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

[excession]

Another BIG thanks to everyone who worked on this project!

Version 4.5 is running on my R42, which is very exciting.

Working on R42:

- Video output through HDMI at 1920x1080
- Sound through HDMI
- All USB ports (including micro-USB)
- Micro-SD card reader
- Power button
- Boot to command line
- Start window manager (login screen, desktop)

Not currently working:
- Built in Ethernet adapter
- Built in Wireless adapter
- RGB video-out (this doesn't work in most roms anyhow)

So almost everything works really nicely, only problems are with networking.
The desktop is more responsive than I thought it would be, and even Firefox (which is fairly heavy) starts up quickly and runs well.

Good stuff.

[muratremix]

There is no Video HW acceleration but is there HW acceleration for GPU?
Perhaps mali lima driver?

[Scooberdanje]

Iäve installed the picuntu, didnt get the wifi to work on Tronsmart T428. Now i'm trying to install the other Xubuntu version that's available that states wifi is working. BUT Win8 can't recognise the device now when i switch from Android os to picuntu. What am i missing?

[shaan_npl]

It didn't help...

VLC

VLC is available in the repository...

apt-get install vlc.

Ofcourse you would need to have a net connection for this... or ... download manually and then install through

dpkg -i vlc.... .deb

vlc should work... out of the box.

For network cards - you have to get hold of your .ko files ( I am not sure, what is the ethernet and wifi used in Ugoos T1. - I dont have this device)

But a simple way would be to
1. Get hold of the driver (lets say 8188eu.ko ) from another linux/android installation where it is working.
2. Put it in /lib/modules/kernel directory on PicUntu
3. Run

depmod -a

To get the modules loaded.
4. Next add 8188eu (note, this is an example not real - your actual file may be different) as a line in
/etc/modules - This will make the changes permanent, post boot.
5. iwconfig wlan0 (or wlan1) as your case may be.
6. ifconfig should now show you the ethernet/wifi card
7. Go to wicd manager and scan/connect.

Hope it helps.

Alok

Following every possible way suggested, I could not make my wifi chipset work with this release of picuntu. Decided to open my box, sharing here what I found.

1. Wifi chipset is Realtek RTL8188ETV (dmesg gives me VID=0bda PID=0179)
2. Bluetooth Chipset is RDA 5876 (ES162242), info at http://www.rdamicro.com/products/Detail_194.aspx.

I tried to search for bluetooth driver, couldn't get any but found out the source code for it.
It can be obtained below....

http://www.freaktab.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3480&d=1381484085

I hope it would be useful for the developers...

Dear Alok, can you compile the driver for bluetooth please...?
At least it would solve one problem....Thanks

[mustafaupk]

Very nice gmiti.. well done... Thank you for the pack - it seems complete, Its exciting to test this... will do soon.
I was working to get the PicUntu released on Mk908, you just saved a lot of efforts.

While, I get this into a complete pack - A simple step could be.
1. Unzip the Picuntu 4.5Nand folder - on Linux
2. Mount the system.img into a directory. Copy Omegamoons - firmware/modules into the <mountedfile>/lib/modules
3. Make changes to the <mountedfile>/etc/init (as you have done)
4. Flash your compiled NAND kernel directly - and you are done !!

You may hit the time bug - fsck mount time... I solved by setting my linux machine to 1/1/1970 before mounting/unmounting the filesystem (uggh) .. also fixed /etc/fsck.conf (broken_system_time option) but that had not worked...

Anyways, I am so definitely going to try this out... cool stuff - Thanks.

Alok

Please let us know if this works. I would like to try as soon as I get the time.

[paul1]

Team,
Close on the heals of release of 4.4.3, we are happy to present PicUntu 4.5-nand-BasicGUI, A complete Linux distribution all images (yes kernel, system, boot et all) AND the installer. The zipped file and a few clicks, will be all it takes, to get your own PicUntu.
Who is it for?

• Home use, multimedia users - even with 720p video files, the average load on CPU does not go beyond 30-35% ......

What device is it for ?
Currently, this is optimized for MK802IV, but will work for many other 3188 devices (though I have yet to test them). Will be releasing kernels for other devices soon.

Hi Alok,
Your RK3188 linux project is most interesting. I have not yet used linux, been put off by reading installing Apps farmore complicated than in Windows, needing to know commandlines, 'compiling/linking' etc, but want to buy a cheap 'TV Box' to a) stream multimedia to a display & a discrete HiFi analog speaker system, from another room over WiFi-n, b) act as a backup PC in case my Windows laptop dies, as my Win Apps only have Linux versions, not android.


So my questions are: 1) does PicUntu support 'Minix Neo X7' (or another with many same audio & USB ports), its WiFi and all its many ports, less GPU hardware accel & Bluetooth ?, 2) Only reason I want to change Android to Linux is to run Inkscape, Postgres, LibreOffice, VLC MediaPlayer, XBMC and maybe a few other open-source apps that currently run on my Windows laptop. As I have no linux experience, is PicUntu near enough to standard Ubuntu to allow simple installation of these, i.e binary image, not compiling source code ?

[dkcm]

This is brilliant! Many thanks for your work. This release is really really fast.

[frrick]

VLC

dpkg -i vlc.... .deb

vlc should work... out of the box.

Could you tell me the full name & full download location of Vlc.....Deb?
Is it same version of x86 and amd64 ??

In www.videolan.org,I only find the x86,amd64 and arm of android (.apk) of vlc.

Thanks..

[linuxerwang]

Grr... that was the SD one...

Get the config file here picuntu-4.5-MK802IV-AP6210-NAND-1080p.config

It is far more convenient to enable the /proc/config - shall be fixed in the next release...

