Cubian for A10 Tablets

Welcome to “Cubian for A10 Tablets” wiki.

Here you can find tips, how to install, configure and boost Cubian on tablets with Allwinner A10 (sun4i) chip. Thank to Cubian, we can have full-featured Debian distrubtion on almost every A10 device - SetTopBox, MiniPC, tablets, phones etc.

• Know more about Cubian
• Read Wikipedia article about Allwinner A10
• Visit "official" Linux on A10 community wiki
• Some infos about A10 on rhombus-tech
• A10_EVB_1.2 based tablets

• What SD card I need to have?
• Preparing Linux
• Get device-specific configuration file for device

• Download and extract Cubian
• Prepare disk correctly
• Installing system to SD card

• Logging in
• Fixing random resets; overclocking
• Connect to wireless network
• Installing system to NAND

• Localepurge
• Timezone data
• Keyboard configuration
• Locales

• Xorg with Mali graphics acceleration
• Desktop environments comparison
• Xfce
• SLiM Display Manager
• Testing Xorg drivers

• Updating system
• Fixing security problems caused by sudo
• Change password for users
• Changing username
• Change hostname
• Battery and bootloader - fixing problems
• List of useful apps