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nexus511 / gpd-ubuntu-packages

This repository shall provide the base for building ubuntu packages from most of the patches currently used to get linux on the gpd-pocket.
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Replace 17.04 by 17.10 variants #25

Open joedborg opened 6 years ago

joedborg commented 6 years ago

Hey @nexus511, could you push a 17.10 build out, please? I'll then go through and start marking (hopefully fixing) some of the bugs. I guess there will be limited overlap with the Ubuntu Gnome release bugs.

nexus511 commented 6 years ago

For now I will not support any other versions than 16.04.3 and 17.04.

Supporting two versions for all the variants we have already causes enough workload for now.

Herst commented 6 years ago

Sounds reasonable, but once 17.10 is released support for 17.04 can be dropped.

nexus511 commented 6 years ago

Maybe some reasons:

We already have trouble with patches to fix functionality on 17.04 that then turn out to break things on 16.04.3. This will get even more complicated when we start supporting 17.10.

To properly support all variants, all variants need to be tested properly. We now have

So we basically would already need to properly test each change on 10 variants. Adding 17.10 would add another four variants. To get things properly tested before I publish them is already infeasible right now. I normally must have about 10 devices flying around to be properly able to check changes again.

The only option would be one maintainer per platform.

nexus511 commented 6 years ago

@Herst okay. That we can talk about that then. Switching from 17.04 to 17.10 would be an option.

It would be much easier to support LTS variants like 16.04.3 though.

nexus511 commented 6 years ago

As 17.10 is out now and 17.04 will be discontinued soon, I will soon plan to switch to 17.10. As it uses Wayland as default, it might require some work on display and touch rotation though.

I reopen this issue now.

cawilliamson commented 6 years ago

I've just submitted a PR to resolve the 17.10 / wayland rotation problem (particularly with gnome / gdm.)

I haven't yet observed any other problems after upgrading my Ubuntu GNOME install to 17.10 at all - gpd-fan working perfectly (I know this was mentioned on reddit - no problems here), display rotated (with my PR), sound working properly, video output working great. No problems at all - looks like should be a simple upgrade to be honest!

cawilliamson commented 6 years ago

Meant to add - remember to re-enable the gpdpocket repo after performing the upgrade as do-release-upgrade disables ALL third party repos by default.

Just uncomment the 'deb' line in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gpdpocket.list and apt update and you're good to go!

I forgot to do this after the upgrade at first so just wanted to add this to save others some time. 👍

simon-bueler commented 6 years ago

I've tried the submitted monitors.xml and it did not solve the rotation issue on my ubuntu 17.10. Is there a known fix available?

prog-amateur commented 6 years ago

Hi, I have received a notification from Indiegogo's GPD official website, about a new available iso (Ubuntu 17.10) : https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-laptop-ubuntu-or-win-10-os-laptop--2#/updates/all

Maybe this 17.10 iso can be a good template to work on ?

Hope it will help, and thank you for your effort, I am very happy with your isos, easy to install & upgrade.

teranex commented 6 years ago

I just upgraded my Xubuntu 17.04 to 17.10 since 17.04 is now officially unsupported and the repositories are not available anymore. I upgraded by running sudo do-release-upgrade, as the Software Updater only complained about the missing repositories.
So far (after 10 minutes), everything seems to work. Bluetooth is ok (I'm typing this on a bluetooth keyboard), rotation is ok and the fan also is ok.