How to get the Geexbox distribution

(work in progress)

Contents

Introduction

(todo)

Features

• Enna media center
• OpenGL|ES acceleration
• DSP-accelerated media playback with GStreamer (work in progress)
• ...

How to build

• install mercurial to clone the source tree
• run hg clone http://hg.geexbox.org/geexbox
• edit config/options and set

TARGET_ARCH=arm
TARGET_CPU=cortex-a8
SERVICES=yes
XORG_DRIVERS="omapfb"
PULSEAUDIO=no
GSTREAMER=yes


• run make flat to build the distribution

Prepare your MicroSD the following way (and order):

• one FAT32 (type 0B) partition, any size, I took 8MB
• one EXT2 partition

• Copy /boot/* (uImage and boot.ini script) to FAT32 partition
• Copy all other files/dirs to EXT2 partition.

IGEPv2 detects the boot.ini script which contains all the necessary instructions for the OS to auto-boot.

Feedback and Contributing

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