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[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] syntex123:
Okey so the Tab won't sms/mms or handle phonecalls after this Ubuntu gets installed. A little shame I think, since it would have been a heck of a good netbook with phone capabilities! :) Like the HTC Shift, except that one can't call, and have the sucky OS Vista --, but anyway, I support this development, so don't let my previous post let you think I give you pepper for not including sms/mms and phone:) I use my Tab as my one and only phone, so.. That's why I asked :) So is there any possibilites for including dualboot?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] gielium:
site down

It seems the files below are no longer available. Does anyone have a copy of the files?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] edzilla:
And for those not available in the ubuntu repo, there are those in the debian repos.

I just checked, openoffice is available in the debian arm repos, for example
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] cruiserbax:
It even has my astronomy software wich is crazy awesome! seriously that is all that I care about... so anyone build and run this already beside testers?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] quackinator:
I'm mostly a forum lurker here but I've got to say that some people need to quit demanding for features they want/need...the developers are doing this for free and because they want to. They have no obligations to the people here. If the certain people on this thread can't accept that fact, then simply stay on android.

All that aside, great progress so far on this!
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] mister-walter:
Once you awesome devs have this port done, anyone for native Ubuntu on the Nook Color? :P
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] cruiserbax:
This project looks so promising but I fear that with all th new tabs with tegra chips hitting the mark now and soon the Galaxy Tab is going to fall very fast onto the side of the technology highway... If I had a little more free time I would give the manual build a shot to play around with it.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lardman:
There's no fundamental reason why dual booting can't be used so that people can use either Android or Ubuntu when they want to (the only delay being a reboot).

This "simply" involves either hacking/replacing the Samsung 2ndary bootloader (which I'm not so keen on, but which would be the ideal route), or replacing the kernel in the kernel partition with u-boot, and then using the kernel in the recovery partition to boot Android while using a kernel on the SD card for Ubuntu.

The latter is the approach I'm going to try implementing next week (as I have a week off, so can make some progress at last! :) ) for the Meego port, as I need to port the Samsung kernel patches forward to a more modern kernel to get touch events working correctly under Meego (so can't use my current dual boot setup).

I'll also order another SD card so I can play around with Ubuntu at the same time, and improve the documentation on the Meego wiki for both builds.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] itsjusttim:
Fully agree! Dual boot would allow for such flexibility. I know it doesn't belong here but il throw $50 for this
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] gielium:
grrr :)

Hey guys a little stuck,

I've downloaded a precompiled zImage from the wiki

I used rootstock to build a fs and put that on the external SD-Card (ext4 one partition)

Flashed the zImage to the phone and booted.

I see a TUX in the upper left corner yay.. then after 2 secconds in white letters

A N D R O I D.

That's about it.. any idea what i'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] gielium:
Sigh.. found out i was using the wrong zImage:) sorry
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
Sorry for the inactivity recently, been busy with RL :(

just as an update, samsung released the PVR sources, but it will take a bit of work adapting it for xorgs requirements.

as for a few pages back, I saw questions of 3G, 3G data and phone calls are possible, but they require some dev, as libril-sec has to be reversed and reimplemented for ubuntu so that the modem will work, as well as some tweaks to the audio driver so it works properly.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] -RioT-:
Wow that's great news. Those sources are the missing link.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] cruiserbax:
This is getting more interesting every day!
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
U-Boot shouldn't be too much of a stretch as it exists for the SMDKC110 eval board (eval board for the hummingbird), the S5PC110 kit also has u-boot, so somewhere in there it should work
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] dra6onfire:
First off this is the greatest thing i have seen sinrce the tab came out so, really, thanks for doing this.

Second, i have a verizon tab and i know the mount points for the sd card are different so os there any way right now for me to use what you have done so far? I ise my tab both as a head unit in my car and as a tablet so this would be a fantastic addition.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lardman:
That's good to hear.

Re PVR drivers, I guess the best plan there is to look at the Pandaboard drivers and make the Tab drivers fit with whatever interface they expect (as the Pandaboard userspace binaries are available)

I had hoped to crack on with some Tab kernel porting last week (which I had off), but other things got in the way. I'll try to find some time to look at U-boot this week.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] daml:
I cant wait for this. I will get to work compiling enlightenment and efl libraries so we can run illume2 home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jcrSqCiNGo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SGpH6WZEeQ&feature=related

Enlightenment is a beautiful linux desktop, fast too, lots of eyecandy and fx.

Every single part of it is modules, and highly customizable.

