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Ubuntu 11.04 nauty running on Gtab

SUCCESS. I now have Ubuntu 11.04 booting on the Gtab. Using Pershoots kernel and files from the Vega folks, we now have touch screen working. Wireless is not up yet, and have not tested sound.
Thread from the Vegan folks:
http://android.modaco.com/content/a...-com/332887/ubuntu-linux-11-04-natty-on-vega/
From vega get the boot intrd image and the vegan root files.
http://www.adebenham.com/vega/
Follow the instructions to copy and build Pershoots kernel. Edit drivers/video/console/fbcon.c and searching for 'navy' and uncomment the line. This will give you the boot messages on the screen.
Formant the card to ext3. Unzip the vega_root file to an micro sd card of 4GB or better. use unzip -vxf vega_root.tgz
This will take awhile.
Edit /etc/fstab on the card and change mmcblk3p2 to mmcblk2p1
Copy the following files from the staging directory that you made after building Pershoots kernel:
sudo cp location-of-staging-dir location-sd/boot
sudo cp -Rp location-of-staging-dir/system/lib/modules/ location-sd/lib/modules/
Command to build the boot image:
./mkbootimg --kernel zImage --ramdisk initrd.img-2.6.32-custom --cmdline "root=/dev/mmcblk2p1 rootdelay=5 [email protected] [email protected] vmalloc=192M video=tegrafb console=tty0,115200 fbcon=rotate:1 fbcon=font:VGA8x8 usbcore.old_scheme_first=1 cpuid=200102 devicetype=1002 btmac=9c5ed6131a00 tegraboot=nand mtdparts=tegra_nand:[email protected](misc),[email protected](recovery),[email protected](boot),[email protected](system),[email protected](cache),[email protected](bootbmp),[email protected](logodata)" -o boot.img
Once you have the boot image, grab a copy of the boot-karmac.zip file. Replace boot.img in the zip file with the one that you created and rename the zip file.
Power down the Gtab, if need be. Put your micro sd card in that has the ubuntu files. Boot into CWM and go to mounts and mount the usbdrive, and connect to your computer. Copy the zip file that you made to the root of the usbdrive. Unmount the usbdrive from your computer and then umount in CWM. Now use CWM to zip the file into the Gtab and reboot.
You should see text scroll by and and it should boot into Ubuntu.
If you do the updates, it will cause problems with libgc. If you do the updates, then log into a terminal window and do sudo dpkg -i /root/glibc/*.deb
This will restore the glibc files needed.
3-23-11 Update
The latest image from the Vega folks fails due to nvrm_daemon. It causes you to loose the external sd card that your booting from. I'm using the first version that they posted.
I've gotten wireless to see AP's. I had to use the bcm4329 driver from Chenglu.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892308
The Gnome nm-applet does not run, as it has issues with libappmenu.so, so I've not been able to test using it to connect to any AP.
Slow headway.

NMCBR600 said:
SUCCESS. I now have Ubuntu 11.04 booting on the Gtab. Using Pershoots kernel and files from the Vega folks, we now have touch screen working. Wireless is not up yet, and have not tested sound.
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Interesting! Could you please clarify one thing:
> Unzip the vega_root file to an micro sd card of 4GB or better. Formant the card to ext3. use unzip -vxf vega_root.tgz
Do you reformat the sdcard before or after unzip the files to the card? (I thought formating would destory all content of the card)
THANKS!

Format before unzipping the files.

Awesome
Thanks for the great work
obviously we would need wireless (wifi) to make it all useful but the touch screen working is awesome
do you know if this will be able to run or support any of the following: Now or in the Future
1 usb dvd or cd drives- will they be able to be mounted and or even read/writable
2 flash- will flash video be able to be played in browser etc.
3 wine- would wine be able to be installed and used
I do not know how much of these are possible or impossible but all of them would be great
Thanks again

I'm new to the G tab and haven't had any experience at all with ubuntu, but I always want the latest and greatest thing in terms of tech.
Having said that I'm wondering just what are the possibilities of having ubuntu on the G tab, what can be done with it, how will it effect what I can do with the tablet once it is complete?
Thanks in advance.

doihaveto said:
Thanks for the great work
obviously we would need wireless (wifi) to make it all useful but the touch screen working is awesome
do you know if this will be able to run or support any of the following: Now or in the Future
1 usb dvd or cd drives- will they be able to be mounted and or even read/writable
2 flash- will flash video be able to be played in browser etc.
3 wine- would wine be able to be installed and used
I do not know how much of these are possible or impossible but all of them would be great
Thanks again
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To add cdrom support, you need to add the modules to the kernel. The cdrom drive will need external power as the usb port does not supply enough power to run external hd or cd drives.
Flash -- if there is an arm version for linux
wine -- would have to compile the source code for arm

Roxxas049 said:
I'm new to the G tab and haven't had any experience at all with ubuntu, but I always want the latest and greatest thing in terms of tech.
Having said that I'm wondering just what are the possibilities of having ubuntu on the G tab, what can be done with it, how will it effect what I can do with the tablet once it is complete?
Thanks in advance.
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Limited by your imagination and needs.

will wicd work for wireless
in this post about ubuntu on the gtablet
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894960
the wireless works only with wicd
would this maybe allow wireless to work in this port

At this time, the driver is not coming up. Running ifconfig does not show wlan0 at all, so I know I have an issue with driver. It does see my Verizon usb modem and my usb ethernet unit. With the ethernet unit, I can get online and surf. Currently, openoffice/librioffice are not available as there are dependencies between the two that cannot be resolved due to missing modules. The camera is not seen and I do not have any audio or power management.
I'll be working on this as I can over the weekend.

Using a 2.6.32 kernel with natty might not be the best idea.. 2.6.38 also has broadcom drivers.. this is great and all. but whats preventing us from stepping away from the android kernel? In specific if you can..

I've pulled the nvida 2.6.36 tree but if fails to compile. Complaints about asm using odd registers cause the compile to fail. At this time, 2.6.32 tree has drivers for the hardware. If I can get the 2.6.36 to compile, I'll try it.
Right now, sound, battery monitoring, camera are not working. Buttons on the side and the volume up/down are also not working. This is a starting point.

