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[HunteronX]

Zebrahead, on Mar 6 2011, 03:00, said:

I don't use windows much anymore so I can't really suggest any solutions to anyone wrt that.

However I can help if you guys are prepared to use linux, whether a live CD or full installation.
Step by step :

> Partition SD card to ext3 ( > 2gb)
> Create boot image specifying the ext3 partition you created
> Extract rootfs to partition
   - On a linux box :
    

cd <location of ext3 partition>
# Change directory to partition

sudo tar -xvf <rootfs.tgz wherever it's stored>
# As superuser, extract FS to current director in verbose mode - this means that it'll tell you which files it's currently working on

The extraction takes a while, took me about 30/40 mins if I remember.

Once you have that....

> Flash the boot image from step 2,
> Insert memory stick
> And boot
> After a bunch of text which you don't need to worry about unless it goes wrong, you should get something that prompts for a

vegatab login :

or similar.

> As you (probably) dont have a keyboard, you won't be able to log in here.  Leave it for about 2 mins and the program that loads ubuntu (plymout) will fail on a lack of keyboard assertion.
> This will log in as required.
> Congratulations
Feel free to PM/ask more questions ^^

Zeb

@Zebrahead

nevermind41's boot.img worked with your instructions for me. Thanks to both of you.  

[Panayioti]

Ok I want to start again how do you partition your sd card to ext3? because i took my sd card out and still comes up with the prompts.

[Michael_llewellyn]

Thanks for this, I now have an ubuntu install on my vega   I had a few issues with wireless but configured it manually and killed network-manager.

I'm gonna try compiling a few things like mupen64

[Zebrahead]

Panayioti, on Mar 6 2011, 12:17, said:

Ok I want to start again how do you partition your sd card to ext3? because i took my sd card out and still comes up with the prompts.

Not sure about on Windows, but if you have a live CD/linux installation, the easiest way to do it is probably by using gparted :

[code] sudo gparted [\code]

at a prompt.


This will open the partition manager, simply partition the card as you like with a >2gb ext3 partition


Zeb ^^

[Michael_llewellyn]

You can also use clockwork mod to partition your SD card if I'm not mistaken.  This may be an easier bet.

[Zebrahead]

Michael_llewellyn, on Mar 6 2011, 22:46, said:

You can also use clockwork mod to partition your SD card if I'm not mistaken.  This may be an easier bet.

If memory serves, this may not be a good idea if your card is > 12gb.  I think that's only as big as ClockWork will format, and you'll find your SD card is smaller if it was originally greater than that.



That aside, can anyone who has wireless connections working point me in the right direction?  Whenever I scan I get no results.

Thanks,
Zeb

[Michael_llewellyn]

I used wpa_supplicant:

wpa_passphrase ESSID PASS >> mywireless.conf

replacing ESSID with your wireless name and PASS with your WPA password.
This creates file mywireless.conf

wpa_supllicant -i wlan0 -c mywireless.conf

Optionally add -B to run in background

dhclient wlan0

PS you might have to kill network-manager and of course this only works with WPA secured networks

[dragonmasterx]

anyone to post a ready image for us noobs   i would like to try it when my vega arrives

[Zebrahead]

Michael_llewellyn, on Mar 7 2011, 12:48, said:

I used wpa_supplicant:

wpa_passphrase ESSID PASS >> mywireless.conf

replacing ESSID with your wireless name and PASS with your WPA password.
This creates file mywireless.conf

wpa_supllicant -i wlan0 -c mywireless.conf

Optionally add -B to run in background

dhclient wlan0

PS you might have to kill network-manager and of course this only works with WPA secured networks

Hey, thanks ^^

I found a site which had some instructions on them and they worked ^^

will post them here if i get chance later on!

sent from my vega running ubuntu ;D

Zeb ^^

[Zebrahead]

dragonmasterx, on Mar 7 2011, 12:50, said:

anyone to post a ready image for us noobs   i would like to try it when my vega arrives

OP did.

you can find it in the first post.  although it's not something you can just flash with CWM^^

Zeb

[vgrade]

Nice work guys , good to see progress on ubuntu



Meego running also.

vgrade

[hybr1d]

Ubuntu does manage to boot/run okay now - it is just rather slow to load X due to delays in udevd (it is forking a large number of threads and taking a long time to parse the various rules.d files)
If you give it time it will get there eventually
Wifi is working better now (you can use network-manager to handle connections like normal) and performance is slightly improved
I'll upload an updated root image soon.

