X on e680/i

[rpconnect]

Using cyph's modified qte libs and opieproxy we can get X/Qt (a qt-based X server) to work essentially on top of opie. The only place I could find the source code was from the Japanese sourceforge page, but compiling is a royal pain in the butt.

I am trying to compile the apps (e.g. twm, xmms, xterm, etc) because it looks like most are available pre-built but were compiled w/o the softfloat option and return "illegal instruction" errors. If I can get things stable and some interesting apps running I will try to generate an extended opie_X.cramfs using cyph's opie.cramfs as a starting point and adding the necessary libs and apps.

[pascal]

great work rpconnect!

a running xmms on phone would be really cool

good luck!

[cyph]

Nice... reminds me of 5 years ago when I first got X running on my Pentium I. Oh the memories....

You know... actually. I was thinking. It will be even more efficient to get X running on the framebuffer directly. Instead of making it talk from ezx->opieproxy->opie->X we can shorten it to ezx->opieproxy(modified to become x11proxy perhaps)->X

[pascal]

but then we can not run opie at the same time?

[rpconnect]

Nice... reminds me of 5 years ago when I first got X running on my Pentium I. Oh the memories....

that is exactly the feeling i got when the X server first came up!

You know... actually. I was thinking. It will be even more efficient to get X running on the framebuffer directly. Instead of making it talk from ezx->opieproxy->opie->X we can shorten it to ezx->opieproxy(modified to become x11proxy perhaps)->X

I think that the ezx->opieproxy->X should work, its just a matter of modifying the .sh scripts that come w/ your package. all we really need is a good way for X to get touchscreen and button input w/o the ezx stuff grabbing it first, and your opieproxy is ideal for that.

Currently I am running it under / with opie for two reasons: 1) I am just testing things out right now and i'm kind of lazy, and 2) the X stuff that I have working right now doesn't have any keyboard input so by having opie running we can use the opie keyboard.

[rpconnect]

well i've made some progress w/ the X apps, but I am still running into many problems that I am not sure how to fix. Currently I have some basic apps like twm, xterm, xlogo, etc. compiled but I am getting errors that I don't know what to do with. For example, wen I try to run xterm I get the following:

    1	X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
     2	  Major opcode of failed request:  53 (X_CreatePixmap)
     3	  Value in failed request:  0x20
     4	  Serial number of failed request:  15
     5	  Current serial number in output stream:  69

If anybody is interested in trying this out, and/or helping debugging it, I have a opie_X package available that I can share, but its about 29 MB and I do not know how to distribute it. PM me if you are interested. For reference, here is the README file that I have so far:

# opie_X_package_0.1: 

# opie_X.cramfs contains all of the files from cyph's ezx-opie
# package along the following X apps (in X/bin/):
#   
#   Xqt	(the qt-based X server), twm, xcalc, xclock, xconsole, xeyes,
#   xlogo and xterm
# 
# as well as all of the necessary libs (in X/lib) and some additional
# opie apps (in bin/).  Note that most of the apps result in errors 
# of some kind, however at this time I cannot figure out how to resolve the 
# problems (it is not clear to me from the strace results what the problem
# might be, but I don't have any experience with this). Note that all apps 
# and libs were compiled with the cross-compiler setup as part of 
# leprechaun's opie guide so I don't think that there is a softfloat
# compatibility problem.  

###########
# To use:
###########

#------------
# Copy files:
#------------
  mv opie_X.cramfs /mmc/mmca1/opie/lib
  # (the same location as the opie.cramfs image from cyph's package)

  mv opiehome_files.tar.gz to /mmc/mmca1/opiehome 
  cd /mmc/mmca1/opiehome/
  tar zxvf opiehome_files.tar.gz
  # (this will provide some default files)

#----------------------------------------
# Modify /mmc/mmca1/opie/scripts/opie.sh:
#---------------------------------------
  # replace opie.cramfs with opie_X.cramfs

#------------
# Start Xqt:
#------------
  # Start opie using the opie.lin script. After Opie starts go to the 
  # Unsupported apps and you can click on the X icon to start Xqt along 
  # w/ xeyes and twm (see the bin/startX script for details

#################################
# To test some of the other apps:
#################################

  # Set the following environment variables
  export XQTROOT=$OPIEDIR/X
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$XQTROOT/lib
  export PATH=$PATH:$XQTROOT/bin
  export DISPLAY=":0.0"
  export FONTCONFIG_PATH=$XQTROOT/etc/fonts
  export ETCX11DIR=$XQTROOT/etc/X11
  export LIBDIR=$XQTROOT/lib

Also, I have a source code package that I can share, but it needs to be cleaned up and documented a bit (right now its around 200 MB and I have had to hack some of the files from the standard OE/bitbake install to get it to work).