Re: is intimate dead?

trixter wrote:

>>The problem for those without cf/sd/etc cards was always finding
>>sufficient space to cram debian into. The base image was over 65MB, and
>>a workable system soon grew to 300MB. Once you start trying to cut away
>>extra bits to gain space, you get to something like familiar.
>>
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>yeah I was trying to do everything I could and keep it as close to
>debian as possible ...
>
>If that gets you closer to familiar, why dont they just do that? get
>the .debs and deb->ipk the tools are already written :P I am just lazy
>so that is how I think, rather than trying to maintain my own
>packages... hehe
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That's pretty much what happened. Familiar got good... it seemed
pointless trying to maintain intimate versions of the same packages

>I will look at those but small problem.. 3800s are SA where I have a
>5500 PXA.. the xserver-tiny-h3600 caused me a little concern as well.
>But I havent been able to get all the packages even, so it is going to
>take work to get intimate to install based on the beta_installer, but
>perhaps the other URLs that you provided would be more helpful.
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I tried my hardest to get given a free PXA based machine, but it never
happened... So I don't have a platform to test anything newer than h3600
on. If CRL have got the bootloader and kernel working on PXA then
there's no technical reasons why intimate shouldn't work.

>I have actually read stuff by you off ibot :)
>
>I dont have a CF wanted to keep my pccard slots clear for add ons,
>although that is starting to look like a moot point now becuase SD
>drivers are just too unstable.. I can pick up a nice 32x or faster CF
>1GB for like $35 so I may do that.. Hmm.. time to set that up now..
>maybe swing a larger one.. hehe
>
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There's problems with the CF drivers too... Last time I tried, the
PCMCIA support was refusing to wake cards that had been put into standby
(i.e. after sleep)... Not exactly helpful when you're root filesystem
is on a pcmcia/cf card. Back in 2001, the CF support actually worked
pretty well, and I could put my iPAQ into standby with the CF sleeve
(but not with PCMCIA sleeve)

PCMCIA support never worked properly for me, and after a few months CF
stopped being able to wake the cards too. After years of trying to get
them to handle sleep-mode every time I fely like hacking on intimate, I
eventually gave up trying to get my h3600 doing something useful and
left it to gather dust with a freshly installed copy of Familiar 0.70

Jim / Tangent
Received on Wed Dec 22 2004 - 04:50:21 EST