[Pkg-n900-maint] Packaging phone functionality for Debian/N900

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > First, thanks for the great project. Debian is usable on N900 now.
> > 
> > I have working voice calls on debian 7 (and kernel v4.7) and am
> > wondering what are the next steps... ofone is needed for SMS and modem
> > control, libcmtspeechdata is for passing audio data back and forth.
> > 
> > https://gitlab.com/tui/tui/tree/master/ofone
> > https://gitlab.com/libcmtspeechdata/libcmtspeechdata
> > 
> > There is a lot of work needed to be done on both, but it is already
> > usable, so I guess it would be nice to get other people to try it, and
> > perhaps get some Debian packages...?

> This is great news indeed. I would surely love to try it out. I follow
> your blog as well.
> 
> Would you be able to document some of the process for getting this up
> and running?

I'll put this into the README somewhere:

ofono should work on Debian, out of the box. You can use python
scripts in ofono/(tests?) to verify it works for you. Then, put tui
into /my/tui, and libcmtspeechdata in /my/libcmtspeechdata. Boot the
system into X, run tui/ofone/xb and tui/ofone/xa scripts, and ofone
should come up,	   allowing voice calls. Test sms first, as they do
not
depend on pulseaudio. Voice does not yet work for me on	Debian 8.

... actually better documentation would be nice... and I guess I'd
like some help there.

https://wiki.debian.org/pkg-n900

TODO says:

TODO

internal
move http://elektranox.org/n900/ to http://pkg-n900.alioth.debian.org
(check pkg-gnome)

...Could that be done? Then I could create an account and help with
the docs...

> As for next steps, a lot would probably depend on how things currently
> work. For example, how good/bad is power management?

Power management is "good enough" to be actually usable. With 4.8
kernel kernel, we should actually have the processor enter the low
power modes. But.. those are kernel problems. We can solve
them, but we need working userland... and.

Best regards,
									Pavel
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