Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

[Greg2]

Also users running into Opies cursed medium-mount bug should be happy to hear that this bug should no longer occur with the new images.
EDIT: Well, at least on Poodle it should be gone...

I'm sorry to have to tell you that the damn bug is still there... and 'ipkg remove opie-mediummount' shows 'no package found nothing to do'  

So I will use my old hack again.  

Thanks

Greg

[CoreDump]

Also users running into Opies cursed medium-mount bug should be happy to hear that this bug should no longer occur with the new images.
EDIT: Well, at least on Poodle it should be gone...

I'm sorry to have to tell you that the damn bug is still there... and 'ipkg remove opie-mediummount' shows 'no package found nothing to do'  

So I will use my old hack again.  

Thanks

Greg
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Well, that stinks  

[Meanie]

Has there been any improvements to altboot? ie. is kexec integrated and allows booting to different (older) kernel?

I want to completely reflash my C3000 and plan to put OZ bootstrap onto it (the first partition of the microdrive) as a pseudo bootloader which then boots loop images of Hentges GPE and Hentges OPIE from the second or third partition on the microdrive. In addition, I also want to boot pdaXrom beta4/r121 from a CF card which shouldn't be a problem since the kernel is similar in this release. However, the tricky bit is that I also want to boot the older 2.4 based version of pdaXrom as well. How can this be achieved? The C3000 version of pdaXrom was using a borrowed pivot boot from OZ so I am hoping that altboot and kexec can be used to achieve something similar

[koen]

Has there been any improvements to altboot?
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Sure, just search for it: [a href=\"http://www.openembedded.org/bonsai/query/description/altboot/]http://www.openembedded.org/bonsai/query/d...iption/altboot/[/url]

[CoreDump]

Has there been any improvements to altboot? ie. is kexec integrated and allows booting to different (older) kernel?

I want to completely reflash my C3000 and plan to put OZ bootstrap onto it (the first partition of the microdrive) as a pseudo bootloader which then boots loop images of Hentges GPE and Hentges OPIE from the second or third partition on the microdrive. In addition, I also want to boot pdaXrom beta4/r121 from a CF card which shouldn't be a problem since the kernel is similar in this release. However, the tricky bit is that I also want to boot the older 2.4 based version of pdaXrom as well. How can this be achieved? The C3000 version of pdaXrom was using a borrowed pivot boot from OZ so I am hoping that altboot and kexec can be used to achieve something similar
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AFAIK altboot does not support multiple partitions on a MD out of the box.
Also kexec support is less than ideal currently.

[CoreDump]

Has there been any improvements to altboot?
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Sure, just search for it: [a href=\"http://www.openembedded.org/bonsai/query/description/altboot/]http://www.openembedded.org/bonsai/query/d...iption/altboot/[/url]
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Wow, that's one nice link for me to bookmark, thanks!

[CoreDump]

Also users running into Opies cursed medium-mount bug should be happy to hear that this bug should no longer occur with the new images.
EDIT: Well, at least on Poodle it should be gone...

I'm sorry to have to tell you that the damn bug is still there... and 'ipkg remove opie-mediummount' shows 'no package found nothing to do'  

So I will use my old hack again.  

Thanks

Greg
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You have a new personal message.

[phisch]

Also users running into Opies cursed medium-mount bug should be happy to hear that this bug should no longer occur with the new images.
EDIT: Well, at least on Poodle it should be gone...

I'm sorry to have to tell you that the damn bug is still there... and 'ipkg remove opie-mediummount' shows 'no package found nothing to do'  

So I will use my old hack again.  

Thanks

Greg
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You have a new personal message.
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I don't see the medium-mount bug on my Poodle with the latest snapshot.  Thanks coredump!

One question.  opie-qss is installed, but still no sound.  Do I have to do something with alsa?  What packages do I need and what is the procedure?
Thanks.

-Phil

[CoreDump]

Also users running into Opies cursed medium-mount bug should be happy to hear that this bug should no longer occur with the new images.
EDIT: Well, at least on Poodle it should be gone...

I'm sorry to have to tell you that the damn bug is still there... and 'ipkg remove opie-mediummount' shows 'no package found nothing to do'  

So I will use my old hack again.  

Thanks

Greg
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You have a new personal message.
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I don't see the medium-mount bug on my Poodle with the latest snapshot.  Thanks coredump!

One question.  opie-qss is installed, but still no sound.  Do I have to do something with alsa?  What packages do I need and what is the procedure?
Thanks.

