Qtopia on Neo 1973/de
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Installation
Qtopia Images
Qtopia Images für das Neo1973 und der Kernel können hier heruntergeladen werden. Zur Zeit enthält das Flash Archiv den OpenMoko Kernel 2.6.22 und ein Flash Image der Qtopia Phone-Edition im jffs2 Format, der für das Neo1973 cross-compiliert wurde.
Neuere unoffizielle Qtopia Images können sie finden in den ScaredyCat repositories.
Es ist empfehlenswert, zuerst Teile des Flash Speichers zu löschen (wenn Sie keinen Update des u-boot durchgeführt haben. Wenn ja, dann überspringen Sie diesen Schritt). Rufen sie die u-boot Console wie folgt auf und geben sie folgendes ein:
nand erase kernel nand erase rootfs
Der Download und die Nutzung von dfu-utils ist wie üblich. die IP Adresse ist die gleiche wie beim OopenMoko Build (192.168.0.202/24).
Qtopia AND OpenMoko Option 1
Why choose when you can have both ;)
I assume you allready have some recent version of OpenMoko on your Neo1973. If not, have a look here.
First backup everything on your micro-sd card you don't want to loose as we are going to create a new filesystem on it. This is necessary beacause vfat doesnt support links. Then ssh to your neo and do:
umount /dev/mmcblk0p1 mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 mount /dev/mmcblk0p1
On your desktop: Get "Developer root filesystem" from here. Get the opt/Qtopia folder plus the qpe init script out of the archive repack and copy it to your neo. One could do this like this:
tar xzf ficgta01-qtopia-developer-rootfs.tgz opt/Qtopia etc/init.d/qpe mv opt/Qtopia etc/init.d/qpe . && rm -r opt etc tar czf Qtopia.tar.gz Qtopia qpe scp Qtopia.tar.gz root@192.168.0.202:/media/card/
On your neo again: unpack the archive you just copied and link the Qtopia folder to /opt/Qtopia. Then move the init script to /etc/init.d/:
cd /media/card tar xzf Qtopia.tar.gz mkdir -p /opt ln -s /media/card/Qtopia /opt/Qtopia mv qpe /etc/init.d
Now kill the x server and gsmd and start Qtopia (this can take some time):
/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm stop /etc/init.d/gsmd stop /etc/init.d/qpe start
Where from here? You could put the last step in a script and start it from a terminal on your phone. But much nicer would be if you could choose between both interfaces on init time and have some small application in Qtopia/OpenMoko to switch.
Qtopia AND OpenMoko Option 2
- format your SD card with ext3 and mount it (see above)
- unpack rootfs from qtopia-4.3.0-preview-neo-flash.tgz to SD card (see above)
- copy the uImage-2.6.22.5-moko11-r2-fic-gta01.bin kernel to the boot/ on SD card and rename it to uImage
- put a 'Boot from SD' menu item in uboot menu as explained here: Booting_from_SD#Step_3:_Add_uboot_boot_entry
Build your own
If you want to build qtopia for yourself you can download the technical preview or snapshots
Tips
Most things seem to work out of the box, however you may need to use the following command to get audio:
alsactl -f /etc/alsa/gsmhandset.state restore
Or put this command in /etc/init.d/qpe line 64
Do not switch themes. Only the default theme is usable. For example, once you switch themes, the lock feature continues to work, but only if you unlock using the smallest # keypad in the world.
Suspend support is very flaky. The neo often shuts off from a suspend state. It will not wake from suspend for an incoming call or text message (someone try setting an alarm and report results here). To turn suspend off (this will of course use the batteries very quickly), hit the down arrow next to the suspend setting in the power management until it says "Off".
When using the virtual keyboard, do a quick flick up or down over the keyboard to access numbers/symbols/capitals.
In summary, Qtopia on the Neo1973 is much closer to being ready than OpenMoko as of this writing. However, sound and suspend support prevent it from being at all useful as a cell phone (as a landline that doesn't ring but instead vibrates, it works ok).
Screenshots
Here are some screenshots of Qtopia runing on a Neo 1973. Personally I find it very impressive...
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW5q8SpY7t4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOG_mtSEMgs
For full size videos, 346 MiB:
http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=4613&name=qt_on_neo1973_videos.torrent