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[Asus Transformer TF700] tnjfitzy:
I have to reflash lubuntu.. I forgot to do the lightdm code and now it won't boot. I tried the one from the OP in android terminal and still nothing..

I select 1 to boot linux then 2 with is my second rootfs.img and then asks which kernel I have tried both and still nothing.

I will try v6.7 installer again as well and post what it says

Thank you
[Asus Transformer TF700] tnjfitzy:
Soo. I downloaded installerv6.7 again. I tried it and it worked fine. Maybe the other one was corrupt.

I am flashing lubuntu again..

I will keep updates of any errors I come across any.

Thanks all.
[Asus Transformer TF700] joechorn:
I'm not really shure if I've understood this right: does the multiboot blob replace my current twrp?
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Nope, Linux and Android share the same kernel, thats located on the LNX partition (normal kernel partition). The SOS partition (recovery) isnt touched.
[Asus Transformer TF700] joechorn:
Okay, good! thx

atm, is there any real difference between the blobs and the inestaller? because I tried out both and coundnˋt recognise any difference?
[Asus Transformer TF700] wpbear:
Installed with 6.7 and no Bluetooth in android. It wont turn on Bluetooth.
[Asus Transformer TF700] parwathy:
Damn, now I know why my bluetooth won't turn on. I thought this was related to the google account sync.

So I guess I can confirm this.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Goto post no. 3 in the dev thread the hundsbuah blob has fixed bluetooth
[Asus Transformer TF700] parwathy:
Nice! thanks a lot for the heads up.
[Asus Transformer TF700] PesSarmiento:
Thank you so much for this. Great job. :good:
[Asus Transformer TF700] Alexander_rekaX:
Lubuntu rootfs isn't working with rabits 4.1 installer :c

Just freezes on login screen

But it's really worth to downgrade to 4.1 for his work
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Never tested on 4.1... You can use the 12.10 and do a dist upgrade. I'll look for my script to remove the bloat and install lubuntu...
[Asus Transformer TF700] AJM-hackers:
lubuntu over Ubuntu

I currently have Ubuntu on my tablet but would like to switch to lubuntu. What is the process of doing so? Do I just wipe data and repeat with the installer? My suggestion fot lowering the size is to to debloat the distro by removing the DVD maker, contacts, bittorent and the 7 different image viewers and also removing taxing browsers such as chromium and Firefox in favour of arora
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Nope, just re-use the installer. It will rename you current rootfs with a .bak, and install the new one. Untick the option to replace /home.

AFAIK Chromium is the only browser with opengl es, hardware acceleration.
[Asus Transformer TF700] AJM-hackers:
Im pretty sure that Arora does I remember it being in the settings, try it out it uses less ram too, and its fast, rekonq is good too. Also another tip is to use bleachbit in order to clean up junk
[Asus Transformer TF700] AJM-hackers:
Hi Realms,

Another question, even though I've been an ubuntu user for years I've never tried to change or customize the interface because unity is very good looking. However, I'm not really liking the look of lubuntu, how do I get back to the stock unity appearance (even if it's a skinned down version) or osx look
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Just reinstall unity, although your far better off with gnome fallback and metacity window manager (nice performance with low ram usage)you could find a osx theme, along with cairo dock for an osx feel.
[Asus Transformer TF700] AJM-hackers:
How do I reinstall unity or gnome fallback/metacity?
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
I dont have a rootfs to give you a complete command, install synaptic if you haven't already sudo apt-get install synaptic , open is and search for unity-2d. For gnome just run sudo apt-get install gnome-panel. You might want to open dconf and find your way to the metacity option and enable compositing also add metacity --replace to startup applications
[Asus Transformer TF700] AJM-hackers:
Nvm I rembered that canonical deprecated it in 12.10
[Asus Transformer TF700] AJM-hackers:
Is it possible to get rid (uninstall) of all other desktop environment and also bypass the login and boot straiht into lubuntu?
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Yes, i think the other options are xfce desktops, use synaptic to remove them. I think you can enable autologin in the settings, if not i think /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf has an option, I dont currently have a rootfs to check.
[Asus Transformer TF700] AJM-hackers:
I fixed brightness settings by editing the rc.local init script by echoing a value of 1 to /sys/class/backlight/pwm-baclight/brightness however this created a new problem of a black screen(it is even black at the login screen since it's a boot file). How would I make the new echo stick on boot when i exit the shell or how would i edit the init in shell or access the root directories in android? Thanks in advance. For others who want to change their brightness the lowest value possible without going black is 3.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Yes, echoing below 3 disables the screen, inturn this disables the dock (some kinda power save feature) which means no usb. The only thing to do at that point is reboot or ssh and echo a higher number.

