Sailfish/ButterflyTouch

Work in progress. This is mostly inspired from the ExoPC tutorial, with adaptation for this hardware.

Install Sailfish SDK Emulator on ButterflyTouch

This page has instructions on how to install Sailfish SDK emulator on your Packard Bell Butterfly Touch.

It is a x86 (Intel SU4100 dual core x86_64) based laptop/tablet PC. It has a 11.6" resistive touch screen (1366x768). It uses a Intel GM45 Express Chipset.

Install Steps

USB key setup

• Extract root filesystem from emulator virtualbox image

VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw ~/SailfishOS/emulator/sailfishos.vdi sailfish.raw

• Copy to flash key

sudo dd if=sailfish.raw of=/dev/sd* bs=4M
sync

• Mount flash key
• Edit /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf to boot from sdb1 and add rootwait

Running on the ButterflyTouch

• The following has been done with Ethernet cable plugged. Wifi activation could be added later on.
• Place the USB key in ButteflyTouch
• Boot, press F12 button to access boot device selection menu and select USB
• Ctrl/Alt F2 - Login root/(no password)

• sshd is already launched by default, but the root account needs a password to allow to connect to it.
• launch command "passwd", and set the password to nemo.

From now on, you can connect remotely to do the following (it allows copy/pasting the command from a browser and not typing by hand).

• Edit /usr/lib/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Silica/ApplicationWindow.qml

//width: _transpose ? screen.height : screen.width
//height: _transpose ? screen.width : screen.height
width: 1366
height: 768

• Put the display in portrait mode.

The original command don't work anymore, so edit the file manually :

vim /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory/desktop/jolla/components/%gconf.xml

and replace the angle "0" by "90".

The original command was:

su nemo # to switch to nemo user
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/jolla/components/screen_rotation_angle --type int 90

• reboot the system, press F12 to select boot from USB, and then it should boot to sailfish, with the graphical interface showing.

Working parts

• Touchscreen
• General sailfish interface
• The silica component demo

Known issues

• None yet...