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Originally Posted by s-taylor
Wow, with this reception I'm going to bow out of this thread.
I happened to be working directly with the Jetson developers internally, and was reading the documentation being referenced. They were aware of the issues and and the incompatibilities I mentioned. Yes, there appear to be people out there who are getting things to run properly. My TX1 (to answer that question) apparently had a worse time than theirs, and I don't yet know why. Glad there are folks out there who are getting things to work with the Jetsons.
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We've been working with Dustin Franklin and some of the other folks at Nvidia for over a year now on the TX1 and before that we were using the TK1. I don't work for Nvidia and I'm not in direct contact with their internal development team.
What I do know is that you came into a thread and posted gigantic red text about not being able to update the Jetson TX1 to 16.04 and I can tell you I've used JetPack (and the command line utilities the other posted mentioned above) to do exactly this about a dozen times.
There are issues with using 16.04 as a host system. It's why the documentation says the requirement is a 14.04 system. I suppose you could say that it is incompatible but when the requirement states use 14.04... who is at fault?
You stated you were using VirtualBox, which you also stated is unsupported, and having issues transferring the VM to another system which probably points to issues with your host truthfully.
Personally, I've used VMWare Workstation, VMware Fusion, and a dedicated 14.04 host system to run JetPack to run these installs. All have worked fine. I suspect that WorkStation and Fusion use is unsupported but they worked and I've never had a major issue with USB ports not functioning or otherwise.
Also, from a professional standpoint, if you do work for Nvidia then you should take a more positive approach to discussing your company's products on a public forum. Your statements (particularly in big bold red text) could be taken as an official statement and lead to much more complicated trouble for you.
Look man, I care what you want to tell other teams about this thing because Nvidia has been a valuable partner for our team and an amazing resource for FRC. I've had the pleasure of meeting with the CEO to discuss what we do and he's a nice guy who is sponsoring something great with his company. I do not want to see that put in jeopardy because someone is going off half cocked and posting things on CD that aren't true.
Want to get an official statement from the dev folks you are talking to out to teams? Great! Awesome! Do it! Until then, 900 will be working on a guide teams can use. We've had a lot of success with this board.