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[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
If you need database software, mysql should work fine. Actually, I'm surprised that libreoffice database doesn't. It's FOSS, so unless it's relying on hw acceleration (unlikely for database software) it shouldn't have any problems...

And yes, editing the .cfg will change the partitioning used. There was a post a few pages back on how to do this, I'm not sure if it's been added to the wiki yet.

It's in the wiki.

BTW, @lilstevie, could you add a link for the wiki to the first post?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
Updated second post with download link to OLiFE Prime Edition.

@rdnetto not yet, I haven't looked at the wiki to look at it yet, and will update it once I look at it and update with some of the new stuff

EDIT: Wiki link is in the first post
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wareagleben:
Glad to see a new release. Now that OLiFE is released, what is next?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpeg725:
Bluetooth firmware

I tried injecting the firmware in ubuntu by copying it from the android partition.

I found I had three firmwares in my stock rom:

BCM4329B1_002.002.023.0797.0863.hcd

BCM4329B1_002.002.023.0797.0879.hcd

BCM4329B1_002.002.023.0797.0942.hcd

I tried inserting the third directly using the ubuntu terminal and it doesn't seem to work.

sudo cp /media/APP/etc/firmware/BCM4329B1_002.002.023.0797.0942.hcd /lib/firmware/BCM4329.hcd

Will try with the others.

Any ideas why I might have three, and why it wouldn't work?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmrmrmr:
I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 and can't isntall anything from "Software center"

is this normal ?

if that's normal, how do you install Lişbre Office ?

Btw, what is TEGRA PPA ?

Thx.

edit:

one last thing, about flash player.

I copied the libflashplayer.so to /home/user/.mozilla/plugins , but I still can't open youtube videos. (It says Flash player is required) any idea why ?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moseskim:
+1 on this issue, I also tried sending it to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins according to other sources and that didn't work as well.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
Apparently tegra ppa isnt ready yet but thats all good

you should be able to install from software centre i can but if not use terminal sudo apt-get install
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmrmrmr:
Thank you.

Software-Center does not download but apt-get works.

Why does software center fail ?

btw, in wiki I see "FM radio works provided Bluetooth is turned on. "

Does Transformer have FM radio chip ?

If yes, is there an app for that on Android ? (On Dell Streak I use "Spirit FM Radio" but that doesn't work on Transformer.)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moseskim:
It works OK for me, I'm downloading Libreoffice right now. I'm doing a fresh install of ubuntu dualboot.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
Could have been a bad flash ? There is no reason it shouldnt though but if sudo get-apt works then i guess its not a big issue

I think we do its the same chip for bluetooth wifi gps and fm one of those broadcom all in one chips someone was saying
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markthema3:
Wow. Just installed 1.2. This is getting WAY more polished. Can't wait to try and develop apps in Eclipse on the tablet itself.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
There is an FM radio but it may need some hacking up or a physical hw mod to get properly working, the "FM radio works" comment means we can turn it on, and communicate with it
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris1nielsen:
Problem

I have just downloaded the OLiFE prime thing and dualboot flashed with ubuntu as the default. and when i start my TF it loops at the ubuntu initiation script (Android boots fine). I've attached a pic of everything on the screen.

The First line says: 5.3604001:tegra2_init_sku_limits: Unknown sku clock avp.sclk

Note: I was using Ubuntu fine before with the old nvflash kit

and yes i checked the md5sum when i downloaded OLiFE (all was good).

So what do you guys think the problem is?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
can you make an md5sum of ./kernels/initrd-2.6.36.img
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris1nielsen:
Yeah here it is: 5cea297487f49bf8a1645bb69671417f

btw nice work on this.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
ok, so the md5 is correct, that just leaves the generation going wrong, the error that you are getting is caused by the initrd being corrupted. could you try update the ubuntu kernel from the update menu and try again :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris1nielsen:
Will do.

I just reflashed with android as primary and the initiation got up to resizing partitions but failed so i have just reflashed to Ubuntu as default and am trying that update.

thanks.

also ill have a look at your source and see what i can do to make a GUI for the kit (no promises for a while i've got exams and a thesis due soon) and that's if you want help, i'm sure your perfectly capable of doing it yourself.

---------- Post added at 01:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:06 PM ----------

Updated the Ubuntu kernel and no improvement. Next fix?

