Support for frame buffer in N800
Hi, I want to know if there is frame buffer support in N800. I have written a simple application (drawing a pixel) on frame buffer and tried to execute it on N800 in root mode. But it prompts the message permission denied. Please let me know if there is support for frame buffer in N800. If there is support then how can I use it? Thanks and Regards, Sampath ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Support for frame buffer in N800
Sampath Goud wrote: Hi, I want to know if there is frame buffer support in N800. Yes. No support for console on framebuffer but generic framebuffer support shoud be there. Check /proc/fb. Maybe you are using wrong device? There are three on N800 (one on N770). Not sure why it is like this and why there is difference between N770 and N800 but try the one with higher number (2?). I have written a simple application (drawing a pixel) on frame buffer and tried to execute it on N800 in root mode. But it prompts the message permission denied. It should work but there is one small problem, see below :-) Please let me know if there is support for frame buffer in N800. If there is support then how can I use it? Problem is that the videochip is external so you won't see any output until you either issue proper update ioctl to update rectangle after you write your pixels or set the update mode to automatic (which is waste of resources, default is manual). Frantisek ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Support for frame buffer in N800
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 09:58, Sampath Goud wrote: I want to know if there is frame buffer support in N800. I have written a simple application (drawing a pixel) on frame buffer and tried to execute it on N800 in root mode. But it prompts the message permission denied. Please let me know if there is support for frame buffer in N800. If there is support then how can I use it? Yes, it is available. You should use /dev/fb0 if you want RGB color format (/dev/fb1 and /dev/fb2 are used for video planes generally in YUV color format). But do you absolutely need to use framebuffer? Using framebuffer directly introduces a lot of problems synchronizing access to it with xserver (and it can't be done in a completely right way currently as far as I know). ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
FW: 770 auto shutdown problem
From: Jose Maria Alonso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 March 2007 22:01 To: Cass, John P Subject: RE: 770 auto shutdown problem Hi, I found your post googling a bit because I have the same problem. I couldn't post directly at: http://www.mail-archive.com/maemo-developers%40maemo.org/msg08919.html My N770 shutdowns randomly, sometimes it is possible to get it back, but most of the time I have to switch it on again. It is very annoying. I think the trick here is that the N770 shuts down after a while if there is nothing to do. I've noticed that if I play music, the nokia does not dies and behaves correctly all the time. Perhaps it is not ypur case. Probably creating a 'stay-alive' app to the dbus could fix the problem I have to take a look at this. In case I find something new I'll let you know. Thanks for the post! RE: 770 auto shutdown problem Cass, John P Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:47:02 -0800 Dear All, Thanks for your comments on my shutdown problem, sorry its taken a while to get back to you but I was waiting for a new battery and being on holiday! So: I reflashed the unit (latest 2006) and put it in RD mode (green info text on startup) and I was still seeing the same problem, namely the 770 decides to turn itself off rather than entering a low power standby state after a period of inactivity. I bought a new battery and have tried that too and I am getting the same problem. Even with the old battery, energy levels are not low, I can use the device for ages on constant usage its just if I close it, when I come back (even after a short time, say 10 minutes) the device is dead. Apart from monitoring the dbus, does anyone have an idea on how I can try to trace what's happening when it shuts down? Are there any clever ways of recording the sequence of events that would lead to a shutdown? Does anyone know the logic that leads to shutdowns or stanby actions? Is the code that governs this open? Could someone point me to it? Thanks John ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Support for frame buffer in N800
Hi, ext Siarhei Siamashka wrote: I want to know if there is frame buffer support in N800. I have written a simple application (drawing a pixel) on frame buffer and tried to execute it on N800 in root mode. But it prompts the message permission denied. Please let me know if there is support for frame buffer in N800. If there is support then how can I use it? Yes, it is available. You should use /dev/fb0 if you want RGB color format (/dev/fb1 and /dev/fb2 are used for video planes generally in YUV color format). But do you absolutely need to use framebuffer? Using framebuffer directly introduces a lot of problems synchronizing access to it with xserver (and it can't be done in a completely right way currently as far as I know). Using framebuffer is completely acceptable solution if one doesn't use Xserver and rest of the UI. I.e. wants to replace the whole UI framework. I don't think there's much sense in this, but hey, it's an option. :-) - Eero ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Asking for information
