[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] 770 display failure workaround

[From: Philippe Laporte]

Ed Okerson wrote:

>>Hi,
>>     I'm not quite sure why you adopt such an antagonistic attitude.
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>Because you have been told numerous times that what you are asking for
>simply does not exist.
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Still, you are not justified in your attitude.

You should assume that I know something that I can't reveal...is that bad?

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>>I would bet you 1000 Euros, and I am not rich, that the Nokia kernel
>>team has a workaround patch.
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>So how do you want to send me the money?
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you'll still have to wait a bit so don't go spend it yet...:-)

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>>Even though my grand plan may be evasive to some, it should be obvious
>>thta I am trying tyo pressure Nokia into allocating time to provide the
>>code for the patch.
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>There is no such patch, nor will there ever be.  If we could generate code
>that fixed faulty hardware the world would indeed be a better place, but
>unfortunately you cannot turn lead into gold either.
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You will admit that some code can workaround some HW faults, no?

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>>The reason for not having it in the device: you are convinced that if any
>>reason would exist, you would be personaly aware of it?
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>Yes, I would.  Since I am a Nokia developer on this device, and I
>personally had a proto with this exact failure.  The fix was to replace
>the LCD.  And it did not coincide with changing R&D mode or any other
>significant event, it just went bad.  It happens.
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Ok, so the reproducer is wrong. It does not mean that the workaround 
does not exist.

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>>The LCD hasn't "failed". The reference here is
>>http://www.maemo.org/maemowiki/HowDoiBecomeRoot
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>The LCD did fail.  It just happend to occur when they were doing something
>else and they drew incorrect conclusions.
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Alright, bad word choice on my part, but see previous.

Best Regards,
Philippe