Thanks again.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
which kit did you download OLiFE.tar.gz or OLiFE-Prime-Edition.tar.gz?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris1nielsen:
prime edition
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
I just edited the .cfg files so buntu should have 18gb of space :)

Whats the absolute max i could have for ubuntu and still have android i was thinking around 24gb??
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
well as much as you would like I guess, UDA should not be smaller than 2GB though, otherwise you won't be able to install anything, the smaller UDA is the less space you have on /sdcard and /data though
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris1nielsen:
Just reflashed dualboot with android as primary and all is fine now (it failed last time because i had usb in. why does it work work when android is default and doesn't when ubuntu is default?

can someone else try to flash with ubuntu as default and see if it works or is this a case specific problem.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
On android it says i have 10gb available so i think it worked

I just booted ubuntu it resized ok fingers crossed i didnt stuff up anywhere

All set up :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpeg725:
I had exactly the same problem when I installed ubuntu as default.

My screenshot was as far as a rapid glance shows, pretty much the same.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
At the moment im installing the restricted extras and the banshee add-ons libre office installed without any troubles im testing all the programs at the moment if theres any that dont work ill post them up and try find alternatives that do.

Im surprised it didnt ask in the setup weather we want to install restricted extras or not.

Doesnt work so far:

Libreoffice database

Chromium (just shows blank page is loaded but no image)

Youtube but im going to try the flash fix now

Spell check in libreoffice is f**ked for no reason even spell check on browser is working so cant see why it isnt in office

Alternatives (searching)

Just a quick question would it be possible to install adb on this ? would be cool to work on my phone using my transformer
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wareagleben:
I am having trouble with my install. I checked and got correct md5sums, and have been using my Transformer on both OSes all day long, no problems. I clicked 'reboot' in Ubuntu, and it shut down and then rebooted, back into Ubuntu. I can not get my TF to boot into Android or stay off. Help?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
Boot holding vol down leave for five seconds press cancel erase data it will say cold booting linux and should take you to android
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wareagleben:
OMG Thank you! Although not a permanent fix, I can live with a few button presses a lot more than no Android at all!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
Your welcome

Also a handy tip if you need to change things and hate using sudo go to terminal then type sudo -i then sudo passwd root then you can sign in as root through other on the log in screen whenever you need to change bits :)

Hey guys im stuck on 2 things how do i fix spell check in libre office?

And to get flash working do i need to use the new kernel instead of default tried the fixes mentioned to no avail then saw it needs acceleration which is partial in the new kernel? And if i flashed default is it safe to change kernel and will the kernel work will i loose data or have to change rootfs or anything like that?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
it is because you did "reboot recovery" in android, "cat /dev/zero > /dev/mmcblk0p3" as a sudo user when in ubuntu
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
Lilstevie is it safe to swap the kernels ?

I flashed default but want flash seeings cnt get html5 thought the new kernel would do it :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wareagleben:
Now that I think about it, I did reboot into recovery from android. However I get a bash: permission denied, even as sudo when running that. Do I need to log in as root?

The Ubuntu install is miraculously not laggy! Much better than I expected.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoxploration:
Do we know for sure whether the appropriate antenna is included for FM radio? I am not up to speed on whether the physical spec for an FM antenna is close enough to the same as the antennas required for wifi, bluetooth, and GPS that are already in the TF that this could be shared, or whether the FM capabilities of the chipset rely on a dedicated FM antenna that Asus hasn't included.

Crying shame that the chipset offers the feature, but Asus hasn't enabled it in the stock TF.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
My feelings are that it does not have an antenna connected, and nor does it have the line in connected to the WM8903 audio codec, someone who wants to pull apart their TF and trace out the connections though would be able to tell us
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucJoe:
Does this new kit work in Linux only? Any way to flash with Windows?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] achanon:
Yep, I also had the same issue when using OLiFE-Prime, dual booting with Ubuntu set to default.

I haven't been able to test to see if it will boot ok with Android as the default OS yet - it's just flashing now.

*edit* Yup, works perfectly when Android is made the default OS.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
Ok, I am looking into it, it seems to be common that running ubuntu as default in dualboot is going wrong somewhere but the exact reverse is fine, I can't see why this would be happening, but it must be bootloader related, because they are identical just with kernels in a different slot, I will update as I find out more
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoxploration:
Thanks. Seems like there aren't many tecchie types too interested in this, so we may never get the answer, but here's hoping...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
IIRC, adb is an open source tool in the Android SDK, so you'd just need to recompile it for ARM.

Chromium needs hw acceleration to work.

This is horribly insecure - root login is disabled by default for a reason. If you just want to use the file manager as root, run 'gksudo nautilus'.

