Re: Fwd: Contributing to the project

Hi all !

Yes, adding a swap partition made it more stable I think.
But you have to copy haret and default.txt and the zImage file
(everything from the FAT-partition)
to Axim's own memory, because the SD-card is unreadable by Mobile
Windows after that, but
once you boot with haret everything works quite nicely.
Although there may still be the same problem after using it for some
time, but
I think now it stays up longer.
 
Mikko

Mikko Silvennoinen wrote:
>
> 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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Received on Thu Jun 05 2008 - 07:35:01 EDT