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307 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Change how Automatic Shutdown works | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
When thee Pandora is shutting down because its almost out of power, it should check to make sure that the nub inputs are set to the default mode (which is mouse movement for the left nub and mouse buttons for the right nub). If not, it should change them to be like that. |
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49 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Change some of our scripts into internal PNDs | Closed | |
Task Description
Some of our scripts (CPU Speed, Switch Default GUI, Enable TV Out) should be changed into PND format so that pmenu can also run them. |
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234 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Changeable behaviour when closing the lid | Closed | |
Task Description
As it was requested on forum.gp2x.de and I think it's a good idea I've written some scripts to allow the user to change what happens when the lid is opened/closed.
There are 3 Settings:
-The old behaviour (turning off the screen)
-Go into low power mode
-Shutdown
Default behaviour is still the same: Turn the screen off. Maybe we could change this to low power mode? I don't know.
I made a lot of changes to op_lid.sh: http://pastebin.com/GT3qxWSx (diff: http://pastebin.com/Z8GwpDj8 )
I changed line 11 in op_power.sh to: if [ $powerstate -ne 0 ]; then
And wrote a gui for changing the setting using zenity: http://pastebin.com/9JvSTqfQ
(I still can't upload any files, don't know if it's the fault of my browser, that's why I use this paste service) |
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114 | Application | Bug Report | Low | Chromium browser does not support HTTPS/SSL | Closed | |
Task Description
The Angstrom version of Chrome/Chromium web browser fails to open https links. This is a bug which has been fixed upstream, but not in the version packaged for Pandora. |
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246 | Application | Bug Report | Medium | Clipboard content of closed app gets tossed instead of ... | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
FLAWED BEHAVIOUR:
Copy and paste only works between 2 active applications. This is very limiting!
If you are in the single task oriented MiniMenu you have no chance at all to share the clipboard between apps!
If you are in the multi tasking oriented XFCE desktop environment you can only share between apps running in parallel! Not with apps which started after the source app has been terminated.
DESIRED BEHAVIOUR:
The clipboard content (within reasonable limits of course) should remain, regardless of the source application, so that you can paste at any later moment into any application. |
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11 | Core | Bug Report | High | Console keymap: Two keys not mapped yet | Closed | |
Task Description
INS (Fn + Del) is not working in console yet.
ALT and CTRL are not working in console yet.
The rest of the console keys are fine (tested in nano).
Keys in X are mapped completely. |
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327 | Core | Feature Request | Low | Context menu for the XFCE menu | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
Right now. the XFCE menu handles right clicks like left clicks. It would be more logical to either not do anything on a right click, or open a context menu that e.g. lets the user generate a link to an application on the desktop. |
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302 | Core | Bug Report | Low | Correct keymap not available during login process | Closed | |
Task Description
The correct keymap, as matching the characters printed on the keys, is available when running the First Boot Wizard, but not during login.
This means that special characters like ! ( ) and so on, which you enter via Fn-[2nd key] cannot currently be used in a username nor password.
My first experience with my Pandora was therefore that I had to reflash the OS due to this as I had locked myself out because I used a special character in my first chosen password.
Also reported here:
http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/10112-question-mark/#entry188179 |
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126 | Application | Bug Report | Very Low | CPU Speed Typo? | Closed | |
Task Description
If you set the CPU speed to 600 it warns that it is greater than 600. I thought 600 was the guaranteed speed? |
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48 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Create the TV Out Enable / Disable scripts | Closed | |
Task Description
The commands do exist, I just need to wrap them round some zenity scripts. |
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155 | Core | Bug Report | Medium | Critical problems after rescaling GLES2 X windows | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
When a X window which is displaying GLES2 render output is:
- Either dragged out of the visibile screen region (?)
- Is made larger than it was at the creation time of the GLES2 context
then:
- The performance will drop significantly as the EGL buffer swaps won't occur as fast as before,
- The render output will be corrupted and flicker
- In rare occasions crashes the application or locks up the entire system (which forces you to remove the battery)
The problem can not be solved without restarting the application (Possibly forcing players to complete the same goals again as they were unable to reach a savepoint or similar things).
This was confirmed in Mupen64Plus and the PowerVR GLES Samples and some of my own projects (which are, however, based on the PowerVR samples).
