jb-x86 test build 20130228

[Chih-Wei Huang]

Hi,
A new test build of jb-x86 is released:

http://www.android-x86.org/releases/build-20130228

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Android-x86 project
http://www.android-x86.org

[Jon West]

Very Impressed so far :) going smoothly on my Acer W500 

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2013/2/28 Kevin Cottingham <pizzac...@gmail.com>:
> All previous versions loaded and in general worked on Dell Mini 10v, but no
> internet connections. This will install but not boot after install, and will
> not finish booting if done from a live image, however, from the live image
> the pc can use WiFi (during initial setup) and WiFi is able to detect
> routers and begin to connect but goes no further. I see this as an
> improvement for connectivity despite the inability to actually boot the OS.

About the can't boot issue, you may try to modify
the file (/android)/system/etc/init.sh to see if it works

function init_hal_sensors()
{
...
*)
set_hal_prop sensors kbd <== remove this line
;;
esac
}

You may boot the debug mode to edit it before
enter android.

[dscm]

good job thanks....

Testing of new release ran successfully from liveusb on the following:
(see notes)

* asus P8Z77-M motherboard(newly acquired), 4GB mem, intel core
i3-3225 dual-core processor @3.3GHZ
Intel Z77 chipset, Intel® HD Graphics 4000, RealTek ALC887
Intergrated Digital HD Audio
RealTek 8111F Gigabit Lan Controller

note: am using legacy-bios NOT uefi, may be the reason that the
android-4.1.1_r1-ia1-userdebug-ivb-liveimg by intel-ia
group did not run on
this ivybridge board...hope to check uefi later

* asus P5G41-M motherboard , 3GB mem, intel core 2 duo E7500 processor
@2.9GHZ
Intel G41 Express ICH7 chipset, Integrated Intel Graphics Media
Accelerator(Intel® GMA X4500)
Realtek High Definition Audio, Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E
Ethernet Cntrl

* HP T60G laptop, 3GB mem, Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4300 processor
@2.1GHZ
Mobile Intel 4 Express chipset ICH9, Intel Graphics Media
Accelerator 4500MHD
Covexant Pebble High Definition SmartAudio, Atheros AR9285 Wifi,
RealTek PCIe FE Family Cntrl

note: always have to boot from usbflash a secong time before getting
to menu...
did not have to use acpi=off in command line anymore!!

* Viewsonic VPAD10(tablet), 1GB mem, 32GB SSD, Intel Atom N455
processor @1.66GHZ
Intel Mobile MN10 Express chipset, Intel HD Graphics 64MB
Hanvon 9.7" (TFT-LCD(1024x768 XGA) capacitive touch panel
Realtek ALC662G/268, Atheros AR9002WB-1NG Wireless Network
Adapter

note: had camera issues when trying to record but think it's operator
errors...
will be looking at it again later

youtube seems fine as long as you uncheck HD but believe that
is known...

will be checking later with installed to disk...

[Hou Joshua]

My B16 Tablet with GMA500 graphic, works good.

Good job!

Thanks,
Joshua

[Kevin Cottingham]

Upon editing the file and removing the desired code it loops between the splash screen and saying "init: skipping insecure file '/system/lib/modules/3.8.0-android-x86+modules.alias'" without ever actually booting. Also, upon further trial with booting from a live USB drive it will boot to the main system if I skip joining a WiFi network but if I decide to try and join one the screen goes black and is unresponsive.

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2013/2/28 Kevin Cottingham <pizzac...@gmail.com>:

> Upon editing the file and removing the desired code it loops between the
> splash screen and saying "init: skipping insecure file
> '/system/lib/modules/3.8.0-android-x86+modules.alias'" without ever actually

What is your filesystem? NTFS or FAT?

> booting. Also, upon further trial with booting from a live USB drive it will
> boot to the main system if I skip joining a WiFi network but if I decide to
> try and join one the screen goes black and is unresponsive.

