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Debian / Wrong Kernel Running In Andromeda

« on: October 04, 2008, 11:58:58 am »

I'm trying to flash using the zImage.bin.hda1 that comes with the Andromeda zip. Is this not the correct kernel? If not, which one should I choose from the site that was linked to earlier. I wish to install onto the internal hard disk so I assume that I need the zImage.bin.hda1 and the new modules. Is this correct?

Thanks

band-aid

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Debian / Wrong Kernel Running In Andromeda

« on: September 03, 2008, 08:18:16 pm »

I recently switched from a regular debian install to Andromeda. I followed the instructions from here http://yonggun.tistory.com/77. For some reason I boot into the 2.6.23 kernel rather than 2.6.24-yonggun. Because of this none of the modules I extracted work. Where did I go wrong?

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Debian / Abicom Vs Hostap [solved]

« on: August 24, 2008, 04:12:04 pm »

I too have tried to flash my card but it appears the hostap driver that are installed by default do not have firmware download support enabled. My attempts to get new drivers compiled have failed miserably. Any suggestions?

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Debian / Battery Draining

« on: February 29, 2008, 10:25:21 pm »

sometimes I have this problem

My theory is that you push the power button to suspend then close the screen. The act of closing the screen prevents the suspend process from happening for whatever reason meaning that the machine stays on and drains the battery.

I push the suspend button, wait for the screen to black, count to 5 then close it and stick it in my pocket and it seems to somewhat alleviate the issue.

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Debian / Icehamster (was: Customising Minimo)

« on: February 11, 2008, 06:25:57 pm »

Wow great work.

This is now my primary browser. For the longest time I've been looking for some way besides wget to download etexts off of gutenberg straight to my zaurus and this works wonderfully. It even deftly handled many of the ad banners (whether thats a good thing or not is yet to be determined).

Thanks a ton

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Debian / Bedic Viewers In Debian?

« on: December 22, 2007, 09:21:34 pm »

I've been digging through the feeds for a bit looking for something to read bedic dictionary files, specifically that 2005 dump of the English wikipedia. Is anything available? If not, what would be the most likely candidate for working the best?

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Debian / Mouse Jittering Too Much To Right Click

« on: December 10, 2007, 04:00:39 pm »

I'll try that, I think I was a bit confusing

I'm running Debian EABI using the angstrom kernel. Sorry for the confusion.

Band-aid

EDIT: xmonobut -k 67 stopped working so I switched it to -k 68. That worked until I restarted X, an now its not working. I'll post xev output in a bit.

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Debian / Mouse Jittering Too Much To Right Click

« on: December 10, 2007, 01:19:52 pm »

I've scoured the forums and now have right click via the calendar button working via xmonobut. Problem is, the mouse jitters so much that it detects my attempted right click as a right click and drag. I end up poking the spot five or six times until it clicks correctly. I have verified that the mouse is in fact jittering around in xournal. It works fine for a fraction of a second then flys half way across the screen then back to where it should be leaving a huge spike. Any suggestions?

Band-aid

I'm running Angstrom 2.6.23

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Debian / Ts_read: Invalid Argument

« on: December 07, 2007, 11:00:59 pm »

Ok thats got it. Heres another one since I haven't stumped you yet  

I'm trying to get a picture as a wallpaper in icewm. So I edit .xserverrc to say

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#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/Xfbdev -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp -fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc
/usr/bin/icewm-session
xrandr -o right
I also edited the the icewmbg section of .icewm/preferences o

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DesktopBackgroundCenter=1
DesktopBackgroundScaled=1
DesktopBackgroundImage="/home//.icewm/Ab_blue_matrix.jpg"
Screen still shows up sideways (never have got that straightened out) and now my background is that headache inducing checkerboard pattern. I'm not to familiar with editing these scripts so I don't know whether or not exec needs to be in front of /usr/bin/icewm-session and xrandr -o right.

