This dual-boot image includes Elvish 0.3 and Ubuntu 12.04.
The Ubuntu system is a minimal install with LXDE, Chromium web browser, and Wicd for network management.
Please download all four files into a folder; Then right click on the zip file and select extract.
The extracted file includes the firmware image. Follow the OP for installation instruction.
Don't forget to thank the Developer of this great release :unconscious:
Working:
Touch screen (no multi-touch)
USB devices (keyboard, mouse tested)
Wifi
Sound
Microphone
HDMI output (with script.bin mod) edit: HDMI sound does not
Probably other things
Not working:
Video acceleration (waiting for Mali xorg driver, even without this LXDE is quite usable and I am pleased with the performance)
Lxbattery monitor (always says low battery, haven't tried any others yet) Update: For now you can use this to check your battery status:
This is nice! I don't suppose that there is any chance it can run Libreoffice presentation for editing powerpoint slides, is there? I mean this is probably not the full desktop ubuntu, but the mobile version of ubuntu, isn't it?
It would be really great if it can handle Libreoffice suites, especially its powerpoint (presentation)!
Hope to be pleasantly surprised! Then no need to bring notebook pc outside the home anymore.
Great and pleasantly surprised that this is the full ubuntu. Will Libreoffice impress run ..edit slides? Amazing! I never imagined that the arm based processor can run the full ubuntu. This is good news.
This looks really good. But I'm wondering if there are plans to support Ubuntu 12.04 that came out this week -- a supported variant called Kubuntu Active is explicitly designed to be tablet friendly.
CWM is installed as part of Elvish 0.3, but the only way to boot into it is with reboot-recovery.sh since Ubuntu takes over the Recovery key.
It's probably not very useful on this dual-boot ROM anyway, I kind of broke it by changing the partition layout.
There are some tricks I did (they only seem to work on 0.1 tho).
For the onscreen keyboard try Onboard (sudo apt-get install onboard), it's a bit laggy but useable. (doesn't seem to work on v0.2)
For the login screen you just need to enable auto-login. (Again, couldn't get it to work on 0.2 even with the autologin account specified as ubuntu)
Open up /etc/lxdm/default.conf and up top where it says autologin=dgod change it to autologin=root and remove the # before that line.
This way LXDM will automatically log you in, so you won't need a keyboard to log in
Installing programs via ssh is the best way for me, since I don't have any extra USB keyboards.
I am thinking of buying that keyboard case posted in the OP though.
What about using a external virtual image for the system data?, those could be bigger then 1gb atleast. like you are able to on usb installations of ubuntu, that would make it poossible to let the kernel mount extsd and load then the image
I was able to move where the /usr(where programs are stored) directory mounted, i mounted it to the external SD on a loop file, the only issue is i can not get it to persist through boot fstab seems unable to be changed.
How to give ubuntu more space using external sdcard:
in this example i am giving more space to /usr which is where all user apps are installed
1. run command blkid the only one with mmcblk0p* copy the uuid and put it in the stared code add this line
and reboot this will make linux mount the sdcard and not do it automatically which is too slow for mounting the loop file
2. create the loop file by using command
Okay, I successfully installed the Elfbuntu ROM, but when I get to the login screen and click "More ...", the username/password combo of "ubuntu" and "ubuntu" do absolutely nothing. No error message or anything helpful like that, just puts me back on the login screen.
Any ideas? Should I just install the Elfbunutu ROM again and see if that works?
Thanks in advance!
-Jim
EDIT: Just on a lark, I tried user: "root" and pass: "ubuntu", and it logged right on.
Hello, I just flashed the ROM, For the ICS the menu and home button are not configured to be Volume up and Down, the second issue is the internal SDcard mounted as external ( I used aurora rom before it was mounted as internal), as for ubunut i havent tried it yet, but is it possible to install on screen keyboard that allows us to write the login info, Thanks for your effort.
I put my SD card in a computer running Linux Mint 13, and used GParted to create an 8GB ext4 partition, and left the rest as fat32. What would be the quickest route, using your method, to simply move /usr to that 8GB partition, as I would obviously skip some steps, and probably have to modify others?
hmm, i'll test the exact way ubuntu handle this, however going on the assumption that ubuntu will auto mount the first and second partition automatically under /media/XXXXXXX , X being the uuid of each partition simply get the correct uuid from the 8GB partition and step 1 add line in the fstab should be
Code:
UUID=XXXXXXX /media/space ext4 rw 0 0
X being the UUID. save and reboot. skip step 2 and 3 and 4. step 5 you will be copying to sdcard or whatever you name the folder in media. this will be the next line you add on your fstab:
Code:
/media/space/usr /usr none bind 0 0
that should be it, I made some changes to my original post so make sure to check on the steps, these instructions are a little hectic, i'll try this out and post back with organized instructions like my original post once i try it out. but from my previous working on linux this should work
I installed Gnome and 'can' use the 'Onboard' keyboard.
It does not load at GDM/that login-screen though.
I could format 12 gigs of internal memory into two partitions for home and usr and mount them via fstab.
Now Elvish demands an explanation for the "broken" (EXT4 is not recognized) internal SD. Gotta reformat that I guess
Where can I get that HDMI-mod-script and can I play sound via the other port?
Any chance of this working on the Aurora? I mean aren't they identical internally and the difference is the screen type? (Sorry if it's different I don't currently have one yet)
I need help with the HDMI-mod for the script.bin
The battery of the Elf died on me and now I'm looking for a substitude use for the device.
How does one get the HDMI-output to work with Ubuntu 12.04? I'm not a professional HEX-dumper, any advice is welcomed.
Greetings,
Quacsokottl
edit:
I managed to use sun4i-tools and bin2fex/fex2bin to set the variables (in script.bin in the mounted filesystem /dev/nanda, with mount -t vfat /dev/nanda /sdcard) accordingly:
[disp_init]
screen1_output_type = 3
3 is hdmi
screen1_output_mode = 10
10 is 1080p
and my tv receives a signal. but ubuntu (xrandr, gui) does not recognize the screen.
help?
edit2:
The solution to using only the HDMI-output. had to set
disp_mode = 1
1 is just use screen 1. this means no screen 0 is used anymore
I have a 1080p output on my tv, but no output on the device. So my next question would be: how does one manage to have two screens working?
Apart from that. sweet! low power tv-computer.
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