Re: Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 testing

Robert E. Anderson wrote:
> Yesterday I installed this on my hx4700.
> I have to say that it works better than the Familiar 0.8.4 on the same
> device.

Well that's progress :) At least the Opie part should work a bit better
since it has moved forward two versions between them.

> 1. The networking doesn't work out of the box. I needed to modprobe one
> module before it would work. I'm not sure it that should be done for me
> on bootup or held off until I configure the network. I think on boot
> might not be good because it starts the power drawing device. I'm not
> sure if a hook exists for the Network setting tool to load the module,
> but it didn't work.

You're referring to WiFi? It's not something I've looked into too closely
yet, but I know of no way that it could load a module for a built-in
device on-demand other than at boot time. Not sure how to attack this one.
My gut feeling is that the module ought to be able to be loaded at boot
with the device powered off, and then it should power on when you bring up
the device with ifup, but I'm no expert in WiFi driver conventions so I
could be wrong here.

> 2. The joypad buttons are oriented incorrectly. I know that was
> recently fixed in a patch for Opie 1.2.3, so perhaps using either a newer
> CVS date or back porting patch to bitbake would fix this one.

I did not know hx4700 was suffering from this as well. I am very confused
by this, if someone can shed some light on why so many machines seem to
have this problem it would be great. I'd rather not have to apply hacks
for each one.

> 4. It powered up from a sleep for an alarm. I didn't notice it make any
> noise, but it's at least waking up fine!

Hmm, perhaps it's just certain hardware that suffer from alarm wakeup
issues then. At least it might prove that it's not a bug in Opie at any
rate.

Cheers,
Paul
Received on Tue Jan 15 2008 - 15:26:35 EST