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Subject: Re: Archos G9 devel image
From: Ruediger Gad <r.c.g () gmx ! de>
Date: 2013-02-23 10:42:27
Message-ID: 51289D13.4010508 () gmx ! de
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PS: After letting it charge a little the devel image also recovered.
Some part of the GUI (kwin or something) had crashed.
So, the devel version, in general, works as well. :)
On 02/23/2013 11:36 AM, Ruediger Gad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> attached I send two .ks files: one for creating a testing and one for
> creating a devel rootfs tarball.
> Please note that these .ks files will generate armv7hl installations
> instead of armv7l as can be downloaded from basyskom.
> Both use the pvr driver.
>
> I briefly tested the generated tarballs:
>
> The testing one seems to work ok.
> It booted fine and I could make a suspend/resume cycle without problems.
>
> The devel one boots and the GUI comes up.
> However, here the GUI got somewhat "stuck".
> Nothing responds except actions being triggered via the hardware buttons
> (volume, lock screen).
> I don't know if this may be caused by my device battery being nearly
> empty (At least I saw some message at bootup that may have caused the
> GUI to lock up.).
> I will test that later after letting the device charge a little.
>
> I generated the rootfs tarballs as follows:
> PATH=$PATH:/sbin sudo mic create fs
> plasma-active-archos-gen9-pvr-mer-devel-2013-02-23.ks
> --pack-to=plasma-active-archos-gen9-pvr-mer-devel-2013-02-23.tar.gz
> --pkgmgr=yum --arch=armv7hl
>
>
> Up to now, the bits for the armv7hl hardware adaptation are only hosted
> in my "private" repositories on cobs@meego:
> https://build.pub.meego.com/project/show?project=home%3Awonko%3Aarchos-g9-pa-adaptation
>
> https://build.pub.meego.com/project/show?project=home%3Awonko%3Aarchos-g9-pa-adaptation%3Apvr
>
>
>
> If there is the interest I (or someone else) could push this stuff into
> a little bit "more official" place.
> Would creating own projects for an Archos G9 armv7hl adaptation make sense?
> Imho integrating the changes with the existing Archos G9 armv7l
> adaptation would be pretty complicated as we would need to distinguish
> between soft and hard float for building some packages in a single
> common project.
>
> I could also upload the images somewhere if you like to test those
> yourself.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ruediger
>
>
>
>
> On 02/22/2013 09:10 AM, Hillel Lubman wrote:
>> On 22/02/13 03:05, Yannick Kiekens wrote:
>>>
>>> As work-around to get
>>>
>>> latest devel stuff running on your device, just add the following
>>> repo to latest testing based
>>> archos gen9 image (try the pvr one):
>>>
>>> zypper ar -f
>>>
>>> http://repo.pub.meego.com/Project:/KDE:/Devel/CE_UX_PlasmaActive_armv7l/
>>> develop
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This gave an error while doing the upgrade of kdebase (something about
>>> a directory that can't be deleted)
>>> I'll have more time to look at it this weekend
>>>
>>> To bad to hear about the support problems, it is nice hacking a tablet
>>> with vendor support.
>>>
>>> greatings
>>> Yannick Kiekens
>>>
>> There was a similar issue with switching Nexus 7 build from testing to
>> devel. See here in the comments:
>> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2013/01/plasma-active-stable-devel-and-bleeding.html
>>
>> may be it'll be helpful.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hillel Lubman.
>>
>>
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