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# fso-illume-image: An FSO-compliant image featuring the X-Window system with the Enlightenment-based Illume window manager. | # fso-illume-image: An FSO-compliant image featuring the X-Window system with the Enlightenment-based Illume window manager. | ||
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+ | Joachim announced that the preferred Debian installer script in now [http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/files.git;a=blob_plain;f=install.sh the one in the git]. The [http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/freerunner/install.sh old URL] does redirect to it. Thanks mostly to Luca “Gismo” Capello’s great work, recent improvements include (1) The use of the general auto-login script “nodm” instead of zhone-session. Session configuration can now be done by modifying /root/.xsession. (2) Device independent frameworkd and accompanying configuration packages. If apt-get upgrade breaks your FreeRunner, try to run ''apt-get install fso-config-gta02''. (3) openmoko-panel-plugin installed by default (running in trayer), to provide keyboard toggle and device control. (4) The use of the packaged kernel instead of wget/tar. To get this going, ''run apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02'' | ||
== Applications == | == Applications == |
Revision as of 10:14, 12 November 2008
Add news to this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.
Watch these links:
- Git logs: kernel/stable, kernel/stable-tracking, Qtopia/master, Openmoko's OpenEmbedded, uboot/stable, Qi/master
- Mailing lists: hardware, devel, community, kernel, support
How are newsletters organized elsewhere: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html
Contents |
Distributions
FSO team released Milestone IV 'Homework', see the OpenmokoFramework/Status Update 5. With the forthcoming release of other FSO API consumers, Zhone is going to be faded out. Further framework milestone releases will ship in two forms:
- fso-console-image: An FSO-compliant image featuring no user interface manager.
- fso-illume-image: An FSO-compliant image featuring the X-Window system with the Enlightenment-based Illume window manager.
Joachim announced that the preferred Debian installer script in now the one in the git. The old URL does redirect to it. Thanks mostly to Luca “Gismo” Capello’s great work, recent improvements include (1) The use of the general auto-login script “nodm” instead of zhone-session. Session configuration can now be done by modifying /root/.xsession. (2) Device independent frameworkd and accompanying configuration packages. If apt-get upgrade breaks your FreeRunner, try to run apt-get install fso-config-gta02. (3) openmoko-panel-plugin installed by default (running in trayer), to provide keyboard toggle and device control. (4) The use of the packaged kernel instead of wget/tar. To get this going, run apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02
Applications
Numptyphysics this great physics drawing game is reborn! Game can be played landscaped, without keyboard and it uses same datafiles than any other numptyphysics-port. (http://www.opkg.org/package_3.html) upstream news: newer physics engine (Box2d v2.0.1 http://www.box2d.org), scalable window with commandline parameters (so every platfrom will use same datafiles), faster drawing, more levels, action replays (https://garage.maemo.org/scm/?group_id=638) port news: onSceenKeyboard (control-panel), action replays removed (doesn't yet work correct with freerunner), NextLevel-dialog-overlay is non-draggable (so clicking it is easier) ( http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/rantalai/freerunner/numptyphysics/ )
Signal Applications To Any (Audio) Network, or, ehm, SATAN, was born... This is a tracker to create simple music, or just jam on the train, bus or café.
Debian users rejoice: openmoko-panel-plugin reaches 0.5. Show and modify you the state of the hardware in you FreeRunner(i.e. gsm, gps ...) with any gtk based windowmanager (i.e. xfce). (thread, download)
Centerim, a terminal-based instant messager, ported on the freerunner (package, port page)
Flashing the Neo GSM modem
This is a Wiki that explains how to upgrade the GSM modem firmware of the Neo.
Hardware
And I thought that we were waiting on Sean to give mechanical legs to the Neo. I was so literally wrong !
System
Joerg and other OM hardware engineers are experimenting hardware fixes to the GSM-noise buzz issue. This may make it on the A7 hardware revision.
The kernel guys are working to switch from the stable to the stable-tracking branch. A newer 2.6.28 kernel should improve resume/suspend. And staying closer to upstream allows to spot problems early and one at a time, while branching every X months implies a great effort to jump the gap.
- NAND/ECC kernel issues are supposedly solved by this patch.
- Warnings from WLAN driver about "warn_on_slowpath" are gone.
- Page flipping support added to glamo (seem to be a framebuffer feature, necessary for Android).
- Glamo GPIO is still not working on resume, leading to WSOD.
- There is still breakage on accels communication (not sure what this means. Maybe accelerometers hang up ?)
What is coming in the future:
- Improve WLAN latency: On the same wireless network on which the Neo has an average ping of 70+ms, with large excursions, my laptop gets an average of 1.7ms and a maximum of about 5-6ms.
- The replacement of the Atheros SDIO stack underneath the WLAN driver with the Linux SDIO stack is planned but not scheduled.
- Jonas Bonn is working on Variable Clock Frequency and Power Saving.
- A /sys interface to disable the touchscreen
Advance warning notice: expect the need for lots of userspace fixes, especially in /sys, when the kernel jumps from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.
Patches available to fix ticket 1884 (read more optimization team updates).
In the base image:
- Erin's commits to improve network registering time.
- openmoko-mediaplayer2: remove pulseaudio, use alsa instead.