[Kevin Cottingham]

NTFS. I haven't tried FAT yet.

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2013/2/28 Kevin Cottingham <pizzac...@gmail.com>:

> NTFS. I haven't tried FAT yet.

Seems init doesn't like NTFS because
it doesn't provide correct permission for files.

Either use the ext3 filesystem, or install as read-only mode.
The read-only mode put android files into a squashfs
so it won't suffer from the limitation of NTFS.

> On Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:42:54 AM UTC-5, Chih-Wei Huang wrote:
>>
>> 2013/2/28 Kevin Cottingham <pizzac...@gmail.com>:
>> > Upon editing the file and removing the desired code it loops between the
>> > splash screen and saying "init: skipping insecure file
>> > '/system/lib/modules/3.8.0-android-x86+modules.alias'" without ever
>> > actually
>>
>> What is your filesystem? NTFS or FAT?

[Kevin Cottingham]

On running a FAT system off the hard disc directly after system bios load I am given an "Error 17" and does not proceed to GRUB. Will try ext3, if that doesn't work then read only.

[Kevin Cottingham]

Ext3 gave the same error as FAT. NTFS in read only boots, makes it to the main desktop and works just as a live USB yet still crashes when connecting to a network over WiFi. Nevertheless I find this still to be an improvement as previous versions would not detect the network card at all. All else seems to be working great.

[tsukishiro]

Just tested with Thinkpad X1 and it seems Suspend/Resume still does not work right?
When I press power key, screen just turns blank but system is still on

[Zecik123]

Same on Toshiba Satellite A300-1LT.

Additionally - WiFi works in 11bgnmixed mode only (no connection in 11n mode).

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2013/3/1 Ignacio Larrain <ilar...@gmail.com>:
> Hi, I've downloaded the image for testing, but the sha1sum don't match (I've
> downloaded it 2 times):
>
> $ sha1sum android-x86-*
> d9843bbccf29d64ae0cb4d6b30d1fad7e29f6cdd android-x86-4.2-20130228.iso
> d9843bbccf29d64ae0cb4d6b30d1fad7e29f6cdd android-x86-4.2-20130228.iso.2

This is the correct checksum.

> The release notes says:
>>
>> android-x86-4.2-20130228.iso
>> sha1sum: 41685b2fd9a0fcd101fc21aeb84882015a6fd976

Oops. I thought I have corrected it.
Anyway, thank you for reporting it.

[Greg McGee]

Also on Lenovo X200T, works very smoothly

(i915, on Ext3, installed to /dev/sda6 but booting off sdcard install, as grub not set up on partition)

 

USB<>Serial ports works as std /dev/ttyUSBx Linux serial ports.

Curious how much work it's going to be to get BT working again, new stack? Device is found.

Fn key (by itself) puts unit to sleep.

 

A "never sleep" button in config was the old work around in 4.0 RCs FWIW.

 

Still trying to track down a static binary of inputattach to get the serial wacom to speak to Android.

(wacom_w8001 module is present and loads)

[dscm]

installing to vpad10 disk report

Checking install 2-28-13 test version of android-x86 4.2.2 to hard
disk(ssd 32 GB)
----------------------------------------------------------------

1) vpad10 had 12-25 version installed on it on 6GB ext3 partition...

2) installed 2-28 version to hard disk, did a format as ext3 to
install...

installed and booted up fine...went through a few steps to
verify....

