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Debian / Getting Rid Of Console Messages

« on: January 25, 2009, 03:00:19 am »

I am running debian on zaurus in pure console mode (I find a gui pretty impractical for my use of the zaurus), but I am plagued with annoying messages spewed all over my console normally at the most inappropriate times!

The worst culpret is wifi which keeps writing diagnostic stuff all over whatever I am currently doing.

I've looked at the syslog config and I can't see anything obvious there, is there somewhere where I can turn this off?

To remove the message on the console, edit /etc/sysctl.conf and uncomment this line:

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kernel.printk = 4 4 1 7

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Software / Dillo 2 Is Out

« on: October 19, 2008, 10:55:19 am »

I might get around to building it for beta 1 sometime in the relatively near future. That should run on pdaXii13 for you.

I built it for debian. If you may be interested, you can try it. I also included fltk2 in the tarball. For screenshot, visit my blog.

Click here to download dillo2

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Debian / Customized New Rootfs

« on: August 13, 2008, 03:41:26 am »

Battery indicator is only half working, it says -1 minutes remaining.  I can see % remaining.

How do I fix that ?

I tried to read remaining time from zaurus but I couldn't do it with my short knowlege.

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Debian / [new] Kernel 2.6.24.4 With Cpufreq

« on: August 06, 2008, 10:01:57 am »

Can 20r0 please add the ip_table related modules to the kernel?

Check here. I added ip_table related modules.
http://yonggun.tistory.com/72

Yonggun

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Debian / Can't Install Debian.

« on: July 31, 2008, 09:44:47 am »

With all due respect, none of the tutorials I've tried have made it clear enough for me how exactly the installation procedure should go.

- I have u-boot installed.
- I have yonggun's Andromeda rootfs, with files: zImage-debian.bin, modules-debian.tgz, rootfs-debian.tgz, gnu-tar, updater.sh.
- I have (as far as I know) partitioned the MD to have a root and swap partition.

pdaXrom emergency system gives segmentation fault when I run fdisk /dev/hda, so I had to boot into pdaXrom to repartition the drive. Needless to say, my pdaXrom is gone.

What exactly am I supposed to do with all this?

Any help greatly appreciated...

The kernel is based on sharp boot loader but not u-boot.

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Debian / Snes9x

« on: July 31, 2008, 07:28:04 am »

This is snes9x that I patched and built. This works better with sound than snes9x from N800. If you want to play with full screen but slower, then use this option:

snes9x -h 85 -alt -r 4 -hi -x2 -xs 640 -ys 480 -ns

- yonggun

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Debian / Java

« on: July 29, 2008, 10:22:00 am »

Hi,

Anyone try java on this device? I am asking this because i found an application called mobile gmaps. This software is using java for GPS navigation. It run well on my mobile phone and i wanna use it on my zaurus.

There is 'openjdk-6-jre' in the official repo. The size of all related package is 158MB. I tested it with jEdit. It works but is slow. Good luck.

Yonggun

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Debian / [new] Kernel 2.6.24.4 With Cpufreq

« on: July 17, 2008, 03:17:09 am »

I think you mean July 16 and not August 16, right?

I fixed it  

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Debian / [new] Kernel 2.6.24.4 With Cpufreq

« on: July 16, 2008, 02:32:50 pm »

Updated: Jul. 16 2008
- RNDIS patch
- PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT and PRISM2_NON_VOLATILE_DOWNLOAD enabled
http://yonggun.tistory.com/72

Great work!   2or0,

One question:
Why are the ip_tables related modules gone in the newer kernel?

Can´t find them in the 2.6.24.3/4 kernel.

Did you check here?
\lib\modules\2.6.24.4-yonggun\kernel\net\ipv4

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Debian / Kernel Conf File For Kernel 2.6.24.4-yonggun

« on: July 12, 2008, 03:15:26 am »

If you have "mkimage", just give a command as following:

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mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0xa0008000 -e 0xa0008000 -n "Linux 2.6" -d zImage kernel.img

Where do I get "mkimage"?  I was trying the wrong one from the "jigdo" package. The right one seems to only come with u-boot which needs to be compiled specifically for zaurus?

I got it from pdaxrom stuff. I think any of them should work.

Sorry for being dense about this, but where can I find "mkimage" from pdaxrom stuff?  I tried looking in the liveCD and the builder, but no luck.  

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distri...axrom/download/


The closest thing I've found is

xchain-mkimage-u-boot.in
xchain-mkimage-u-boot.make
xchain-umkimage.make

from the builder, but this gives me:

"
copying i386-generic-glibc configuration
cp: cannot stat `config/i386-generic-glibc.ptxconfig': No such file or directory
make: *** [i386-generic-glibc_config] Error 1
"

when trying to run....

I built mkimage from the following source.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distri...t-1.1.4.tar.bz2

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Debian / Kernel Conf File For Kernel 2.6.24.4-yonggun

« on: July 04, 2008, 06:15:32 am »

If you have "mkimage", just give a command as following:

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mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0xa0008000 -e 0xa0008000 -n "Linux 2.6" -d zImage kernel.img

Where do I get "mkimage"?  I was trying the wrong one from the "jigdo" package. The right one seems to only come with u-boot which needs to be compiled specifically for zaurus?

