Re: [asus-port] Working kernel for A620

Hi,

I was very happy to be able to play with Linux on my PDA (the A620 variety)
in spite of the experimental stage of the solution (repeated hard resets,
anyone? :) ) Last time I tried, the most I could get was only to see kernel
messages when I plugged the PDA in and out of the cradle (I didn't get
telnet/ssh working). Compared to that, Opie 1.2 is a lot more spectacular. A
big "Thank you!" for the work so far!

Is there still a warning on the Wiki that running the current Linux
environment wipes the PocketPC settings and data, so people know what to
expect and that they better back up anything of value from the PDA? I
remembered the warning from the old wiki, but there isn't one on the
MyPal620Download page as far as I can see. It would be nice (and easily
done) to warn newcomers, so they don't get disappointed if they're not
cautious.

I have a problem getting the 2006-01-22 environment running, like the
2006-01-17 environment worked. There is a "module not found" message about a
compact flash related module, which causes the mounting of '/dev/hda2' to
fail a little bit later, which causes an "inittab not found" message and a
prompt waiting for me to specify which runlevel I want to start in. Sorry
that I'm not providing the exact text of the errors, I've gone through two
hard resets tonight before deciding to write and I don't want another one.
Hopefully the description already gave someone the idea where things are
broken. If not, it should be easy to reproduce. By the way, I just replaced
the old zImage with the new one and the old linexec with the one taken from
the new localized linexec tgzs.

By the way, how do you get your A620 back to PocketPC? In my case, I press
the On/Off together with the reset button (it's called hard reset, right?)
and I have to do it several times until it works. Is there a different
method? Should I just wait longer after the first reset?

I'm looking forward to the suspend feature to work, now I either have to
charge it often or I have to get back to PPC, so it can "sleep".

Thomas.
Received on Mon Jan 23 2006 - 21:26:46 EST