[HD2 Ubuntu Development] dcordes:
Thanks a lot for the extensive feedback !

Although the preparation for this release was long - it wasn't the first approach to finish 0.3 and I tested many things in the process - it shows that I did the final thing in a hurry.

Let's regard this as a beta test for 0.4 . It will be best to just answer to some posts:

It is definetly possible but exceeds my personal capabilities. Non working audio in any non-android builds is due to the fact that the way sound works in android is different vs conventional Linux. This applies to following functions:

-sound

-battery status (might get fixed)

-backlight (my friend GNUtoo fixed it, see kernel changelog)

-power saving functions like sleep (might get fixed)

-accelerated graphics (unlikely to ever get it working)

This is not limited to Ubuntu. If you try to get meego going you will face the same problems.

You might judge google for it - that way people have a hard time getting non-android on there phones. Economically it is not of interest for google when you guys have the freedom of choice...

It always seems android gives the user so many liberties but these things restrict the full spectrum of possibilites Linux has to offer.

That said, without android we wouldn't see so many cell phone hw platfroms with Linux support today!

Stupidly I assumed because netbook-launcher-efl (that's the name of the fancy background menu program) started 10/10 times in my local tests, I thought it would work for everybody else. I start it via gnome session startup with some seconds delay. Maybe with a faster SD card it is too early :)

You can always add the main menu in the panel:

Tap and hold (not so easy, make sure you have clean screan) on the top panel for few seconds and then relase. That simulates right click. You can now add main menu or menu bar in order to start applications. In system / startup programs you can edit the delay in order to fix.

Or you can work around it by changing the default session to ubuntu netbook 2d - also via system menu.

I would also welcome a video. Could add it in the first post.

Geroge, thanks for this thought out and extensive feed

I will add some info in first post.

I'm glad you noticed the performance improvement :)

It is a good idea to report the keypad problem in Xorg mailing list.

Standby requires minor driver patching. Nothing impossible.

I noticed the subsequent hanging on early boot as well. I am considering to switch to the other kernel repository (evo based). I am using htc-msm-2.6.32 because it was easier to add the gnu specirfic patches.

iirc canonical is unable to provide oo.org via the repositories in maverick due to arm related build time problem. Try adding a ppa package !

For me scanning for wifi networks works. Anybody else havging trouble?

It is expected to not see charging mode when using usb host kernel. Also note it charges much slower on pc..

Regarding debugging: Did you notice it has automatic usbnet and adb capabilities? please check readme regarding it.

Readme also has the link to the wiki page which documnents many things needed to reconstruct the images.

Make sure you have the linux folder in the root directory of your sd card. Else try formatting sd card.

see above

I will definetly add the rotation again in 0.4 . I simply frogot it. Look into using command line to install prgorams for now. I might append the xorg.conf for rotation but we also need shortcuts and disable the touchscreen rotation script.

I need to check what went wrong with that. Thanks for reporting it !

The keyboard was not designed for touchscreen devices. I added some bug reports to report it in ubuntu launchpad.

If it is a linux based device with enough performance we can look into it. It would be very nice to run this on the dell streak as well.

It is easy to boot a new linux kernel from within linux. You just need the kexec kernel configuration option.

sudo is authorized automatically (see readme) this might be some gnome keyring stuff which you can abort usually..

Videos would be very nice.

Can you try the exact hardware setup with 0.2 ? Are you sure you are using the usb host kernel? Please double check your startup.txt !

It would be very nice to see some video or photos with 0.3 w/ usb setup :)

Thanks again for all the feedback this helps a lot to improve further versions!

regards