yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
I think it has: http://packages.debian.org/sid/libreoffice
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rickatnight11:
Ah, that's right. LibreOffice is Java, so it doesn't need an ARM build. I stand corrected.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
And here I was thinking there were some parts that were done in C or C++. Apparently arm is the only build that does not depend on libreoffice-base, which depends on libc6. How the h**l did they do that? (Google is not being my friend today)

Anyway, learning something new every day :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eutherin:
tried this, but to no avail. Tried restaring again and injecting WiFi but it just hung on some error messages i already posted about...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielT3235:
Windows Flash Kit?

Ok, ive got them all together but i cant find the recovery.img and system.img to put inside the Asus Sync installation folder. Can you please direct me to these files? Where should they be?

Kind Regards
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cuckoopt:
thats the flash kit only, u will need to download the ubuntu.img, from the 1st (or 2nd, i dont know...) post... then u will need to download the rom u want (nvflash versions only!) or u can backup your current rom and then flash with that... Atm u have prime, revolver and revolution hd, but i think that prime is the only one who have a working version of nvflashd for download

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i remembered just now... lilstevie, i've a question for u... why this is taking so long... not that i'm on a rush... but... u know... its a lot of time without any updates... are u gonna wait for ubuntu 11.10 to be released? it looks quite nice... and most importantly it comes with an improved virtual keyboard... i think that ubuntu devs also thought about the tablets market... so.. what u have in mind?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
The delay is a combination of things, 1) setting up the buildbox, 2) Uni, 3) stability.

1 is nearly done, and should be ready any moment now,

3 is looking much better since the oneiric beta2 update,

2 is the most important thing at the moment, it is coming up to the end of the 2011 university year. I have 3 or 4 major assignment pieces due over the next 4 weeks, then exams. My career is far more important than this project.

There is also a fourth reason, but that is almost meeting its mends, I was set back a little bit by the HDD in my coding box/buildbox dying on me
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rickatnight11:
School comes first. You know we all appreciate your work, especially during what must be a very stressful time in your life. Let us know, if you need anything.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shuriku:
Dual boot linux windows kit

Hello all. I'm new at this so please give me your support a bit.

I need to flash my TF101 to dual boot with Ubuntu.

I've seen the instruction for windows

I've downloaded the flash kit, prime 2.0.1 and update to 2.0.2.

Now I've got:

boot.img recovery.img system.img ubuntu.img and flasher ready but I don’t know where to get bootloader.bin from. Where should I find it?

I’m impatience to start with it already.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cuckoopt:
thats right Daniel... u need the nvflash version... u can find the prime's one on prime post... it should be easy...

as i said earlier, u find the ubuntu.img on the 1st or 2nd post, all the other files must come with the nvflash version of the rom u want... there are 2 ways to get that, just look around for prime or revolver or revolution hd nvflash version, the CWM versions wont work... the other way u can simply backup your current rom and flash ubuntu with that (note that backup wont have the bootloader.bin)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eutherin:
I'm still not able to get my wifi to work again, are there any logs or anything that I could/should post to get some help? :confused:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] residentorca:
There are many others here who can advise you better but I can share my experience if it helps. I don't know if you said whether the wifi firmware injection was successful but you should check that first if you are unsure. It was only after numerous attempts that I finally got the WPA supplicant file configured properly for my router. Don't give up yet as you may get it figured out with more experimentation.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eutherin:
It's currently locking up mid go. :/ how do i know if its successful?

*assuming it doesnt lock up.

I also had it working 100%, i did the updates the update manager said to get, and now it won't work worth a dang, i cant get it to inject anything, firmware, wifi modules, custom kernel, flash custom kernel, etc.

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Could the update manager's security updates have biffed my wireless drivers or wrecked compatibility or anything?

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Got wifi to work, just continually spammed ifup wlan0=unsecure ad it eventually took lol.

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New problem, when attempting to install wine or flash player it doesnt show up in my instaleld software, it also doesnt show up in my history as being downloaded, or installed. :/
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
wine is not an emulator and will not work with this, this has been stated numerous times in the thread, but alas here we go again

flash player has also been explained a few times, there is no flash in the ubuntu repos for arm, only one on the AC100 wiki, but that requires acceleration.