Alok Sinha

Thanks for sharing it with us, Alok!

Can you also share the ../mytools/4.8-mkalokimg.sh file? Looks like you have a handle shell script which I believe will help lots of people customize their own kernel. Thank you!

[aloksinha2001]

hi,

it is possible to run picuntu 4.5 from nand on mk908 v3 sticks with omegamoon 3.0.72+ kernel following these steps:

1.- install picuntu 4.5 on your stick.
2.- flash kernel_sd.img from attached file to boot from a working external SD picuntu (e.g. 4.4) installation (system partitition label = linuxroot)
3.- mount NAND (e.g. sudo mount /dev/mtdblock2 /mnt)
4.- copy prebuild 3.0.72+ modules (omegamoon git) to nand filesystem: /mnt/lib/modules/3.0.72+
5.- flash kernel_nand.img
6.- boot to picuntu 4.5!

Hardware console working on UART ttyS2 (console mod http://www.omegamoon.com/blog/static...serial_console) . Put this file ttyS2.conf in /etc/init to get a login:

# ttyS2 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on ttyS0 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on stopped rc or RUNLEVEL=[2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn
exec /sbin/getty -L 115200 ttyS2 vt102



Thanks for picuntu!

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_kc...it?usp=sharing

Very nice gmiti.. well done... Thank you for the pack - it seems complete, Its exciting to test this... will do soon.
I was working to get the PicUntu released on Mk908, you just saved a lot of efforts.

While, I get this into a complete pack - A simple step could be.
1. Unzip the Picuntu 4.5Nand folder - on Linux
2. Mount the system.img into a directory. Copy Omegamoons - firmware/modules into the <mountedfile>/lib/modules
3. Make changes to the <mountedfile>/etc/init (as you have done)
4. Flash your compiled NAND kernel directly - and you are done !!

You may hit the time bug - fsck mount time... I solved by setting my linux machine to 1/1/1970 before mounting/unmounting the filesystem (uggh) .. also fixed /etc/fsck.conf (broken_system_time option) but that had not worked...

Anyways, I am so definitely going to try this out... cool stuff - Thanks.

Alok

[aloksinha2001]

Hello everybody,

I'm a programmer and have some knowledge in linux. I found out about LXC and have a question for you, would it be possible to get the Picuntu version compatible with LXC? http://lxc.teegra.net/#_kernel_setup I have tried to compile such kernel for my GK802, but either the stick does not load, or no network is left. I have too little knowledge about the kernel and low level linux.

If it would be possible to get such picuntu version, I am willing to buy either T428 or MK802IV. Just let me know if it is possible.

MrED - why not try this out... you have the config file and you can pretty much use the compiler to compile a kernel for yourself.

It will be nice to find out if you get the LXC to work - in all probabilities, it should work... but unless one tests this, one cannot be sure.

Alok

[aloksinha2001]

is planning a version for rk3066 (as mk808)?
thanks.

Not yet. Is NOT planned in the short term future.

Alok Sinha

[aloksinha2001]

I had installed the PicUntu-4.5 to my Ugoos UT1, but the linux system can't get my network. No ethernet, no wifi. And I try to play the video file, all of them said no codec. How can fix it ? How can I install the VLC to it, where can get the arm version of vlc .

Thanks.

VLC

VLC is available in the repository...

apt-get install vlc.

Ofcourse you would need to have a net connection for this... or ... download manually and then install through

dpkg -i vlc.... .deb

vlc should work... out of the box.

For network cards - you have to get hold of your .ko files ( I am not sure, what is the ethernet and wifi used in Ugoos T1. - I dont have this device)

But a simple way would be to
1. Get hold of the driver (lets say 8188eu.ko ) from another linux/android installation where it is working.
2. Put it in /lib/modules/kernel directory on PicUntu
3. Run

depmod -a

To get the modules loaded.
4. Next add 8188eu (note, this is an example not real - your actual file may be different) as a line in
/etc/modules - This will make the changes permanent, post boot.
5. iwconfig wlan0 (or wlan1) as your case may be.
6. ifconfig should now show you the ethernet/wifi card
7. Go to wicd manager and scan/connect.

Hope it helps.

Alok

[gmtii]

mk908 v3

hi,

it is possible to run picuntu 4.5 from nand on mk908 v3 sticks with omegamoon 3.0.72+ kernel following these steps:

1.- install picuntu 4.5 on your stick.
2.- flash kernel_sd.img from attached file to boot from a working external SD picuntu (e.g. 4.4) installation (system partitition label = linuxroot)
3.- mount NAND (e.g. sudo mount /dev/mtdblock2 /mnt)
4.- copy prebuild 3.0.72+ modules (omegamoon git) to nand filesystem: /mnt/lib/modules/3.0.72+
5.- flash kernel_nand.img
6.- boot to picuntu 4.5!

Hardware console working on UART ttyS2 (console mod http://www.omegamoon.com/blog/static...serial_console) . Put this file ttyS2.conf in /etc/init to get a login:

# ttyS2 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on ttyS0 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on stopped rc or RUNLEVEL=[2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn
exec /sbin/getty -L 115200 ttyS2 vt102



Thanks for picuntu!

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_kc1cyuy068VW5aNXNGS19lR28/edit?usp=sharing

[Scooberdanje]

I had installed the PicUntu-4.5 to my Ugoos UT1, but the linux system can't get my network. No ethernet, no wifi. And I try to play the video file, all of them said no codec. How can fix it ? How can I install the VLC to it, where can get the arm version of vlc .

Thanks.

i'm wondering the same things!!