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jofewi posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
R37.1 is the release based on lubuntu 22.04 with last ISO release date from 2024. Have you tried the current 2025 release? The latest one at the moment is: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-focal/files/DragonOS_Noble_R2.iso/download Did you have the same problem with the current release?
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On js8call you can use the precompiled js8call_2.3.0-devel_amd64_Ubuntu24.04.deb from the developer -Joe- K0OG i linked above. Or of course build it yourself if you prefer that. I linked the already precompiled to save your time. In the event power goes out and back and someone had set it up to connect to Wi-Fi for remote administration for example. I do not get it. I write here about the ISO file. When you boot it, it does not connect automatically to anything. Its just about sending RF out (search...
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I spend some hours today to test that as far as i can. Because when i compiled it on an other system with kernel 6.13 i could just modprobe it without any issues. So i had to do the full test: I installed DragonOS_Noble_R1_test4.iso on a empty drive. I ran sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade The probably only relevant update here is it updated the hwe-kernel from 6.11.0-19 to 6.11.0-21 . Because headers was also preinstalled, they also got updated automatic. I checked then what dependency is needed...
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I got once again in touch with the Lime developers like i already got in touch over a year ago when i asked to add support for the xtrx back then (take a look at the kernel driver merged patches from 2024.02.07. Now again the latest patches got merged to the repo on my request. You can see the patch merged on 2025.03.19 and now it can build on 6.10 and newer kernels (Lubuntu 24.04 based version): https://github.com/myriadrf/xtrx_linux_pcie_drv/commits/master/ Could we now not again wait over a year...
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Have you tried the new test build of DragonOS? It have new kernel with updated sound drivers and could work better on your tablet. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-noble/ Do you have in general working sound output when you try out for example the most recent test version of Ubuntu? Currently you can find it here: https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
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See updated post below about js8call
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I did some further testing. welle.io is missing(it was before installed): https://github.com/AlbrechtL/welle.io direwolf does not do anything when you click on it (in older DragonOS shell got opened) About js8call: The main developer brought the software back to life just these days. The current repo that look to be its new home is here: https://github.com/js8call/js8call I build the current js8call version 2.3.0 from source for a different machine and its working great. Many things have been fixed...
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For example there is also a js8call development with qt6 support. Js8call sort of stopped here years ago: https://bitbucket.org/widefido/js8call/commits/ The development continued here: https://github.com/bazineta/js8call They updated the QT and Hamlib versions and many other things.
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There is a test release since some hours here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-noble I am creating this topic here for discussing this new test release. The first thing i have found: On the page here https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-noble/files/ You have written twice in the list 'WSJTX 2.7.0'. Probably you would like to remove one of the two entries. General discussion: I have seen many people moving from WSJTX to WSJTX-Improved. The WSJTX-Improved version got yesterday a release...
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Thanks for the answer. Yes, i know about lime supporting the fairwaves xtrx revision 5. But this revision 5 is rare. Nearly no one have such revision 5 from fairwaves. Here is the forum topic about that: https://discourse.myriadrf.org/t/fairwaves-xtrx-rev-4-use-with-new-gateware-and-lime-suite-ng/8289 I and the masses of other fairwaves xtrx owners out there have the revision 4 of the xtrx.
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So i expect there would be a new release in some time based on 22.04 . Good to know because that is already tested. Could you add the xtrx support in the next iso release? One year passed since this topic have been opened. 22.04 would be supported by default until April 2027.
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Nice to hear. There are some things inside the current release based on 22.04 that are too old to be used. For example the software named esptool. Its so old, it does not support the most of the esp32 devices that are sold today. I was happy to first see that its preinstalled until i realized that its unusable for my use case.
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You have not done the moderation on the post from 2025-02-09 for over a month. Is there something wrong with that post and that is why its still awaiting moderation?
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Its also a general good idea to use Ventoy on usb drives. To my experience that is adding a great compatibility layer and make it possible to boot images that did not start without Ventoy. With Ventoy you can also use memdrive and other usefull additions without the need of the ISO-developer to have to implement that.
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Here in 2025 @cemaxecuter mentioned, that 22.04 would be supported for years: https://sourceforge.net/p/dragonos-focal/tickets/55/#c6c1/2903 I realized today that Lubuntu 22.04 support end is next month. Not some years ahead. https://lubuntu.me/jammy-released/ What is the planned future about that? Would there be a move from Lubuntu to Ubuntu to stay at 22.04 and its kernel and software base or would there be a change of the x86_64 release to 24.04 in the next month before the updates stop? Are there...
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Is this important, of if the kernel module is included by default that is enough? I missed the question. I hope this did not slow down the process. Having the kernel module as a start should be great and i can again test everything. The issue was that soapysdr-module-xtrx from the package source was outdated. Without soapysdr the SDR do not get much support in the applications out there. They most support rtl-sdr kernel module directly and the other hardware is supported through soapysdr. That is...
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I thought about your question some days and at the end i now just say: Some solution to make the the xtrx working better with the distro instead of now having to compile all the bits from source and install the distro to hdd. When for example i am able to have a live-distro that require internet access but afterwards i have the working parts in live mode, then its better then the way it is now. When you say its not possible to add it to the ISO then its impossible for me to say something against...
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I have never left off(you used the word 'we', that is why i tell this). I was just waiting and checking every new DragonOS release since then for xtrx support. After some time and no xtrx support in the images, i decided to ask about any it. To my understanding i would now again just have to continue waiting. If you want to be reminded on a schedule, then please tell me what time schedule i should add into my calendar so that i remind you on those days.
