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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: Alpha Testing - Netsurf Browser

« on: January 26, 2023, 08:16:21 am »

Hey greguu I'm planning to give this a go at some stage.
Couple of questions:

Can your images run in qemu-system-arm?
Do you have pxaregs installed?

Kexecboot seems to screw up my Zaurus ability to use gadget ethernet (g_ether) to be useful.

Thanks,

Dan

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Zaurus - Arch Linux ARM support / Linux Kernel 4.9-rc3

« on: April 16, 2017, 05:14:45 pm »

I got a forum account that still works, and a couple of Zaurus' with kexecboot and fairly recent (4.0+) Kernels. I'll try and get one of them running with this if I can and will report back...

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Debian / State Of The Kernel Feb 2010

« on: March 08, 2010, 01:26:12 pm »

However, sometime back I think InSearchOf was porting Ubuntu to pdaxrom?  That would be interesting, but this isn't really the place for that discussion.

Well there is already Cortez / Omegamoons ubuntu but I don't like the gui stuff, and the latest kernel has a lot of video glitching on my 3200.

http://www.omegamoon.com/blog/

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Debian / State Of The Kernel Feb 2010

« on: March 07, 2010, 06:14:07 am »

EDIT:  Just found the following:

http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/zauru...ary/thread.html

That is interesting.
At least there is someone working on something.

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Debian / State Of The Kernel Feb 2010

« on: March 07, 2010, 06:11:16 am »

Personally speaking I want to stick with debian.
Kernel aside, this is the perfect system for me.

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Debian / State Of The Kernel Feb 2010

« on: March 02, 2010, 01:03:17 pm »

Good post. I guess plenty of us are wonder what's happening with kernel dev.

I would make sense to find out if the Debian community could provide zaurus kernel updates. Just like openbsd....

Sadly I think it is highly unlikely that we will get a kernel from the Debian community.
I suspect that there may be non free stuff in the Zaurus kernels we use which Debian can't or won't touch.

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Debian / State Of The Kernel Feb 2010

« on: February 26, 2010, 10:29:18 am »

It seems to me that the current state of the kernel as far as Debian on Zaurus is concerned is farcical.
It looks like Yonggun kernel development has ground to a halt, and my experiments with the Ubuntu kernel were not very promising.
In a lot of ways I would be happy to stick with the last Yonggun kernel, but the problem is that Debian has now moved forward and things are getting messy.

Users have got to stick with an old version of Udev and my gut feeling is that soon stuff is going to break which will result in users not having an upgradeable install.

So how do we move forward?

Is building an updated kernel for Zaurus something practical for end users? I'm pretty geeky but I don't think it will be easy to manage all the patches manually.

Is the Poky kernel a suitable candidate? I've seen it referred to, but has anyone tried it? I found the Ubuntu kernel "messy" with Debian on the Zaurus but I can't remember exactly what I didnt like about it.

Is anyone actively carrying out work on Yongguns sources?

Someone said that the problem is that charging is somehow broken with newer kernels, is this being worked on and by who?
Is there a freenode channel where people working on that hang out by any chance?

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Debian / Apt Pinning

« on: February 26, 2010, 10:22:58 am »

Thanks for the info, my udev is broken....any ideas on how to fix it?

Look at my post in the Udev and Kernel thread.

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Debian / Udev And Kernel

« on: December 07, 2009, 09:03:23 am »

This thread doesn't really go into much detail about how to fix the problem once it has occurred.
On my system, after a brief panic with some swearing thrown in for good measure, I immediately looked under /var/cache/apt/archives.
I saw 3 udev packages:

udev_146-6_armel.deb
udev_147-4_armel.deb
udev_147-5_armel.deb

I used "dpkg -i" to install the oldest of these and things seem to be working fine.
I immediately then took a copy of the .deb and placed it somewhere safe in /root so that if this happens again (which it will) I can quickly downgrade udev.

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Debian / Dosbox Mapper.txt

« on: November 30, 2009, 05:18:50 am »

Does anyone have a working "mapper.txt" file for Dosbox on Debian (specifically for C3200)?
It seems to be working well, but I can't for the life of me get the key mappings to work properly.

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Debian / Getting Rid Of Console Messages

« on: September 02, 2009, 05:35:11 am »

This works pretty well, but I recently got a Socket bluetooth card, and it seems to let through messages like:

"bscp_recv: Out-of-order packet arrived, got 1 expected 0"

Whatever the cause of these messages my card seems to work fine, but is there any way to get rid of them?

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Debian / Socket Bluetooth Cf Card Not Working (surprise!)

« on: August 07, 2009, 10:36:58 am »

Wicked idea!
I'll look in to this and see if I can figure it out.

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Debian / Socket Bluetooth Cf Card Not Working (surprise!)

« on: July 24, 2009, 05:22:19 pm »

Figured it out.
killall hciattach to sort out the hciattach, and pccardctl eject 1 to eject the card safely.

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Debian / Socket Bluetooth Cf Card Not Working (surprise!)

« on: July 24, 2009, 03:27:48 pm »

O.K.

I too have managed to get things working.
It's a lot better than my bluetooth dongle was, doesn't flap around all over the place.
One thing though, I cant seem to get it working after a suspend without a reboot.
Is there a trick to this that anyone knows?

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Ubuntu / Installing Cacko On Sd Partition

« on: May 01, 2009, 06:02:19 am »

I have cacko working from Nand, but a card installable cacko image, that worked from media more or less like zubuntu or angstrom would be really interesting, too.

I would imagine it wouldnt be any different. Just partition your SD card, extract the Cacko root fs to said partition, place a Cacko kernel in and appropriate kernel-cmdline in /boot on said partition and kexec-boot should be able to see it.

Is your Cacko installed in a kexec-boot system? Were my assumptions about the installation process correct (i.e. is it easy enough to find the kernel amongst the Cacko install "media", and will the kernel-cmdline work?

I have two C3200s and I have never made use of the NAND partition on either of them. What I have seen of the Sharp rom disgusts me, and I am not in the slightest bit interested in Cacko from what I know of it (no offense to the developer) but that funky cut down version of pdaxrom could be fun to have in NAND.

I would really love Poky in NAND too but I have no idea how you would do that.

To be honest NAND scares me just don't know much about how it is all laid out or if there is important stuff there...