[hybr1d]

hybr1d, on Mar 9 2011, 13:44, said:

Ubuntu does manage to boot/run okay now - it is just rather slow to load X due to delays in udevd (it is forking a large number of threads and taking a long time to parse the various rules.d files)
If you give it time it will get there eventually
Wifi is working better now (you can use network-manager to handle connections like normal) and performance is slightly improved
I'll upload an updated root image soon.

Updated root image now up at http://www.adebenham.com/vega

[Michael_llewellyn]

hybr1d, on Mar 9 2011, 04:18, said:

Updated root image now up at http://www.adebenham.com/vega

Thanks

Any changes to your kernel or just rootfs?

I've also been having some fun with slackware and debian tarballs.  Gonna need a bigger SD card

Oo which reminds me - is it possible to boot off usb?

[hybr1d]

Michael_llewellyn, on Mar 9 2011, 22:11, said:

Thanks

Any changes to your kernel or just rootfs?

I've also been having some fun with slackware and debian tarballs.  Gonna need a bigger SD card

Oo which reminds me - is it possible to boot off usb?

Small changes to kernel (updated wifi module) but mostly it is updates to the rootfs.

And yes, you could boot off USB, you would just need to re-create the boot image with the new device path, and edit /etc/fstab to point to the right device as well.

[unwowed]

Thanks for all the hard work, guys.
I followed the simple version of the guide in the first post and got this:

After the
[ 13.653349] AR6000 Reg Code = 0x60
the booting stops, and the following message is being repeated every two minutes:

INFO: task cpufreq-dvfsd:38 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
cpufreq-dvfsd D c04a747c 0 38 2 0x00000000
Backtrace:
Function entered at [<c04a716c>] from [<c00c288c>]
Function entered at [<c00c281c>] from [<c00af3ac>]
r6:00000000 r5:00000000 r4:00000000

after 15 or so minutes it finally loads into the desktop environment and runs extremely slowly. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[vgrade]

Hi Mate,

Did you do something special to get touch working.

I can see touch events coming through when I do xinput -test and pointer moves but always to 0,0.

It seems the touch point is coming through in a[5], a[6] elements

Thanks

vgrade

hybr1d, on Mar 9 2011, 03:44, said:

Ubuntu does manage to boot/run okay now - it is just rather slow to load X due to delays in udevd (it is forking a large number of threads and taking a long time to parse the various rules.d files)
If you give it time it will get there eventually
Wifi is working better now (you can use network-manager to handle connections like normal) and performance is slightly improved
I'll upload an updated root image soon.

[hybr1d]

vgrade, on Mar 11 2011, 09:24, said:

Hi Mate,

Did you do something special to get touch working.

I can see touch events coming through when I do xinput -test and pointer moves but always to 0,0.

It seems the touch point is coming through in a[5], a[6] elements

Thanks

vgrade

This was fixed up in later X-server releases (so breaks when I try to move back to 1.6 )

[hybr1d]

unwowed, on Mar 11 2011, 00:35, said:

Thanks for all the hard work, guys.
I followed the simple version of the guide in the first post and got this:

After the
[ 13.653349] AR6000 Reg Code = 0x60
the booting stops, and the following message is being repeated every two minutes:

INFO: task cpufreq-dvfsd:38 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
cpufreq-dvfsd D c04a747c 0 38 2 0x00000000
Backtrace:
Function entered at [<c04a716c>] from [<c00c288c>]
Function entered at [<c00c281c>] from [<c00af3ac>]
r6:00000000 r5:00000000 r4:00000000

after 15 or so minutes it finally loads into the desktop environment and runs extremely slowly. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Are you using the most recent version of my rootfs?
There was a problem with rsyslog that needed fixing and was only fixed a day or so ago.
The slow bootis mostly due to slow IO to the root device - you may get better performance from a higher speed microSD card (I'm using a class 10 one)

[vgrade]

I'm on latest Xorg 1.9.

Do you have a link to the fix.

hybr1d, on Mar 10 2011, 23:47, said:

This was fixed up in later X-server releases (so breaks when I try to move back to 1.6 )