I spent the last two hours getting Waydroid to work in my Ubuntu Studio installation. At this point I am very impressed although I still have not got it to recognize any of my game controllers, the volume is extremely low and it will not play YouTube videos. But all of that represents only the need for more time and stubbornness. I seldom give up on fixing issues such as these.
It is funny that someone complained that the directions for installing the Windows Subsystem for Android sounded like Latin to them. It is child’s play compared to getting Waydroid set up in Ubuntu Studio. I am sure there are some flavors and versions of Linux where this would not have been an ordeal. But with the nearly countless varieties... one often has to do a lot of research and troubleshooting to get hardware and software to play nice together.
I have years of experiences that give me an advantage over most people and help keep me from throwing in the towel too easily. Thankfully the Linux community shares a lot of information in numerous forums that can usually help after some digging.
Okay, I’m geekier than 99% of the population. I’ve played with Linux. Heck, I was messing with Unix in 1988.
What I don’t understand is how some just don’t understand than the VAST majority out there will NEVER do what you just did. They will not tinker with setting just to get something to work. I don’t want to do that and I generally enjoy computers.
The Linux community, what is left of it, is composed of a bunch of masochists. Other than the neat sound created by beating your head against a wall...why? Is it REALLY more secure? Kinda sorta. Any real deep geek will tell you that with enough time and tools you can be cracked. It is more of security by obscurity.
Story...I had a Linux box and I bought a Linux friendly (supposedly) graphics card. Back then there was a LONG installation guide that was different for various flavors of Linux that had you typing rather long, obscure, commands in the terminal. After doing all this, it still wouldn’t work. I ended up spending hours digging through forums until I found out about an incompatibility between my motherboard, my video card, and my flavor of Linux. It required a change in installation commands. So basically, after about 6 hours, I was able to get the video card to work. Yay.
Even today, a couple of years later, it isn’t that much better. A “simple” Linux video card installation is:
First, make sure that your system is updated and Linux headers are installed.
To make sure they are, just use the following command in the terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
Installing the Nvidia drivers can be done in three easy steps. First, install the drivers themselves with
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
in a terminal.
The next step is more of a safety measure as there are cases when the Nvidia installation script doesn’t run this command. This can lead to severe problems when the system reboots, so the solution here is just to run the command again separately:
$ sudo nvidia-xconfig .
Finally, reboot your system using the reboot command to apply your changes.
Then do in terminal:
$ sudo apt-get remove nvidia* && sudo apt-get autoremove
Next, reboot and when you’re back at the login screen press CTRL + Alt + F1 to switch to command console. Login here with your username and password. When you’re at the text console, you’ll have to kill the current graphics session by running $ sudo stop lightdm.
Finally, give permissions to the downloaded driver package and run it with:
cd /Downloads && chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-*-346.35.run && sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-*-361.42.run
From here, just follow the onscreen instructions and then reboot your computer. At next boot, run $ sudo nvidiaxconfig to save your new configuration. Optionally, you can also blacklist the nouveau driver to prevent it from installing itself during a system update or uninstall them completely.
If you want to do this, edit the following config file with:
$ gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
Once in the file, add the following lines at the end and save the file.
blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveauoptions nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off
You can also choose to disable the kernel nouveau by running the following commands one by one:
$ echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/
modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf
$ sudo update-initramfs –u
And once you reboot you’re done!
Isn’t that easy!