As I didn't see any other reports about this problems (but had it confirmed by other Pandora users too) I would expect that it can be fixed by using a newer X, kernel or combination of them as other OMAP users would be effected too. |
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182 | Core | Bug Report | Medium | Ctrl + F5 (Fn Lock) Fail | Closed | |
Task Description
So I've tried this a while now with no success. I'm assuming its when Fn is triggered and then pressing Ctrl or Alt it goes away. |
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96 | Base OS | Feature Request | Low | Customizable SD mount options | Closed | |
Task Description
Right now writes are really slow because they write synchronously: there should be an option to change this so that the user is first taught how to unmount an sd card then remove it... |
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152 | Core | Bug Report | High | Data transfer issued between SD slot 1 and 2 | Closed | |
Task Description
It appears that any users are having trouble transferring files from SD cards in slot 1 to SD cards in Slot 2.
Full details here.
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/55077-looks-like-the-is-a-readtiming-problem-with-sd-reading-when-high-cpu/ |
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87 | Core | Bug Report | Medium | default /etc/network/interfaces is causing problems | Closed | |
Task Description
The default /etc/network/interfaces has 192.168.1.0/24 subnet set up for usb0 which causes wifi connectivity to fail for users that have wifi on the same subnet.
All addresses should be edited out from /etc/network/interfaces, eth* stuff should probably be dropped too. |
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137 | Base OS | Feature Request | Low | Default vim config | Closed | |
Task Description
The current vim install does come without any config file. By default this means vim does work in "vi compatible mode" which makes it hardly usable. The attached config file is meant to be used as ~/.vimrc, so it should be added to "/etc/skel/.vimrc". The file is partly based on the default config used by gentoo.
Things this config file sets:
* Start in "vim mode" by default
* activate ruler
* set width of linenumber in ruler
* assume that the terminal uses a dark background
* configure what hitting backspace removed (newlines, ...)
* some magic to have different encoding formats working in a more sane way |
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227 | Core | Bug Report | Low | Delete button won't delete, and function lock doesn't w... | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
If you hit the function button, then hit it again to lock the function keys, it doesn't lock the function key.
The delete key, hold shift and hit the back space button, it won't delete, meaning it won't remove the character to the right of the cursor. I saw this on the forum, and confirmed it on my pandora also. |
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132 | Base OS | Bug Report | Medium | Deleting big files doesn't work | Closed | |
Task Description
When deleting a file on the SD card, the Pandora OS moves it into the thrash folder in the internal memory. That itself isn't very nice (shouldn't there be a trash folder on the SD card as well, to reduce unnecessary copying?), but if the file is too big for the internal memory, a error message appears, and the file cannot be deleted on the Pandora directly. |
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100 | Core | Bug Report | Low | Demos & Examples - remove from image | Closed | |
Task Description
/usr/bin/qt4/demos is 9Mb in size and /usr/bin/qt4/examples is 11Mb.
I'm guessing these are only useful for developers. Can they safely be removed?
edit: additionally, /usr/share/vim is 12M. Can those of us who are never going to use VIM remove it? |
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164 | Core | Bug Report | Low | Display brightness not restored at booting, HF4beta3 | Closed | |
Task Description
The update from Hotfix3 to Hotfix4 beta3 broke restoring of display brightness at boot time. Restoring of brightness after "powersave mode" (aka flipping the power switch for a short time) does work nicely. This might be related to bug #163 ( http://bugs.openpandora.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=163 ) where shutting the display down via DPMS does result in the brightness being lost when getting the display on again.
This is related to the desktop mode (XFCE). Don't know if it does happen for minimenu, too, not tested yet. |
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163 | Base OS | Bug Report | Low | DPMS related "display problems" | Closed | |
Task Description
Currently it looks like DPMS is active in xorg (eg when using XFCE). DPMS is normally used for stuff like turning the screen off to save energy. There seems to be no way to configure this while in XFCE. So the default xorg server values are used.
At the moment the screen is turned off after 10mins of inactivity. Problems with this are
a) that the time till it is turned off can not be configured
b) after wakeup from such a DPMS related display shutdown the brightness is set to maximum.