Hi, I want to ask please for help, in fact, I doing a project on the N800, and I develop a simple application in C. But, when trying to run it on the device it tells me Permission Denied. I copy the file on the device and the same thing!! Can you advice me what to do? Thanks, Magda, ___ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expériences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Asking for information
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, magda chelly wrote: application in C. But, when trying to run it on the device it tells me Permission Denied. I copy the file on the device and the same thing!! Can you advice me what to do? Try this: chmod +x file ./file Taneli ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
FW: Maemo
Hi,
I have created an application for Nokia 770
using pygtk and glade. I tested it in the scratchbox and it all work
well. Then I tried to install the app_arm.deb file on the Nokia 770
and that also went well. The problem is that the application doesn't
start on the Nokia. I think that it must be the link to the .glade
file or something. When I create the deb package I have 6 files
app.py
app.glade
app.service
app.desktop
Makefile
setup.py
in setup file I put the files in these directories
('share/applications/hildon', [ 'dbc.desktop' ]),
('share/dbc', [ 'dbc.glade' ]),
('share/dbus-1/services', [ 'dbc.service' ])
In the .service and .desktop files I put the Exec file in
/usr/bin/app
and in the .py file I connect the python code with the glade file with
/usr/share/app/app.glade
What changes do I have to do to get the application running on Nokia 770?
Best regards
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Developping C application on maemo without scratchbox
Hello, I'm trying to run a simple program on my device nokia N800, without scratchbox and it doesn't work!! It tells me Permission Denied when I use ./, after doing chmod +x, and I can't use gcc to run it !! I already install a gcc package gcc3.4.4, but I don't have the possibility to use it! Please could someone help me!! Thank you very much for reply!! Best regards, Magda, ___ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expériences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: FW: Maemo
Hi Alma,
Have you tried to run your application from terminal? I think it will
show some more information.
Regards,
Luciano Wolf
ext Alma Prlja wrote:
Hi,
I have created an application for Nokia 770
using pygtk and glade. I tested it in the scratchbox and it all work
well. Then I tried to install the app_arm.deb file on the Nokia 770
and that also went well. The problem is that the application doesn't
start on the Nokia. I think that it must be the link to the .glade
file or something. When I create the deb package I have 6 files
app.py
app.glade
app.service
app.desktop
Makefile
setup.py
in setup file I put the files in these directories
('share/applications/hildon', [ 'dbc.desktop' ]),
('share/dbc', [ 'dbc.glade' ]),
('share/dbus-1/services', [ 'dbc.service' ])
In the .service and .desktop files I put the Exec file in
/usr/bin/app
and in the .py file I connect the python code with the glade file with
/usr/share/app/app.glade
What changes do I have to do to get the application running on Nokia 770?
Best regards
Alma
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Converting PDFs toN770's Resolution
Hello all, I have a bunch of PDF files I would like to read on my 770. These PDFs are an eZine and consist of purely heavy graphics set to a normal PC screen resolution. The internal PDF reader was unable to coupe with the heavy task, so I've tried Evince and had better luck, but still, it's slow turning pages and to read it I need to zoom in and then the navigation is very uncomfortable... I am running an Ubuntu Edgy box at home, and I though I could convert the files to the 770's screen resolution - optimized screen resolution and smaller file size (some of them get as big as 14 MB(!) Is there something similar to the Media Converter script for PDF's? Any pdf-tool I can run on the file from a console on my Ubuntu box? Thanks! -- .::. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html .::. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Developping C application on maemo without scratchbox
magda chelly wrote: Hello, I'm trying to run a simple program on my device nokia N800, without scratchbox and it doesn't work!! Well the scratchbox is not used to run applications in the device, it's used to develop applications outside the device. It tells me Permission Denied when I use ./, after doing chmod +x, and I can't use gcc to run it !! I already install a gcc package gcc3.4.4, but I don't have the possibility to use it! Have you tried to run it with run-standalone.sh? I mean, try the following $ run-standalone.sh ./name_of_your_program Br ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
