2011-11-20, 22:16
Cofi Wrote:I have been trying to get Linaro to work with the pandaboard the last few days.
Like xmarsx said above there are some graphic errors in the Linaro Ubuntu build and gfx freezes at startup.
So instead i tried the ALIP version. Boots fine, but after installation of OMAP4 extras and reboot it refuses to start. I managed to run XBMC without the OMAP4 extras at one point but it was really slow.
It might be worth trying newer Linaro builds. Maybe the desktop graphic errors are now fixed (nightly builds)...as TI released newer components last week.
As I also wrote above on the standard Ubuntu Desktop/Server release there were some screen issues in the lower half of the screen when playing videos with Totem (only then).
xbmc on the other hand is running perfectly (XviD,..) on the standard Ubuntu 11.10 as long as you don't try play HD content which is a little bit slow. For HD xbmc has to use the available hardware of the Pandaboard better.
Maybe robclark can jump in here. From what he wrote about libdce and gst-ducati he seems to be the right person for this task.