Comments on new installer

Hi,

I had already given the new installer a try about a year ago,
but at that time 38xx support was not properly working. Now I
came back to the project and tried again .. with improved results.

Some remarks on what is tricky/might be improved/causes problems:

- trying to install with an inserted MMC memory card causes problems
  because it screws up the partitions the intimate-installer expects

- setting up usb networking requires quite some fiddling. A standard
  shell script or so that could easily be started/controlled via the
  shell that pops up during install would be very nice

- after the first run (eg intimate-installer, doing everything,
  rebooting)
  there was no error, and the machine reboots nicely into X, but without
  any window manager. Matchbox is installed but does not startup.

  Although matchbox is installed I can also not make it start manually.
  Sadly .. I switched back to blackbox.

- I needed to install the following (IMHO more or less
  essential) packages
  by hand, maybe that should be included in the standard install process ?
  xbase-clients-ipaq, xstroke

- Where to get the xkeyboard from ? I have
  installed xkbd package, but trying
  to start it, it segfaults.

- there is a problem with mmenu:
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mmenu:
  mmenu depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13); however:
  Version of libc6 on system is 2.2.5-11.5.

- a general question about x, how can one
  kill an application that takes
  all the screen (eg help->xman and man page) ?? I did only manage via the
  serial console, which can be a bit inconvenient at times.

- how can one make a keyboard
  (stowaway or flexis) work with intimate ?
  I get an error message when I do the "cat /dev/microkbd/foldable &" step:

  cat: /dev/microkbd/foldable: Device or resource busy

  Note that the keyboard is working fine with familiar+opie and I do not have
  this error message following exactly the same procedure ! Also, with familiar
  to get the keyboard to work proberly, I need to suspend/resume before
  plugging it in. Suspend/resume does not work under intimate :( (see below)

- how to shutdown /
  turn the power off / suspend properly ?
  suspend/resume (-> power button) does not work
  poweroff does leave a white screen

FYI: I have a 3850 ipaq model with a 5 GB Toshiba PCMCIA drive.

Thanks in advance for any tips and suggestions on fixing the above problems,

Best wishes,

  Marc Baaden
Received on Fri Dec 05 17:17:35 2003