Re: Familiar 0.8.4 h6300 GPE Image problem

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:48:36PM +0100, fox wrote:
> Hey!
>
>
> >>Yes, you're right - this is not a spam mail, it's indeed some kind of
> >>bug report ;)
> >>
> >>
> >Looks like Spam(Incorrect Date), I'm gussing this message got held up.
> >
> >
> dammit, i tought there must be a problem when my mail is not coming back
> after sending it to the list..
> >That's further then I got.
> >
> >
> >>but that's not the solution, now it complains about wrong version magic
> >>in modules..
> >>
> >>
> >Sounds like the modules and kernel are from diffrent builds, wonder
> >how that happened? Is there a kernel image bundled inside the root
> >image?
> >
> >
> i have a solution already, but was too busy to post. i made a dumb dumb
> dumb mistake..
> the kernel and stuff were allright an all in the right location. the
> problem was, that i just FORGOT to copy zImage to the vfat partition on
> my SD. after that, the touchscreen magically appeared working ;-)
>
> >Perhaps using the kernel and modules from the working boot/root from
> >aragorn
> >combined with this root fs(userland) would create a bootable system.
> >However I can't suggest as to weather the latesed(???) features, sleep
> >mode.
> >
> take this one:
> http://www.blendo.de/index.php?id=18
>
> and this one:
> http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/releases/v0.8.4/install/bootstrap-v0.8.4-h6300.tar
>
> take the vfat part from the blendo source. by the way, thanks mister
> whoever you are-blendo.
>
I second that, I've used the blendo mirror once or twice.

I'm afraid my current hosting plan may not last much longer, so I've
been hesitant to use it for anything. Given that there may be no
other backup for blendo, there may be little to lose.

ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/mmestnik/h6300

I do grant permition to post or use the above MN/USA(sates) mirror.
Myself and/or the support staff at visi.com may be able to
update/remove these files should they become stale.

> then (if i remember correctly) just unpack the bootstrap directly to
> your SDcard's ext2 (maybe even ext3) partition.
>
Another thing missing from the aragorn/blendo kernel is ext3, not that
using it would sound like a good idea. I am needing to use something
like par2 to protect my filesystem, as the cards ware out I get all
kinds of errors. Perhaps I should use raid4 or a mirror with several
partitions.

> now, COPY sdcard/boot/the_actual_kernel_zImage to the vfat partition on
> the card. voila, it boots and the touchscreen works. bluetooth should,
> wifi doesn't work. had no time to play with suspend, it looks like the
> device won't do that now.
>
Wifi driver can bind, but I think were still missing some needed GPIO
magic.

For the aragorn images, now only from blendo, suspend needed only to
be configured(attached) to a button. The backlight is still needing
to be turned off, but I was able to turn something off using it(I
lost ssh access.)

Another TODO is to investigate what tools will be used to manage
suspend on idle. However I believe that discovering how to save more
power on manual suspend would be more productive.

>
> >I'm not sure it's worth tackling, but perhaps this might make a
> >deascent chroot. I've started using debian and schroot on my
> >handheld, although I needed sd/mmc card destroying swap. Perhps I may
> >slip this into my next try, perhaps publishing the rootfs online.
> >
> >
> >>can someone tell me the how why and huh? :)
> >>
> >>greetings from switzerland to the (hopefully still active) list!
> >>
> >
> >
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