Each of your observations are true. Dan MacDonald-3 wrote > I looked into these devices a bit more last night. It seems Picuntu (which > is based upon Ubuntu 12.10 and still in beta) currently only supports the > dual-core RK3066 devices and I failed to find any success stories of > people > having got Ubuntu (or any non-Android Linux) to install on the quad core > RK3188s. Work is underway to remedy this. Dan MacDonald-3 wrote > Picuntu doesn't yet include the Mali GPU drivers but there are > instructions > available for installing the Mali drivers which apparently brings you > accelerated 2D and OGLES2 under xorg. However, its the VPU which handles > video playback accel and I'm not sure this is working yet for the RK3066. For completeness, there is a sister project (home://io) which includes GPU drivers. For our application, however, GPU drivers are not essential currently. Dan MacDonald-3 wrote > Another pitfall is the wifi/bt chipsets as, having a read through forums > for these devices, it would seem not all the wifi chipsets are supported > by > Picuntu yet so thats another thing to look out for before anyone takes the > plunge and buys one. Definitely true but improving. An accepted practice with such sticks is currently to go out to a USB hub / Ethernet dongle. As someone else indicated, these sticks generally have no dedicated audio in or out. This may be mitigated by using USB based i/o. Perry ----- Partner KSK Electrics, LLC -- View this message in context: http://linux-audio.4202.n7.nabble.com/Google-TV-device-w-AV-out-tp85160p85215.html Sent from the linux-audio-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
