ARM CPU port ( Touchbook / Beagleboard )

derken · Post by **derken** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:58 pm

can someone please tell me which version to use for the Touchbook from Always Innovating?
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm

the Touchbook is based on the Beagleboard http://beagleboard.org/ and has an ARM OMAP3 CPU and runs on a version of Angstrom linux http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:25 am

Which version to use? You mean of ScummVM? I'd say, the source distribution... You'll have to compile a binary for that yourself.

derken · Post by **derken** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:28 am

mmmm, i was afraid that was the way to go...
Since I've never done that can you or someone else give me a hand how to do that?

Your help would be highly appreciated!

Raziel · Post by **Raziel** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:55 pm

First of all i would take a look here... and if you're still not frightened after reading that, i'd go to the [url=irc://irc.freenode.net/scummvm]IRC channel[/url] and talk to the devs directly (many different porters there, too)
You'll get the best and instant help you can (probably)

derken · Post by **derken** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:55 am

somebody already did the hard work

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/re ... me=scummvm

and it works on the Touchbook

bobdevis · Post by **bobdevis** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:00 am

I dunno if your problem is solved now or not, but if it isn't, here is a quick rundown on how to compile your own ScummVM on Linux that I wrote up earlier;
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=5507
Good luck.

Is that a wannabe-Vista window decoration theme on KDE in the screenshot? How heretic of them!

Red_Breast · Post by **Red_Breast** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:08 pm

That's a 0.12 build as well.
(9 games added since including the 7th Guest, Return to Zork, Discworld 1&2)

At least it's been built well with all the supported codecs, even Flac.

If it was me I'd try to email the person and see if it's possible to have new versions.

(Actually if it was me I'd try to compile my own build. From my experience I think Linux is about the easiest to build for however I've only tried it on x86 versions of the main distros like Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE. If your distro uses one of the main package systems it will make things a lot easier.)

The screenshot's taskbar looks like the one used by Kubuntu 9.10.
I downloaded it the other day to look at the new KDE. I've always used Gnome. It came with the first Linux OS I tried and I had no reason to change. The new KDE was raved about and I wanted to check 'Ubuntu One' (this personal cloud thing) as well.
I couldn't believe it when I was presented with a grey task bar. I think it looks so ugly.
I don't know if having a better graphics card would change things but whatever your graphics capabilities I'm sure it doesn't have to be 'battleship grey'.

bobdevis · Post by **bobdevis** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:42 am

You do realise there is a build in feature in KDE to download an ever-expanding amount of styles and themes, right?

Anyway, regardless of whatever they set as default, they can't possibly do worse then the default WinXP tellytubby-blue look

Red_Breast · Post by **Red_Breast** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:37 am

bobdevis wrote:You do realise there is a build in feature in KDE to download an ever-expanding amount of styles and themes, right?

Anyway, regardless of whatever they set as default, they can't possibly do worse then the default WinXP tellytubby-blue look

Yes I know there's more. And I'm sure one of them is better than that grey that was chose as default.
I did get XP when it was released. Last version of Windows I got. One of the first things I done was to change to one of the other colours (Silver and Olive Green)
I've never heard it called 'tellytubby-blue'