Lomiri - the graphical UI

Now that you have gained access to your newly booted device, there remain a number of things to be configured before Ubuntu Touch will be fully functional on your device. The first is to add udev rules which are required for the graphical UI to be able to launch.

What are udev rules?

On your running system there is a continuously running udev daemon which governs how the system handles events on peripheral devices, e.g. connecting the device to a PC via USB cable. This daemon needs a set of rules, the udev rules, to tell it what to do for each possible event. These rules must observe a specific format and they are stored in a file which needs to be generated for each specific device.

Ajouter des règles udev

The correct way to do this is by storing these settings in overlay files (Overlay file method), and not by making the root directory writeable, as described below. However, in order to quickly set up udev rules which are necessary to complete subsequent steps, you can use the method detailed here for first time setup.

Make / (root) writable

Before you make any changes to the rootfs (which will be required for the next steps), you’ll need to remount your root directory (/) with write permissions. Do this by running the following command:

sudo mount -o remount,rw /

Create and add udev rules

You must create some udev rules to allow Ubuntu Touch software to access your hardware.

If you are building a Halium-7.1 based port, run the following command, replacing [CODENAME] with your device’s codename:

sudo -i # And enter your password
cat /var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs/ueventd*.rc|grep ^/dev|sed -e 's/^\/dev\///'|awk '{printf "ACTION==\"add\", KERNEL==\"%s\", OWNER=\"%s\", GROUP=\"%s\", MODE=\"%s\"\n",$1,$3,$4,$2}' | sed -e 's/\r//' >/usr/lib/lxc-android-config/70-[CODENAME].rules

For a Halium-9.0 based port you should use the commands below, again replacing [CODENAME] with your device’s codename:

sudo -i # And enter your password
DEVICE=[CODENAME]
cat /var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs/ueventd*.rc /vendor/ueventd*.rc | grep ^/dev | sed -e 's/^\/dev\///' | awk '{printf "ACTION==\"add\", KERNEL==\"%s\", OWNER=\"%s\", GROUP=\"%s\", MODE=\"%s\"\n",$1,$3,$4,$2}' | sed -e 's/\r//' >/etc/udev/rules.d/70-$DEVICE.rules

Note

If you are building a Halium-9.0 based port for a non-treble device, i.e. a device without a separate vendor partition, the command above will give an error. Simply edit and remove the following string from the command: /vendor/ueventd*.rc.

Maintenant, redémarrez votre appareil. Si tout s’est bien passé, vous devriez voir le logo animé d’Ubuntu Touch suivi par Unity 8. Votre mot de passe de verrouillage est le même que celui que vous aviez défini pour SSH.

When Unity 8 is first brought up on your device, you will probably notice that everything is very small. The Paramètres d’affichage section describes how to deal with this.