Tag: linux

  • Mounting an NVMe drive with pmount in Linux

    If we try to mount an NVMe drive with pmount the following error will occur: jaufranc@Mini-IT13-CNX:~$ pmount /dev/nvme1n1p1 Error: device /dev/nvme1n1p1 is not removable We can fix this by editing /etc/pmount.allow and adding the drive or partition to the list of allowed drives: /dev/nvme1n1p1 A quick test shows that it did the trick: jaufranc@Mini-IT13-CNX:~$ pmount…

  • Testing multi-touch in Linux

    PyMT is recommended, but it’s old and fails to install, at least on Raspberry Pi OS: pi@pad7-pios:~ sudo pip3 install PyMTMT Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple Collecting PyMT Downloading PyMT-0.5.1.tar.gz (19.1 MB) |████████████████████████████████| 19.1 MB 96 kB/s ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /usr/bin/python3 -c ‘import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = ‘”‘”‘/tmp/pip-install-b6yez7ac/pymt_1ca31b3b3c92406780ce92a5395ee500/setup.py'”‘”‘;…

  • Ubuntu 23.04 on StarFive VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer

    Canonical has just published an optimized Ubuntu release for StarFive VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC. The board supports Ubuntu 23.04 which you can download on the Ubuntu website. More details can be found in the announcement.