After 2 weeks of cross-compiling, struggling with ALSA, and fighting with Xorg and Nvidia Tegra drivers, I finally have something I would consider presentable!
The car would make an amazing media center. Holy crap it sounds amazing! The video player I'm using here is SMplayer. The performance was far better than I thought it would be, even with the wonky EGL and codec situation I'm currently in.
 |
| "I really don't understand all the complaints about the time to install gentoo. It is like complaining about your Tesla because the dealership was so far away." |
Some details, this is running a Gentoo arm system, cross-compiled using a qemu-user chroot environment. Yes, that's right, Gentoo, running on a Tesla. All those USE flags, CFLAGS, and optimizations are going to add speed to my car. My 5 second 0-60 will be faster than your 5 second 0-60!
There was probably at least 5 days of continuous compilation going on here. The system is almost completely independent. "OMG did you seriously flash the Tegra?" No, I didn't go that far. I'm running Gentoo in a chroot environment within the Tesla OS itself. I will definitely be making a post later diving into the technical details of it.
 |
| "I use Gentoo because I'm a speed freak - I can't stand the thought that my Tesla might not be running as fast as it could be." |
The desktop environment is XFCE. It's a great mix between minimal and pretty. I did go with Fluxbox at first but... it's a little TOO minimal. Not saying there's anything wrong with that!
 |
| "Why *SHOULDN'T* you put a Tesla on gentoo? I mean, THOSE things should perform REALLY well, and gentoo is just the thing that does that..." |
I have a few applications installed, though not that much yet. I tried a bunch of browsers but the best one so far is NetSurf. I'm currently fighting with the 3D \ EGL and some of the Nvidia codecs. Once I get that all ironed out a lot of things should be performing far better.
The captions in the pictures are small parodies of very real quotes at http://funroll-loops.info/
Happy hacking :)
Happy hacking :)
14 comments:
you should add:
conky,
chromium is worth waiting for the compile time,
give gnome >= 3.14 a shot https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Gestures
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd/Installing_Gnome3_from_scratch
I've never looked at conky... I'll take a look.
I couldn't get chromium to compile, and the Tesla kernel is missing some things needed by it so I would have to fix that.
I've never really liked Gnome. I'm a KDE girl myself.
I think the real question is whether this Tesla's daily driver will be Vim or Emacs...
Awesome job. You must be really proud. I remember my first gentoo compile.
Is User Mode Linux still a thing? That might help solve your Chromium failures.
obviously nano.
Check out the Chromium deps on the Arch package to see if you are missing any of them: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/chromium/
The Chromium issue has been resolved. A patch for the ebuild has been submitted and should be in portage any day now (if not already)
That's literally hacking from your garage. (sorry, I had to place that pun! ;) ).
vim vs emacs? Everybody knows real hackers just nano -w everything.
Fluxbox FTW!
Wow. I was just surfing around a little bit when I heard about you. Me using Gentoo+KDE myself and being a Tesla fan could not believe my eyes when I saw that you hacked your Tesla! That's like a dream coming true. Finally we can choose how we want our car :)
You are awesome. Keep going. This has to become a thing... hacking your smartphone, hacking your PC, hacking your car :D
And here is a "Great one :)" from another Gentoo freak and huge Tesla fan :) I'm dying here tough as Tesla is avoiding us here in Serbia :(
And here's another "GREAT JOB :D" from another Gentoo freek and huge Tesla fan. I'm dying here though, as Tesla is still avoiding us here in Serbia :(
Double lucky you - for owning a Tesla and for making it better with Gentoo :D
Post a Comment