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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: January 26, 2009, 08:49:36 am »

@domi007

I am no expert on such things (as I am no computer scientist), but as I have some experience with running Linux on devices like the Universal (Universal and Motorola A780/E680) I would like to ask you whether you applied some patches for HTC Universal to your kernel, as it isn't (again, AFAIK) supported by stock mainline linux. Bad thing is that (as you will know) the latest kernel for HTC Universal on handhelds.org is still 2.6.21-hh20, which won't work with ANDROID, unless you apply the patches.
Here is a ML post about patching 2.6.21-hh20 for BlueAngel for Android (please keep in mind that the Android version running is an older beta, AFAIR 0..

Hope that I could help you a little bit,

 p3t3r

(Please feel free to contact me when you have ANDROID running on your Universal, I am keen on that, too  )

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: May 09, 2008, 01:08:40 pm »

It's possible.

Is it possible to compile apps on the universal with Debian installed? Has anyone been successful in doing so? I have two small apps that I would like to build for it

You will need to install several packages (gcc, make...) but it works actually, though it is pretty slow to do so - depending on the applications size - I compiled a version of abiword with embedded gui

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: May 09, 2008, 08:06:26 am »

Of course it doesn't need them, but there are lot of dependencies in Debian packages (at least that's what I experienced) we don't need at all. As an example: Abiword depends printing stuff and Gnome - I compiled it myself on Universal (insane, huh? was to lazy to set up a crosscompiling toolchain and to get all these dependencies) with embedded UI and without printing (we could print via bluetooth, btw... ^^).
There must be a reason for the existance of other distributions - probably someone should setup a repository for small packages, which have less dependencies as they are build for embedded devices, just to save memory. But somehow that might be close to a whole new distribution...

(I'm running sumou's image with the titchy mobile updates)

# apt-get install titchy-desktop
...
The following extra packages will be installed:
  a2ps desktop-base desktop-file-utils desktop-profiles exo-utils fortune-mod
  fortunes-min gamin gtk2-engines-xfce hal libexif12 libexo-0.3-0 libgamin0
  libgl1-mesa-dri libglu1-mesa libjpeg-progs libthunar-vfs-1-2 liburi-perl
  libxfce4mcs-client3 libxfce4mcs-manager3 libxfce4util4 libxfcegui4-4
  miscfiles orage psutils thunar thunar-data ttf-bitstream-vera wdiff xbitmaps
  xfce4 xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-mcs-manager
  xfce4-mcs-plugins xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-alsa xfce4-panel xfce4-session
  xfce4-terminal xfce4-utils xfdesktop4 xfdesktop4-data xfonts-75dpi xfprint4
  xfwm4 xfwm4-themes xkb-data xli xorg xorg-docs xscreensaver
  xscreensaver-data xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
  xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom
  xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
  xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
  xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
  xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740
  xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
  xserver-xorg-video-newport xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
  xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
  xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
  xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-tga
  xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
  xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga xserver-xorg-video-via
  xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xterm

Surely it doesn't need all those hardware specific xserver drivers?

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Debian / New Browsers

« on: May 08, 2008, 12:39:23 pm »

I am using netsurf, it isn't as fast as Dillo, but it's rendering is ok (some errors, but  ). I'd recommend to give it a try, it's the best way to find out whether a software is ok for someone or not.

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: May 08, 2008, 11:59:19 am »

wpa_supplicant does not work with 2.6.21-hh20s' acx driver - i tried it, but as it isn't supported officially, it does not work. There is a mac80211 acx driver, which supports WPA, but it isn't available in a kernel for HTC Universal, yet.  

Am I daft to think I need to install wpasupplicant?

Sam

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: May 05, 2008, 01:18:50 pm »

Run this:
[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']# sed -i 's/TSLIB_TSDEVICE=\/dev\/input\/ts0/TSLIB_TSDEVICE=\/dev\/input\/event0/' /etc/profile.d/tslib.sh
# sed -i 's/export\/TSLIB_TSDEVICE/export TSLIB_TSDEVICE/' /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
[/div]
Reboot.

After reboot issue echo $TSLIB_DEVICE as the first command, it should return /dev/input/event0.

Now ts_calibrate should work.

