Re: Familiar 0.8.3 'official' snapshots

From: Alain2210 <alain2210_at_free.fr>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:57:34 +0100

Hello,

> unfortunately, I don't have a serial cable to watch the kernel messages
> during
> the boot process.

This is very usefull ;-(

> I would like to get the image, together with the rootfs
> running on my ipaq (using a cf card). Though, simply taking your image and
> trying it to boot with the opie-rootfs only causes a dark screen (same result
> for gpe-rootfs).

It don't know if it is possible to boot with a rootfs on a cf card without
initrd.

>
> Alain, could you recompile your kernel, such that it supports the framebuffer
> device? So I could watch the kernel massages for debugging.

The framebuffer was supported but not the framebuffer console... So it is
supported now
(I have not tested the kernel) :
http://alain2210.free.fr/2005dec12/

By the way, this new kernel has the latest cvs patch of Matt that avoid the loss
of accuracy
of battery level.

Alain
Received on Mon Dec 12 2005 - 10:04:35 EST

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