Forget about wine. Wine is an API translation layer, program loader plus libraries, it does not emulate x86, you are supposed to have it in the hardware. Wine on Gtab with ARM CPU will not do you any good, unless your windows applications are already compiled under ARM. And for that to happen you will have to wait until Microsoft comes up with windows on ARM first

Try the latest git commit of 2.6.38 - its on rc8 fwiw.. I run it on my server (heh).. I also compiled it using a modded pershoot defconfig (in a silly attempt to see if I could be cooler than 2.6.36 xoom folk - and to get the new cpu stuff)
It did not boot android.... but it did compile with no errors. I think I disabled wifi tho.. so yeah, disable as much as you can... get a basic system running on 2.6.38, then start building up

is there any progress here
just checking to see if there is any progress with wireless and or the kernel and drivers being used, is anyone trying this yet themselves besides op

i find this topic very interesting. I'd love to have this fully functional

I have not had luck with wireless. It looks like there is something missing the the vega image. I have gotten the wireless driver to load, but iwlist scan does not return any AP's. I pulled one of the 11.04 arm images for TI boards and tried to use the kernel that I built. I do not get a graphical screen and I cannot log in at a command prompt as I do not have a root password for that load. I've just built a generic 2.6.38 kernel to test on that image to see what happens.
I'm watching the vega forum on what they are doing.
I'm finding moving from working on x86 processors to arm interesting. As I get more information, I'll update the instructions. I want to get this running so I can use this on at a meeting in the first part of April.

get this running and expect a donate from me! i love android but compared to ubuntu it just doesnt cut it. i know you are using 11.04, but what ever happened to the ubuntu/kubuntu 9.04 (i think) MID Edition? Wasnt it made for arm? Did they stop development on this version?
Also, this may be a bit much to ask but could we get a pre-made image so we can test progress so far?
You guys are great! Keep up the good work!
edit: fixed my grammer

At this time I don't have a site to upload images to. I'm wanting to get the wireless sorted out, but as I make headway, I'll update the information that I posted on the first page. The vegan folks updated their vega image, but I cannot get it to boot. I get errors about inode from the sd card, but I know that the sd card checks out fine with fsck, so I've dropped back to their first image. I'm beginning to think that part of the problem is the modified driver for our wireless chip is different from the stock b43 driver in linux.

Headway
Update at the bottom of post #1. Wireless is working. Also, I tested an external CD drive and it was seen. The usb port did not supply enough power to spin the disk in the drive and I did not have an external power supply with me.

This is great,but....
I am in no way knowledgeable of how to compile all this together, can we get more intensive instruction on how to get this running or can anyone get this done in a way that we can simply get it going by the same methods it takes to get this version running:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894960
download the two files extract files to the sd card and flash the kernel that easy.
if not I may never get this up, I would appreciate it greatly
I could provide a drop box account to share the files if it is needed to get them available online just let me know
thanks

[Q&A] How to build/modify your own linux image for eMMC install Debian sample inside