3) re-installed formatting partition as fat32.....

selected for 512mb data partition on install

installed fine...(so it appeared)

boot up gave Error 17....retried...same issue....


at this point used my win8 usb to fix boot issue...

next / select repair / troubleshoot / advance options / command
prompt

bootrec /fixmbr

boot /fixboot

exit

turn off / remove win8 usb, turn on

system booted up into win8 fine...
(have Ext2Fsd installed on system for looking at android
partitions)


partition android installed on has both folders Grub & android-4.2-
test
data is in the folders & appears ok......(writing grub entries to mbr
maybe issue???)
partition properties is fat32 with 979mb used & 5.04GB free


4) reformated the partition to fat32 using gparted....

reinstalled without using the formatting, booted up fine...went
through a few steps to verify....
selected for 512mb data partition on install


5) reinstall formatting as a ntfs partition

selected for 512mb data partition on install

boot up gave Error 17....retried...same issue....

repeat fixing boot with win8 usb

system booted up into win8 fine...

partition android installed on has both folders Grub & android-4.2-
test
data is in the folders & appears ok......(writing grub entries to mbr
maybe issue???)
partition properties is ntfs with 979mb used & 5.04GB free


6) reformated the partition to ntfs using gparted....

reinstalled without using the formatting, booted up fine...but
always halted at the android logo on the screen
selected for 512mb data partition on install

running debug mode just ended up hanging after a few printouts on
screen

at this point just installed to my ssd using ext3 formatting...
wouldn't work until I reformatted partition using gparted....


On Feb 28, 2:52 am, Chih-Wei Huang <cwhu...@android-x86.org> wrote:
> 2013/2/28 Kevin Cottingham <pizzacow2...@gmail.com>:

[Zulfikar Barodawala]

The latest build is excellent except it has wifi issues like it keeps dropping every second and logcat shows "Data is Missing" , kept my amd system ON the whole night and did not crash works well on the HD 4250 (on board), play store working fine + youtube , the problem is on the Sony Vaio VGN UX17GP the LCD brightness has decreased and have tried all possible kernel boot options but to nothing.

How can I set the resolution to 1600x900 ?

[aLexzkter]

You can try modifying the menu.lst file by going to the debug mode, then vi /mnt/grub/menu.lst
Although I had to mount -o remount,rw /mnt FIRST in order to be able to locate the grub folder...
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

By the way, Ive been messing with the menu.lst file so I could display my Samsung NC10 to a 1080p display but two things happened:

1. I have a very bad performance at that resolution, black static wallpaper always, cant change it, going through menus is choppy, slow...but quite usable. I cant remember if I had a black wallpaper when external displaying at 1080p on ICS, but I do remember everything was way slower than when using the internal display back then too.
2. I cant boot Windows 7 now. I had two working partitions for windows, and another one for the last JB preview build, Im getting "error 1 filename must be either an absolute pathname or blocklist"
It probably has to do with the menu.lst file but I swear I only changed the Video=LVDS thing...

[aLexzkter]

Well, this is weird...I modified my menu.lst file like 3 times, the last one was to renable the internal display, I did it properly but now I checked it out and my menu.lst file is EMPTY !! I guess thats why Im having trouble booting Windows, but why dont I have trouble booting Android? xD
What can I do? How can I restore the menu.lst file? thanks in advance

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2013/3/1 aLexzkter <alexz...@gmail.com>:

> Well, this is weird...I modified my menu.lst file like 3 times, the last one was to renable the internal display, I did it properly but now I checked it out and my menu.lst file is EMPTY !! I guess thats why Im having trouble booting Windows, but why dont I have trouble booting Android? xD
> What can I do? How can I restore the menu.lst file? thanks in advance

Re-install grub.

[Uwe Koch]

I found that the wifi driver causes a kernel panic when connecting.
Attached a hardcopy of the output.

Am Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2013 21:49:28 UTC+1 schrieb Uwe Koch:

Hi,

I have a Lenovo S10-3t(netbook with touch display).

With the actual build wifi driver (broadcom if I'm right) seems to work better than with the devel built.

So Wifi networks come up both in live mode and full install to ssd. But after configuring it, the whole system crashes in live mode (caps lock led starts flashing, after a while whole system turns off - like long press of the on/off switch).

Nearly the same in full install mode: after configuration of wlan network - lcd turns black in full install - unresponsive system.

Could post system logs here if you tell me which output you want and how I can get it.

Uwe

[Greg McGee]

Tip on installing grub to partition:
If you only have Windows and android installed, this is not for you.

