[Gta04-owner] Second trial with QtMoko2

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi all,

> Am 03.04.2018 um 20:22 schrieb Belisko Marek <marek.belisko at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:08 PM, Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info> wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 13:28:08 +0200
>> Sven Dyroff <S.Dyroff at phytec.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Nikolaus,
>>> 
>>> over the easter holidays I found the screenshot function of QtMoko again.
>>> I just had forgotten that it exists. It's under "Applications" /
>>> "Screenshot" and works fine by using time delay.
>>> 
>>> Attached you'll find a picture that a) proves that it works and b) shows
>>> that camera does not work for unknown reason...
>>> 
>>> Why is this the case? I thought camera should work with current Linux
>>> kernels, or am I wrong?
>>> 
>> The camera works to some degree with current kernels but afaik is was
>> never supported by qtmoko in userspace. And probably something has to
>> be updated.

Yes, there was no camera config in QtMoko.

>> 
>>> Furthermore I found that under "Settings" / "Startup Flags" there's an
>>> option "Modem" / "Use Dummy Modem Device". But unfortunately activating
>>> this seem to doesn't effectuate anything. But meanwhile I was able to
>>> solve the problem with acting as SJ by having found an old and expired SIM
>>> in my cupboard. It's not able to connect to any network anymore, but
>>> having this inside the GTA04A5 I'm at least able to enter a valid PIN.
>>> 
>>> I also found that obviously under "Settings" / "Security" you're able to
>>> deactivate asking for PIN, but this is something that I don't want to try
>>> out because I don't want to find out if this will also deactivate asking
>>> for PIN in case that I put a valid SIM into the phone.
>>> 
>>> So in the end there remained two more new questions in addition to the
>>> older ones:
>>> 
>>> a) How is it possible to get the camera working?
>>> 
>>> b) Testing makes only sense in case that there're are any developers
>>> outside who are able and willing to correct found errors / problems. So
>>> are there any Qt 4.8 developers outside for QtMoko or do we have "only"
>>> Linux kernel developers? Or in other words: What should be tested and what
>>> doesn't need to be?
>>> 
>> Well, many problems are not really qt specific, so it can be helpful.
>> So especially any regressions (compared to your v55 with old kernel) are
>> interesting. Before doing anything more on that, the next step
>> would be to build with current qt and test there. I probably will start
>> my build system this evening to do some experiments
> I'm bit lost and I did some searching and cannot find exact steps how
> to build qtmoko (basically on my PC).

Well, there are a lot of confusing and misleading (because old) instructions
and we do not yet have an authoritative description on the project home
page: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-qtmoko/

This is somewhere on my (too long) to-do list...

> Which instructions will you use? Thanks.
> 
> I'm familiar with Qt framework so I can help with fixing some bugs.

Please check with:

http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-qtmoko.git;a=blob;f=README;h=26ef1ae878d8a177ab26dc039a88ae6c10b62ecc;hb=refs/heads/master

(only "native" mode on some ARM SoC seems to work - so ignore the others).

Same for qte (which I have recently updated):

http://git.goldelico.com/?p=qtmoko2-qte.git;a=blob;f=README.md;h=e70e57bdda7a69d28d79c1a0b78d6726245d7242;hb=refs/heads/master

BR,
Nikolaus