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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Ubuntu => Topic started by: BerndS on February 19, 2009, 10:33:07 am
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Hi,
after getting Zubuntu to work on my SL-C760 with a lot of help from this forum I've created a detailed description about the steps that are necessary to install Zubuntu on the SL-C760:
http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/z...he_SL_C760.html (http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/zubuntu_on_the_SL_C760.html)
The description is in German language but hopefully it's useful for non-german speakers only ... If not , let me know and I'll create an english translation.
Thanks again for the gread help from this forum to get this working
regards
Bernd
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Thanks for sharing. I will try this tonight on my sl-c760 variation: SL-7500C. BTW, google web page translation helped because I don't read Germany.
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Thanks for sharing. I will try this tonight on my sl-c760 variation: SL-7500C. BTW, google web page translation helped because I don't read Germany.
Let me know how it's going so that I can update the webpage if neccessary
regards
Bernd
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Let me know how it's going so that I can update the webpage if neccessary
regards
Bernd
It went pretty well. I just took my previous installation and applied your changes. Touch screen worked pretty well. I was also able to use USB network to connect to the internet via my Windows XP box.
However, rtc is NOT working for me. Everytime I reboot it went back to 1970. The other issue is that when I leave the device in sleep mode for a while and turn it back on, sometimes X will freeze or go blank. The only way to get out of it seems to be pulling out the battery. I was able to get sound with your alsamixer settings but for only for one channel.
I will try more things later.
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I've used Zubuntu and Debian, and I've also noticed that X sometimes crashes when turning the device on after suspending. I can ssh into it, but that's not much consolation if I'm away from a PC.
My solution? Install xdm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDM), so that if X crashes, it restarts itself straight away.
The only downside to this approach is that after reboot xdm kicks in and the touch screen doesn't work correctly, so I make sure a terminal is loaded immediately (edit .xsession to do this - just copy the contents of .xinitrc first), and then I can do
[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']/etc/init.d/xdm stop[/div]
to stop xdm and go back to the command line. Then I log in again, and do
[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']/etc/init.d/xdm start[/div]
which gives X all the environmental variables necessary to get the touch screen working correctly.
Dan
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Hi,
It went pretty well. I just took my previous installation and applied your changes. Touch screen worked pretty well. I was also able to use USB network to connect to the internet via my Windows XP box.
However, rtc is NOT working for me. Everytime I reboot it went back to 1970.
Did you issue the date -u command and the hwclock command?
Looks like the -u is mandatory to make the time persistent
The other issue is that when I leave the device in sleep mode for a while and turn it back on, sometimes X will freeze or go blank. The only way to get out of it seems to be pulling out the battery. I was able to get sound with your alsamixer settings but for only for one channel.
Hmm, I did not try the supsend / resume with Zubunutu in depth.
regards
Bernd
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Thanks for the great manual.
All up and running (Jaunty 9.04) on a C860.
Gnumeric, Galculator, Sylpheed, pidgin, even gnome-games (I love tetravex), ... everything seems to work !
Having fun,
Chero.
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Hello, I am having trouble booting into Zubuntu on my c860. I installed the kernel from the omegamoon blog and extracted the zubuntu root fs onto a 2g sd card. But I can't figure out the contents of the kernel-cmdline file. What should the kernel-cmdline file contain? I tried using the kernel-cmdline mentioned in this guide but that would only return me to the bootmenu selection after selecting Zubuntu.
Please, if somebody can help me out here I would really appreciate it. Thank You.
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Hello, I am having trouble booting into Zubuntu on my c860. I installed the kernel from the omegamoon blog and extracted the zubuntu root fs onto a 2g sd card. But I can't figure out the contents of the kernel-cmdline file. What should the kernel-cmdline file contain? I tried using the kernel-cmdline mentioned in this guide but that would only return me to the bootmenu selection after selecting Zubuntu.
Please, if somebody can help me out here I would really appreciate it. Thank You.
I didn't have to edit anything for it to work. I just extracted the root fs (you can get the 9.04 one from here (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=26510)), and then the machine specific root addition (from here (http://www.zaurus.org.uk/cortez/ubuntu/download/zubuntu/c7x0/c7x0-root-addition.tar.gz)). And everything worked out of the box...