RE: Developping C application on maemo without scratchbox
Hi, Hello, I'm trying to run a simple program on my device nokia N800, without scratchbox and it doesn't work!! First of all what are you trying to do? Are you trying to set up compilation environment on the device in order to be able to compile programs without scratchbox? This is very complicated thing to do. The reason is simply that the development libraries, gcc etc. takes a lots of space and you may be in trouble in trying to fit that on the internal flash. This would be pretty cool thing to have if there was plenty of resources on the device to allow that, but with the restrictions the device sets, it is going to be hard and I am not sure if you was going to attempt this. Or maybe you trying to do something else like execute your hello.c on your device. If the case is the latter, it sounds like you don't have your compilation environment, in other words, Scratchbox, correctly setted up on your PC and you are trying something else which will not work. It tells me Permission Denied when I use ./, after doing chmod +x, and I can't use gcc to run it !! I guess you know gcc is not used to run c-programs but to compile them to machine language. The C is compiled language and is not an interpreted language where you could run something with gcc. I hope you are not meaning chmod +x hello.c and then attempt ./hello.c which will of course never work. I already install a gcc package gcc3.4.4, but I don't have the possibility to use it! Where did you install it? On the device or on your computer? Please could someone help me!! Thank you very much for reply!! If you want to do a simple C application for N800, you have to: 1. install scratchbox according to the instructions on the Meamo site 2. install rootstraps according to the instructions on the Maemo site 3. _Inside_ the scratchbox on arm-target, compile your program, for example: gcc hello.c -o hello 4. Copy your compiled executable to the device by e.g. copying to the memory card. 5. Go to x-terminal and cd e.g. /media/mmc2/ (depending on which memory card you did put your file, is it in the internal slot or on the external slot) 6. Then you can execute your hello by typing ./hello And surely it works and it doesn't say Permission Denied. It can say this if you haven't compiled your binary properly, e.g. if you have compiled in on the PC without the cross compilation environment, namely Scratchbox. Best Regards, Karoliina Salminen http://www.karoliinasalminen.com/blog ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Converting PDFs toN770's Resolution
Amichai Rotman wrote: I have a bunch of PDF files I would like to read on my 770. These PDFs are an eZine and consist of purely heavy graphics set to a normal PC screen resolution. I am running an Ubuntu Edgy box at home, and I though I could convert the files to the 770's screen resolution - optimized screen resolution and smaller file size (some of them get as big as 14 MB(!) Hi, one way to do this might be to use ImageMagick tools to first convert the PDF to a series of images, scale them to the desired resolution and then rebuild the PDF from the images. That would go something like the following: convert -scale new_widthxnew_height my-original.pdf individual-pages.png This should result to a series of images that are scaled down to the specified size. Then you can rebuild the pdf with convert individual-pages*.png my-new.pdf Actually, it seems to be possible to do an one-step scaling conversion with convert -scale new_widthxnew_height my-original.pdf my-new.pdf but the intermediate step might be handy if you want to do some other kind of cosmetic changes to the images in addition to the scaling. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
How to install Xepphyr deb file on Redhat which uses rpms?
Thanks to advice from Kimmo Hämäläinen, I now have my first Hildon program (the sample) compiled and ready to run. Next is to get Xephyr running. I'm running Redhat which uses RPMs. How do I install the Xephyr DEB file? Thanks, -- Paul ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: How to install Xepphyr deb file on Redhat which uses rpms?
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:33 -0600, ext Paul F. Sehorne wrote: Thanks to advice from Kimmo Hämäläinen, I now have my first Hildon program (the sample) compiled and ready to run. Next is to get Xephyr running. I'm running Redhat which uses RPMs. How do I install the Xephyr DEB file? Thanks, what about alien? -- Cheers, Igor Igor Stoppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nokia Multimedia - CP - OSSO / Helsinki, Finland) ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: How to install Xepphyr deb file on Redhat which uses rpms?
