Forum: Alternatives
2013-04-22, 19:05
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
I fail to see how something being Debian based would give advantage over anything.
Situation with upstream kernel is complicated, there has been no-one interested in maintaining drivers etc for a...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-04-17, 16:41
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Views: 335,011
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-04-17, 15:09
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
Tested last update with
while true; do dmesg; done
in LXTerminal. With previous version it crashed X within 5 seconds. Now it works like a charm!
Actually, just in case I gave it more vram, but...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-04-15, 22:34
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
Just a quick update, SGX up and running with TI drm driver.
(II) pvr(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
(II) pvr(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: pvr
(II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps
(II)...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-04-14, 09:46
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
I'm busy and currently have very little time to put into this, if at all.
Some goals to achieve / ideas / todo:
Cleanup all PKGBUILDS etc and put them to github so my absence can be...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-04-09, 19:24
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
re Xorg issues..
It seems the same issue is present for raspi folk, and even someone using chromebook, there's an issue opened at archlinuxarm issue tracker for it. So, nothing to do but wait for...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-04-09, 18:01
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
My guess is that you are running maemo's kernel. You may try installing kernel-power-bootimg, as it supports ext4, and retry under kp.
Or use ext3 on the uSD.
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-04-08, 21:49
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
New repo is now functional.
$ cat /etc/pacman.d/alarm-n900
Server = http://alarm-n900.org/$repo
Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49989728/arch-n900/$repo
Also, I noticed that X crashes...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-04-01, 14:08
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
Yes, like I said. If someone wants to fix it, driver source is on my github repo.
Approx 20MB. I'll be moving it to new host asap, and after that anyone willing can keep a mirror IF he is...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-29, 15:42
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
Not on the microSD, no.
All the uboot menu items go in /etc/bootmenu.d/ on the phone itself.
Assuming you have extracted Arch to the ext2 parition, (I don't know if u-boot reads FAT?), I...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-29, 10:17
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
@AhmadMhd
You are missing the omapfb.vram kernel boot argument, so you don't have any memory assigned for fb1 and fb2. So, add omapfb.vram=0:3M,1:3M,2:3M to boot arguments and try SGX again,...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-29, 09:19
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
Not that good, life is rough.
Like I've said, I can't promise that SGX stuff would work. It should, but if it's not I probably can't help. I'll take a look at the log..
Touchscreen axes are...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-28, 13:07
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
Thanks....agree that 22GB is big....so, maybe I'll cut it in half and make another partition....
OK....
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-27, 22:37
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
It was the same issue I was having. No matter how much debugging or re-flashes of the kernel, re-installtion of uboot, or using SD card/emmc could fix it.
I've eventually got it to work by doing a...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-27, 22:25
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
There is something wrong if you need to do it like this, simply choosing a menu item should start the kernel.
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-27, 19:30
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
THANK YOU for your incredibly helpful post!
I think a lot more people will try installing Arch as a result of it.
Most grateful to you...
Will give it a go later today...
:)
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-26, 16:05
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-26, 12:13
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
I just had a chance to try this. I configured the default mountpoints in /etc/default/u-boot-update-bootmenu as follows:
BOOTMENU_FAT_DIR="/media/sd-mmcblk1p1"
BOOTMENU_CFG_DIR="/etc/bootmenu.d"...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-25, 18:08
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
I'm quite interested in trying this, especially seeing as you, Skry, and many others have put in a lot of effort, thanks a lot, since the last time I looked at this project a long time back.
I've...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-25, 16:21
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
@AhmadMhd
Uh, since I usually refer to how devices are named in reality, I understood you had everything on uSD-card, sorry. You see, Maemo swaps mmc device numbering around, so, change to...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-24, 17:40
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
You're welcome, it is amazing indeed. :)
Change${EXT_CARD}p1 -> ${EXT_CARD}p5
andinit=/bin /systemd -> init=/bin/systemd
and it should boot.
You don't need to copy uImage anywhere if you...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-23, 00:57
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
Ok, uboot-n900-tools in the repo. Changed behavior presented in here (https://github.com/archlinuxarm-n900/uboot-n900-tools/commits/master) for the interested. For the uninterested:
Add to fstab,...
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-22, 00:21
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
I grabbed Palis U-Boot scripts, made a few small changes to -update-bootmenu. Tested by adding kernel-power to menu from Arch, works. I'll upload package tomorrow.
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-20, 11:24
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
I upgraded last night. Not sure if related or not, but just had X crashing and then locking in sequence. X logs of the crash attached.
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Forum: Alternatives
2013-03-12, 18:22
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Replies: 635
Views: 335,011
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
Make sure you've enabled powervr.service and installed xf86-video-fbdev-sgx-git. Like I've stated before, it is very much experimental, at best, and in practice totally unsupported.
I do not...
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