[Arm-netbook] microSD breakout board, suitable for debugging using tablets.

[lkcl luke]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:09 PM, "Sztupák Sz. Zsolt" <mail at sztupy.hu> wrote:
> Tried getting ubuntu running too. Here is my setup:
> - the external sd contains an ubuntu. I used the build that was made for
> the Eee Transformer
> - bootfs contains a small android init setup, that starts adbd, mounts
> the external sd, chroots inside it, and starts ubuntu's init (modified
> it a bit, so it won't complain about running in a chroot)
>
> Xorg doesn't work for me either, I get a restart if I try to use it,
> without anything useful inside /proc/kmsg. The framebuffer does work
> however as for you, I can cat /dev/random to it and get all kinds of
> junk on the screen. fbset also works, here is the output of it, it might
> be useful:
>
> root at localhost:/etc/X11# fbset -i
>
> mode "800x480-60"
>     # D: 33.000 MHz, H: 31.280 kHz, V: 59.580 Hz
>     geometry 800 480 800 960 32
>     timings 30303 214 40 33 11 1 1
>     rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24
> endmode
>
> Frame buffer device information:
>     Name        :
>     Address     : 0x5a001000
>     Size        : 3072000

 ok that's only 800 x 480 x 8 ...

> Is there a simple app (preferably pre-compiled for arm debian or ubuntu)
> that uses the framebuffer?

 anything that uses svgalib.  apt-get rdepends will tell you a massive list.

 if you were using openembedded you could build XF86 revision 3 which
is only about a 400k binary.

 l.