[Q&A] How to build/modify your own linux image for eMMC install Debian sample inside
This thread is for help and support with all linux distributions instalable in eeepad asus transformer. I will explain how to build your own image file or modify existing one in order to use lilstive OLife script.
As ubuntu is the most popular distro, please, all de questions related with ubuntu post them in lilstevie's thread.
You can install any distribution with arm architecture support, but you'll need to make some tweaks in the image in order to work propperly. As my experience in linux is most of it related with debian is the distro i will give the best support, but i'll try to answer every question you ask.
I've chosen debian armHardFloat port instead of debian armel fore many reasons, you can read about this port here:
http : //wiki. debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort
This port is still young so right now there are packages still unaviable to install but they are entering in wheeze day to day. If you preffer to use armel instead or armhf you can always do, you will loose improvement but you will have (at the time of writting this) less packages aviable. In the future (not far away) it will be the best option.
Building your own image:
There are many ways to create a image file but because we are going to need qemu in order to debootstrap the instalation the easiest way to create it is with qemu-img
Code:
qemu-img create debian-armhf.img 400M
I have only given 400M of space because is going to be a minimal instalation without desktop enviroment, it could be smaller but, just in case, that's the size i've chosen. The transfer with OLife it will be faster if the image is smaller.
When you boot for your first time you will find an error because there is no valid MSDOS partition table, this is ok, nothing happens because of that but if you want to avoid it use fdisk to create a partition table
Code:
fdisk debian-armhf.img
we need now to give format to the filesistem:
Code:
mkfs.ext4 debian-armhf.img
It will ask if you really want to do because it's not an ordinary partition and you have to type "s" to proceed
Now whe have ready the image and we have to mount it in some folder to install debian in it:
Code:
mount -o loop debian-armhf.img debian
asuming debian as the created folder for that.
We are ready to debootstrap de instalation:
Code:
debootstrap --verbose --arch armhf --foreign --include=btrfs-tools,locales,kbd,wpasupplicant wheezy debian http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian
this will make the first step to install wheezy armhf, --foreing parameter is because the target architecture is different from the host one and it's going to stop before de second-stage, it will include the packages btrfs-tools locales and kbd, you can add as many as you want but it will be always faster if you install them manually once installed in the transformer. I didn't install ssh server because i have a dock, but if you don't have it will be needed to complete the instalation with a remote shell, but you can also install packages later with chroot after the second stage.
In order to be able to chroot we will need qemu-user-static, with armhf it's needed 1.0 version with armel it's not necesary, it can be any version not too old. Also if you have an i386 system it's recomendable to install an amd64 kernel to do chroot or debootstrap will fail configuring cron. Actually i think in this sample image there is anacron instead of cron because there was an issue i thought it was related with that but later twb found out the problem was another different and now it's solved.
we will add qemu-arm-static to the instalation to be able to chroot
Code:
cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static debian/usr/bin/
we chroot to the new enviroment:
Code:
chroot debian
and execute the second stage of debootstrap:
Code:
./debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
After finish the instalation we will set the root password
Code:
passwd
and now it's ready, you can make tweaks, install packages (as ssh if you need it) or whatever you want, but you will have to add a repository to /etc/apt/sources.list in order to install any packages.
In this image and debootstrap proccess i've used german repositories because are the fastest for me, but you can use another one, right now it's neede also experimental repository to have working touch screen, but as soon xserver-xorg-input-evdev with full multitouch support enters sid as it won't be necesary
example of /etc/apt/sources.list
Code:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
I have already installed in this image necesary packages for that and experimental repositories won't interfiere unless you pass the parameter for apt-file so you can forget about this if you want, but if you are building your own image apt-get install -t experimental xserver-xorg will do the work.
we have ready now our image but it need some files and tweaks to make everithing work in the eepad.
From here you can apply this to any arm image you want to test.
(all the files needed are in the attached file files.tar.gz in the rigth folders)
we need to add modules and firmware, i've extracted them from lilstive ubuntu.img
strictly necesary are:
Code:
/lib/firmware/nvram.txt
/lib/firmware/brcm/*
but you may need another ones if you are going to use external hardware, that's on you.
there are also two folder in /lib/modules one is for the asus kernel and the other one for chrome os kernel, i suggest to add both of them because it's just a bit space and you will be able to use the image with both kernels.
In order to make wifi work i've made /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf file with some parameters found in one of the threads of lilstevie and /etc/modules with the modules to load.
You will also need to configure /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf all this files are in the attached files.tar.gz but wpa_supplicant.conf is not because it depends of each ones wifi, but there is a wpa_supplicant.conf.example and you can always google for it a bit. If you don't have a dock make sure you do this correctly or you won't be able to connect to the internet and ssh device to continue instalation easily
if you want to be able to use adb (wich is really usefull if you for example did not correctly configure wpa_supplicant) you will have tu add also "/usr/bin/adbd" and /etc/init.d/adbd"
I've modify the original init.d script to avid LSB tags missing warning error, it's not really necesary rsyslog as previous service started but ... it works.
In order to make adb service start automatically we will execute (inside the chroot of course)
Code:
update-rc.d /etc/init.d/adb defaults
This may be different in non debian based distributions, but you can always ln manually to rcX.d
Finally, there is the "bug" it has made me think something was wrong and change cron with anacron, when you boot it appears to stop booting starting a service (cron, dbus, deppending what you have installed) but it isn't you can login pressing ctrl + alt + F2 (touchpad key),
we think it's related with the bootloader and default tty as 7 or something like that.
As workaround add in /etc/rc.local "chvt 1" (without quotes) just before exit 0 line
Because there is not oem-installation like in ubuntu after the first boot there are a couple of things to do, we have to resize the image to fit the partition, change password, configure locales and xorg keyboard-layout (if you have more than one locales) add an user and include in relevant groups and maybe more in the future so i've made a postinstalation.sh script included in /usr/bin:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Making online resize of the root partition"
partition=`mount -l | grep " / " | awk '{print $1}'`
resize2fs $partition
echo "changing root password"
passwd
echo "configure locales"
dpkg-reconfigure locales
echo "configure xserver keyboard layout"
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
echo "configure localtime"
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
echo "Please anter a user name"
read username1
adduser $username1
echo "adding user to relevant groups"
adduser $username1 audio
adduser $username1 video
adduser $username1 netdev
adduser $username1 plugdev
adduser $username1 bluetooth
adduser to bluetooth will fil because there is not installed any bluetooth manager so there is not bluetooth group yet, and remeber tu use OLife script to inject bluetooth firmware in order to have bluetooth working.
And that's it i think i haven't miss anything but i will update this when needed. You can now install your image with lilstevie's OLife script, you will have to rename it to ubuntu.img from now. If everithing went ok you can now install the desktop enviroment you prefer, on screen keyboard or whatever you like.
I haven't test network manager and i've only tested kde-netbook, but there are still broken dependencies and it's a bit slow. This will improve as soon as we have hardware acceleration (if we ever do), and armhf port goes ahead.
Lilstevie is going to host my images and maybe OLife script will have more options in the future, but from now you can download from here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60048492/debian-armhf.img.tar.gz
(md5sum inside)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60048492/files.tar.gz
All credits and many thanks for lilstevie and twb for all the help they gave me.
I will apreciate any correction not only in this process but also in my english grammar/ortography

Please, any mod or admin can correct the word modufy in the title?
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Thanks
Following your instructions, I can finally replace ubuntu with debian, which resides my home laptops, office desktop, and now, on my tablet as well. Unfortunately debian has no "onboard" package... and it's rather inconvenient without a dock.
Thanks anyway for bring debian to this tablet.

boseliquid said:
Following your instructions, I can finally replace ubuntu with debian, which resides my home laptops, office desktop, and now, on my tablet as well. Unfortunately debian has no "onboard" package... and it's rather inconvenient without a dock.
Thanks anyway for bring debian to this tablet.
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What has onboard that haven't other onscreen keyboards? i haven't ever tried onboard and i just tried a couple of onboard keyboards in debian, i also did managed to load it automatically in login screen, But i did never went deeper, like "only appear if the focus is in textbox" or something like that.
Anyway i has to be easy to rebuild that package for debian or just install it from ubuntu. What do you exactly need?

onboard onboard
Onboard has keys that simulate middle-click and right-click of mouse. I tried to install ubuntu's deb file, but runs into problem with dependencies. Compiling the source on the tablet led to error related to gdk/gdk.h which i couldn't figure out how to resolve.
Onboard respond better than others, e.g. xvkbd and florence both have run-away key presses, i.e. a string of letters appear even for a quick single tap on a key.
Also, onboard integrates nicely with lightdm. I used xdm plus florence to log in (the screen keyboard hides most of xdm's GUI).
With fluxbox, debian seems faster than ubuntu+fluxbox on the tablet. That's why onboard is nice since fluxbox menu requires right-clicking on the desktop. Fortunately, fluxbox keys are easily configurable, so i still can shutdown by pressing some key combination.
Hopefully lilstevie has the time to work on hardware acceleration, which would then allows to dump android completely.

