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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settings screen
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application screen
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media player
