you know the drill… (see previous posts on this topic!)
A43 UART, picture courtesy AV500
Again thanks to AV500 for the picture!
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Archos 43 IT UART pads
Friday, June 24th, 2011Gingerbread CM now for Archos – Proof of concept
Friday, June 24th, 2011Bubu sat down and made Cyanogenmod Gingerbread Android 2.3 working in his spare time. This is a proof of concept so don’t expect too much.
Currently working:
- SGX/EGL 3D acceleration
- WiFi
- Touchscreen
- adb
- Android Market
Not working:
- Audio
- Bluetooth
- Accelerometer
- accelerated Video decoding
- Suspend
- TS calibration on A28/A32/A43
Known problems:
- general instability / random crashes
- Touchscreen has problems on the A101
- hard to use on resistive TS models due to missing calibration
We’re looking for help to take this further. As this can’t be done by one person alone.
If you want to try it. It currently works on gen8 with latest openAOS boot menu:
http://download.openaos.org/bubu/gen8/android/openaos-gingerbread-poc_2011062301.img.gz
http://download.openaos.org/bubu/gen8/android/openaos-gingerbread-poc_2011062301.img.gz.md5sum
You need to gunzip and copy it into the root directory of your device, then add it to your menu.lst.
Sources are here:
https://gitorious.org/openaos-cyanogenmod
(Currently this is only vendor/archos/gen8 and device/archos/gen8, so you need to first “clone” the master branch of CyanogenMod)
Join us on IRC if you want to have a chat about it. This also has potential for the A5IT/A48IT but it needs volunteers that will help to make that happen.
Boot-menu for gen8 – preview
Friday, June 10th, 2011BuBu was hard at work for the last few weeks and now we have something working to show.
We’ve added gen8 support to our boot-menu. It looks and feels almost the same like on gen6 and gen7.
UPDATE: HowTo here: http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/SettingUpMultiRootGen8
Sources are here:
http://gitorious.org/archos-buildroots/gen8-kernel
http://gitorious.org/archos-buildroots/gen8
Those are our patched versions of the Archos official git.
And here are binaries:
http://download.openaos.org/bubu/gen8/
Currently known issues:
- No TS support on A70S, A70H, A101 inside the boot-menu
- TS support in boot-menu removed also from other models due to problems
- currently some problems with cdc-acm debugging, work in progress
- Vol+/- is reversed on A101
Pictures:
Disclaimer:
If it screws up your device, don’t come whining, you’ve been warned. If something doesn’t work, just reinstall original firmware or SDE.
Debian with lxde desktop on archos gen8
Monday, May 23rd, 2011With thanks to the post from katleastudio on xda to get me started, I created a debian lxde rootfs.img that works with the angstrom kernel from SDE. I documented the steps which can be found in the wiki entry Debian gen8 . There is also a download available for the rootfs.
Note: I tested this on an A101IT , but it should also work on other gen8 devices. For devices with resistive touchscreen it will need an additional calibration tool.
Things that work on Debian:
- Wifi
- Sound
- Video playback (no acceleration yet)
- Battery monitor
- Package manager
There is however still a lot to do like getting dsp, sgx , usb ports, bluetooth etc. It is just a nice image to play around with and get to know more about linux and your archos.
Below are some screenshots.
Enjoy and if you have any questions about the guide irc is the place to be.
divx118
UART also for Archos101 (gen8)
Monday, March 21st, 2011
UART pads for the A101, picture courtesy av500
TX is green
RX is blue
Ground is wherever you find it 