Mer launch on Freescale i.MX53 QSB

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 31 December 2011, Simonas L. wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have had success in first boot steps of KDE Active Plasma on i.MX53 QSB
> [1]
> 
> rootfs was built on 20th Dec 2011 using Mer's build system with the
> KickStart file [2], using Archos G9 KickStart [3] as a reference.
> For boot-loader and kernel I used Ubuntu's MX5 prebuilt images [4]
> 
> X Server loaded correctly with omapfb driver.
> 
> Sadly KDE did not complete booting and the splash/background image [1]
> switched to black-screen and popped an error [5] for just a couple of
> seconds, which description approx. boils down to:
>  KDE Power Management System could not be initialized.
>  The backend reported the following error: No valid Power Management
> backend plugins are available.
> Log [8] line presumably being: kded(1139): KDE Power Management System init
> failed!
> Afterwards the screen remained black, X server running, no further
> activities, no mouse pointer visible.
> 

there was a known crash in plasma with qt 4.8, i removed the offending patch 
in kde-workspace, the repo still doesn't seem up to date..

-- 
Marco Martin