Re: Re: Install Opie

On Sat, 06 Oct 2007, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> 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.

Thanks! I have an h2210 here myself, and I'm very greatful of anything you've
been able to do to improve with regard to kernel functionality.

> 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.

For my testing and development purposes I find it easiest to compile a version
for i386 and run it through qvfb. If I need to test something on the device,
then I build a package using OE, but that's a secondary step.

> 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.

Yes, that's the situation at the moment.

> 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).

We always welcome new people :) If you could let me know the issues you had
getting your environment set up then I will certainly try to help you sort
them out.

Cheers,
Paul
Received on Sat Oct 06 2007 - 09:16:14 EDT