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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom In Chroot

« on: June 03, 2005, 02:19:57 am »

If you are chrooting then pdax should be using its own libs and not complaining about anything, all you need to do is get X/Qt running outside the chroot to act as pdaX's X server - I remember that took some playing around with DISPLAY variables and xhost permissions

Stu
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That sounds like the same as chrooting debian, I might give it a try if I have nothing else to do
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Debian running on Qt/X has no troubles and almost all X-Clients including gtk2 and KDE work well.
I assume that QT/X-server uses the X-libraries of pdaXrom after chrooted to pdaXrom and because of the incompatibility of the libries between hard-float and soft-float, Qt/X server can not work properly. Using debians, the debians libraries are hard-float and they are newer than those of Qt/X, so they are upper-compatible to those of Qt/X. If I can make the static-linked Qt/X server, it also will work well on pdaXrom.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom In Chroot

« on: June 01, 2005, 10:20:28 pm »

I also tried to chroot to pdaXrom from X/Qt. But, almost all X-clients complained about something and it did not work well. I think that it is due to the difference of
the libraries between X/Qt and pdaXrom. The binaries of pdaXrom use soft-float libraries, on the other hand the libraries of X/Qt use hard-float emulation embedded in kernel.

But, it is possible to use pdaXrom chrooted from Qtopia. Use Xvnc server, which is included in pocketworkstation as X-server and connect to Xvnc from keypebble vnc-viewer. It is still faster than the debian on X/Qt except the drawing speed of the screen.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / rc9 on a 3000

« on: May 25, 2005, 11:01:27 pm »

The X-Server works very well, and the match box window manager was
launched, but some clients can not be launched. I tried to check
the reason from X-terminal, but both of rxvt and xterm can not be launched. I copied the /dev from RC9 working on C3000, but nothing was changed.

/dev/pts mounted?
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I did not mount /dev/pts. The rxvt installed on RC9.1J may use /dev/pty??, thus
it works without /dev/pts.

I found more easy way to install RC10 for C1000 on C3000 without using chroot. But, this method is dengerous, it may completely break the system of your C3000. So, I will not write details.

I erased the instructions of this method wrtten here, because the filesystem of hdd3 on my C3000 was broken.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / rc9 on a 3000

« on: May 25, 2005, 05:13:18 am »

I'm using RC9 on SL-C3000 chrooted from Qtopia. I want to test your the binaries of RC10 for C1000. Please, upload the tar image of root partition of jff2 file sywstem, because I can not extract binaries from jffs2.

When you build/test RC10 on C3000, can you public the results/files/instructions for the other C3000 users?

Thanks
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I tried RC10 for SL-C1000 on C3000 chrooted from linux console of PocketWorkstation.

The X-Server works very well, and the match box window manager was
launched, but some clients can not be launched. I tried to check
the reason from X-terminal, but both of rxvt and xterm can not be launched. I copied the /dev from RC9 working on C3000, but nothing was changed.  Now, I'm using the Xfbdev of RC10 on C1000 as the X-server of RC9 on C3000.

The method for using RC10 for SL-C1000 on SL-C3000 is as follows.
1) Install pocketworkstation on SL-C3000
See [a href=\"http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/leurent/zaurus.html]http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/leurent/zaurus.html[/url]
2) Reboot SL-C3000 in linux cosole mode of pocketworkstation and login as root.
3) Extract the pdaxrom root image http://212.10.30.205/rc10/Zaurus-C1000/roo...-rc10.1.tar.bz2
on /hdd3. You will need to decompress bz2 before extracting tar in C3000 or you need to install bzip2 on SL-C3000.
bzip2 -d root-akita*
tar xvpf root-akita*
4) Extract the /home, /var and /dev from /root and make /tmp.
cd /hdd3/root-akita
tar xvpf root/.var*
tar xvpf root/.home*
tar xvpf root/.dev*
rm -r tmp
mkdir tmp
5) mount /proc
mount -t proc /proc /hdd3/root-akita/proc
6) chroot to RC10
chroot /hdd3/root-akita
7) set enviroment variables.
source /etc/profile
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
start X-server
startx
The matchbox windowmanager can not be shutdown from menu.
You must stop X-server by alt(Address)-Ctrl-BS.

Please try and solves problems of launching X-terminals.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / rc9 on a 3000

« on: May 25, 2005, 01:18:23 am »

I'm using RC9 on SL-C3000 chrooted from Qtopia. I want to test your the binaries of RC10 for C1000. Please, upload the tar image of root partition of jff2 file sywstem, because I can not extract binaries from jffs2.
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its here [a href=\"http://212.10.30.205/rc10/Zaurus-C1000/root-akita-rc10.1.tar.bz2]http://212.10.30.205/rc10/Zaurus-C1000/roo...-rc10.1.tar.bz2[/url]
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Thank you very much.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / rc9 on a 3000

« on: May 24, 2005, 09:13:42 pm »

I'm using RC9 on SL-C3000 chrooted from Qtopia. I want to test your the binaries of RC10 for C1000. Please, upload the tar image of root partition of jff2 file sywstem, because I can not extract binaries from jffs2.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Screenshots Of Rc10 Running Kde 3.4 Here

« on: May 23, 2005, 12:31:42 am »

I tested KDE for RC10 on SL-C3000 running RC9 chrooted from Qtopia. The qt-mt-3.3 should be replaced additionally from the feed of RC10. It works much faster compared with the KDE works on SL-C3000 running debian chrooted from Qtopia.
 

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom For 5500?

« on: March 29, 2005, 09:17:22 pm »

I have made a hd-image of  ext2 file system of pdaXrom for SL-C3000 which can be used by chroot command from native console mode and Qt console mode. This image can be also used on SL-C700 and SL-C760. But, using on SL-5500, an error "Illegural Instructions" occurs when I attept to chroot to pdaXrom. Some applications wriiten for japanese SL-serises shows same error on SL-5500. I consider that these are due to the machine codes which are optimized for Xscale processors. Thus, almost all of the pdaXrom should be recompiled for SL-5500.