Arch on tablet with Allwinner A10

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Arch on tablet with Allwinner A10

Postby Huczu » Sat Sep 15, 2012 1:25 pm

Hi.
I've got tablet Ainol Novo 7 Advanced. Inside: Allwinner A10(Cortex A8+GPU Mali-400) and 512 MB RAM and 4GB NAND.
1. Is it possible to run archlinux with working screen?
2. Need I some modification in this tutorial to run ?
3. Is it possible that will be work touchscreen ?
4. Need I external SD card ?


Sorry for my bad english, but I hope you will understand me ;- ).
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Re: Arch on tablet with Allwinner A10

Postby WarheadsSE » Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:20 pm

We need to update the kernel to add fbconsole, and you'd have to pre-configure it for X11 of any kind.
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Re: Arch on tablet with Allwinner A10

Postby Huczu » Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:21 pm

What is fbconsole?
Ok, I will try, but can someone anwser my all question?
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Re: Arch on tablet with Allwinner A10

Postby WarheadsSE » Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:42 pm

fbcon aka fbconsole = frame buffer console, console on display instead of a serial port.

A keyboard would still be needed, and uboot would not support fbcon
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