Mer/Releases/0.7

2009-02-01T19:46:03Z

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Mer 0.7 was prepared in the sprint 18 January 2009-1 February 2009, and released on 1 February 2009

== Completed tasks in this release and notable accomplishments ==

If you want to see associated sprint, [[Mer/Sprints/0.7|click here]]

{|
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2008-12-15 - 0.7 || [[Mer/Tasks/Mer_Installer|Installer for Mer on Diablo]] || b-man || 100% || [http://trac.tspre.org/bman Initial versions] [https://code.launchpad.net/~mer-committers/m-r/merinstaller BZR branch], Make .install file for packages.tspre.org 'installer' dist / user component.
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-31 || Figure out why HAM doesn't work in snapshot images || none || 100% || Tricks: assume-connection 1, problems with installing still? ''WFM in VirtualBox - needed to echo assume-connection 1 >~/.osso/hildon-application-manager after first setup; then started HAM; checked categories and then installed Titan theme without any problems --[[User:jaffa|Jaffa]] 23:12, 29 January 2009 (UTC)'' Also now working for [[User:stskeeps|Stskeeps]] after start-hildon modifications by [[User:johnx|johnx]]
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-29 || Make an error screen and reboot after 15 seconds if Mer is booted through normal bootmenu (check if /var/run is a symlink to /tmp/.run) || wazd, Stskeeps || 100% || Need 800x480 artwork (stop sign and "Incompatible bootmenu used, rebooting in 15 seconds") - added to nit-bootmenu-compat
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| || integrate/Mer-ize clipboard-manager (already in repository, but needs to be included into start-hildon etc) || johnx || 100% || In repository.
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| | 2009-01-26 || Fix key generation of openssh-server so it doesn't do it on imager but does it when booting || Darken || 100% || Managed by first boot wizard - ready for merging from lp:~koudelka-atolcomputers/m-r/first-boot-wizard
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-26 || Experiment with Droid Sans within hildon-theme-liberty and alter if it looks good || qwerty12 || 100% || In repository. [http://trac.tspre.org/qwerty12/ Screenshots & source patches here (in bzr too).]
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| January || Missing localization strings in Hildon, (#4001) || Stskeeps || 100% || There are still some strings to be fixed. But that's for l10n people.
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-24 || Package up Droid Sans (apache license) || qwerty || 100% || was in ttf-droid in ubuntu universe
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-23 || Figure out how to make gnome-keyring invisible to the user || Stskeeps || 100% || Fixed in hildon-desktop-env
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-23 || Bring in new changes from http://gitweb.pingu.fi/?p=xf86-video-omapfb.git;a=summary to xserver-xorg-video-omapfb || Stskeeps || 100% || Now in repository
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 0.7 || [[#qemu-eabi_cputransp_for_Scratchbox|qemu-eabi cputransp for Scratchbox]]|| qwerty12 || 100% || Deb (i386) & source package [http://trac.tspre.org/qwerty12 provided here].
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-23 || Package up advanced-power as a debian source package || qwerty12 || 100% || In repository.
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-20 || Fix sapwood crash problem on ARMv5t (bug 4023) || johnx, RST38h, r2d2rogers || 100% || Fixed in repository.
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-19 || Mer-ize hildon-application-manager || [[User:Jaffa|Jaffa]] || 100% || Screenshots: [http://www.flegg.org/~andrew/mer-ham-01.png 1], [http://www.flegg.org/~andrew/mer-ham-02.png 2], [http://www.flegg.org/~andrew/mer-ham-03.png 3]
|}

* 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: [http://jaiku.com/channel/mer/presence/52297083 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: [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2009-January/002946.html 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
* Nokia has been very forthcoming and has kept the previous pre-alpha SDK on site to make it possible to retrieve diffs to apply to Mer source trees :)

== Known issues ==

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*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 [http://trac.tspre.org/svn/deblet/trunk/packages/main/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi this] and [http://trac.tspre.org/svn/deblet/trunk/packages/main/nokia-xkb-data/ this]. Check this [http://internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=259961&postcount=57] - 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: [http://bsd.tspre.org/~stskeeps/mer-ossoxterm.png 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.
*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.
*WiFi power saving is inactive. Installing python-gobject and rebooting might do the trick. It only power saves when connected.
*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 [https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mer 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.

