Re: Still alive?

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Mikko ,is this to say that it works even partly, I have not been able to get past the screen alignment settings page on my x50v. I am using the same image you list or has this image been edited within the last year (the date of the image being 2007-06-27) is the name should be appended. --- On Wed, 5/14/08, Mikko Silvennoinen pwar.net"><mikkopwar.net&gt; wrote: From: Mikko Silvennoinen pwar.net"><mikkopwar.net&gt; Subject: Re: [Aximx50-port] Still alive? To: "The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50" handhelds.org"><aximx50-porthandhelds.org> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 5:23 AM There is something wrong with the web-site. Some of the stuff can be found elsewhere in the web, but it migth be hard to get everything. I haven't tried really hard to find out what's the situation of the web-site, but I think it migth be down because of lack of money or interest. I think it would be great if you could put up a new one and a backup mailing-list if this one stops working. I think irc-channel is not so good, because often there is information lost and not everybody is getting it. I can put up an FTP-server and put all the stuff there. When I get it up, you should get it all and save it on a cd. To re-create the mailing list/ backup everybody who wants to make sure to stay with in the future should send their e-mail-address directly to me: pwar.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">mikkopwar.net or Stavros , who must let us know to what address ? Or who wants can put their e-mail addresses on this list to make sure all others get it. I can make a link for further info to my web-page http://www.bittiainen.com or at some point http://www.pwar.net or if those break for some reason to http://www.sci.fi/~topweb/ Mikko Silvennoinen Stavros Fox Polymenis wrote: OK i just tried to get the kernel and the rest but non of the links work :( Any ideas? Stavros Polymenis -----Original Message----- From: Mikko Silvennoinen pwar.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><mikkopwar.net&gt; Reply-To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50 handhelds.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><aximx50-porthandhelds.org> To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50 handhelds.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><aximx50-porthandhelds.org> Subject: Re: [Aximx50-port] Still alive? Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 23:48:50 +0300 Easiest making the SD-card: I used gparted on a linux desktop for partitioning the SD-card and formatting it, qparted works well too, found from System Tools menu. You can use your linux desktop's archiving tool-programs found usually from Accessories menu for unarchiving the Ångström image to the formatted ext2 partition on the SD-card. Or better first to hard drive, and then copy to SD. Try Krusader with root mode found e.g. on Kanotix live linux cd for tools. Or more widely on almost every linux desktop: Konqueror-web-browser, with this trick: Start it and from menu: Settings > Load View Profile > Midnigth Commander. You can make changes to settings and save the view-profile with an other name. e.g. FileCommander, then make a new launcer for it to panel and put to the "command": fmclient openProfile FileCommander These are more thorough instructions on what needs to be accomplished: (I don't know if all the web-links are up to date, but most was originally found from http://www.altavista.com ) Note: This Readme is a modified Version from http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~zabel/magician/README 0) Select correct Image First you have do know which device you have. Select the aximx50 (non vga) image for the following devices: * Dell Axim x50 * Dell Axim x51 or select the aximx50v (with vga display) image for the following devices: * Dell Axim x50v * Dell Axim x51v 1) Download To boot the experimental GPE image from SD card on a aximx50, you'll need the following files: * the experimental GPE image itself: [aximx50 series] http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50/Angstrom-x11-image-test-20070316-aximx50.rootfs.tar.bz2 [aximx50v series] http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50v/Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-test-20070627-aximx50v.rootfs.tar.bz2 * the linux kernel: [aximx50 series] http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50/zImage-2.6.20-hh2 +cvs20070316-aximx50-20070316105623 [aximx50v series] http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50v/zImage-2.6.21-hh9-aximx50v-20070625071129 * HaRET: http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/haret-0.4.8.exe * A default.txt that tells HaRET how to boot the kernel: http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/default.txt 2) Prepare The SD card needs to be partitioned into two partitions: one small FAT partition that WinCE can see, and one EXT2 partition used as root file system. I'll assume that the block device of the SD card is called /dev/sda. Replace this with the correct device on your system. Instruction could be slightly different for each version of fdisk : * Delete all partitions on the SD card: fdisk /dev/sda d 1 d 2 d 3 * Create partitions, for example a 10MB /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 using the rest: fdisk /dev/sda n p 1 <default> (should be cylinder 1) +10M n p 2 <default> <default> (should be last cylinder of the card) t 1 4 w * Create file systems, a VFAT on /dev/sda1 and EXT2 on /dev/sda2: mkdosfs /dev/sda1 mke2fs /dev/sda2 * Copy HaRET, the kernel and default.txt onto sda1: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt [aximx50] cp zImage-2.6.20-hh2 +cvs20070316-aximx50-20070316105623 /mnt/zImage [aximx50v] cp zImage-2.6.21-hh9-aximx50v-20070625071129 /mnt/zImage cp haret-0.4.8.exe /mnt/haret.exe cp default.txt /mnt/default.txt umount /dev/sda1 * Unpack the GPE image onto sda2: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt if mounted in Fedora with mouse from Computer /..to: /media/disk [aximx50] bzcat Angstrom-x11-image-test-20070316-aximx50.rootfs.tar.bz2 | (cd /media/disk; tar x) [aximx50v] bzcat Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-test-20070627-aximx50v.rootfs.tar.bz2 | (cd /media/disk; tar x) umount /media/disk 3) Boot Put the SD card into the axim, start haret.exe and tap the "Run" button... On X50v/X51v, enable Mirror Mode(Start -> Settings -> System>Mirror). Note: If linux don't boot try turning WIFI and BLUETOOTH ON or only one of them. 4) Communicate Mailing List: handhelds.