Chris, follow the 2 steps which you cited below.
With Automatic Login you shouldn't need to log in. This is what helped for me too. If you insist in having a logon screen (I don't think this is necessary on a OM device) you will need to add a launcher for the matchbox keyboard at the end of your kdm launcher script. Once you're logged in, you can access the matchbox keyboard from Start > Accessories. In my version Zhone wasn't completely de-installed, but it could be launched with STart > Office > Zhone. I didn't test the functionality however because I don't have a working GSM card right now. I'm stuck with Verizon right now and I don't want to switch to T-mobile before they come out with their Android phone. I am absolutely happy with my xfce4 desktop. This is what I was thinking about when I bought my OM Freerunner. For a basic finger friendly phone I launch OM2008.8 from the flash and for the real stuff I have Debian on a 8 GB card. After a little work things start to get interesting. BTW I needed to format the boot partition in vfat. EXT2 didn't work because the modification of the u-boot_env nearly bricked my Freerunner. For some reason the modification script wasn't able to modify my environment section. I got size differences and consistent crc errors. Flashing the OM with the corrupt environment fas fatal. Thank goodness I saved my old environment file so that I was able to recover it. Now I have vfat on my boot partition and everything works fine. Thomas C R McClenaghan wrote: > Following your lead several days later, while installing xfce4 and > gdm, zhone-session, frameworkd and several other FSO components were > uninstalled. What are you using for a phone application? Also, with > the referenced error below, how do you respond to the screen prompt > from GDM about X already running? I can't get a keyboard to pop up at > that point and there isn't an okay button to select with a stylus. > Coincidentally, I also can't get in via USB networking at that point. > > Thanks, > > Chris > > On Aug 16, 2008, at 8:35 PM, sparky mat wrote: > > >> After 10 minutes of playing with Zhone, I dumped zhone-session for >> gdm and xfce4. >> >> I ran into this trouble. On reboot, it said that X was already >> running, and it was trying to run it again. Snooping around, I find >> that /etc/init.d/zhone-sesion and /et/rc[2-5].d/S20zhone-sesion were >> still around and trying to start X. Removing these files solved this >> problem. >> >> Keyboard was messy, so enabled auto-login (steps below) >> 1. created a user >> 2. Added this to the 'Daemon' section of /etc/gdm/gdm.conf >> AutomaticLoginEnable=true >> AutomaticLogin=<user name> >> >> >> Now I am looking for a MUCH lighter window manager. Xfce4 is too >> heavy!! :) . How good is Matchbox/Fluxbox usability-wise and >> customizability-wise? >> _______________________________________________ >> support mailing list >> support@lists.openmoko.org >> https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support >> > > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > support@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support > > _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support