Re: [jornada] { and APM

Putting Linux on the Jornada 720 required replacing some hardware. I
sent mine to someone to have it done. I can not advise much more than
that because I am just a lowly application developer with little
knowledge about such hardware issues.

Others on this list can advise further.

Good luck!

Peter

Pramod Kumar Sharma wrote:

> Hi Peter!!
>
> this is a great news!!
>
> Can you please write a small document that explains to dummies (like me) abt
> linux installation on jornada. a sort of installation guide.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> cheers!!
> Pramod.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Harvey" <pharvey_at_codebydesign.com>
> To: "jornada" <jornada_at_handhelds.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:15 PM
> Subject: [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. :))
>>
>>
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