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">aximx50-porthandhelds.org (https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/aximx50-port) Wiki: http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/DellAximX50 You most likely need to edit the default.txt a little to have the settings you want rigth from the boot and not having to set so much by hand every time. They are for haret, and goes to the SD-cards FAT partition (FAT or FAT32 VFAT all works) . I changed the ip-numbers, the first is for Axim, the second of the internet connection eth-card of the machine it is connected with usb and third the gateway and fifth the net mask. Mikko Silvennoinen The installing was quite succesful, and easy, if you can find the instructions and can follow them. The more trickier part is to first back up everything. Also and especially the bios of Axim. And test if you can restore everything, if something goes wrong. It is not anyhow absolutely necessary with Axim X51v to back up bios. With some other models it is. It is safest to anyhow make sure you have a rigth new bios from Dell company web-site, and ability to load it, if something goes wrong. There is also some useful programs that is helpful to install on Axim, before doing anything dangerous to bios. I have a laptop with Fedora 6 linux, which I used to do most of this, and you probably need a Windows machine to use for backup and installing programs for Axim, before proceeding and to prepare and to be able to load Dell factory bios back if something goes wrong, but I recommend first everybody try to use the system you are most familiar with. If you only have Windows, and need some linux-system fast try: http://www.kanotix.org/changelang-eng.html it is a bootable live-linux cd, that is the best available now. It's up and running in minutes. I think, I will change more to Debian in the future, which I have on some machines. Instructions: http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/x50vHowTo Once booted the Ångström-image from SD-card, everything else works reasonably well, but the trouble is, that when trying to type text with the small virtual keyboard on the touch screen, it is often difficult, because, there is something wrong with the calibration system or some settings of the touch screen. I don't yet exactly know what it is, but, somebody said earlier, that, it could be something in the kernel. There migth be something in some settings file, that could be an other reason, but I don't know. If there is something wrong in the kernel, it must be fixed first. If it is of some settings file fixing it by editing is possible, but you would have to know where to look for. Then also installing an other windowing system could work. Like I think, the Google android is one possible. Someone said earlier he wants to try that. There are several others that are possible. I think it depends on, what you want to use your Axim for, that you can make a sensible choice. At first the most sensible is, what works at all. Later you could have even several different SD-cards for different systems. We would have to make a better version of the Ångström-image with the problem fixed. Has anyone a bluetooth keyboard that would work with Axim and linux, that migth be a temporary work around, so you can use the current image better, to study it and try to fix it on-line ? Mikko Stavros Fox Polymenis wrote: Hi Mikko, Thanks for your quick reply. How successful were you installing linux on your x51v ? what did you need to install it and what problems do u have? Regards, Stavros -----Original Message----- From: Mikko Silvennoinen pwar.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><mikkopwar.net&gt; Reply-To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50 handhelds.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><aximx50-porthandhelds.org> To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50 handhelds.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><aximx50-porthandhelds.org> Subject: Re: [Aximx50-port] Still alive? Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:25:44 +0300 Stavros Fox Polymenis wrote: Greetings all, Is this effort still alive? Regards Some are still trying something. Although I noticed, that the certificate of the secure-pages on web-site is outdated. If your browser is configured rigth, it should complain about this. Who is responsible of maintaining the list web-page ? Has anybody the .config -file of the kernel source-code for Axim (ARM-processor kernel), I have Axim X51v. I am planning to maybe reconfigure it, in hope of correcting the problem of the touch-screen-keyboard and touch screen calibration, (by using command: make xconfig) and changing what want/need, and recompiling from newest source-code. Mikko Silvennoinen -- _______________________________________________ Aximx50-port mailing list handhelds.org">Aximx50-porthandhelds.org https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/aximx50-port