boseliquid said:
Onboard has keys that simulate middle-click and right-click of mouse. I tried to install ubuntu's deb file, but runs into problem with dependencies. Compiling the source on the tablet led to error related to gdk/gdk.h which i couldn't figure out how to resolve.
Onboard respond better than others, e.g. xvkbd and florence both have run-away key presses, i.e. a string of letters appear even for a quick single tap on a key.
Also, onboard integrates nicely with lightdm. I used xdm plus florence to log in (the screen keyboard hides most of xdm's GUI).
With fluxbox, debian seems faster than ubuntu+fluxbox on the tablet. That's why onboard is nice since fluxbox menu requires right-clicking on the desktop. Fortunately, fluxbox keys are easily configurable, so i still can shutdown by pressing some key combination.
Hopefully lilstevie has the time to work on hardware acceleration, which would then allows to dump android completely.
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Ok, i'll give it a look and if i can i will build a debian package in order to include it in the image

I've managed to build a couple of packages for onboard. You can't imagine how much crap it's in building dependencies, mono, unity and so many things, so i've removed appindicator dependency because i don't think it's going to be really necesary. The true is that i don't have so much time right now so,
Can you please test it and tell me if you have any problem? I can try to rebuild another older version in order to avoid unity crap and those things without messing the code, but if this works well it's the eassiest solution.
You have to install both packages, the other dependencies are instalable from debian oficial repository, at least i haven't got any problem installing it in my building environment.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60048492/onboard_0.95.1-1_all.deb
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60048492/python-virtkey_0.60.0-1_armel.deb

arch of python-virtkey is armel instead of armhf
Almost there... but obtained the following error msg:
Unpacking onboard (from onboard_0.95.1-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of onboard:
onboard depends on python-virtkey (>= 0.60.0); however:
Package python-virtkey is not installed.
onboard depends on python-gconf; however:
Package python-gconf is not installed.
dpkg: error processing onboard (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Thanks again.

boseliquid said:
Almost there... but obtained the following error msg:
Unpacking onboard (from onboard_0.95.1-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of onboard:
onboard depends on python-virtkey (>= 0.60.0); however:
Package python-virtkey is not installed.
onboard depends on python-gconf; however:
Package python-gconf is not installed.
dpkg: error processing onboard (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Thanks again.
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python-virtkey is provided in my previous post, just install it, after that
#apt-get install -f
will resolve and install automatically pending dependencies.
I've already tried and it works.
EDIT: i have been working in the suppose you are runnin debian armel and not armhf

To get bluetooth working, you need an armhf build of brcm_patchram_plus.
Thankfully it's GPL'd, so here's a copy.

Hi,
I'm having a bit of trouble getting Debian on my TF101 using OLiFE.
I'm forced to use the android/Ubuntu dual-boot option, but that's another story.
Basically, there's a kernel panic and I can't see the entire screen without it rebooting one second later. I am able to flash my TF101 properly without bricking (it's a B60), but everytime I boot it up as my default OS, I get that rebooting screen.

NothingMuchHereToSay said:
Hi,
I'm having a bit of trouble getting Debian on my TF101 using OLiFE.
I'm forced to use the android/Ubuntu dual-boot option, but that's another story.
Basically, there's a kernel panic and I can't see the entire screen without it rebooting one second later. I am able to flash my TF101 properly without bricking (it's a B60), but everytime I boot it up as my default OS, I get that rebooting screen.
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Kernel panic kinda implies the problem is with the kernel, not with Debian. If you're using the 3.1 kernel, try the 2.6 one by lilstevie. Whichever kernel you're using, you're better off seeking help in one of the kernel-specific threads.

rdnetto said:
Kernel panic kinda implies the problem is with the kernel, not with Debian. If you're using the 3.1 kernel, try the 2.6 one by lilstevie. Whichever kernel you're using, you're better off seeking help in one of the kernel-specific threads.
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Could or couldn't it may also be a problem with initramfs and boot parameters. I now because i experienced it. So if you give us more information, better, try to record a video of the bootloop and pass it slowly to see the error, i did that and it worked for me

Franks Tools-new modified Ubuntu install
Hello i dont know if this is right thread,i like to ask you advanced users for some help.I wanna install ubuntua via new modified Franks tools by kenshin,released few days ago,i cannot find exact answer what i need to progress.
My questions are: How can i made nvflashable files system.img boot.img recovery.img and others to use franks tools? how to obtain these images?
2.) and if i will use those images that can be found here on forum can i then just flash for example Revolution HD rom? ,or does it destroy my installation of ubuntu via franks tools?
because i know that there is little play with partitions so i am not sure if i can flash any rom after use of franks tools dual boot option.thank you for help

shaola said:
Could or couldn't it may also be a problem with initramfs and boot parameters. I now because i experienced it. So if you give us more information, better, try to record a video of the bootloop and pass it slowly to see the error, i did that and it worked for me
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I did everything stock and did exactly what you said to do for Debian, though I used the armel architecture and the adb wouldn't work with an error.
By everything stock, I mean that I didn't alter anything from the OLiFE folder except adding the ubuntu.img file.

NothingMuchHereToSay said:
I did everything stock and did exactly what you said to do for Debian, though I used the armel architecture and the adb wouldn't work with an error.
By everything stock, I mean that I didn't alter anything from the OLiFE folder except adding the ubuntu.img file.
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The original kernel from OLiFE didn't work for me - I had a boot loop. Try manually compiling the lilstevie kernel, or using a kernel from Jhinta's kernel thread.
The packed kernels (CWM zips) for Ubuntu will work exactly the same under Debian. (or at least in the direct mount case - I don't know about loop mount)

i can't get wifi up ... could someone help?
it is shown in iwlist wlan0 scan but i can't find an network ...
while boot it sends many intervals and abort this progress with givin' up.
i just copied li/firmware file from olife.img und files from this thread over it ...
anyone could help please?

NoDiskNoFun said:
i can't get wifi up ... could someone help?
it is shown in iwlist wlan0 scan but i can't find an network ...
while boot it sends many intervals and abort this progress with givin' up.
i just copied li/firmware file from olife.img und files from this thread over it ...
anyone could help please?
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what are you uing to scan? this driver ony supports wpasupplicant, not iw nor iwconfig

hi,
i installed the ubuntu image with olife on my transformer. i don't like ubuntu very much, i prefer debian which i run debian on my computer as well. i stumbled over this thread so i wondered what's the status of debian on our transformer.
can anyone tell me whats currently working.

hanswurschtus said:
hi,
i installed the ubuntu image with olife on my transformer. i don't like ubuntu very much, i prefer debian which i run debian on my computer as well. i stumbled over this thread so i wondered what's the status of debian on our transformer.
can anyone tell me whats currently working.
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The same as in ubuntu. But you may need some tweeks. Depends of the kernel you are using. nvidia has released also a beta of the nvidia drivers for armhf and not only armel so you may use armhf or armel with jintha's kernel and have almost everithung working.

