[ALPHA 2 - DEC 22] Arch Linux ARM + Gnome 3

[crimsonredmk]

I've noticed this as well while SSHing in...thanks for reminding me though about this - I'll ask around and see why. Our ar6000.ko file is directly pulled from webOS so I don't know what could be the cause. Maybe the driver generates a random one each time it's loaded unless it is given one in some config file? I honestly don't know but I'll research.

[Falcone]

...can't you just 'insmod ar6000.ko mac_param=00:1D:FE:E1:xx:yy' and so on?

Also, a rep for driver sources should be here (OpenMoko also maintained their own rep)

[armSeb]

After some tests, I can say that the touch screen is too sensitive. It detects my finger without touching the screen.


Do you think that it's possible to make Gnome Shell working with the touchpad OpenGL ES ?

[r2d2leboss]

After some tests, I can say that the touch screen is too sensitive. It detects my finger without touching the screen.


Do you think that it's possible to make Gnome Shell working with the touchpad OpenGL ES ?

I agree with you.
Unity or KDE Plasma Active will be good for a touch screen.

[crimsonredmk]

Alpha 2 with Gnome 3 (fallback for now) is out. Plasma Active isn't ready yet upstream so we have to wait a while. Unity I would argue is "close enough" to Gnome 3 right now, but in the future when Ubuntu tweaks it more for touch screens - maybe.

Of course you're free to hop into Terminal and install whatever you want - Gnome 3 is just a better starting point than XFCE.

[kageurufu]

Has anyone gotten bluetooth working?

[armSeb]

Very nice job


To get gnome-shell working, you need to build clutter with OpenGL ES support.

[crimsonredmk]

Details details armSeb Have you done it or have a PKGBUILD even?

[armSeb]

Clutter is the rendering backed of gnome-shell.

You can build it with the OpenGLES support, details below :

http://forums.freescale.com/t5/i-MX-Microprocessors/How-to-install-compile-clutter-with-OpenGL-ES-2-0-as-the-backend/td-p/53441

But I don't know if Xorg 3D driver is already working on your release.

[crimsonredmk]

No, and I don't think it will anytime soon - it's not my priority really and I see the rest of the Linux community hasn't had luck either (HTC-Linux uses the same drivers). I'll have to take a look at rebuilding it...