[email protected] wrote: > ----- Original message ----- >> Michael wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have followed the tutorial on: >>> http://omappedia.org/wiki/Maemo_Getting_Started >>> >>> to install Maemo 5 final on the Beagleboard. >>> Everything went fine and it boot to a screen with a water background. >>> >>> But what can i do from this point? >>> How to install applications? >>> In the inet i often see a package manager for maemo on the >> beagleboard. >>> But i have only a blue screen with an icon in the left-top corner. >>> >>> If anyone is using maemo on the beagleboard it would be good to give >>> some advice. >> I wasn't able to do anything more than you describe here, too. Due to >> missing mouse cursor. > > I think Till got the best results so far, he has a touchscreen that gave some > repeatable results. (tslib might be the thing to try for touchscreens) > > The mouse is the current biggest limitation for the rest of us. By tweaking > things in xorg.conf I got the left mouse button to work (verifiable by > clicking it, it brings the edit icon on the home screen). However moving the > mouse didn't work :/ Then I got busy with other stuff (making the maemo.org > server move happen). > > But network (usb) can be made to work, so installing and running things is > doable from command line. However without the mouse you can't do anything.
Nothing new regarding Beagle mouse issue, but some general news: * Zoom2 people have Maemo5 running on Zoom2 with touchscreen: http://omappedia.org/wiki/Maemo_Getting_Started#Status (see status change in page history, too) http://www.daimi.au.dk/~cvm/maemo-on-non-nokia-devices.pdf (picture on page 3) * Today (17th 2009) at 2:15 PM CST / 20:15 UTC Carsten V. Munk (Stskeeps) gives a lightning talk about "Maemo on non-Nokia devices " at TI's ETechDays Community Lightning Talks: http://wiki.omap.com/index.php/ETechDays_Community_Lightning_Talks#November_17th_2009_Event http://www.daimi.au.dk/~cvm/maemo-on-non-nokia-devices.pdf * I talked yesterday with Carsten and he wonders about the Maemo mouse cursor issue as it seems to work with Mer and Zoom2: http://www.beagleboard.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2009-11-16#T15:06:08 Cheers Dirk _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
