RE: [iPAQ] more iPAQ questions

Hello Joshua;

>
> How does the PC Card expansion pack work with Linux? Can I
> use the same
> cards that are supported by Linux presently with the iPAQ? like SCSI,
> Ethernet, mass storage?

I have used the Socket CF Ethernet driver and the CF IBM Micro drive in my
iPAQ without any problems.

>
> How is the power management?
>

We have not done any power management work except for the screen saver.
After we are certain that all the low level drivers work, then we will work
on the power management issues, unless somebody else does it first. :-)

> Does the light sensor that controls the iPAQ's contrast work
> or do you need
> to develop special software?

The light sensor does work but we have not done anything with it in Linux.
If you would like to write an interface for the light sensor the specs are
at http://www.handhelds.org/Compaq/iPAQH3600/iPAQ_H3600.html

>
> Can you use different windows managers than those in the
> pics, like KDE?

In theory yes, but I do not believe that anybody has tried.

>
> Can you presently have a boot loader in main memory and the
> filesystem on a
> 64 MB CF disk and run Linux with a boot option and keep winCE
> on the main
> memory? how would you accomplish something like that?

I would look at the www.linuxce.org site. They have done similar things with
other PDA's.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

--George

George France, france@crl.dec.com
Cambridge Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corporation
One Cambridgecenter MS: CRL
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA

 
Received on Wed Aug 16 15:01:10 2000