Many Efika MX users are going to be looking at a little dialog box right now from Update Manager telling them that a new Ubuntu software release is ready to be installed.
At this time upgrading to Natty Narwhal (11.04) may sound exciting, but it is not supported on any Efika MX products. Upgrading will brick your system.
We will be shipping a clean installation image, one for Maverick which disables the prompt along with an update to the package repository that will do this for installed systems, and one for Natty shortly, but we will not be supporting upgrades from Maverick to Natty from an installed system.
To reiterate, please do not tell Update Manager to "Upgrade to Natty Narwhal (11.04)" on Efika MX.
Matt, is there a beta natty install to test? I'm here in Budapest, so it would be a great time to try it while UDS is going on.
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Would be interested in a beta install as well.
ReplyDeleteUff thanks for reporting! I had scheduled to do that upgrade this night, any date for efika mx naughty narwhal release?
ReplyDeleteI upgraded, and I think it's using software rendering right now.
ReplyDeleteI guess my comment was deleted (probably to stop people from doing it). Sorry about that!
ReplyDeleteI'm going back to Ubuntu 10.10, using the efikamx apt depot, and I'm very very happy!
You guys did an amazing job with these two lovely devices - smartbook and smarttop :)
Natty is currently a blip on our roadmap to be done "whenever Maverick is finished with" - a few delays came up and it pushes Natty back.
ReplyDeleteWe hope to have finalized Maverick by the end of next week with one final round of package updates which should get everyone with a Maverick install the right balance of "all new cool stuff" vs. "never getting another update".
The work on Natty we decided to take a different approach, which is to basically start to replace several Ubuntu metapackages to clean the system up. Have you noticed in Maverick there is a Sun graphics driver installed, and Mac touchpad drivers? I saw a "xserver-xorg-video-savage" update last week, and we want to get rid of some things which aren't relevant to our boards (or ARM platforms in general). This will give us a much leaner, better maintainable system while conserving the features added in Natty (you won't notice if there is no Alps touchpad support, no S3 graphics driver, and the minimal, standard and desktop metapackages will not force a lot of software people don't really need.
I am having a bit of trouble also with my Panda board. I downgraded back to Maverick. One initramfs update bricked my Panda board. So for ARM in general, it's best to wait a while.
ReplyDeleteWow, you guys have some interesting products!
I have just had the same problems with my own Pandaboard this weekend. We pay attention to the other ARM products, the hope is we will learn from the experience :)
ReplyDeleteI just ordered one Efika Smarttop from the EU store.
ReplyDeleteI cannot wait for the upgrade.
ReplyDeleteThe smartbook is fantastic and makes people very curious wherever I go with it.
The build quality is top and the features are just right.
And if the Natty revision will bring so many improvements that I read on the forum it will be even better.
Keep up the great work.
I hope I'll be able to contribute some thing soon...
Any updates on natty img?
ReplyDeleteHi, I am having some trouble with audio in the Smarttop. I just got it about a week ago, configured the preinstalled Ubuntu 10.10, ran "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get everything current. (But I haven't upgraded to Natty)
ReplyDeletealsasink doesn't play any sound and oss plays sounds very slowly, at about half rate. ("gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! osssink" give a very low pitched buzz. Mp3 playback gives very low pitched monster growls.) Any advice? Or is there a better forum to ask?
Are you guys taking care of the forums at www.powerdeveloper.org? I registered there quite a while ago and my account never got activated. It might be good to automate activation via e-mail or something.
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ReplyDeleteI made my Smarttop stop booting by installing the Linaro kernel in the Ubuntu repository. I don't know why - perhaps it wasn't configured correctly.
ReplyDeleteI fixed it by flashing it with this image:
http://www.powerdeveloper.org/platforms/efikamx/linux
It says that it's Maverick, but the UI looks like Natty. In order to get sound (Alsa) working, I needed to add an .asoundrc to my home directory and add this line to it:
pcm.!default plughw:imx3stack
After that Alsa started working.
I wish someone would take care about their own forum and products.
ReplyDeleteI've registered 3 times at the forum and no activation e-mail.
And waiting for new system update is like waiting for Duke Nuke Forever.
Maybe we will get something quicker from independent source:
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/06/23/arm-port-preview/
Oh, new image has been announced on the forum.
ReplyDeleteDemo or not - here I come :D
@qdlaty, could you post a link to the new image?
ReplyDeleteYou can find it at the Power Developers forum:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2023
unfortunately, I've missed the first revision with flash player included :/
omg -- what exactly do you mean by 'brick'? :(
ReplyDeleteBecause, not knowing about this blog until today, just yesterday I thought I'd take advantage of the downtime while the kids adjust to school and update their system to 11.04
and it seems to run, but what do I do now? how can I downgrade back to where I should be? and what's this about a revision with a flash player included? :)
ok, found my way around the img re-install and starting fresh with the last posted image; would still like to know more about that mysteriously vanishing flash .so though, even if someone were to just maybe leak the filename in case it were to, I dunno, show up on a 4shared.com page or some other google hit? Not to, you know, violate and proprietary agreements with Adobe you understand, it's just that, well accidents happen, I think we all understand that :)
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