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

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falcone', 'W')hat does your Xorg log say? (xf86-input-evdev 2.7.0-2, 2.7.0 was the first version that contains this feature)

Do you have additional lines in the conf, like
Option "GrabDevice" "true"

[Falcone]

Good to be useful. It seems nobody (officially) is working on this port anymore.

[kmihelich]

crimsonredmk doesn't have the time right now, and I have my own massive TODO list of things I consider to be more important, so.. yep. Anyone is free to pick up where we left off, as with any device, there just aren't people that have. The few of us in the core development team that work on everything can't possibly cover every device. This is all done in our free time, not something we're paid to do.

[CalcProgrammer1]

I don't think Qualcomm released any new drivers, but there's a new open-source community driver for the Adreno called Freedreno and it does work with HP TouchPad (at least on Ubuntu it does). I've got Ubuntu 12.04 up with WiFi, Bluetooth, Freedreno graphics (2D acceleration only at the moment), smooth touchscreen, USB keyboard/mouse/hard drive, LED triggers, ext4/ntfs+rw filesystems, and more. The same should work on an Arch rootfs. See the Ubuntu XDA thread for more info.

[Eeems]

Some better tools for building this would be nice. At the moment building the kernel is really confusing and piecing together how to get the files needed for a new initial filesystem that will actually work with all the updates.
A script that grabs all the source files needed to build the kernel and then builds them all for you would be nice. Automation is really helpful

In it's current state ArchLinux for the touchpad is broken after you try to update it. I'm not entirely sure what broke though because I can't get in and look at the logs since bootlogd doesn't log correctly and they scroll too fast for me to read all the errors.

[xaero252]

Any guidance on building an updated initial filesystem? Or does anybody have a working base system after updating using pacman.

[Falcone]

Sorry, as much as want to help but that's still out of my reach (=have no experience).

[mwsealey]

I'm really curious here, I thought if GNOME3 didn't have hardware acceleration it basically bailed out; how on earth did GNOME3 manage to load here, are there some Qualcomm binaries floating around and a working GLES2 backend or just software-rendering and some magic to make it whitelist the device for software-rendering?

[xaero252]

Gnome3 fallback doesn't require hardware acceleration at all. Its not as pretty as the hardware accelerated gnome3 interface, but it still works, and relatively fluidly at that. Furthermore, with the advent of the two open source Mali driver options - Lima and Freedreno, we will soon (relatively speaking) see full 2d and 3d acceleration. These drivers have been implemented by Calcprogrammer1 on his 12.04 Ubuntu install, which can be seen running on his youtube channel. Its not full acceleration yet, but its certainly better than no acceleration.

[mwsealey]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xaero252', 'G')nome3 fallback doesn't require hardware acceleration at all. Its not as pretty as the hardware accelerated gnome3 interface, but it still works, and relatively fluidly at that. Furthermore, with the advent of the two open source Mali driver options - Lima and Freedreno, we will soon (relatively speaking) see full 2d and 3d acceleration. These drivers have been implemented by Calcprogrammer1 on his 12.04 Ubuntu install, which can be seen running on his youtube channel. Its not full acceleration yet, but its certainly better than no acceleration.