Re: [iPAQ] Getting my Stowaway keyboard running.

Rich I do hope you'll add something useful to the wiki.
I don't yet have a keyboard, (mines a 3850, is yours)
I'd like one, but some instructions assume far too much for my abilities and
time available.

thanks

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Warren" <rwml@warrens.toythieves.com>
To: <ipaq@handhelds.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: [iPAQ] Getting my Stowaway keyboard running.

> Great, thanks. I can now get the keyboard to work.
>
> I've got two other questions/problems however.
>
> 1) I'm now getting console messages over top of my Opie display. I saw
> something about setting "console=/dev/null". But, again, I wasn't quite
sure
> where to add this. I added it to the set linuxargs line as follows:
>
> set linuxargs "noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc
console=/dev/null"
>
> This changed the output slightly, but it did not fix the problem. Is there
> any way to fix it?
>
> 2) Do I need to add a script to turn off the keyboard before connecting it
> back to my desktop? I tried creating a script as follows:
>
> rmmod h3600_stowaway
> telinit 2
>
> But this makes my display go crazy--particularly the keyboard display.
>
> Is there a way to get these scripts to play well with Opie/Qtopia? I'll
> probably try experimenting with stopping qpe before and restarting qpe
after.
> See if that at least clears the console messages from the display. But any
> advice would be greatly welcome.
>
> -Rich-
>
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 02:16 pm, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 02:14:56PM -0600, Rich Warren wrote:
> > > There is no /boot/params file. I actually looked for that.
> > >
> > > I created one, but I wasn't sure what I should add. I tried just
adding
> > > "noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc" and rebooted, but I'm
still
> > > getting the device is busy error.
> > >
> > > Should it be
> > > set linuxargs "noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc"?
> > > linuxargs="noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc"?
> > > or some other setting?
> > >
> > So close- it should be that top one, namely -
> >
> > set linuxargs "noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc"
> >
> > It's not really a 'params' file, it's a bootloader script file.
> >
> > > Sorry for being dense. It's late, and I'm going to bed now.
> >
> > For some reason. it's confusing. I'd suggest familiar include
> > /boot/params.sample with that string in it. Hmm, perhaps the
> > stowaway modules ipkg needs to check fo rthe existence of this
> > file, and create it as above if it does not exist?
> >
> > Ross
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Received on Sun Apr 21 03:34:34 2002