Pocketworkstation Basics, (for the newbie) Options

[grog]

Hi all. I'm really interested in trying out PocketWorkstation and/or PocketWorkstationXQT on my C860, but can I please get a few questions answered first?

For starters, I am in the right forum (X/QT = PocketWorkstationXQT)? And what's the diff between the above two? Do the above pages have the right info to get me started, or should I go through the main pinned topic first? It seems that if I want a 'true' X desktop I'll have to go the PocketWorkstationXQT way, correct?

And what's pdaxqtrom all about? That seems to be entirely pdaxrom based, right?

And it seems either needs a 'base' install of something else. Do I have to use the official sharp rom, or can I use cacko? Can I use OZ/OPIE? And after I get comfortable with debian, do I ever have to boot back into the other for any reason? Is there any way to install just PocketWorkstation to flash?

thanks in advance

[grog]

Well, I've answered one of my original questions. I can use my sd card with pocketworkstation installed under diffferent roms, I just have to rerun the postinst.sh script each time & reflash.

I've managed to get pocketworkstation working under Cacko 1.23 but not under OZ/OPIE 3.5.4.1.rc4. In OZ, at first I got a cannot open display error, which I just created a ~/.xinitrc & added 'export DISPLAY=:0.0' to fix, but then I got another error 'cannot open /dev/ts'. Anybody have any ideas on that one? I'd really like to use OZ instead (newer kernel for one thing).

Pocketworkstation seems to work well under cacko, although I haven't tried much yet. Is there any way I suspend/resume (this is just straight pocketworkstation, not running under xqt)? I figured out how to use cru to access the 'external' filesystems. I don't quite get the difference between cru & crd. Anyone care to enlighten me?

thks

[grog]

Is there any way I suspend/resume (this is just straight pocketworkstation, not running under xqt)?

Answering my own question by RTFM (HELP file). <fn>-Cancel suspends just nifty .