Ubuntu 17.10 install in xps9560
- Freezes at boot time
- it's because the nvidia card does not work well with the open-source driver in this ubuntu version
solution:
i. add 'nomodeset' to boot cmd line
ii. after boot into ubuntu, install the proprietary driver for NVIDIA in 'Additional Drivers'
iii. upgrade grub and reboot
AOSP 17.10 build
- Memory issue
ninja: fatal: fork: Cannot allocate memory
- quite weird as I have 16G RAM, and this only happens in ENG build.
MTK SP Flash tool
- install the libusb-dev
sudo apt instatll libusb-dev - In order to avoid running the flash_tool as root user, you need to add a standard user to the usergroup "dialout"
sudo adduser username dialout
newgrp - dialout - the above 2 might be enough, but I added a persistent udev rule for the MTK Preloader also:
sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/80-persistent-usb.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="0e8d", ATTR{idProduct}=="*"