If you have a grub multiboot setup with multiple linux distros/flavors of WinX, this is for you.

Beware--- the default install only installs grub to your MBR, not the partition you installed android to. and it will somewhat>severely break any existing setup.

The easy work around is to install to another USB stick or SDcard, also installing grub to that device.
then install to your partition, NOT installing grub. Make a note of what partition that was.

Then, boot into your choice of Linux distro or livecd, start grub
mount the sdcard and partition somewhere as root, start mc.
copy over /grub from the sdcard to your install partition (/dev/sda6 in the following example)

edit target partition /grub/menu.lst so that root=(hd0,0) gets changed to root (hd 0,5) or as appropriate, in grub, (hd0,0) is the first drive/partition.

grub> root (hd0,5) ----------dangerously assuming your hdd install partition was /dev/sda6
grub> setup (hd0,5) --------this will install the boot loader to the chosen partition

Then you can set it up in an existing multi-boot as if it was Windows or any non-linux OS. (chainload)

It MAY be possible to do all this from the install iso... but it borked on me when i tried it.

[bubb...@gmail.com]

Thank you for the build. Thanks for going with the 3.8 kernel this will pay dividends.

I cant seem to find 0xbenchmark. It was in 4.0-RC2

Was it removed?

 

[Enzo De Santis]

hm wifi still doesn't work on lenovo thinkpad x230t which is somehow really frustrating as there are no graphic glitches and it is extremely smooth. :( was running live installation. 

[Maksim Lin]

Hi Chih-Wei

I was wondering if you would be open to the idea of tagging the git repos to match each iso release that you make?

This would be really helpful in making my own builds that match up with your iso releases which I think make for good snapshots of the tree at points where particular features are expected to be working and to be able to easily go back to then to test (and fix) bugs that may crop up later on.

thanks,
Maks.

[Thanos Papoutsis]

Tested in lenovo s10-2 everything is ok except wifi. my card is broadcom 4321 and when trying to connect to my network after giving the password the pc goes to black screen and after few seconds it reboots

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2013/3/4 Maksim Lin <ma...@manichord.com>:

> Hi Chih-Wei
> I was wondering if you would be open to the idea of tagging the git repos to
> match each iso release that you make?

Will tag it in the formal release.

[HAKA HARY]

install it on my acer d255 with ext4 partition, it run very well, wifi ok. but there's still a black screen in some apps such whatsapp and paragon ntfs. first time i'm installing it run okay but the second time boot it's stuck on android logo. after reinstall its always stuck at android logo on the second boot.

great build chin wei

[Zulfikar Barodawala]

It's a problem with the kernel for i915 , I also get errors for i915 during compilation.

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:50 AM, HAKA HARY <meet...@gmail.com> wrote:

install it on my acer d255 with ext4 partition, it run very well, wifi ok. but there's still a black screen in some apps such whatsapp and paragon ntfs. first time i'm installing it run okay but the second time boot it's stuck on android logo. after reinstall its always stuck at android logo on the second boot.

great build chin wei

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[toucan]

Hi,
I am using this on a W500 that has a 64GB SSD; the Android installation is on an 8GB partition, formatted ext3 with read/write privileges (Windows 8 is on the rest).

Most things work really well (outside of the Play store stuff that doesn't show the device as compatible anymore) - the one exception being the screen. When the screen blacks out due to inactivity, it does not come back on. The only thing I have been able to do is a hard shut-down (press and hold the power button for several seconds).

Thanks!
Nol

[Zecik123]

See http://www.android-x86.org/releases/build-20130228:

Known issues

• Suspend and resume doesn't work.
• Some apps stuck on i915/i965 devices.
• Bluetooth not work.
• Not support Arm translator.

[Greg McGee]

try it in debug, see if it is just looking for firmware.

Working great on my x200, iwlwifi-5000-5 fw IIRC.
odd it works from live media but not after install...