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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23:28 +0300
From: mikkopwar.net
To: aximx50-porthandhelds.org
Subject: Re: [Aximx50-port] Still alive?

Hi Joe !

By all means do the image with your kernel, but test it first and let know how well it works.
Remember to name it so that it is clear, that it is for X50 and on what kernel version, and that it is patched test version.
If you also could make a patch-file for the kernel about the patches you possibly made, and a text file explaining for what they are.
(making a patch file: in linux console type diff --help and you see what you can do (compare all files in the
changed source and the original source so, that the output is the differences in a ed script format that will change the original as patched version, I think and name it as whatname.patch. The output format can be attchieved with --ed option, -r option makes it recursively
go thrue all subdirectories. To test the patch file copy the patch-file to the original source directory and in
linux console type: patch -p1 --dry-run < /path/to/kernelsource/whatname.patch
e.g. ; patch -pl --dry-run < /home/joe/hanheldskernel/touchscreenfix1.patch
If there is not reported problems with the dry run it is possible that the patch works.
After actually using it without the --dry-run option if diff says the resulting source is exactly like the one you are trying to create,
it's ok. Does anyone know to recommend any fancier diff options ? or have the whole suitable command line figured out ?

Mikko Silvennoinen

Joe Belford wrote:

mail.gmail.com">Thanks Mikko, I'm working on the 20070316 image for the X50 but, I've compiled my own kernel using the latest from handhelds.org CVS.  Currently 2.6.21-hh20.  I can put together an image for the x50 based on the 200706 image and this compiled kernel.  But before I do that I'd like to make sure it's cool with everyone, I don't want to start dumping a bunch of hacked images out there and making everyone lose faith in the project.

-Joe

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:41 PM, GonzaloF < gfalinuxgmail.com">gfalinuxgmail.com> wrote:

2008/5/14 Dominic Laberge < doumlabergehotmail.com">doumlabergehotmail.com>:

> for those who need updated link check out the project wiki (linux x50v on
> google)
> i downloaded the image for x50v today and x50 image is also available
>; the direct link is : http://projects.linuxtogo.org/~law/aximx50/
> peace

In http://projects.linuxtogo.org/~law/aximx50/images/200706/aximx50/:

Index of /~law/aximx50/images/200706/aximx50
[ICO]   Name    Last modified   Size    Description
[DIR]   Parent Directory                -
Apache/2.2 Server at projects.linuxtogo.org Port 80

There is no image available for x50!!!  is this updated?

Thanks...

GonzaloF

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