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Mer/Releases/0.7

Completed tasks in this release and notable accomplisments

• Jaffa: New shiny wiki page for Mer and new structure
• Stskeeps: gnome-keyring will no longer bother you
• Stskeeps: Fixing crash problems with HAL dying (LED detection)
• johnx: new first-boot-wizard asks for password, adds user to more groups, enables swap partition (if present) and enables passwordless sudo.
• Meizirkki: dialogs can be moved, but they still appear in right place.
• Stskeeps: VMDK images are now automatically generated (VirtualBox, VMware, etc)
• Stskeeps: Discussion/new policy on licenses banning commercial use
• r2d2rogers, RST38h, etc: Now we have 770 support with sapwood not crashing
• Upgraded to pre-alpha2 l10n and upgraded gtk, libhildon.
• Moving along with being able to distribute firmware images with closed source bits: positive response from Nokia
• PyMaemo (well, bindings) in repository now, for instance 'homeip' as example application and advanced-power (needs hald-addon-bme)
• Jaffa: Porting Hildon Application Manager to Mer

Known issues

• Task: Port and build http://repository.maemo.org/pool/diablo/free/h/hildon-plugins-settings/ (statusbar applet config) - In repository as hildon-plugins-settings-cpa. Working and text labels working but creates duplicate application menu.
• Task: Add FDI for Nokia keyboards (see this and this. Check this [1] - Added keycode problem fix in xserver-xorg-input-evdev, now in repository, not working yet.
• Task: Working X-terminal with hildon input method working - Some vte patches still needed, but working: screenshot
• 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.

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.

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 0.7
   • OS type: Linux
   • Version: Ubuntu
   • RAM: 128 at least.
   • Disk: click "existing", find the mer-x86-generic-image-v0.7.vmdk file, select, select
   • Next
   • Finish.

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-0.7
cd mer-0.7 && sudo tar xzf mer-x86-generic-image-v0.7.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" "$@"' | sudo tee usr/bin/maemo-invoker
sudo chmod 755 usr/bin/maemo-invoker
echo 'assume-connection 1' | sudo tee home/$USER/.osso/hildon-application-manager
echo 'nameserver <mynameresolver>' | sudo tee -a etc/resolv.conf

Start-up (from within mer-0.7 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

Nokia 770 - tar.gz image

• Nokia 770 tar.gz rootfs image

Nokia N8x0(W) - installer

• .install file, use this and it will download proper bootmenu and such.

Guide:

• Open the main menu and tap Utilities -> Install Bootmenu to start the bootmenu install process.
• First, say yes to removing "unneeded extra (and factory testing) stuff"
• say yes to including bootmenu.conf (important). Reboot when done flashing.
• This is a special boot menu where boot menu items are made in /etc/bootmenu.d/*.item and refresh_bootmenu.d will flash this to initfs. If you are cloning or booting other OS'es, you'll need to make such .item files]
• Utilities -> Install Mer and go through the dialogs. The installer will always install the most current release. When done it will reboot and you can hold down menu/swap key and boot into Mer.

Nokia N8x0(W) tar.gz

• http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.7/mer-armel-n800-image-v0.7.tar.gz - tar.gz rootfs image