Androids /data and /system are mounted at /mnt/android i would assume mount -t ext3 -o loop /dev/mmcblk0p8 /*mountpoint* would work but dont quote me:)

Google brightness-indercator its a great application that changes the brightness on our device, the brightness keys are even mapped
[Asus Transformer TF700] AJM-hackers:
My method is permanent and does not need to be changed after every boot, that being said I can't even see the lock screen as my command immediately sets the brightness instantaneously after the lightdm start. How do I ssh to change the rc.local file? (I can't use gedit to edit this file anymore). It's unfortunate that the tf's brightness keys don't work here.

On another note the e2fsck command does not need to be done in android as the user can do it from the terminal state of ubuntu where it's stuck at, they just need to type "sudo reboot -h now" and then it will boot in to root mode and then they type in the e2fsck command followed be multiple y's after every prompt. You can also add this to OP. Actually this got me thinking, how could I force it in this mode so that I could issue a command to fix my brightness issue.

Maybe something along the lines of

"

su

echo 3 | tee -i /sys/class/backlight/pwm-backlight/brightness

"

Also thanks for all your continued help Realms, I appreciate it and I apologise for all the questions.
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
You can't fsck a mounted filesystem.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
I added a fsck option to the initrd, it will check a selected rootfs file repair then reboot. I haven't updated the installer, but if you flash the .blob kernel in the dev thread (post #3) it will work.

Placing your command in the rc.local file, should run. Although ive had some timing issues with it in 12.10 + where you have to delay it with the "sleep" command. If it requires earlier execution, you could place it in /etc/initrd/tf700.conf (Im not a 100% thats the right path as i don't have a rootfs atm)
[Asus Transformer TF700] AJM-hackers:
It worked for me I think it unmounts the system one the reboot command is issued it boots in to something called single user mod
[Asus Transformer TF700] jonny727272:
so i no longer need to run ubuntu on my tablet anymore and im trying to flash CM however everytime i try to boot into recovery mode the tablet freezes up. i have tried to get into recovery from powering on and from ROM manager but neither worked.

if i were to wipe all data would that help? i feel like that would only brick my device so i am hesistant to try that.

hope someone understands or has seen this problem and can help!
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Hey you should make a thread in the q.a forum as your issue wont be caused by the dualboot, that being said you should use fastboot to install the latest twrp.

removing /data/media/linux and /data/meda/ubuntu will completely remove linux then flash a normal android kernel
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Just checking in.. I lost all my current rootfs with all my major changes. TWRP backed up to internal for some reason this time and I wiped the whole device for battery testing... I'm going to build 2 new rootfs (Arch and Ubuntu) based on solely on LXDE only. They will both be very lite and at the moment no Tegra drivers...
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Cool! looking forward to it, You should give 13.10 a try, see if it works without the tegra drivers(which by the way i can script the installing of.)
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
I finally found an update to chromium v30, to install it run:

wget https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa/+build/5177906/+files/chromium-browser_30.0.1599.114-0ubuntu0.13.04.2_armhf.deb

remove the current version

sudo apt-get remove chromium-browser

then install the new one

dpkg -i chromium-browser_30.0.1599.114-0ubuntu0.13.04.2_armhf.deb

Its a very new version, so bugs are possible, that being said its been issue free for half an hour during various activities.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Sorry you also need an updated ffmpeg codec package

wget https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa/+build/5177906/+files/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_30.0.1599.114-0ubuntu0.13.04.2_armhf.deb && sudo dpkg -i chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_30.0.1599.114-0ubuntu0.13.04.2_armhf.deb

I also got xbmc 11 working, i wrote a script to make the install easier(i haven't tested it, so let me know if it works.) https://www.dropbox.com/s/e21vys5a0c11u0e/installxbmc.sh

