Om2009 testing release 4

[Michael Shiloh]

Congratulations! I'm downloading right now and will report back.

I'm very impressed with the rate of revisions.

Michael Shiloh



Angus Ainslie wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> As I think we've fixed more things than we broke it's time for another testing 
> release. As usual there are additional instructions here.
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009
> 
> There is also a new page for community involvement. Many of these wishlist 
> items need someone to implement them. If you are interested in in owning one 
> of the wishlist items come and join #paroli or send me an email
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2009_get_active
> 
> Don't bother trying to do an opkg update opkg upgrade to do the upgrade. 
> Chances are you won't get the dependencies right ( I know I didn't ). If you 
> want to preserve your settings use the bind-home method and flash the full 
> image.
> 
> New in feeds
> 
> callrec
> claws-mail
> dictator
> dillo
> midori
> mokomaze
> omnewrotate
> pyring
> sms-sentry
> webkit-efl
> 
> New features
> 
> Improved call handling - should limit races in oeventsd
> Better list handling
> More consistent interface
> New paroli-illume theme
> 	- only change so far is to remove desktop switcher
> 	- wanted volunteer to change analog clock to digital
> 	- wanted different colour scheme ( maybe white on black to
> 	match the rest of paroli ? )
> Static MAC addresses for usb devices 
> 	- usb networking will now show up as ethx on the host side please check dmesg 
> 	on the host side
> Ability to cut 30 seconds off boot time
> 	- DO NOT use this if you use bind-home
> 	- install udev-static-devices to get this speed boost
> 	- any solutions on using bind-home and static-devices appreciated
> Keyboard goes away after use 
> Updated /etc/network/interfaces to give USB0 a metric
> Added readahead to busybox to test speed increase
> 
> Known issues
> 
> Some oeventsd rules are ignored  ( framework oeventsd problems )
> 	- don't suspend while plugged in  http://trac.freesmartphone.org/ticket/381
> 	- suspend fails after a call http://trac.freesmartphone.org/ticket/435
> 
> Bugs fixed
> 
> 1 pixel wide illume exit menu
> UTF chars in SMS's 
> 	- you must still install a keyboard to be able to write different character
> 	sets.
> Keyboard collapses after use
> 
> Angus
> 
> 
> 
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