Comment 1 Peter Åstrand 2014-01-15 12:42:44 CET

Information from the latest firmware release notes:

[ ThinPro / SmartZero 4.4 RELEASE NOTES ]

T6X440XX – X for generic x86 (t5565, t505, t510, t610, t620)
Z6X440XX – X for generic x86 (t5565z, t510, t610, t620)
Z6A440XX – A for Atlas/ARM (t410)
Z5D440XX – D for Dove/Marvell/ARM (t5335z)



[ PRODUCT SPECIFICATION ]

Base image kernel and libraries
o   x86 images are using the following kernel and library versions
    - linux kernel 3.8.13
    - glibc 2.15
    - gtk2 2.24.10
    - gtk3 3.4.2
    - qt 4.8.1
    - pulseaudio 1.1

o   ARM images are using the following kernel and library versions
    - linux kernel 2.6.32 (t5335z)
    - linux kernel 2.6.37 (t410)
    - glibc 2.11.1
    - gtk 2.20.1
    - qt 4.6.2
    - pulseaudio 0.9.22

Hardware Platforms:
·        t5335z
·        t5565
·        t5565z
·        t410
·        t410aio
·        t505
·        t510
·        t610
·        t610 flex
·        t620 (NEW)

Note: t5745 is now a N-2 platform and not supported anymore

Comment 3 Peter Åstrand 2014-06-09 11:09:27 CEST

The new softfloat DEB package (thinlinc-client_4.2.0post-XXX_armel.deb) runs fine on the HP t410, started from a root xterm. Unfortunately, making the client available to ordinary users, using the normal connection launcher is very difficult. The t410 features a software called "Manticore Session Manager (smgr)". On the positive side, it's possible to define new applications using a "plugin" system (ie you can drop files in some directories). Unfortunately, several files are required, and there's no documentation available. For example, For Firefox we have:

/usr/bin/firefox
/usr/bin/firefox-general-mgr
/usr/bin/firefox-mgr
/usr/bin/firefox_wrapper.sh
/usr/share/manticore/plugins/firefox/
/usr/share/manticore/plugins/firefox/config
/usr/share/manticore/plugins/firefox/default.xml
/usr/share/manticore/plugins/firefox/mimeTypes.rdf
/usr/share/manticore/plugins/firefox/profile
/usr/share/manticore/plugins/firefox/profiles.ini
/usr/share/manticore/plugins/firefox/wrappers
/usr/share/manticore/plugins/firefox/wrappers/clone.sh

firefox-general-mgr and firefox-mgr are binaries. The "wrapper" script is a script which takes a start/stop argument. The default.xml provides definitions for the session manager GUI. The "wrapper" and XML file alone are 637 lines long, so this is not trivial. But possible.

Comment 4 Peter Åstrand 2014-06-10 13:16:29 CEST

(In reply to comment #3)
> The new softfloat DEB package (thinlinc-client_4.2.0post-XXX_armel.deb) runs
> fine on the HP t410, started from a root xterm. Unfortunately, making the
> client available to ordinary users, using the normal connection launcher is
> very difficult. The t410 features a software called "Manticore Session Manager
> (smgr)". On the positive side, it's possible to define new applications using a
> "plugin" system (ie you can drop files in some directories).

Moved to bug 5185.

Comment 5 Peter Åstrand 2014-06-24 09:44:12 CEST

Note: In order to view installed software packages and versions in the control panel, the package name (without version) should be added to /etc/SysInfo/pkg_list.conf. This can be done with a postinstall such as:

grep -q thinlinc-client /etc/SysInfo/pkg_list.conf || echo thinlinc-client >> /etc/SysInfo/pkg_list.conf
[ -e /etc/SysInfo/pkg_list.conf ] && grep -q thinlinc-client /etc/SysInfo/pkg_list.conf || echo thinlinc-client >> /etc/SysInfo/pkg_list.conf

Unfortunately, when restoring settings this file is also restored: from /.flash/origfs/etc/SysInfo/pkg_list.conf. Changing that file seems a little bit too magic. Adding code to rc.local to change this doesn't work either; this file is also restored when resetting settings. 

Locally, the version and build number can be viewed simply by starting the client, but probably pkg_list.conf is used when remotely checking versions, using the management software.

Comment 6 Peter Åstrand 2014-06-25 15:52:20 CEST

We are now shipping support files for Manticore, so the standard DEB package now runs fairly fine on the t410. Briefly tested with sound, graphics etc with good results. 

The tester should also check installation instructions. 

Time reporting includes time for bug 5185.

Comment 7 Peter Åstrand 2014-06-26 11:10:03 CEST

(In reply to comment #5)
> Note: In order to view installed software packages and versions in the control
> panel, the package name (without version) should be added to
> /etc/SysInfo/pkg_list.conf. 

I checked this again. The t410 actually does not have an option for resetting settings, so on that platform we should be fine. On t610, pkg_list.conf will be wiped when settings are reset, but since a settings reset is no longer required for installation, it will work in most cases, assuming a factory settings reset is uncommon. Thus, I will add to pkg_list.conf.

Comment 8 Peter Åstrand 2014-06-26 11:17:25 CEST

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Note: In order to view installed software packages and versions in the control
> > panel, the package name (without version) should be added to
> > /etc/SysInfo/pkg_list.conf. 
> 
> I checked this again. The t410 actually does not have an option for resetting
> settings, so on that platform we should be fine. On t610, pkg_list.conf will be
> wiped when settings are reset, but since a settings reset is no longer required
> for installation, it will work in most cases, assuming a factory settings reset
> is uncommon. Thus, I will add to pkg_list.conf.

29116.

Comment 9 Pierre Ossman 2014-09-30 14:10:04 CEST

The current design is very confusing as there are two UIs, HP's and ThinLinc's. You specify your username and password in HP's UI. But when you click connect you get the ThinLinc UI. And upon failure you are left in the ThinLinc UI and not dropped back into HP's.

There are a multitude of issue surrounding this:

 - It's not apparent how you reconfigure the client.
 - You are shown the ThinLinc login window whilst connecting
 - You are returned to the wrong dialog upon errors

We can do better. If not now, then at least in the future. We should have new bugs and probably update the documentation for now.

Comment 10 Pierre Ossman 2014-09-30 14:11:17 CEST

Other than above, it seems to work fine. Tested:

 - Sound
 - Smart card
 - Local drives (not configured out of box though, see bug 4288)

Not tested:

 - Local printer (only seems to support local USB printer, and it was difficult to set up)

Comment 11 Peter Åstrand 2014-09-30 15:02:17 CEST

(In reply to comment #9)

>  - You are shown the ThinLinc login window whilst connecting
>  - You are returned to the wrong dialog upon errors

https://www.cendio.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5276

Comment 12 Peter Åstrand 2014-09-30 16:06:46 CEST

(In reply to comment #9)

>  - It's not apparent how you reconfigure the client.

Documented in 29438. We also have:

https://www.cendio.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5186

Comment 13 Pierre Ossman 2014-10-01 11:21:15 CEST

Looks ok.