New N800 install files for GPE bits April 24, 2007
Posted by Florian in GPE, Maemo, Source.1 comment so far
A set of updated install files for the GPE bits in Graham’s experimental
package repository for the Nokia N800. You can find them here. I wrote a few words about these packages already. Latest ones seem to be quite good.
There is one issue caused by a missing dependency left: You need to install the libmimedir-gnome1 package manually, it is not pulled in automatically.
Like always bug reports and all other kinds of feedback are very very welcome!
G(PE)² on a HTC Tornado April 24, 2007
Posted by Florian in GPE, OpenEmbedded, Source, kernel concepts.8 comments
With the help of some nice French colleagues I was able to create a GPE Phone Edition image for a HTC Tornado. I was quite impressed how much of the user interface stuff works even without having a touchscreen. Now we only need some hero to make the GSM modem work - using this cute little phone with G(PE)² would be pretty cool. But well even with a working hardware platform there still quite a lot of work to do. The most important missing feature is a working text input method for devices with a numeric keypad.
Many thanks to the people who were involved into porting Linux to these devices, in particular Vivien and Nicolas.
Of course I have images available for testing again. They are available from here. I used the 128MB Mini-SD card shipped with my N800 and put Haret, zImage and the configuration file on a FAT partition. The second partition on the poor SD card contains the ext3 root filesystem. Depending on your filesystem layout on the phone you need to create a directory tree to put the haret configuration in, that path seems to be hardcoded into the binary from Nicolas’ website. Please note that Haret only works on unlocked phones.
If you have comments or questions just drom me a mail… enjoy!
