Thread: Ubuntu 12.04 on N900 with U-Boot
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ivyking is offline ivyking
2012-04-20 , 17:29
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Originally Posted by unknown.obvious View Post
Ok. How do these crashes look like? These are my expirience: I booted a daily Image of Ubuntu with this kernel. With only the "nokia-n900-input-rules.conf" in xorg.conf.d. It booted till login-screen but I did get some "log" errors before that and I assume at this point these are because the initrd isn't right. The login-screen itselft looked good but I couldn't login because there was no user made and guest-login just went back to login screen.

after that I tried the "kubuntu-mobile-n900-integration_0.1_all" but that crashed login-screen, probably some files other than nokia-n900-input-rules.conf are not compatible.

I tried to modifly uInitrd but no success yet.

I tried this kernel also on a archlinux image and the have been no problems at all.

I'll try some more stuff with ubuntu. If it doesn't work, let's try to build a BSP for n900 the linaro way: https://wiki.linaro.org/HowTo



Yes, that I did.
sorry, silly mistake on my end regarding crashing, fixed and tested again..

I installed 12.04 daily image using the script, and choose "use old ubuntu kernel" so packages from nemo aren't installed, after the installation is done, I manually installed multiple kernels for testing.

results:

using old ubuntu kernel / kernel from nemo:

the system boots, you can log in, unity doesn't always finish loading before crashing, and if it does load, you are greeted with a ton of problem reporting dialogs once you launch a program or two.
And in the end it crashes to log in screen.

using your kernel:

the system boots fine, you can launch programs fine, unity no longer crashes to login screen.

seems stable enough with no crashes at all after 1 hour of testing.

[Edit]

after further testing, some programs still crash occasionally ending with the report problems dialog (firefox, ubuntu one, update notifier, nautilus), I can't trace the cause (it may not be related to kernel after all), and overall the system is quite slow.

still definitely it is much more stable using your kernel than the others, as crashes occur every 2 minutes or so using the other kernels.
Last edited by ivyking; 2012-04-20 at 18:18.
 

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