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RE: Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel) - Artyom - 08-13-2016 (08-11-2016, 09:52 PM)Artyom Wrote:(08-11-2016, 01:34 PM)rallar8 Wrote:(08-11-2016, 10:22 AM)Artyom Wrote:(02-28-2016, 03:07 PM)longsleep Wrote: I also built a mimimal Ubuntu image combined with the the BSP Kernel and my image building gear. Similar to the Arch Image **this image is intended for developers. If you are looking for accelerated 2D/3D or video decoding use Android** and do not bother with trying this image.Hi. seems that image falls off the connection over an Ethernet network every 5 minutes. I use SSH and it breaks every 5 minutes .... Hi again/ I test latest debian distro downloaded from forum. It work greate over Ethernet. No disconnection. If i use ubuntu xenial distro downloaded from forum. There have disconnection over Ethernet every 5-7 minutes. I use same board Pine 64 1GB RAM. From this I can draw one conclusion, the problem of a new distribution. RE: Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel) - jkmooney - 10-01-2016 Hmmm, grabbed the latest (.102 kernel) and tried to boot on both a 1080 and a 720 display and, in both cases, it dropped me to a command prompt. I can log in, but I can't start the window manager. I guess I can try rolling back until I get a successful boot and see what happens... Hold up....just found out the Ubuntu image does not come with a desktop manager by default. I'll need to install MATE. That certainly explains why I couldn't start one (DOH!) ......trying again... RE: Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel) - polv89 - 10-10-2016 Hello, is possible to install cinnamon desktop or pine64 can't support it? thanks RE: Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel) - kflorek46 - 10-10-2016 (10-10-2016, 02:32 PM)polv89 Wrote: Hello, is possible to install cinnamon desktop or pine64 can't support it? Ubuntu has cinnamon as one of the desktops it supports, so you should be able to install it from ubuntu. There is nothing about cinnamon that I can see that would make it, or any other desktop, impossible to run, since you can run the mate desktop. That is not saying that I know for sure everything to install to make it work. If you know how to install cinnamon from an ubuntu command line on x86, the same thing should work. If you are not afraid of failing, you could try: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cinnamon sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment sudo apt-get install xorg and after a couple of hours, it should be done. You could google for instructions on converting an ubuntu server to a desktop for more ideas. If you mean cinnamon as supplied by the same people that supply mint, you would have to ask them, and I would think the answer would be no. Mate is thought to be a desktop that makes medium demands on the CPU and memory, and longsleep includes a script with this image to install it. RE: Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel) - jkmooney - 10-11-2016 I just tried cinnamon-desktop on my Debian install and it's performance was very poor. Cinnamon needs hardware acceleration. RE: Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel) - clarkss12 - 10-14-2016 Had to install this version of Ubuntu again, but installing mate desktop will not work. Getting this error >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: ubuntu-mate-core : Depends: libqt5libqgtk2 but it is not going to be installed ubuntu-mate-desktop : Depends: libqt5libqgtk2 but it is not going to be install Followed these instructions. http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=622. I have followed these instructions and have been running this Ubuntu for quite awhile. This is the third time I have done this and the other two times worked like a champ, but it has been awhile since the last time I had to re-install ubuntu. Any help will be appreciated. It was working great, but I killed it today trying to mount a folder from my NAS, but that is a different story. RE: Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel) - kflorek46 - 10-15-2016 Usually this would be a dependency conflict, where two programs or packages require the same package, except that the versions required conflict. Programs often consist of pieces some of which may be in other packages, which is called a dependency. These packages may in turn require other packages, and so on. It is difficult to have tens of thousands of packages available without having any of them conflict with any other. There are packages where all they do is create dependencies, and things like ubuntu-mate-desktop typically are that. That is how one package ends up needing 1000 other packages. But since you are installing Ubuntu from scratch, it is not likely that you have any packages installed that would create a conflict with ubuntu-mate-desktop. In addition, this same installing procedure is known to have worked on the same hardware. One possibility is that Ubuntu has made a change which has created a conflict. Another possibility is that the repositories are in the midst of being updated. A large amount of updating occurs when Ubuntu issues a newer version, which they did October 13, 2016. (I updated my regular computer to this version (16.10 or Yakkety), and it went fine (or just about.)) The repositories for ARM CPUs have to be entirely separated from Intel style CPUs, because the CPUs do not implement identical computer instructions. (Linux is implemented in computer languages that do not depend on base-level CPU instructions, and is then converted for different CPUs.) So it may be that some repositories are not completely updated or in sync. You could try sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libqt5libqgtk2 and see what happens. If it succeeds, then the script to install Mate may be able to go on. If not, then it may be this package is not present in the repositories. It may be that the Mate installation script ignores errors, and the data for the repositories has simply not been updated consistently, so trying the script again may work, if everything updates fully the next time. When I try updating with apt-get, I do get some 404 (= not found) errors every time, but I am not sure that it hasn't always been that way. Since I already have Mate installed on my Pine64, I cannot check to see if I get the same error you do, because it just says it is already installed. RE: Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel) - clarkss12 - 10-15-2016 (10-15-2016, 02:43 AM)kflorek46 Wrote: Usually this would be a dependency conflict, where two programs or packages require the same package, except that the versions required conflict.Thanks for your feed back. I tried twice, now I am going to install a different version. This is the one I am going to try now. Again, I am a Linux newbie, so I am learning. debian-mate-jessie-20160701-lenny.raposo-longsleep-pine64-8GB RE: Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel) - Pander - 10-16-2016 It is already possible (and safe) to switch over to Yakkety? My /etc/apt/source.list is now: Code: deb [arch=arm64] http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial main restricted universe multiverse I see that all, except longsleep's PPA, have a yakkety dist build. RE: Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel) - kflorek46 - 10-16-2016 Pander, You are liable to be the first one to try this. If you are afraid of failing, I would not try it. Switching package versions is not the only thing that converts one version of Ubuntu into the next. The recommended way of upgrading does not even always work for x86 CPUs. If I were going to try this, I would run the program that Ubuntu support recommends: update-manager I did this, and after it updated all packages, it checked for and found an upgrade (to Yakkety), just as Ubuntu support says. I canceled at this point, because I am not prepared to wreck my working Pine64 Xenial in an experiment. (I would do this with a backup version, if at all.) I think longsleep is going to stick with xenial because it is a longterm support version, and therefore so will I, so I will have one "known-working" system for Pine64. The reason I am not confident the upgrade will succeed is that there is no such thing as a standard ARM SOC system, as there is a standard ibm-pc system for Intel x86. It is a surprise to me that this very old kernel works with the much later xenial, because graphics is very much tied to what is in the linux kernel. |