Solution to this:
Deactivate the sleep values via xorg.conf. I am attaching a diff to "[openembedded.git] / recipes / xorg-xserver / xserver-xorg-conf / omap3-pandora / xorg.conf" changing those to "default off". |
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229 | Core | Bug Report | High | Enable wake on alarm interrupts | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
Found I'd kept some notes about making the Pandora's wake on alarm function work...
drivers/rtc/rtc-twl4030.c
twl4030_rtc_remove (for when the driver is removed) and twl4030_rtc_
shutdown (for when the system is shutdown) functions need to change. Or at least the shut down does.
oh YUK who's been using goto....
changes in drivers/rtc/rtc-twl4030.c
twl4030_rtc_remove
commented out //mask_rtc_irq_bit(BIT_RTC_INTERRUPTS_REG_IT_ALARM_M);
twl4030_rtc_shutdown
replaced
// mask_rtc_irq_bit(BIT_RTC_INTERRUPTS_REG_IT_TIMER_M |
// BIT_RTC_INTERRUPTS_REG_IT_ALARM_M);
with
mask_rtc_irq_bit(BIT_RTC_INTERRUPTS_REG_IT_TIMER_M);
twl4030_rtc_suspend
replaced
// mask_rtc_irq_bit(BIT_RTC_INTERRUPTS_REG_IT_TIMER_M |
// BIT_RTC_INTERRUPTS_REG_IT_ALARM_M);
with
mask_rtc_irq_bit(BIT_RTC_INTERRUPTS_REG_IT_TIMER_M);
twl4030_rtc_init
added (before return!)
twl4030_rtc_alarm_irq_set_state(true);
Should probably check reg 0x2B with mask 0x08 to see if alarm should be left enabled or not ?
but only in twl4030_rtc_shutdown and ?remove? NOT in twl4030_rtc_init
should remove ever happen ???
I'm guessing it's best to not enable the alarm irq's all the time??? |
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335 | Application | Bug Report | Low | Evince 2.30 crashes when fullscreen | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
Hi,
Evince 2.30 often crashes with the following error message:
(evince:2834): EvinceDocument-CRITICAL **: ev_image_save_tmp: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
Segmentation fault
How to reproduce: open Evince, select a PDF file, go into fullscreen mode, then click into the body of the document.
Cheers, Magic Sam |
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47 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Medium | evmapperd: Blinking LED and charging control | Closed | |
Task Description
evmapperd should start blinking when the power is getting low.
Ideally, the blinking speed should increase with decreasing battery power and should start maybe at 5% as default (would be nice to have the settings configurable by the user).
As soon as the AC adaptor is connected, blinking should stop.
When the battery power is at 0% it should immediately shutdown and poweroff (NOT to be overridden by the user!)
Aditionally, we should have some charging control (or would it be better using a different daemon for that?)
Here's part of my conversation with MichaelW:
when the charge current was below a threshold, it would reduce the charger input current allowed and take it down to about what the system needs
it would be an active thing constantly sampling the system and constantly updating the input current to match the system
the alternative is that when the battery is full, the charge path is cut off until the battery drops down a bit, maybe 90% |
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170 | Core | Bug Report | Medium | Executable directories broken | Closed | |
Task Description
Directory type packages fail to run. i.e. dropping a directory containing PXML.xml and a bunch of files onto the SD card rather than a .pnd package.
The application is detected and menu entries created correctly, however pnd_run.sh fails to bind mount the directory due to bogus double quoting. Looks like a failed attempt to handle spaces in the path. Patch below removes these incorrect quotes.
--- pnd_run.sh
+++ pnd_run.sh.old
@@ -161,2 +161,2 @@
elif [ $DFS = directory ]; then
- mntline="sudo mount --bind -o ro ${PND} "
+ mntline="sudo mount --bind -o ro \"${PND}\" " |
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119 | Base OS | Feature Request | Low | ext4 support | Closed | |
Task Description
Don't know how much work this would be to get a later version of the linux firmware to add this, but it would be nice to have more filesystem support. |
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235 | Core | Bug Report | Low | File /tmp/currentuser cannot be deleted by other users | Closed | |
Task Description
The system creates a file /tmp/currentuser at the first login of a user. After logging out and in as another user the file still contains the previous user name. An cannot be deleted/overwritten by the new user.
Steps To Reproduce:
At least two users are available and have XFCE GUI enabled.
1. Login as user (eg. guest), a file /tmp/currentuser is created (containing guest)
2. Log out
3. Log in as another user (eg. jgeiss), the file still contains the old name
4. Change GUI to PMenu
5. Log out
6. Log in as first user (guest)
Now the first user (guest) has PMenu as GUI which was set by the second user (jgeiss).
