efika mx smarttop

[WarheadsSE]

Agreed that the smartbook doesn't support the LCD at this time, but what about serial access, or netcat? (either way it's not going to be usable as a smartbook.)

Using deb's on Arch isn't impossible, just manual

[CPUnltd]

I'm sure that an AUR package could be built with the support necessary to cover the missing items until they can be officially supported within Arch and Genesi... At least I would hope so.

[WarheadsSE]

Should be possible indeed

[CPUnltd]

to be more specific, an AUR package COULD be made to allow an eula to be agreed to before downloading source and building the package for "proper use" of the device's video features (and can be placed on a remaster of Arch, if one is made, for the efika systems) with that disclaimer/popup on first login and/or setup within the AUR install process. I've seen such done in the past with the proprietary flash drivers, if I'm not mistaken.

[vbmithr]

What is possible is to get the .deb, extract their content, put the things in the right place for archlinux. And do AUR packages that do that. I think I’ll try, it’s worth trying.

[WarheadsSE]

That's the exact thing I was thinking, but he does have a point about the license.

[CPUnltd]

as long as the license part is taken care of (some form of y/n argument setup, maybe even a weblink to the actual license) in the "refined" form of the AUR package, there should be no backlash... releasing an AUR package without it may not be detrimental, as long as work is being put in to include some way to have the end user agree to something before the actual download/install happens... There may be some pkgs still floating around like that.

[asdil12]

I wrote a small tutorial and created an imx5-rootfs and boot-fs based on the omap-fs and the preinstalled ubuntu-kernel:

http://heidler.eu/blog/arch-efikamx

[CPUnltd]

I will be checking this out TODAY! Thanks for this! If I can get Arch installed on my Efika, I'll be buying more for my net cafe!!!


EDIT:
Is there a minimum SD card size required? Thought it would be good to know ahead of time... I'll be working on this, hopefully, in the next hour or so...

UPDATE:
I got the tarballs extracted on a 4GB SD card, but now I'm lost as to how I find out what hardware I'm working with to install the proper drivers for the GPU... I read that the SD slot can handle up to 16GB, but I intend on testing a 32GB in the near future and post back... but I'm looking to get a working desktop and start installing AUR packages so I can get back to posting which ones work for ARM... I'm not finding the info anywhere and I'm not exactly sure where to look online to get exact GPU info... can anyone shed some light on this?


UPDATE 2: 4GB is too small for this effort... I got as far as getting most of the x components installed along with network manager (and it's applet) and I filled up the 3.1GB I had access to on /. Going to drop in a 32GB that I have on hand and see how that plays out between today and tomorrow...

UPDATE 3: 32GB boots just fine when you follow the tutorial to the letter...

[asdil12]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CPUnltd', 'I') got the tarballs extracted on a 4GB SD card, but now I'm lost as to how I find out what hardware I'm working with to install the proper drivers for the GPU...