Comments on: Debian (gnome) Beta 2

By: Aggelos

Aggelos — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:37:50 +0000

Unfortunately, the language doesn’t change.. I’m trying to change it in English or in Greek but it doesn’t work..

By: calcprogrammer1

calcprogrammer1 — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:51:23 +0000

The Archos 43 runs Debian pretty well, it takes some work to get the touchscreen calibrated though. Also, as of now it only works in portrait mode because the video driver is incomplete and the 43′s screen is portrait by default. I don’t think Bluetooth or USB host works yet either.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:24:05 +0000

If you want to avoid having to use sudo for anything that uses the network (which you really should, running web browsers as root is a bad idea), add a group with gid 3003, and add every user that needs network access to that group.

By: Vernon Van Steenkist

Vernon Van Steenkist — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:19:21 +0000

Great Work! Thanks for all your efforts. I am interested in everyone’s experience with the Archos 43. I am debating whether to buy the 43 or 101. I am really excited about having a Debian PC in my pocket. With Debian on the 43,

1) Can you connect a keyboard and mouse through USB port or Bluetooth?

2) Can you hook up a Monitor to the HDMI port.

3) Can you use the built in stand with the display orientation.

4) Is the virtual keyboard usable or is the 43 too small?

Thanks for any info.

By: Katlea-Sutdio

Katlea-Sutdio — Sun, 22 May 2011 14:54:46 +0000

Look at this on the wiki :

https://www.debian-archos.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:language

https://www.debian-archos.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:calibrer_43it

By: CalcProgrammer1

CalcProgrammer1 — Sun, 22 May 2011 04:54:37 +0000

I downloaded the Beta 2 image and it boots nicely on my Archos 43. It is French, which is a bit of an issue for me as I need an English system, but this should be a matter of changing the language settings so no big deal. The big deal, however, is that without any touchscreen calibration the mouse movement is very limited and cannot travel to the main GNOME taskbar, so I can’t do anything. With no way to get WiFi, Bluetooth, etc I can’t connect a mouse or login with VNC/SSH either. How do you calibrate the touchscreen?

By: eagleofdeath13

eagleofdeath13 — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:43:16 +0000

I think it’s an Xserver problem, you’ll eed to log on with debian/debian and then launche the “startx” comand.
But for questions go on the forum

By: Ben Standefer

Ben Standefer — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:39:51 +0000

I was able to resize the image to be smaller using this methodology: http://www.androidfanatic.com/community-forums.html?func=view&id=1610&catid=9

Now, the A28 boots to a blank black screen with a single underscore/prompt looking thing (not flashing) in the top left corner. I don’t have a keyboard hooked up, but maybe I need to hit Enter or type something. I’ll get a keyboard tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

-Ben Standefer

By: Ben Standefer

Ben Standefer — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:02:06 +0000

@katleastudio and crew,

This is amazing, I’m really excited to see Debian on the gen8 Archos devices.

I downloaded the Beta 2 rootfs.img, and it is 4.06GB. I’m developing for the A28 because it is so cheap ($99 USD), which when mounted only reports a capacity of 3.42GB. I can’t try out the image because it is too large to fit on the boot disk of the A28.

Is there a way to reduce the size of the image so that it can be installed on the A28? Or, is there a way to use an SD card or some kind of external storage and have the A28 find the rootfs.img on that disk? Thanks for your help!

-Ben Standefer

By: chris

chris — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:49:33 +0000

Great work!
Thanks man!