Re: [jornada] Jornada 720: Debian Sarge/X/Rebooting.

On 24/01/06, Travis Poppe <tlp_at_liquidx.org> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I've recently installed Debian Sarge on my Jornada 720 and am so far
> quite impressed/happy with it. In fact, I'm composing this message from
> it now! :-)
>
> However, I do have a few questions/problems. When I switch to console
> and then attempt to switch back to X, I get a blank screen and cannot
> do anything (including switching back to console). I can remedy the
> problem by logging into the Jornada via ssh and initiating X from
> there, which gives me control of the system again.
>
> This works fine so long as I have ssh access to the machine, but if I
> don't, the only solution is to reboot. And that doesn't work, unless
> you remove all sources of power to the system, boot into WinCE, and
> re-run linexec.

Your machine is obviously still responding. Try pressing ctrl alt backspace,
this should kill off X. Although this may or may not cause the display to be
reinitialised. Still worth trying.

Is there a method of rebooting the Jornada -without- doing a "hard"
> reboot? The stylus reset button leaves the system in an unusable state.
> I see a very dark HP logo and then nothing happens.

Which kernel are you using? I seem to remember (but may be wrong on this)
that newer versions of the kernel could reboot the jornada properly?

Thanks,
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Received on Tue Jan 24 2006 - 12:50:26 EST