Re: first Successful x50v boot

How much hardware in common have the x30 and the x50, so, I mean, would
be easy the port to the X30 now?

:D

Have a nice day

On vie, 2005-06-17 at 14:02 -0600, Richard Bateman wrote:
> You can't do anything with the x50 without a serial cable... I just
> need to make one that also has USB. I can do USB, and I can do
> serial, but I can't yet do both =]
>
> Richard
>
> Salem Salemixu wrote:
> > Fantastic! :D
> >
> > I use the USB cradle that comes with the x50v, so if there's anything
> > that can be done with USB i'd probably be able to do it.
> >
> > I neither have any experience with framebuffer and drivers, but i'll try
> > to help you after next tuesday (it's my last exam, yay!).
> >
> > Congrats ;)
> >
> >
> > Richard Bateman wrote:
> >
> > > I'm pleased to announce the first successful (well, proven successful at
> > > least) boot of the linux kernel on a dell axim x50v.
> > >
> > > USB networking seems to work, but I can't prove it since I don't have a
> > > serial cable that also has USB on it :-/
> > >
> > > the SD/MMC driver looks like it works, at least it shows a valid device,
> > > but I haven't gotten it to mount yet -- I'm pretty certain that this is
> > > due to a kernel problem, not anything serious. I should be able to test
> > > this more tomorrow.
> > >
> > > Framebuffer does *not* work. I need to learn more about how
> > > framebuffers work in linux and learn more about the 2700 graphics
> > > controller, and then I'll see if I can write a driver for it. I was
> > > hoping the vsfb driver would work, but I haven't been able to make it
> > > work as of yet. Again, something I'll play with tomorrow. (no time today)
> > >
> > > Anyone with the experience to help at this level, please let me know. I
> > > could really use the help. Most things for the x50 and x50v are the
> > > same, but framebuffer in particular I want to get working, and fisherss
> > > can't help me much there =]
> > >
> > > Richard
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