Re: Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview
 

This looks great, may I ask a couple of questions...

What is power consumption like?
There is a receiver button in the video, can this make calls?
Can this be triple booted with nitdroid?

Thanks

Re: Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview
 

http://blog.morpheuz.cc/10/07/2010/kde-calls-home/

Here is what is planned for Natty

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UDSProceedi...lopers#Kubuntu Natty Mobile

Re: Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview
 

a bit more of a walk through of the steps needed to get this running on an N900 (from MicroSD card anyway for now)
http://ianlawrence.info/random-stuff...le-on-the-n900

Re: Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview
 

this looks really cool. only thing that stops me from testing it are the instructions :)
i understand them and could do it but is there no easier way ? all this stuff with the meego image and u-boot would kill my nitdroid.

Do you plan on using multiboot or would it be possible?

Re: Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview
 

Our current target is to have Kubuntu Mobile fully working on the N900 in time for the 11.04 Natty release - so maybe wait until then if you do not feel too comfortable using the instructions

Re: Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview
 

ian_brasil:

I second that. Looks like the instructions are not up-to-date anyway. The URL provided for Ubuntu images site no longer exist. In the Natty directory there are only images for OMAP4. Additionally, theres now a meego image from 5-Jan as opposed to the 21-Dec described there.

In QA POV, its better to force testers to check on prepackaged deliveries, so that errors that arise from inconsistencies of self packaging can be ruled out.
In the lazy slub POV, I would rather have a rootfs.tar.gz :)

Remember: the easier the deployment will be, the more testers thou shall have

Re: Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview
 

damagedspline:
since we are using the meego kernel then using the OMAP4 image should work on the N900 (the OMAP 3 build is currently broken on the build machines). Also the most recent meego image should work - i just did my install with the one from Dec 21 so i am sure that that one is OK
In terms of a prepackeaged image we will have what you want for Natty if all goes well. The Linaro guys are making a kernel for linaro-handset-plasma there is a possibility to use that

Re: Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview
 

Thanks, looking forward to that :)

Re: Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview
 

i tried your guide yesterday but when i chroot on the sd i get:


qemu: fatal: cp15 insn ee1d6f70

R00=4009f960 R01=4208f850 R02=0d696914 R03=00014d3c
R04=0001d118 R05=00000000 R06=0001f291 R07=4208f870
R08=000a305c R09=00000000 R10=4009f000 R11=00000000
R12=0001502c R13=4007f848 R14=4008f398 R15=4008ae2c
PSR=20000030 --C- T usr32

and then nothing happens...

i'm running ubuntu 10.10 with latest updates installed

Re: Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview
 

This is a bug in qemu-arm-static when you go from a Maverick host to a Natty chroot -seems my comment about OMAP4 is not correct then :(.

You could either upgrade your host to Natty or just wait a little while and I will try to find out why the Maverick OMAP3 images are not building and then use that when they are.
Thanks for trying these instructions out and helping to make Kubuntu mobile better. I will ping you when the image is building ok