~Toughbooktalk~

Posted: **Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:24 pm**

EdFromBJCS wrote:Okay. I had to look up how to get to the grub menu, but I have now successfully (I think) booted with the latest kernel.

Let's make sure

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uname -a

If you are running the latest 4.4.0.24, did the make fail again?

Posted: **Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:55 am**

I think so.

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ed@ed-CF-18KHHMXBM:~$ uname -a
Linux ed-CF-18KHHMXBM 4.4.0-24-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 8 19:25:16 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
ed@ed-CF-18KHHMXBM:~$ cd panasonic-hbtn
ed@ed-CF-18KHHMXBM:~/panasonic-hbtn$ make
make -C /lib/modules/4.4.0-24-generic/build M=/home/ed/panasonic-hbtn modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-24-generic'
rm: cannot remove '/home/ed/panasonic-hbtn/.tmp_versions/panasonic-hbtn.mod': Permission denied
Makefile:1389: recipe for target 'crmodverdir' failed
make[1]: *** [crmodverdir] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-24-generic'
Makefile:4: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
ed@ed-CF-18KHHMXBM:~/panasonic-hbtn$ sudo make
[sudo] password for ed: 
make -C /lib/modules/4.4.0-24-generic/build M= modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-24-generic'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl', needed by 'arch/x86/entry/syscalls/../../include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h'.  Stop.
arch/x86/Makefile:199: recipe for target 'archheaders' failed
make[1]: *** [archheaders] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-24-generic'
Makefile:4: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
ed@ed-CF-18KHHMXBM:~/panasonic-hbtn$

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2016 1:32 pm**

Although we are not building a kernel, try installing the linux-source package anyway. (as usual, run a root shell or prefix commands with sudo)

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apt-get install linux-source

Then try a make.

If that doesn't work, frankly I am running out of ideas. I'd suggest re-installing the kernel and headers.

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apt-get update
apt-get install --reinstall linux-headers-4.4.0-24 linux-image-4.4.0-24

Throw in a full upgrade for good measure:

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apt-get upgrade

Then reboot and try the make again.

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2016 1:49 pm**

I'm thinking I'll just wipe the hard drive and start over from scratch.

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2016 3:31 pm**

Before you do, try this version and run a make in it. I modified the Makefile a bit.

Posted: **Tue Jul 12, 2016 9:10 am**

kode-niner wrote:Before you do, try this version and run a make in it. I modified the Makefile a bit.

Gave it a shot, and it didn't work, but then I noticed it was saying something about /lib/modules/4.4.0-24-lowlatency/build not existing, so I looked into it and it didn't exist (duh), but /lib/modules/4.4.0-24-generic/build did exist. So I booted into the grub menu and told it to load 4.4.0-24-generic (I guess it had been loading the low latency kernel for some reason). aaaaannnnnd....

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ed@ed-CF-18KHHMXBM:~/panasonic-hbtn$ make
make -C /lib/modules/4.4.0-24-generic/build M=/home/ed/panasonic-hbtn modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-24-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/ed/panasonic-hbtn/panasonic-hbtn.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  CC      /home/ed/panasonic-hbtn/panasonic-hbtn.mod.o
  LD [M]  /home/ed/panasonic-hbtn/panasonic-hbtn.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-24-generic'
ed@ed-CF-18KHHMXBM:~/panasonic-hbtn$

Is that good? I don't see the word "error" anywhere.

Ran ./install.sh (not sure if that was necessary) then ran xev and among the many lines it returned was

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state 0x0, keycode 161 (keysym 0x1008ff74, XF86RotateWindows), same_screen YES

So that's a good sign, right?

Still can't seem to get the keyboard shortcut assigned in the settings editor, though.

edit: Did it! Instead of going into the settings editor, I opened up the XFCE menu and picked Keyboard from the settings sub-menu. Then I tabbed over to Application Shortcuts, clicked the Add button, navigated to the rotate file and clicked OK. Then, when it prompted me, I pushed the rotate button to assign it to the command. Yeehaw!

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Now I just need to get the on-screen keyboard and lock buttons to work.

edit: assigning the lock button was no big deal. Don't think the computer recognizes the keyboard button.

Posted: **Tue Jul 12, 2016 4:18 pm**

That's great!

Your installation is weird, though. I still suggest you try a full upgrade or dist-upgrade to try and regularize your kernel and headers packages... or start from scratch, maybe with another distro. All this balderdash shouldn't be part of your tutorial.

Posted: **Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:09 am**

Agreed. Still a useful learning experience.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:12 am**

Once I started over, the process had far fewer hiccups. Tutorial finished: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGDilnSzzEk

Thanks for the help!

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2016 7:41 am**

Good job! One thing though, it is not necessary to run a make. The install.sh script does that already. We only ran that command separately here for troubleshooting.

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