Optimization team update (11/23 ~ 11/29)

John Lee john_lee at openmoko.com
Mon Dec 1 16:07:15 CET 2008


On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:22:28PM +0900, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Thanks, also I was bit too rushed.  I shut down X which allowed me to
> stay logged in and find out that the customisations to get the spanner
> and keyboards had been undone - fixed them and I can now use the phone.
> The suspend time is fixable from the spanner so the settings isnt
> needed.
> 
> Some of my existing apps wont start (pypennotes, ...) so they probably
> need upgrading.  openmoocow (old version) started once out of three
> tries - left me at a grey screen otherwise.  At one point the display
> died and restarted itself when I tapped a blank part of the home screen.
> 
> Fonts and widgets are far too large on apps like pythm, tangogps and the
> like.

Just checking:

Do you have moko-gtk-engine and moko-gtk-theme installed ?

> 
> Tried a test call - no audio :(
> Probably need to set a profile, but need the settings app for that.
> 
> BillK
> 
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 12:51 +0000, Joseph Reeves wrote:
> > I've discovered the same:
> > 
> > https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2148
> > 
> > Joseph
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 2008/12/1 William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>:
> > > Loaded it up and it rebooted fine, but isnt usable.
> > >
> > > Ive lost the spanner so I cant configure it
> > >
> > > It goes to sleep automaticly after a few seconds and without the spanner
> > > I cant figure out how to disable it (I see you mention that sleep time
> > > needs to be reset - but how?).  Same if I have it plugged into usb, goes
> > > to sleep while I am logged into it.  The old settings icon is still
> > > present, but does nothing except spin for a few seconds and exits -
> > > tried logging in to faultfind it but - you guessed it, phone went to
> > > sleep.
> > >
> > > Its gone back to the huge icons - a real pain, again I cant see how to
> > > select the smaller ones without the spanner.
> > >
> > > Ive lost the terminal keyboard and only have the crappy ones left -
> > > unusable for anything serious, like trying to use a terminal to fix
> > > things :(
> > >
> > > I'll try an unmodified 2008.9 in a couple of days and see if my changes
> > > to make 2008.9 usable are the cause of the above.
> > >
> > > The good - gsm registered immediately, but then it went to sleep :(
> > >
> > > BillK
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 19:50 +0800, John Lee wrote:
> > >> Dear Community,
> > >>
> > >> As Sushama (our new testing team member) indicated in
> > >> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-November/003493.html ,
> > >> we won't have a release in Nov.  Currently the testing team is going
> > >> to do a full test on the latest testing image.  It has all the goodies
> > >> we did and a lot of improvements over Om2008.9, so please try it and
> > >> report any error you find.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Upgrade howto:
> > >>
> > >> From Om2008.9 it's recommanded to upgrade with the following steps:
> > >>
> > >> sed -i -e 's%Om2008.8%testing%' /etc/opkg/*.conf
> > >> /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm stop
> > >> screen -DR
> > >> opkg update
> > >> opkg -force-overwrite upgrade
> > >> # (please ans Y to all questions)
> > >> # (the sshd (dropbear) will restart, so you need to reconnect and do
> > >> # 'screen -DR' again)
> > >> opkg upgrade
> > >> shutdown -r now
> > >>
> > >> To get the fastest boot time you also need to remove the following
> > >> packages:
> > >>
> > >> opkg remove task-base-nfs task-base-smbfs task-base-bluetooth \
> > >> task-base-usbgadget avahi-daemon avahi-autoipd blueprobe \
> > >> usb-gadget-mode portmap exquisite exquisite-theme-freerunner \
> > >> exquisite-themes
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Known issues:
> > >>
> > >> * GTK redraw problem
> > >> * some obsolete kernel modules still left in system
> > >> * must remove 'ro' in kernel boot parameter if you use sd boot.
> > >> * will purge your incompatible e config, so you might need to set
> > >>   stuffs like suspend time again.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Echo:
> > >>
> > >> Since there are different hw versions out there (a5, a6, a7), it's
> > >> impossible to provide one alsa state file that suits all models.
> > >> However, it seems you can always find appropriate values for your
> > >> neo.  My way is to adjust
> > >> control.4 Speaker Playback Volume in
> > >> /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/gsmhandset.state
> > >>
> > >> the max value is 127, 95 works best on my a5.  With volume level 3 or
> > >> 4 in qtopia dialer, the other side can hear no echo while I get good
> > >> audio quality.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Team update:
> > >>
> > >> Tick helped to put his touchscreen improvement into stable-tracking,
> > >> he will work on opkg internals next.  Olv moved to look into kernel
> > >> and fso.  Erin will try bluetooth.  Julian is working on the GTK
> > >> redraw issue, please help him out.  Jeremy will fix some qtopia bugs
> > >> and keep working on suspend/resume issues.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> John
> > >>
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> > > William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
> > > Home in Perth!
> > >
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