Maybe the permission should be 0666 for this file? |
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12 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | file association for .pnd | New | |
Task Description
Build the xml file and defaults.list so that pnd_run is file-assocated to .pnd |
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249 | Application | Bug Report | High | File Browser Thunar - After 2 nub double-clicks unreact ... | Closed | |
Task Description
If I navigate via keyboard (KEY UP/DOWN to move in lists, ENTER level down, BACKSPACE level up) I experience no problems at all. I can go many levels up/down, change to other folders, etc. No problems.
But if I navigate with the nubs, and using the right-nub-up-direction to trigger a double click, this only works 1-2 times, and from then on, the files/folders in Thunar cannot be clicked any further. I am stuck then.
A look into dmesg reveals this:
keyboard.c Can't emulate rawcode for keycode 139
The timestamp of that specific keyboard.c error messages exactly correlates with the bug occurrence times. (uptime timestamps matched with dmesg timestamps)
I tried alternative filebrowsers such as emelFM2, and there the problem does not exist, meaning I can trigger as many double clicks I want!
I am using HotFix 5 Alpha 4 on an SD card. The bug already annoyed me on a HF5 on the NAND. |
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250 | Application | Feature Request | Medium | File Browser Thunar - Trashing file crosses filesystem ... | Researching | |
Task Description
Trashing a file/folder seems to MOVE it to a certain trash directory on the MAIN VOLUME, rather then the ORIGINATING VOLUME, hence this can result in a COPY RATHER THAN A MOVE operation, if the trashed file originates from a filesystem other than the main filesystem!
This is very inefficient and faulty as it is:
a) Very time consuming
b) And in case of large files this operation can even fail due to not enough free space on the main volume. |
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39 | Core | Bug Report | High | file doesn't work (missing magic files) in image from F ... | Closed | |
Task Description
It seems there's a bug in the latest package "file 5.04-r0.5" of the Angström repository:
It's missing the magic files and therefore doesn't work.
Unfortunately, pnd_run.sh depends on it and therefore it breaks the PND-system.
Installing an older stable version (http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2008/ipk/glibc/armv7a/base/file_4.21-r0.1_armv7a.ipk) does make it work again.
First appeared on image from Feb 13th, not fixed in image from Feb 22nd yet. |
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127 | Application | Bug Report | High | Firefox hangs when selecting the menu bar | Closed | |
Task Description
Just try to do something by accessing the menu, either thru keyboard or ts and it hangs. Maybe a problem with bookmarks ? |
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204 | Core | Bug Report | Medium | fonts issues | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
Ok, I just want to say that there is something missing about the font on the base image. I cant get what (at least for now)
Here is an issue : http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54282-getting-vnc-viewer-to-work/
With my current Ogre build I get :
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
I've googled but so far no solution :( |
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116 | Application | Bug Report | Low | Freetype issues (freeciv sdl client) | Closed | |
Task Description
With the SDL client for freeciv the font characters show up as square blocks and garbage characters. This may be related to freetype.
I had also heard that battle at wesnoth had similar issues. |
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37 | Core | Bug Report | Very Low | Game doesn't start in No-X mode (pnd_run.sh) (Permissi ... | Closed | |
Task Description
EDIT:
Some more information from notaz:
it's failing because it can't find controlling tty (/dev/tty is a "virtual" gateway device, so setting permissions gave no effect)
do "ps ax" on your desktop and it has the tty column
so SDL fbdev driver wants to get a real tty fo be able to read keys
So we need to somehow give it a real tty?
yeah, but I don't know why as pnd start from X and that gives virtual tty
*don't know how*
maybe something can be done using openvt, chvt and similar tools
------
What happens if you run a script in no-X mode:
1. It stops slim
2. It mounts all the directories as needed (works fine).
3. It DOES NOT start the app
4. It unmounts all the directories
5. It restarts slim (and therefore X)
I can confirm the path is correctly and the filesystem is mounted there (did an ls -l).
I can also confirm the game is working fine, as the same PND does work within X if I run it from the terminal using pnd_run supertux_noX.pnd
So it looks like the line that actually executes the game does work when run in X, but not when run outside of X.
Maybe it tries to execute the game on the screen where the script is actually started (X) and therefore can't run it as X is not running anymore?