Flash does not need acceleration - I have it working on mine with the old kernel.

The kernel is distinct from the rootfs - usually only one or the other will be flashed. I'm not familiar with the new script, but if you want to be certain you can look at the source.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Digitaldreamer7:
Maybe i'm doing something wrong here, but, i tried the windows kit and I can't get it to boot into ubuntu. It installs fine, when I reboot it I can get to the confirm wipe or cancel if I do the vol up or down. It says "cold booting Linux" then boots prime. wipe doesn't do anything, if I power it on it goes right to prime. I'm probably doing something wrong.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucJoe:
Found it: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=18137064&postcount=894

Will try later tonight.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmrmrmr:
Ok; but I couldn't succeed. What is your method to make flash work ?

thx.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
Agreed i tried what was on the wiki adding the libs to the plugins and it didnt work ???? I even tried the flash 11 libs still nothing and those are not old or outdated like the ac100 ones ???

If its just the libs we need could i pull the latest libs off my netbook then push them to where there needed on the tf???

Also can now add that geany and qtcreator work great

Still searching for a good alternative to libreoffice database

And does anyone know where to get the source to recompile and get adb on here would be soooo good to fix the phone on the go with the tf instead of waiting till i get home.

Thanks again for all the great work so far :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Digitaldreamer7:
Yea that's what I used. I can't get it to boot ubuntu. I can confirm it flashed the bootloader because I get the linux cold boot etc thing. it just never boots linux.

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with this. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16363296&postcount=162. He references it when the steps talk about dual booting. I just don't quite understand it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwijnhov:
I need to run wine. But when i try to install it it says no packages available for installation. Any ideas on how to get it running?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppirate:
Wine can only run on x86 or x86_64 chips. The transformer has an arm chip. I'm not saying it is impossible (see x86 per qemu at http://wiki.winehq.org/ARM), but then you will need to roll your own.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Digitaldreamer7:
Flashed Ubuntu as primary, doesnt work, flashed android as primary and now I am stuck at configuring the system. Do you have to have a dock or can i open an on-screen keyboard when i do the initial set up?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
I just added the library to folder, like the wiki says. If flash isn't working, it's probably a configuration issue. I'll see if I can verify the issue after I do the upgrade.

Let me save you a lot of time: unless you want to run Win95 era apps under QEMU, it's going to be too slow. Your best bet is controlling a remote x86 desktop via VNC/RDP/etc.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
I added several different versions of the lib to the mozilla plugin folder none worked and when i tried upgrading to mozilla 8 to see if that would solve it they dont have an arm version downloadable at the moment. So im going to see if the source for mozilla 8 supports arm see if they have a tar.bz2 for the source then compile my own.

I agree remote is the best way to go untill windows 8 is released and someone hacks it for us.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jedi223:
First of all I must say great work!

Dualbooting Android and Ubuntu as we speak.

I was trying to get the ChromeOS kernel working (2.6.38). Used the one supplied in the newest flashkit and compiled my own from lilstevies git repo.

Neither one worked, somehow the kernel can't see any partion blocks.

It's complaining it can't find root and states that there is no such device as /dev/mmcblk0p8 (wich is my Ubuntu root partion). After that it just goes to a BusyBox promt. Did 'ls /dev' and didn't see any partitions (only mmcblk0 and mmcblk1(p1))

Somebody got an idea how to fix this?

I think it might has something to do with the gpt tables but .38 has support for that out of the box, right? (compiled source with tf101 defconfig)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
The more you customize it, the harder it's going to be to get to work. If 'apt-get install firefox' didn't work for you, then compiling from source is less likely to do so.

Yes, GPT was working on the previous kernel. Have you tried looking at the kernel arguments/parameters? I'm not familiar with the new flashkit, but IIRC the old one had a 'gpt' argument.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
I tried adding the beta ppa and updated so il see if that helps it should push any stable beta releases through so ill see how that goes it should automatically push through firefox 8 in the next couple weeks from what ive been reading so ill wait and if not ill do it frm source because atleast then i can make it on the system and debug it before installing :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jedi223:
GPT argument is in the kernel arguments. Going to look at it further tonight.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
This is what I was referring to here
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmrmrmr:
so, any updates about flash support ?

people who have flash can tell us how they got it ?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] absolutzero1906:
Hey guys I decided to give the dual boot thing a shot and I have a good idea of what is suppose to happen and how to do this is suppose to work, after reading quite a few posts. I ran into a problem when trying to run the initial script. I am using the OLiFE-Prime-Edition and when I type understood when I am suppose to it gives me this

I thought maybe something happened when I extracted and the file didn't make it in or something but menu.sh is definitely there it is spelled right in the script and from my little knowledge looks as though it should work. I elevated permissions already so that is not the issue. Anyone got any thoughts I have done a few searched in the thread and didn't see anything like this, but then again there are a butt load of pages to sift thru. If somone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdfuogh:
Is there some way to dual-boot without losing CWM?

