Guylhem Rom: First Qtopia 1.5 Release Options

[guylhem]

Hello

The first "end user ready" release is being uploaded. It features a nice GUI and should work out of the box (no command line special knowledge should be necessary)

Get it on: http://externe.net/zaurus/guylhem-rom/

The only bugs I could find (and honnestly, they are not serious drawbacks) are:
- some remaining keyboard remapping (power/record are used like a jogdial, but should also be able to start applications - they can't yet)
- the network application refuses to add new interfaces. So I replaced the usual netsetup by a different one I compiled and I created a "Get online" icon, which can be used to create a new connection, before using the network application (that's the only if you really want to use the old one called netsetup.old). I have no idea why it doesn't work :-( Trolltech version works fine, Sharp doesn't. Any help would be welcome

If you feel like giving a try, your feedback would be very welcome. What you get :
- a polished qtopia 1.5 rom loaded with applications
- a cleaned filesystem (no symlinks everywhere)
- 24 Mb free to add your own applications (I doubt you'll need them - it's *loaded* with applications, basically every app I use is there, PIM, Hancom, Opera, etc etc.)

What's new since last version :
- added qtopia 1.5 interface
- made sure it worked well
- fixed the zoom/systemtime bugs reported in the standalone qtopia packages.

What's missing :
- special modules used by special card. If you have such a card, please tell me or adf so we can compile your missing module for you

To install it, simply restore the nandbackup. That's all. On reboot, you may see jffs2 errors - that's normal. It's just very verbose. You are presented with a login: if you log in, qtopia won't start. Press home twice to open another console. Press userkey/light to move between consoles. You must log out of every shell so Qtopia may start 30 seconds later. However the keyboard may not be usable if you didn't return to the first console. So if you want to use qtopia, simply don't log in.

Anyway, let's start the beta test ! I'm also preparing a dedicated feed for the ROM. If you have a .ipk that works fine and you think should be interesting to other people, please send me a URL where I can download it and add it to the feed.

If you think some application should be included by default, please tell me too. I'd like to create a "different" rom, very user oriented. Everything should be simple and work out of the box - the apps. I did choose tend to do that.

Guylhem

[ken]

Bug List (Qtopia GUI):
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1 - unable to change the Time Zone to other than what's listed. a subsequent reboot then allows the new timezone to show up
2 - SD card not detected (Kingston 512M SD)
3 - note - all your connections/WEP keys etc are listed
4 - new wireless connections with a 128 bit WEP key unable to connect
5 - new wired connections aren't working (shows up, but can't connect)
6 - sharp PIM information is gone (no biggie, just didnt expect it)
7 - removing-inserting CF cards multiple times(ethernet, then modem) caused the Z to hang
8 - creating a new modem connection file complains "Can't create ppp setup file"

most of my data/ipks/etc is on my SD so I was unable to test anything else. On the bright side, it does appear to be snappier. I notice that there are quite a number of useful items on the list.

Observed boot errors:
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blkmtd: error: missing `device' name
...
IrCOMM protecol (Dag Brattli)
cramfs: wrong magic
FAT: bogus logical sector size 45147
Eep. Child "ascii-xfr" (ino #1312) of dir ino #1301 doesn't exist!
(it complains zknights.desktop, codepages, p80211.o, QtEmbedded-0.spec, LAN.conf, VPN.conf PAN.conf, DialUp.conf, IRDA.conf, PPPoEW.conf, libpan.so, f, l)
(it also has quite a number of Inode #xxxx was a directory with children - removing those too...)
(then says a bunch of Cannot remove child "xxx", ino #4895, because it doesn't exist (zknights.desktop, ascii-xfr, codepages, QtEmbedded-0.spec, LAN.conf, VPN.conf, PAN.conf, DialUp.conf, IRDA.conf, PPPoEW.conf, libpan.so, f, l, p80211.o)
...
modeprobe: Can't locate module usb_ohci_tc6393
...
pxa_sd_stopclock: clock stop time out. (retries 2x10 times) then gives up
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev mmcd(60,1).


Comments:
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I suspect a number of those errors are because it can't find the SD card. I also observed that the SD card drivers loaded up just prior to the login prompt. I tried keeping the SD card in, and inserting it after it boots, but no icon for the SD card shows up at the bottom.

Creating a modem connection via the @ Tab, "Get Online" works
Creating a wired/wireless connection via the @ Tab, "Get Online" doesn't connect

rebooting to the console, SD card in.

When I remove the SD card:
pxa_sd_wait_response: card removed (cmd=12)
pxa_sd_wait_response: card removed (cmd=12)
pxa_sd_wait_id_response: card removed (cmd=12)
pxa_sd_wait_id_response: card removed (cmd=12)

When I reinsert the SD card:
pxa_sd_stopclock: clock stop time out. (retry count x) x = total of 10 times
give up!![SD]-clustsize = 4000
mmcda: mmcda1
mmcda:mmcda1
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev mmcd(60,1).
mmcda: mmcda1
mmcda:mmcda1
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev mmcd(60,1).

(I think it's because it thinks the SD card is ext2 rather than the default fat?)

note: If I drop down to the console, and su, then change the /etc/fstab entry to fat, I'm able to do a mount, but it won't unmount automatically. It will however allow me to read the sd, and the sd icon appears.

sharp's default fstab entres are as follows:

/dev/mtdblock2 / jffs2 ro,noatime 1 1
/dev/mtdblock3 /home jffs2 defaults,noatime 1 2
none /dev/shm tmpfs size=1m,noauto 0 0
/dev/mmcda1 /mnt/card auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

changing the /dev/mmcda1 line to match sharp's default one allows me to type in:
mount /dev/mmcda1 (upon which the SD card now shows up properly). The SD card icon will unmount properly if the card is pulled out, but I have to drop down to the console and mount it manually whenever I reinsert it (unfortunately, the GUI software install program only shows "Internal Flash" as the only location I can install anything to (the SD or CF card doesn't show up).