Madeo.co.uk

This howto should be very simple to follow. All rpms have been made specifically for meego this time unlike my previous howtos.

This should work for a stock meego 1.0 netbook image. I tested it on a Samsung NC10 with 2GB of ram.

A few optional things that could be nice
An openssh server might be useful, full vim, wget and synergy (keyboard sharing client/server)

sudo yum install -y vim openssh-server wget synergy

My howto will use wget.

Installing dependancies from Meego repos
Here goes the big part. The last 15 or so dependancies may not all be required. However I didn't want to go all the way through them again. If you do it please send me an email

sudo yum install -y boost-devel glew-devel libsamplerate-devel libogg-devel bzip2-devel zip lzo-devel fribidi-devel sqlite-devel pcre-devel flac-devel libsmbclient-devel libtalloc samba-winbind gperf libXau-devel libvorbis-devel openssl-devel SDL-devel alsa-lib-devel alsa-plugins-pulseaudio jasper-devel jasper-libs libtiff-devel SDL_image-devel libXtst-devel libXmu-devel libcurl-devel libmp4v2-devel fontconfig-devel libpng-devel SDL_mixer-devel libXinerama-devel libXi-devel avahi-devel libcom_err-devel e2fsprogs-devel python-devel cppunit-devel freeglut-devel perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder libXxf86vm-devel mikmod-devel esound-devel expat-devel dbus-devel dbus-glib-devel libblkid-devel dos2unix libsysfs-devel glib2-devel libXv-devel ncurses-devel readline-devel doxygen udisks-devel

Installing dependancies from here
You don't need to install the HAL package since revision 29991. Meego provides udisks and udisks-devel. Thanks openelec.tv for pointing this out!
Warning : my mysql package is probably a little different as I got rid of some dependancies
Warning : my lame package does not include mp3x as it needed gtk+-devel and I have better things to do
If you want to save some space the debuginfo and doc packages are not needed. Also only the main mysql package and it's dependancies are needed.

My webserver is getting hammered so please be nice and use this google docs link to download the dependancies. Below are the sha1sum and md5sum for the file.

[brendan@madeouk]$ sha1sum XBMC_deps_rpms.tar.gz
2cbe584ddc418c1f177707e2a3baef89bda42928 XBMC_deps_rpms.tar.gz
[brendan@madeouk]$ md5sum XBMC_deps_rpms.tar.gz
0f9c094fa8ec20022989965b5642cc1a XBMC_deps_rpms.tar.gz

wget http://www.madeo.co.uk/files/XBMC_deps_rpms.tar.gz
tar xzvf XBMC_deps_rpms.tar.gz
cd i586
rm hal-*
sudo rpm -ivh *

Getting XBMC and compiling/installing
Feel free to use a different version, the latest wouldn't compile for me so I took what my Acer Revo was currently running... This will take a few hours on an Atom 270 without distcc.
Warning: You'll need to use another computer to grab the xbmc sources since SVN isn't in the meego repos and I havent built an RPM for it. Maybe later!

svn co -r30739 https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk/ xbmc
cd xbmc/
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-vdpau --disable-dvdcss --disable-hal
make -j2
make install

That's all! Hopefully it works for you.
Notice the windowmanager will mess things up if your mouse is in the top part of the screen. Disable the mouse in XBMC or just run a different WM like openbox.

These are not official builds. Nor are they official instructions. Follow at your own risk !
Download link : (647MB). Alternate link here .
If you're even lazier here are some pictures and videos of it running!

Part 1 : Build environment
Skip to part2 if you allready have MIC2 or if you have no intention of using fedora
I used Fedora 10, simply because there was a repo for the MIC2 (tool to make images for moblin). For a quick install download a vmware image off thoughtpolice. (the root password is thoughtpolice!).

I'm not sure this is needed but selinux complains during the build and it's notoriously annoying so I disabled it.

system-config-selinux

Add this as moblin_tools.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/:

[MoblinTools]
name=Moblin fc10 tools
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://repo.moblin.org/moblin/tools/fc10/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Now we install mic2. (and all it's dependancies...). Load the squashfs module just to make sure

sudo yum install mic2
sudo modprobe squashfs

Part 2 : making the image!
The Intel/Nokia people very kindly hide away some premade images :

http://repo.meego.com/trunk/repo/ia32/os/image-config/

You can either use their default.ks image or my brendan.ks image with the time and keyboard fixed so that it works in the uk

moblin-image-creator -c brendan.ks -f liveusb

To burn it to a USB stick use:

dd bs=4096 if=moblin-brendan-201002191551.usbimg of=/dev/sdx

You'll find your root user has the following property in the live USB image:

user : root
Password : moblin

Notes :
- I've found my clutter interface usually crashes on the first load. Doing an init 3 and then init 5 in a tty terminal as root usually fixes it.

