:
Okay, I'm a complete Noob here. Uline I have not used Linux in any form and the only type of packing I'm used to is on the 3DS.
So explain what's wrong with my switch trying to boot:
*I burned the image to the SD card.
*Deleted boot & boot.scr from root fat32 partition
*ejected sd from pc inserted into switch
*booted to "doss"-like menu with options LAUNCH & CONFIGS
*selected CONFIGS
*selected L4T
*screen goes black. Backlight turn off then on.

And that's where I'm stuck.
So, help me Obi-Wan Kenobi you're my only hope

Don't delete anything the first time you boot. You need some form of those to... boot. Install the updates after if you must from the Switch itself. After you setup and reboot, dock with a keyboard and mouse and then apply the updates. You got the Hekate part right (picking L4T). I used etcher to write the image. However you did it before just do it again.

globalc · Jul 1, 2019

GreinSpider said:
*Deleted boot & boot.scr from root fat32 partition
*ejected sd from pc inserted into switch

Between these 2, the files from the update should be deployed. Step 1.3.1 in the instructions.

Emanuelssjin · Jul 2, 2019

How come when I am in handheld mode, it stays in black screen when booting. Only way I can get it working is if I leave it plugged in? Is there a way it would work without it being plug into charger? I tried all sd cards and none will boot up. Only if lucky with a power cord

Monado_III · Jul 2, 2019

How do people use this? Joycons are unusable for me when connected via bluetooth (crazy lag, control sticks messed up etc) .

stick267 · Jul 2, 2019

Monado_III said:
How do people use this? Joycons are unusable for me when connected via bluetooth (crazy lag, control sticks messed up etc) .

I had some issues on version 1.0 with my Joy Cons but after the first update they work perfectly fine. I use them as a mouse and I played through the entire game of Wind Waker with them. Make sure you apply the updates from the OP.

GreinSpider · Jul 2, 2019

gbazone said:
Don't delete anything the first time you boot. You need some form of those to... boot. Install the updates after if you must from the Switch itself. After you setup and reboot, dock with a keyboard and mouse and then apply the updates. You got the Hekate part right (picking L4T). I used etcher to write the image. However you did it before just do it again.

Ok now I just
*burned the image to the sd
*inserted the ad into switch
*booted into hekate
*launch -> configs -> LET
AND....black screen....

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

gbazone said:
Don't delete anything the first time you boot. You need some form of those to... boot. Install the updates after if you must from the Switch itself. After you setup and reboot, dock with a keyboard and mouse and then apply the updates. You got the Hekate part right (picking L4T). I used etcher to write the image. However you did it before just do it again.

Ok now I just
*burned the image to the sd
*inserted the ad into switch
*booted in

globalc said:
Between these 2, the files from the update should be deployed. Step 1.3.1 in the instructions.

Again total noon here.
Here's what I did what I did when I got home
*burned img to SD
*booted heated
*L4T
*...black screen.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Again total noon here.
Here's what I did what I did when I got home
*burned img to SD
*booted hekate
*L4T
*...black screen.

GreinSpider · Jul 2, 2019

GreinSpider said:
Ok now I just
*burned the image to the sd
*inserted the ad into switch
*booted into hekate
*launch -> configs -> LET
AND....black screen....

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Ok now I just
*burned the image to the sd
*inserted the ad into switch
*booted in

Again total noon here.
Here's what I did what I did when I got home
*burned img to SD
*booted heated
*L4T
*...black screen.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Again total noon here.
Here's what I did what I did when I got home
*burned img to SD
*booted hekate
*L4T
*...black screen.

globalc said:
Between these 2, the files from the update should be deployed. Step 1.3.1 in the instructions.

Tried declining those who filed after deleting Boot and boot.scr and the same thing happened, black screen.
The switch Works normally but I have not tried loading any other type of custom firmware on it at all. I just want Linux

duanxuef · Jul 2, 2019

Great!!!
But I want to use the sdcard with exFat format, is there a way to add exFat support for the Ubuntu and coreboot.rom?

Djakku · Jul 2, 2019

duanxuef said:
Great!!!
But I want to use the sdcard with exFat format, is there a way to add exFat support for the Ubuntu and coreboot.rom?

Not at the moment.

GreinSpider · Jul 2, 2019

GreinSpider said:
Tried declining those who filed after deleting Boot and boot.scr and the same thing happened, black screen.
The switch Works normally but I have not tried loading any other type of custom firmware on it at all. I just want Linux

first things first I want to apologize for the weird way I'm typing. I'm using voice typing because my dyslexia is not letting me spell out these words correctly and the voice typing Library keeps replacing them with more common words.
Now that that's out of the way.

Last night I decided to see if I could at least back up the nand of my switch and using nsox it worked.
So NSOX works just fine but for some reason I can't get this to work ...

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