Archive:Building restricted drivers for XBMCbuntu

Introduction

The simpler approach to build and install the restricted drivers is to run the driver installer on XBMCLive. The installer will take care of all installations and modify the config files accordingly.

However, this requires that a full build environment has to be available on the system, while the default XBMCLive build does not have the required packages for sake of being as much compact as possible.

As several users have experienced, a full build environment requires around 1 GB of space, and the XBMCLive permanent storage file can be filled up quite easily.

The following procedures are intended to tackle this issue; it has side effects and limitations but once you have a fully working build environment it does not have major disadvantages (IMHO).

Building NVIDIA video drivers

• Method 1: build drivers on XBMCLive

• Method 2: build drivers in MIC

Assuming you have created a target in MIC for the creation of the XBMCLive image, you need to create a new target having all the necessary development tools ON THE SAME PLATFORM, so that the build target has the same system components as the XBMCLive target.

Once done, copy the driver installer script onto the target and perform the following steps in a chrooted terminal on the build target:

$ sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run --extract-only
$ cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1
$ mv * usr/bin

Now a few symlinks need to be created in a few library directories:

$ cd usr/lib

create the following:

lrwxrwxrwx libcuda.so.1 -> libcuda.so.180.29                                         
lrwxrwxrwx libGLcore.so.1 -> libGLcore.so.180.29                                     
lrwxrwxrwx libGL.so -> libGL.so.1                                                    
lrwxrwxrwx libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.180.29                                             
lrwxrwxrwx 1 libnvidia-cfg.so -> libnvidia-cfg.so.1                                    
lrwxrwxrwx libnvidia-cfg.so.1 -> libnvidia-cfg.so.180.29                             
lrwxrwxrwx libnvidia-tls.so -> libnvidia-tls.so.1                                    
lrwxrwxrwx libnvidia-tls.so.1 -> libnvidia-tls.so.180.29                             
lrwxrwxrwx libvdpau_nvidia.so -> libvdpau_nvidia.so.1                                
lrwxrwxrwx libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 -> libvdpau_nvidia.so.180.29
lrwxrwxrwx libvdpau.so -> libvdpau.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx libvdpau.so.1 -> libvdpau.so.180.29
lrwxrwxrwx libvdpau_trace.so -> libvdpau_trace.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx libvdpau_trace.so.1 -> libvdpau_trace.so.180.29

$ cd usr/lib/tls

create the following:

lrwxrwxrwx libnvidia-tls.so.1 -> libnvidia-tls.so.180.29

Some files need to be moved to their appropriate place for Ubuntu:

$ mkdir usr/lib/xorg
$ mv X11R6/* usr/lib/xorg

and again some symlinks are to be created:

$ cd usr/lib/xorg

lrwxrwxrwx libXvMCNVIDIA.so -> libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1 -> libXvMCNVIDIA.so.180.29

$ cd usr/lib/xorg/modules

lrwxrwxrwx libnvidia-wfb.so -> libnvidia-wfb.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx libnvidia-wfb.so.1 -> libnvidia-wfb.so.180.29

$ cd usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions

lrwxrwxrwx libglx.so -> libglx.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx libglx.so.1 -> libglx.so.180.29

Then, the kernel module needs to be compiled and placed in an appropriate location:

$ cd usr/src/nv
$ make module
$ mkdir -p ../../../lib/modules/2.6.2x-yy-generic/dkms
$ cp nvidia.ko ../../../lib/modules/2.6.2x-yy-generic/dkms

You can now create a new loopfile of a reasonable size (80 MB should work) with:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=restrictedDrivers.nvidia.img bs=1M count=80
$ mkfs.ext3 restrictedDrivers.nvidia.img -F

and populate it by mounting the image file and copying all the files above:

$ mkdir Image
$ mount -o loop restrictedDrivers.nvidia.img Image
$ cp -RP NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1/* Image
$ umount Image

There is however a final step, ie. having the new module automatically loaded. For this we need to have an updated modules.dep inside the restrictedDrivers.nvidia.img. My way of doing it is to boot XBMCLive with NVIDIA drivers in safe mode, run a "sudo depmod -a" and copy the resulting /lib/modules/2.6.2X-yy-generic/modules.dep over to the same location in build environment again, and reiterate the population of the .img file.

Building ATI/AMD video drivers

• Method 1: build drivers on XBMCLive

NB. You have to have a LARGE persistent storage file for this, around 1 GB, or the process will not complete due to insufficient disk space.

Install the required packages:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++5 dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r)

then cd where the installer package is saved and build the driver packages:

$ sh ati-driver-installer-9-1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/hardy 

Finally install the packages:

$ sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx_8.573-0ubuntu1_i386.deb fglrx-kernel-source_8.573-0ubuntu1_i386.deb fglrx-amdcccle_8.573-0ubuntu1_i386.deb 

and create a default initial configuration with:

$ sudo aticonfig --initial -f

• Method 2: build drivers in MIC

Assuming you have created a target in MIC for the creation of the XBMCLive image, you need to create a new target having all the necessary development tools ON THE SAME PLATFORM, so that the build target has the same system components as the XBMCLive target.

Once done, copy the driver installer script onto the target and perform the following steps in a chrooted terminal on the build target:

$ mkdir Files
$ sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/intrepid                                                                                        
$ dpkg-deb -x fglrx-amdcccle_8.573-0ubuntu1_i386.deb Files                                                                                                            
$ dpkg-deb -x fglrx-kernel-source_8.573-0ubuntu1_i386.deb Files                                                                                                       
$ dpkg-deb -x fglrx-modaliases_8.573-0ubuntu1_i386.deb Files                                                                                                          
$ dpkg-deb -x libamdxvba1_8.573-0ubuntu1_i386.deb Files                                                                                                               
$ dpkg-deb -x xorg-driver-fglrx_8.573-0ubuntu1_i386.deb Files                                                                                                         
$ dpkg-deb -x xorg-driver-fglrx-dev_8.573-0ubuntu1_i386.deb Files 

You have now all the files needed in the "Files" directory, minus the kernel module. In order to create the kernel module we are going to build it manually:

$ cd ./Files                                                                                                                                                            
$ pushd .
$ cd usr/src/fglrx-8.573/
$ make
$ popd
$ mkdir -p lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/updates/dkms
$ mv usr/src/fglrx-8.573/2.6.x/fglrx.ko lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/updates/dkms

You can now create a new loopfile of a reasonable size (80 MB should work) with:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=restrictedDrivers.amd.img bs=1M count=80
$ mkfs.ext3 restrictedDrivers.amd.img -F

and populate it by mounting the image file and copying all the files above:

$ mkdir Image
$ mount -o loop restrictedDrivers.amd.img Image
$ cp -RP Files/* Image
$ umount Image

There is however a final step, ie. having the new module automatically loaded. For this we need to have an updated modules.dep inside the restrictedDrivers.amd.img. My way of doing it is to boot XBMCLive with AMD drivers in safe mode, run a "sudo depmod -a" and copy the resulting /lib/modules/2.6.2X-yy-generic/modules.dep over to the same location in build environment again, and reiterate the population of the .img file.

References

Ubuntu Hardy Installation Guide on the Unofficial ATI Linux Drivers Wiki