The interface is smooth and sound works great, but no hwa video. Im not exactly sure how to get it working yet. If anyone gets xbmc 13 running please let me know;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Bruistur:
Thanks for all you guys do! I love having both Android and a full Linux desktop environment on my tf700. I ran into a little snag though. I ran the updated installer without unpacking a rootfs, and now Linux won't boot. If there is a log file to snag from somewhere that will help more, I'll be more than happy to get it, but here is a photo if the error I get after selecting the rootfs.
[Asus Transformer TF700] orychalk:
[MENTION=4247115]Bruistur[/MENTION] :

I had the same problem.

In fact with previous installer, in boot we can choose kernel, and only Hybrid kernel boot on my TF700 (the other do a kernel panic and reboot)

With the new installer (V6.8), when we boot, we can't choose kernel, and i think the default kernel from this new version do a kernel panic too and reboot.

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[MENTION=4582979]JoinTheRealms[/MENTION] :

I test this dev from 4 days, and i'm enjoyed with Linux on my TF700 ;)

Thanks a lot :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Hmm Could you please try flashing the latest .blob from the dev thread? (post 3) and the you the repair option. I know ive had this happen but i cant remember exactly how i resolved it :silly:

Yes i updated it, the kexec kernel should be located in /boot of the rootfs. This wont be there unless you placed it there. For most users this option isnt nessacary. In the recent kernel you will only get the option to boot with the kexec kernel if one is found, other wise it just boots using the normal kernel:)
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Got 2 new roots built. They need some love this weekend.

1) brightness

2) cpu control

3) mouse pad support

4) and curses... Auto wifi again :(

Oh, and one of them is Sausy
[Asus Transformer TF700] orychalk:
[MENTION=4582979]JoinTheRealms[/MENTION]

1/ Ok, thanks for these informations , i understand much better :)

2/ Kernels :

Are there many differences between kernels ? (speed, stability, etc ...)

For you, which is the best ?

3/ Interfaces :

For information, i installed ubuntu 12.10, and kubuntu over.

KDE has a better interface for touch screen, i can resize all little elements (scrollbars, titles, buttons, etc) and use "onboard" keyboard.

For now, the only thing that do i won't use Linux on TF700, is the slowness (in ubuntu, lubuntu or kubuntu). kubuntu is not more slow than ubuntu and lubuntu, but on all these interfaces, applications are too slow to start.

Firefox start in 10 sec on kubuntu, and ubuntu (less in lubuntu : 8 sec), but it's too slow to work everyday.

4/ Lockscreen :

On the 3 interfaces the lockscreen with password had refused to unlock after some hours of inactivity. I desactivated it.

5/ Graphic stability:

After some time, ubuntu and linbuntu had many graphic corruption. With kde, after 3 days without restart, i never had any graphic corruptions.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Would it be possible to upload the sausy rootfs? :) I can start hammering at these things

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_thats kernel is focused on battery, hunds is more performance. But they both perform great.

KDE is good, in the ubuntu resoptories, there is a gles enabled kwin, I suggest you use that. As it greatly improves rendering performance in things like chromium (somewhere in this thread i posted instructions). The issue with the graphics corruption seems to be only with compiz, rendering conflicts with chromium, KDE does have some issues though, Ive found gnome fallback with metacity composition very stable with low memory footprint.

I haven't spent much time with firefox, but i do recommend using chromium as it uses gles accelerated rendering, html5 performance seems to be much improved also. Firefox 25 does improve over the version in the ubuntu repository though. MoreD_cn is gonna try get linux booting from a partition/ directory this should decrease application load times by half (loop mounting has around a 30% decrease in IO performance).

Yes i recommend disabling locking, i believe lightdm handles it ok with 13.04, but it just introduces another level for issues to occur.
[Asus Transformer TF700] orychalk:
1/ "there is a gles enabled kwin, I suggest you use that" :

Yes this what i do :)

2/ "but i do recommend using chromium" :

I used Firefox, because Chromium has too small tabs and buttons. it's too difficult to manipulate with the touch screen...