On 3/21/07, Igor Stoppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:33 -0600, ext Paul F. Sehorne wrote: Thanks to advice from Kimmo Hämäläinen, I now have my first Hildon program (the sample) compiled and ready to run. Next is to get Xephyr running. I'm running Redhat which uses RPMs. How do I install the Xephyr DEB file? Thanks, what about alien? That, or you can just get the Xephyr package for your system. If you have yum setup, I am sure it is in one of the repositories. Otherwise, you can search for the RPMs you need on something like rpmfinder.net --Paul ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: How to install Xepphyr deb file on Redhat which uses rpms?
try 'sudo yum install xorg-x11-serer-Xephyr' --Vlad On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:33 -0600, Paul F. Sehorne wrote: Thanks to advice from Kimmo Hämäläinen, I now have my first Hildon program (the sample) compiled and ready to run. Next is to get Xephyr running. I'm running Redhat which uses RPMs. How do I install the Xephyr DEB file? Thanks, ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Developping C application on maemo without scratchbox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. Go to x-terminal and cd e.g. /media/mmc2/ (depending on which memory card you did put your file, is it in the internal slot or on the external slot) 6. Then you can execute your hello by typing ./hello And surely it works and it doesn't say Permission Denied. It can say this if you haven't Given that the mmcs use (v)fat (by default), chmod +x is a noop, and as they're mounted noexec, Permission Denied is exactly what you get. So in order to test the program, one needs to copy it to rootfs, then chmod +x and then run-standalone ./foobar. - -- Santtu Lakkala -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGAV03X9Rc0+po4p0RAnaoAJwM0sboqSgeFZtlfIAwhR04Ll8B1QCfcRc6 CiHMSY9LPzb7zdWj6YOsUp8= =WUfw -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote: There is really no way to maximize an application in general (and maemo browser in particular) emulating the HW Key press? Yes this brute force approach could work too. You could use uinput kernel driver (used with serial bluetooth keyboards) to feed proper F-key to the kernel input subsystem to emulate such key press. Could be quite easy but you need kernel module not present by default on the device. Using the XTest extension should work, something like XTestFakeKeyEvent (display, keycode, TRUE, CurrentTime); XTestFakeKeyEvent (display, keycode, FALSE, CurrentTime); -- Johan Bilien [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Xephyr dependencies stop progress...
Thanks to Paul Klapperich's suggestion, I was able to use 'alien' to create an RPM file out of the DEB file. Now I am back in dependency hell. Xephyr depends on error: Failed dependencies: libXau.so.6 is needed by xserver-xephyr-1.1.1-21 libXdmcp.so.6 is needed by xserver-xephyr-1.1.1-21 libfontenc.so.1 is needed by xserver-xephyr-1.1.1-21 even after installing libXdmcp-1.0.1 -- Paul ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Xephyr dependencies stop progress...
On 3/21/07, Paul F. Sehorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Paul Klapperich's suggestion, I was able to use 'alien' to create an RPM file out of the DEB file. Now I am back in dependency hell. Xephyr depends on error: Failed dependencies: libXau.so.6 is needed by xserver-xephyr-1.1.1-21 libXdmcp.so.6 is needed by xserver-xephyr-1.1.1-21 libfontenc.so.1 is needed by xserver-xephyr-1.1.1-21 even after installing libXdmcp-1.0.1 Actually, I still think you should have used yum. Yum is akin to Debian's aptitude and will resolve dependencies and download packages automagically. I really don't feel you should be using RHE or Fedora without Yum configured. Once Yum is setup properly--use Google or your Redhat, Redhat support, or some of the Redhat community guides that I'm sure exist--Vladislav provided the yum commandline that will install xephyr and all required dependencies in his post to your message titled. I'm not sure which Redhat your using, so I don't feel confident giving you specific instructions myself--I've never used Redhat on a regular basis. If you really don't want to setup yum, you'll have to manually track down the required libraries on a site like rpmfinder.net. To start you off, here's libXau[1]. Besure you grab the right one for your distribution. Repeat with the next library. Yum would have done this for you. [1]http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libXau.so.6 --Paul ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Xephyr dependencies stop progress...