[Q/A] SBK2v Net-Install Ubuntu

I find a bit vague about installation guides.
NOTE: ALL UR DATA WILL BE DELETED PLEASE BACKUP IT WITH THIS: NFLASH BACKUP / RESTORE OR TITANIUM BACKUP
ALSO USB IS NOT WORKING FOR THE STOCK ROM NOT FOR AR HD OR MAYBE OTHERS.)
GNOME HAS WIFI, BUT IT DOESNT SHOW. FLASH WONT WORK ON ARM UBUNTU.
This is for newcomers with SBK2v.
here we go:
U need Virtuel box Ubuntu: Link tot tutorial of that
Ok u also need olife for sbk 2 i posted new link in this forum: At the bottem of the page
Net- ubuntu installer form this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852702
A USB or something to get those files or download in virtual box ubuntu
ALSO THIS IS VERY [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]!: U NEED BOOT IMG AND SYSTEM IMG or backup of your device (Recommended).
blob.APP - system.img
blob.LNX - boot.img
( if you unblob it with this tool: #24 scrol ldown a bit u see it its windows version i expect that u have that. use cmd then go the place where u unpakc that package example: C:\bloblunpack and then bloblunpack BLOB NAME)
atleast 15 gb ubuntu...
So lets get started:
After you did all those dam configuration of in virtual box ubuntu. Boot it and go to the folder there you paste the Olife SBKv2.
Paste the boot.img and the system.img (Or the blobs and rename as boot.img same as system.img) in the image folder of olife and ofcourse the net install ubuntu and rename the net install ubuntu to ubuntu.img.
Double click on Olife.sh and run it with terminal.
Type understood and ur password and ur at option screen.
u want ofcourse flash device so press 2
Dual boot
Default OS is Android
After that ( take a prox 10 - 20 min.). U start ubuntu up and it will give you login screen. Type first root and then temppwd. After that type /setup2.sh (If not working keep going until u get online partition install and reboot evertime until at that same place u get wifi configuration).
It says everything works correcly u say No (N) and configurate ur wifi.
After u reset it and waiting for wifi configuration is not there. U type the same user name / pass and then /setup2.sh (NOT FOUND D:? step3.sh). Y and select ur ubuntu etc.
If jhinta is not installed ( check it with uname -r it sohuld say 3.1 blah blah)
u can flash it with form NoDiskNoFun post:
flash it with "dd if=/Linux_for_Tegra/selfbuild.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p9" for second boot
and "dd if=/Linux_for_Tegra/selfbuild.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p10" for first boot
ALSO INSTALL ZRAM!!! VERY IMPORTANT!!:
make new clean document in /etc/init/ and call it zramswap.conf
and paste this in your browser : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/TEGRA/AC100?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=zramswap.conf adn then copy that and put it in zramswap.conf
Sound Problems? : Open terminal adn then : sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer. After it installed open in terminal with: alsamixer and then follow the same instructions: Set ADC Input on DMIC. Enable every DACL AND DHCR ( Not or, because my sound works on both sides when i turn these 2 on).
Jhinta kernel install(Wit the proper ziimage etc.):
Upcoming currently testing.
Pictures are coming. On pc first later on my tablet screen ( At the moment no camera :\)
Have fun SBK2 Users Cheers :3
Any questions, post it below.
Thanks to all developers
Waited for pretty long time :3
Changelog:
Just clean up the mess and i found loads of information

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Thank you very much for this post ... it's very very helpful !
it work without dock ?
have to install ADB before or APX ?
is it possible to use a live DVD of Ubuntu ?
regards.
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samco08 said:
Thank you very much for this post ... it's very very helpful !
it work without dock ?
have to install ADB before or APX ?
is it possible to use a live DVD of Ubuntu ?
regards.
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Well ADB is glitchy as the OP said in the net installer. Also i dont think a live DVD works.
This is actually dock only.

For some reason once mine starts nvflash it goes back to asking if I want to flash as dualboot/ uboot/ etc. Am I doing something wrong? Using the Net-installer 0.6 and the system/boot/etc .imgs from olife prime

jmm42991 said:
For some reason once mine starts nvflash it goes back to asking if I want to flash as dualboot/ uboot/ etc. Am I doing something wrong? Using the Net-installer 0.6 and the system/boot/etc .imgs from olife prime
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I havent use ubuntu quite a while because i am focusing school, becasue itsm y exam year...
Use your current rom + kernel and backup it and then rename it was in tutorial and use it.
Sorry i cant support anytime soon :\.
What i can remember that i unlockede the opengl option + I made it see like x86 but still a arm version kinda wierd.
Only problem for this tutorial itsn ow outdated i dont know what fixed in Bet - installer 0.6.
Maybe i do it once more. Just help for SBK2 army.
Anyways i find ubuntu on tf 101 only good for school stuffs etc. If you want use as normal house or something it wont be anything because chrome cant be installed in arm. Or anything iwth flash :\.
Anyways good luck

[Q] [Dualboot]-[Net-Install] Flash Jhintas Kernel with no Linux Machine available

Hello everybody!
I've just set up a dualboot with ICS/Stock/Rooted as default + Ubuntu as secondary using frankc123's one-click installer with NoDiskNoFun's Net-Install Ubuntu v0.6.
Everything went fine, except it didn't install Jhintas kernel during the Ubuntu install process (net-install) , tried multiple times chosing it being flashed as first, secondary, even building it during install... I've read of others having the same problem on NoDiskNoFun's thread and one user suggested it might be because the Net-Install script can't handle ubuntu being secondary...
So my question is: How do I either flash the Jhinta kernel on top of my Install with no Linux machine available except for the transformer itself
or
how do I change the dualboot order in frank's tool to make ubuntu the default and android the secondary Os (assuming thats really what causes the jhinta kernel not to install during the script)?
I'm really a noob when it comes to stuff like this so help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

