News: OpenMoko on A1200E with correct color

[heha]

Dear all,

Now the TS works, LCD has supported 18BPP ...

[m41d3n]

That is great!!! Can you tell us how you've done it.

[pycomputing]

really works, have signal, all works, and how install it, who phone has this software

[z3r0c001]

I'd like to try it. Maybe some manual how we could run it?

Man you rule!!! It is amazing!

[osoroco]

looks really nice, how stable is it and what works and what doesn't?

[dark_knightvn]

amazing!!! it's great!!!! how 's about opie?? anything new?

[starkrav]

"Now the TS works, LCD has supported 18BPP ... "

Wow!! Tourette Syndrome working! Does that mean I don't have to believe you because you swear too *!?@* much?

Listen, I realize some of you are highly technical, too busy to speak a real language and therefore use every shortcut known to man but for the rest of us, would you mind "explaining" what the hell it is you're talking about? The accepted rule for using acronyms or initializations is to spell them out the first time they appear. Then if you refer to them again you have already defined what the meaning is. Otherwise you assume the reader will somehow magically interpret your abbreviations correctly and I can guarantee you that is NOT the case.

In the post above, I knew LCD, that's common enough, but I haven't a clue what TS is or 18BPP is and so it's left for me to interpret what the hell you're talking about. The pictures helped but I'm still uncertain. Additionally, if you post something and don't follow up after receiving several responses requesting more information, it becomes an exercise in futility and accomplishes nothing.

My two cents.

[motomingfan]

TS must be "touch screen"

[starkrav]

P.S. I had never heard of OpenMoko before this post - a great concept! So even though I didn't understand the post until I spent awhile researching it on the internet, I'm thrilled that there are dedicated people working on it and even modifying it for the A1200.

Question: how does OpenMoko differ from the LInux operating system we currently have running on our A1200's? In other words, what restrictions are there still with Linux that won't exist with OPENMOKO? From what I could gather, the project is to develop a free operating system that would work on many cell phone platforms. But isn't that what we have now with Linux?

[rpconnect]

as a quick and dirty reference, 18BPP refers to 18 bits per pixel; the e680/i/a780 are all 16BPP so in order to get the latest linux kernel builds to operate on both, the underlying graphics drivers needed to be updated. This is a big deal for those of us w/ a1200 and a major contribution, thanks!!!

As far as OpenMoko vs. the existing linux on the ezx phones, there are essentially two components to the differences. The first is that the openmoko (and openezx) distributions are based on the 'latest' linux kernel (version 2.6.21 ?) as opposed to the 2.4.20 kernel that the current EZX phones use; many embedded devices use the 2.4.20 kernel due to stability, but it makes it hard for linux developers to stay compatible with old kernels and development, not to mention the myriad of updates that we can take advantage of with the new kernel(s).

the second major difference between the EZX phone systems and openmoko (or openezx) is that all of the user-side software is completely open source. The EZX graphical UI is based on a commercial version of QT so they can lock down the libraries and not provide programmers the details they need to use or modify the existing software; plus the remaining user-side
software is Motorola proprietary so we cannot change it to make it into what we want.

OpenMoko (and openezx) on the other hand are completly open and therefore modifiable by _anyone_, so rather than trying to work around the lock-downs in the existing EZX software we have complete freedom which means better/faster/more secure updates as well as a completely open field for new applications.

hope this helps....