Post-install Steps For Debian Eabi With Installer, What to do after installing debian the cortez way! Options

[tux]

What needs doing after a successful installation of cortez-debian. I'm talking about the version of debian and the installer provided by cortez in this thread Debian Eabi With Installer.

Please re-read the first post in that thread because it has been updated. Follow the steps carefully to ensure fewer problems during and post-install.

It is worth remembering that the kernel and modules used in this method, 2.6.23 at the moment, have been produced by cortez using the build system and source tree used by the Poky linux developers. I believe this is based on bitbake and the angstrom work. I think it is worth considering that there may be incompatabilities between this system and the angstrom kernel, modules and packages.

I have successfully installed this system. However I did make an error in allowing the partitioner to format the new / partition. This meant that I had to copy the modules for the kernel across to the microdrive by using the method shown on the TitchyLinux site. I mean I had to mount the SD card and use this command: dpkg-deb -x (pathtofileon SDcard)zaurus_specific.deb . while being in the / directory of the microdrive.


Does it matter if I use keymap.map as in ZDevil's Monster thread or the spitz.gz file from the TitchyLinux files in order to set up the keyboard? Would it be automatically set upif I hadn't let the partitioner format /?

What about the gui/X system? Where do I start looking? cortez says get kdrive from PokyLinux and install it. Then install the window maager of your choice.

One definite plus for this install, the hardware clock is sorted out without needing any clever tricks.

The wifi only had the post-install problem of blacklisting the hostap modules. I have to do this post-install with all methods and varieties of debian, because all my wifi cards work with orinoco and fail with hostap loaded.

The dhcp in the installer works well!

It is much easier to work from the console if you install the openssh-server and login from a terminal on your desktop or use putty. It is vital to work this way when trying to get X to work. It is possible to have a Zaurus which loads X, but a non-working variety, and the only way to mend things is from a remote console.

Hope this thread is of use, especially to me , to people who are testing this convenient way of installing an EABI + EABI debian system on their Z.

This post has been edited by tux: Nov 4 2007, 12:47 AM

[dlj0]

Looking for ts_open

I am trying to work with cortez to get a new installation package. The first version, based on Zdevil's but working with his kernel, has a few (well, quite a few) broken packages. One of them seems to be the ts stuff. ts_calibrate won't start, and (I'm guessing because of that) xdm won't start. I can run X, at least as root, but only with the mouse. I want to use the touchscreen, and I want to get xdm running.

So, where the fsck is ts_open, and what is it? I installed tslib-calibrate_1.0-r17_armel.deb tslib-conf_1.0-r17_armel.deb libts-1.0-0_1.0-r17_armel.deb and most of the packages in cortez's collection. What am I/is he missing? I couldn't find it on my titchy installation, currently backed up onto my desktop.

[jpmatrix]

Looking for ts_open

I am trying to work with cortez to get a new installation package. The first version, based on Zdevil's but working with his kernel, has a few (well, quite a few) broken packages. One of them seems to be the ts stuff. ts_calibrate won't start, and (I'm guessing because of that) xdm won't start. I can run X, at least as root, but only with the mouse. I want to use the touchscreen, and I want to get xdm running.

So, where the fsck is ts_open, and what is it? I installed tslib-calibrate_1.0-r17_armel.deb tslib-conf_1.0-r17_armel.deb libts-1.0-0_1.0-r17_armel.deb and most of the packages in cortez's collection. What am I/is he missing? I couldn't find it on my titchy installation, currently backed up onto my desktop.

it is not that ts_open is missing but ts_calibrate wants to open a device that does not exist.
ensure that your TSLIB_DEVICE is set

then to log as $USER, try this fluck's tip listed here : http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showto...mp;#entry170700


apt-get install xdm
cd /usr/bin
mv X X.OLD
ln -s Xfbdev X
chmod 2755 Xfbdev

then, you can launch xdm, and log into X as $USER : /etc/init.d/xdm start


that worked for flux and me!

look here too:
http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showto...st&p=170918

i had to set TSLIB to /dev/input/touchscreen0 for stylus to work under X


perhaps we should put all these post-install tips in the wiki, i'll try to do this this weekend

[dlj0]

it is not that ts_open is missing but ts_calibrate wants to open a device that does not exist.
ensure that your TSLIB_DEVICE is set

then to log as $USER, try this fluck's tip listed here : http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showto...mp;#entry170700


apt-get install xdm
cd /usr/bin
mv X X.OLD
ln -s Xfbdev X
chmod 2755 Xfbdev

then, you can launch xdm, and log into X as $USER : /etc/init.d/xdm start


that worked for flux and me!

look here too:
http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showto...st&p=170918

i had to set TSLIB to /dev/input/touchscreen0 for stylus to work under X


perhaps we should put all these post-install tips in the wiki, i'll try to do this this weekend

OK:

With Cortez' kernel, there is no such thing as either /dev/input/touchscreen0 or the one in the .profile assignment, /dev/input/ts0

Changing the X to be a link to Xfbdev worked, sort of, in that xdm ran, but the screen is rotated. Still no useful stylus action, though. I put in my old ts.conf from titchy in hopes that it would have useful information, but it still does not work.

So, can I make these devices? Since udev such a question becomes more important, since the devices are harder to deal with than in the old days.