Qtopia-4.3.0 for A780. Openezx-2.6.23-1 kernel.

[borgs]

Hey what's new with a780 now that most of the hardware drivers are fully working.
Where can I get these updates and could it be easily used with the version of qtopia that is being discussed at this thread?
what happened to goxboxlive?
I was told that my phone was quite old and it was time to buy a new one, just when openezx development for its hardware was so close to completion

[borgs]

Is the link given by Muromec here applicable for a780 or could it easily be converted for a780 since it looks like it was meant for the e6 and the 1200.

[sabrod]

Look, it's quite new, but Muromec is re-adapting his qtopia for Openezx at the moment, so i guess once the modem is fully working ( he re-wrotes the driver mostly entirely ! ), and the phones work well on it, he will send a Qtopia rootfs somewhere, for us to test, and well, you know, once it is online with the sources... It's up to us, users and other devs, to enhance it, and i don't doubt this will happen!

See this tread: https://lists.gnumonks.org/pipermail...ch/002646.html

[borgs]

thanks for the reply
I would never throw away my a780 nor sell it, or give it away
As long as I can keep it alive and it works with the phone networks it will be with me.
But there's no denying would be a whole lot better with openezx and Qt Extended or others like android.

I was trying to buy an E6 last December but to bad as an auxillary credit card holder my capacity to buy wasn't even half of its price.

Special thanks to you, Wyrm, Muromec and those whom I haven't mentioned who's responsible for the development of Openezx and porting it to Qt Extended.

[sarawutsoon]

HERE IS AN OLD TUTO From Goxboxlive, as is, it works only on A780, and is a bit outdated

but some could have fun with testing it?? I found it at openezx.org :

################# HOW TO USE USE OPENMOKO OR QTOPIA ON YOUR A780 ###########################


You need to create at least two partitions on your Transflash card. The ezxboot-usb boots from the second partition so the image has to be extracted to the second partition.

1) Create two partitions on your Transflas card. The first partition can be small, size doesnt matter since we are not going to use it. 

2) Create a FAT or EXT2 filesystem on your first partition of your Transflash card.

3) Create a EXT2 filesystem on your second partition (this is the partition we are going to extract the image to)

4) Extract the *.tar.bz2 image to your second partition. ( go to the root of the Transflash and do 'tar jxvpf /PATH_TO_THE_IMAGE/IMAGE.tar.bz2' )

5) Copy the exz-boot-usb from the download section and the kernel zImage from the extracted image ( the /boot folder ) to a place on your linux computer.

6) Insert the Transflash card in your A780 and hit the CAM-BUTTON + PUSH IN THE VOLUME-BUTTON + POWER-BUTTON at the same time and a blue screen will appear on your A780. This is the bootloader.
   Connect a usb cable to your A780 and computer and run from the shell as ROOT './ezx-boot-usb zImage-2.6.23.1-ezxdev' . This will upload the zImage to your phone and boot it. The screen will look
   funny but it's normal :-) .

7) Linux is running, it might take some time to boot the openmoko image at first boot, this is because it is finalizing the installation of it.



As allways:

Remember, this might break your device running this images (it has never happend), i am not responsable if something happends.
I just do this for fun, and i dont see the point of not sharing this.

*** USE AT YOUR OWN RISC ***

goxboxlive


###############  HOW TO CREATE A PARTITION WITH LINUX AND MAKE A FILESYSTEM ON IT ###############################

Prepare

The TRANSFLASH card needs to be partitioned into two partitions: one small FAT/EXT2 partition, and one EXT2 partition used as root file system. I'll assume
that the block device of the TRANSFLASH card is called /dev/sda. Replace this with the correct device on your system.

   * Create partitions, for example a 10MB /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 using the rest, open shell and do:

     fdisk /dev/sda
     n
     p
     <default>
     1
     +10M
     n
     p
     2
     <default>
     <default>
     w
<MOD EDIT> ( quite wrong fdisk' session :) ) </MOD EDIT>
   * Create file systems, a VFAT/EXT2 on /dev/sda1 and EXT2 on /dev/sda2:

     mkdosfs /dev/sda1 (for VFAT) or mke2fs /dev/sda1 (for EXT2)
     mke2fs /dev/sda2

   * Unpack the GUI-image onto sda2:

     mount -t ext2 /dev/sda2 /mnt
     cd /mnt
     tar jxvpf "/PATH_TO_the GUI image Qtopia/Openmoko or whatever"
     sync (wait until it finish)
     cd /	
     umount /mnt

Then go to 6) and do as described.

