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This page is to explain how to run Debian armel port on neo1973. These instructions are likely to work on FreeRunner, too.
All the steps below take approximately 2h depending on your internet connection. Most of the time your system will work on its own (apt-getting xfce4 takes a loong time..).
If you do not have the time feel free to download a ready to use tar archive of the results of everything described below. Just extract the contents to your sd card!
wget http://rabenfrost.net/debian/debian-armel-xfce.tar.bz2
Extract it directly to your sd card - have fun!
this kernel was build by Marcel_M and has some important patches in it such as removed sd debug symbols and build-in ext3 support.
wget http://rabenfrost.net/celtune/uImage-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r3-neo1973.bin ./dfu-util -d 0x1457:0x5119 -a kernel -R -D ./uImage-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r3-neo1973.bin
As there is no way to boot from sdhc with uboot directly I always copy my kernel to flash and let it boot my rootfs from sd but feel free to do it your way.
Do as proposed here: Booting_from_SD
debootstrap your rootfs on Debian or Ubuntu
debootstrap --verbose --arch armel --foreign sid ./armel-chroot http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/
if you don't have debootstrap on your system you can download the results here:
wget http://rabenfrost.net/debian/armel-chroot-first-stage.tar.gz
ssh to your neo and format your sd card appropriately. I'm using an 8GB sdhc card here.
umount /media/card mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card
copy the armel chroot to your device by tar'ing it to circumvent symbolic link cycles (https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059 <= WONTFIX)
tar -C ./armel-chroot/ -c . | ssh root@192.168.0.202 tar -C /media/card -xv
or if you downloaded the archive
cat armel-chroot-first-stage.tar.gz | ssh root@192.168.0.202 tar -C /media/card -xzvf
ssh to your device and execute the following commands (just copypaste everything below)
echo "nameserver 192.168.0.200" > /media/card/etc/resolv.conf echo "fic-gta01" > /media/card/etc/hostname echo "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost fic-gta01" > /media/card/etc/hosts echo -e "auto lo\n\ iface lo inet loopback\n\ auto usb0\n\ iface usb0 inet static\n\ address 192.168.0.202\n\ netmask 255.255.255.0\n\ network 192.168.0.0\n\ gateway 192.168.0.200\n\ up echo nameserver 192.168.0.200 >/etc/resolv.conf" > /media/card/etc/network/interfaces echo -e "rootfs / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 1\n\ proc /proc proc defaults 0 0\n\ tmpfs /etc/network/run tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0\n\ tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0\n\ tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0\n\ tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0\n\ tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0" > /media/card/etc/fstab
now chroot into your armel rootfs and finish the install
chroot /media/card /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
make sure your internal clock is set to the correct date because aptitude will complain if otherwise (does not work on the gta02 at the moment: "Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.")
hwclock --set --date="MM/DD/YY hh:mm:ss"
install openssh so you can login remotely
echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list aptitude update aptitude upgrade aptitude install openssh-server
install and configure locales
aptitude install locales dpkg-reconfigure locales
install udev to dynamically create /dev
aptitude install udev
set a root password
passwd
create a normal user
adduser <yournamehere>
now reboot and start your debian. you can login with ssh and start configuring xorg:
aptitude install xorg
configure /etc/X11/xorg.conf so that it looks like this:
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Driver "fbdev" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Configured Monitor" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Monitor "Configured Monitor" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection
start x in the first vt:
startx -- vt1
install the tslib driver:
aptitude install xserver-xorg-input-tslib
edit /etc/udev/udev.rules as the tslib device is hard-coded for now. search for the input devices section and make the first line look like this:
# input devices KERNEL=="event1", NAME="event0"
and edit the InputDevice section in your xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "tslib" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1" Option "Protocol" "Auto" EndSection
calibrate your touchscreen for gta01:
echo -67 36365 -2733100 -48253 -310 45219816 65536 > /etc/pointercal
calibration currently does not work for the gta02.
start x and enjoy!!
startx -- vt1
simple...
aptitude install gdm xfce4 xvkbd
configure gdm so xkvbd will allow you to put in your username and password. simply add this to the end of /etc/gdm/Init/Default before exit 0 so that the three last lines look like this:
fi sleep 20 && /usr/bin/xvkbd -xdm -compact -geometry 480x210+0+0 & exit 0
simply click on the focus button of xvkbd and then on the input box of gdm to input your username and password there.
on each boot gdm should start automatically now.
if you like you can also download a correctly sized debian wallpaper I generated from the svg source for 480x640:
wget http://rabenfrost.net/debian/debian-blueish-wallpaper-480x640.png -O /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background
aptitude clean
These are for sound (!!), bluetooth and usb foo. Use the modules archive that fits to your kernel.
wget http://rabenfrost.net/celtune/modules-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r3-neo1973.tgz tar -xf modules-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r3-neo1973.tgz -C / depmod -a echo -e "hci_usb\n\ hidp\n\ ohci-hcd\n\ rfcomm\n\ snd-mixer-oss\n\ snd-pcm-oss\n\ snd-soc-neo1973-wm8753" > /etc/modules
Now we turn our Debian into a jukebox!
aptitude install alsa-base wget http://rabenfrost.net/celtune/alsa_state_files-working.tar.gz tar -xf alsa_state_files-working.tar.gz -C /etc alsactl -f /etc/alsa_state_files-working/stereoout.state restore addgroup openmoko audio
I currently use mpd+sonata - let me know if you know another nice lightweight gtk player. Unfortunately RhythmBox is way too much for the Neo to handle - the MP3 playing stops after 20secs.
nezza prepared a nice guide for this here: Frogpad