[jornada] { and APM

Having Linux on the Jornada 720 is pretty cool and it works better than
expected. Linux on a PDA makes even more sense when combined with the
Jornada 720 form-factor (for me anyway).

I have found that mouse support is pretty good (i.e. touch screen) just
as long as you do not try to recalibrate. I was also happy to see
support for my Socket LE ethernet card. I stuck it in and with a little
help from DHCP... I was on the net. I did nothing other than stick the
card in. Also my 256 meg CF card works great. I just formatted it for
ext2 (because the system was not built with FAT support) and mounted it
as an ide device.

The two issues I have with my Jornada 720 and Linux combo are;

1. APM support. It sucks to have to yank the batteries out when I finish
using it. Particularly since the only static content must be on
something like a CF.

2. Inability to use Yellow keys such as '{'. This stops me in my tracks
when it comes to doing a little C coding.

It is for these two reasons I have not bothered to go very far with
installing additional software such as the GNU development tools.

I would like to encourage the folks at HP to continue to explore Linux
on their PDA's and, in particular, the Jornada 720 form factor.

Having X on the Jornada is cool. An alternative would be Qt/Embedded.

'dual booting' would be great. I could have a CF card loaded with an OS
and boot it. Now that would be very useful. I understand that some work
is being done on this.

I will continue to monitor this mailing list in the hopes of seeing
either of my issues (1 & 2) corrected or any other improvements.

Thanks!

Peter

BTW: Please do not make any new models without burnable ROM. :))
Received on Mon Mar 18 2002 - 03:13:27 EST