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Questa pagina fornisce le istruzioni per installare Qtopia (la versione standard, non le varianti della ASU o della QtopiaOnX11) sul telefono GTA02 (Freerunner). E' simile alla pagina Qtopia on Neo1973.

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Stato corrente

L'8 Agosto2008 Qtopia ha rilasciato l'ultima immagine flash per il Neo Freerunner della FIC (gta02) contentente losnapshot di Qtopia 4.3.2 (Versione: 4.3.2-080808) dell'8 Agosto 2008 (versione GPL).

Questa immagine può realmente fare e ricevere chiamate e messaggi di testo. Riesce a leggere tutti i contatti dalla scheda SIM (cosa che l'aggiornamento della 2007.2 sembra non sia in grado di fare). Contiene applicazioni che sembrano più stabilidi quelle che si trovano sill'immagine della 2007.2. Fornisce diversi metodi per l'inserimento dei caratteri che sembrano più maturi. Non ha, comunque, un browser Web, né alcuna applicazione per il GPS.

Puoi trovare tutte le immagini di Qtopia qui.

Opzione 1: Flashare Qtopia sul FreeRunner

Scarica l'immagine sopra indicata e segui queste istruzioni: Flashing the Neo FreeRunner

Opzione 2: Dual-Boot tra Qtopia e la 2007.2 (Qtopia caricato dalla scheda MicroSD)

Requisiti d'istallazione:

  1. Accesso tramite shell SSH all'immagine 2007.2 del Freerunner tramite interfaccia USB o WLAN.
  2. Una distribuzione anche desktop Linux (per scompattare l'immagine .jffs2, è funzionato anche usando una Ubuntu virtualizzata con VMWare)


Preparare la scheda SD

Controlla la Preparing the SD Card sezione della pagina Booting from SD per le istruzioni sul partizionamento e la formattazione. Dopo che avrai completato i passi per la "Formattazione della scheda SD", ritorna qui ed esegui i seguenti comandi:

 mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card
 mkdir /media/card/boot
 mkdir /media/mmcblk0p2
 mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /media/mmcblk0p2

Questi ti forniranno correttamente i requisiti per l'installazione del root filesystem e del kernel come di seguito indicato.

Istallare Qtopia

Estrarre l'immagine del root filesystem di Qtopia

Scarica l'immagine FLASH di Qtopia da Latest Images#Qtopia image from qtopia.net sul tuo computer Linux ed estrai il suo contenuto:

 tar xzf qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-flash-*.tgz

Dovresti trovarti con due files:

  1. uImage-2.6.24+git18+9c058ff0d2641df3c36fc3300acb72078d2c41d4-r0-om-gta02.bin
  2. qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.jffs2

Now extract the root file system from the jffs2 using the commands found here.


Now, tar up the root filesystem:

 tar czf qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz -C <mountpoint> .

Where <mountpoint> is the location where the jff2 filesystem was mounted.

Installing Root Filesystem

Transfer this compressed tarball to the second partition of the MicroSD that is mounted on the FreeRunner:

 scp qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz root@192.168.0.202:/media/mmcblk0p2/

Log in to your FreeRunner and unpack the root filesystem:

 cd /media/mmcblk0p2
 tar xzf qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz
 rm qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz
 rm -f /media/mmcblk0p2/boot/*

Note: the last step removes the kernel image from the second partition. For some reason, U-Boot cannot find the uImage.bin file in the first partition if a kernel image exists in the second partition boot/ directory.

Installing Kernel

From your Linux box, rename uImage-2.6.24+git18+9c058ff0d2641df3c36fc3300acb72078d2c41d4-r0-om-gta02.bin to uImage.bin and copy it to the boot directory on the first partition of the MicroSD card. Depending on the version of U-Boot you have installed, this may not work. To prevent any possible issues, copy it to the /media/card directory as well. There is plenty of room on the first partition to have uImage.bin in both locations.

 mv uImage-2.6.24+git18+9c058ff0d2641df3c36fc3300acb72078d2c41d4-r0-om-gta02.bin uImage.bin
 scp uImage.bin root@192.168.0.202:/media/card/boot/
 scp uImage.bin root@192.168.0.202:/media/card/

Option 3: updating from source

NOTE: This will upgrade only opt/Qtopia directory, you should use opkg update/upgrade for the rest