If you install r/w you can mount the partition from linux and simply copy it over to /lib/firmware
(or system/lib/firmware, or the base dir of wherever the other fw lives)

[rahmat sofftware]

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i am using benq notebook the android seems lag the android market is not compatible... 

[Greg McGee]

I have inputattach working, just needed to use the latest version from linuxconsole on SF, as opposed to the wacom-input version.
(from android-x86 dir )
I simply mkdir external/inputattach
copied the android.mk and cleanspec files from ping
copied the inputattach.c and serio_ids.h from consoletools
edited the android.mk to replace ping.c & ping with inputattach.c and inputattach
. build/envsetup.sh
lunch 5

mmm external/inputattach

copied the resulting binary (found in out, look at the compile output for location) over to the installation on hdd. put it in system/xbin IIRC.

In any case, added it to system/etc/init.sh under misc
added: (under "misc"
modprobe wacom_w8001
inputattach --daemon -w8001 /dev/ttyS0

touchscreen now gets picked up and comes up (for me) always in /devices/(can't copy and paste from here)/input14.

Still fighting with getting tslib to pick it up, probably malpractice on my part with the tslib setup.

Any tips?

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2013/3/11 Robert Dunn <cule...@gmail.com>:
> Thanks for the new test build!
>
> I tried it on my old Toshiba Satellite A205-S5831 with an Intel GMA965 GPU,
> 1.73 Dual Core Intel CPU (Coreduo I believe) and it works mostly fine,
> except the Terminal Emulator app does not work correctly (opens up terminal
> but blank screen..no command line)
>
> I'm also glad to see support for interactive/ondemand CPU governor (the
> second ICS build could only run on performance setting).

The ondemand governor is the default one
in jb-x86.

[Joseph Netti]

Regarding the aforementioned Broadcom B43 WiFI adapter issues. I found a fix... you may not like it, but it works. I ripped the netbook apart, took out the STUPID ONLY WINDOWS FRIENDLY WiFi adapter and attached a usb WiFi adapter. Mine is the netgear N150. Works perfectly. I am typing this from my Android X86 running from USB for now. Will be installing shortly and dual booting with Ubuntu. So far, this is an excellent build and your work is greatly appreciated!

[Manuel Cuadra]

Teste on eeePC 1000H, everything goes very smooth:

Camera: OK

Bluetooth: Don´t have so can´t say

Accelerated: Yes, no 3D because of chipset, but 2D acceleration works

Youtube: OK

Browser: OK

Wifi: OK

Camera: OK

Trackpad: OK

USB Mouse: OK

Keyboard: OK

How can I change Resolution, need to get to 1024x600

how can I put it to sleep and recover from it?

Very nice Job, thank you!

On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:12:04 UTC-3, Chih-Wei Huang wrote:

Hi,
A new test build of jb-x86 is released:

http://www.android-x86.org/releases/build-20130228

[Cassondra Foesch]

If you have an Intel wifi card, it's very likely that you are missing the firmware for your card... it won't work without this. I had to go online and find it myself. Unfortunately, lack of redistribution rights prevent anyone from including most of the newer firmwares from Intel.

Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013 18:22:34 UTC-6 schrieb Bernat Bautista:

Tested on HP EliteBook 2740P

Running from Live USB. The first Androix X86 that I can test something. It was very very smooth  !

Wifi: FAIL
Touchscreen: FAIL

Camera: OK

Trackpad: OK

Keyboard: OK

Camera: OK

Bluetooth: No tested

Accelerated: No tested

Youtube: No tested

Browser: No tested

Waiting at least to have Wifi to check browser, youtube, games... and touchscreen.

Is there any way to activate and check for logs?

Thanks!

El dimecres 13 de març de 2013 21:47:17 UTC+1, Manuel Cuadra va escriure:

[Greg McGee]

I found mine in /lib/firmware in my installed linux distro.

If it works there, it should work for android as well.

