Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04 on MK808b Plus

[sammaz]

I got the DS4 controller and trackpad working with ds4drv :

sudo ds4drv --emulate-xpad --trackpad-mouse

Then I installed this virtual keyboard called onBoard so that you can do everything with the DS4 from the couch.

http://ubuntuguide.net/onboardenable...r-ubuntu-gnome

sudo apt-get install onBoard

[mebaali]

I have figured it out. This is what i did,

1) open terminal window
2) typed "cd /etc" (without quotes)
3) typed "sudo nano rc.local" (without quotes)
4) entered password (same as the one used for logging in the os that is "minipc")
5) copy pasted the script for 1080p above the chmod 666 line
6) pressed ctrl x
7) pressed Y
8) exited terminal, restarted the machine
9) Voila! ubuntumate in 1080P resolution now

Update: Following Loboris's script, Audio is also working now

Thank you so much, loboris

[prahjister]

are you doing "sudo nano /etc/rc.local" and use minipc as the password?

[hochgattererjohann]

I think you just need to open a terminal window and type "sudo su" then "passwd root"

It don't work.

Do anyone have the root password. Or is there a other solution for a non linux person to change the values in rc.local and others.

Beside: what can happened, when WLAN do not work?

thank you for your helping

[prahjister]

Guest - linux illiterate here. Just followed your steps and installed ubuntumate successfully. I tried editing the rc.local file for getting 1080p resolution, used libreoffice writer tool provided within the OS but it did nothing. I have seen in one of your posts mentioning to another user about getting super user access(?) for the file first, before going for editing. I have gone through google and found people talking about using either Nano or Vi to edit files through terminal window, but being total noob, i am struggling to proceed further. If possible could you be kind enough to shed some (noob-friendly) light on how to edit and save rc.local file? It will be of great help for this community with linux dummies like me.

Thank a ton in advance!

I think you just need to open a terminal window and type "sudo su" then "passwd root"

[mebaali]

sammaz - linux illiterate here. Just followed your steps and installed ubuntumate successfully. I tried editing the rc.local file for getting 1080p resolution, used libreoffice writer tool provided within the OS but it did nothing. I have seen in one of your posts mentioning to another user about getting super user access(?) for the file first, before going for editing. I have gone through google and found people talking about using either Nano or Vi to edit files through terminal window, but being total noob, i am struggling to proceed further. If possible could you be kind enough to shed some (noob-friendly) light on how to edit and save rc.local file? It will be of great help for this community with linux dummies like me.

Thank a ton in advance!

[Dovx]

I have updated the tutorial...Let me know if there are any issues.

Looks good, thanks for that, hopefully will get time tonight to update.

I'm looking forward to seeing how Ubuntu runs on the MK808B Plus after having switched from windows to linux 2 years ago. All computers in our house are on variants of Mint 17 and despite it been a windows centric world linux has been so much easier to live with. It flies even on a P4 machine and an old Vista era Dell laptop so have high hope for the little MK!

[bain19]

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I made up an installation tutorial here to get Ubuntu on SD-Card and the latest Openelec 5.95.5.2 running from NAND :

I was able to get this image to boot on a MK808b Plus, but my issue now is that the WIFI doesnt work. This MK808b plus has an AP6212 wifi/bt chipset.

John

[sammaz]

I have fixed the tutorial so that it is less dangerous

[loboris]

I have updated the tutorial...Let me know if there are any issues.

Your instruction for writing the image to SD Card

sudo dd if=ubuntu-mate-15-04-s805-standard-0_95_Beta.img of=[B]/dev/sdb[/B] bs=4M

can be extremely dangerous if someone has hard drive on /dev/sdb. It will be permanently overwritten ! You should emphasize that /dev/sdb is SDCard block device, witch can be sdb, sdc, sdd,... or even /dev/mmcblkX and must be replaced with the right one.

[sammaz]

[QUOTE=Dovx;n527329]

6. Flash this .img to your SC-Card using this tool http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ (Thanks Regor!)

sammaz Can you please re-include the linux command in your tutorial as an alternative step. Thanks for the tutorial!

I have updated the tutorial...Let me know if there are any issues.

[Dovx]

[QUOTE=sammaz;n526074]

6. Flash this .img to your SC-Card using this tool http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ (Thanks Regor!)

sammaz Can you please re-include the linux command in your tutorial as an alternative step. Thanks for the tutorial!

[vn800art]

Simply AMAZED ! No other words. Thanks You all !

[clarkss12]

You should set the tv input mode to PC.

My TV does not have that mode.

[csgabe]

You should set the tv input mode to PC.