Re: [jornada] Familiar linux in jornada without flashboard

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

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>>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.
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>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!
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When I tried doing mknod it told me permission was denied, even as root!
I think i'm right in saying that your not meant to put entries in
/dev/pts as its a special file system, they are meant to appear
automatically.
Will try 2.4.30 to see what happens there.

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>>Have you managed to get Debian to work with X? Are there debs available
>>for kdrive/tinyX?
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>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.
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What dependencies does X have when compiling it?

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>>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.
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>gentoo is also a good option...
>if they had a binary distribution :-P
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There is gentoo embedded, it compiles for an embedded device on your
desktop. Not sure how well developed it is right now.
Received on Tue May 17 2005 - 07:45:35 EDT