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

John Lee john_lee at openmoko.com
Tue Dec 2 05:42:37 CET 2008


On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 05:31:37PM +0100, Andreas Fischer wrote:
> Hi John, All,
> 
> Just upgraded from 2008.9. Things to mention:
> - Boot time decreased. A lot! Thumbs up and a great "Thank you" for that :)
> - Also, startup time for applications (dialer) seems to have decreased.
> - As mentioned elsewhere, Enlightenment configuration was reset to not
> show the spanner and as the settings utility is unusable and the phone
> tends to suspend after 31 seconds, it is pretty unusable until one
> switches Enlightenment themes according to
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Keyboard_Toggle (bottom of the page).

sorry about the settings problem.  we fixed multiple problems
yesterday (see https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2148).  there
was a really strange line in local.conf saying EXTENDPE = "" , which
will cause a lot of problems.  I have no idea who put that in...

there used to be a wrench and qwerty button enabled theme, and now
raster's illume default theme (illume-theme-illume,
illume-config-illume) provides the same functionalities with a very
different look.  OM's theme will remain as it is like our designer
wants it to be.  you are free to switch between these two though, by
setting it inside /etc/enlightenment/default_profile.

- John

> - Even after disabling suspend I am having problems. In particular I am
> now experiencing WSoD even after screen blank (probably bug #2115:
> https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2115 ). I suppose I need to
> disable screen blank too for now?
> 
> Nevertheless, even though there are problems it's good to see progress.
> Keep up the good work.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> 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
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Openmoko community mailing list
> > community at lists.openmoko.org
> > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Openmoko community mailing list
> community at lists.openmoko.org
> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community




More information about the community mailing list