Guylhem Rom : First Release, tosa rom Options

[guylhem]

Hello

The first release of the guylhem rom has been uploaded to externe.net/zaurus/guylhem-rom

Installation is as simple as promised, but it's a hackers only preliminary, as it's full textmode, you need to put qtopia on a SD, and the Fn/A keys have been inverted for qtopia. Yet I though it was overdue, and that's still a good working base.

You will get:
- my latest fast kernel with squashfs
- root in r/w mode with a cleaned filesystem
- a single root partition - 58 Mb
- only 12 Mb used, so you can install pdaxrom or whatever you want (say sharp qtopia-1.5 :-)
- the new keyboard scheme to make internal and external keyboard work together.

Get the nandbackup and qtopia-1.5.tgz, then follow the instructions in README. Don't untar qtopia-1.5 in the flash - put it on a SD, since it's quite big : there's every application I have on my zaurus.

Attention : until the keyboard is fixed, I had to invert key "A" and "fn" in Qtopia 1.5 because someone hardcoded fn keycode value into qtopia binary libs :-( I'm working on a fix but it's not ready yet. Don't complain - there's nothing I can do yet.

The next release will be identical to that one except it will have the keyboard stuff fixed (hopefully !) and it will ship with a minimal qtopia 1.5 in flash.

I'm interested in any feedback - I will create a dedicated page and forum on externe.net which was attacked last week :-(

If you are satisfied or want to help, donation to paypal@externe.net or technical help is welcome. I'd be especially interested if someone could purchase a 128 Mb flash chip (the various company I've contacted won't export to France and won't sell a single chip either) to try some hardware upgrade on the 6000

PS: could someone who still has qtopia-2.1 flashed it make a tarball of it? I'm having problems with the initrd.bin from qtopia.net and I don't feel like reflashing again and again- I'd rather use that time to work on new cool stuff.

---------------- README -------------------


1. Installation instructions for Guylhem ROM for the Sharp Tosa SL-6000:
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1. Put syst0006.dbk on a compact flash
2. Open a console, type "sync ; reboot"
3. When you see sharp logo at reboot, simultaneously press on D and M
button, then without releasing D and M, press reset on the back of your
Zaurus, then without releasing D and M, press power button
4. You will be rebooting into "Diagnostic Mode". Press on right button
until you see "Nand Restore" then press ok ok
5. Go and take a coffee.
6. When it's done it will say "Restore... OK" and the bottom bar will
be green - you can now reset.
7. You will reboot in command line mode. Type "root" to log it.
Shift + Power will scroll up, Shift + Rec will scroll down.
A long press on Record will open a new login shell if needed.
8. You need a Qtopia in /mnt/card/ (that's because this version lets you
choose between Qtopia 1.5 and 2.1) : simply pick up which one you want
and uncompress it in your SD card formatted in ext2. If you want to put it in
your CF instead, change the symlinks from /opt and /home to
/mnt/cf/QtPalmtop

This is the first and experimental release, therefore no Qtopia was
selected for you.

2. If you want to do that again at home
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Read tweaking-parts.txt, create-jffs2-initrd.sh ; create your own
zImage1 and initrd1, put them on a Compact Flash and use updater.sh

In the next version, the application keys will be used to change between
virtual consoles, along with other small modifications.

4. Roadmap
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Version 1.0 : stable with Kernel 2.4.18-guylhem, Externe distribution (based on Embedix hard float), Qtopia 1.5 Sharp included in the flash

Version 1.2 : Kernel 2.4.18-guylhem, Externe distribution (based on Embedix soft float or OpenEmbedded), Qtopia 1.5 Sharp included in the flash

Version 1.4 : Kernel 2.4.18-guylhem, Externe distribution (based on OpenEmbedded soft float), Qtopia 2.1 TrollTech

Version 2.0 : Kernel 2.6.xx, Externe distribution (based on OpenEmbedded soft float), Qtopia 2.1 TrollTech

5. Helping
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Donations to paypal@externe.net are welcome if you like that ROM. If you
prefer donating Zaurus hardware, that's fine too. I'd be especially happy
if I could get a spare SL-6000 battery...

Technical help is welcome, especially to integrate Qtopia 2.1 to OpenEmbedded

If someone could find me a Toshiba 128Mb Nand chip TH58100FT or a Samsung
128Mb Nand chip K9K1G08U0M to replace the 64 Mb of flash by 128 Mb, I'm
also **very** interested.

[kmeaw]

fbvnc requires some libs, that are missing in rom -- but they can be found in Qtopia libs.
What about video4linux support? It would be very nice to have -- i have GeniusV4 web camera (supported by spca50x module) and spcaview that outputs video stream to screen (SDL) and/or file
I found, that apm binary is missing (but one from SharpROM works).
Would it be a QT- or X11-based ROM?

[adf]

From the roadmap it looks like guylhem is tending toward an qt based rom. This makes sense, as the rom he is designeing will alllow drop replacemnacement guis for people who want to do that--giving access to x11 based stuff, and because there really needs to be a good qt2 6000 rom.

If you read through the fast kernel thread you will find means to access my ftp site. I suspect that the modules there might have v4l. I can't swear to it, because i prefer to hard compile v4l support, but you might check--- i mad a pretty complete set of modules....and if v4l is missing it was an oversight.