In other, more exciting news, once I have a few moments to get myself together I will be merging in some changes made by VHDA, all give him some epic thanks, network manager working without u-boot and the new kernel are coming, just sit tight and it will be part of the package, I will also release 2 debs, one for flash-kernel and the other for the kernel package update
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
Flash and Wine aren't available / won't work on ARM. You need an alternative flash package, like gnash or lightspark.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielT3235:
Ok, ive managed to finally flash Ubuntu using the Windows Kit provided!, but i cant get the touch-pad or wifi to work, ive injected the firmware over and over again. What am i doing wrong?

Many Thanks =)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
Sorry to answer you like this, but could you please use the "Search this thread" tool, or at least read the last 10 pages?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielT3235:
I have matey, what do i do with all that code? Where do i input it? The Terminal? Ive seen all the code, but i dont know what to do with it =)

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Baically, where do i put this code? A file or console?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
Except that part that says "Edit /etc/network/interfaces", the remaining are commands to be executed in a text terminal.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shuriku:
Windows flash attempts

Daniel,

Could you, please, point me on bootloader.bin mentioned in instruction.

I can't find it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
Could you please check inside the flash kit included in the original post of this thread? I'm almost 100% sure it is included there...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shuriku:
No its not there. This is the point :(

Where is iiiit
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
Nope, it is quite clearly there

steven@Stevens:~/flashing# ls images/
bootloader.bin transformer.bct

That is the staging directory which I build the flash-kit out of.

Just to make sure I downloaded the pack from the webhost and extracted it on my mac;

lilstevies-iMac:linux-flash-kit lilstevie$ ls images/
bootloader.bin	transformer.bct

it is quite clearly there, open your eyes, it is probably right in front of you
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shuriku:
This is a linux kit, I'm going to use Windows flash.

A assume that I can use bootloader.bin from linux kit.

Right?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
...

give up, now, please

...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
Com'on... Giving up already!?

He didn't even reach the "vertical white stripe on the left of the screen" and the "can't connect to my wireless network" problems!

:p
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebadfrog:
I would recommend you pull up ebay and sell your tablet. You can't even be spoon fed information. I believe if lilstevie were to personally hold your hand and walk you through every step you would be unable to do it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shuriku:
Hey guys hold your horses,

I admit that these are my first steps, but why to be so rood.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rickatnight11:
The Windows vs. Linux flash kits refer the the OS on the system you are flashing FROM.

You are flashing Linux TO the Transformer, so you will need the same Transformer Linux files regardless of which kit you use.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
Yes, bootloader.bin is the same independently of what flash kit you are using.

Please search carefully within thread before posting more doubts, ok? It is very frustrating to answer everything over and over again... It is so frustrating that people might start making some jokes at your expense just to steam out the frustration! ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eutherin:
Will something like virtual box work, or qemu?

I'm trying to find something i can use linux for, it won't download the video or audio codecs, i cant get it to play flash videos, or java stuff...

is any of this support planned to be added, or is it a just because it can do it sort of project? :x
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielT3235:
Is it odd that my WiFi is working but my Touch pad isn't.. =/
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eutherin:
I'm in your same boat, i just use a USB mouse.

Will doing a revolver OTA update mess up the dualboot stuff?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
In theory qemu would work, but in practice it's too slow to be usable (unless you want to run DOS era programs).

Linux can do pretty much everything you mentioned, you just need to go the FOSS purist route since those ones will have ARM binaries. Music and video codecs are a non-problem (mplayer implements pretty much everything you need), but audio needs a kernel patch and video is worthless without hardware acceleration.

To get flash working, you can use gnash, lightspark, or the workaround proposed by littlestevie earlier in this thread. Java should work as well since it's designed not to be tied to a specific platform.

Honestly, you can't have tried very hard, if at all. Everything you have asked has already been answered. Before asking anything else please either read the thread or use the search function.

Nope, that's what you'd expect with the stock kernel. (disregard this if it's not a stock kernel)

There's a patch available for the touchpad, or you can just use a USB mouse like Eutherin suggested until the next version is released.

Probably. Best to do a nvflash backup before trying so you can easily undo it if necessary. (It won't be necessary to backup the UDA or UBT partitions since the update won't change them.)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielT3235:
Aha! Can you be so kind to point me into the direction of said patch? =)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delphiki:
Anyone (apart devs) already tried to compile the kernel from the sources available on github?

I tried both lilstevie & vhda sources, but can't get them to compile properly.

I'm using defconfig, and can't use make-kpkg as the kernel-package won't install (maybe because I did the updates via update manager?), so I'm using the good old make.