But it's true, browse on web with Chromium is much better :)

3/ "MoreD_cn is gonna try get linux booting from a partition/ directory" :

Great news, I look forward :)

The major slowness are io slowness ! even with sd card 64GB class 10...
[Asus Transformer TF700] Bruistur:
And I'm back into Lubuntu. Thanks for the help! I could boot to Android, so in a terminal I followed directions in post 3 of the Dev thread to flash a kernel blob. Selected repair at startup, reboot, and had kernel options to select from. Thanks again!
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
i have to test it a little. I still need a dm. Lightdm is not so light... BTW, this rootfs is wicked basic (with gui) it is only 78mb lzma file!!!

Give me till tomorrow...
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Wow looking forward to it! by the way hopefully gdm is smaller since its just as compatible with arm

Glad it worked!
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Arch boots... Can't get the new lubuntu to boot...
[Asus Transformer TF700] robygio:
permission denied

novice in Linux and english

with all device o directory ( external hd, sd, media/ubuntu ......) : "permission denied"

how can i solve it ?
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Sorry there's an issue with v6.8 you need to flash the 0.3 hundsbuah blob. i must have packed the wrong ramdisk into _that based kernel:( ill fix it tonight
[Asus Transformer TF700] robygio:
permission denied

lubuntu works

but i don't open external hd or sd

i don't open directory with file manager

permission denied

thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
[MENTION=4582979]JoinTheRealms[/MENTION] - Got 12.04 to "boot". It gets mountall - failed, then, init: failed to create pty. See this article... http://askubuntu.com/questions/126779/why-do-i-get-init-failed-to-create-pty-errors-on-boot
[Asus Transformer TF700] Adrixan:
Hi there,

I'm sorry if I missed it, but I couldn't find anything on dual booting with CM 10.2. Are there any efforts to get this working, or technical limitations that render it completely impossible?

Thanks for any reply!
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
No reason why it wouldnt, its just my couple of attempts failed. Once we have kexec boot this shouldn't be an issue;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] giatros:
Is there an easy way to flash a different kernel and then get back the dual-boot menu? Which files need to be backed up and then copied e.g. with a root file manager?
[Asus Transformer TF700] vjtz:
Wow! Wonderful! I'd love to see such possibility also for TF300T!
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
No sorry the dualboot menu is in the ramdisk of the kernel. their are that and hunds variants that are based on their latest source in the dev thread.

Its already done, have a look in the developemnt forum for the tf300t, i even made a youtube video of the tf700s ubuntu rootfs running on the tf300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRHXsG2G3c8
[Asus Transformer TF700] vjtz:
It looks good. I'd just prefer lighter DE like LXDE or XFCE.

Sorry, I couldn't find appropriate forum for TF300T, could You, please, point me to right place?

And thank You very much!
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
My Ubuntu time is up... I don't use it myself. It is too bloated and I haven't got time to play with it. I have an almost completely working Arch install (LXDE - , just need auto-wireless (curses!), bluetooth (maybe never) and the dock touchpad... I will post it in my Arch thread soon.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Dooler:
Thanks for your ubuntu work :)

I prefer real linux over android any time.

I have just one serious issue, and that is that only the root user is allowed network access. Almost sounds like SELinux

edit: fixed this by adding some groups to my user account.

note to self: make sure this is default in new rootfs :)

ubuntu is as bloated as the user makes it, which is very easy due to silly dependencies. It's not quite my preference, but ... it's quite relaxed about including stuff like tegra4linux

Anyway, i'm trying to cleanup the rootfs (-500 packages now), but it's probably easier to just make a brand new rootfs, its not that hard

Do you have any documentation/script/whatever how you made the rootfs, both the ubuntu and the arch one? I'm mostly interested in device specific things.
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
You're more than welcome to my rootfs building docs... It is really just basic rootfs building. rabits github is a better resource for ubuntu (FYI the Meego touch driver is for xserver 1.13 with no up dates since, I have the tarball's...somewhere). I had issues with trying to build it from scratch using ubuntu core and so did moreD_cn ... I forget what issues I had besides touch driver issues and anything over 12.10 doesn't boot for me from scratch. I tried slimming rabits down and upgrading it but still only got it to 2.3 gig (my Openbox Arch install is less than 400mb). Hope you can get better results...