Not work

After reboot this comand echo $TSLIB_DEVICE give me this /dev/input/ts0    #ts_calibrate steel not work



Thx man, Thax all
For me is finish whith debian
Maibe in the future whill be one ICE WM or other WM easy to install, GPE install work fine but isn`t like IceWm

I keep my SD card formated whith ext2 for next time

 

Strange - for me datathiefs instructions regarding X worked perfectly... I use(d) GPE, IceWM and now JWM without errors.
Just have one more try, maybe it'll work.

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: May 02, 2008, 07:30:20 am »

I have got that time problem as well.

And I have got a gprs/umts problem: I don't know how to authenticate, as my provider requires authentication.


BTW: I use JWM now as window manager and dillo as default browser (i have midori, minimo and icehamster as well, but they aren't that fast  ) and I think of building SIAG Office, as it has a small footprint and good features.

[This post was written on HTC Universal running Debian]

Datathief, question regarding time. Are you able to preserve system time between linux reboots?

I have to set the time via date and hwclock -w every reboot.

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: April 30, 2008, 02:06:35 am »

Well, it is definitely great for Windows Mobile users - as you have to quit applications via settings menu, Universal becomes slow there quite soon.

I heard about prices for that around 180$ (in Germany), so it isn't that cheap. That's why I just have a 128MB swap on my 2GB SD.

Running GPE there are only few MBs of Ram free, so it could improve your performance while using X.

Questions

1. Over at xda-developers.com forum there is talk about doubling HTC Universal RAM from 64 to 128MB. Doesn't look like a do-it-yourselfer job....

Wondering if this would upgrade would make a significant difference in HTC performance using Debian?

2. Is there any reason to upgrade ROM from WM5 to WM6 if you're mainly using HTC Uni for running Debian? Wouldn't think there would be, but just thought I'd ask since this upgrade is available over at xda-developers...

Thanks.

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: April 29, 2008, 05:34:49 am »

Thanks for your help, but it worked with datathiefs´explanations (maybe they should be added to the wiki..).
I don´t remember the error, wasn´t a catchy one.

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: April 29, 2008, 04:59:47 am »

Need TUN-Module

I just tried to log into my universitys cisco secured network using vpnc, but I miss the TUN-Module.
Just if anybody builds a new kernel, it would be very nice if it had a tun module.

EDIT: Just build myself a kernel featuring tun module using this howto: http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/UniversalKernel;
works fine. I could write that there should be some work on that kernel, but everybody who tried to use wifi and had problems knows that

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: April 28, 2008, 04:19:33 pm »

Thank you for your explanations, datathief (and your work on HTC Universal) - i had a USB connection before, and it was quite simple to get GPE to work with your instructions - though it looks like as it is in no-touchscreenmode - but at least it is usable.

edit: After deleting ts.conf and recalibrating screen it works. Great. Thanks a lot!

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: April 28, 2008, 01:42:40 pm »

Thanks for your help; but dpkg shows error while processing x-yonggun and xserver-kdrive-fbdev.
I tried to run ts_calibrate, error: ts_open: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

It would be really nice to have an easy to understand howto for that, or at least a working (meaning that these packages exist) list of packages (I would like to use X with some icewm or GPE/matchbox, because websurfing, document viewing and editing is nicer then).
Sorry if I ask newbie questions, but somebody has got to ask them.

http://sumoudou.org/index.php?cmd=%E7%9B%B...the%20Universal

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Debian / Htc Universal

« on: April 28, 2008, 06:26:46 am »

Hi,
I have got my Universal for some time now and I am very happy about this Debian port with easy to install rootfs.
I installed the rootfs (and updated htcunid), but i have some problems:
- when i receive a phonecall, my universal vibrates once, which is not enough to realize it (for me)
- I placed your whiptail script in /etc/htcunid/event.d; installed whiptail, but there is nothing "popping up" (and I don't know whether I understood what whiptail does correctly) on event (call, sms).
- i tried to install X, as I read other people did, I used xserver-titchy, and some other packages via apt-get; but i have no working Xserver yet, as there are many packages missing... "startx" gives no results - as there is no startx in any (/usr)/(s)bin.
It would be really nice to have an easy to understand howto for that, or at least a working (meaning that these packages exist) list of packages (I would like to use X with some icewm or GPE/matchbox, because websurfing, document viewing and editing is nicer then).
 
Sorry if I ask newbie questions, but somebody has got to ask them.