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

[aloksinha2001]

is it posible to get this booting from external sd and keeping android on nand like the other version you made (4,3)

But that is what PicUntu 4.4.3 is .. it keeps android on nand and linux on sd card.

PicUntu 4.5 on the other hand keeps Linux on NAND.

Alok

[aloksinha2001]

I flashed the kernel in this compressed file into my mk908 but the problem with chromium/firefox persists.

Should omegamoon's prebuilt modules also be recompiled?

Edit: Compiled omegamoons kernel after disabling CONFIG_ANDROID_PARANOID_NETWORK and enabling CONFIG_SYSVIPC, flashed kernel boots, wifi module loads and allows IP address registering but again, firefox and chromium do not connect to internet.

With firefox and gnash, you get a decent enough working system...

Chromium, still gives you slow speeds...

Alok

[poul50]

recovery

is it posible to get this booting from external sd and keeping android on nand like the other version you made (4,3)

[vmkogeretla]

Robby
when I had a disk failure Chromium ate crawling

[Robby]

It is dangerous to inspect the disc, I have, after rebooting it is mounted read-only, and for the second team.

That would work, it is necessary to set a password for ROOT:

passwd root

Logout
and Ctrl+Alt+F1, Login: root Pass: you password

you command

reboot

or Ctrl+Alt+F7(F8)

It doesn't work still. I tried to do too an

 umount /dev/mtdblock2

and it tells the device is busy.
What is the purpose of e2fsck in this case? How can it help Chromium?

Thanks!

[vmkogeretla]

Thanks vmkogeretla, I've tried the solution with Chromium and it doesn't look weird (it renders properly) but in some pages the browser dies, not enough power.

It is dangerous to inspect the disc, I have, after rebooting it is mounted read-only, and for the second team.

That would work, it is necessary to set a password for ROOT:

passwd root

Logout
and Ctrl+Alt+F1, Login: root Pass: you password

you command

reboot

or Ctrl+Alt+F7(F8)

[Robby]

Thanks vmkogeretla, I've tried the solution with Chromium and it doesn't look weird (it renders properly) but in some pages the browser dies, not enough power.

Chromium
and riskily

e2fsck -f -y /dev/mtdblock2
mount -o remount,rw /dev/mtdblock2

When I try the first command I get this error.

e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
/dev/mtdblock2 is mounted.
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.

Play with this things are dangerous, so I do not want to make any false step. Have I to unmount the dev previously?

[mustafaupk]

try this config with disabled CONFIG_ANDROID_PARANOID_NETWORK and enabled CONFIG_SYSVIPC (chrome doesn't show pages content and some services can't be started like apache https://plus.google.com/u/0/104676886289084007032/posts).

Notice that the hardware console is attached to ttyS2 (hw uart console mod) so no boot text on screen.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_kc1cyuy068SE85eFBFUHNTNE0/edit?usp=sharing

cheers!

I flashed the kernel in this compressed file into my mk908 but the problem with chromium/firefox persists.

Should omegamoon's prebuilt modules also be recompiled?

Edit: Compiled omegamoons kernel after disabling CONFIG_ANDROID_PARANOID_NETWORK and enabling CONFIG_SYSVIPC, flashed kernel boots, wifi module loads and allows IP address registering but again, firefox and chromium do not connect to internet.

[Robby]

Chromium
OFF Use hardware acceleration when available.
like becoming less

and riskily

e2fsck -f -y /dev/mtdblock2
mount -o remount,rw /dev/mtdblock2

Thanks, I'll try it as soon as possible.

The performance problems in Chromium are accompanied with rendering problems. This is an example and I've the same problem in VLC, so I guess it's a problem with Mali.

And here is the kernel....
First Unzip it
Just erase the older kernel and flash this one with rkflash tool 1.37 , you are good to go...

Thank you very much, now my device can have WiFi ^^
Now I have a question about how drivers works with this SoC. Few months ago I was playing with a Hackberry. Every driver that you wants to use must be added in /etc/modules or the system will ignore it. So I tried to add a line with the 8188eu in many ways but it never works (8188eu, rtl8188, rtl8188eu). And this is annoying cause there are a 8188eu.ko file in /lib/modules. My question is: if we want the system to read a .ko file, what should we do? Only modify /etc/modules? Execute after a command? Anything cause .ko are read automatically?

I have an unnamed device, so I can't find any specs of it. Anything, 0 names, 0 brands. I'm trying to get the device info with the lshw command but it returns an error: Bus error. I don't know how the kernel is compiled but this could be the reason: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-aarch64/+bug/1204913

2. XBMC will not work, effectively, till we resolve the hardware acceleration issue - this is some time away.

Finally I want to thank Alok and all the people who are helping run Picuntu. Great job!
What do you need to run the hardware graphics acceleration? How can we help? Is unique functionality of the proprietary drivers or it can be obtained by the open-source way?

Thank you!
Regards!

[taki-arm]

RK3188-RTL8188eu-nand-kernel

And here is the kernel....
First Unzip it
Just erase the older kernel and flash this one with rkflash tool 1.37 , you are good to go...

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Many thanks you are great, the kernel works with 8188eu wifi perfect.

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[vmkogeretla]

Hi everybody,

Thanks you all for this amazing project. I've got PicUntu inside my RK3188 and everything works great. There is just a problem, Chromium goes really bad, is it just me or is it normal?

Thank you very much

Chromium
OFF Use hardware acceleration when available.
like becoming less

and riskily

e2fsck -f -y /dev/mtdblock2
mount -o remount,rw /dev/mtdblock2

[Robby]

Hi everybody,

Thanks you all for this amazing project. I've got PicUntu inside my RK3188 and everything works great. There is just a problem, Chromium goes really bad, is it just me or is it normal?

Thank you very much

[walter]

Thank you for making this possible!

I have been using Pandaboards for my HAM radio projects (Software Defined Radio - http://walter-moore.com/rf ). Over the weekend I tried out Picuntu on a CX-919 and I was pleasantly surprised to see that ghpsdr3-alex / QtRadio compiled fine and runs on the CX-919. It's usable as-is, but with accelerated graphics it should be much smoother.

I hope to try out the CX-919 with the Softrock RXTX on 40m and the WSPR software later tonight. I have a K-R42 on it's way for more testing

The Pandaboards are double+ the cost of an RK3188 device, dual core, take up more room, and the CX-919/Picuntu experience has been more stable so far.

[muratremix]

I installed VLC. By default output, it failed to play 720p mkv. I tried different output buffers, only X11 video output worked. However, it doesn't work in full screen. It only works on windowed mode and it tends to drop frames due to 100% cpu utilization. All 4 cores are maxed and uses 1 amp from 5volt adapter.

I installed something called "stress" from package manager. It maxes 4 cpu but withdraws only 0.8 amp power from adapter / PSU. It seems video playback adds 0.2 amp extra power usage.

However, I was satisfied with the firefox performance. It was fast (faster than rk3066 linux for sure). It launched firefox only in a few seconds.

[muratremix]

Is there any way to enable wifi on iMito QX1?
USB (AX8877**) 2.0 ethernet works fine, but no wifi.
Bundled media player does not work due to gstreamer errors. I'll try VLC software decoding on 720p.

Firefox has no flash (but can be added I guess) by default, it plays 720p html5 videos slow. Chrome plays even slower.

I measured 1 amp while playing 720p html5 video on firefox, usually it is 0.65 amp but it goes below 0.5 amp when it is at idle.

I want to stress device with some kind of benchmark to see max. power withdrawal. Any recommendations?