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Mer/Releases/0.8

Revision as of 18:29, 16 February 2009

Mer 0.7 was prepared in the sprint 1 February 2009 - 16 February 2009, and released on 16 February 2009

Completed tasks in this release and notable accomplishments

If you want to see associated sprint, click here

• b-man: various fixes to merinstaller
• Stskeeps: Beagleboard port, Pocket Loox 720 port, documented some parts of BME protocol, for creating an open hald-addon-bme.
• qwerty12: Created extras-repository package which adds the maemo-extras repository automatically for you in Mer.
• Mention of Mer at "Maemo on Beagleboard" talk at FOSDEM 09, see slide picture

Known issues

• Bootmenu does not play well with clone-to-SD systems. You will have to make a bootmenu item yourself (ask on #maemo about this) (someone document how to make an .item)
• Sometimes after updates the touchscreen of the tables stop working or isn't calibrated, this is because the 'xserver-xorg-input-synaptics' package are installed, to fix it do "sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics" in a terminal.
• No WiFi on 770 yet.
• X driver for omapfb does not use Manual updates yet and hence can be a bit slow in updating the screen which may give the impression the system is slow.
• Rotation in advanced-backlight kills the X server
• A better way to reboot device or shut down than 'sudo reboot' or 'sudo shutdown -h now' or popping the battery is needed.

Released files and guides

Disclaimer:

• There is -no- warranty. This may blow up your MMC, steal your wife or cause doomsday to come around. But if you find some bugs, please report them on bugs.maemo.org and we'll try to see what we can do to fix the bug causing it.
• If anything goes wrong, grab a USB cable, and rescue mode is done through holding down Home key when booting Mer (on tablets)

MD5sums

0772b1e9696abfa3385f225d7c22cecb mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.img.raw.gz d88403e0aef6a9a0e14fbdcc7d848565 mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.tar.gz 63e824cd3cab12e6c5088df3a11d6e2b mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.vmdk.zip

Generic x86 - VMDK (VMware disk image)

• Generic X86 bootable VMDK image - root password is 'rootme'

Installation in VirtualBox

1. Unzip zip file
2. Open VirtualBox, create new machine (click *New*):
   • Name: Mer 0.8
   • OS type: Linux
   • Version: Ubuntu
   • RAM: 128 at least.
   • Disk: click "existing", find the mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.vmdk file, select, select
   • Next
   • Finish.

Generic x86 - RAW image

• Generic X86 RAW gzipped image - usable in virtual machine products such as Parallels and such supporting RAW disk images (gunzip first).

Generic x86 - tar.gz image

• Generic X86 tar.gz rootfs image. Usable both for chroot and actually installing on a machine.

Installation (chroot)

mkdir mer-0.8
cd mer-0.8 && sudo tar xzf mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.tar.gz
sudo mkdir -p tmp/.X11-unix home/$USER/.osso
sudo mv usr/bin/maemo-invoker usr/bin/maemo-invoker.real
echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nPROG="$1"\nshift\nexec "$PROG" "$@"' | sudo tee usr/bin/maemo-invoker
sudo chmod 755 usr/bin/maemo-invoker
echo 'nameserver <mynameresolver>' | sudo tee -a etc/resolv.conf

Start-up (from within mer-0.8 directory)

Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac -extension Composite 2>/dev/null 1>&2 &
sudo mount --bind /tmp/.X11-unix tmp/.X11-unix
sudo mount --bind /dev/pts dev/pts
sudo mount -t proc proc proc
sudo mount -t sysfs sysfs sys
sudo chroot .
export DISPLAY=:2.0
/etc/init.d/dbus start
start-hildon

Installation (machine)

See Mer/Documentation/Making_x86_Mer_Bootable