Re: [jornada] Familiar linux in jornada without flashboard

rafael2k wrote:

>I'm using opie in my jornada and i'm very happy :-)
>I started the familiar linux part[1] of the howto on how to install the latest
>familiar release on a jornada without flashbord. (only tested with opie)
>Colin, I know you got familiar working too, can you see the howto to check its
>correctness?
>
>
Looks ok to me. One thing i'm not so sure on is the idea of using
compact flash for swap, i've read that compact flash cards can only be
rewritten about 100,000 times and that swap partitions are a great way
to hit this level. Of course this isn't the case for microdrives or
PCMCIA hard drives, it should also be possible to swap via a network
(100 megabit ethernet should offer similar performance to a slow compact
flash card).

OPIE actually started fine for me without any swap on a Jornada 720 (32
meg), although I did get quite a few crashes when running programs
especially the package manager and konqueror. It just seemed to freeze
when this occured, no error messages, a remote login revealed that the
OPIE processes had actually died but for some reason the screen didn't
change. Restarting it remotely brought it back saving me a reboot. I
tried using the memory monitor in OPIE and the system didn't seem to be
low on memory, so i'm not totally sure on the cause of this.

I've also had GPE working (and found it a lot more stable) following
those instructions, although I have had some problems when logging in as
a non-root user (logging in as root works fine).I found that when I
logged in I just got a black screen, this was solved by logging in from
my PC over ssh and killing the dbus processes. I later found this was
due to me not having write access to /dev/null and this was stopping
some of the scripts which X runs from working. I am still having
problems that I cannot get a terminal to open in GPE unless i'm running
as root, it tells me that "urxvt: can't initialize pseudo-tty,
aborting.", this looks like a problem with /dev/pts although i'm not
sure what.

Have you managed to get Debian to work with X? Are there debs available
for kdrive/tinyX? I'm tempted to try it as there are quite a few
applications i'd like to run which aren't available for familiar and its
less hassle to recompile them.
Received on Thu May 12 2005 - 14:31:58 EDT