PicUntu-4.5-nand-BasicGUI installer - One file, few click install.

Hi everyone,

first of all, my device is "COZYSWAN S400" (this one http://www.cozyswan.com/test/cozyswa...e-mini-pc.html )

its days im reading this and lot of other forums.

I actually have managed to install picuntu.
First time i followed standard procedure shown on http://ubuntu.g8.net/index.php/14-sa...-nand-released

It goes fine, but i had no wifi (i have rk8188eu chipset i think...) , so i used kernel provided by SHAAN_NPL in this thread (page 4).
Now wifi working too.

Only problem left is video drivers.
In my dmesg i cant find any advice of loading something for Mali processor... so i think is ignored?

As i read here, there is still no solution for laggy video playback?

Im a bit confused about resolution of video playback ...i saw around that there are some fixes for framebuffer and VSYNC but i dont know if those are suitable for my situation nor how to implement them...

I even obtained last Mali drivers from

http://malideveloper.arm.com/develop-for-mali/drivers/open-source-mali-gpus-linux-exadri2-and-x11-display-drivers/

But i cant manage to install them, when i make "make & sudo make install" it says "no target specified and no makefile found" ... (yes, i was in the src dir ... ).



Finally, what i would achieve, is to have on my s400 a picuntu with wifi (as its now) and even ability to play movie files @1080p ...

Your question now would be "why you need linux to just playback movies? why dont use android".

And my answer is: First i like to get the best from my devices. Second, under android i would not have the option to use a service of mine (net video account) that works over "Silverlight", and i saw instead that i can have silverlight on linux (MoonLight project). That's why i choose to turn on Picuntu.


Can someone give me some directions/answers of what i could/should do?

Im quite noob in Linux, i can play with it but for example i dont know how to build a kernel, or if its possibile to use the kernel.img i have and modify it ...

I appreciate any help, sorry for long post

[nizar]

Great work, team! I recently purchased an MK802IV and would like to try out Picuntu on here, I just have one question. You said that this build has:

- PicUntu 4.5 - kernels, boot, system file, with basic GUI.
- Lot of tweaking has been done on the system level to make it responsive and blazing fast - Give it a spin, you would see the difference yourself.

As I am interested in installing picuntu in my recovery partition (I need to keep my android), does this version differ from the one posted in the sticky thread (Picuntu 4.4, in particular, the "lots of tweaking" you mentioned)? If so, would it be possible to download this one (4.5) and flash the kernel.img to the recovery partition and the filesystem to an sd card? thanks again for the great work! and thanks in advance for the help/advice

[cadurling]

Well thought I was done messing around with my stick. I was just about to giveup on my device (Cozyswan s400 green sticker) and then I came across this.
Installed on my device booted up quickly, wifi working, apps opening fast, all around navigation smooth and feeling like I'm on a desktop.
I only have two questions
1) How to install flash?
2) How to install xbmc?

[dkcm]

I cannot get bluetooth working. It is known that the built-in adapter does not work, but a USB one does not either (it is found in dmesg and with lsusb). I have installed blueman and bluez-utils, to no avail (no device found).

Any help would be very much welcome.

Thanks in advance

[aloksinha2001]

Dear Friends,

Installed picuntu (works great) on MK908 V3.0 2013.05.13 unforunately it doesnt detect my Wifi/BT AP6210 combo?

I wish alteast wifi could work? Any instructions on how to enable or insert the driver (if its already present in picuntu distribution 4.5?)

Thanks for all hardwork
MK

Have you tried, manually inserting AP6210 - by

insmod /lib/modules/<file path>/rkwifi.ko


Alok

[aloksinha2001]

I installed it on MK802IV, wifi works fine, boots fast. The thing distrubing me is the time, it changes from time to time, seems randomly. Can we call it a RTC issue?
Thank you for your hard work on continous work on RK devices.

I would assume that the Internet access is working... thats important for the time to syncronize...

Alok

[aloksinha2001]

hi,
very good job!, my compliments!
where may I found the state of the work around the mali400 chipset?
Is it correct to think that we will see a mali400 driver with hw/acc in one two months?
I know that you are working very hard around the project, but I'm very impatient
thanks in advance

Wish could give you any time line.... but at this point of time..its pretty open ended...