Here are a few pictures of the upcoming Meego release (Moblin 2.2).
Go try it out for yourself! USB image can be downloaded here

Bootup is about as fast as Moblin 2.1, syslinux menu has not changed but due to using MIC2 this is not a surprise. Kernel 2.6.33-rc8 is used.

Graphically menus have changed very slightly. It now has a meego graphic as it starts clutter/mutter.

The biggest changes I could spot where Chromium for web browsing and Mozilla nowhere to be found... Thunderbird was being used for email. When halting (which apparently having no icon to do that means it's more user friendly...) it gives you a cute little backdrop of one of those creature like blocks waving at you!

Right now, Meego looks like a clone of Moblin and the only reason for the name change seems to be to appease the Maemo community which still seems to be up in arms about the move to an RPM based distro.

Download either the latest SVN build (the SVN build used during this howto was 27627) or the latest stable (9.11 Camelot)

(For information 9.11 Camelot is revision 26018 - list of tags is here http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/tags/)
Run only one of the below

svn co http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk xbmc
svn co -r 26018 http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk xbmc

Follow the "Preparing the system" (Part 1) section for Boxee on moblin.

install libflac, libsmblient and libtiff

sudo yum install flac flac-devel libsmbclient-devel libtiff-devel

install libfaad and libmpeg2

wget ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/faad2-libs-2.6.1-6.fc10.i386.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/faad2-devel-2.6.1-6.fc10.i386.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/libmpeg2-0.5.1-3.fc10.i386.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/libmpeg2-devel-0.5.1-3.fc10.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh faad2* libmpeg*

For camelot, you will need to apply a patch in order to get past an SSL error. The bug is here http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/8137

wget http://trac.xbmc.org/raw-attachment/ticket/8137/libbdnav-remove-openssl.patch
patch < libbdnav-remove-openssl.patch

choose xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/Codecs/libbdnav/configure.ac

For working VDPAU you will need libvdpau2.0. The easiest way to do that is to install the latest 195 nvidia driver. If you don't have an nvidia card, then just ignore this, you will compile the code with VPDAU disabled.
If you are doing this, I will assume that you have allready followed my guide for the acer revo on moblin.. You will need to recompile Xorg for this to work and change the permissions on the Xorg binary (Parts 3,4 and 6)

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.30-pkg1.run

Change the -j argument to number of threads your CPU can execute simulatneously +1. On a revo (Atom N230) that's 3.

mkdir /home/brendan/xbmc_camelot
cd camelot
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/home/brendan/xbmc_camelot
make -j3
make install

Part 1 - Preparing the system for compilation - Missing dependancies

wget http://91.190.227.59/xbmc_builddeps.tar.gz
tar xvfz xbmc_builddeps.tar.gz
cd xbmc_builddeps
sudo rpm -ivh --force glew-*
sudo rpm -ivh libmms* libcdio-* libmp4v2-1.5.0.1-8.moblin2.i586.rpm enca-* faac* mysql-*
sudo yum install -y SDL-devel SDL_image-devel SDL_gfx-devel SDL_mixer-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel boost boost-devel bzip2-devel fribidi-devel lzo-devel jasper-devel libpng-devel hal-devel cmake gperf libtool zip nasm libXtst-devel libXi-devel libXmu-devel fontconfig-devel freetype-devel libXinerama-devel pcre-devel gcc gcc-c++ sqlite-devel curl-devel openssl-devel avahi-devel libsamplerate-devel pulseaudio-devel patch diffutils make binutils pixman-devel glibc-devel libpciaccess-devel libgomp43 mpfr autoconf quilt cmake unzip automake mesa-libgl mesa-libgl-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-libGLU libjpeg-devel libmad-devel libjpeg-devel libsamplerate-devel svn tcp_wrappers-devel tcp_wrappers-libs libvdpau libmikmod

in /etc/yum.conf add the following repo:

[fedora10]
name=fedora10
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/10/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Now we use the newly added repo to install some dependencies:

sudo yum install SDL alsa-lib enca faac glew libmp4v2 mysql-libs nss openssl tre libvorbis xmms-libs wavpack wavpack-devel

remove the added repo from /etc/yum.conf

Next, install libmad (it's possible you only need libmad-devel, but I'm not sure):

wget ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/libmad-0.15.1b-8.fc10.i386.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/libmad-devel-0.15.1b-8.fc10.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh libmad-0.15.1b-8.fc10.i386.rpm libmad-devel-0.15.1b-8.fc10.i386.rpm

Symlink libmysqlclient where boxee expects it
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so

Only if you want VDPAU acceleration (only with Nvidia GPUs)

wget ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/2/mirror/fedora/linux/updates/10/i386/libvdpau-0.2-1.fc10.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh libvdpau-0.2-1.fc10.i386.rpm

Part 2 - Compiling and installing

Download sources 0.9.14 from boxee.tv

wget http://dl.boxee.tv/boxee-0.9.14.6992-sources.tar.bz2
tar xjvf boxee-0.9.14.6992-sources.tar.bz2

Next we get a newer version of xbmc Linux/Tools

svn co https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk/tools/Linux
cp --no-dereference --preserve=all -R -v ~/Linux ~/boxee-0.9.14.6992-sources/tools/

Next we apply this patch made for ubuntu.

wget http://www.madeo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/patch.txt
patch -p 1 < patch.txt
cd ~/boxee-0.9.14.6992-sources/web/Project\ Mayhem\ III/
zip -v -r -9 -o ../Project_Mayhem_III_webserver_v1.0.zip ./*
cd ~/boxee-0.9.14.6992-sources/
autoreconf

Now configure boxee with chosen prefix. default for moblin is /usr but I thought it was nicer to keep everything tidy where I was. Afterwards, just copy the included lib from xbmc into /usr/include to make compilation go smoothly

./configure --prefix=/home/brendan/boxee
cp xbmc/lib/cximage-6.0/jpeg/jpegint.h /usr/include/

in makefile add -lnsl inside the LIB= variable
Change the -j argument to number of threads your CPU can execute simulatneously +1. On a revo (Atom N230) that's 3.

make -j3
make install

In /home/brendan/boxee/bin I can now just run ./xbmc.

Optional - replacing mutter/clutter with boxee

sudo mv /etc/xdg/moblin/xinitrc /etc/xdg/moblin/xinitrc.old

and add this as the new /etc/xdg/moblin/xinitrc

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/brendan/boxee/bin
./xbmc


Credits for patch go to "jdb2" from http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=13206

This is a guide to do a full install of Moblin 2.1 on the Acer Revo R3600. I will assume that you have actually just finished installing the revo using moblin's GUI installer from a usb stick (or whatever you wanted to use). I have included premade xorg packages and kernel packages so all you need to do is install the nvidia driver and recompile mutter if you want the moblin interface.

Lazy links:
- http://madeo.co.uk/moblin/kernel_moblin2.6.31.tar.gz
- http://madeo.co.uk/moblin/xorg_moblin1.6.4.tar.gz
- http://madeo.co.uk/moblin/mutter_moblin2.28.1.tar.gz

Part 1 - Booting
First thing is, you'll want to be able to boot. To do this, it's not hard but I can never get to the escape key in time. If you manage to, then edit the line and take away the 'vga=current' and add a lone 3 at the end. You should then boot in init 3 mode. Notice the weird colours in the first agetty session. Clearing the terminal will resolve those. Also you won't have a prompt, but that's not too annoying if you use ssh.

Part 2 - Ethernet
Out of the box, the ethernet doesn't work This means we need to recompile the kernel with the ethernet driver forcedeth. Here is how to do it :

Be carefull, rpmbuild will fail if you run it as root unlike in previous builds.
Because you have no network to compile this kernel, either use another moblin pc, or a VM to compile the rpms or copy all these rpm's on a usb stick you will need all these dependencies.

sudo yum install rpm-build diffutils moblin-rpm-config patch binutils cpp cpp43 gcc gcc-c++ gcc43 gcc43-c++ glibc-devel glibc-headers kernel-headers libgomp43 libstdc++43-devel make mpfr mpfr-devel binutils-devel elfutils-libelf-devel elfutils-libelf-devel-static perf

Now you will be able to install the kernel.

rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.31.5-10.1.moblin2.src.rpm
cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES

Edit the file config-generic and add the following lines to the file

CONFIG_FORCEDETH=y
CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI=y

Now we build the kernel

cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
rpmbuild --target=i586 -bb kernel.spec
cd ../RPMS

You now have the kernel rpms. For this job, I recommend just using kernel-netbook so :

rpm -ivh --force kernel-netbook-2.6.31.5-10.1.moblin2.i586.rpm kernel-netbook-devel-2.6.31.5-10.1.moblin2.i586.rpm perf-2.6.31.5-10.1.moblin2.i586.rpm

If you're not difficult the kernel_moblin2.6.31.tar.gz package will do just fine. Links are at the start of the post.