By the way, a great finished product name would be Prometheus, bring us the light. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skad:
@abso > check the rules of the files "sudo chmod +x menu.sh"

Won't work on fat/ntfs file systeme. Unzip the dir in your home dir
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruuuno:
I've modified the instruction in the script:

from "./scripts/menu.sh"

to "sh ./scripts/menu.sh"

I don't know if it's the best solution but worked for me..
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppirate:
Seems like execution bit was not set on ./scripts/menu.sh. You can set the execution bit with the chmod command.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] absolutzero1906:
Thanks all I will give try it out aftr work.

EDIT: Worked thanks I didn't even think about the chmod stuff last night. O well off to try this out.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eLar19:
there is the possibility of hardware acceleration on ubuntu, and so to obtain better performance than on a netbook?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebadfrog:
Can this be set up I don't have to reboot to change OS. I would like a 1 click solution id possible
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jedi223:
Chroot Ubuntu anyone?

Anyway, I was fiddling a bit with different configs while building the CrOS-Hybrid source.

Dead-end for me, I just can't get it to detect the partitions blocks of mmcblk0.

Lilstevie, have you gotten further in that department (if so could you give me a nudge in the right direction) or is the .38 kernel still u-boot only?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebadfrog:
How do I install 1 click Chroot?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppirate:
No one click solution available at the moment.. but you can use the scripts at

https://github.com/ppareit/DebianInstaller
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebadfrog:
Thanks for the link but I need an easier solution. I don't understand.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
Go to the android market and download linux installer its the best for chroot it does it all for you all you need to do is set up the window and get vnc viewer but it details that to :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
Also on ubuntu the firefox we use doesnt support html5 does it?

I thought firefox 8 did but it doesnt look like theres a armel version yet and i really dont wana go from source just to work aroundthe flash issue
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
it isn't u-boot only but it is flash config dependant on MBR in the style u-boot has it set up, I am working on fixing it up so it detects the backup mbr the same way the asus kernel does :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebadfrog:
Please explain u-boot and MBR. I'm so confused
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
I think MBR is master boot record and u-boot is lilstevies current project that has alot of benefits but isnt exactly user friendly at this stage

Im trying to learn more about it aswell just google some of the terms they use and keep reading and reading and reading and maybe get a book on linux to thats what im doing.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebadfrog:
Wow.....Thx. I will wait for something easier then. Sorry about the n00bish questions.

Your my hero lilstevie. I wuv u almost as much as Roachy Poo
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GadgetViews:
so flash kit is only for llinux users and not windows?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
Yes, but it's still in development. I suggest waiting until the CrOS kernel is more usable.

If you want to run one OS within another, you can use chroot. Note that the performance with chroot is abysmal, and Android has an annoying tendency to kill the chroot process if you're using VNC.

If you just want an easier way to switch between OSs, you could write a script that flashes a blob to change the bootloaders, then reboots.

MBR = master boot record, one of the types of partition tables. Another one is GPT, which is newer and has some legacy support for MBR. The transformer uses GPT by default.

u-boot is a bootloader that loads the OS. I'm not sure how far along it is since I haven't used the new flashkit yet, but as I understand it, the idea was that we would be able to change the OS/kernel without having to flash a blob. There was also something about it being a prerequisite for the CrOS kernel, which has (experimental) hardware acceleration.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmrmrmr:
I still couldn't succeed in flash support on Ubuntu.

Any new ideas ?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkhdk:
Thanks for this release!

I installed OLiFE Prime last night (dual boot, android first), and the only two problems I ran into was that at first I had unpacked the files on a fat32 disk (not a good idea considering the permissions..) and that the "backup" dir should be called "backups" (easily changed though :)).

It's very satisfying to be poking around (literally) in Ubuntu on the Transformer, and still be able to get back to Android when needed (there are just some things that work better in Android and other things that are best done in Ubuntu).

Again, thanks for this, lilstevie!