Re: [jornada] Newbie with a screen question.

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Alex Titoff wrote:

> The same situation is with my Jornada.
> Did you try to boot kernel again? No luck?
> Three weeks ago i tried to folloe instructions
> on http://acid.ch.pw.edu.pl/~sq5bpf/mylinux/linux-jornada720/
> and i got the "orange line". After disconnecting all battaries and

the orange line is there because this kernel is compiled without
framebuffer support (and the graphics hardware is just stuck in some state
that windows ce left it)

> power I couldn't boot the kernel again, It was freezed on stage "console = 2".

i don't know what causes this - sometimes i can boot a kernel, sometimes i
can't - resetting the device helps sometimes (although i haven't tried
booting it recently). console=2 is from hpcboot. i found that putting the
kernel in \My Documents\ helps (it will boot from \My Documents\ , while
it won't boot from \ - it's interesting that larger kernels don't seem to
boot even from \My Documents\)

> Few days ago i boot the kernel
> from http://www.phed.org/~meddington/jornada720.html. I saw on my
> Jornada screen the penguin and a blinking cursor, but the Jornada was

that is because this kernel is compiled with framebuffer support. what is
strange is that the framebuffer works with this kernel, while it doesn't
work with mine (that's why my kernel doesn't have framebuffer support) -
there are no differences in the sources that Mike Eddington is using and
the sources that i'm using.

> dead (also there was some garbage characters on serial port). But
> after flushing i could manage to boot the previous kernel with "orange
> line".
> Hey, Gurus! Will you help us?

sorry, no guru here, but i will post something when i get to play with the
jornada some more.

> GE> Will prolonged use damage my screen?
> GE> Has anyone else had this problem?

i have. i don't know about the jornada, but i remember reading that using
a wrong refresh rate on certain laptops can damage the screen.

jacek
Received on Wed Apr 24 2002 - 08:21:58 EDT