Mer/Releases/0.13testing3

By using these testing images, you're morally obligated to test them and to edit this page and report -every single bug you find-, no matter if they're theme flaws, quirks, bugs or crashes. You can optionally also use bugzilla, use version 0.13.

Please send the bug report urls to mer-chatter (see Mer/Awareness ) as well and share your bugs, testing experiences.

Test master is Meizirkki, and can be found in #mer on irc.freenode.net usually and you can ask him if there's some specialized areas that need testing. Take these testing things first. If you are testing, go to #mer anyway. Good place to be.

These images will not be the only ones this week. In N8x0 installer, when it asks for URL=, write URL=http://the.image.intended. Instructions on Mer/Releases/0.12 still apply.

Mer X86 VMDK

Mer X86 rootfs version

Mer N8x0, rootfs version

Release notes
N8x0:


 * JFFS2 and it's associated kernel needs testing
 * Standard kernel needs testing
 * Verify touchscreen works

SmartQ5:


 * THIS IS A EXPERIMENTAL IMAGE AND NOT FINISHED AT ALL AND THERE IS NO WARRANTY.
 * IT IS A TESTING IMAGE AND FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES, BUT IS PUBLIC TO ENCOURAGE EXPERIMENTATION
 * THIS IMAGE IS MADE BY THE MER PROJECT AND IS NOT SMARTDEVICES OFFICIAL FIRMWARE
 * To install, put the firmware image on a SD card, on the first partition, a FAT32 one, and name the firmware image SmartQ5. Then, hold down + button and insert charger
 * There is currently a problem with closing dialogs (will be fixed in testing4).

To get wireless networking to work (from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Marvell8686Firmware):

1. Grab the firmware package from Marvell here: http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?driverId=203 and copy it to your computer.

2. Extract the downloaded zip file, then extract SD-8686-FEDORA26FC6-SYSKT-GPL-9.70.3.p24-26409.P45.tar within it. Extract the FwImage folder.

3. Inside there are two files, helper_sd.bin and sd8686.bin. Rename helper_sd.bin to sd8686_helper.bin and copy to your SD card

4. In Mer on SmartQ, open X-Terminal and:

$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk1p1 /media (password is the one you used when installing) $ sudo cp /media/sd8686.bin /lib/firmware/sd8686.bin $ sudo cp /media/sd8686_helper.bin /lib/firmware/sd8686_helper.bin $ sudo umount /media

5. Reboot. There is a problem with WPA2 networks (they're greyed out, feel free to find out why).

6. Report all bugs you find :)

Bugs in testing2
Insert bugs here.

Bugs in testing1

 * Hardware keyboard/slider events on N810 when device is in standby only turns on backlight, and doesn't unblank the screen. Touchscreen events work fine in this respect.
 * Touchscreen using xf86-input-tslib does not work (N8x0, SmartQ). Fix will be in testing2 image (redownload image and it should be fixed)
 * Brightness applet makes hildon crash (not always) http://pastebin.ca/1418638
 * Freezing at shutdown if the command is given from the new gui
 * Enhancement: jffs2 images, kernels, etc.
 * Potential fix: Edit kernel-diablo in Maemo:Mer:Devel:HW:N8x0:Devel to include a variant (like -oprofile or such) that is built to sed CONFIG_CMDLINE from 'CONFIG_CMDLINE="root=1f03 rootfstype=jffs2 ro console=tty0 console=ttyMTD5" to:'CONFIG_CMDLINE="root=1f04 rootfstype=jffs2 init=/sbin/tablet-init ro console=tty0 console=ttyMTD5"'
 * Added in kernel-diablo
 * Minor issues:
 * [0.12, not verified to be in 0.13testing1] /etc/init.d/powered produces a message similar to ‘[: 105: false: invalid operator’. The fix is to change ‘==’ to ‘=’ in all lines of the form ‘[ "$FOO" == "true" ]’.  (Just search for ‘==’ in all init.d scripts.)
 * Fixed in powerlaunch 0.9.2mer8
 * [0.12, not verified to be in 0.13testing1] Near the top of /usr/sbin/set_dim_and_blank.py is ‘if dim > blank: print "Dim must be >= blank"’; the message should say ‘<=’ rather than ‘>=’.
 * Fixed in dsme-tools 0.8

x86 VMDK

 * Text in text fields can not be drag-selected (cursor jumps to start of field instead)
 * Applications installed prompt for folder location but are always stored in Extras
 * Artifact of Fremantle Application Manager i think
 * (Irrelevant. It's a bug)
 * Organize dialog nonresponsive to any input
 * Locale hardcoded to en_GB.utf8 (?)
 * There is a .current-locale feature, needs control panel (+ reboot), look in /usr/bin/start-hildon
 * the file is ~/.osso/current-locale and it doesn't work.
 * Terminal menu text is not replaced with localized text - e.g. "webameedit - webamecopy" etc.
 * Terminal toolbar Ctrl button non-functional (try Ctrl + d, Ctrl + h, Ctrl + g, Ctrl + c)
 * Work on including patches in libvte on garage.maemo.org/projects/osso-xterm into vte - there's some not included yet.
 * Terminal toolbar (likely other) has significanly misaligned background image when selected.
 * Icon sizes are changed in Fremantle, so a theme issue probably
 * no. There are no icons on the toolbar.  Screenshot: Toolbar Bug (this has been a persistent bug in Maemo, though mostly for all python programs, evidently)