L4T Ubuntu - A fully featured linux on your switch

Worldblender · Jan 27, 2020

Well, here comes another part: Technically there is a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter built into the official dock, but getting raw DisplayPort requires another dock. If only the official dock is officially supported, I suppose that it is impossible to achieve DisplayPort at all for the time being, no?

Gavin_Darkglider · Jan 27, 2020

It all works on the dock. Expanding the hardware options isnt a huge deal, as we still havnt finished getting what is there working properly. Like right now, I am trying to update ubuntu, for the 2.0.1 release I am working on, but I need to know if I can get the latest ubuntu root from nvidia to work first.

Worldblender · Jan 27, 2020

Gavin_Darkglider said:
It all works on the dock. Expanding the hardware options isnt a huge deal, as we still havnt finished getting what is there working properly. Like right now, I am trying to update ubuntu, for the 2.0.1 release I am working on, but I need to know if I can get the latest ubuntu root from nvidia to work first.

Okay, I think I may want to help out. All I need to know is where I can get started.

HaloBenish · Jan 27, 2020

ZachyCatGames said:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a-0_9hQa309dp6_Jll0C9ioDQsiSiCDT
SHA256(switchroot-l4t-ubuntu-2020-01-24.img.gz): 1523d900f4e04f9d1f6e5d6af0f6a905c70781d1340fd7c15cafd30c226e2333
MD5(switchroot-l4t-ubuntu-2020-01-24.img.gz): ae18ede7274572fcea7ef8dc0758f9ac

Is this link fully up to date (is the 2nd new update included, the one that fixed boot issues for people)? I have a 64gb sd card, do I just flash this and good to go??

ZachyCatGames · Jan 28, 2020

HaloBenish said:
Is this link fully up to date (is the 2nd new update included, the one that fixed boot issues for people)? I have a 64gb sd card, do I just flash this and good to go??

It should be the one with the fix.

Gavin_Darkglider · Jan 28, 2020

It is the one with the fix, and if all goes well, I will have more fixes soon, but that will be applied by a script, and there will be a script to update from 1.2+ as well, so those that have ubuntu pre setup wont have to wipe their card to get the new updates.

Dee8282 · Jan 28, 2020

azoreseuropa said:
Share with us.

I followed this tutorial

https://itsfoss.com/fix-failed-download-package-files-error-ubuntu/

Silent_Gunner · Jan 28, 2020

ZachyCatGames said:
apt remove all the retroarch and libretro packages, and delete ~/.config/retroarch.
Then compile retroarch from source (compiling it yourself fixes some issues such as vulkan not working), then you can grab all the cores by either doing “sudo apt install libretro-*” (note: some of the cores on apt are super outdated, but is fast and easy) or using libretro super to compile them all (note: this takes half an eternity and a few cores will fail to build, but you’ll have up to date versions of the cores)

OK, after being tired for the past day, I finally have got some sleep (still have to go to work today because FML), and am wondering how exactly I go about compiling the Switch version of UbuntuArch from source. Does one literally download the source code from Github and run it through a C++ compiler themselves? Or is this one of those Linux-exclusive things if my experience with using Retropie is anything to go off of?

Also, what exactly do you mean by Libretro Super?

ZachyCatGames · Jan 28, 2020

Silent_Gunner said:
OK, after being tired for the past day, I finally have got some sleep (still have to go to work today because FML), and am wondering how exactly I go about compiling the Switch version of UbuntuArch from source. Does one literally download the source code from Github and run it through a C++ compiler themselves? Or is this one of those Linux-exclusive things if my experience with using Retropie is anything to go off of?