The line working in X-mode but not working in non-X-Mode:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/utmp/$BASENAME ./$EXENAME $ARGUMENTS
The game I tried was SuperTux (SDL-Game) with a no-X=1 parameter in the PXML. |
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83 | Base OS | Bug Report | Low | getting more /media/mmcblk?p1 | Closed | |
Task Description
From a conversation with skeezix:
I'm seeing /media/mmcblk0p1, mmcblk1p1, mmcblk2p1, mmcblk3p1 and mmcblk4p1 - is that something I should worry about? This started after I inserted & ejected my sd card a couple of times.
To which skeezix said:
The system starts at /media/mmcblk0 (with p1 ec being the partition number); if you eject the SD, then stick it back in, it will try to go to the earlier number again, but if some process was watching that SD when you ejected it, the system will nto be able to recycle that number, so you get the next blk number. So if you end up with /media/mmcblk5p1 (say), then it means you've been eject/inserting, and some program or another has been watching the SD instead of letting it go.
Isn't it nicer to cleanup the ones above 1 (so 0 and 1 are there) at startup to avoid confusion? |
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213 | Application | Bug Report | Low | Gigolo does not perform it's task | Closed | |
Task Description
In it's current state, Gigolo is flat out broken and (almost) useless. It pretends to to it's job, but can't because it's missing critical pieces of anatomy.
It can mount local filesystems correctly, but then so can thunar, so this is a redundant and useless function. The main reason to use Gigolo is to mount remote filesystems easily, and without having to use the terminal, and to save passwords in your keychain.
The solution to the problem is to perform the following tasks:
sudo opkg install gvfsd-sftp sshfs-fuse
sudo mousepad /etc/modutils/fuse
type "fuse" save and quit
sudo update-modules |
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290 | Core | Bug Report | Medium | gnome-mount not available | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
In GTK applications, such as Truecrypt, NoteCase Pro or Mousepad, the file open / file save dialogs have shortcuts to mounted file systems on the left side.
If clicking such a shortcut entry, the corresponding file system's contents are shown in the right dialog pane.
This works for file systems, which were available at boot time.
For file systems mounted after booting, e.g. by inserting an SD card or connecting a USB drive, when clicking such an entry, an error message appears saying
"Could not mount [volumen name]
Failed to execute child process 'gnome-mount' (No such file or directory)"
This is healed by
sudo opkg install gnome-mount
(which instals gnome-mount, nautilus, gvfsd-ftp, gvfs (upgrade), and a lot of libs (upgrades)..
This has been seen in SuperZaxxon release 1.5, not in Beta3 (but Beta3 is the only choice in Flyspray's dropdown currently).
I reported that error for HF6 I think, and it seemed to be fixed in SuperZaxxon Beta5. A regression? |
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232 | Core | Bug Report | Low | HF6 - charged completed with lid closed causing keyboar ... | Closed | |
Task Description
HF6 - It seems as when charging finishes with pandora on then charge light goes out (charge completed assuming) keyboard not functioning just gamepad. Can't use letters to cycle through in mini minimenu or use space to pull up ovr settings.
Will test further |
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267 | Core | Bug Report | High | HF6-Updater.pnd loses pnd_run.sh | Closed | |
Task Description
Several users have reported that running HF6-Updater.pnd leads to a missing /usr/pandora/scripts/pnd_run.sh
Possibly the file is locked by the Updater itself when installing pandora-libpnd_1.0-r56.5_armv7a.ipk
Forum thread:
http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/5652-hotfix-6-final-released/page__view__findpost__p__99313 |
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268 | Core | Bug Report | Low | HF6: error in op_power.sh | Closed | |
Task Description
When powering the system off after it has been in low power state once, an error is reported by op_power.sh, line 173.
Unfortunately I don't have the full message as it's visible on the console only for a short time before the screen turns off.
From looking at the script, the "fi" in the last line might be superfluous. |
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266 | Application | Bug Report | Low | hf6rc: Unable to enter Low Power Mode with lid shut: | Closed | |
Task Description
Since hf6rc was installed I am unable to enter low power mode.
I did pull up the new lid config settings script and selected switch off screen.
Reproducable.
Nothing happens when the power switch is moved fully to the right for a short time.
I expect it to entry low power mode. quirky for it not too.
workaround: easy - enter LPM before closing lid.
btw: unable to select hf6 in reported version. |
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259 | Core | Bug Report | High | Hold switch does NOT lock keyboard! Especially crucial ... | Closed | |
Task Description
Apps, which operate with the Pandora in closed lid mode, such as audio players, server processes, etc, in a button-press-probably environment (as i.e. your pocket) still CAN receive the shoulder button L + R key presses, and if they have a meaning in these programs, they could trigger undesired actions.