Illume2 is a "layout", if thats the correct word, for tablets and phones. Can house GTK apps and EFL apps. Has a matching gtk theme.

Actually a better video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6aVu_mnz34
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
the screenshot I posted is the 2D netbook launcher, which is powered by efl, so Illume shouldn't be too much of an issue
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] livlogik:
im excited for this! any new update?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
Bump post, First post updated with 2 extra pictures of different layouts,

leave opinions of what you think of the 3 and which should be default
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
Unity

A download would be nice too ;)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
O.k so 1 vote for unity, full unity will only come with 3D accel, but 2D worksish :p

A download will get there, I know I haven't exactly been speedy, but been busy with university :/
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
That's the problem with good devs, they're at uni. I personally thing KDE SC is the way forwards, but from the options you gave unity looks the nicest. Obviously there is more to consider, but given that I never got the touch screen to work on mine I can't base my choice on any more than looks
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
based off finger usability e17/illume has been the best

based off ram usage LXDE is miles ahead

and looks I tend to follow through with unity,

e17/illume wins hands down on the built in keyboard et al. and it is certainly finger friendly
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] jeebspawnshop:
Add another to the "Unity" column from me ;)

Great work lilstevie! I'm surprised you can achieve this much while still rocking lectures and exams.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
Ok. User friendliness first methinks. LXDE looks too naff to be used though. If e17 is a better system for this, then use it I'd say. Anyway, if we don't like it we can change it ourselves ;)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] -RioT-:
Yeah lets try the unity then. We can always try something else if we dont like it.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] plasmathrower:
Vote for the Unity. Wholy Rap thats alot of progress man.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] livlogik:
add +1 Unity
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] n3man:
Vote one for any of them. you are doing amazing work and desperately want to see one running on my tab!

Just please make one that is rookie proof! I know that this is the most annoying question out there, but any eta?!?!
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
noob proofing is rather difficult with regards to install method, et al, but I can try my best. as for eta, No eta's
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] koven:
1 vote for Unity
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] wackymix:
when my TAB arrives i shure put this on it. Greate work
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] bled82:
Hey just wondering if this could be ported to run off an sdcard for the nook color since it card boot from sd , current work is being done but looks like you are making alot of progress here not sure how different the two projects are here is the xda link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10306407 . they first started with the normal method of loading it along side android but then started on the sd boot to run native any help or info would be great . Thanks in advance .
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
I can't see why this wouldn't work for the nook color
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] bled82:
Any chance you would have time to create a bootable image i could flash to a sdcard to test , or would i be SOL because the drivers are for the tab ? I wonder if there would be a way to use generic drivers for all the different tabs out there ?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
The only driver that is custom in the galaxy tab rootfs is the one for the touch screen at this point, the biggest part of getting the port working lies within the kernel itself, and that one is hard to do without actually having the device
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] itsjusttim:
Wait, what happened to your device?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
nothing, that was refering to doing this same thing for the nook color
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] itsjusttim:
Oh ok, I was a little worried there..
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] -RioT-:
Though if he DID have nook color he might be able to ;) hint hint ;)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] itsjusttim:
I thought he somehow lost or got rid of his tab and now development in this thread would be stopped.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
To borrow from professor Farnsworth. "Good News, Everyone"

After a nice hacking session, the modified mtev driver is no longer required :D

the native evdev driver is perfectly capable of operating without crashing xorg,
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] itsjusttim:
Too scientific for me... But sounds like a really good thing. =)

Sgs Vibrant ::

Bionix 1.3.1

Dragon kernel v5 1.4oc

Voodoo lagfix, sound, color

Sg Tab [Tmo] ::

Overcome v1.2.3

1.4oc kernel

Voodoo lagfix, sound
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
Sweet. We're still unable to test or use your work though.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lardman:
hey lilstevie, sorry I missed you on IRC, work's been busy so I've not had much willpower to code at the weekends.

So what did you need to do with evdev? :)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
the driver does not implement the entire event driver spec correctly, I have started to patch it back to evdev compliant, so far I only have implemented single touch at evdev compliant levels, but so far it is much more accurite and less buggy than using mtev :)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Cal-El:
Any news on this? Still excited to see this happen.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RunTimeWorld:
Did I miss something or is there no download available yet?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lardman:
You should be able to run the pre-built Ubuntu images (after adding the kernel modules and various other odds and ends)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/OMAP

I'm planning on installing one of these over the weekend and will document the steps needed to get it up and running unless lilstevie beats me to it! ;)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] idumych:
Is it possible to boot this on the sprint tab or is this GSM only?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RunTimeWorld:
thanks a lot, gonna give it a try. this is a great hint!
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
at the moment GSM only, but someone is looking at a CDMA version, the differences for the 2 devices are minimal as far as ubuntu is concerned, it is all in the kernel
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] wackymix:
I have A gsm Euro GTab P1000 when do you think that we can have an stable version of ubuntu, becouse it would be awesome to have and to make calls from ubuntu on GTab.