I'm using Mageia 3b2 (Cauldron after updates, (and building Android fine) , but Mint14 works very well too.

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[Winner61]

On the Viewpad 10 all seems ok, everything works accept the onscreen keyboard does not fill the width of the screen so the key's pressed do not all correspond to the touch so you have to guess where to touch the screen for the right letter.

 

Op woensdag 27 februari 2013 22:12:04 UTC+1 schreef Chih-Wei Huang het volgende:

[Greg McGee]

Still beating on getting the current release working well on a Wacom pen only Lenovo X200 tablet. (no touch)
it's pretty much 100% usable, now, staritng from the released iso installed RW, on ext3.

Inputattach will compile and can be copied over and run, can't seem to get it automagically installing itself in iso_img.
Don't want to put up a patch until i figure out what's wrong.
Essentially, all you need is inputattach.c and serio_ids from the linuxconsole projects latest release.

4.2.2 already works with a pen better than win8, just needs a screen rotation app (screenorientation) as the tablet screen rotation keys are inop (using the pen to  pulldown works better IMHO)  a note taking app (Papyrus works VERY well and has direct support for Wacom Thinkpads!!! even gets the eraser) and a "keep screen ON" app. (still looking for a perfect solution until sleep works)

The Wacom pen works very well on apps that support it, and ~ok on apps that are not pressure-aware.

tslib installs, but doesn't appear to work with the wacom, but the calibration is perfect out of the box as the kernel driver deals with it.

I need to remaps the keys so hitting the Fn key doesn't put it to sleep, terminally.

Dolphin works OK, can't find a compatible version of Chrome to try the Google docs offline stuff ala ChromeOS, FF seems to work ~OK but didn't manage to find the right flash plugin, and neither Dolphin or FF will play Youtube videos, "Browser" will.

OI need to go back and try Opera again with the screenorientation app installed, it didn't want to honor the std screen orientation lock pulldown, but the app seems to work better.

Hackers keyboard can be set up so it has a pulldown from the L side menu to force popup, you can also turn off the HW keyboard in settings and the keyboard will popup as expected.(Android won't popup a keyboard if you have a HW keyboard by default, which makes some sense)

Cannot for the life of me get pen input working on evernote, even after installing it from a third party repo after...

...Play decided that my tablet was no longer a Generic android-x86 as when running ICS, but by it's proper model#, which Play doesn't grok.
Working that, /system/build.props settings no longer help.

In dev settings, You need to turn on "force gpu rendering" and "prevent sleep", fixes most apps that just won't start and ...prevents sleep, at least when plugged in..

USB<>serial devices work great, just have to preload the modules in /etc/init.sh (add in misc section is easy)
BT does not (known issue)
Wifi works, just have to copy over the intel FW from your current Linux distro.

Next up-- is it possible to build a android-x86_64 build?

I'd like to set up a 64 bit kernel and a chroot with my std linux distro...

On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 3:12:04 PM UTC-6, Chih-Wei Huang wrote:

[JPT]

Next up-- is it possible to build a android-x86_64 build?

You are joking!
If you need something to do, could you please make android work on more devices?
Or write some tutorials...

I simply haven't got enough knowledge. But you seem to have...
I am currently installing a clean debian system on my NAS. Thanks god someone else created a working 3.8 kernel. Now I am writing a guide so other people do not have to invent everything for themselves. In case you are interested: http://netgear.nas-central.org/wiki/ReadyNasDUO-200_customisation_guide
 

[Greg McGee]

My Evil Plan is to (ideally) have a 64 bit kernel (only) my favorite 64 bit distro running in chroot, and win8/64 running in Virtualbox. >;-)
Then I don't have to reboot _at_all_.

[Hazem El-Jouzou]

Hello,

 I Have a Samsung N150 plus netbook and an HP dv6-2170ee laptop. the wifi on both pcs are not working since 4.2 version and now 4.3... any solution? 

PS:4.2 shows available hot-spots but the kernel panics when trying to join!