And also in the current implementation of the Low Power Mode (See: FS#260) key presses may still be received.
Therefore I strongly propose to implement the HOLD switch to en/dis-able a keyboard lock.
IN DETAIL: This shall be global, meaning that the input processing software (however this is implemented on the Pandora: kernel, driver, … ) keeps the lock state (on/off), and if the keyboard state is off,
a) discards all input, or
b) if it makes sense for some reason/applications (any ideas?) just writes them into a queue/buffer, which gets (partially) executed or made accessible to certain software after the keyboard gets unlocked again.
FYI: I have tested the hold switch with the Pandora Input-Tester, and it is recognized. So my report is definitely a software (and not an hardware) issue. |
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331 | Core | Bug Report | Medium | Hold switch key continuously sends X11 KeyPress events ... | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
When put into Hold mode, X11 handles the power switch as if it's being pressed, and it generates lots of keypress events, passing them to the foreground application. Since /dev/input/eventX does not seem to continuously trigger, I'm guessing it's due to key repeat.
To reproduce:
- Install xev and open it in the terminal
- Put the power key in HOLD mode
- Notice the "time" value changing rapidly
In addition to causing more work to X, it also floods the active application with key presses, resulting in increased CPU usage. In my test, switching to HOLD while Firefox is in the foreground causes it to use 6% CPU and X an additional 2.5%.
In addition, the key-press events continue even after the switch is taken off HOLD until another key is pressed.
A possible solution to this is to blacklist the power-button event device, to prevent evdev from listening to it (the key is handled by pndevmapperd). |
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208 | Core | Bug Report | Critical | HOTFIX 4 and 5 Slow WIFI | Closed | |
Task Description
I'm getting 5kb/s with bursts up to 10kb/s if I am lucky.
I have attempted every channel on my router.
Tried every encryption even no encryption.
Tested with the router's wifi speed: 300Mbps 154Mbps and 45Mbps
I'm running Hotfix 5 RC2.
Wifi works fine with my android smartphone, and other wireless devices such as a laptop. |
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124 | Base OS | Bug Report | Low | ifup doesn't like dhclient | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
I added:
iface usb0 inet dhcp
And ran:
ifup usb0
But dhclient simply prints usage. |
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325 | Core | Bug Report | Low | Impossible to not set password at first boot | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
The Wiki states that the Pandora can be used without setting a user password on first boot. But when the password and password confirmation field are left empty, an error pops up saying that there is a password missmatch.
(Please don't fix this bug by just changing the statement in the Wiki ;-) |
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244 | Application | Feature Request | Low | Include man and the manpages | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
The command line environment of the default OS does not include the command "man" and the respective manpages of the installed programs.
I personally often use manpages, as I hardly remember the syntax/arguments of all programs I use.
Having them would be very convenient!
EVALUATING NEEDED STORAGE AMOUNT
Some may argue that storage space is quite limited on the NAND.
Yes I agree. Hence the number of included programs is limited too. Hence it would not be all too many manpages.
When I press TAB into an empty Terminal prompt, I get 1406 possibilities, which is about the amount of available commands/programs if we ignore aliases, etc.
Multiply that with an average of 20 kb per manpage, and you get about 30 MB in total. With compression this could possibly be brought down to 15-20 MB.
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
A) Store into the NAND the manpages of core OS CLI programs only, and not all the library/system/etc documentation.
B) Include only the man command into the core OS, and compile/configure it in such a fashion, that it finds the manpages within non-NAND media (SD card, USB volume, etc).
b1) Specify that it simply looks into a certain path within the /media/*/pandora/ structure.
b2) Or offer PND packages like man-core.pnd, man-extended.pnd,... you get the idea or even man-custom.pnd (which would look into its appdata or a certain path for custom added manpages, to somehow get the b1 approach within the PND approach). |
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174 | Base OS | Feature Request | Low | Include modem-manager in base image | Closed | |
Task Description
Please consider including the modemmanager package in the base distibution.
This allows 3G wireless dongles to work out of the box (configured via network-manager). |
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60 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Include new menufile (Setting) for XFCE4 | Closed | |
Task Description
I just built a nice menu file which features subdirectories for games and emulators :)
I attached it, the old one should be replaced:
/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu |
