Re: Fwd: Contributing to the project

For making it more stable, it migth be
possible to try to use an additional linux swap-partition.
Does anyone happen to have a big SD-card ?
I know there are already 8 GB on the self of some stores.

Mikko

Mikko Silvennoinen wrote:
>
> Hi all !
>
> I did some more testing on the Ångström image there already is for
> x51v with the
> newest kernel .
> There are some tricks you can use to make it easier to use it for
> testing purposes.
> Before booting with haret put on the mirror mode and wlan on.
> After succesful boot and login:
> Set the login mode so, that it don't ask the password, (or set an
> empty password).
> Go to settings at first and calibrate the screen very carefully.
> After that it usually works for some time quite good.
> Go to settings and change the Keyboard type to the touch pad type,
> which makes it much larger,
> and easier to use.
> When the touch screen starts to behave nasty recalibrate the screen at
> once or if that don't help
> reboot.
> I think the behaviour might also be partly a memory problem.
> It migth help if you could free some memory, but now that is difficult
> without booting.
> You would have to install a graphical program or a launhcer for a
> script for doing that, because it is difficult to give
> any commands on the console after the misbehaviour gets serious.
> Do any necessary editing of conf files on PC and copy them to SD card
> to /etc on the ext2, before booting Axim.
> I will edit the ipkg.conf and copy it and copy package-files to /opt
> and try to install more packages
> from there. Let's see if it works. This eliminates the need of network
> functions working, so you don't
> need to setup the network connection every time.
> First have to recharge battery so, I will do that later.
>
> Mikko
>
>
>
> Louie Ilievski wrote:
>> Here is the pertinent part of my startup.txt file:
>>
>> # This is startup file for HaRET, Linux bootloader for WinCE
>> # http://handhelds.org/wiki/HaRET
>>
>> set kernel "zImage-2.6.21-hh20-r20-aximx50v.bin"
>>
>> # Boot choices. Uncomment 'set' statements in exactly one section
>>
>> ## Choice 1 - Boot from SD/MMC card
>> # Have 2 partition on a card:
>> # 1st - FAT with HaRET executable, this file and zImage above
>> # 2nd - EXT2 with rootfs tarball extracted
>> set cmdline "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=10 console=ttyS0,115200n8
>> console=tty0"
>>
>> This file came automatically with the build, and it seems to be
>> correct. I only had to remove the ".bin" at the end of the kernel
>> name since the actual kernel file itself didn't have that extension.
>> I also tried the file that is available on the handhelds.org wiki,
>> although it seems to be pretty old.
>>
>> Although I will try again, I thought I tried various combos of
>> wifi/bluetooth on and off, and mirror mode on/off with no success.
>> There is one strange issue involving this all, however. Whenever I go
>> to the mirror mode setting screen, I do not see anything except the
>> check box to enable it, and a few random artifacts scattered on the
>> screen. I don't know how this happened, or if it is possibly some
>> kind of font issue or something. I just assume by checking the box
>> mirror mode is enabled.\
>>
>> As far as building the image, check out the openembedded project at
>> www.openembedded.org. It's pretty easy to set up and everything, and
>> the axim support is already in there to be able to just tell it that's
>> what you want to build for and kick off the build.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ~Lou
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Stavros Fox Polymenis
>> <s.p_at_orbitalfox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thats great!
>>>
>>> I have been looking into cross compiling the kernel for a while now,
>>> and
>>> only recently did i find how i could possibly do it. I tried many
>>> things
>>> including building a toolchain for ARM etc but always something went
>>> wrong.
>>>
>>> So i am really interested if you have any tips on how to do set up the
>>> toolchain.
>>>
>>> As for the error, there is something wrong with your boot
>>> parameters, as
>>> in your haret starts ok, but there is probably something wrong with the
>>> "kernel=.. root=.." command.
>>>
>>> Can you paste it here, along with your kernel name etc?
>>>
>>> Thanks alot,
>>> Stavros
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 17:07 -0700, Louie Ilievski wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> In the last month I've started to familiarize myself with the project
>>>> and have set up a development environment to help contribute to it. I
>>>> own a x51v and want to put it to good use. I hope I can help do
>>>> something useful for everyone. I have successfully built Angstrom
>>>> images for my axim using the openembedded environment.
>>>>
>>>> So far I have been unable to boot anything I have built, however. I
>>>> am using Haret 0.5.1 so maybe I need to try dropping down to 0.4.8
>>>> which I see people linking to. It just gets stuck at "Jumping to
>>>> kernel." If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> I am Linux savvy and am a software developer by day, developing in
>>>> Linux, for Linux, so I hopefully have a good foundation to help out.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> ~Lou
>>>>
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