Hi Vijay,
-----Original Message-----
From: Vijay Raju [mailto:vijay@embeddedmachines.com]
Sent: 14 August 2009 09:31
To: Kedar Sovani
Cc: Prabhanjan Sarnaik
Subject: RE: Windowing under Fedora_ARM (Serial console under
Fedora_ARM)
Hi Kedar,
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on beefing up
our kernel
to get a whole variety of devices up and running. One of my
primary
intentions while adopting fedora was to simplify the testing
and adoption of
these devices in various ongoing project. So far things have
been working
out great. We have had a good measure of success with devices
on the USB
host. We were quickly able to integrate a WLAN dongle, HID
devices and mass
storage.
Cool, this is great! :-)
The next challenge is a UI. I already have a framebuffer device
and a
touchscreen controller driver written and compiled into the
kernel. I have
never worked on any kind of UI systems or window managers and I
am pretty
much starting from scratch. Considering that, could you suggest
a set of
packages that I could use to build up a quick demo showcasing
the LCD and
the touchscreen.
We have managed to get the Gnome stack functional on the ARM board. Here is a blog post
that talks about that.
http://fedora-arm.blogspot.com/2009/07/fedora-arm-goes-graphical.html
You have to install the X and the Gnome package groups from the repositories. I suppose
there are a couple of packages missing from the group, you might have to skip them
manually (These are already built, just that they haven't hit the externally published
repositories yet.) A detailed listed of steps is available here:
http://fedora-arm.blogspot.com/2009/07/steps-for-getting-x-gnome-working....
Once that is done you should be able to get the X going. There were a few other problems
seen when we installed a system this large a size. These are documented in here:
http://fedora-arm.blogspot.com/2009/07/dhclient-firstboot-and-hald-woes.html
I haven't given a shot to the touch-screen interfaces though. If you are looking for
any set(s) of packages for the purpose, that aren't still in there, do let me know.
Warm Regards,
Vijay Raju
Best,
Kedar.