[maemo-developers] Howto enable portrait mode support on Fremantle

[From: David Weinehall]

On tis, 2009-08-25 at 09:25 +0200, ext Cornelius Hald wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 23:39 +0300, David Weinehall wrote:
> > On mån, 2009-08-24 at 22:12 +0200, ext Cornelius Hald wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 23:07 +0300, David Weinehall wrote:
> > > > MCE only listens to the system bus, maybe this is your problem?
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately not, I tried both the system bus and the session bus. On
> > > both I get the mentioned error. But thanks for the tip :)
> > 
> > Well, everything in your code looks correct (well, you're not doing any
> > error checking when you call dbus_message_new_method_call(), which means
> > that you'll miss OOM, but that's unlikely to be the issue here).
> 
> Sorry for not providing more information in my last mail, I'll try to do
> that now.
> 
> First, I'm running Fremantle Beta2 SDK with the X86 target. The DBus
> connection I'm getting through libosso. So the call is:
> gpointer con = osso_get_sys_dbus_connection(osso_context);
> 
> You and Claudio were right, mce was not running at all. I thought it
> will be automatically started, but that's not the case. So I now started
> it with:
> run-standalone.sh /etc/init.d/mce start
> 
> The output of 'ps ax|grep -i mce' now is:
> 8758 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/mce --daemon
> 
> Still the error message I get is the same.
> 
> I'm listening on the same DBus connection for orientation-changed
> messages and that seems to work. If I send DBus messages using
> dbus-send, my callback functions are called. For example my callbacks
> are called when I'm doing this:
> 
> run-standalone.sh dbus-send --system --type=signal /com/nokia/mce/signal
> com.nokia.mce.signal.sig_device_orientation_ind string:'portrait'
> 
> 
> Hmm, ok while writing this, I noticed that mce after some time is not
> running anymore. So now I started it not using the init script, but
> directly with:
> run-standalone.sh mce --force-stderr --debug-mode
> 
> And voila :) It's working and I'm getting the correct reply when calling
> into DBus. So basically my problem is solved. The question now is my
> does mce not startup correctly when using the init script?

I suspect it's because if you're not running it in --debug-mode, it
exits when it notices that it fails to connect to dsme.  Check if dsme
is running too...  That's the only difference --debug-mode should make
at least.

> Thanks David and Claudio for all the help :)

You're welcome :)


Regards: David