Monday, January 28, 2013

Bodhi on MK802 and other ARM Updates

MK802:

Today I am happy to announce our first public Bodhi images for the MK802 Android stick:


This image comes with a 3.0 kernel and it has OpenGL support for MK802 GPU enabled out of the box. You can find a download link for the MK802 on the ARMHF page of the Bodhi website. The default user name is armhf and the password is bodhilinux. This default user has sudo enabled for installing software and ssh is on by default.

To use this release simply DD the provided .img file to a micro SD card, insert it into your MK802 and power it up. This image has a 1080p script.bin by default, meaning if you are trying to use this image on a screen that only supports 720p resolution you will need to replace the script.bin on the first partition of the image with the one found here.

Since this is our first image for this ARM chipset I have no doubt that it will contain some rough edges. For certain the MK802's built in wireless and OpenGL are functional on this image - I haven't had time to test the audio yet though. Alpha quality release of course.

Please, please, please do not make a comment on this post asking for support with an issue you encounter with installing/running Bodhi on your MK802! Comments asking for support will be removed from this post. Instead please open a support request thread in the A10 section of our user forums. It is much easier to manage/search/solve issues in a message board format than a comments section.

Other Updates:

 This past weekend I've also published image updates for our Raspberry Pi and Genesi Smartbook images. Like this image they now both include EFL 1.7.5 and E17 stable by default.

Cheers,
~Jeff Hoogland
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17 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2013 at 4:36 PM

    YES! Thankyou !
    Now theres an actual way to use these neat little ARM boxes as real desktop machines :).

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2013 at 7:09 AM

    How likely is this to work on the newere mk808?

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    1. JeffHooglandJanuary 29, 2013 at 11:20 AM

      Not likely at all. They are 100% different chipsets. I actually picked up an MK808 device - but then I discovered the RK3066 chipset is not Linux friendly at all. I won't be working on it.

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    2. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2013 at 6:51 AM

      Thanx for the reply. I only use it as a media pc, so android serves my purposes, but would have liked to give bodhi a spin on it.

      Thanx for all the great work!

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  3. UnknownJanuary 29, 2013 at 7:42 PM

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  4. Peña de Frontenis Los 21February 2, 2013 at 2:43 PM

    Hi Jeff,

    First, thanks for your effort and congratulations.

    I've just downloaded the image file but I have problems copying to my SD Card. It just says that doesn't fit in my 2GB SD Card. Could you be so kind and format your SD card not at full capacity so the slight differences in size between SD card makers doesn't affect? I suppose just formating to 1.95GB would be enough....

    Just for your info, my card capacity:
    /dev/sdb1: 2002 MB, 2002714112 bytes
    62 cabezas, 62 sectores/pista, 1017 cilindros, 3911551 sectores en total

    I will try to get a bigger one, but the one I have with 8GB is in mine girlfriend mobile... hard to remove :-)

    Thanks!
    Raul

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    1. JeffHooglandFebruary 3, 2013 at 1:44 PM

      That image is intended for 4+ GB sdcards. Anything smaller than that you aren't going to have enough room to do anything useful with the OS.

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  5. SubramaniamFebruary 14, 2013 at 11:01 AM

    Hi Jeff! keep up the good work. I would like to spend sometime trying to have bodhi working on OMAP4 Panda. Can you give some pointers to building Bodhi from scratch?

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    1. JeffHooglandFebruary 15, 2013 at 7:23 AM

      There isn't any "building Bodhi from scratch" we provide a pre-compiled ARMHF file system that can be booted with whatever kernel works with a given ARM device.

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  6. Haim ifrahFebruary 19, 2013 at 2:54 PM

    does usb lan adapter will work?
    what about mount usb hard drive?

    thanks!

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    1. JeffHooglandFebruary 19, 2013 at 4:56 PM

      Anything that works on a normal Linux system can be made to work on this device with Bodhi

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    2. Haim ifrahFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:46 PM

      well, i tried it.
      put the img on 4GB card.
      tried to boot my MK802 512MB and get
      black square and two gray stripe. nothing else happened...
      i have tushiba regaza tv 42". should suppport 1080p and 720p...

      any idea?

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    3. JeffHooglandFebruary 21, 2013 at 4:35 PM

      As I stated in the post - this is not the place to debug issues. Please open a support request on our user forums.

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  7. DarkrickprFebruary 26, 2013 at 1:55 PM

    Any instruction on how to change the 1080p script.bin to 720p script.bin my LED TV only support 720P

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    1. JeffHooglandFebruary 26, 2013 at 4:45 PM

      Just replace the default script.bin file on the first partition with the 720 one I provide a link to in the post.

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  8. AnonymousApril 11, 2013 at 3:26 PM

    Will this same image also work in the MK802iii and MK802iiiS versions?

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  9. PremaApril 12, 2013 at 10:12 AM

    Can I use this on a Rikomagik 802 III ?

    Thanks

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