Yesterday evening I overheard someone mentioning that some people had success getting MeeGo UX working on x86 hardware with an GMA500 GPU. As I know that the Archos 9 is using that graphics chipset too I mentioned this to Bubu, our long time team member who owns an A9.
Well turns out it was really really easy for him! (Mainly because he’s spent lots of time making Linux distributions work on the A9)
Today he comes up and says he’s got an working image! Oh and there are pictures of course:
MeeGo home screen
He’s created an MeeGo section in our repositories put an working kickstart file in our repository for you to try. The necessary command line is in his one line build script to automate the process of building an iso file. You can then use this to prepare an bootable USB stick
If you’re running Ubuntu 10.04 on your PC you can even use his other script to automate the process of installing mic2.
If you’d just like to stay up to date with all those files just check them out of svn and run an svn update from time to time:
svn co http://svn.openaos.org/svn/openaos/trunk/meego openaos-meego
Bubu extends his thanks to Stskeeps and vgrade from the MeeGo project for their help.
If you want to get all out fancy and not only boot from USB but install MeeGo permanently on your A9 then I’ve been told that this is also possible. The only problem currently is that you need to update /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf with the proper kernel command line for the touchscreen to work properly. (looking at the kickstart file that should be appending ‘quiet mem=980mb i8042.nomux=1′ to the cmdline)
PS: WiFi is not yet working but Bubu is working on it. WiFi is now working!
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- application screen
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- MeeGo home screen
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- media player
[...] gars de chez OpenaOS sont parvenus à installer et faire fonctionner MeeGo sur une tablette Archos 9. L’idée leur [...]
[...] Pour plus d’infos: http://www.openaos.org/archives/508 [...]
[...] OpenAOS went ahead and installed MeeGo on an Archos 9 tablet, which originally shipped with Windows installed. The tablet has an Intel Atom Z515 CPU and integrated GMA 500 graphics. It’s actually pretty netbook-like. The main difference is there’s no keyboard, just a touchscreen display. [...]
Hi and thx for this tuto.
It seems that old meego repositories have moved .
http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/trunk/1.0.80.12.20100727.1/core/repos/ia32/packages
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http://archive.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/1.0.80/1.0.80.12.20100727.1/core/repos/ia32/packages
I’ll try the kickstart file with these repo configurations.
To get the emgd-kernel http://vgrade.co.uk/ is not reachable… do you know any mirror ?
Any kickstart file update available for the 1.1?
thanks
Any success? I tried this several times, but never got built a complete system for the archos 9. it seems like this
threat is dead and for some reason openAOS seems to deal with all archos versions except the archos 9.
I have no idea why.
I tried the torrent file which is mentioned below. it runs on my archos 9 buit seems to be a bit unstable.
If anybody is capable of updating the kickstart files, that would please many people, I guess. On the archos 9,
windows 7 is slow and also ubuntu seems not to be well reactive. I think the meego variant presented here would
be an optimal combination with archos 9.
This is not a forum, so this is not a thread.
The reason why is that the A9 is a completely different beast. If you want to pick up the work it should now again be possible to build for Atom based tablets with those unfortunate hardware combinations. c.f. the Joggler immages (coincidentially hosted by dm8tbr of openAOS). Talk to vgrade who is behind the joggler things. Luckily there are more open source drivers available now. Getting things going now would make even more sense that Tablet UX got released!
We’ll be happy to support those efforts as good as we can.
I understand this reasoning partly. I have no idea what a “joggler” is. I think people are waiting for the tablet UX since about a year now (following many posts in many forums). I tried the ISO that bubu did and it looked quite nice on the Archos 9. It was a bit unstable, crashed from time to time, but this probably could be fixed by system updates. I do not know if one can make updates from within meego (like in ubuntu). If the kickstart file would be based on a more stable version of meego, this problem is probably gone.
However, I played around with the kickstart files, but I never had success. Well, I am not ancomputer scientist and also not an engineer. Thus contacting soemone would probably not help as I do not have expertise in building operating systems. I am happy if I can use them.
My intention was to show that there is still interest in this meego-approach for an Archos 9 OS and, hopefully, soemone with experience can fix
the kickstart file in 30 minutes or so. And I think many people would love to see that. According to what I read from other (mostly ubuntu and jolicloud-related) threads many people are still looking for a fast linux-based OS for the Archos 9.
Let me mention that the android-x86 project, which I found on the web, might be another option to generate an alternative OS for the Archos 9, maybe even closer to the other openAOS versions. But I have no idea how to include the touch driver and the faster emgd / poulsbo drivers into such an android …
So finally, I think it is great work that is done here, I really hope that Archos 9 will become a member in the openAOS family once/soon.
bye, thomas.
[...] La version actuelle de MeeGo est toujours une version Beta et toutes les informations sont disponible sur ce site OpenAOS [...]
[...] La version actuelle de MeeGo est toujours une version Beta et toutes les informations sont disponible sur ce site OpenAOS [...]
installed syslinux 4.01, installed all the ubuntu dependencies (amd64 10.04), now i get this when i run build.sh:
Error: failed to create image : Unable to download from repo : failure: i586/mesa-emgd-libGL-1636-1.1.i586.rpm from emgd: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
wtf???
