Ubuntu 21.04 has released and it features preinstalled server image for SiFive Hifive Unmatched
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/21.04/release/
It is similar to the previously published image for Unleashed.
One can flash to sd-card and after cloud-init is done login with “ubuntu:ubuntu”.
See RISC-V - Ubuntu Wiki for more detailed instructions. Or ask me anything.
Will this also work on the Beagle-V I just received? (same U74 cores but different SoC)
The beaglev beta board requires kernel workarounds that aren’t expected to go upstream, because of SoC issues that will be fixed before production. I wouldn’t expect anything to work on it other than a distro specifically built for it. You might be able to use an Ubuntu rootfs with the beaglev kernel and u-boot though. There is incidentally a fedora image available for the beaglev beta board which is mentioned in the getting started guide.
Jim is correct, it will not work. One could bring in their own opensbi/u-boot/kernel, update extlinux.conf and reuse ubuntu rootfs. But that’s not ideal.
A few Ubuntu people have received Beagle-V boards (I didn’t, but others have). We are looking to see if it will be feasible for 21.10 to have Beagle-V support.
Yes, I’m already running Fedora on my BeagleV. But I tend to know Debian/Ubuntu better.
There are reports from people who have already copied Debian and other rootfs over the Fedora one, keeping the kernel and uboot etc. They do also save a couple of directories from the Fedora (kernel modules for example) and copy them into the other OS.
Thank you for the sharing
In Gnome I get an white square mouse pointer if I hover over the desktop. If I hover over a window, to close it, it becomes an arrow. When I open a gnome terminal the window will not focus and it will not accept keyboard input.
Does anyone know what the problem is and how to fix this?.
A lot of other people are having this problem. The YouTube user Level1techs reviewed it and talks about this bug on his video about a month ago. Maybe try asking on the Ubuntu forum if they have any plans to support the desktop on riscv or if they’re just going to keep doing server images and let everything else fall as it may.
Everyone has the problem with the mouse pointer being a white square. Presumably the fix is not hard, but gnome hacking is not something I’ve done.
Terminal not getting focus or accepting text input is not normal. Mine works fine. Use it all the time.
it was a while ago, but i think the issue was one of two things:
go to settings and…
a. set a different cursor
b. set a different wallpaper image (anything should be fine)
… and it will stop doing that white square.
it seems from what i could tell the cursor and/or wallpaper was unset or set to a non-existing bitmap by default… as others have said, probably just another issue caused by it being a server image and having to install all that from scratch (hence with unset defaults)
Can the source code be downloaded?
For what? Ubuntu? Their archive has sources for every package, though of course for closed-source things in restricted/multiverse those sources will just be blobs that get repackaged during the build.