View attachment ubuntu-rootfs-from-core.txt

View attachment tf700t-arch-BASE-rootfs-building.txt

View attachment test-rootfs-builder-script.txt - This is run from a base install in an android chroot.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
I think its possible linuxdepoy is modifying something somewhere, the xubuntu 13.10 rootfs actually booted fine, i just ruined something in the process of installing a ful gui, gdm loaded fine.

You should try debootstrap from a working rootfs. i used this guide http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=39147249&postcount=2
[Asus Transformer TF700] Dooler:
Thanks both of you. Got something to read.

I was thinking deboostrap too, been using it for a good while to build i386/amd64 bootable usb sticks or reinstalling my system without bothering with install media. It worked quite well with debian armhf too, but and well, that went fine in single user mode.

The challenge here is arm drivers being closed source and the platform unknown to me :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] C288:
Not Working

When i install it doesn't stop at 90%. It says it's succesful. so i reboot and run it then i have to click 1 to run the rootfs.img and then it does some script and says it's going to reboot in 10 seconds and it does. What do I do.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
How long does it take to complete? and id need to know what it says leading up to the kernel panic
[Asus Transformer TF700] C288:
It takes less than a minute to install. I'll tell you what it says i just have to reboot.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
the .lzma file should be 500mb+ and should take around 45 minutes to decompress, you might need to redownload it
[Asus Transformer TF700] C288:
It doesn't download as tar.Izma it downloads as tar.tar I've tryed changing the format but it freezes and it is 500+ mb. The error it gives me is target filesystem doesn't have required init. then it shows 2 locations and some other script that i don't have time to read or write down because it reboots in 10 seconds.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
If your downloading on android you may want to try another browser,

Theses are the rootfs you should pick from

http://www.lugotfl.org/tf700t/rootfs-ubuntu-12.10-0.8.0.tar.lzma ubuntu

http://www.lugotfl.org/tf700t/rootfs-lubuntu-tf700t-8-22-2013.tar.lzma lubuntu

The browser may be renaming .tar.lzma to tar.tar but im not sure.

It certainly wont work unless the .lzma has decompressed, hence there will be no init for it to sync. If possible download it on a pc and move it over.
[Asus Transformer TF700] C288:
What is the difference between lubuntu and ubuntu.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Google the difference between the distros, but the lubuntu .lzma is 13.04 and the ubuntu is 12.04. Personally id recommend the lubuntu rootfs.

Theres also an arch-linux rootfs which is aimed at the more advanced linux user.
[Asus Transformer TF700] steaksauce:
Any idea if this will work with 4.3 roms? I flashed the new CMB rom , but now that I've replaced my keyboard, I'm interested in trying this out again.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
It should work with the new kexecboot method in the dev thread, but i haven't had a chance to test it outside of cromi. it does require a bit of configuring to get working atm and will also require you to use bryce09s kernel (if you want to test it for us, i will unpack the kernel for you.)
[Asus Transformer TF700] C288:
Can't access removable drives

Ok so i got lubuntu to work, but every time i click on one of my removable drives in lubuntu it says i don't have permission to access them. It does this with the usb, sd, and microsd. How do i fix this.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
I usually mount with the mount command, for example for a fat32 device mount -t vfat -o loop /dev/mmcblk1p2 /mountpoint (1 being the identifer for the device and 2 for the partition)
[Asus Transformer TF700] C288:
That command didn't work it says "/dev/mmcblk1p2: No such file or directory". When i go to file manager and click the drive it says "You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of “9AB6-FD6D”.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
Yes I gave mmcblk1p2 as an example, mmcblk is the device. p is the partition number on the device. Im really not sure whats up this the gui.
[Asus Transformer TF700] C288:
So what should I do.
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
Give this a shot: /dev/block/mmcblk1p2
[Asus Transformer TF700] C288:
I tried "mount -t vfat -o loop /dev/mmcblk0p8 /mount" and it says "mount: mount point /mount does not exist"

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when i add /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 (or) mmcblk1p2. I get "No such file or directory"
[Asus Transformer TF700] JoinTheRealms:
With Linux, block devices are mounted at /dev rather than /dev/block under android;)

you need to create the mount point.

run "ls /dev" to findout the mmcblk that exist.