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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bogdi1988:
Looks like the download is finally active!

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They just took a while to turn on the beta program

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Edit: interesting, if you're not on ARJ5 it won't work.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] maxnik1:
Is the app crashing for anyone, when you try to open it in DeX mode?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] javispedro:
Yep , I had to disable DeX Labs and DeX developer mode. Dunno if disabling either of them would have been enough.

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So it is indeed a container. Pid 1 is a bash shell. Graphics is done via VNC, so slow and unaccelerated. I guess that's the reason Unity was disabled and it boots to "classic" Gnome (with gnome-panel). Audio appears to work out of the box.

The image appears to be a bit dirty... there's plenty of orphaned packages, changes to /etc not reflected anywhere else, unpackaged files, and a strange "lod_daemon" whose purpose I couldn't guess. But I assume loading up other distros is not entirely out of the question.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] featureza8336:
Any luck getting the custom Ubuntu package to download. Mine either goes super slowly or quits before it even gets halfway
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] maxnik1:
I had everything disabled, but the DeX developer mode. I totally forgot about that option, anyway turning that off fixed it. You have my thanks. :)

For what I needed (Visual studio code and dev tools in chrome/chromium) this container will do just fine, but it is really slugish and I mean it. Without GPU acceleration it feels like a computers from a couple of decades ago. I think that people will be disappointed, because they expect to do everyday stuff with Linux on DeX and it just not gonna happen. But personally very happy to have the option.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] alec66317:
Password for dextop?

Did anyone figure out what password for dextop is? I never set one and it asking for it when I try to install a package through the terminal
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] unknownbeing:
When it downloads the container image, is it an installer ISO? Meaning would we be able to install a different OS in the container?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] javispedro:
"secret". Without the quotes. As mentioned on the Linux On Dex website ;P

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It's an ext4 image, and no; no different OSes. This is just a Linux container, there is no virtual machine involved. (Nor emulation). So you could do other Linux distros, but no other OSes.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] unknownbeing:
The password is "secret"

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Hm, so theoretically I could image a red hat (just an example) install and load it into this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] javispedro:
An ARM aarch64 redhat install, yes ...

Possibly needing a bit of selinux relabeling, plus whatever this lod_server thing is doing.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] unknownbeing:
I'd be very interested to see if we can get the ARM build of Windows running on this thing
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] javispedro:
No other OSes are possible. This is not a virtual machine.

Envoyé de mon SM-N960F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] DienoX:
Is it possible to use KVM on this container? How about removing SELinux and compiling Kernel with KVM support? (The Exynos 8890 platform natively supports KVM)

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@javispedro Can you compile Kernel with KVM support?

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KVM is amazing on GNU/Linux
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jstylen:
When I open the app I just get a message to "Update your software" "Linux on DeX requires your device to have the latest software to support some features."

Sure would be nice if it mentioned which software it wants updated. Anybody else getting this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ihaveabu:
Has anyone tried this with a keyboard and mouse or HP Elite X3 lapdock? For some reason my backspace keys not working properly and only responds after multiple presses.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] spenceboy98:
I'm on pie and I keep getting this message. Not sure what I'm doing wrong? Also, it keeps telling me to put the image in "/Internal Storage/LoD/" but whenever I do, it then tells me that I can't already have an LoD folder, so either way I get some sort of an error.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] LavosCracker:
I really like the option, but without GPU acceleration it's kind difficult for me.

I use my Note 9 as my main computer and I really like to have Linux. Its amazing to have the ''real'' chrome with the extensions...but its reaaaally slow.

Hope samsung can ''fix'' that.

