A few questions about current (RC5) version

[iamasmith]

Crikey, this is gorgeous, I'm getting kind of emotional.

[Laze]

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apm -s is enough for suspending in shell - if your not running the GUI.

Basically all the current IPKs have been tested and should work (including standard KoPI sync etc.)

We (read Sash) have fixed many "behind the scene" bugs and we are no focused on making it more user friendly and add new features like taskbar, blanker applet, battery low warning and more internal problems also need some more work :-(

But basically I think its ready for normal daily usage and fun :-) But please notice that Apache2 etc. isn't yet ported as far as i know.

[Laze]

Hmmm, I'm trying to get screenshots of Quake and xmms playing video, but xwd keeps crashing...  Any ideas?

Try ssh'ing in - often the xwd crashes when ran locally together with SDL apps - we are looking into it.. Other Xwindows apparently have the same problems..

[Xumbi]

Hmmm, I'm trying to get screenshots of Quake and xmms playing video, but xwd keeps crashing...  Any ideas?

Try ssh'ing in - often the xwd crashes when ran locally together with SDL apps - we are looking into it.. Other Xwindows apparently have the same problems..

No such luck, here's what I get through ssh when I'm playing a video in xmms:

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# xwd -display :0.0 -root -out screenshot.xwd
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  91 (X_QueryColors)
  Value in failed request:  0x157f0
  Serial number of failed request:  172
  Current serial number in output stream:  172

[iamasmith]

OK, looking GOOD, so far, got address book and stuff onto it, got bluetooth bits installed... pin gets rejected at the momement on my phone but I've really only 'thrown' things on.

This HAS come a long way since 1.0.5, now, if I can just get the SDK up and running I can rebuild Ruby and all the other stuff that I need.

Thanks for the encouragement guys.

[piotrek]

Finally my SD card start to work. In 1.0.5 work flawlesly In RC3 stop working but now it start to work again - great!

[VaM]

Anyone got screenshots of Quake on RC5 ?!
Very interesting to see this screens!

[iamasmith]

OK, that was an interesting 'try out'.

I think that PDAXROM isn't quite right for me just yet. The main thing for me is that the handheld is running Linux and can run Apache etc. which PDAXROM can but having got that going the display server stuff is kinda incidental, if I have a fast, functional browser and my Apache PHP I can do a lot whichever display server X, Qtopia or whatever.

Things like general loading speed are a bit offputting and I guess some of the RC5 feed hasn't been completed yet but it still seems a little lacking in apps. + the decision to make it ALL IPK based rather than use some cramfs stuff for some of the larger core stuff means the flash fills up alarmngly quick. - Some guidelines on partitioning and recommended targets for install would be good here.

* SUGGESTION * - why not add (possibly in an IPK comment that the installer picks up) a suggested installation target for each package rather than have the users trying to place on root/home/sd etc. ? This would allow core stuff to be kept to a minimum on the distro whilst cards could be used for larger installed apps (Quake etc.)

That all said, I think the ROM looks GREAT and Quake rocks on this build.

I think I will wait for the final live release, wait until the feed stabilises and has all the packages that I need and will give it another try then.

But GREAT work guys, I look forward to taking another look in a while.

- Andy