Re[2]: Re: Familiar checklist/experience

Hello Daniel,

Monday, August 7, 2006, 5:20:20 PM, you wrote:

> So I have just gotten CVS/OPIE h2200/familiar-unstable all installed
> and set up on my ipaq and I think I am going to start using it as my
> main pda (foolish as that may be) :-) . In any event it will let me run
> a real-life test on things as they currently stand.

  Thanks, that's much appreciated. There're also ideas how to make
dual-boot more usable idea. Well, those ideas are not new, but maybe
something will surface after all sooner or later.

> Here are the problems that I have encountered so far. If there is a
> better place to stick this let me know and I will be happy to do it.

> 1) The battery does not last very long in suspend mode. I have not yet
> done an exact test, however, after 20 hours of suspension there is no
> battery charge left. It seems like something is not being shut down all
> the way.

  Well, appears that port went into another "black bar" ;-). Recently,
I finally made my own SD card install using RadmiskRescue (had to
patch it a bit though), and played with it in more realistical
conditions than NFS boot.

  So, I confirm suspend power issue. I dreamed we could skip problem,
but there're no wonders. At it's pretty serious problem, as it's not
fixed even for hx4700 yet.

  If you can, please submit this bug to HH.org Bugzilla (use "h4000
port" as product/component).

> 2) On loadup the machine is in landscape mode. This would not be a real
> problem except that the arrow keys are not in landscape mode. So when
> you rotate the screen the arrow keys rotate with it and then you wind up
> with the screen being in portrait mode, and the keys being in landscape
> mode. This is true regardless of whether you load the keyboard module
> before or after rotation, or even if you load it first thing at boot.

  I fixed this, and patches are now committed (well, I need to retest
all thing now). I'm going to brush up my stuff and put it online so
other people can use it too. But probably, no binary release for rc3 -
better, I spent time investigating the issues. (But well, that depends
how fast final will be released. My guess is not that soon, as on TODO
documentation fixes, and that's boring task, for which developers
always cannot find time ;-) ).

> I'm sure I'll find other things as I go, this is just what I have
> noticed so far. Remember this is only for the OPIE window manager
> though the first item may be true of GPE as well.

> -Dan

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 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml_at_gmail.com