=== MD5sums ===

{|
|-
|68cc6849546c027b30f2c9d4f5f5ee47||mer-armel-770-image-v0.7.tar.gz
|-
|734b11b9396e65435f64ab22bb448a65||mer-armel-generic-rootstrap-v0.7.tar.gz
|-
|d92de32d4050e0596db4de16c71220f4||mer-armel-n800-image-v0.7.tar.gz
|-
|9dcf11e72d56128bca46df6f8501d648||mer-x86-generic-image-v0.7.tar.gz
|-
|f90b3dbb4228b8eb82f24c7c6c9a9a6a||mer-x86-generic-rootstrap-v0.7.tar.gz
|-
|f92be020bdf8d9c59883b215dcf784a8||mer-x86-generic-image-v0.7.vmdk.zip
|}

=== Generic x86 - VMDK (VMware disk image) ===

* [http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.7/mer-x86-generic-image-v0.7.vmdk.zip Generic X86 bootable VMDK image] - root password is 'rootme'

==== Installation in VirtualBox ====
# Unzip zip file
# 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 ===
* [http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.7/mer-x86-generic-image-v0.7.tar.gz Generic X86 tar.gz rootfs image]. Usable both for chroot and actually installing on a machine.

==== Installation (chroot) ====
<pre>
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
</pre>

===== Start-up (from within <tt>mer-0.7</tt> directory) =====
<pre>
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
</pre>

==== Installation (machine) ====

See [[Mer/Documentation/Making_x86_Mer_Bootable]]

=== Nokia 770 - tar.gz image ===

* [http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.7/mer-armel-770-image-v0.7.tar.gz Nokia 770 tar.gz rootfs image]

=== Nokia N8x0(W) - installer ===

* [http://bsd.tspre.org/~stskeeps/merinstaller.install .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

=== ARMEL sdk ===

First, install Fremantle SDK, and add yourself as a user to scratchbox.

As user:

* wget -c http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/arm-linux-cs2008q3-72-libtool2_1.0.11_i386.deb
* sudo dpkg -i arm-linux-cs2008q3-72-libtool2_1.0.11_i386.deb (run as root)
* wget -c http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/scratchbox-devkit-mer_1.0.11_i386.deb
* sudo dpkg -i scratchbox-devkit-mer_1.0.11_i386.deb
* wget -c http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/qemu-eabi-cputransp-sbox_svn5391-2_i386.deb
* sudo dpkg -i qemu-eabi-cputransp-sbox_svn5391-2_i386.deb
* sb-conf setup MER-ARMEL --compiler=arm-linux-cs2008q3-72-libtool2 --devkits=debian-etch:cputransp:perl:mer --cputransp=qemu-arm-eabi -f
* sb-conf reset -f MER-ARMEL
* sb-conf select MER-ARMEL
* sb-conf rootstrap MER-ARMEL http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/mer-armel-rootstrap-v8.tar.gz
* sb-conf install MER-ARMEL --etc --devkits --fakeroot

ISSUES:

* You might have to set cpu right and such to target armv5el (no vfp)
* You probably need to get EABI cpu transparency target too
* 'not safe for cross-compilation' warnings (not true, i think)
* fakeroot apt-get dist-upgrade is good once in a while to keep up to date.
* C++ is a bit broken.

=== buildd files ===

* http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.7/mer-armel-generic-rootstrap-v0.7.tar.gz
* http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.7/mer-x86-generic-rootstrap-v0.7.tar.gz

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