Actually I managed to dig up my old DJGPP makefile skills and got the PowerVR sdk examples compiled inside scratchbox, moved the binary to the n900 and got a triangle..

Once I got that running I could make a small hack and move some of the c code inside and whola(!!!) got some parts of the visualization going!..

But seems I must deploy to the n900 only.. running inside xephyr complains about eglsurface not initialized gah.. dunno if I can get that working

And yes I agree.. it is painful...