I just struggled with the exact same issue today, except I'm using OLiFE instead of frankc123's one-click installer. I finally figured out how to get it working earlier.
There's a file left by net-installer in /Linux_for_Tegra/ named selfbuild.img that has the kernel image that needs to get flashed to your device. I just overwrote the image that contained the 2.6.36 kernel with Jhinta's kernel _after_ finishing all the steps from the net-install scripts. This was a little bit tricky with OLiFE because it builds the image from a few files, so I had to comment out this step to let it flash the provided selfbuild.img as is.
Hope that helps. I can check out what frankc123's one-click installer does if not.
xxaconexx said:
Hello everybody!
I've just set up a dualboot with ICS/Stock/Rooted as default + Ubuntu as secondary using frankc123's one-click installer with NoDiskNoFun's Net-Install Ubuntu v0.6.
Everything went fine, except it didn't install Jhintas kernel during the Ubuntu install process (net-install) , tried multiple times chosing it being flashed as first, secondary, even building it during install... I've read of others having the same problem on NoDiskNoFun's thread and one user suggested it might be because the Net-Install script can't handle ubuntu being secondary...
So my question is: How do I either flash the Jhinta kernel on top of my Install with no Linux machine available except for the transformer itself
or
how do I change the dualboot order in frank's tool to make ubuntu the default and android the secondary Os (assuming thats really what causes the jhinta kernel not to install during the script)?
I'm really a noob when it comes to stuff like this so help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
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GdmImpulse said:
I just struggled with the exact same issue today, except I'm using OLiFE instead of frankc123's one-click installer. I finally figured out how to get it working earlier.
There's a file left by net-installer in /Linux_for_Tegra/ named selfbuild.img that has the kernel image that needs to get flashed to your device. I just overwrote the image that contained the 2.6.36 kernel with Jhinta's kernel _after_ finishing all the steps from the net-install scripts. This was a little bit tricky with OLiFE because it builds the image from a few files, so I had to comment out this step to let it flash the provided selfbuild.img as is.
Hope that helps. I can check out what frankc123's one-click installer does if not.
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Hey!
Thanks for the reply! But if I am not mistaken OLiFE is Linux only, or isn't it? Like i said I unfortunately have no access to a Linux machine other than the transformer itself, so I'm stuck with Franks tools, plus while I get the theory behind what you are saying, I have no Idea how to do it myself... I'm really a newbie when it comes to Linux, which is why I'd like to try it out on the TF
Any ideas on how to flash the kernel either during install, or afterwards without OLiFE? Maybe via NVFlash? (Just wildly guessing here)
Thanks!

xxaconexx said:
Hey!
Thanks for the reply! But if I am not mistaken OLiFE is Linux only, or isn't it? Like i said I unfortunately have no access to a Linux machine other than the transformer itself, so I'm stuck with Franks tools, plus while I get the theory behind what you are saying, I have no Idea how to do it myself... I'm really a newbie when it comes to Linux, which is why I'd like to try it out on the TF
Any ideas on how to flash the kernel either during install, or afterwards without OLiFE? Maybe via NVFlash? (Just wildly guessing here)
Thanks!
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It should definitely work with nvflash since that's what OLiFE is using. From what I can see in the scripts, you can run:
nvflash -r --download <PARTITION> selfbuild.img
Where <PARTITION> is 5 for secondary and 6 for primary (AFAICT, booting net-install from primary doesn't work anyways, so likely this should be 5 for you).

could you by any chance walk me through this? from what you said I'd be guessing to do the following:
put the selfbuild.img into the nvflash folder
open a cmd and navigate inside the folder
plug transformer in apx mode + install drivers
type nvflash -r --download 5 selfbuild.img into the cmd
is that all I have to do? if its really that easy, than wow!
where is the /Linux_for_Tegra/ folder that contains the selfbuild.img located tho? couldn't find it on my TF, and once I found it, how do I pull it? mount the ubuntu partition in android and pull it via root explorer?
thanks a lot! :victory:
acone
GdmImpulse said:
It should definitely work with nvflash since that's what OLiFE is using. From what I can see in the scripts, you can run:
nvflash -r --download <PARTITION> selfbuild.img
Where <PARTITION> is 5 for secondary and 6 for primary (AFAICT, booting net-install from primary doesn't work anyways, so likely this should be 5 for you).
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xxaconexx said:
could you by any chance walk me through this? from what you said I'd be guessing to do the following:
put the selfbuild.img into the nvflash folder
open a cmd and navigate inside the folder
plug transformer in apx mode + install drivers
type nvflash -r --download 5 selfbuild.img into the cmd
is that all I have to do? if its really that easy, than wow!
where is the /Linux_for_Tegra/ folder that contains the selfbuild.img located tho? couldn't find it on my TF, and once I found it, how do I pull it? mount the ubuntu partition in android and pull it via root explorer?
thanks a lot! :victory:
acone
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That sounds right. That's what I did to get it working. This is assuming that the Windows version of nvflash takes the same parameters of the Linux version, but it sounds like it does.
You can probably pull the file from Android. If you have an sdcard, you can copy it from Linux. I've uploaded the image from mine that you can try if you are having trouble pulling the file. This is from Net-Installer 0.6: 2shared.com/file/9wAIoPat/selfbuild.html