Original Qtopia images (the distribution released by Trolltech, not ASU) are rarely released as a rootfs image, but the source code is often updated. If you want to reflash your OM with the latest version of Qtopia you might build it from sources. This has been explained in this thread of the community mailing list. Summing up:

 cd /
 wget http://qtopia.net/downloads/neo/arm920t-eabi-ficgta01-toolchain.tgz
 tar xvzf arm920t-eabi-ficgta01-toolchain.tgz
  tar xvzf qtopia-opensource-src-4.3.2-snapshot-20080806.tar.gz
  • make a "build" dir
  mkdir build
  cd build
  • configure and make:
  ../qtopia-opensource-src-4.3.2-snapshot-20080806/configure -device ficgta01
  make 

This will take some time (couple hours). Note that the option "-device ficgta01" should work for both neo and freerunner. Then:

 make install

will make a root directory into build directory. That directory should be copied to /opt/Qtopia of your phone with scp. once done restart qpe or whole phone.

Booting into Qtopia

Now shutdown the FreeRunner

 shutdown -h now

Log into U-Boot in the NOR Flash to boot from the MicroSD card: (instructions from Booting the Neo FreeRunner)

  • Press and hold Power button
  • Then while still pressing the Power button, press and hold AUX button for 5 to 8 seconds.
  • A boot menu will appear.
  • Press the AUX button to select "Boot from MicroSD" and then press the Power button to execute.

Qtopia should now boot.

Note: you may get a kernel panic which says that "optional features not supported". If this is the case, boot back into 2007.2 and run

 umount /dev/mmcblk0p2
 fsck.ext3.e2fsprogs /dev/mmcblk0p2

This will clean up the file system and clear recovery flags in ext3 that ext2 does not support, then try booting from the MicroSD again.

Internationalization

Qtopia comes with support for German and American English, and users from other countries will find that Qtopia's predictive keyboard makes writing in another language near impossible. One way to disable the predictive keyboard is to simply replace /opt/Qtopia/etc/dict/en_US/common.dawg and words.dawg with empty files (after backing them up). Qtopia normally looks in these files for words to suggest, and if it doesn't find any words that fit, it simply shows what you actually wrote.

Adding characters to the keyboard requires modifications to the source code, as described here.

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Questa pagina fornisce le istruzioni per installare Qtopia (la versione standard, non le varianti della ASU o della QtopiaOnX11) sul telefono GTA02 (Freerunner). E' simile alla pagina Qtopia on Neo1973.

Contents

Stato corrente

L'8 Agosto2008 Qtopia ha rilasciato l'ultima immagine flash per il Neo Freerunner della FIC (gta02) contentente losnapshot di Qtopia 4.3.2 (Versione: 4.3.2-080808) dell'8 Agosto 2008 (versione GPL).

Questa immagine può realmente fare e ricevere chiamate e messaggi di testo. Riesce a leggere tutti i contatti dalla scheda SIM (cosa che l'aggiornamento della 2007.2 sembra non sia in grado di fare). Contiene applicazioni che sembrano più stabilidi quelle che si trovano sill'immagine della 2007.2. Fornisce diversi metodi per l'inserimento dei caratteri che sembrano più maturi. Non ha, comunque, un browser Web, né alcuna applicazione per il GPS.

Puoi trovare tutte le immagini di Qtopia qui.

Opzione 1: Flashare Qtopia sul FreeRunner

Scarica l'immagine sopra indicata e segui queste istruzioni: Flashing the Neo FreeRunner

Opzione 2: Dual-Boot tra Qtopia e la 2007.2 (Qtopia caricato dalla scheda MicroSD)

Requisiti d'istallazione:

  1. Accesso tramite shell SSH all'immagine 2007.2 del Freerunner tramite interfaccia USB o WLAN.
  2. Una distribuzione anche desktop Linux (per scompattare l'immagine .jffs2, è funzionato anche usando una Ubuntu virtualizzata con VMWare)


Preparare la scheda SD

Controlla la Preparing the SD Card sezione della pagina Booting from SD per le istruzioni sul partizionamento e la formattazione. Dopo che avrai completato i passi per la "Formattazione della scheda SD", ritorna qui ed esegui i seguenti comandi:

 mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card
 mkdir /media/card/boot
 mkdir /media/mmcblk0p2
 mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /media/mmcblk0p2

Questi ti forniranno correttamente i requisiti per l'installazione del root filesystem e del kernel come di seguito indicato.

