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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Rom Gentoo On Zaurus

« on: August 29, 2007, 04:21:24 pm »

If you mean Post #48 - that was about SD/CF < 2GB, not NAND
I mount portage tree via NFS

> Any hope on I have Gentoo working on my SL-C3000 ?
Yes, just compile your own kernel or use compiled, Civil has gentoo on his c3100

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Rom Gentoo On Zaurus

« on: August 28, 2007, 11:44:15 am »

updated rootfs
 ftp://gentoo.ru/projects/handhelds/zaurus...0070828.tar.bz2
 
+ Abiword, Sylpheed, vim
+ baselayout 2.0rc for faster start
+ pppd, bluez - gprs via BT works, tested with DCF-650BT and Nokia E50
+ small fixes

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Rom Gentoo On Zaurus

« on: August 10, 2007, 08:14:41 pm »

what are the working web browsers? Dillo, of course--and firefox is having trouble...  any luck with minimo? safari?
Also, how is hardware support-bluetooth? sound? usb, etc?
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Dillo, links in graphic mode work, they are installed already, minimo is in todo
sound/alsa  - headphones/speaker - work
usbnet, ttyUSB and usbflash via usb host cable work

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Rom Gentoo On Zaurus

« on: August 08, 2007, 06:35:46 pm »

Any way to dual-boot? Use the pdaX kernel in Gentoo and boot with uBoot?
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i tried to boot from gentoo to pdaxrom with kexec (from source with arm patch from uclibc, not official kexec)
it boots fine, but i guess it's not hard to make one kernel for pdaxrom on NAND and gentoo on SD - if mmc card exists it mounts sd, if doesn't  - kernel mounts mtd device

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Rom Gentoo On Zaurus

« on: August 08, 2007, 06:23:05 pm »

can I make a proposal? once you have your gentooZ system fully built to de-personalise it, make a NAND backup and publish it so that people can very easily install it from scratch?
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 System places on SD card, NAND has uboot+emerg system and kernel only

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Rom Gentoo On Zaurus

« on: August 08, 2007, 12:51:48 pm »

i bet you will get "no left space on device" with local portage on zaurus

Portage itself is ~400MB, but distfiles will take much...

Problem is that ext2/ext3 can't work on small partition with so many tiny files

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Rom Gentoo On Zaurus

« on: August 08, 2007, 12:33:13 pm »

very cool. how is the mlpayer performance, and that sort of thing (obviously, there is a big advantage in the current libraries and "big distro" softwaree)?
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Mlpayer performance similar to pdaxrom r121
Last official gentoo ebuilds are based on svn mplayer code, and it has patches from maemo projects, but i didn't test it yet
Generally this gentoo rootfs is usual gentoo, so you can try to emerge any ebuild from offial gentoo portage, except big projects like xorg-server(it has problems with zaurus touchscreen) and QT4(offical just doesn't work, Civil's ebuild has patches from debian arm port)
And known issue is that firefox/mozila give 'illegal instruction', i don't know how to work out that
I commented software in my first post, programs without comments are from official gentoo portage
If you have Z model without internal hadrdrive, you should to mount portage via NFS from desktop (you don't need gentoo on desktop, just exported portage), i bet you will get "no left space on device" with local portage on zaurus
and if you want to speedup compilation, use distcc and cross-compiler on desktop

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Rom Gentoo On Zaurus

« on: August 08, 2007, 10:17:25 am »

I want to give it a try ....
where is it that I can get the gentooonZ_sd_20070807.tar.bz2  ?
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sorry,

[a href=\"ftp://gentoo.ru/projects/handhelds/zaurus-c1000/gentooonZ_sd_20070807.tar.bz2]ftp://gentoo.ru/projects/handhelds/zaurus...0070807.tar.bz2[/url]

i've fixed the post above

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Rom Gentoo On Zaurus

« on: August 08, 2007, 08:30:28 am »

New rootfs for SD card based on 2007.0 gentoo profile

ftp://gentoo.ru/projects/handhelds/zaurus...0070807.tar.bz2

Some preinstalled software:

xorg-server-1.1.1-r3 (custom, based on ebuild from http://projects.gentoo.ru/gentoo-pda/browser/portage )
matchbox-1.0
windowmaker-0.92.0-r3
fbreader-0.8.5a (from sources)
mc-4.6.1-r3
gqview-2.1.5
stardict-2.4.8
stardict-freedict-eng-rus-2.4.2
gpsdrive-2.09-r1
mpd-0.13.0/mpc-0.12.1/gmpc-0.15.1
mplayer-1.0_rc1-r90 (custom-flags, generally official ebuild r1)
pidgin-2.0.2 (icq/jabber/googletalk/msn/etc)
xchat-2.8.4-r1
dillo-0.8.6
links-2.1_pre28-r1
qt-4.3.0 (custom, Civil's ebuild)
rxvt-2.7.10-r3

some screenshots:
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/2715/001vv9.png
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/330/002ny9.png
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/4122/003gl2.png
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/3442/004hf4.png
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6583/005yt0.png
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/6440/006zt2.png
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/1952/007rn8.png

some binary packages you can get at ftp://gentoo.ru/projects/handhelds/packages/eabi/iwmmxt/

Quick howto from Civil:

Requiments:
1. Zaurus C1000, C3x00 (in fact it can work on any device with iwmmxt - pxa27x but you need to adjust keymap)
2. 2GB+ on SD/MMC/CF/Microdrive working on any ROM with 2.6 kernel.
3. Hand
4. Time (aprox. 30 min)
It is recomended to have internet on zaurus. It'll make your life easier. And it is also recomended to have USB-Cardreader + Linux (you can use VMWare), but not necessary (it'll speedup unpacking of rootfs).

Installation how-to:
I'll asume that you have only your Zaurus, without internet and no PC box (or no cardreader), and that you install on mmcblk0p1 (to SD/MMC card). For example archive with rootfs is placed on CF card wich mounted to /mnt/cf.
1. umount /mnt/sd
2. mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1
3. mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/sd
4. tar -xjf /mnt/cf/gentooonZ_sd_20070807.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/sd
5. mcedit /mnt/sd/etc/fstab - you'll need to ajust fstab for your configuration (change device wich is mounted to /, etc. Step is optional, current /etc/fstab is correct for usual cases)
6. tar -xjf /mnt/cf/kernel-modules.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/sd (optional, c1k users don't need this)
7. If you don't have u-boot installed (using OZ, angstrom etc.): follow pdaXrom's guide.
8. Boot to pdaXrom emergency system and just press 'y' when it asks you about installing new kernel, or flash kernel for your device with command: nandlogical /dev/mtd1 WRITE 0x5a0000 0x160000 /mnt/cf/kernel.img (where kernel.img is name of kernel you've downloaded)
9. Reboot. now have gentoo 2007.0 EABI environment. Root password is 'qq'