Opie installation guide

[rpconnect]

What is oppie by the way maxx... I dont understand... pls explain for newbie like me. Thanks

OPIE is an alternative suite of applications that (in theory) run using the same QtEmbedded system as the native phone applications. For more information check out http://opie.handhelds.org and http://www.trolltech.com/products/embedded/index.html.

[NickyChang]

Can OPIE run on A780? If can, How can I set up my h/p?

[maxx_730]

you could use this guide i guess, should be similar. try it and tell us how it works.

[Ravindran]

Can OPIE run on A780? If can, How can I set up my h/p?

Hi to NickyChang and all Gurus..

I 'm also trying to install OPIE on my a780..

But i'm stuck...
1. I have a 128 MB tflash card..now partitioned into 71Mb and 47 MB..But i can see only the first partition in the phone. \dev\mmc and under that \dev\mmca1. How to see mmca2 so that I can DD the opie.cramfs to \dev\mmca2.. BTW i used windows disk mamangement to create the partitions...as i dont have any option

2. I dont have a card reader so that i can do separately after removing the card from the phone. SO depeendant on the phone, USB cable and telnet. There is no fdisk utility on the phoe as well.

3. Whn i connect my phone, only the phone appears in USB mass storage mode. Is there any way to also see or mount the Transflash card. This under Linux RH9 as well as FC3

4. But i have a bright idea ..which may not be so bright...I am running NFS Server on my Windows XP (Kindly excuse..this is only till i successfully set up nfs server on linux .. so far i can only see blanks sub folders ..but thats another issue) and mount this folder on the phone and try the steps?? I will try this now.. as i got this (so called) bright idea whil posting..Im already accessing PC HDD thru NFS successfully.

Thanks a lot for any advise , inputs and ideas

Regs,
Ravi

[Ravindran]

Greetings to all...

Just now I tried my bright idea.. Here's the setup:

1. Setup NFS Server. share c:\opie -> contains opie.cramfs
2. telnet into a780
3. cd /ezxlocal/download
4. mount -t nfs 169.254.142.1:/c/opie /diska/opie

5. Download the loop.o driver form our forums which is working!!!! Rocks!!!
copy it to /diska/

insmod /diska/loop.o

mount -o loop -t cramfs /diska/opie/opie.cramfs /ezxlocal/download/opie

so.. the image is mount on the correct directory . I checked the contents to verify the same

6. Do all the exports...

Kill all windowservers

7. run opie..
/ezxlocal/download/opie/bin/qpe 2>/diska/opie.txt

Results...

8. nothing happens when i run
the opie.txt does not contain anything

Where am i going wrong?

Regs,
Ravi

[Ravindran]

Just did a recheck ...looks like the opie.cramfs i downloaed is got corrupted.. can't view any pictures or listen to the wav files...Will redownload and update you all ...

Regs,
Ravi

[rpconnect]

the cramfs file may not be corrupted, sound does not yet work. I'm not sure about the picture viewing, is the picture viewer installed on that cramfs image? (does the picture viewer start and then not display pictures, or does it just not start at all?)

[Ravindran]

the cramfs file may not be corrupted, sound does not yet work. I'm not sure about the picture viewing, is the picture viewer installed on that cramfs image? (does the picture viewer start and then not display pictures, or does it just not start at all?)

Sorry for not being clear... I was not tryin to open it thru the phone.. was trying to open in from the pc thru the mapped folders... Havent yet tried to re-download opie.cramfs.. Planning to do today night.[another 3 hrs..BTW its 9 PM here in Bangalore, India]..any other versions of opie.cramfs ,.. i mean.... has anybody compiled a different one and wants somebody to test it out!! I am ready for it!!!

Regs,
Ravi

[rpconnect]

..any other versions of opie.cramfs ,.. i mean.... has anybody compiled a different one and wants somebody to test it out!! I am ready for it!!!

Regs,
Ravi

Have you tried to build the image yet from Leparachaun's guide? It's pretty easy and there is a lot that can be configured. The one I have been using I compiled in debug mode (both qt and opie) so the cramfs is huge (>140 MB). You are welcome to it although I do not know the best way to get it to you. Also, just so you know, I had modified the qapplication_qws source to force qt to use the existing socket in /ram/tmp/qtembedded-ezx/QtEmbedded-0 rather than try to create one on its own (this helps when trying to run apps in standalone mode (w/o -qws)).

[FreexZ]

If i want to install OPIE,how many space they needed in SD card??Mine just a standard 64MB SD Card.