-Phil
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Sound worked out of the box when I last tried a clean image  

Please check if
cat /usr/share/sounds/beep.raw and mplayer /usr/share/sounds/gaim/$SOME_WAVE_FILE produce sound on your System.

If not you may need to play with "alsamixer".

[phisch]

Also users running into Opies cursed medium-mount bug should be happy to hear that this bug should no longer occur with the new images.
EDIT: Well, at least on Poodle it should be gone...

I'm sorry to have to tell you that the damn bug is still there... and 'ipkg remove opie-mediummount' shows 'no package found nothing to do'  

So I will use my old hack again.  

Thanks

Greg
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You have a new personal message.
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I don't see the medium-mount bug on my Poodle with the latest snapshot.  Thanks coredump!

One question.  opie-qss is installed, but still no sound.  Do I have to do something with alsa?  What packages do I need and what is the procedure?
Thanks.

-Phil
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Sound worked out of the box when I last tried a clean image  

Please check if
cat /usr/share/sounds/beep.raw and mplayer /usr/share/sounds/gaim/$SOME_WAVE_FILE produce sound on your System.

If not you may need to play with "alsamixer".
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No sound from mplayer or catting to /dev/audio.  "Played" with alsamixer still no sound.  Tried both speaker and headphones
-Phil

[Greg2]

I don't see the medium-mount bug on my Poodle with the latest snapshot.

@phisch
Did you answer [y] to format the SD when using the new updater.sh? I'm trying to understand why it would work for some and not others?

[phisch]

I don't see the medium-mount bug on my Poodle with the latest snapshot.

@phisch
Did you answer [y] to format the SD when using the new updater.sh? I'm trying to understand why it would work for some and not others?
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Yes I did.  No partitions, ext2.
-Phil

[CoreDump]

I've updated the distro feeds, please run "dist-upgrade" from the console.

dist-upgrade works great, but I had a couple of problems.

1. The security module kept asking for the pin number whilst the upgrade was trying to calibrate, I eventually had to ssh in from my main box, remove security and reboot the collie.

I should have been more clear. By "console" I meant the VT (ie: exit Opie / GPE)

2. dist-upgrade does not respect user alterations, it re-installed packages that I had removed, and it changed my decorative settings back to default.

samac
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Interesting. Sounds like some hentges-* packages do not like beeing reinstalled  
Thanks for spotting it, I'll have a look.

Could you give me an example which packages were re-installed after you had removed them?
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I had a look today at the offending packages. It only re-installs the Opie defaults if it does not find an existing Opie configuration (no re-install if ~/Settings/qpe.conf exists)

I'm kinda clueless how to narrow the bug down. Any ideas?

[HoloVector]

Thanks CoreDump for all your hard work on this.  I just installed latest GPE WIP for Spitz on my "new" 3200.  It looks great but, I'm having some trouble with the whole safely removing CF and SD cards.  

I was expecting some GUI tool to handle this but, from what I have read on the forums is that there is no reliably running tool for this.  The Matchbox Cards Applet that I installed just disappears from the taskbar when I tap on it.  

I then tried to do it from the terminal but I can't figure it out.  Cardctl and pccardctl are nowhere to be found.  I guess they aren't part of the 2.6 kernel.  So what does one do to safely eject them?  Is there anything I need to type in terminal to kill my wifi connection before I type the eject sequence for the CF card?

Sorry for the newbie questions.  I'm new to Linux and my search mojo for these forums, google, the OpenZaurus FAQ and HowTos have failed me so far.

Thanks again.

[CoreDump]

Thanks CoreDump for all your hard work on this.  I just installed latest GPE WIP for Spitz on my "new" 3200.  It looks great but, I'm having some trouble with the whole safely removing CF and SD cards. 

I was expecting some GUI tool to handle this but, from what I have read on the forums is that there is no reliably running tool for this.  The Matchbox Cards Applet that I installed just disappears from the taskbar when I tap on it. 

To my knowledge there is no (working) GUI app for ejecting SD / CF cardfs for GPE.

I then tried to do it from the terminal but I can't figure it out.  Cardctl and pccardctl are nowhere to be found.  I guess they aren't part of the 2.6 kernel.  So what does one do to safely eject them?  Is there anything I need to type in terminal to kill my wifi connection before I type the eject sequence for the CF card?

Pulling a WIFI card w/o ejecting it is fine, but CF and SD/MMC storage cards should be umounted first (umount /media/card umount /media/cf)