Edit: but at the same time, its amazing have linux inside my phone...

dex still running even when I'm on linux. I can minimize and go back to Dex any time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] StardustGeass:
hello, I'm kinda new to linux world...

wanna ask, anytime I try to update (downloading package information), there are several paths that always returns some error, mainly for "/xenial/main.binary-i386" ones... is it normal? why is it happening?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] gamekill:
Wasn't it dextop / secret?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] celderic:
Yep, it says it on the download page
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bogdi1988:
I mentioned above. Wants ARJ5 which is now released
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mariusz_Trynkiewicz:
"couldnt create LoD container" . Any1 got that fixed ? I got arj7 update . Even on arj5 I couldnt get it working . I can open app without problems but it show that error and force stop app
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jstylen:
Ah, sorry I glanced through the existing posts but just assumed you were talking about the app version at a glance. Looks like T-Mobile is slow pushing out the update.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] MartyDingo:
Is it just a LXC container? Or even more simple then that? (An ext4 root and boot partition contained as a file)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] nele3:
Yes if you have enabled dex labs and developer mode. Turn off developer mode and dex labs and it should work just fine
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] MartyDingo:
So really, one could create linux distribution in a VM, contain that root partition in a container, and transplant that over to LinuxOnDex.

Might be fun to try and get an i3 arch installation going, i3 might help with the performance issues we're seeing.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Technically.Alexander:
Anyone else can't download the image? It fails to download when I use the app or the website directly in a browser
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] salahmed:
Me too, tried more than ten times, always download unsuccessful
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] StardustGeass:
I finally give up and download the image via PC, and transferring it to phone after unzipping it beforehand.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] featureza8336:
I tried on PC and was having the same issues.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] StardustGeass:
Have you tried using download manager?

That's the only method that works for me...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ars0n:
let it go for like 5 minutes and finally unzipped... anyone able to get any other builds of linux working?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] karimgosen:
I can check it tomorrow

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Al least for me is working with all the above ON.

With: Note 9 SD/ 512 GB
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Hundsbuah:
i have the same problem with different keyboards. have you solved the problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] karimgosen:
All keyboard keys working for me, also trackpad, but no hard press, only "taps" in the trackpad.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] emailtojacob:
I am trying to install LAMP for last 2 days. its get stuck on mysql all the time . Did anyone successfully installed apache+php+mysql ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArioZ:
Has anyone succeeded installing some apps?

I tried to install Android Studio and its asks me to install 32bit libraries which I couldn't finish installing ever.

I'm stuck on this like 3 days...

tried too with other apps and same problem
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] sidepipe:
For those having issues with the backspace key, I discovered that if you've got Swiftkey selected as the on screen keyboard backspace is very hit and miss. For some reason if you use the standard keyboard, the physical keyboard works fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] siriom:
do you have root on this linux on dex ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
in linux you do.. just use sudo
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] redlee90:
Anyone knows if we can use any VNC client to get a graphical environment without ever connecting the phone to a monitor? I tried to start the vnc server from terminal but has no luck establishing connection to the server from a third party vnc client. My guess is that Samsung has some security policy that blocks access to port 5901.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Suti:
I can't download :( Try my notebook and try to phone and try to linux in dex app. What i doing wrong?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
Use the Microsoft download manager on your PC. Took me several tries but it finally downloaded.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Suti:
Thanks! :) I finally succes :) I try to samsung beta browser in my phone. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
Just FYI, on the previous Pie Beta (ZRL7) I couldn't get Linux to run full screen on DeX. Other apps would expand just fine, but not Linux. With the current beta (ZRLL) it expands full screen no problem. Been a while since I messed with Ubuntu or any fork of Linux, but it's nice having it. I just have to relearn everything, LOL.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] DienoX:
Please, Samsung add this

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...u-acceleration-for-linux-apps-on-chromebooks/
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] StuartRothrock:
I ended up downloading it from the command line with curl from https://webview.linuxondex.com/015/xenial-gnome-with-IJ-GI015.zip

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I have been trying to figure this out too.

The script /etc/init.d/vnc.sh cals /usr/bin/tightvncserver that calls the binary /usr/bin/Xtightvnc with args that should listen on 5901 but instead it uses a unix socket at /share/run/vnsrv.usk - so DeX must be using that socket to display the container's X. There is a reference to delete the socket at the beginning of vnc.sh but no other reference to the socket in vnc.sh nor tightvncserver nor a strings of the binary Xtightvnc.

I was unable to open any listening sockets as root within the container. If you look at the vnc session log in /home/dextop/.vnc/*.log there are obvious errors pertaining to tcp socket attempts.

I would be happy to dig further is anyone had any hints to assist with expanding my knowledge on it. I am fairly knowledgeable with Docker, but this is all foreign to me.