But each time I try, I got this error:

Any idea why the file (even the "mach" dir) is missing in includes directory?

Didn't compile anything on linux for years now, I may have done something wrong.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
It IS really slow! But I can also add that to install codecs in Ubuntu you just have to double click the movie and it will offer you the possibility to automatically install the required codecs. So, as long as you have an internet connection, the codecs are installed quite easily even without mplayer.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] konrad1337:
I have used vhda's source to compile just fine for the last few days after his last updates to it. After cloning the git repo, just had to run the following commands:

make ARCH=arm tf101_gnulinux_defconfig

make -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi-

Just make sure that the android toolchain is in your $PATH.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
Just adding that I've described how I compiled my kernel in this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17032473&postcount=401

BTW, if anyone is using Ubuntu Natty, gcc-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi is already available without needing to configure sources.list:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/gcc-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delphiki:
Ah, thank you both, it seems to compile just fine now! :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] konrad1337:
vhda, just was curious and still relatively new in the kernel compiling dept, what is the difference with your command versus the one i was using? Not familiar with the commands you used and just want to see if I should be doing something differently.

Also on another note, do you do all your compiling on another box or on the transformer itself?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eutherin:
It wont let me install "mplayer" It came with banshee which wont download anything for me.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
Let me start by saying that I also do not have much experience in all this cross-compile and kernel stuff. Do not take anything I say as the upmost truth. Keep that for lilstevie :)

There was nothing wrong with your command. The main difference is that the default config is setup to use another cross compiler that is readly available in Ubuntu's repositories and is, for this sole reason, easier to install. Also, because it is already defined within .config the make command is simpler.

There's also the ionice and nice prefixes to keep the compilation in a low priority so that you can still use the desktop/laptop for everything else ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] konrad1337:
Alright, that makes sense. Might have to alter my command to be a lot shorter than. Not sure if I will end up worrying about the priority stuff since all the compiling is ran on a dedicated "dev" VM I have running on my VM farm. Still, always nice to learn something new about linux that I didn't know before. Appreciate it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielT3235:
Where do i find the Kernel patches i keep reading about?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
You can get the full patched kernel from this link:

git://github.com/vhda/linux_kernel_TF101.git
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pielod:
Hi i'm trying to do a dual boot with ubuntu and android. I have got ubuntu.img, boot.img, system.img and recovery.img but i keep getting this error:

flash-linux-android.sh: 2: ./ubuntu/abootimg-unknown: not found
Nvflash started
rcm version 0X20001
System Information:
chip name: t20
chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 3
chip sku: 0x8
chip uid: 0x0280414741814557
macrovision: disabled
hdcp: enabled
sbk burned: true
dk burned: true
boot device: emmc
operating mode: 4
device config strap: 0
device config fuse: 0
sdram config strap: 0

sending file: ./images/transformer.bct
- 4080/4080 bytes sent
./images/transformer.bct sent successfully
odm data: 0x300d8011
downloading bootloader -- load address: 0x108000 entry point: 0x108000
sending file: ./images/bootloader.bin
| 976013/976013 bytes sent
./images/bootloader.bin sent successfully
waiting for bootloader to initialize
bootloader downloaded successfully
setting device: 2 3
creating partition: BCT
creating partition: PT
creating partition: EBT
creating partition: BAK
creating partition: GP1
creating partition: APP
creating partition: CAC
creating partition: MSC
creating partition: USP
creating partition: PER
creating partition: YTU
creating partition: UDA
creating partition: UBT
creating partition: SOS
creating partition: LNX
creating partition: GPT
Formatting partition 2 BCT please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 3 PT please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 4 EBT please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 7 BAK please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 8 GP1 please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 9 APP please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 10 CAC please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 11 MSC please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 12 USP please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 13 PER please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 14 YTU please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 15 UDA please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 16 UBT please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 5 SOS please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 6 LNX please wait.. done!
Formatting partition 17 GPT please wait.. done!
done!
sending file: ./images/bootloader.bin
| 976013/976013 bytes sent
./images/bootloader.bin sent successfully
sending file: ./images/system.img
/ 536870912/536870912 bytes sent
./images/system.img sent successfully
sending file: ./images/ubuntu.img
/ 4194304000/4194304000 bytes sent
./images/ubuntu.img sent successfully
file not found: linux.img
failed executing command 2147483647 NvError 0x4
command failure: create failed
rm: cannot remove `linux.img': No such file or directory

If there is any more information you need just ask me and i will try my best to give it to you.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielT3235:
Re-download the package and start again your missing the "linux.img" file =)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pielod:
Well i re downloaded the flash kit and ubuntu rootfs which are the 2 download links in this thread and still i'm getting the exact same error. Any other thoughts?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
When I try

sudo ifconfig eth0 down

to setup my wifi it says

Could not read interface eth0 flags: No such device.