I got it from pdaxrom stuff. I think any of them should work.

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Debian / Customized New Rootfs

« on: July 04, 2008, 06:12:42 am »

Maybe either manually format the drive beforehand or shred it for good measure. There may be FS/partition issues, and if you're nuking your current setup anyway...

Good idea, Capn!

Will try and start fresh....

 

This system automounts CF or SD using autofs modules. If it doesn't work, just remove it as following.
apt-get remove autofs
After rebooting the system, you can mount SD manually.

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Debian / Customized New Rootfs

« on: July 03, 2008, 06:57:14 pm »

Been trying to get this installed on my 3200, but so far no go....not sure why, hope someone can please advise...

I currently have Debian EABI installed and working OK on my 3200...so, did the following:

Downloaded file and copied the 5 extracted files onto SD card. At first I left the 'zImage-debian.bin.hda1' file with this filename and tried flashing.

As I understand, if you want to install to hda1 (internal drive) then you need to have a CF card inserted. So I put a CF in the 3200.

When I did flashing, I see the following:

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------ Universal Zaurus Updater r20-1 -------
MODEL:  SL-C3200 (c3x00)
Select the number of the partition to install Debian (1,2 or 3)
1.HDD1 2.HDD2 3.SD
1
Installing HDD root  file system
umount: /dev/hdc1: Invalid argument
* Now formatting
done
* Now extracting (this can take over 5m)....
Then after about 5 minutes, it's starts extracting lots of files.....then it reboots...

When I got to login prompt, I tried logging in as root, with no password as per instructions, but said incorrect password....so, when I tried the password for my current EABI install, it logged in OK....did startx and it went to IceWM desktop....so, realized that install did not work....

So, after realizing that I think I should have renamed 'zImage-debian.bin.hda1' to just 'zImage', I did that and tried install again....

When I did flashing, I see the following:

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------ Universal Zaurus Updater r20-1 -------
MODEL:  SL-C3200 (c3x00)
Select the number of the partition to install Debian (1,2 or 3)
1.HDD1 2.HDD2 3.SD
1
Installing HDD root  file system
umount: /dev/hdc1: Invalid argument
* Now formatting
done
* Now extracting (this can take over 5m)....
Then after about 5 minutes, it's starts extracting lots of files.....
also, on some items it says "Could not create directory: No such file or directory"....

then it reboots...

Should I have rename zImage file to 'zImage-debian' instead?

Decided to see if that would make a difference....and tried install again...

Same result, no install....

Can anyone please advise as to how to get this to install correctly?

Thanks!

The explanation in my blog is wrong. You need to follow ZDevil's post. or rename the files: zImage-debian.bin.hda1 ->zImage.bin, rootfs-debian.tgz->hdimage1.bin. Also take update.sh and gnu-tar from Angstrom webpage or ZDevil's post. If you finish this, then reflash it as you did for sharp rom. this is the easiest way, I think.

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Debian / Kernel Conf File For Kernel 2.6.24.4-yonggun

« on: July 03, 2008, 06:27:13 pm »

Sorry I've not did any image for uboot... maybe you can ask 2or0. He is very helpful.

Sent him PM. Thanks again for your help this far, very useful info.

uboot is not stable... why not use sharp?

Because I would like to port debian to other pxa boards besides zaurus, and u-boot can help to do this.  Unfortunately, I'm not very well versed with its mechanics, and I realize this probably isn't the thread for extensive u-boot discussion, although if I find a way to build the kernel for zaurus' u-boot, I think this is a reasonable place to put that info.

If you have "mkimage", just give a command as following:
[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0xa0008000 -e 0xa0008000 -n "Linux 2.6" -d zImage kernel.img[/div]

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Debian / Customized New Rootfs

« on: June 22, 2008, 05:02:40 pm »

-is it "andromeda" possible or worth to applied for model c700?

Now the main kernel of Andromeda is 2.6.24.4-yonggun which only works on Cxx00 but not Cxx0. If you want to use it, you need the kernel for c700 and should modify this rootfs. Following might be useful for you.
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25663

-it is really a standard debian system?
  Previously I've tried a lot of roms, and finally those died. Why? Simply 'cause
  upon my extra needs I started to heavily modify them, but with each 'n every
  update (eg. libc, x-devel environment, path-relocation due to storage issues, etc)
  I got closer to the end. Finally there always were a barrier (outdating, inconsistency,
  broken packages, etc).
  Will "andromeda-debian" assure long time maintanance in standard debian way?

Yes, this is a standard debian system.

-if this "andromeda" is such succesful, as I find, why there are other "rom" experiments?
  (well, why not) What do they know, what more do they offer what makes them vital
  to be considered using a zaurus gadget? (in other words: what "andromeda" lacks?)

Since Debian eabi is ported from pc-based system, it has many dependencies which may not be used in zaurus. So the size of Debian system is much bigger and heavier than those of angstrom or pdaXrom which are targeted for the embedded system.