Ubuntu for Linaro Cubeiboard

[Md]

Hi ,

I have successfully downloaded Linaro ubuntu image to my cubie but   Does anyone knows which Ubuntu Version are supported by Linaro  ?

I tried installing a Ubuntu 12.04 file but it doesn't open at all .

Can anyone help ?

Md.

[Martin Wild]

Hi,

Please be a little more specific. What do you mean by "Does anyone knows which Ubuntu Version are supported by Linaro "
Linaro (alip) is basically an small linux for ARM cpus based on the actual Ubuntu - release. (in my opinion the best mini desktop for cubieboard)
then there are some server, nano and full ubuntu-Desktop versions available for different purposes (you can search for yourself around here : http://releases.linaro.org/ )

"I tried installing a Ubuntu 12.04 file but it doesn't open at all " what did you trie? just placing some files on your sdcard will never lead to an working system.
you have to partition your card, install U-boot , an Hardwarepack for your cubieboard and your  rootfilesystem (linaro alip, nano, server , debian wheezy , fedora , Arch Liunux, etc.)

have a look here on howto make an working card. some links are dead right now, but the way is still the same

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/cubieboard/tutorial$20howto/cubieboard/hKJgJneGVmQ/FULIP3zbkAAJ

Regards, Martin

[Alessandro Recchi]

e but   Does anyone knows which Ubuntu Version are supported by Linaro  ?
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> Md.

Hi i am a bit confused about the nano version that linaro provides.
They wrote "This image only provides console support".
Are they talking about the serial console or the linux terminal?
Sorry for the question but english isn't my first language so i wasn't sure (also i am a linux newbie XD)

[theRat]

Nano is a minimal install that provides a basic console with almost no other packages installed.

[George Ioakimedes]

In my application I need as quick a boot as possible but still be able to start an HTML page that's started locally and has links to play video (with analog audio) clips in full screen. About the only other thing needed would be touch screen, LVDS, and USB support to plug in a thumb drive and update the videos if needed.

I've been told that playing video with H/W acceleration is only possible in Android but I know Android even less than Linux. Is Nano a good choice to start with?

[Md]

Hi Martin ,

Many thanks for your reply , i will try to explain here in a better way.

1. I have a hardware device working on my PC  & OS is Ubuntu 12,04 it uses USB interface .

I thought to use the device on Cubie board  so i flashed Ubuntu  Linaro image on cubieboard  & after that i,m trying to install my Ubuntu 12.04 file (which i use on my PC)  on Cubieboard .

But it seems the cubeiboard doesn't recognize it  .

2. I also tried to open ms office , Pdf , Jpg files on Cubieboard but unsuccessful . Can i install openoffice.org ?

Please help.

Md.

[Martin Wild]

Ok,now i understood your problem!

You probably need to find out which driver your device uses and build the driver for the arm architecture to make it work (linaro and the sunxi-kernel have a very limited repository of built in drivers)

For your office problem, you can easily install libre office.
Just become sudo then do "apt-get update " and then "apt-get install libreoffice"

Regards,martin

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:35 PM, George Ioakimedes <georg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my application I need as quick a boot as possible but still be able to
> start an HTML page that's started locally and has links to play video (with
> analog audio) clips in full screen. About the only other thing needed would
> be touch screen, LVDS, and USB support to plug in a thumb drive and update
> the videos if needed.
>
> I've been told that playing video with H/W acceleration is only possible in
> Android but I know Android even less than Linux. Is Nano a good choice to
> start with?

Perhaps you want your system to boot into the framebuffer (no X), and
then use something like

mplayer -vo fbdev video.avi

to play the video?

Not sure about HTML on the framebuffer.

Simos

[George Ioakimedes]

I'm not sure about any of it! ;) But so far I'm not impressed with any of the Linaro images. They seem rather sluggish (compared to a Raspberry Pi) Browsing on the RPi was very sluggish but doesn't seem as bad on the Cubie.

[theRat]

I am using a Linaro server image and after building my own kernel (using sunxi-bsp) with the scaling-governer set to performance (instead of ondemand) my cubie boots within 5 seconds.  It was painfully sluggish before that.  There are options in the 'make menuconfig' system to set the initial settings for the performance stuff.

[georg...@gmail.com]

could you share what you created? I haven’t had much luck changing the kernel and i’m not sure what I’ve being doing wrong.

[theRat]

My kernel has extra options enabled that most people will probably not want.

It isn't too difficult to build your own kernel.

This is what I did (hopefully I don't miss some steps):

cd ~

sudo apt-get install git

sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

git clone https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-bsp.git

cd sunxi-bsp

./configure cubieboard

make

make linux-config

make hwpack-install SD_CARD=/dev/your.device ROOTFS=/your.rootfs.tar.gz

Obviously replace the parameters in the last line with what right for you.

[George Ioakimedes]

So 2 questions for you:

1. If you want to modify the kernel ( to load touch screen drivers) at which step would I do that?
2. Which rootfs do you use? I always see reference to "your rootfs" but I get confused here not knowing how that relates to linux-sunxi or if it even does.

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[Mohammed]

Hi Martin ,

Thank you , I'm new to Linux .

1.How do find about the driver type ?


2. I know liber office put can I just drag n drop it to Pendrive ?

Do let me know if there is process .

Thanking you in advance .

Md.

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[theRat]

I'm not a real linux expert, I struggle to get a lot of things working, so don't take my answers as gospel.

1. Not really sure on that one.  If they are in the sunxi-bsp package you would most likely enable them in the 'make linux-config' step which gives you menus with lots of options.

2. I am using the 'linaro server' rootfs from linaro.org as the starting point, but then I add/remove/configure stuff by mounting it in a chroot using the qemu tools.  Linux-sunsi is used to build your kernel etc, that contains all the hardware specific bits, while the rootfs contains all the software etc that isn't hardware dependent.  I don't believe there is a strong relationship between the 2.