John Lee wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 05:31:37PM +0100, Andreas Fischer wrote: >> Hi John, All, >> >> Just upgraded from 2008.9. Things to mention: >> - Boot time decreased. A lot! Thumbs up and a great "Thank you" for that :) >> - Also, startup time for applications (dialer) seems to have decreased. >> - As mentioned elsewhere, Enlightenment configuration was reset to not >> show the spanner and as the settings utility is unusable and the phone >> tends to suspend after 31 seconds, it is pretty unusable until one >> switches Enlightenment themes according to >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Keyboard_Toggle (bottom of the page). > > sorry about the settings problem. we fixed multiple problems > yesterday (see https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2148). there > was a really strange line in local.conf saying EXTENDPE = "" , which > will cause a lot of problems. I have no idea who put that in...
Ah - that would probably also explain the frequent enlightenment crashes I was going to complain about. I'll test with the new python-etk and see how it goes from there. Thanks for your answer, Andreas > > there used to be a wrench and qwerty button enabled theme, and now > raster's illume default theme (illume-theme-illume, > illume-config-illume) provides the same functionalities with a very > different look. OM's theme will remain as it is like our designer > wants it to be. you are free to switch between these two though, by > setting it inside /etc/enlightenment/default_profile. > > - John > >> - Even after disabling suspend I am having problems. In particular I am >> now experiencing WSoD even after screen blank (probably bug #2115: >> https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2115 ). I suppose I need to >> disable screen blank too for now? >> >> Nevertheless, even though there are problems it's good to see progress. >> Keep up the good work. >> >> Regards, >> Andreas >> >> John Lee 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Openmoko community mailing list >>> community@lists.openmoko.org >>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community