Istallare Qtopia

Estrarre l'immagine del root filesystem di Qtopia

Scarica l'immagine FLASH di Qtopia da Latest Images#Qtopia image from qtopia.net sul tuo computer Linux ed estrai il suo contenuto:

 tar xzf qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-flash-*.tgz

Dovresti trovarti con due files:

  1. uImage-2.6.24+git18+9c058ff0d2641df3c36fc3300acb72078d2c41d4-r0-om-gta02.bin
  2. qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.jffs2

Now extract the root file system from the jffs2 using the commands found here.


Now, tar up the root filesystem:

 tar czf qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz -C <mountpoint> .

Where <mountpoint> is the location where the jff2 filesystem was mounted.

Installing Root Filesystem

Transfer this compressed tarball to the second partition of the MicroSD that is mounted on the FreeRunner:

 scp qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz root@192.168.0.202:/media/mmcblk0p2/

Log in to your FreeRunner and unpack the root filesystem:

 cd /media/mmcblk0p2
 tar xzf qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz
 rm qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz
 rm -f /media/mmcblk0p2/boot/*

Note: the last step removes the kernel image from the second partition. For some reason, U-Boot cannot find the uImage.bin file in the first partition if a kernel image exists in the second partition boot/ directory.

Installing Kernel

From your Linux box, rename uImage-2.6.24+git18+9c058ff0d2641df3c36fc3300acb72078d2c41d4-r0-om-gta02.bin to uImage.bin and copy it to the boot directory on the first partition of the MicroSD card. Depending on the version of U-Boot you have installed, this may not work. To prevent any possible issues, copy it to the /media/card directory as well. There is plenty of room on the first partition to have uImage.bin in both locations.

 mv uImage-2.6.24+git18+9c058ff0d2641df3c36fc3300acb72078d2c41d4-r0-om-gta02.bin uImage.bin
 scp uImage.bin root@192.168.0.202:/media/card/boot/
 scp uImage.bin root@192.168.0.202:/media/card/

Option 3: updating from source

NOTE: This will upgrade only opt/Qtopia directory, you should use opkg update/upgrade for the rest


Original Qtopia images (the distribution released by Trolltech, not ASU) are rarely released as a rootfs image, but the source code is often updated. If you want to reflash your OM with the latest version of Qtopia you might build it from sources. This has been explained in this thread of the community mailing list. Summing up:

 cd /
 wget http://qtopia.net/downloads/neo/arm920t-eabi-ficgta01-toolchain.tgz
 tar xvzf arm920t-eabi-ficgta01-toolchain.tgz
  tar xvzf qtopia-opensource-src-4.3.2-snapshot-20080806.tar.gz
  • make a "build" dir
  mkdir build
  cd build
  • configure and make:
  ../qtopia-opensource-src-4.3.2-snapshot-20080806/configure -device ficgta01
  make 

This will take some time (couple hours). Note that the option "-device ficgta01" should work for both neo and freerunner. Then:

 make install

will make a root directory into build directory. That directory should be copied to /opt/Qtopia of your phone with scp. once done restart qpe or whole phone.

Booting into Qtopia

Now shutdown the FreeRunner

 shutdown -h now

Log into U-Boot in the NOR Flash to boot from the MicroSD card: (instructions from Booting the Neo FreeRunner)

  • Press and hold Power button
  • Then while still pressing the Power button, press and hold AUX button for 5 to 8 seconds.
  • A boot menu will appear.
  • Press the AUX button to select "Boot from MicroSD" and then press the Power button to execute.

Qtopia should now boot.

Note: you may get a kernel panic which says that "optional features not supported". If this is the case, boot back into 2007.2 and run

 umount /dev/mmcblk0p2
 fsck.ext3.e2fsprogs /dev/mmcblk0p2

This will clean up the file system and clear recovery flags in ext3 that ext2 does not support, then try booting from the MicroSD again.

Internationalization

Qtopia comes with support for German and American English, and users from other countries will find that Qtopia's predictive keyboard makes writing in another language near impossible. One way to disable the predictive keyboard is to simply replace /opt/Qtopia/etc/dict/en_US/common.dawg and words.dawg with empty files (after backing them up). Qtopia normally looks in these files for words to suggest, and if it doesn't find any words that fit, it simply shows what you actually wrote.

Adding characters to the keyboard requires modifications to the source code, as described here.