Re: Still alive?

Mikko,
     I'm working with an X50 not the V. I just picked it up again about 2
weeks ago and straightened out the framebuffer issue I was having.
Everything was offset to the right about 10mm. I posted those findings to
the mailing list. As for my touchscreen issues, I'm just getting into it, I
currently can't make it past the calibration screen. dmesg tells me "Sample
with too much jitter - ignored". My plan is to add a bit more debug code to
try and understand what's going on. This is my first experience with
touchscreens so plenty of growing pains.

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Sonny <sonny73044_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the answer.... I will try again, been a couple months since I
> got the 50v
>
> If I remember right it was impossible to figure out the offset, one tap
> would show on one side of the display and the next tap in the same place
> would show on the other side.
>
> Will reply with results shortly if anyone wishes.
>
>
> --- On *Wed, 5/14/08, Mikko Silvennoinen <mikko_at_pwar.net>* wrote:
>
> From: Mikko Silvennoinen <mikko_at_pwar.net>
> Subject: Re: [Aximx50-port] Still alive?
> To: "The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50" <aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org
> >
> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 7:51 AM
>
>
> Yes, it is the one, it works, as long as you can get it to align the screen
> well enough, that you can insert the password.
> The trouble is, that the alignment of the cursor don't work well (or at
> all), so when you punch the letters, you have to
> try to find where to point the stylus to actually get the letter you want.
> It is 0.4-10 mm off where it should be.
>
> Mikko Silvennoinen
>
> All read the previous messages !
> we are creating a backup mailing-list, if you are wanting to make sure you
> get info in the future
> send your e-mail to mikko_at_pwar.net
>
>
> Sonny wrote:
>
> *Mikko ,is this to say that it works even partly, I have not been able
> to get past the screen alignment settings page on my x50v. I am using the
> same image you list or has this image been edited within the last year (the
> date of the image being 2007-06-27) is the name should be appended.*
>
>
> --- On *Wed, 5/14/08, Mikko Silvennoinen <mikko_at_pwar.net> <mikko_at_pwar.net>
> * wrote:
>
> From: Mikko Silvennoinen <mikko_at_pwar.net> <mikko_at_pwar.net>
> Subject: Re: [Aximx50-port] Still alive?
> To: "The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50"
> <aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org> <aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org>
> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 5:23 AM
>
> 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/ <http://www.sci.fi/%7Etopweb/>
>
> 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> <mikko_at_pwar.net>
> Reply-To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50<aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org> <aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org>
> To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50<aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org> <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 fromhttp://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~zabel/magician/README <http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Ezabel/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> <mikko_at_pwar.net>
> Reply-To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50<aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org> <aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org>
> To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50<aximx50-port_at_handhelds.org> <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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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