If we could start the container without DeX connecting to the unix socket, it may be possible to redirect the unix socket to a listening tcp socket with socat or netcat on the native side.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
not sure if it helps but might want to look into the init rc files too
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
it would appear my tab s4 is on a lower version as well as it doesnt mount the system img which i cant manually mount it without root perms lol.. and the tab s4 was originally supposed to have it.. they ended up changing it to usa tab s4 not updated yet lol

I ran "nst GUI" in a shell and it didnt work.. still said no display or something rather on my note 9.. maybe with root could get further.. would b nice to use the gui on the device itself
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] StuartRothrock:
thanks - as a hack, I was able to start the container in TERM mode and manually fire off /etc/init.d/vnc.sh (changed to SRVTYPE=wrapped_tight) and vnc listened on 5901 and I could connect just fine.

Next, I mounted the image and copied a Fedora distro over it, changed file ownership and it worked in TERM mode. Fedora uses tigervnc instead of tightvnc which has command line options for unix sockets so the Samsung customized tightvnc won't be needed.

Since feasibility looks very possible, I am reading up on lxc now to attempt a proper Fedora container.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
Nice! I assume your device is rooted? Only thing I found today messing around is if you enable "adb tcpip 5555" then open terminal in lod the android system shows up as an emulator..

basically you have access to adb yourself from lod anywhere you go.. could come in handy some day lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] StuartRothrock:
Thanks for the adb tip elliwigy - I am rooted but it would not need to be for what I have done so far. All file system mods was done on a linux computer and them the image transferred to the note. I'll create a new thread with a HOWTO after I reach my target. It could be a template for anyone wanting to create an LoD container for other distros.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] redlee90:
Do you have a permissive kernel? I can also start vncserver by feeding the geometry and dpi params but my vnc client was unable to connect. Got connection refused error from bvnc client. Also looking at the log file under ~/.vnc/localhost:1.log I got a lot of permission denied errors.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] redlee90:
Here is the log I got.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] StuartRothrock:
My kernel is enforcing. Mine too gives same error unless I start the vncserver as root (yikes!), then it runs...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] redlee90:
Did you mean something like "sudo -S /etc/init.d/vnc.sh 2960x1440 570"? Didn't work on mine
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] StuartRothrock:
You need to apt remove and apt install tightvncserver for the external access - but after you do, you cannot run the GUI in the DeX screen. I will post back here hopefully tomorrow after I isolate the files needed to switch back and forth.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] StuartRothrock:
These two files need to be backed up before removing/installing tightvnc to retain the DeX LoD connection

/usr/bin/tightvncserver and /usr/bin/Xtightvnc

vnc.sh - set the var SRVTYPE=wrapped_tiger

vnc.sh - remove the "su -i -u dextop" and "-localhost" from the wrapped_tiger execution line

The repo version of tightvnc will provide the remote connection at 5901 - to fallback to the DeX LoD screen - replace the two binaries and set the SRVTYPE back to "wrapped_tight"

Also, if you use copy a normal linux distro's rootfs as an ext4 filesystem it will partially work if you add one file from the beta version - /etc/LoDVersion, etc/subgid, /etc/subuid to your img and change all file ownership to 1638400000:1638400000 and dextop user would be 1638401000:1638401000 - modify /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow - working on the finer points to get everything to work. If any typos, please let me know.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] redlee90:
First of all, thanks so much for the detailed walkthrough! When you said "wrapped_tiger" in the above post, did you actually mean "wrapped_tight"? If so, then there are two typos. As for my experiments, I did remove and reinstall tightvncserver from repo. After that, I ran "sudo -S vncserver", I was asked for setting up a password -- after which I able to successfully start the server and there were no error messages in the log. However, when I tried to connect to the vnc server, my connection hanged. Did I miss anything? Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] StuartRothrock:
I am away from home until tomorrow - then I will test what I have posted and update any typos.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] redlee90:
Sorry to bother, but any update? I followed digital ocean's guide on configuring vnc to work with xfce, still no luck. Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] redlee90:
Finally got it working. I did it by installing vnc4server. Also you need to make the terminal app running in foreground to make the connection persist. An approach is to run terminal and vnc app in a split screen configuration. One thing to note is that for some reason bvnc viewer from Google play store is not working with local vnc server. I ended up installing vnc viewer by RealVNC.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] gahu777:
how can i use xserver to get desktop on phone screen? there os app called xserver xsdl which is lot faster than vnc
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] DienoX:
Could you share the latest version of Linux on Dex (1.0.49)?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] redlee90:
There you go.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] rusty.gh:
Has anyone tried installing Wine with the i386 architecture? Want to run a few really small exe's
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] lapeno022:
there is no way to achieve this because note 9 is ARM CPU and .exe(windows apps) runs on x86 and as wine name says: its not emulator
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] rusty.gh:
removed duplicate post. strange 504 error page lost? shrug.