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I have never left off(you used the word 'we', that is why i tell this). I was just waiting and checking every new DragonOS release since then for xtrx support. After some time and no xtrx support in the images, i decided to ask about any updates ob the topic. To my understanding i would now again just have to continue waiting. If you want to be reminded on a schedule, then please tell me what time schedule i should add into my calendar so that i remind you on those days.
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I have never left off(you used the word 'we'', that is why i tell this). I was just waiting and checking every new DragonOS release since then for xtrx support. After some time and no xtrx support in the images, i decided to ask about any updates ob the topic. To my understanding i would now again just have to continue waiting. If you want to be reminded on a schedule, then please tell me what time schedule i should add into my calendar so that i remind you on those days.
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Any updates about adding xtrx support to the live iso?
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I am not sure but if i understand correctly, the FPGA image is written inside some ROM part of the xtrx. Thats why if you reflash it and something does not work, you brick it and need special hardware tools to fix it again. Lets see if the XTRX support could fit and work inside of the iso file of DragonOS R34 with rebuild SDRAngel to also add support for it there.
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I vote LibreOffice out of the ISO image. First reason: Its somewhat broken. When i create a file, write something in the file, close LibreOffice and confirm save changes, then open the .odt file again with LibreOffice and just want to close LibreOffice again, it always ask me if i would like to save the changes. But there are no changes. I just opened and want to directly close LibreOffice again. Second reason: There is already Featherpad and gedit and those have no such issues like LibreOffice....
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I am not sure but if i understand correctly, the FPGA image is written inside some ROM part of the xtrx. Thats why if you reflash it and something does not work, you brick it and need special hardware tools to fix it again. Lets see if it could fit and work inside of the iso file of DragonOS R34
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I am not sure but if i understand correctly, the FPGA image is written inside some ROM part of the xtrx. Thats why if you reflash it and something does not work, you brick it and need special hardware tools to fix it again. Lets see if it could fit and work inside of the iso file.
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I tried two different things about soapySDR and could get a working version: First: sudo apt install soapysdr-module-xtrx xtrx-dkms- #the '-' at the end removes the dependency and this helped to install it. Sadly it was not working. I was expecting it to work because this should not be bound that strong to the changed lines in the kernel module that made it working with kernel 6.5 . SopySDR was there. But not a single tool could show a waterfall diagram. I tried mainly gqrx and SparkSDR. They both...
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Yes, this works on a fresh R33 installation. Thanks. I can see the card in dmesg like before on R32 with kernel 5.15 and also the compile of test_xtrx worked again on R33 where i have not downgreaded the kernel. ./test_xtrx -t -l2 Master: 32.000 MHz; RX rate: 4.000 MHz; TX rate: 0.000 MHz RX tunned: 900000000.000000 RX bandwidth: 2000000.000000 RX LNA gain: 15.000000 RX PGA gain: 0.000000 RX TIA gain: 9.000000 RX CYCLES=1 SAMPLES=16384 SLICE=16384 (PARTS=1) PROCESSED RX SLICE 0 /0: res 0 TS: 8192...
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Thanks for motivating me instead of demotivating like some other projects. Many project developer take bug reports personal and you can see this in the way they answer. Happily this is not the case here and you seem to be happy when people try to contribute like they can to the project. Yes, of course a fix upstream instead of adding a second kernel that have to be double maintained is the way to go. Thanks for even considering adding a second kernel. I have already send at 06.02.2024 to info@myriadrf.org...
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I would like to make a recommendation to all users of this Linux ISO. There is https://www.ventoy.net . What it does is it make your USB drive bootable but also keep it usable for everyday use. This is really important these days because if you go to a supermarket, the cheapest USB drives you get have a size of 64GB or more. You break nearly all of their usability when you use Balena Etcher, dd or any other equal tool to just write one single ISO to the first few memory parts of the USB-drive. What...
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In https://sourceforge.net/p/dragonos-focal/tickets/55/#2111 @cemaxecuter wrote "My one concern is the space I have remaining to make the iso." In the text written at https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-focal/files/ i can read "Some USRP FPGAs have been removed to save space" What space barrier is the developer trying to keep? Is it the size of a DVD? I ask because the developer also wrote "Will not install from DVD, burn ISO to USB w/ Etcher etc.."
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I did not know how to compile it. What i tried failed to build. Thats why i uninstalled the HWE kernel and use now the basic ubuntu 5.15 LTS kernel so that i could try out DragonOS in general. SDRangel seem to be compiled without XTRX support. Could you add XTRX support to SDRangel? Should i write this in an other ticket to keep this ticket about the kernel driver in combination with live mode only?
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Thanks for the fast answer. Of course it would be great if it somehow would fit into the iso so i can offline boot a live iso and have the SDR directly working. But yes, i have seen the PPA you have setup. It would also be great to have it there and to be able to install or update it from there when for example the next new linux kernel release break the functionality and again a Pull Request have to be merged into the package to make it working again. If it dont fit into the iso i would have to...
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It would be great to have a private and ad-blocking by default browser. Could you replace the Firefox browser with the Firefox-fork LibreWolf? https://librewolf.net/ When i then open in DragonOS the browser, i wont have to first do a ton of changes to not see at first some Add and other distracting things. LibreWolf just reduce the amount of things you in general do on a fresh Firefox install to 0. Its kind of 'Firefox ready to use'.
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XTRX PCIe SDR not working and cant be installed - please add live-support
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