The problem is that, while linux includes drivers for r7xx, they rely on pci, while the wii u card is not on a pci bus.

Make sure the file is in the correct location on the sdcard. If it still doesn't work, you might have a broken sdcard slot/bad contacts.

 

Followed this ever since it was on gitlab. Great to have a pre compiled fw.img now.
I flashed the IMG file from MEGA on a 4 GB usb stick and will try that out.

One question though: In the readme it's written that only the back USB ports are supported. If that is the case, how am I supposed to use

• USB mouse
• USB keyboard
• USB stick with Debian

with only two ports? Does it support USB hubs?

 

USB hubs are supported

The problem is likely with the USB image I made, as I said it's untested. I'll try to make another one tomorrow (if you have a linux computer though, you can just format the drive as ext4 and extract the archive to the root of the drive)

 

I did this in a Ubuntu VM:

by using that command I get

Code:

tar: Exiting with faulure status due to previous errors

Although that error appears, the drive is full of all needed folders and files (over 400 MB in total) as far as I can see.
To avoid errors I can do this with sudo but then all files on the USB flash drive are owned by root (obviously) and I think that won't work on the Wii U due to permissions then, am I right?
I'm at work right now so I can't test it but I will once I get at home.

 

You have to run tar as root (sudo tar [...]), otherwise file permissions will will be wrong, and some files won't get extracted at all, since tar cannot create files which are owned by root and have no acces to common users without having root permissions. It's normal that in a linux linufs some files are owned by root; also make sure the files are extracted to the root of the drive.

 

I was thinking that if I do that, it would belong to the "root of my VM" and won't be accessable by the "root of Wii U's Linux". But thanks, guess I'll try this again then.
If this has to be done as root you should note that here:
https://gitlab.com/linux-wiiu/linux-wiiu/blob/master/README.md
Although I'm a bit experienced in Linux it wasn't clear to me.

If I got it working it would be exactly as written in the github readme except you would have to put "sudo " before the tar command:

Code:

sudo tar -xvpf <path/to/debian.tar.xz>

Then put in your root password and hit ENTER.

To get a quick setup, install VirtualBox, then download and follow this thread:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ubuntu-...ransistor-and-retroarch-preconfigured.489753/

It's a preconfigured Ubuntu for PegaSwitch but that doesn't matter. You would even benefit from using it if you have a Switch as well like I do.

 

All right, I think I did it correctly. I entered wiiu login: root and Password: root. What do I do at this screen?

 

Never mind; I got it.

 

Have you tried using the command "sudo startx" (without quotation marks) to see if ut does something?

 

Try su instead.