Some progresses on ARM

Ubuntu (dapper) is great for home using, but there is nothing better then our good and old friend Debian for devel :). While using Ubuntu as development platform, I was able to build minimo for i386 and arm, but always when I tried run it on n770/maemo2.0 it failed. Since then, I've been spending part of my rare free time producing debug builds, strace'ing it, blablabla and nothing 'till today.

So unintentionally I did it all again using a fresh debian sarge machine (set up with same toolchain, rootstraps, compilers). Follows the results:

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brazilian soccer idols


minimo in fullscreen mode

minimo in fullscreen mode (and vkb popped up)

I am cleaning patches up just now and .deb is about to upload.

--Antonio Gomes

arm'ing Minimo 016 ! What am I missing ?

My odyssey of make minimo 016 work on the n770 has began. After got it built on sbox/maemo2.0 for both i386 and arm, but running it on arm is being painful. That's where I am:

• arm build - DONE
• AI-installable .deb - DONE
  
• source packing - DONE
• menu item added on extra menu (am able to launch minimo from it on sbox/i386 only)
• icon on task manager is not added after launch it, even on i386 !!!
  
• initial dbus support - DONE
• it is not killed by system when launched from menu on sbox/i386.
• vkb synchronization - MISSING
  
• CORE: minimo does not show up when on n770
• maybe a libstdc++6 incompatibility ????

I've posted about it on maemo-dev mailing list, but nothing yet ? Btw, after a hand of some nice guys (jay and guilt from ITT) I got it working on IT 2005. Any hint ?

--Antonio Gomes

minimo 016 on maemo2.0/sbox

good news: I got lots of my old stuff recovered after my laptop damaging 2 weeks later. This holiday, and during world cup matches :), I got back hacking minimo for maemo-2.0. Follows the situation currently:

• dougt has launched minimo 0.16. WOW.
  
• I applied some patches (psm + testgtkembed + packaging) into it and built/ran on sbox2.0b-i386.
• odd build failing on arm. working on it.

Some nice screenshots:





--Antonio Gomes
http:// tonikitoo dot blogspot dot com