Hi Kedar, Thanks for the heads up. I don't think that the system that I am working on is really geared up for GNOME. Speed is limited to 266MHz, RAM to 64MB and i have 1GB of storage. Also I am using an older kernel, 2.6.23. I guess that puts me at a considerable disadvantage. A little bit of research has got me thinking about two options: 1. Build a simple barebones X-sever. Something like this post: http://linux.omap.com/pipermail/linux-omap-open-source/2004-November/002175. html. And use a client intended for small systems like Matchbox (http://matchbox-project.org/). I saw libmatchbox is part of the published packages. A package with some compiled examples would be nice :) 2. Abandon X altogether and move to something like Qt. I saw Qt was also part of the list of packages. Maybe I can use that. For the touchscreen I came across this project http://tslib.berlios.de/. It looks it is or was maintained by Russell King. Warm Regards, Vijay Raju -----Original Message----- From: Kedar Sovani [mailto:kedars@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 15 August 2009 08:46 To: Vijay Raju Cc: Prabhanjan Sarnaik; fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Windowing under Fedora_ARM (was Serial console under Fedora_ARM) Hi Vijay, > -----Original Message----- > From: Vijay Raju [mailto:vijay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > 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.htm l 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. _______________________________________________ fedora-arm mailing list fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-arm
