Re: [jornada] Familiar linux in jornada without flashboard

Hi Colin,

> 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).

yeap, swap via nfs is better, but using the jornada I realized that I needed a
swap. I added to the howto a warning for the problems with swap in CF.

> 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'm playing prboom right now :-)
I did not tested a lot, but konqueror embedded and opie worked well.

> 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.

I'll try GPE now. I got something like that sometime ago (with a 2.4.18-***),
did you tried to manually create the device files or just remount
the /dev/pts?
Maybe with the great 2.4.30-j720 from michael this things got fixed!

> Have you managed to get Debian to work with X? Are there debs available
> for kdrive/tinyX?

Yeap, but I just took the binaries from that familiar image from Peter...
But I think there is no problem to compile X, since I did this in netbsd and
it worked ok.

> 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.

gentoo is also a good option...
if they had a binary distribution :-P

bye,
rafael diniz

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