:-) good luck

[sabrod]

NOOOooooOOo!!

Well, just to say, It is an old tuto from goxboxlive
I have to say thanks -even 2 years later- to goxboxlive for this tho.......

Please guys, use Getting Started - OpenEZX ( the tuto there is actual, and will work _even_ for an old kernel like the one of goxboxlive folder - that is even linked there- , if you take care of the side notes, and some warnings )

Muromec is working on qtopia and the OpenEZx kernel that work on all ezx phones, if you want to try his latest work on anything else than A780 and E680...
He should have uploaded some of his testing images somewhere in his accounts... ( Index of /muromec/image >>here are some folders with very understable content, for the guys that have read the getting started page... The image from the 6 of june, is a qtopia image...)

you could also follow the qtopia-ezx's blog, for news: Here is the translated version: http://translate.google.com/translat...logspot.com%2F (full of freshes Openezx' usages reports !!! ).


Please sarawutsoon, next time date the tuto and make people aware of the source. The source where you picked that one is : Index of /~goxboxlive/A780/images ( the README ).

Have fun!

[shiver]

Hi!

I did everything step by step as they wrote, but after the 'make' command (at the Build) I got only error messages hence the installing was unsuccesful I use Ubuntu 9.04, and I have fainthless what I did wrong. The last lines:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXtst
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[6]: *** [/var/build/qtopia/bin/qvfb] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/var/build/qtopia/src/tools/qt/qvfb'
make[5]: *** [all] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/var/build/qtopia/src/tools/qt/qvfb'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/build/qtopia/src/tools/qt/qvfb'
make[3]: *** [sub-tools-qt-qvfb] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/build/qtopia/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/build/qtopia/src'
make[1]: *** [qtopia_all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/build/qtopia'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Can anyone help me, please? Thank you in anticipation!

[sabrod]

So you are building qtopia? I never did this, but you can have errors from /usr/bin/ld and not in the "/Path/to/crosstools/ld-ezxdev....
I suppose you forgot something in the way you are using the toolchain you should use for such a build...... ( i mean you seem to be invocationg the wrong toolchain...)

try something like :

PATH=$PATH:${HOME}/the/path/of/your/toolchain//bin \
./configure <--options, if any>
PATH=$PATH:${HOME}/the/path/of/your/toolchain//bin \
make

Muromec (if it is this version of qtopia you try to build, have posted a thread to explain how to build qtopia/ qt-apps, etc... so maybe asking there could be better...

But Muromec also provide very frequently new qtopia images to test, so, just have a run with them, then rebuild what you want, step by step could be easier for what you are trying to do??

[shiver]

Thank you for fast answer!

I followed the first link of your former commen to install QTopia to my A780t. (Getting Started - OpenEzx)

During the endevour I changed the download link for the wget, because the origianal one is died. I also checkd the permission in my file system, but everything was OK.

Anyway, what is that toolchain ? I think I have only one directory named to toolchain what I made before the installing.

Edit:

And yes... What I need to do after the succesful install? So I mean, how can I set the new system on my phone?
(sorry my low level English)

[sabrod]

Ok, i mixed up things, but what you try is an old tuto i guess...

Toolchain : concept is somewhat explaned there Crosscompile - OpenEZX it is a compilator made to build for a specific target machine...

You may prefer have a guide for building the actual and more functional openezx kernel, and distros...
Actually Getting Started - OpenEZX is reflecting the new way of booting, etc...

Please take care that it is free software, made with the s[are time of a few developers, so even if goxboxlive release is working very well, you are testing a very old version that wasn't made by the guys actually developing and taking care of the openezx kernel, that also why i maybe replied wrong first time... I forgot about that version, and wasn't realizing you probably googled and felt there on that old thread
Well, i would say, the preferable version is the more actual, we are close to a sound/and calls, etc, you could enjoy the news from there, Main Page - OpenEZX, or Google Translate (ezxdev.blogspot.com) , even FSO/SHR ( Main Page - freesmartphone.org ) are possibles alternatives, and are actively developed.
Well, i have to say, remeber it is free software , things needs time... etc...