Any help?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
edit the flash script and where it says abootimg-$(uname -i) replace it with abootimg-x86_64 if you are 64 bit or abootimg-i386 if 32bit
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielT3235:
I'm looking at software for my Ubuntu, which installation types will work? Linux

x86-64 deb or Linux Intel deb. What software is compatible guys?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pielod:
lilsteve that worked great. Many Thanks.:D
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
armel debs are the ones that are compatible
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
I am getting ready to push another update to the flashkit to correct that bug :p
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielT3235:
Where do your updates come from? By Push do you mean OTA? Or do we flash an updated Roofts?

Kind Regards
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
for OS updates they will come from a deb, but the update I am talking about is to the flashkit itself and you wont need to worry about it because you have already gotten past it
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
Sorry if this has been answered already, but I can't seem to find it.

How do we install the patched kernel? I've got it compiled (thanks for providing that source, vdha) but I'm not sure what to do with zImage. Thought it better to ask than run the risk of bricking my TF and having to reflash the entire thing.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
vdha's patches have been merged back into my tree now too :p but anyway what to do with the zImage is easy, look in the flashkit at the ubuntu/ folder

and how abootimg creates the bootimg,

the main thing you will need to do after booting the new kernel image you just created is to use adb to push the modules that compiled
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
I've already got the modules on the TF - I compiled it there and used modules_install. Ideally I'd like to do the entire thing there with dd so I'm not dependant on my desktop for updating it.

According to the .cfg file, linux.img is used for the LNX partition (#6). Which mmcblk0 partition does this correspond to?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
you can use 1 of 2 methods on the device, you can either make the bootimg with abootimg then dd it into place or you can specify the block device as the output for abootimg, the partition to write it to depends on which is the default boot.

it is either the very last partition on mmc (should be mmcblk0p10 or something like that) and second to last for secondary boot
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
That's odd, I've only got mmcblk0p0-8, as follows:

mmcblk0p1 -Android

mmcblk0p2 - ext3, contains CWM log files (513 MB)

mmcblk0p3 - unknown, 2.1 MB data

mmcblk0p4 - ext3, empty (513 MB)

mmcblk0p5 - unknown, 5.2 MB data

mmcblk0p6 - unknown, 524 KB data (possibly the partition table?)

mmcblk0p7 - Android (UDA?)

mmcblk0p8 - Ubuntu

Neither linux.img nor recovery.img is loop mountable, so I presume the corresponding partition shouldn't be either. At any rate, none of the unknown file systems has the same MD5 as linux.img or recovery.img.

Is there something I'm missing?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
the partitions will be visible but not mountable as they are block devices look at your flash config SOS and LNX should be up the very end of the config, everything between GP1 and GPT are visible as block devices
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
I guess that means:

mmcblk0p1 = APP

mmcblk0p2 = CAC

mmcblk0p3 = MSC

mmcblk0p4 = USP

mmcblk0p5 = PER

mmcblk0p6 = YTU

mmcblk0p7 = UDA

mmcblk0p8 = UBT

??? = SOS

??? = LNX

My flash config goes UBT, SOS, LNX, GPT, so they definitely should be there. I checked under Android and the ones in /dev/block only go up to mmcblk0p8 there too.

How significant are the id numbers in the flash config? SOS and LNX are #5 & #6 while GP1 is #8 - it's possible that it would be parsed before GP1 and hidden as a result. But those the ones used in your flashpack are the same, so that can't be it...

I found this in /var/log/syslog, don't know if it's relevant:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
That could have something to do with it, certainly is only showing up to UBT in the config
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruuuno:
I have installed Prime v1.9 and Ubuntu in dual boot..everything ok..

but..

in Prime I pressed power button and select Recovery option which take me to boot in Ubuntu..

but after that I can't boot anymore in Android Prime!!..every time the TF reboot in recovery partition starting Ubuntu!..

I tried also to full turn off the TF by pressing the power button for over 20 seconds..but it doesn't do the trick..

any ideas on how to boot in android again?

anyone else had the same issue?