Thanks for your work, ican be your tester.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
it is pretty stable at the moment, but things like making calls are just not a possibility at this point in time, one thing that is going to make that hard is that rild boots the baseband device on all galaxy devices, and even the nexus s (at its heart it is a galaxy device as well) and we do not have an opensource implementation of this boot process, so it will take a little work to even get the radio to turn on, unless we use chrooting or something like that
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RunTimeWorld:
Ist that Omap3 or 4?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
4, I think
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
The image that you use doesn't really matter, the OMAP3/OMAP4 stuff is in relation to kernel and its modules, the galaxy tab is neither
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] daml:
I'm so confused. Sorry for my ignorance but how do we do this, you havent released am I correct? What does that link earlier mean with the omap stuff. We cant boot without your kernel with drivers correct?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
using the kernel from the second post and the rootfs from that page with the omap stuff will result in booting ubuntu, just not the ability to really do much without a few mods, I haven't as of yet released enough to be able to do this without a bit of work yourself
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] daml:
Awesome, thanks.

I will wait for if or when calling is working. My tab is also my phone.

Also you probably get asked this every day but how is your meego port going. My understanding is that it needs intelgma and thats the issue?

(yes i have been fololowing you over at the meego forums)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
Lardman is spearheading the meego port, and I believe the biggest part of the problem so far has been the touch driver,
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lardman:
The biggest problem is that I have absolutely no time at the moment as work is so busy (I worked last weekend and will need do so this weekend too I imagine, so not much/any desire to then sit down in front of a computer and code in the evening too.)

But yes, the touch driver is/was the stumbling block, however with lilstevie's investigations and driver patches I imagine it should be possible to get something up and running without too much difficulty.

I was originally planning on getting U-boot up and running, then porting some of the Samsung patches to a newer kernel, but U-boot is not all that trivial and requires some decent understanding of the kernel start-up process and lots of testing and I really just don't have enough time to spend doing this (it needs a decent length of time to get into, not just 30min here or there).

I will get back to it, promise, but probably not until mid June. It would also be interesting to see what happens with Meego anyway in the meantime, and whether it remains a useful thing to do (other than for the challenge of doing it) :)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] 3ph15t:
Sorry for the noobish question; I've red the whole thread, but i don't get it.

Could somebody please write a manual or something?

I flashed the Kernel via Heimdall bit nothing happens, i just see a booting linux OS wich scans my battery status again and again and again for over 30 minutes.

What did I wrong?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
this is a 2 part process, the kernel is only one of the things you need to do. reading http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Hummingbird#Ubuntu will give you a full picture, although at this point it is not pretty, and the documentation is still being worked on
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lardman:
I will update the instructions for getting Ubuntu working over the next week or so as I need to refresh my memory as I install it.

But as lilstevie says, there are two parts - the kernel and the root filesystem, you need both for it to work. Unfortunately the kernel required for Ubuntu does not allow you to boot Android, and this is something that I think is a priority, hence the desire to port U-Boot, which will allow us to keep the Android kernel in the unused recovery partition and the Ubuntu kernel (and rootfs) in partitions on the external SD card.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lardman:
Interesting, I see the Gingerbread kernel is 2.6.35.7 (from the Italian release)

Now we just need to ask for the source code to that kernel :)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] MartanCJ:
Is there video of UBUNTU running on tab? Thanks
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lardman:
I don't have any video handy, sorry. Lilstevie?

Good news, Samsung have released the Gingerbread kernel source code :)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] itsjusttim:
Yes that would be amazing if someone would make one for us.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Reinholt56:
I've got Ubuntu running on my SGT and will get some screenshots to upload over the weekend. I will also put details of how I installed it and got it running.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] ssserpentine:
Whats the def of "running"?

Fully? Any bugs, ect.

And one last?

Whats the plus.of.running ubuntu? Negative? Can you still run android apps and games?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
It depends on how you define fully and bug free

Ubuntu is a more full featured OS than Android, and may be more appropriate for some people. Canonical did once demonstrate Android apps running under Ubuntu, but I am unaware of a release of the software used to do it. For now I would assume that it is not possible.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] jeebspawnshop:
I believe ssserpentine was basically asking if THIS version of Ubuntu - which lilstevie has kindly made for us - has any obvious bugs. I confess that I couldn't quite find definitive answers to this anywhere in the thread.

