[Openembedded-users] Building a simple Distro

Rahul Gundecha rahul.gundecha at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 09:15:59 UTC 2011


Hi Felix,

I hope you enabled keyboard and mouse support in kernel as mentioned here -
http://www.omappedia.org/wiki/OMAP_Angstrom#USB_Keyboard_and_Mouse

Thanks,
Rahul

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Felix Dickehage <felix.dickehage at avantys.de
> wrote:

> Hi Rahul
>
> Thanks for the links. I checked them but did not really find what I was
> looking for. This is the stuff I want to do in step 2 :-)
> At first I want to build an "out of the box"-System so I tried the
> angstrom-2008.1 which failed a couple of times, but nevertheless succeeded
> to build in the end.
>
> I'm still facing the same problem that I don't have any mouse and/or
> keyboard support and all I'm getting is the first screen to provide new user
> information.
>
> What do I have to add in IMAGE_INSTALL +=" ??? " to get either one of it or
> even both working?
>
> Thank you
>
>        Felix
>
>
> Am 25.01.2011 10:55, schrieb Rahul Gundecha:
>
>> Hi Felix,
>>
>> Check following links-
>> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Adding_a_new_Machine
>>
>>
>> http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html#commonuse_new_distro
>>
>> http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html#commonuse_new_machine
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rahul
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Felix Dickehage
>> <felix.dickehage at avantys.de <mailto:felix.dickehage at avantys.de>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi everyone,
>>
>>    I'm pretty new to this Mailinglist and I think my question has
>>    already been answered but I couldn't find anything that helps me.
>>    At first my setup:
>>    I'm using Openembedded stable branch (2009) with the corresponding
>>    bitbake 1.8.12.
>>
>>    I'm trying to build my own Distro that can run in a virtual machine.
>>    I already did a couple of Images on a variety of machine
>>    architectures (x86, i586-generic) like x11-image, console-image,
>>    gpe-image and so on and they all worked quite well, but when it
>>    comes to booting the image within virtualbox or quemu they all do
>>    expect a touchscreen. I'm not getting any keyboard and/or
>>    mouse-support whatsoever. (Not the console-image :-))
>>
>>    What I want is a simple Distro containig USB support and what else
>>    is needed on the target system (e.g. no sound, no sata, IDE-support,
>>    Network, ...) and a simple Window-Manager to get one Programm
>>    running at startup.
>>    The target machine simply is a Pentium 4 PC (with HT) and is
>>    supposed to run a simple piece of CAD software. (RTAI-Patches required)
>>
>>    Can anyone please help me to set up my Distro or give me a link
>>    where this has already been dicussed so I can get started?
>>
>>    Thanks
>>
>>    --
>>
>>    Felix Dickehage
>>
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