Bodhi HP Touchpad Alpha Image

Bodhi HP Touchpad Alpha Image 01-11-2012

#41 Vistaus

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Posted 21 March 2012 - 04:20 PM

Jeff, on 20 March 2012 - 09:58 PM, said:

This image is a few months old - but it has everything working you just listed... Everything other than Audio and 3D - the two more important hardware features IMO. If those ever get working this could be a real gem of a Linux device.

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Maybe this could help: http://www.webosnati...er-gets-release
https://github.com/openwebos/nyx-lib

#42 matTHew_ORiger

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Posted 11 April 2012 - 09:50 PM

I got an HP Touchpad now. What can I do to help? I read that most apps need to be recompiled for ARM-based deb/ubuntu. Is that something Bodhineers are working on? I could definitely help with that, since I've compiled more than a few programs in my time.

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Posted 11 April 2012 - 10:37 PM

You can download and install the image provided here and play around with it.

Honestly though there isn't a whole lot we can do with it beyond what has already been done due to closed source hardware drivers.

EDIT: Regarding software you will find a wide selection thanks to our Debian base.

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#44 matTHew_ORiger

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Posted 12 April 2012 - 01:13 AM

Jeff, on 11 April 2012 - 10:37 PM, said:

HP Plans to release webOS open source later this year. We might be able to glean some from that. Don't know.

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Posted 12 April 2012 - 12:49 PM

matTHew_ORiger, on 12 April 2012 - 01:13 AM, said:

HP Plans to release webOS open source later this year. We might be able to glean some from that. Don't know.

OS source != driver source code.

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#46 matTHew_ORiger

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Posted 12 April 2012 - 05:45 PM

Jeff, on 12 April 2012 - 12:49 PM, said:

OS source != driver source code.

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I was afraid you might say that

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Posted 15 April 2012 - 08:13 AM

New developments going on in the Qualcomm driver front...Freedreno, an open-source Adreno GPU driver, is now out there and the developer is apparently using an APQ8060-based development board (same CPU as TouchPad). This is an X.Org userspace driver, though I'm not sure if he made any kernel changes that would make this trickier to port to a 2.6.35 TouchPad kernel or if it will run on top of the existing kernel-space driver. Haven't tried compiling it yet, but it sounds promising.