Re: Install Opie

Hello all (especially Paul),

I have installed Familiar with Opie on my ipaq 2210 half a year ago. As there
were a lot of bugs especially missbehaviour of touch screen and wrong
indication of battery status I started to hack the kernel sources. Now with
the latest kernel, a lot of help by others and a small contribution by me,
nearly all is working well - concerning the kernel.

In Opie there are still a lot of things to be fixed. I started two times
trying to load the Opie sources and to compile the lot without success. As
far as I remember first approach by following the documentation on the
opie.handhelds site, the 2nd time following the OE documentation.

The version of Opie on Familiar is 1.2.1 and I would really like to get 1.2.3
up and running. I don't see any benefit to give bug reports for the old
version. You certainly know them all. But diving into the sources and looking
for bugs or improvements requires to be able to compile and install Opie by
myself.

I'm working under Linux / Kubuntu. If you could give me any additional hint
which path to follow best or how to start again I would be glad to join the
team (even though I'm not really a coder). If it helps, I'd try to summarize
the last problems I faced (although it's been a while now since I tried it
the last time).

regards
Gerhard

> From: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning_at_bluelightning.org>
> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:46:40 +1200 (NZST)
> Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> > Where'd everybody go?
>
> One of the other problems here is that development of Familiar has
> basically slowed to a halt (at least as far as anyone can tell from the
> lack of public announcements), so there is currently no Familiar release
> containing Opie 1.2.3. There is also the Angstrom distribution, but
> unfortunately at the moment they still don't officially support Opie. To
> me, this is the most serious problem because cutting off users also cuts
> off potential new developers. I hope this situation will be rectified
> soon. I have considered building and releasing some unofficial images
> myself, but the problem with that is that I'd also be expected to provide
> support for them and I don't know that I have time to do that and work on
> Opie at the same time.
>
> Personally I intend to see Opie 1.x through a few more releases. I think
> there is still a place for Opie as it stands, particularly for people
> using older PDAs that software-wise have been abandoned by their
> manufacturers. From a user perspective I think Opie already provides a
> good base, there are just a few areas where we need a little more
> improvement.
>
> To anyone out there, if you can contribute in any way - not just
> development, but also by reporting bugs, improving documentation and just
> generally keeping the community going, then that would be great. At this
> point we need all the help we can get :)
>
> Cheers,
> Paul

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Received on Fri Oct 05 2007 - 13:42:07 EDT