But GrammarFreak is totally right; Ubuntu is a full-feature OS that would be infinitely more useful to certain people (myself included ;))
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] MrZeroo00:
I still don't get the reason why there isn't any file to download yet.

Is it still under development ?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] sevenup30:
yes it still in developement progress.

It would be great to have Ubuntu working on galaxytab, but i'm wondering if it will be usefull.

Because we'll lost of of the fonctionnality, phone 3G android etc...
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
Certain things have happened recently that have slowed things down a bit,

For me this is the end of the semester for uni and I have exams and all that and the past few weeks have been filled with assignments due.

The next issue was that Natty has broken a few things, they are going to take time to fix, they are upstream issues and not tab specific.

Finally, and this one is a kicker, Gingerbread kernel while having a better flow is using a few outdated drivers, samsung really took a half assed approach to the tab compared to the i9000 makes me sad. but also the trick I was using (hijacking params) to set the kernel commandline is no longer usable on GB bootloaders, so I have just spent a bit of time getting things working on froyo bootloaders, turns out GB does work on the old bootloaders, just with the same graphical corruption that was observed on the i9000 for doing the same thing.

I would like to take this opportunity to tell everyone to avoid updating bootloaders at this point, cause downgrading, while possible is going to be the most nerve-racking 2 minutes of your life
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Reinholt56:
By running I mean that I can load a terminal emulator on the SGT, change to a folder on my SDCARD where a Ubuntu image and some more files are stored, eventually load the Ubuntu image, via VNC Viewer, into memory and then surf the Internet using Firefox without any further setting changes. And emails still come into the Android application for when I exit Ubuntu.

As to if it's fully working. No. I will be working on making it work correctly in the next little while.

I've only mentioned it in here as someone wondered if there was a video of Ubuntu running/working on a SGT and could make a video.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] DemonGloom:
Sorry, you are talking about different method, and you are in wrong theme..

Ubuntu is launched natively here, without android..
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
I have made this one clear a few times in a few places, that is not a port, that is a parlour trick, chrooting is nothing special

EDIT: I don't mean this to sound rude, just getting annoyed with the media picking up chroot tricks as "Ubuntu ported to x device"
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Reinholt56:
Yeah I'm shutting up now. Back to reading carefully.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Seamus1:
Really looking forward to this one!
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
I have done a blog post on the State of the Galaxy. Things are getting better, SGS framebuffer patch works, just need to create a tarball for the rootfs
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] funkychunky:
Anything we can do to help?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
there is plenty to be done,

what skills do you have,

eg: reversing, kernel hackery etc.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] elmot:
i can walk backwords.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] itsjusttim:
Ahaha! Freaking great!
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] thule1291:
Neeeeeed Linux
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Seamus1:
Is this project still in the works? :)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] ameer1367:
any progress?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] wornbat:
Is there anyone still working on this project?

I want to get Ubuntu running Natively on TAB
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] dizgustipated:
Any updates at all?

is someone else taken/have to take over
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] dizgustipated:
Anyone????????(
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
I assume it's a dead project.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] crisvillani:
I believe hes moved to rootwiki's forums.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
Link pl0x?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] crisvillani:
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=982

Hasn't posted there in a while though, says he needs to fix one more bug.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] lilstevie:
Just a small update, this project is far from dead, I have just been incredibly busy with uni, porting to the ASUS transformer, and honestly using the data on my 3G sim :p

My contract is up in 2 months at which time my device will no longer be used as my 3G modem and I hope to get a bit more across platforms working, (that and my tf port is almost to the point where I can use it to work on the SGT )

Thanks for being patient.

Also a quick question, has anyone pinned out the OM pins on the SGT? unbrickable would be handy for progressing this port (switching to a u-boot base and even a later kernel revision
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] jeebspawnshop:
Sounds groovy, man. Keep on truckin' ;)

I'll be watching this space, as always.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] adi6262:
Hey! extremely happy to know ubuntu is comming to the tab. If you could release a unfinished build some thing to play with for a change and we get a taste of ubuntu on our tab .
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] e654777:
Hey. This is interesting. Ubuntu on tab is just perfect. Thanks....
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] areshinakya:
This sounds interesting indeed. Would be cool to have a dual boot solution ;-)

Sent from my Overcome Tab