Alok

[grzmrc]

hi,
very good job!, my compliments!
where may I found the state of the work around the mali400 chipset?
Is it correct to think that we will see a mali400 driver with hw/acc in one two months?
I know that you are working very hard around the project, but I'm very impatient
thanks in advance

[shaan_npl]

Try This one

i successfully compiled my kernel for picuntu using

https://github.com/Galland/rk30_linux_initramfs

Don't know why your compilation failed...

[linuxium]

Sorry, you are right, from the mobile is a nightmare paste links

Maybe linuxium in his Google+ has a link to the cpio used in his distro, I made a quick kernel only to test ubuntu, but I can't remember exactly what sources and tools used, I had not wifi possibility nor Ethernet, so I left Linux.
Maybe in rickomagic forum?
Sorry can't remember.

leolas.

Better to use my latest initramfs as this gives you a bootable kernel and a lot more.

My current one allows you to boot Android with an Android kernel and an Android file system or boot Linux with a Linux kernel and a Linux file system. Android obviously boots from NAND as it is effectively the native install, where as you also have the option to boot Linux from an SD card or install and boot Linux from NAND.

For working examples see http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...oot-capability

For the actual parts so you can build your own, with any Android or Linux kernels, full instructions with config, pseudo makefiles, tools, initramfs, software and links to sources and hopefully everything you'll ever want see http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...velopment-pack

[leolas]

Re: PicUntu-4.5-nand-BasicGUI installer - One file, few click install.

I tried that one but it failed to boot.

I think you forgot to add the second url...

Sorry, you are right, from the mobile is a nightmare paste links

Maybe linuxium in his Google+ has a link to the cpio used in his distro, I made a quick kernel only to test ubuntu, but I can't remember exactly what sources and tools used, I had not wifi possibility nor Ethernet, so I left Linux.
Maybe in rickomagic forum?
Sorry can't remember.

leolas.

[phjanderson]

https://github.com/Galland/rk30_linux_initramfs?files=1

I am not absolutely sure but, I think in my first ubuntu for rk3188 I used this:

leolas.

I tried that one but it failed to boot.

I think you forgot to add the second url...

[leolas]

Re: PicUntu-4.5-nand-BasicGUI installer - One file, few click install.

Any idea where to get initramfs-3.0.36+.cpio to compile the kernel? Thanks!

https://github.com/Galland/rk30_linux_initramfs?files=1

I am not absolutely sure but, I think in my first ubuntu for rk3188 I used this:

leolas.

[phjanderson]

Any idea where to get initramfs-3.0.36+.cpio to compile the kernel? Thanks!

[leadermontanus]

Thanks for suggestions, her is what I have done:

i know im being one fo those with and obvious Q and A, but for sake of correctly diagnosing the problem, bear wif me.

1. did u try another power supply?

Yes, 3 different ones, one of the first things I suspected.

did u erase the NAND before flasing picuntu?

Yes, and I reflashed while double checking that I erased the NAND as well.

what is the external connection?usb s?

I have a Logitech keyboard/mouse combo that I used, but even with nothing plugged in (just leaving it at the login prompt) it will eventually hang, but it is worth a try, so will use the Mele F10 which I have floating around here. Have not connected any other USB devices.

does it behave the same way using android(NAND) and picuntu(SD card)?

That was the next thing on my list to check, need to get a rooted ROM and all that first.

4. if android and boot from sd does not cause any problem, it may have been the picuntu / faulty board itself.

Yes, beyond Wifi issues (which I guess should give some clue in the logs), I end to suspect the hardware when it is so sudden and at varying intervals.

lastly overheating can cause this problem too ( governor / OC kernel). i had this problem with my ug802 when i try increasing performance, via OC an performance governor without proper cooling/heatsink.
i also skim tru you dsmeg but cant say i found anything new that u havent already said.

I have not overclocked it and I already checked temperature, as I say, this happens within a few minutes even without using it, so not that I thing, and the device is not hot to touch at all...

Anyway, I will test the SD card method, just bought a new one yesterday for that purpose, if there is still a problem I will get a new one to test.

Thanks a lot for the feedback and suggestions, we're moving forward...

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