Android rootfs image?

Cédric Berger cedric.berger74 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 11:55:15 CET 2008


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:46, ueli.peter at bluewin.ch
<ueli.peter at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I flashed the new Image (http://people.openmoko.org/sean_mcneil/androidfs.jffs2)
> and uimage (http://people.openmoko.org/sean_mcneil/uImage-android).
>
> I expect, as read in other threads
> (http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1583918%7Ca1585457),
>  to have the virtual keyboard
> startable via menu. But its missing.
>
> Is there a possibility to install this keyboard.
>
> Ueli
>

Hi,

This keyboard is indeed not in this image. But Sean just  indicated he
is now in process of including it.
Said in kernel list
(http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1583918%7Ca1585457 ) :


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:24, Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com> wrote:
> Cédric Berger wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:52, Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Cédric Berger wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looks like the virtual keyboard that was proposed by... [oups I do not
>>>> remember who :-p ]... is not included yet.
>>>> Have you tried to integrate it ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Argg. Completely slipped my mind. I'm going back over your work right
>>> now.
>>>
>>
>> Ok cool !
>>
>> oh and it was Rui Castro I was talking about for the keyboard :
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-framework/browse_thread/thread/c8ca666ee3fa9cca
>>
>
> Yes, that's the one I will incorporate.
>
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> For now I have not yet seen what are the differences with previous
>>>> image (the broken one without video libs, that was quickly removed)
>>>>
>>>> I will now try with your latest kernel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> With latest kernel :
>> - when trying to shut down android, it is stuck showing "shutting down"
>> ....
>> - backlight brigthness cannot be adjusted (it looks like it is at
>> maximum).
>>
>
> Yes, I experience the same behavior here on shutdown. It is lower priority
> to me than the other problems, though.
> Backlight has moved in the new kernel. It's been a while since I've done any
> verification on that.
>
> You'll need to change /system/build.prop:
>
> backlight.lcd=/sys/class/backlight/gta02-bl
>
> I'm going to move everything forward to andy-tracking. Better to test now
> than later.
>
>> And WIFI seems to still not work (with either kernel) : "impossible to
>> search networks"
>>
>
> This has been broken for me a long time on various kernels. It must me
> something I'm doing wrong. I'll need to get Werner to help me on this. I
> just can't get anything on a scan at all.
>
>




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