I can try to boot this image on Dell Latitude XT2 tablet PC. On Monday. Do I need a new kernel img to do this? Any thoughts if I should spend time on that? Any particular repo I should use to do this?
Thanks, Adhyas ----- Original message ----- > On 5/15/2010 11:29, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > I built another vmdk image with the repo at > http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/trunk/daily/core/repos/ia32/packages/ > in the hope that I can see some graphics screen but it just hangs like > other images. > > Does the kernel not have appropriate drivers in the image at this > repo? Should I try compiling the kernel image with some specific > graphics drivers to see the graphics boot? I would really like to see > some Graphical UI before 1.0 is released. Should I try qemu instead of > vmware? > > > > On bugs.meego.com, I can see several bugs related to Graphical UI, how > can I reproduce the developer environment on my box? What repo should I > use? > > > at least for the netbook/x86 UI, your VM is not going to work... really. > I don't want anyone to have false hope on this.... it's just not > something that's going to work; and even if someone spends a lot of time > to get it sort of working, it's going to be a rather shitty > experience. We've seen in this since Moblin 2.0 days and nobody really > got this to work nice. > Now if you want you can blow some hours of time on this, and by all > means, don't let me stop you. > But I want to at least not give you or anyone else false hope or false > expectations upfront.... > > > no 3D acceleration -> No UI. Seriously. > in fact, for netbook: if your X server or gfx driver would need root > privileges -> no graphics in default image. > (yes you can make your X server setuid-root yourself and accept the > security risk.. but our default images > behave securely in this regard) > >
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