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Getting started with Tux Droid
First of all: congratulations for buying your own Tux Droid! We hope you will have as much fun using and programming Tux Droid as we have had developing it!
Installing your Tux Droid
This guide is intended for the more user-friendly Linux distributions such as Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Xandros, ... The libraries required for the Tux Droid software will be pre-installed. So setting up Tux Droid with those distro's should be pretty straightforward.Gentoo, Debian or FreeBSD may require the additional installation of ALSA, libusb and Python. The ALSA and Tux Droid and libusb and Tux Droid links give some guidelines on how to check, install and setup these modules for the more experienced Linux user.
The following how-to's will guide you step by step to setup your Tux Droid:
Support
There are different ways you can get support and answers to your question or just follow the development of Tux Droid.
- The documentation section should contain all procedures and issues you're likely to need, check the FAQ's and howto's first.
- If you have problems setting up your droid or using it, you can search the forum and post your questions there, post on the user mailing list or join us on the #tuxdroid irc channel.
- If you found bugs in a module of Tux Droid, go to the corresponding project page in the developer Corner, follow the link for the Issue Tracker and file a new issue there.
tux-droid-user Mailing lists
Discusses general issues and questions related to Tux Droid. This list is also used for all developments around Tux Droid (daemon, api, firmware and all applications.)
Browse and search the archives of this list via Sourceforge.
Browse the archives of this list via Gmane.
Search the archives of this list via Gmane.
This is a good idea to do every time you have a question, there's a good
chance your question has already been answered before.
Online chat
If you want to talk to the Tux Droid community live, we have a room on irc: #tuxdroid channel on irc.freenode.net.