Thursday, June 29, 2006

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:



cnn


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

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great! So it's now like waiting for Christmas to wait for you .deb ... :-)

Anonymous said...

That is GREAT.

Waiting for your .deb release.

Wish it support displaying Chinese.

Jay said...

Man, and I just sold my 770 this week to help pay for my new MacBook. I will miss it, and especially your constant tweaking of Minimo to run on the device. I'll be watching, but without the ability to try it on a device anymore.

Anonymous said...

Still waiting for your release. I wish you all the best that you'll have it out soon :-)

Antonio said...

what a shame , jay. You had been one of my best testers :) Many Thanks

anyway, I think you will buy another one soon. Trust to me ;)

Antonio said...

anonymous, (maybe ah.sima)

do you have any chinese test case ?

Anonymous said...

Antonio,

Please test the yahoo chinese website:
http://tw.yahoo.com/
and
US sina website
http://home.sina.com/
they are traditional chinese
and
http://www.sina.com.cn/
for simplified chinese website
The chinese font is simhei.ttf

Many thanks for doing this.

Anonymous said...

when will your .deb finally be there?

Antonio said...

I haven't released it yet because maemo image release misses some libraries at run-time. Anyway, I solved it copying them from armel-sdk rootstrap to minimo's lib directory on the device, and it worked fine. Now I have just to repack minimo with these libraries within .deb

on monday, for sure ...

thanks for your waiting :)

Anonymous said...

monday will be a great day :-)

thank you

Anonymous said...

Very pretty site! Keep working. thnx!
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