[Gta04-owner] Replicant-4.2 for GTA04

[Lukas Maerdian]

2014-02-22 0:46 GMT+01:00 Neil Jerram <neil at ossau.homelinux.net>:
> Lukas Maerdian <luk at slyon.de> writes:
>
>> I'm glad you're interested. The Replicant 4.2 system isn't ready for
>> daily use quite yet, i.e. modem RIL/Wifi/Bluetooth are non-working.
>> Right now it is just meant for testing purposes, so battery shouldn't
>> be too much of a problem. But if you want to avoid this bug in any
>> case and have a spare SD card, you can test Alexandre's image, which
>> is based on the Goldelico system and provides those other fixes.
>
> I'm testing your image now - I have to try this single partition one
> first because I've lost my SD card reader, which means I can't run the
> multi-partition setup script on my laptop (even though I do have a spare
> SD card).
>
> It looks great.  On first boot it stayed for a worryingly long time,
> I guess around 3mins, on the Replicant image page - but I guess that's
> normal.

Yes, that's normal. It generates some (DEX) files on first boot. I
forgott to mention this.

> Is there a way to make the USB cable do networking, as in normal
> Linux-based distros?  ifconfig -a on my laptop doesn't show any USB
> interface, as it normally would.  Without this I can't test things like
> the browser.

I never tried this myself. But probably normal Linux ways won't work
with Android. If this is possible, it should apply to any Android
based device. Maybe you can find some hints on the web?

> Also, after I stopped playing to write this email, the screen went blank
> and it appears there's no way that I can make it come alive again - any
> ideas there?

For me it always resumed when pressing the power button (sometimes it
took a while), but I'm mostly testing on the Letux 3704 right now. Do
you have serial access to your GTA04, so you can see what is
happening?

Regards,
  Lukas