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

[From: Cornelius Hald]

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:32 +0300, David Weinehall wrote:
> 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.

Ok I see, so I tried to run dsme first. It turns out that it's not part
of the default installation of the SDK. Doing 'apt-get install dsme'
installs it without problems. And 'run-standalone.sh /etc/init.d/dsme
start' runs it without problems.

If I now start mce on the command line with the command
'run-standalone.sh mce' it works as expected. Using the init script to
start it still does not work. If I read it correctly the init script is
calling mce like this: 'dsmetool -n 1 -t "/sbin/mce --force-syslog".
If I'm using this command (also with run-standalone.sh) directly on the
terminal nothing happens as well. No error messages as well.

So the bottom line seems to be that mce can be started directly, but
there's a problem when starting it using dsmetool. Maybe something else
is missing?

I think I'll stop here as starting mce with 'mce --debug-mode' is ok for
me. Still, I'm willing to try out a few suggestions or to file a bug
against the SDK if it makes sense...

Cheers!
Conny