Re: Still alive?

There is something wrong with the web-site.
Some of the stuff can be found elsewhere in the web, but it migth be
hard to get everything.
I haven't tried really hard to find out what's the situation of the
web-site, but I think it migth be
down because of lack of money or interest.
I think it would be great if you could put up a new one and a backup
mailing-list if this one stops
working. I think irc-channel is not so good, because often there is
information lost and
not everybody is getting it.
I can put up an FTP-server and put all the stuff there.
When I get it up, you should get it all and save it on a cd.
To re-create the mailing list/ backup everybody who wants to make sure
to stay with in the future
should send their e-mail-address directly to me: mikko_at_pwar.net or
Stavros , who must let us know to what address ?
Or who wants can put their e-mail addresses on this list to make sure
all others get it.
I can make a link for further info to my web-page
http://www.bittiainen.com or
at some point http://www.pwar.net or if those break for some reason to
http://www.sci.fi/~topweb/

Mikko Silvennoinen

Stavros Fox Polymenis wrote:
> OK i just tried to get the kernel and the rest but non of the links
> work :(
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Stavros Polymenis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikko Silvennoinen <mikko_at_pwar.net>
> Reply-To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50
> <aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org>
> To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50
> <aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org>
> Subject: Re: [Aximx50-port] Still alive?
> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 23:48:50 +0300
>
> Easiest making the SD-card:
> I used gparted on a linux desktop for partitioning the SD-card and
> formatting it, qparted works well too,
> found from System Tools menu.
> You can use your linux desktop's archiving tool-programs found usually
> from Accessories menu for
> unarchiving the Ångström image to the formatted ext2 partition on the
> SD-card.
> Or better first to hard drive, and then copy to SD.
> Try Krusader with root mode found e.g. on Kanotix live linux cd for
> tools.
> Or more widely on almost every linux desktop: Konqueror-web-browser,
> with this trick:
> Start it and from menu: Settings > Load View Profile > Midnigth
> Commander.
> You can make changes to settings and save the view-profile with an other
> name.
> e.g. FileCommander, then make a new launcer for it to panel and put to
> the "command":
> fmclient openProfile FileCommander
>
> These are more thorough instructions on what needs to be accomplished:
> (I don't know if all the web-links are up to date, but most was
> originally found from http://www.altavista.com )
> Note: This Readme is a modified Version from
> http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~zabel/magician/README
>
> 0) Select correct Image
>
> First you have do know which device you have. Select the aximx50 (non
> vga) image for the following devices:
>
> * Dell Axim x50
> * Dell Axim x51
>
> or select the aximx50v (with vga display) image for the following
> devices:
>
> * Dell Axim x50v
> * Dell Axim x51v
>
> 1) Download
>
> To boot the experimental GPE image from SD card on a aximx50, you'll
> need the following files:
>
> * the experimental GPE image itself:
>
> [aximx50 series]
> http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50/Angstrom-x11-image-test-20070316-aximx50.rootfs.tar.bz2
> [aximx50v series]
> http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50v/Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-test-20070627-aximx50v.rootfs.tar.bz2
>
> * the linux kernel:
>
> [aximx50 series]
> http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50/zImage-2.6.20-hh2
> +cvs20070316-aximx50-20070316105623
> [aximx50v series]
> http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50v/zImage-2.6.21-hh9-aximx50v-20070625071129
>
> * HaRET:
>
> http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/haret-0.4.8.exe
>
> * A default.txt that tells HaRET how to boot the kernel:
>
> http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/default.txt
>
> 2) Prepare
>
> The SD card needs to be partitioned into two partitions: one small FAT
> partition that WinCE can see, and one EXT2 partition used as root file
> system. I'll assume that the block device of the SD card is
> called /dev/sda. Replace this with the correct device on your system.
> Instruction could be slightly different for each version of fdisk :
>
> * Delete all partitions on the SD card:
>
> fdisk /dev/sda
> d
> 1
> d
> 2
> d
> 3
>
> * Create partitions, for example a 10MB /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2
> using the rest:
>
> fdisk /dev/sda
> n
> p
> 1
> <default> (should be cylinder 1)
> +10M
> n
> p
> 2
> <default>
> <default> (should be last cylinder of the card)
> t
> 1
> 4
> w
>
> * Create file systems, a VFAT on /dev/sda1 and EXT2 on /dev/sda2:
>
> mkdosfs /dev/sda1
> mke2fs /dev/sda2
>
> * Copy HaRET, the kernel and default.txt onto sda1:
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> [aximx50] cp zImage-2.6.20-hh2
> +cvs20070316-aximx50-20070316105623 /mnt/zImage
> [aximx50v] cp zImage-2.6.21-hh9-aximx50v-20070625071129 /mnt/zImage
> cp haret-0.4.8.exe /mnt/haret.exe
> cp default.txt /mnt/default.txt
> umount /dev/sda1
>
> * Unpack the GPE image onto sda2:
>
> mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
>
> if mounted in Fedora with mouse from Computer /..to: /media/disk
> [aximx50] bzcat
> Angstrom-x11-image-test-20070316-aximx50.rootfs.tar.bz2 |
> (cd /media/disk; tar x)
> [aximx50v] bzcat
> Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-test-20070627-aximx50v.rootfs.tar.bz2 |
> (cd /media/disk; tar x)
>
> umount /media/disk
>
> 3) Boot
>
> Put the SD card into the axim, start haret.exe and tap the "Run"
> button...
> On X50v/X51v, enable Mirror Mode(Start -> Settings -> System>Mirror).
>
> Note: If linux don't boot try turning WIFI and BLUETOOTH ON or only one
> of them.
>
> 4) Communicate
>
> Mailing List: aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org
> (https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/aximx50-port)
> Wiki: http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/DellAximX50
>
>
> You most likely need to edit the default.txt a little to have the
> settings you want rigth from
> the boot and not having to set so much by hand every time. They are for
> haret, and goes to the SD-cards
> FAT partition (FAT or FAT32 VFAT all works) .
> I changed the ip-numbers, the first is for Axim, the second of the
> internet connection eth-card of the machine
> it is connected with usb and third the gateway and fifth the net
> mask.
>
> Mikko Silvennoinen
>
>
>
>> The installing was quite succesful, and
>> easy, if you can find the instructions and can follow them.
>> The more trickier part is to first back up everything.
>> Also and especially the bios of Axim. And test if you can restore
>> everything, if
>> something goes wrong.
>> It is not anyhow absolutely necessary with Axim X51v to back up bios.
>> With some other models it is.
>> It is safest to anyhow make sure you have a rigth new bios from Dell
>> company web-site, and
>> ability to load it, if something goes wrong. There is also some useful
>> programs that is helpful
>> to install on Axim, before doing anything dangerous to bios.
>>
>> I have a laptop with Fedora 6 linux, which I used to do most of this,
>> and you probably need a Windows machine
>> to use for backup and installing programs for Axim, before proceeding
>> and to prepare and to be able to
>> load Dell factory bios back if something goes wrong, but
>> I recommend first everybody try to use the system you are most
>> familiar with.
>> If you only have Windows, and need some linux-system fast try:
>> http://www.kanotix.org/changelang-eng.html
>> it is a bootable live-linux cd, that is the best available now. It's
>> up and running in minutes.
>> I think, I will change more to Debian in the future, which I have on
>> some machines.
>>
>> Instructions: http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/x50vHowTo
>>
>>
>> Once booted the Ångström-image from SD-card, everything else works
>> reasonably well, but
>> the trouble is, that when trying to type text with the small virtual
>> keyboard
>> on the touch screen, it is often difficult, because, there is
>> something wrong
>> with the calibration system or some settings of the touch screen.
>> I don't yet exactly know what it is, but, somebody said earlier, that,
>> it could be
>> something in the kernel. There migth be something in some settings
>> file, that could be an other reason, but I don't know.
>> If there is something wrong in the kernel, it must be fixed first.
>> If it is of some settings file fixing it by editing is possible, but
>> you would have to know
>> where to look for.
>> Then also installing an other windowing system could work. Like I
>> think, the Google android is
>> one possible. Someone said earlier he wants to try that. There are
>> several others that are possible.
>> I think it depends on, what you want to use your Axim for, that you
>> can make a sensible choice.
>> At first the most sensible is, what works at all. Later you could have
>> even several different SD-cards
>> for different systems.
>> We would have to make a better version of the Ångström-image with the
>> problem fixed.
>> Has anyone a bluetooth keyboard that would work with Axim and linux,
>> that migth be a temporary
>> work around, so you can use the current image better, to study it and
>> try to fix it on-line ?
>>
>> Mikko
>>
>> Stavros Fox Polymenis wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mikko,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your quick reply. How successful were you installing linux on
>>> your x51v ?
>>>
>>> what did you need to install it and what problems do u have?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Stavros
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mikko Silvennoinen <mikko_at_pwar.net>
>>> Reply-To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50
>>> <aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org>
>>> To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50
>>> <aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Aximx50-port] Still alive?
>>> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:25:44 +0300
>>>
>>> Stavros Fox Polymenis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Greetings all,
>>>>
>>>> Is this effort still alive?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Some are still trying something.
>>> Although I noticed, that the certificate of the secure-pages on web-site
>>> is outdated.
>>> If your browser is configured rigth, it should complain about this.
>>> Who is responsible of maintaining the list web-page ?
>>>
>>> Has anybody the .config -file of the kernel source-code for Axim
>>> (ARM-processor kernel),
>>> I have Axim X51v. I am planning to maybe reconfigure it, in hope of
>>> correcting the
>>> problem of the touch-screen-keyboard and touch screen calibration, (by
>>> using command: make xconfig) and
>>> changing what want/need, and recompiling from newest source-code.
>>>
>>> Mikko Silvennoinen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
Received on Wed May 14 2008 - 06:23:38 EDT