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1-minute video at Flickr showing 3D hardware acceleration
The video shows the OGLES "Coverflow" demo from Imagination Technologies running on the SGX540 GPU which is part of the OMAP 4430 processor that powers the Pandaboard. Coverflow requires 3D hardware acceleration, so the video shows that the PVR closed-source drivers from Imagination and TI's open source Xorg shared-object libraries work with the MeeGo userland. Just to show that the platform really is MeeGo, I'm running the Handset UX's duihome alongside the graphics demo. OpenVG, the 2D hardware-accelerated graphics suite, also works fine on Panda-MeeGo.
The demo uses the kernel and drivers from the OMAP 4 image of Ubuntu 10.10. The Ubuntu image is installed on a microSD card using TI's instructions.
MeeGo was built using this kickstart file and the 1.1.80 snapshot (just because I had that image lying around the disk) and installed on a generic Kingston 16 GB USB stick using standard methods:
[alison@bonnet]$ dmesg| grep sd [789217.011903]$ sd 33:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk [alison@bonnet]$ mkdir -p /media/meego_usb [alison@bonnet]$ sudo umount /media/meego_usb [alison@bonnet]$ sudo mkfs.ext3 -L meego_usb /dev/sdc1 [alison@bonnet]$ sudo cp -rfp meego-panda-rootfs-morepkgs/* /media/meego_usb [alison@bonnet]$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /media/meego_usb [alison@bonnet]$ ls /media/meego_usb \/ boot/ etc/ lib/ media/ opt/ root/ srv/ tmp/ var/ bin/ dev/ home/ lost+found/ mnt/ proc/ sbin/ sys/ usr/ [alison@bonnet]$
Note that the image is not bootable. It doesn't need to be for the chroot hack to work.
ps axl | grep gdm
Locate the PIDs of gdm-binary and gdm-simple-slave and kill them:
kill -TERM <gdm-binary-pid> kill -TERM <gdm-simple-slave-pid>
If you type Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to the workspace where Ubuntu was running X and gdm-greeter, you should now see a blank screen. Type
ps axl | grep gdm
and
ps axl | grep X
just to make sure.
chroot /media/meego_usb /bin/bash
The shell prompt will change. Welcome to MeeGo!
startx&
On my system, the command took me to virtual desktop 8. To get back to the text console, type Ctrl-Alt-F2 again. You may freely change among Ubuntu text console, MeeGo text console and MeeGo GUI.
alison@ubuntu-installer:~$ echo $DISPLAY :0.0
[ 2085.776] (II) LoadModule: "dri2" [ 2085.776] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
<more stuff omitted>
[ 2085.777] (II) LoadModule: "pvr" [ 2085.778] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/pvr_drv.so [ 2085.779] (II) Module PVR: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 2085.779] compiled for 1.9.0, module version = 1.6.3758 [ 2085.779] Module class: X.Org Video Driver [ 2085.779] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 8.0 [ 2085.779] (II) pvr: Driver for PowerVR chipsets: PowerVR SGX [ 2085.779] (--) using VT number 8 [ 2085.798] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for pvr [ 2085.800] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support [ 2085.826] (II) pvr(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
<more stuff omitted>
[ 2085.829] (II) Loading sub module "dri2" [ 2085.829] (II) LoadModule: "dri2" [ 2085.830] (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so [ 2085.830] (II) pvr(0): [pvr] Software copy threshold : 0B [ 2085.830] (II) pvr(0): [pvr] Software solid threshold : 0B [ 2085.831] (II) pvr(0): [pvr] Software composite threshold : 1024B [ 2085.831] (II) pvr(0): [pvr] Pixmap pool size: 1B [ 2085.831] (II) Loading sub module "exa" [ 2085.831] (II) LoadModule: "exa" [ 2085.832] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so [ 2085.832] (II) Module exa: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 2085.832] compiled for 1.9.0, module version = 2.5.0 [ 2085.832] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 8.0 [ 2085.832] PVRPreInit: done [ 2085.832] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp [ 2085.833] PVRScreenInit [ 2085.833] (II) v4l2: enabling local-alpha for /dev/video1 [ 2085.849] (II) pvr(0): [DRI2] Setup complete [ 2085.849] (II) pvr(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: pvr [ 2085.849] (II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps [ 2085.849] (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations: [ 2085.849] (II) Solid [ 2085.849] (II) Copy [ 2085.849] (II) Composite (RENDER acceleration) [ 2085.873] (==) pvr(0): Backing store disabled [ 2085.873] (==) pvr(0): Silken mouse enabled [ 2085.873] (==) pvr(0): DPMS enabled [ 2085.873] (==) pvr(0): Direct rendering enabled [ 2085.874] PVRScreenInit: done [ 2085.874] (==) RandR enabled [ 2085.874] (II) Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
and so forth. The first numbers in square brackets are timestamps that will vary from run to run. Note that the log file contains errors:
[ 2085.897] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/pvr_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/pvr_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) [ 2085.897] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering [ 2085.897] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
Ignore them; they are expected.