[jornada] Re: jornada Digest, Vol 14, Issue 9

Hi everyone :)

This sounds good, can someone tell me or point me in the direction of a
doc that tells me how to use jacek's files, as i'm not entirely familiar
with the jffs2 image

Cheers

David

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David Reynolds
david_at_reynoldsfamily.org.uk
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get GPE (gpe.handhelds.org) to work on the jornada 720. It
> seems that the binaries from gpe work fine on the 720 with the kernel
> posted by Kye Connect. I've posted a jffs2 image, and a tar archive of the
> files in it on
> 
> http://acid.ch.pw.edu.pl/~sq5bpf/mylinux/j720/files/
> 
> It has the following bugs:
> - no xcalibrate
> - the power button doesn't work for shutting down (but apm -s does) - it
> does work for waking the jornada up
> - i didn't include the jornada xmodmap in it, so not all keys work
> (get it from
> http://acid.ch.pw.edu.pl/~sq5bpf/mylinux/linux-jornada720/jornada/xmodmap.j720
> if you want to experiment)
> - you may have to kill the application that prompts for settings at
> initial boot.
> 
> You can interact with it via the serial port at 115200,8n1. The root
> password is the familiar deafult: rootme.
> 
> This is a demo only, but i hope that it will be useful for someone.
> 
> Also as some of you may remember, there was a problem running newer
> familiar binaries that had elf entry points set to a low address. I think
> G Almasi solved this problem in his 820 patches - this was probably caused
> by the PID register being set incorrectly - this may be useful for the
> people trying to run newer handhelds.org distributions, when booting via
> hpcboot.
> 
> jacek
> 
> ps. i've solved my flash board problem. hope this helps someone with
> theirs:
> 
> the symptoms that i was having was: random jffs2 errors, sometimes the
> kernel didn't boot, writing too much to flash corrupted it, 1 out of 5
> load root commands was sucsessful.  the problems went away for a moment
> when the board was washed in methanol. it seems that the problems was
> broken soldering of the flash (visible only under a microscope). after
> resoldering it all is fine.
> 
> 
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