Re: Opie in Angstrom

How many angstroms are emitted from a hydrogen atom when conceiving a photon?

Paul Eggleton wrote: 
> Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>> 1. There's an unpleasant bug uncovered itself in 1.2.3 release - on
>> some device models (e.g., h3900, h4000, some Palm models but not hx4700)
>> after start the screen is rotated 90 degrees. This used to work in
>> prereleases, so current suspect is h2200 rotation patch which was
>> committed shortly before release. It could be that it regressed
>> rotation handling for other models.
> Argh :(
> The patch I committed shortly before release actually rips out the change
> I made that caused unexpected rotation of the screen (which should have
> been h2200-specific anyway) and instead just changes the way that the
> cursor keys are interpreted, again for h2200 only. For reference, here's
> the diff:
> http://handhelds.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/opie/libopie2/opiecore/device/odevice_ipaq.cpp.diff?r1=1.31&r2=1.32&f=h
> Now, it's possible that some of the other changes we made to odevice*
> caused this to happen. In any case, something must be wrong here, and I'm
> not suggesting that I'm definitely not to blame for this :)
> I'm pretty sure you can add h2200 to the list of devices that are not
> affected by this issue. Interesting that you mention h3900 - is that
> device in a state where it can happily run Opie using the 2.6 kernel? I
> have not tried that for some time, perhaps I should.
>> This is top priority issue to be fixed, IMHO.
> Agreed. Unfortunately this is the first time I've heard about this
> problem. I don't know how Erik feels but I am happy to fast-track 1.2.4 a
> little bit if we are able to solve this problem soon. Alternatively I
> would be fine with patching 1.2.3 in OE and also solving it for 1.2.4 when
> it comes out, too, whatever works best.
>> Note that it's not in the tracker.
> Since you mention you don't have permanent net access I have now filed one
> on the Opie side for this:
> http://opie-bugs.oszine.de/view.php?id=1894
>>   Point 2 is crucial to get support in Angstrom - let me remind,  that
>> per Angstrom policies, Angstrom maintainers don't do build engineering
>> themselves - device mentors do, so many people doing regular builds
>> and maintaining them what "supported" means.
> Right. However, if there are genuine bugs preventing Opie from being
> supported I would like to hear about them so I can help solve them. I
> guess I also need to get up to speed on Angstrom policies so that I can
> contribute more directly (I hope they are well documented somewhere).
> Cheers,
> Paul
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