Paul (Klapperich) Sorry for the confusion. My statement BTW, the message indicates Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-56 should have been BTW, the _error_ message _below_ indicates Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-56. The version had not been mentioned in any prior post. Paul (Sehorne) Paul Klapperich wrote: On 3/21/07, *Paul F. Sehorne* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Klapperich wrote: Actually, I still think you should have used yum. I agree, but my installation of yum is not working either (because of dependencies). I tried to install xephyr using rpm hoping for success, wishful thinking I know. I guess my time would be better spent getting yum working. Right now when I execute yum I am greeted with the following: (BTW, the message indicates Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-56) Sorry, I missed that because you keep creating new posts instead of just continuing a single thread. Neither of the threads I read indicated a version. Is that RHEL 3.2, or an old Redhat 3.2? Regardless, even RHEL 3.2 is pretty old--that might give you some problems right there. But like I said, I don't really know Redhat... yum error msg follows== There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named yum Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the module is installed correctly. It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is: 2.2.3 (#1, Sep 26 2006, 18:12:26) [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-56)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please send this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. = end of yum error msg A quick search revealed this post[1], which looks similar to your situation. The reply says to look at questions 7 and 10 from the YUM faq[2]. (10 is how to search the yum mailing list). [1] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-October/007831.html [2] http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq#Q10 Hope that help --Paul -- Paul ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: N800 Video playback
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 15:03, Klaus Rotter wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:31:00AM +0100, ext Klaus Rotter wrote: The memory bandwidth to the N800 LCD framebuffer is 3 times slower that the bandwidth in the N770? Is it really _that_ big? Siarhei's calculations were correct, so, yes. Bad... the N770 interface wasn't the fasted either. So we have even a more slow down. There is one important thing to note. Screen updates are asynchronous and are performed simultaneously with CPU doing some other useful things at the same time. Screen updates do not introduce any overhead or affect performance (at least I did not notice any such effect). So insanely boosting graphics bus performance will not provide any improvements at all once it is capable to sustain acceptable framerate. And what is acceptable depends on applications. Video may require higher framerate, but it is both high resolution and high framerate movies that may exceed graphics bus capabilities, in this case video will be still played (if cpu is fast enough to decode it, that's another story) but with some frames skipped and many people will not even notice any problems. Quite a lot of people are even satistied with 15fps transcoded video, so getting maybe 20-25fps (random guess) on some videos instead of 30fps is not so bad. Tearing at the bottom is most likely caused by screen update time being longer than two LCD refresh cycles. With tearsync enabled, both screen update and refresh cycle start at the same time, refresh is faster, so we still see the previous frame on the screen. When the first refresh cycle completes, screen buffer is slightly less than half updated at that moment. The second LCD refresh cycle starts displaying the data from the new image, while screen buffer still continues to get updated, but not fast enough to complete before this second LCD refresh cycle catches up not too far from the bottom part of the screen. If the screen update was faster than two refresh cycles, there would be no tearing visible. Screen update only needs to be 15-20% faster to achieve this. If improving graphics bus performance does not work, I wonder if it is possible to to reduce LCD refresh rate instead? Anyway, I think it is better to believe Daniel and wait for the new firmware update :) On the N770 there was the feature (with SDL games) of doubling the pixels by hardware with a X-server extension. Will this feature be available in the new kernel / X11 server for the N800? It would be great if it would use the same API. Doubling pixels will definitely reduce the load on the graphics bus so that its bandwidth should become not an issue. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: How to install Xepphyr deb file on Redhat which uses rpms?
I now have yum working (Installed version 2.0.8.) BUT. Unfortunately the command suggested in the post below does not work (even with the typo corrected). I suspect the reason is that there is no rpm for xephyr (only deb) except for the one I created with alien. (Another reason could be that list of repositories in the yum.conf is out of date) I have added a stanza to yum.conf that points to a directory on my machine where I have placed a (dummy) header.info file. yum finds the header.info file, but of course complains about its format. So I now have to know the format to put in the header.info file. (I just want to write code!) I'm searching the Internet and have learned that later versions of yum no longer use the header.info file. They now use xml. Of course, I would still have to know the format of the xml if there is no public repository for xephyr that is compatible with yum (meaning an rpm repository I assume). Thanks, Paul Vladislav Grinchenko wrote: try 'sudo yum install xorg-x11-serer-Xephyr' --Vlad On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:33 -0600, Paul F. Sehorne wrote: Thanks to advice from Kimmo Hämäläinen, I now have my first Hildon program (the sample) compiled and ready to run. Next is to get Xephyr running. I'm running Redhat which uses RPMs. How do I install the Xephyr DEB file? Thanks, -- Paul ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: How to install Xepphyr deb file on Redhat which uses rpms?
