Archive for January, 2011

Brief note: meego-core userspace booted on gen8

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Not much more than the subject already says. I used the old meego-core image I had still around from gen7 and it happened to boot and show X11 + xterm.

It then quickly rebooted. Didn’t investigate yet if that’s due to a watchdog or something else.

Still wanted those who are waiting for things to happen in this direction to know.

Cheers

Thomas, dm8tbr

PS: Yes I’m calling that meego as it was some real MeeGo userspace, just the kernel is probably not fully MeeGo compliant.

Tags: , , MeeGo, proof-of-concept
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FroYo Alpha5 for gen7 Archos devices is here!

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

We decided to give you something to play with as we have accomplished some nice things.

Alpha 5 contains:

  • Working accelerometer
  • Full-screen mode (long press power button -> full screen mode -> hide button in statusbar and enabe fullscreen e.g. for games)
  • Visual hilight when clicking Menu / Home / Back buttons
  • A helpful tools package installed by default
  • and probably some more things too – check out our issue-tracker for the details

Here it is:

Filesystem image and md5sum.

This page may be updated with more information soon.

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