Udooz!

This is part 2 of Event Watch: Moblin - Intel's Mobile Flavour Part 3.

After getting all the components, I could start Xephyr on the MIC device target terminal window. But, it did not keep me smile. The Xephyr window was broken immediately and I got the following error

(T: HelloMoblinApp)root@sheik-laptop:/#  ...
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

It was my mistake that I forgot to install LibOSSO library. Then I installed it on the target terminal.

(T: HelloMoblinApp)root@sheik-laptop:/# apt-get install libosso-dev

After that I started Xephyr, this time it throws

(T: HelloMoblinApp)root@sheik-laptop:/# ume-xephyr-start
Setting screen resolution to 1024x600
DISPLAY already set to  :0.0
Starting dbus
 * system message bus already started; not starting.
Starting UI in Xephyr

Extended Input Devices not yet supported. Impelement it at line 625 in ../../../../hw/kdrive/src/kinput.c
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, removing from list!
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
xinit:  connection to X server lost.

Then I've gone thorugh some mail-list and I found a workaround at http://www.moblin.org/archives/html/dev/2008-04/msg00101.html. It said that use

# pkill gconfd

It kills parent's gconfd and uses target environment's gconfd. After that Xephyr started successfully but it throws same warning message, just skip that.

After that I was trying to compile and execute the given hello-world-1.-c at Moblin.org site. However, I am not able to compile, it says

(T: HelloMoblinApp)root@sheik-laptop:/usr/src/hello# gcc -o hello-world-1 hello-world-1.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0`
Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
-su: gcc: command not found

Ha ha interesting, I was not in the situation whether gtk+-2.0 is already there in my Ubuntu or not. I just given

(T: HelloMoblinApp)root@sheik-laptop:/# sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

After that you have to install gcc on the target terminal

(T: HelloMoblinApp)root@sheik-laptop:/# sudo apt-get install gcc

After that I have successfully executed the hello world app.

Thank God.

One good thing is that the packages "gcc" and "libgtk2.0-dev" are got from host app only. It is nice thing about Moblin.

Let us see with more code on Moblin.

After attending Intel Developer Network meeting regarding their Moblin community, I was really liked to install Ubuntu on my machine.

After a month, I got a Live DVD of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I was really stunned the way Ubuntu organize the installation steps. Wit 7 smart steps, you can install Ubuntu without any technical challenges. But I've faced issues in disk allocation in Live CD mode. The guided option is not soo smart. It tried to swallow my Windows partition. The manual option throws error. After that I came into installation mode and used manual disk allocation. This time Ubuntu installed successfully.

Once completed the installation, I have configured my Internet connection through my Wifi without any issues.

One thing I hate with major Linux distros is that they have installed most of the softwares under a same category. For example, for Programming, KDevelop, QtDesigner, etc have been installed. But Ubuntu is very clear on this. If you want then install.

Ofcourse, one thing I still feel bad is the unhealthy fonts.