Part 3 - Recompiling Xorg

sudo yum install "pkgconfig(scrnsaverproto)" "pkgconfig(xtrans)" "pkgconfig(libdrm)" "pkgconfig(randrproto)" "pkgconfig(renderproto)" "pkgconfig(kbproto)" "pkgconfig(glproto)" "pkgconfig(fixesproto)" "pkgconfig(dri2proto)" "pkgconfig(damageproto)" "pkgconfig(xf86driproto)" "pkgconfig(xcmiscproto)" "pkgconfig(bigreqsproto)" "pkgconfig(resourceproto)" "pkgconfig(compositeproto)" "pkgconfig(resourceproto)" "pkgconfig(evieproto)" "pkgconfig(xf86dgaproto)" "pkgconfig(xf86vidmodeproto)" "pkgconfig(xkbfile)" "pkgconfig(xres)" "pkgconfig(xau)" "pkgconfig(xext)" "pkgconfig(xfont)" "pkgconfig(fontenc)" "pkgconfig(xdmcp)" "pkgconfig(xt)" "pkgconfig(dmx)" "pkgconfig(xmuu)" "pkgconfig(xrender)" "pkgconfig(xi)" "pkgconfig(xpm)" "pkgconfig(xaw7)" "pkgconfig(xfixes)" "pkgconfig(xv)" "pkgconfig(pixman-1)" "pkgconfig(gl)" "pkgconfig(x11)" "pkgconfig(openssl)" "pkgconfig(pciaccess)" "pkgconfig(hal)" "pkgconfig(dbus-1)" byacc flex autoconf automake gcc gcc-c++ rpm-build make xineramaproto
wget http://repo.moblin.org/moblin/releases/2.1/source/xorg-x11-server-1.6.4.901-7.8.moblin2.src.rpm
rpm -ivh xorg-x11-server-1.6.4.901-7.8.moblin2.src.rpm
cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS

edit the spec file xorg-x11-server.spec and replace
--disable-xinerama by --enable-xinerama
build the target and install it

rpmbuild --target=i586 -bb xorg-x11-server.spec
cd ../RPMS/i586/
sudo rpm -ivh --force xorg-x11-server-1.6.4.901-7.8.moblin2.i586.rpm xorg-x11-server-common-1.6.4.901-7.8.moblin2.i586 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.4.901-7.8.moblin2.i586.rpm

If you take the lazy option again and get my premade rpm's then you obviously only need to do the last bit!

Part 4 - Graphics

First we will get wget. Like openssh, not neccesary but makes the whole process alot easier.
This next part is really nice. You can finally copy and paste and use networking to your advantage! Unless you really like agetty....

sudo yum install -y openssh-server wget && /etc/init.d/sshd restart

Then we download the latest nvidia ION driver. Then you'll want to install all the dependencies. Aren't you glad you have working ethernet now?
If you've been following the guide you'll notice you have alot of these if you compiled your own kernel. I left the extras in case you took my premade rpms. Either way yum will not reinstall stuff if you allready have it.

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/190.42/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.42-pkg1.run

yum install -y make gcc nbtk nbtk-devel gnome-common libtool intltool gettext-devel glib2-devel intltool gtk-doc gconf-editor gnome-doc-utils avahi-gobject-devel.i586 pygobject2.i586 pygobject2-devel.i586 mx mx-devel mx-doc pkgconfig\(mutter-plugins\) pkgconfig\(libstartup-notification-1.0\) pkgconfig\(gconf-2.0\)

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.30-pkg1.run

Accept the license and then select yes when asked if it should write it's display configuration.

Part 5 - Mutter
We will take the development version of mutter and mutter-devel. In case these change on the moblin servers I have included them at the top as another lazy link!

wget http://repo.moblin.org/moblin/development/core/ia32/os/i586/mutter-devel-2.28.1_0.4-1.2.moblin2.i586.rpm
wget http://repo.moblin.org/moblin/development/core/ia32/os/i586/mutter-2.28.1_0.4-1.2.moblin2.i586.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh --force mutter-*
wget http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/mutter-moblin/snapshot/mutter-moblin-0.49.0.zip
unzip mutter-moblin-0.49.0.zip
cd mutter-moblin-0.49.0/
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Part 6 - X as user
After all this, startx will result in a failure. To fix it, create the file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf with this inside :

options nvidia NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0
options nvidia NVreg_DeviceFileGID=62
options nvidia NVreg_DeviceFileMode=0660

Make sure group 62 is the video group and that your user is in it!
Finish off by adding the s bit to Xorg :

chmod 4755 /usr/bin/Xorg

Done!

- If you are failing to start mutter try add a sleep before executing mutter in /etc/xdg/moblin/xinitrc

About Moblin

For fully working revo on moblin 2.1 go here

Todo : understand and fix the issue in Clutter to get it to work with Nvidia drivers (as previously with Moblin 2.0)

Thanks to :

- Install Moblin
It should work from the USB stick (on Acer Revo F12 during Bios test will let you slect to boot on the USB stick)

- Boot in Text Mode (init 3)
enter Esc during Grub initialisation (easier is to enter Esc every second during boot) to access Grub Menu
press e to go to Edit mode press arrow down to get to the second line press e to go in Line Edit mode replace "quiet vga=current" by the digit 3 press b to boot

log with the user and password you entered during installation

Become root (note type "su -" the space and the "-" are important)
sudo su -

Installing ssh - (just to make it easier - not neccessary)

yum install openssh-server
service sshd start
ifconfig

# Become root (note type "su -" the space and the "-" are important)

sudo su -

# enter your user password

cd /root

- Install packages required to build x11-server.

Note next line is very very LONG because escaping with "\" seems to create trouble with yum.

yum install "pkgconfig(scrnsaverproto)" "pkgconfig(xtrans)" "pkgconfig(libdrm)" "pkgconfig(randrproto)" "pkgconfig(renderproto)" "pkgconfig(kbproto)" "pkgconfig(glproto)" "pkgconfig(fixesproto)" "pkgconfig(dri2proto)" "pkgconfig(damageproto)" "pkgconfig(xf86driproto)" "pkgconfig(xcmiscproto)" "pkgconfig(bigreqsproto)" "pkgconfig(resourceproto)" "pkgconfig(compositeproto)" "pkgconfig(resourceproto)" "pkgconfig(evieproto)" "pkgconfig(xf86dgaproto)" "pkgconfig(xf86vidmodeproto)" "pkgconfig(xkbfile)" "pkgconfig(xres)" "pkgconfig(xau)" "pkgconfig(xext)" "pkgconfig(xfont)" "pkgconfig(fontenc)" "pkgconfig(xdmcp)" "pkgconfig(xt)" "pkgconfig(dmx)" "pkgconfig(xmuu)" "pkgconfig(xrender)" "pkgconfig(xi)" "pkgconfig(xpm)" "pkgconfig(xaw7)" "pkgconfig(xfixes)" "pkgconfig(xv)" "pkgconfig(pixman-1)" "pkgconfig(gl)" "pkgconfig(x11)" "pkgconfig(openssl)" "pkgconfig(pciaccess)" "pkgconfig(hal)" "pkgconfig(dbus-1)" byacc flex autoconf automake gcc gcc-c++ rpm-build make xineramaproto kernel-netbook-devel

you will need to enter y for Yes twice ??

Download the source code of x11-server and install it

curl -o xorg-x11-server-1.6.4.901-7.8.moblin2.src.rpm http://repo.moblin.org/moblin/releases/2.1/source/xorg-x11-server-1.6.4.901-7.8.moblin2.src.rpm
rpm -i xorg-x11-server-1.6.4.901-7.8.moblin2.src.rpm

edit the spec file /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/xorg-x11-server.spec and replace
--disable-xinerama by --enable-xinerama

build the target

rpmbuild --target=i586 -bb /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/xorg-x11-server.spec

install the newly built x11-server (-i uses only one hyphen and --force two)

rpm -iv --force rpmbuild/RPMS/i586/xorg-x11-server-*

download the nvidia drivers

curl -o NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.42-pkg1.run http://uk.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/190.42/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.42-pkg1.run

make the script executable

chmod +x ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.42-pkg1.run

Run the Nvidia script

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.42-pkg1.run

accept Nvidia license, it will compile the kernel module and install what is needed ask Nvidia installation script to create a new xorg.conf file

reboot!

After a few extra second of boot you will see the Nvidia logo Any clutter application will fail to start (including Mutter) after a few restart of X you will get the Moblin 2.1 top bar.

Hope someone will find a fix for Clutter!