[Arm-netbook] Booting A10 Tablet from sdcard

[Tom Cubie]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Frank Zambrini <fzambrini at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 10:38:30 +0600
> Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.ru> wrote:
>
>> Oh and yes, AFAIK you must also have the .bin file that enables the
>> LCD output, i.e. if your .bin is targeted at the Mele A1000/A2000 or
>> the MK802 it may have the LCD configuration disabled.
>>
>> You can convert back and forth between .bin and human-readable .fex
>> format using the fexc tool from https://github.com/amery/sunxi-tools
>>
>> Here is some documentation for the varios settings in .fex:
>> http://www.henriknordstrom.net/code/A10/doc/Crane_Fex_Guide%20v0.4%20%EF%BC%88EN).pdf
>>
>
> Wow thanks for the info. That will make things a a lot easier to
> understand.
>
>
> I made some progress yesterday. I got my wireless network set up and
> used ssh to log in and install xorg. I still couldn't get the lcd to
> turn on so I dumped the original script.bin and the one from the debian
> image and compared them. I ended up changing a few lines and was able
> to get the lcd to turn on:
>
> screen0_output_type = 3 TO screen0_output_type = 1
> lcd_pwm_pol = 0 TO lcd_pwm_pol = 1
> tvout_used = 1 TO tvout_used = 0
>
> Now when I run startx, I get a console and a cursor :)
>
> I also enabled the touchscreen parameters in script.bin and loaded the
> ft5x_ts module. Unfortunately its still unresponsive. I will have to
> look through the source to see if I can figure out whats going on.
with the experience from other user, you need to disable the multi
touch in the touch screen driver.
>
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