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

Marcel tanuva at googlemail.com
Sun Nov 30 13:11:21 CET 2008


Or one could create a statefiles-metapackage and make the user choose his 
model upon installation - or do this in package setup/configuration 
scripts...

--
Marcel

Am Sunday 30 November 2008 13:01:47 schrieb Yorick Moko:
> great news,
>
> but can't the opkg upgrade detect which hw revision we have and
> install the best alsa state file?
> afterall, good call quality is something almost everybody wants
>
> y
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:50 PM, John Lee <john_lee at openmoko.com> 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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