On 3/21/07, Paul F. Sehorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now have yum working (Installed version 2.0.8.) BUT. Unfortunately the command suggested in the post below does not work (even with the typo corrected). I suspect the reason is that there is no rpm for xephyr (only deb) except for the one I created with alien. (Another reason could be that list of repositories in the yum.conf is out of date) Did you do a # yum update or $ sudo yum update before the yum install command? If that doesn't help, then you're missing whichever repository contains xephyr. It's extremely rare to find something in DEB but not RPM. The reverse is much more common. It is, apparently, in the FC6 repositories, at least[1]. Here's a link to that RPM[2]. From what I can tell, it's not in any of the RHEL repositories. At least you may be able to resolve the dependencies using yum install library-name use yum search query to see if package query exists in your repository set. [1]http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/03/01/maemo-30-on-fedora-core-6-n800-development-environment [2]download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/ xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.1.1-47.6.fc6.i386.rpmhttp://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/3946355/com/xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.1.1-47.6.fc6.i386.rpm.html --Paul I have added a stanza to yum.conf that points to a directory on my machine where I have placed a (dummy) header.info file. yum finds the header.info file, but of course complains about its format. So I now have to know the format to put in the header.info file. (I just want to write code!) I'm searching the Internet and have learned that later versions of yum no longer use the header.info file. They now use xml. Of course, I would still have to know the format of the xml if there is no public repository for xephyr that is compatible with yum (meaning an rpm repository I assume). Thanks, Paul Vladislav Grinchenko wrote: try 'sudo yum install xorg-x11-serer-Xephyr' --Vlad On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:33 -0600, Paul F. Sehorne wrote: Thanks to advice from Kimmo Hämäläinen, I now have my first Hildon program (the sample) compiled and ready to run. Next is to get Xephyr running. I'm running Redhat which uses RPMs. How do I install the Xephyr DEB file? Thanks, -- Paul ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
SoC update
Hi, Things are going not-bad in the Summer of Code project. We currently have 7 project proposals, 8 community mentors, 8 backup mentors (Nokia employees) and 1 administrator (myself, Nokia employee too). You can see titles and names at http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GoogleSoC2007 PROJECT PROPOSALS The deadline for student proposals is in 4 days (March 26; applications must be received by 5:00 PM Pacific time (12:00 AM UTC March 27, 2007). I haven't looked in depth to the proposals yet and I still haven't got an opinion about their quality and feasibility. We don't know either if there are more proposals being worked on, hopefully yes. In general I think it would be good to have more proposals to choose from and rank. COMMUNITY MENTORS I have been approving all the candidates that went through the Google form. No reliability checked. Mentor reliability depends a lot on the quality/feasibility of the project a mentor is tied, so it is a bit of chicken and egg game to see which projects+mentors need to be promoted at the top of the list. Currently 3 mentors have requested ownership of 1 of the 7 projects proposed. We will have 10 days or so to discuss all this internally, between all mentors. BACKUP MENTORS We will follow the plan, and these backup mentors working at Nokia won't take ownership of any project. They are there now in order to help studying proposals, provide background info etc. They will be there to help in the case a project has problems delivering. Let's leave just a 2cm open door to a possibility of an ideal project proposal having their ideal mentor counterpart in a backup mentor, and everybody agrees that it would be stupid not to take this opportunity. Hopefully we don't need to use these 2cm, though. ORGANIZATION ADMINS Currently we have just one: myself. I volunteered to bootstrap this process in order to get a SoC opportunity for maemo and the mission is accomplished now. We need one or more community administrators and I would stay as backup admin, just in case help is needed. A first rule of this game was that maemo @ SoC is a community driven initiative. The idea was brought by community people, and the best way to keep this aim is having community people in the key positions. Conclusion: we need 2 administrators, can you please decide which ones? SoC CASH There are still no candidates to get the cash paid by Google to the organizations taking part in the SoC. Just think of a cool project/group around maemo needing some cash to do great things and we will redirect the Google money there. Maemo hasn't got an entity by its own, as for today is a Nokia owned brand. Another fundamental rule of the game was Nokia or Nokia employees won't receive a cent from this program. Propose alternatives, Google doesn't need to save that money. ;) -- Quim Gil - http://maemo.org ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
