Ubuntu 12.10 on N900 with U-Boot
 

This is a follow-up of the Ubuntu 12.04 on N900 with U-Boot. Check it for instructions, I don't want to have them in two places. But I'd like to have a separate thread for the new version. I hope moderators don't mind :)

STATUS: Booted.
REVISION: modified the script while trying, started with 142 but applied manually everything from 144.
MICROSD: 16Gb class 6
BOOTLOADER: uboot-pr13
OPTIONS:
additional_packages:acpid i2c-tools wireless-tools ubuntu-minimal lubuntu-desktop lxdm e17 openssh-server chromium-browser ofono telepathy-ring empathy telepathy-mission-control-5 watchdog alsa-utils pulseaudio mc htop nano lshw file bsdmainutils rfkill powertop iotop localepurge lxde xorg iptables onboard man-db apt-utils
boot_parameters:root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait console=tty0 omapfb.vram=0:2M,1:2M,2:2M mtdoops.mtddev=2 nosplash elevator=noop panic=20
dist_upgrade:1
selected_firmware_source:local
selected_image_source:ubuntu-core-unstable
selected_kernel:custom
selected_target:/dev/sdd
selected_target_type:disk
target_partition_suffix_root:3
COMMENTS:
Had to purge blueman while trying to install lubuntu-desktop.

OOTB works:

• youtube.com/html5 - video + sound (slow, obviously);
• battery status;
• WiFi with network-manager.

Doesn't work:

• Connman. How should I make e17 see it?
• Unattended-upgrades crashing on every shutdown.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 on N900 with U-Boot
 

Nice one, I am eager to try E17 on the N900, but will wait for 12.10 to become released. ;)

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 on N900 with U-Boot
 

E17 (at least the touchscreen mode) has some very nice ideas but I don't like it yet. It has major drawbacks. Will try to write about them later. The main one is that it cannot see the connman. And it wastes much more of the screen space.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 on N900 with U-Boot
 

Compiz should work hopefully in this release with Gles, why not try unity?

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 on N900 with U-Boot
 

Are there any metapackage with dependencies list smaller than ubuntu-desktop?

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 on N900 with U-Boot
 

I'm trying to boot with pali's u-boot and run sdboot reads 64 bytes of uImage and quits with bad uImage or something, while the .item file throws a bad partition error. I tried both {EXT-PART}1 and 3.

Unrelated question: Is there a way to add unknown.obvious's kernel without doing everything from scratch?

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 on N900 with U-Boot
 

Which kernel do you use now? There is a "switch kernel" script but I didn't update it yet.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 on N900 with U-Boot
 

The nemo one, automatically from the script. Updated previous post with the script status report.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 on N900 with U-Boot
 

Thanks man wlan fix works on wheezy.

Try: "update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.37-n900" instead "update-initramfs -u"

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 on N900 with U-Boot
 

Yeah, thanks, I've found it but got fed up with the update-initramfs. It works fine without it and I don't want to hardcode the kernel version. Well, we could get it from /boot/* items. But it just made me angry.
But I'll add it if someone will make a patch :)