Bubu didn’t touch that kickstart file in a while. Very well possible that it started to bit-rott.
If you find a solution, please send a patch.
Couldn’t locate mesa-emgd-libGL-1636-1.1.i586.rpm anywhere on the net. Only five hits on Google for the filename, and only one of them is a repository – which doesn’t carry it anymore…
Jesus Christ, why do all the people that get Linux running on the Archos9 simply refuse to put up a simple ISO for download? Is that really too much to ask for? This guy is the same with his fully working Ubuntu 10.04 (btw: please tell your bubu to check that thread!
: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=27303&p=251027#p251027
there is this bittorrent I’ve heard…
Thanks for the pointer, just grabbing it now! ;-D
Also there is this certain issue with intellectual property. the GMA500 driver is closed source and proprietary. that makes it an inconvenient legal challenge.
Okay, i grabbed the torrent (meego-archos9-1.0.80.20100813.1322.iso), installed it to an USBstick via unetbootin and have booted it now on the Archos9. Meh.
What works: Touchscreen (eGalax driver), Wifi, Bluetooth, webcam (quiteslow to update though), touchscreen, Poulsbo-3D (Neverball seems to work with barely playable fps, and that has OpenGL, glxgears gives me 133fps, glxino lists powervr sgx535 as renderer string explicitly)
What doesn’t work: audio and ethernet (at least my Netgear USB-NIC, it seems to work fine but doesn’t load any data when you open the browser, i had this weird behaviour in some versions of Linux before, too, so it’s prolly not a Meego issue!)
There’s a screen keyboard (matchbox) in accessories, but it’s barely usable, doesn’t hide or stay on top and can only be quit by killing the process. The whole UI is clearly not optimized for touchscreen usage (drag-scrolling etc. no worky!), it”s definately targetted for netbooks, The most annioying bit is that X crashes every now and then and the crashes get more frequent every time it restarts itself after crash.
No dice on VAAPI, vainfo gives me this:
va_getdrivername returns 0
trying to open /var/lib/dri/emgd_drv_video.so
Intel(R) Embedded Media and Graphics Driver 1.5 Build 1636 (aha, so THAT’s the missing RPM!)
Segmentation Fault
So i get further with vaapi than I ever did in Ubuntu, but there’s that segfault… Can’t actually test it since there is no mediaplayer installed and i dunno where to get one from
When i try to update the system or call the software catalog from the system utilitys menu, it crashes instantly
Oh, and it can’t mount EXT4 (such as the ubuntu 10.04 on the internal drive). wtf?
Nice idea
[...] guys at OpenAOS have managed to get MeeGo for netbooks running on an Archos 9 [...]
That’s great! Windows 7 is not the best operating system for Archos 9. Jolicloud 1.0 has too much limitation. I think I would take a try of Meego.
[...] o quê? Parece que a versão do netbook do software funciona muito bem em tabletes de hoje. OpenAOS fui em frente e instalado em um Meego 9 Archos tablet , que originalmente vem com o Windows [...]
Amazing work!
Will be trying it later in the evening for my A9.
[...] Via OpenAOS [...]
There’s a contributed build: available through the pirate bay
[...] tourne sur l’Archos 9 L’équipe de OpenAOS a réussi de porter l’OS MeeGo sur l’Archos 9 ! Toutefois l’installation reste réservée aux [...]
[...] de OpenAOS a encore frappée et vient de porter l’OS MeeGo sur l’Archos 9 ! L’installation [...]
[...] erhältlich, aber noch immer das einzige Windows 7 Tablet hier in Deutschland. Ein paar Leute bei OpenAOS haben es nun geschafft MeeGo auf dem Archos 9 zu installieren – zur Erinnerung: MeeGo ist ein auf [...]
Hi all,
very amazing stuff! I have an Archos 9 and haven’t used it for while since win7 isn’t the best touchable OS ever.
Seeing that one of you succeeded in porting it to Archos 9, I want to try it out.
Do you have a tutorial of some sort that might help running it?
Thanks a lot guys!
PAB
[...] der offizielle Tablet-Release von MeeGo noch nicht draussen, dennoch gibt es nun eine inoffizielle OpenaOS.org, die MeeGo auf einem Archos 9 zum laufen brachten. Das 9-inch Tablet mit Intel Atom Silverthorne [...]
[...] tem uma UI para tablets que as pessoas não vão testar o Meego em tablets… como é o caso da experiência de instalar o Meego Netbook UI num Archos 9 Tablet. Verdade que a cobaia é quase um netbook sem [...]
[...] Computex it couldn’t be that long before we saw them in the wild. Some of the guys over at openaos.org have installed it on their Archos 9 unit and everything was working, except Wi-Fi which [...]
I’m curious its possible to get MeeGo working on the Archos 5IT?
MeeGo core, sure, that’s been working a while – http://www.openaos.org/archives/236
MeeGo HX aka handset experience isn’t that far yet – http://www.openaos.org/archives/407 – we’re currently waiting for the armv7l fixes to arrive in MeeGo repositories after that being broken for a while. If you want to help please pop by on IRC.
Thanks for the answer
(and all link). I will looking that 