Hi Konstantinos, Thanks for your quick reply!
mar...@genesi-usa.com said: > Please check again > > http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2196 > > The image and the installer script *do* include 2D video drivers, just > not the binary 3D GLES drivers, for which I'm working on a separate > armhf repository which you'll be able to use -almost there just a It says there, right in the first post: "NOTE: No 2D/3D drivers have been included, as I'm in the process of converting these to multiarch and setting up the repository for easier download via apt-get. Stay tuned." Anyhow, this is the image that I downloaded and installed on my SD card. As I wrote in my original email, after putting the SD card in the left-side SD slot and powering on the machine I get three flashes from the CAPS LED which would appear to be U-boot starting up, then nothing. Can you please confirm whether or not the image "efikamx-armhf-20120226.img" is supposed to boot out of the box on the Smartbook? > couple of packages missing. This installer script is a stop-gap until > we get proper mainline support for the Efika displays so that you can > install Debian armhf right out of the box on your system using plain > Debian Installer (hint: we have 2D working on the Smarttop right now > on 3.2.x, we'll make sure Smartbooks work as well before we release > the display patches. I understand that there would be work and time required to get display drivers into the mainline; that's fine. But presumably at least the pre-built image above can actually be used to boot a Smartbook today? As for the installer script, I only need that if I want to rebuild/customize your image from scratch, right? > As a matter of fact I am running Debian armhf on my 2 Smartbooks and 8 > Smarttops (DISCLAIMER: I work for Genesi). > In fact I had to as the Efikas were the first machines running armhf > almost 2 years ago :) > > FWIW, I'm doing most (~90%) of my actual daily usage on the efikas, > and only use my PC when I need to do some long compiles. I think > you'll be pleasantly surprised by what you can do with the system, > provided you know what you can expect from the hardware and dont' > start comparing it to a typical PC. Sounds good -- I got it precisely as an experiment to have a small cheap netbook around to take on trips. If I'm happy with it, the other thing I'm thinking of doing is building a custom installation for my Mum, with some kind of dead simple "Connect to network, read my email, browse the web" type UI. And sure, I definitely don't expect an 800Mhz ARM to do what a modern normal PC can do. I do most of my dev work on a 8 year-old Panasonic W4 (1Ghz P-M, 1GB RAM). Would love to replace that but means paying $$$$ and ordering from Japan, so not right now. > Hope I have been of help, but don't hesitate to ask me anything reg. > armhf on the Efikas. Yes, thanks, you've certainly reassured me -- apologies if my original post was somewhat ranty, I just had the feeling I had purchased another random embedded thingy with two-year old software on it I could do nothing about :-) Cheers, Martin -- Martin Lucina http://lucina.net/ (interwebs/blogs/rants/consulting) mar...@lucina.net (smtp/xmpp/jabber/gtalk) @matolucina (twitter) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120324205050.gc29...@nodbug.moloch.sk