NVIDIA Jetson TX1

We currently have an NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Development kit on our ridgeback_yumi. In this article we will describe how it is setup.

Software installed

• XUbuntu 16.04.1
• Credentials
  • username: nvidia
  • password: nvidia
  • Other factory-default user:password pairs: ubuntu:ubuntu
• ROS Kinetic Kame Desktop Full
• Partitions: Multiple, set automatically by JetPack 3.1 installer.
• Network settings:
  • WiFi: connects to eduroam. DHCP enabled.
  • Ethernet: static IP 192.168.125.7. Goes into the TP-LINK router.
• Utilities:
  • baobab
  • gparted
  • htop
  • nano
  • openssh-server
  • trash-cli
• Libraries: OpenCV 3.1

Install utilities

sudo apt-get install baobab \
                     gparted \
                     htop \
                     nano \
                     openssh-server \
                     python-pip \
                     trash-cli

SD card

If you want to add an SD card to your Jetson TX1, we recommend that you first format it as a single "ext4" partition (using Gparted or parted, for example).

Then, for auto-mounting the SD-card when you start the system, you will need to:

1. Create a directory in your /media/nvidia folder:

sudo mkdir -p /media/nvidia/sdcard

2. Find out its device name. For that, run

df -h

And write down the name of the device that appears when you unplug and plug again the SD card. In our case it was /dev/mmcblk1p1. We will call this <device_name>

3. Find out its UUID, by running

sudo blkid <device_name>

You will get output like this:

/dev/mmcblk1p1: UUID="ab09f21e-94b1-4c1a-8fd4-f93ce4a94c69" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="867566d8-01"

Type down the UUID number inside quotes, which we will call <device_uuid>

4. Add the following entry to your /etc/fstab file:

UUID="<device_uuid>" /media/nvidia/sdcard ext4 rw,user,exec 0 0

5. Reboot

6. Give read/write/execution permissions to all your users (OPTIONAL)

sudo chmod -R 777 /media/nvidia/sdcard