Proview on the IBOX  A20 / NEMA2000

 

Showing engine data on a boat (twin engine) by using:

3-9-2014
Santa Claus was early this year.

 

In first case, I had in mind, to use the intern 4GB for Debian. Stripping both Proview and Debian down and to use the MicroSD for Proview projects.

Surfed the Net and found a Microsoft base application named PhoenixSuit Tool.

Tried it but it's crap.

Don't want to waste time on this, running only from MicroSD. Downloaded Debian 7 and gave  the image a "dd" to the MicroSD (root:olimex). MicroSD should be at least 8GB.

4-9-2014

8-9-2014

Oh, no....

The IBOX A20, (Allwinner) has repeatedly violating the GPL.

Companies like this don't understand the need and support of  an active community to make their product successful, including a stable GNU/Linux support.

......................................................................................

OK. I had the next problems which are not Proview related:

Tried another Debian image (https://www.dropbox.com/s/3utl042z7d9za2a/IteaduinoPlus-A20-debian-xfce-0.1-2014-02-26.img.bz)

And again problems..:

Conclusion until now:

But:

 

 

Standard Proview (pwrsrc 5.1.0-4) compiling on the IBOX A20

(Debian 7)

The network interface is not configurated as dhcp client.
Open a terminal:

As root:

nano /etc/network/interface and delete the hash in the line:
auto eth0 and save.

Create a user "pwrp" with password "pwrp".

nano /etc/group
- make the pwrp user a member of the dialout and sudo group.

nano /etc/slim.conf
- set the default_user to pwrp

change hostname in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname to a20

Reboot

As root:


apt-get update
apt-get purge vlc mplayer smplayer gnome-mplayer xscreensaver
apt-get autoremove

cd /usr/local
wget http://maba.dk/jdk-7u60-linux-arm-vfp-hflt.tar.gz
tar zxvf jdk-7u60-linux-arm-vfp-hflt.tar.gz
rm jdk-7u60-linux-arm-vfp-hflt.tar.gz
ln -sf jdk1.7.0_60 jdk

apt-get -y install openssh-server gcc g++ make flex libgtk2.0-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev libasound2-dev doxygen libmysql++-dev libusb-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi libantlr-dev antlr apache2 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 librsvg2-dev libpcap-dev ant --no-install-recommends

Make JDK Oracle default:

update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/local/jdk/bin/java" 1
update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/local/jdk/bin/javac" 1
update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/jar" "jar" "/usr/local/jdk/bin/jar" 1

update-alternatives --config java


mkdir /usr/local/pwrp
chown pwrp:pwrp /usr/local/pwrp
cd /etc/
wget http://maba.dk/proview.cnf

Login as user "pwrp"

Open a terminal:

pwrp@a20:~$ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/proview/files/proview/proview_5.1.0-4/pwrsrc_5.1.0-4.tar.gz

pwrp@a20:~$ tar zxvf pwrsrc_5.1.0-4.tar.gz

pwrp@a20:~$ cd pwrsrc_5.1.0-4

pwrp@a20:~$ wget http://maba.dk/adm.tar.gz

pwrp@a20:~$ tar zxvf adm.tar.gz

pwrp@a20:~$ rm adm.tar.gz

pwrp@a20:~$ mkdir rls

pwrp@a20:~$ cd /home/pwrp/pwrsrc_5.1.0-4/src/tools/pwre/src/os_linux/

pwrp@a20:~$ wget http://maba.dk/pwre_configure-a20.sh

pwrp@a20:~$ mv pwre_configure-a20.sh pwre_configure.sh

pwrp@a20:~$ chmod +x pwre_configure.sh

pwrp@a20:~$ cd /home/pwrp

pwrp@a20:~$ cp .bashrc .bashrc.old

pwrp@a20:~$ wget http://maba.dk/bashrc-a20

pwrp@a20:~$ mv bashrc-a20 .bashrc

pwrp@a20:~$ source .bashrc

You will get an error pwrp not found.

pwrp@a20:~$ pwre add a20

Args:

 

pwrp@a20:~$ pwre init a20

pwrp@a20:~$ pwre configure

pwrp@a20:~$ pwre create_all_modules

pwrp@a20:~$ pwre build_all_modules; pwre build_all_modules

Sleep, walk the dog, cook. This will take a couple of hours.......

Reboot

pwrp@a20:~$ pwra

The complete Proview Development station has been build/compiled and is running. To be honest I am impressed by the speed. A "pwra", which opens the projectlist, takes around 9 seconds.

Proview on a $70 box (without MicroSD and power supply).

 

"Lost" the engines. Project obsolete...

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