ROS 0.4.10 running on a ThinkPad T430 with Btrfs and Ethernet working [video]
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:47 pm
Finally ROS is running on modern hardware
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uaUNyjry9A
Article:
https://panoramacircle.com/2018/11/28/r ... t-working/
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uaUNyjry9A
Article:
https://panoramacircle.com/2018/11/28/r ... t-working/
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Let me summarize my experience, some of the pros are:
Free and open source
Fast install and boot with no problems using default settings and the Btrfs file system that is much more robust than the outdated FAT32 format in ROS 0.4.9. Gone are the days of waiting for checkdisk after a crash.
Compatible with some Windows drivers and apps (trial and error so far)
Basics like screen, keyboard, TrackPoint, DVD work fine
Ethernet is working now but required some hands on magic to activate the drivers without crashing the OS (and I forgot the exact steps that it took me)
App-manager is included with a range of free preselected and compatible Windows apps just like in Linux (requires Internet)
Some apps that worked: 7zip, Wordpad, Excel viewer, CPU-Z, Firefox 48, Opera, Opensonic, SimCity 3000, Pingus, etc.
I believe the system stability has been improved over the previous version 0.4.9 because I did not get any OS crashes expect for incompatible drivers
Some of the negatives are:
USB is still not working (USB storage, mouse, etc) but there exists a patch with USB support that should be added into the main releases in the future
Sound is not working (Windows drivers don’t work)
Generic video drivers are slow and support no advanced features
Sometimes slow an unstable, mostly depending on the apps