Not much more than the subject already says. I used the old meego-core image I had still around from gen7 and it happened to boot and show X11 + xterm.
It then quickly rebooted. Didn’t investigate yet if that’s due to a watchdog or something else.
Still wanted those who are waiting for things to happen in this direction to know.
Cheers
Thomas, dm8tbr
PS: Yes I’m calling that meego as it was some real MeeGo userspace, just the kernel is probably not fully MeeGo compliant.
Smoku went ahead and put his experience to it and made some wonderful things. Among others he backported the n900 SGX kernel glue to our beloved (not) 2.6.27.10 franken-kernel. Long story short: Here’s handset user experience running on an A5IT!
He’s collecting his notes on this project here: http://codex.xiaoka.com/wiki/meego:archos
A5IT with handset UX
Happy hack-mas from the openAOS team!
Latest news:
Obko got MeeGo Handset User Experience to start.
Here’s a quick photo:
MeeGo Handset User Experience on A5IT
It might still take a bit, the touchscreen needs to be fixed first. Does that sound familiar? 
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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!