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I thought as much. thanks. Hey, would you be interested in WineHQ

I'm slowly learning, so I have much to read, but check that out, I'm wondering if in the end we could get that working?

Let me know what you think?

also check "I got Wine/x86 to run on Linux ARM"
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] lapeno022:
Best you can do, is to have dedicated server somewhere and use RDP to connect to it. it can route whole desktop and audio to your phone and attach phone storage to remote computer :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] masewo:
Thank you all, especially StuartRothrock! Finally I successfully established a VNC connection over WiFi. I wrapped my steps up here at github project masewo/lod_vnc. [MENTION=3066174]StuartRothrock[/MENTION]: I hope it's okay to mention you there.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] pdagenius:
I downloaded the latest G1016 image having previously set up and used the G1015 one. I think the previous image still exists somewhere in the LOD folder and would really like to claim back the space. When I was browsing to install the new image I had access to a file browser and could see the LOD folder. Now it is installed I can't find the LOD folder anymore - at least not with ES File Explorer.

Does anyone know how or where the LOD folder is and what App I should be using please? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Adrixan:
It's in Internal Storage -> LoD . You can access the folder using the 'My Files' app or any other storage explorer.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] rusty.gh:
fyi - Not all file apps can read this as what it is, but the default Samsung file app does.

You should see the (name).Img files here Internal Storage/LoD
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mike.suomi:
Hi

Do you have this issue with sudo apt upgrade ?

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-142-generic

cat: /proc/cmdline: Permission denied

Label cloudimg-rootfs not found in /dev/disk/by-label..........]

Warning: root device LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs does not exist

Press Ctrl-C to abort build, or Enter to continue

W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.

W: mkconf: MD subsystem is not loaded, thus I cannot scan for arrays.

W: mdadm: failed to auto-generate temporary mdadm.conf file.

Unsupported platform.

run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code 1

dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

initramfs-tools

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] exadeci:
Check the official website faq https://www.linuxondex.com/
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mike.suomi:
I did. it shows an error at update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-142-generic

See the output:

--

dextop@localhost:~$ sudo -S apt install linux-on-dex lod-daemon

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

linux-on-dex is already the newest version (0.2.6).

lod-daemon is already the newest version (0.2-2).

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Setting up initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.14) ...

update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.14) ...

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-142-generic

cat: /proc/cmdline: Permission denied

Label cloudimg-rootfs not found in /dev/disk/by-label

Warning: root device LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs does not exist

Press Ctrl-C to abort build, or Enter to continue

W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.

W: mkconf: MD subsystem is not loaded, thus I cannot scan for arrays.

W: mdadm: failed to auto-generate temporary mdadm.conf file.

Unsupported platform.

run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code 1

dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Permission denied

Errors were encountered while processing:

initramfs-tools

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] exalented:
How is there still only one freaking Ubunut image?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] niloceth:
Unable to access Internet in linux on dex

I've been reading all the threads-- and the LoD faq-- so I turned off powersaving mode.

I've turned off dex labs.

No luck:

dextop@localhost:~$ ping google[.]com
ping: google[.]com: Temporary failure in name resolution

I'm afraid I might have to reset all my network settings or some other drastic measure since I'm the only one I've found who can't get this to work.

Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?

Thank you--
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] azkhari:
Wireshark on LoD

Hey guys, i have a question,

Does LoD is able to run wireshark? :confused:

thank you