EDIT: problem just got more perplexing, is my home directory supposed to be /root ? like literally /home is empty. Shouldn't it be /home/root?
 I got the background working by pointing it to /root/.icewm/Ab_blue_matrix.jpg but I'm still concerned about my home folder.
Thanks for the help

Band-aid

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Debian / Ts_read: Invalid Argument

« on: December 07, 2007, 12:32:39 pm »

I'm using the rootfs from this page of the wiki https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Q17:_I...ternal_drive%3F

I'm having a terrible time getting this to install manually. Or maybe I just can't find the correct packages. I've got

libgtk2.0-common_2.12.3-1_all.deb
libgtk2.0-bin_2.12.3-1_all.deb
libgtk2.0-0_2.12.1-3_armel.deb

libgtk2.0-0 won't install with this version of libgtk2.0-common. libgtk2.0-bin won't install without libgtk2.0-0. I grabbed these packages off the debian package list, is there a better place to look?

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Debian / Ts_read: Invalid Argument

« on: December 07, 2007, 01:37:07 am »

What do you mean by "default rootfs"? Is it the one in January 2007?

If so, then you have to use the Angtrom tslib, which is debianized and packaged in yonggun's page, and is also available in my previous after installation tarball and the configured rootfs tarball.  

For Angstrom kernels, you have to do two things to set up touchscreen:
Step 1: Specify the correct device
edit ~/.profile and make sure you have these two lines:

export TSLIB_TSDEVICE="/dev/input/event1"
export TSLIB_CONFFILE="/etc/ts.conf"

Step 2: Edit /etc/ts.conf
Comment out the line "module_raw corgi" (as djl0 says).

Then run ts_calibrate again.

AFAIK, with the yonggun kernels the differences are:
-- the device is /dev/input/ts0
-- the "module_raw corgi" line is NOT commented in /etc/ts.conf

Hope this helps.

I must have gotten myself confused and configured it using yongun instructions at some point. I recommented the corgi line and added those lines to my .profile. Now its working.

Is libgtk2.0-0 working?

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Debian / Ts_read: Invalid Argument

« on: December 06, 2007, 11:25:18 pm »

I'm making progress, X starts with startx and icewm-session starts well. Wireless is going great. The only real problem that I can find is that I can't calibrate my touch screen.

Here's the error:

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xres = 480, yres = 640
ts_read: Invalid argument
I'm running the angstrom 2.6.23 kernel with the default rootfs.

Thanks for your help

band-aid

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Debian / Keymap Preventing Installation From Proceeding

« on: December 05, 2007, 04:28:54 pm »

Na the scripts aren't buggy, I just can't use them correctly. I'll give the tab trick in a bit.

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Debian / Keymap Preventing Installation From Proceeding

« on: December 04, 2007, 10:30:34 pm »

I've got Debian to boot (finally) but can't proceed with configuration because I seem to be missing the ability to type any of the function characters and the "/" character. I tried running the afterinstall script but it failed horribly. I was going to manually install the deb's but most of them have underscores making it impossible   . Any suggestions?

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Debian / Cannot Flash

« on: December 04, 2007, 07:50:34 pm »

I'm Replying to this because I got it straightened out and want to outline the process that I used to do so. Maybe I'll help someone.

My theory is that the flashing utility does not support SD or CF cards that are over 1GB. My card was something like 1016MB.

This is what I did as an experiment.

This is in the terminal on my laptop

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1. fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
2. o - blow away the partition table
3. n - create new partition
4. p - primary partition
5. 1 - first partition
6. 1 - starting cylinder
7. +512M - 512 megabytes after the starting cylinder
8. n - new partition
9. p - primary partition
10. 2 - second partition
11. enter - default: one cylinder after our first partition
12. enter - second partition goes to the end of the card.
13. w - write the partition table

This splits it into two partitions, both of which are less than 1 gig. This is your goal, if your SD card bigger your partitions may need to be bigger or more numerous. UNDER A GIG.

next lets format them

mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/mmcblk0p1
mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/mmcblk0p2
At this point all you have to do is copy the files you need to flash onto the card and your good to go.