okay, so I've tried this, here's what happened:
-put the selfbuild.img into the nvflash folder
-open a cmd and navigate inside the folder
-plug transformer in apx mode + install drivers
-type nvflash -r --download 5 selfbuild.img into the cmd
-cmd shows something along the lines of nvflash starting [resume mode] than it would get stuck forever with nothing happening afterwards
-tried to see if nvflash was working properly via nvflash --sync and it would give me the 'nvflash started rcm version 0x4 command send failed' error SBK2 users get without using wheelie, then the device lost connection (odd, was that supposed to happen?)
-downloaded wheelie (eventho I have an sbk1 device [B50])
-navigated to the wheelie folder and replaced the bootloader.bin with the one from franks tools (not sure if that was necessary)
-opened up a cmd, navigated to the wheelie folder and typed in wheelie -1 -o 0x300d8011 --bl bootloader.bin -c transformer.bct (wheelie SBK1DEVICE SET_ODM_DATA_TO 0x300d8011 SET_THE_BOOTLOADER_FILENAME_TO bootloader.bin SET_THE_BCT_FILENAME_TO transformer.bct)
-nvflashed the selfbuild.img again using nvflash -r --download 5 selfbuild.img
IT WORKED!
not entirely sure what i did there as I just randomly pulled bits of information from a ton of threads and google, but it worked :victory:
touchpad is now working, but I still can't get it to connect to my wifi using wpa_gui, it shows my router when scanning (wpa2-personal psk aes [so i'm assuming the encryption has to be set to CCMP?]) but when I enter the password and try to connect it just gives me the "associating" for a second than says "disconnected, last message bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 reason=0
any clues why?
thanks again for the help! :good::good:
GdmImpulse said:
That sounds right. That's what I did to get it working. This is assuming that the Windows version of nvflash takes the same parameters of the Linux version, but it sounds like it does.
You can probably pull the file from Android. If you have an sdcard, you can copy it from Linux. I've uploaded the image from mine that you can try if you are having trouble pulling the file. This is from Net-Installer 0.6: 2shared.com/file/9wAIoPat/selfbuild.html
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disregard my last post and this one, I got it working, simply needed a reboot when it was stuck on 'associating...' was able to apt-get the ubuntu software center now, just to run into the next problem: upon running it it says starting then crashes with a crash report, when I try to open up the details it says "icon 'package-install' not present in theme", downloaded synaptics, tried to start it from applications/system tools/administration/synaptic package manager but the system will just show the loading icon for a second then nothing happens... guess I'm off for a great start into the world of linux
just tried to set the encryption of the router to wep and connect, wpa_gui says its connected but I cant ping anything via terminal or sudo apt-get stuff, plus oddly enough while the tf is connected none of my other devices can access the wifi
tried WPS as well both with the push button (gives a waiting or registrar status forever) and a generated pin (router just tells me to start wps on the tf, tf tells me registrar does not yet know pin) - so thats not working either...
disabling encryption entirely and just leaving the network open (this is what worked for me during net-install) won't do anything either, status will just show "associating" forever...
any clues?

xxaconexx said:
disregard my last post and this one, I got it working, simply needed a reboot when it was stuck on 'associating...' was able to apt-get the ubuntu software center now, just to run into the next problem: upon running it it says starting then crashes with a crash report, when I try to open up the details it says "icon 'package-install' not present in theme", downloaded synaptics, tried to start it from applications/system tools/administration/synaptic package manager but the system will just show the loading icon for a second then nothing happens... guess I'm off for a great start into the world of linux
just tried to set the encryption of the router to wep and connect, wpa_gui says its connected but I cant ping anything via terminal or sudo apt-get stuff, plus oddly enough while the tf is connected none of my other devices can access the wifi
tried WPS as well both with the push button (gives a waiting or registrar status forever) and a generated pin (router just tells me to start wps on the tf, tf tells me registrar does not yet know pin) - so thats not working either...
disabling encryption entirely and just leaving the network open (this is what worked for me during net-install) won't do anything either, status will just show "associating" forever...
any clues?
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Glad to hear you got the kernel working :highfive:
FWIW, I was having problem with WPA2 as well. For now, I've manually modified /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to get it working. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33856819&highlight=wpa2#post33856819 is what I followed to modify the config for my network.

yeah I had tried that first but it wouldn't work, then read a post about how wpa_gui is not always showing the correct status of the wifi, so I connected to my wifi, left it at "associating" and rebooted, after a reboot it showed "connected" :laugh:
got the software center to work as well, installing synaptics did the trick, eventho I can't run synaptics itself, the error I had before with the software center was gone after i installed it.
is usb hotplugging working for you? I know jhintas kernel is not supposed to have it, but NoDiskNoFun stated is was working with his net-install script in the post so I'm curious. rn I have to have the usb device plugged in during boot for it to work.
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Glad to hear you got the kernel working :highfive:
FWIW, I was having problem with WPA2 as well. For now, I've manually modified /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to get it working. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33856819&highlight=wpa2#post33856819 is what I followed to modify the config for my network.
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Ubuntu Touch port for Captivate

I went on and ported from scratch (not using work done for the i9000) Ubuntu Touch for our magic samsung captivate! The port itself is just the base of CyanogenMod to be able to support the binary blobs (drivers) of various devices without having to rewrite them (source code is usually not avaliable). Mine is the i897 ATT variant.
I wanted to post the link to the rom from my google drive, but since i just registered here to post this I cannot post external links. PM me and i will send the link to you ASAP!!
Installation instructions:
1- Copy the CM_BASE_UBUNTU_TOUCH zip file to the phone (internal or external sd doesn't matter)
2- Download the latest image of Ubuntu Touch from the ubuntu website. The current filename is quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip (This will change once the builds are based on Raring - 13.04 - and not Quantal - 12.10): PM ME FOR LINK OR SEARCH GOOGLE FOR "UBUNTU TOUCH DAILY"
3- Copy the Ubuntu Touch image to the phone
4- Reboot into recovery
5- Install CM_BASE_UBUNTU_TOUCH.zip from sd
6- Wipe Cache
7- Wipe Data partition
8- Install Ubuntu Touch zip from sd card
9- Patiently wait
10- Reboot and Enjoy!
EDIT--> Now you have the system 90% ready, but for the resolution of our device and the size of our screen we will have to change some parameters to fix the dpi and scaling:
EDIT 2 --> All these steps are unneccessary if you flash http://goo.im/devs/pawitp/galaxysmtd...x-20130223.zip after everything else. Thanks go to Citrit who pointed out the post in the i9000 ubuntu touch thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2162534
If you want to go through how it is done, or if you want to play with the settings, follow on. If not, jump past the F.
11- While the device is on, connect to your computer via usb
12- From a terminal, run the following commands
A- adb root (necessary to be able to enter directly into a root adb shell)
B- adb shell (we are based on cyanogen, so our lovely adb commands still work)
C- ubuntu_chroot shell (to enter a linux command prompt, since ubuntu is a layer on top of the android linux kernel)
D- vi /usr/bin/ubuntu-session (edit the session configuration. I used vi but feel free to do however you like)
E- Here near the beginning you will find a series of preconfigurations for some devices and a generic one at the end: this is the one we have to edit. The GRID_UNIT_PX parameter with 18 as a value has to be changes to 11 or 12 (test and see how you like it), and the QTWEBKIT_DPR parameter with 2.0 has to be changed to 1.1 or 1.2
F- you can reboot directly from the chroot session typing "reboot" (without the quotes)
Taken from the Ubuntu Touch porting guide:
you can use adb port forwarding to easily connect to the container via SSH over USB. To do so, run the following commands:
adb forward tcp:8888 tcp:22
ssh [email protected] -p 8888
Currently the power button does not work with recent kernels, so one of the following options must be run:
remove the battery and replace it
run "reboot -p" from the adb shell
adb root
adb shell reboot -p
If you appreciate my work, leave feedback! If you don't, leave feedback! All feedback is welcome! I'd like to know your thoughts, experiences and what bugs or annoyances you encounter!
P.S If the mods could give me permission to post ouside links (or if they could post it themselves if i pm it to them) we would all be very grateful

