On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:23:20AM -0600, Garcia, Jaime wrote: > > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Víctor M. Jáquez L. [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 3:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MeeGo-dev] meego in the pandaboard > > >I found that there is a wiki page for this topic [1], which provides a > >kick-start file for generating the file system, which is more than enough as > >a > >starting point. > > > > we now have a more recent kickstart file, just testing to release it to > community > > >Nevertheless, the kernel did not work for me. Neither the boot.src provides > > > >the correct kernel parameters for the video subsystem. Hence, I borrowed what > >currently works: the x-loader, u-boot and kernel of the Ubuntu Maverick > >Meerkat for the Panda. > > Sure, for now it looks like the current kernel in wiki only gives you a > prompt shell, we're updating our wiki to point to the kernel that actually > works! > > >For the x-loader and the u-boot I just copied the binaries from the Ubuntu > >SD. The boot.src I got rid of the initrd fanciness. And for the kernel, I > >grabbed the latest Ubuntu’s kernel from its git repository and using the > >config file also from the SD. > > > >My first approach was to have GLX/EGL through the SGX kernel module, which > >also comes in the Ubuntu image. You can find the kernel module and the > >proprietary libraries in the OMAP4 PPA [3]. > > > >This approach failed though: The Meego’s compositor (mcompositor) could not > >render correctly in both monitors where I tested the result. > > right now we are actually working to bring up GFX
Great! Is there a place where I can grab the latest sources/binaries? > > >So, my alternative approach was get rid of the compositor and launch directly > >the duihome, the window manager. In order to do that, you must change the > >file > >/etc/sysconfig/uxlaunch, with > > > >[snip] > >-session=/usr/bin/mcompositor > >+session= /usr/bin/duihome -software -show-cursor > >[snip] > > > >The -software parameter request to use software rendering, not > >accelerated. The -show-cursor requests for a mouse pointer. Those options are > >consumed by meegotouch library. Nevertheless, each application must be > >launched explicitly with them. > > > >In order to circumvent this issue, there is already an environment variable > >for the -software: M_USE_SOFTWARE_RENDERING=1. But for the -show-cursor there > >is none. Although it is not difficult to implement [4]. > > > >Et voilà, we have a singing & dancing Meego environment. But still, the UI > >transitions are really missed. > > we currently going to release a more recent kickstart file (for today) that > takes care of this configurations, so no more modifications "by hand" needed That sounds wonderful too, but do you have some repository for it? I think that my clone repository in gitorious is the right path rather than a file in the meego's wiki. > > >Next step: Syslink, DOMX and GStreamer. > > It will be great if you can contribute and help, keep going ;) I'd love to but how? I won't like to duplicate efforts. vmjl > > >vmjl > > > >1.http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/OMAP4_Panda > >2. http://gitorious.org/~vjaquez/meego-os-base/vjaquez-image-configurations > >3. https://launchpad.net/~tiomap-dev/+archive/release > >4. http://people.igalia.com/vjaquez/patches/meegotouch.patch > > Regards, > Jaime Garcia > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