Also, what exactly do you mean by Libretro Super?

https://docs.libretro.com/development/retroarch/compilation/ubuntu/

Silent_Gunner · Jan 28, 2020

ZachyCatGames said:
https://docs.libretro.com/development/retroarch/compilation/ubuntu/

I see. I figured there'd be a different set of instructions to get some more "Switch-oriented" build of RA or something.

spotanjo3 · Jan 28, 2020

Dee8282 said:
I followed this tutorial

https://itsfoss.com/fix-failed-download-package-files-error-ubuntu/

Very good. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Deleted User · Jan 28, 2020

mugen source code...man i laughed and laughed and laughed. Yeah you clearly don't know about mugen. Nways it is really cool engine and you should check it out. I did some looking into and yeah our version of mugen just won't work cause of switch being arm like some said. I tried wine no work. Now what could is hangover and someone did get that installed but I can't get winmugen to work with it but it should. But alas me don't know how but that would be the way to go on the switch from the time I spend on it use hangover to run winmugen easier said than done though but hey maybe a new pair of eyes will figure it out!

Silent_Gunner · Jan 28, 2020

seanp2500 said:
mugen source code...man i laughed and laughed and laughed. Yeah you clearly don't know about mugen. Nways it is really cool engine and you should check it out. I did some looking into and yeah our version of mugen just won't work cause of switch being arm like some said. I tried wine no work. Now what could is hangover and someone did get that installed but I can't get winmugen to work with it but it should. But alas me don't know how but that would be the way to go on the switch from the time I spend on it use hangover to run winmugen easier said than done though but hey maybe a new pair of eyes will figure it out!

I'm pretty sure that if Hangover was considered practical, more people would have discussed it by now.

Besides, Winmugen and MUGEN Plus are so 2009. The leaked MUGEN 1.1 build is where it's at!

Deleted User · Jan 28, 2020

Silent_Gunner said:
I'm pretty sure that if Hangover was considered practical, more people would have discussed it by now.

Besides, Winmugen and MUGEN Plus are so 2009. The leaked MUGEN 1.1 build is where it's at!

it is discussed in the other thread in for how to get applications working it's discussed briefly here but this thread is long. I think more people don't suggest it just cause well they don't know it is an option. It is fairly new. Heck maybe since last time I tried it is working. Also being more of a linmugen guy when I say winmugen I am actually referring to the many incarnations of winmugen. I don't separate them really. Being an actual player of mugen eh it's kinda petty. To me it's all about getting my game to play at the end of the day. I see alot of people with these terrible mugen games that they can only really demo or play what someone else compiled for them (which gosh those games tend to suck in my view cause they limit mugen to like certain stuff like kof or mvc etc) wheras i actually have a cool mugen game I want to play. It's different for me.

Silent_Gunner · Jan 28, 2020

ZachyCatGames said:
https://docs.libretro.com/development/retroarch/compilation/ubuntu/

OK, so I've followed this guide up to the Path part, and every time I run RetroArch via the commandline, the icon is a ? and it can't be locked to the sidebar. What am I doing wrong?

crow132 · Jan 28, 2020

i'm having many issues with video playback crashing chrome lately, didn't remember having that much in olders l4t's revisions

ZachyCatGames · Jan 28, 2020

Silent_Gunner said:
OK, so I've followed this guide up to the Path part, and every time I run RetroArch via the commandline, the icon is a ? and it can't be locked to the sidebar. What am I doing wrong?

Huh, weird.
Dunno if it would make a difference, but I usually use —recursive while cloning, which does make it download some other stuff.

Gavin_Darkglider · Jan 28, 2020

crow132 said:
i'm having many issues with video playback crashing chrome lately, didn't remember having that much in olders l4t's revisions

Well, chrome never used hwdecoding in old version, and it shouldnt be using it here either. Really only change is that the kernel has been update, and some udev rules, chrome should be the same, unless it was updated in ubuntu repos.

Deleted User · Jan 29, 2020

actually maybe I am wrong about mugen source code. Been working on getting sound going in mugen in gentoo linux on ps4 and having no luck sadly but came across a post that painttown is using the source code of mugen which i was not aware of. Not sure how accurate that is but maybe that is another avenue to get mugen on switch

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Silent_Gunner · Jan 29, 2020

seanp2500 said:
actually maybe I am wrong about mugen source code. Been working on getting sound going in mugen in gentoo linux on ps4 and having no luck sadly but came across a post that painttown is using the source code of mugen which i was not aware of. Not sure how accurate that is but maybe that is another avenue to get mugen on switch

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Paintown? The MUGEN source code? As in, not IKEMEN, but MUGEN's source code?

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