The is a translation of a blog wrote by Zhchbin, a CS senior from Zhong Shang University(sysu.edu.cn), China. He participated the 4th Intel Cup National Software Innovation Contest for College Student( NSICCS) this year. The original blog can be found here.
Embedded Platform
LAB-8902 embedded platform is a new low power high-performance embedded platform made by China North Industry Control Group (NORCO Group), This platform consists of touch Screen supported display and motherboard with a compact enclosure. The motherboard is based on Intel@Atom D510 processor+ ICH8M chipset, utilizingthe a Core Duo processor (1.66 GHz Main Frequency, L2 Cache: 512KB*2) with CPU, North Bridge and GPU integrated into one chip. The display is the LCD of10.1″LVDS. LAB-8902 embedded platform is the perfect embodiment of the embedded system, with rich interfaces including 1*JTAG(XDP)/1*8 bit GPIO ports/1*LPC(SMBus)/1*PCI/1*PCI-E/1*MINI PCIE/1*PC104/2*COM and 8*USB2.0 ports. All the ports are of flexible expansibility and students are able to conduct various experiments and developments through this platform, which can facilitate their hardware design & analysis and and improving their capability on software programming. LAB-8902 embedded platform provides a display of 1*10.1″ LVDS and 1*VGA port.Its VGA+LVDS dual independent display can facilitate the operation.
Meego Installation and Configuration
In our project, we used Meego system image: meego-tablet-ia32-pinetrail-1.2.0.90.0.20110517.1.img downloaded from Meego repository, and followed the offical Meego installation instruction for Viewsonic tablet ( http://software.intel.com/zh-cn/articles/viewsonic_tablet_meego_installation/). After installation, I immediately found out that Meego Tablet 1.2 OS does not support the touch screen function of this platform ( it seems no driver has been developed for it). During the multiple installation trials, mouse icon were showing up in multiple cases, which made me think that there must be a mouse driver developed in Meego Tablet 1.2 that the Lab-8092 detected. Based on previous development experience using emulator on PC, there must be a configuration file somewhere that I can change and make it to work for this platform. Thus I started patiently searching related .conf file in /etc. My approach seems right, and I found the file and was able to do the following configuration
To Change Configuration to allow Meego Tablet to use Mouse
- Gedit the file at /etc/sysconfig/uxlaunch
- Comment out (Add “#”) the last line of code: xopts = -nocursor
No with this change, I got Meego Tablet 1.2 running on my LAB-8902 embedded platform box, much smooth and faster than the Meego emulator running in Meego SDK, and very convenient for the testing.
Source Software Intel