What works and what doesnt
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What works and what doesn't
No cellular connection (no calls, no sms, no data)
Basic wifi works (password free and wpa network tested, but wep should too)
Camera works
Gpu accelleration works
All the rest is untested

but after installing it will i be able to flash back to android 4.2.2????

Reflash to android
n205des said:
but after installing it will i be able to flash back to android 4.2.2????
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Sure! All you have to do is reboot into recovery (sending an adb command or using the usual button combination) and reflash your favourite rom from there! I tested with the nightly CyanogenMod and with SlimBean, both 4.2.2, and all went well

krissetto said:
Sure! All you have to do is reboot into recovery (sending an adb command or using the usual button combination) and reflash your favourite rom from there! I tested with the nightly CyanogenMod and with SlimBean, both 4.2.2, and all went well
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okkkayy!
will try and tell you soon
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i installed it but i couldnt understand how to change the dpi or the resolution to my phones size.
so can you explain me how to do it correctly?

Adjusting dpi scaling
n205des said:
okkkayy!
will try and tell you soon
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i installed it but i couldnt understand how to change the dpi or the resolution to my phones size.
so can you explain me how to do it correctly?
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What we have to do is change a couple of lines in the ubuntu-session configuration file. It is located, in ubuntu, in /usr/bin/ubuntu-session. The way i chose to edit this file was via chroot from my pc.
With the phone powered on, connect it to a computer with ADB installed (install the android sdk if you haven't, i personally use linux but you can on windows and osx too). Then from a terminal run the following commands:
adb root
adb shell
ubuntu_chroot shell
After you have inserted these commands, you will find youself in a chroot session, basically any command you now write executes on the phone as if you ran it from there. So i used a terminal text editor (vi, to be precise, but i assume you can use whatever you prefer) and opened the file with this command:
vi /usr/bin/ubuntu-session
vi was designed decades ago, for keyboards without arrow keys, so to move around read a bit on the page i PM'd you.
What you now have to do is scroll down to where you see the following code:
export GRID_UNIT_PX=18
grep -q QTWEBKIT_DPR /home/phablet/.bashrc
[ $? -ne 0 ] && echo "export QTWEBKIT_DPR=2.0" >> /home/phablet/.bashrc
export QTWEBKIT_DPR=2.0
export FORM_FACTOR="phone"
What you have to change is the 18 and the 2.0, repectively in 11 and 1.1 (play around with slightly different settings to get the feel you prefer).
Save the file and type "reboot" in the terminal.
Your phone will now restart, and load up the UI with the settings you just changed
Let me know if you have problems, when I find some time I'll get back to you

anyone?
Has anybody tried this yet?

Looks good
Everything installed fine, had no issues with that. Only issue I'm having is I can't seem to change the resolution by following the above steps. Ubuntu touch looks good though . WORKS: Wifi, Camera. Will provide more feedback once I get into it more.

Resolution scaling
mitchelldavis said:
Everything installed fine, had no issues with that. Only issue I'm having is I can't seem to change the resolution by following the above steps. Ubuntu touch looks good though . WORKS: Wifi, Camera. Will provide more feedback once I get into it more.
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What problems do you encounter? I noticed that trying to edit the file with nano wouldn't let me save it, as if the command just wouldn't go through, but maybe that was just me.

Everything worked great for me, and the latest build fixes the need for an open Wifi. It now prompts for a password. Here is a fix for the layout, it was taken from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2162534
Grab the file http://goo.im/devs/pawitp/galaxysmtd_ubuntu/ubuntu-aries-layout-fix-20130223.zip and install this last.

citrit said:
Everything worked great for me, and the latest build fixes the need for an open Wifi. It now prompts for a password. Here is a fix for the layout, it was taken from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2162534
Grab the file http://goo.im/devs/pawitp/galaxysmtd_ubuntu/ubuntu-aries-layout-fix-20130223.zip and install this last.
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An easier way to fix it, thanks! I'll edit the orig post with these instructions

When I try to edit the settings using vi it doesnt let me input anything. I get all of the information but cannot edit it.

Editing with vi
mitchelldavis said:
When I try to edit the settings using vi it doesnt let me input anything. I get all of the information but cannot edit it.
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Have you read the information on how to use vi? There are certain commands to use to edit text, it was built for computer from ages ago, that didn't have many things we're now used to. Excuse me if you are experienced enough to know how to use vi ^^

mitchelldavis said:
When I try to edit the settings using vi it doesnt let me input anything. I get all of the information but cannot edit it.
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Follow the instruction in the OP about installing a third zip file, then you can safely ignore all the vi instructions.

Sorry if I'm being a dip**** by asking this, but where exactly do I obtain a copy of this "CM_BASE_UBUNTU_TOUCH zip"? I have a captivate begging me for ubuntu touch right now. lol :silly:

can you port to vibrant too
the vibrant is the tmobile version on the captivate can your port to that too. il help with testing:fingers-crossed:

Well from what in seeing I think all u do is flash the nightly of cm10.1 or whatever it is and u should be fine I think his cm_base_Ubuntu_touch thing is his rip from the rom and he's flashing it just as a kernel
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this really ought to be in the dev section where it can get the attention and support it deserves...
maybe post to github also...

Is it possible to dual boot my ics jb and ubuntu ? any tutorial ? thanks