[oe] fso-console-image problems

[Mr Dash Four]

> Instead of trying to edit the file manually, try "make xconfig" in the 
> directory where the kernel is extracted(something like work/htcdream*/linux-
> leviathan*/git/ ) and do it manually trough the GUI, then save back the 
> resulting defconfig, increase PR in the recipe and rebuild your console-image.
>   
That as a very good advice, thank you! The versioning "magic" is 
something I didn't know about (I always used to delete all related files 
in the tmp/stamp directory in the futile hope that the process/steps 
will be repeated at the next run).

OK, since I use rm_work, the git directory is no longer there, but I've 
had the git tar archive, so unpacked it, copied defconfig, renamed it to 
.config and ran "make ARCH=arm menuconfig" (I prefer ncurses myself), 
then switched the appropriate option on and saved the new file. I wasn't 
sure whether I should also switch the FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY 
option as I was not sure of its meaning and whether I actually need 
this, so left it as the default (empty/No). When I ran diff to see what 
has been changed the following has been altered:

--- defconfig    2011-11-19 16:35:46.000000000 +0000
+++ .config    2011-12-03 15:42:13.123656047 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
 # Linux kernel version: 2.6.32.9
-# Fri Aug 27 19:32:05 2010
+# Sat Dec  3 15:42:13 2011
 #
 CONFIG_ARM=y
 CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION=y
@@ -1199,7 +1199,12 @@
 #
 # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set
 CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
-# CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not set
+CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
+# CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY is not set
+CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION=y
+# CONFIG_FONTS is not set
+CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
+CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
 # CONFIG_LOGO is not set
 CONFIG_SOUND=y
 CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE=y
@@ -1233,11 +1238,9 @@
 CONFIG_SND_SOC=y
 
 #
-# MSM SoC Audio support
+# SoC Audio support Qualcomm
 #
 CONFIG_SND_MSM_SOC=y
-CONFIG_SND_MSM_DAI_SOC=y
-CONFIG_SND_MSM_SOC_MSM7K=y
 CONFIG_SND_SOC_I2C_AND_SPI=y
 # CONFIG_SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS is not set
 # CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME is not set


Interesting! In addition to a few extra options, the two SND_MSM_* 
options shown above are now gone - don't know why.

Anyway, I copied this back to the appropriate directory and bumped the 
version number, then ran bitbake again. No problems and I've had my new 
image, kernel modules (recompiled) and a few other things. Installed it 
and fastbooted my phone. The screen appeared this time - rotated as well 
- and I've had my login prompt. Brilliant!

Duly logged in, but there were a few further problems:

1. The keyboard I now have is completely unusable as the "alt" register 
(the blue row of keys) is completely unusable/inaccessible with the 
exception of the top row (where the numbers are). That means I cannot 
type/use vital keys like the pipe symbol ('|'), dash ('-') etc. There is 
also no "repeat" - i.e. when I press a key and keep pressing it, it 
doesn't continue typing the same key. is there any way I could fix this?

2. My ssh login is also problematic - when I try to log in from the PC 
host (via usb) this time I get the following error on that (PC) end: 
"PTY allocation request failed on channel 0". Don't know why that is, 
any ideas?

I cannot properly scroll/see what is happening on the phone system and 
neither can I see any of the log files as the keyboard is all screwed 
up, so I can't post any of these file in order to further help resolve 
the above issues.