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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Updated Hentges Kernel On Poodle

« on: November 12, 2006, 02:25:31 pm »

Hello,
I also couldn't flash it.
When I tried to install, the process that try to descompress gnu-tar, I think, shows me a messages like "permission denied" and stops the installation. I, and all poodle users, would like a little guide more detailed how to intall.
For example, I have a question, is it necessary to install from CF to SD ? Or can I have the kernel, update.sh ,etc .. on SD and install to SD ?

Thanks for all.
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That should make things more clear:
[a href=\"http://blog.hentges.net/?page_id=90]http://blog.hentges.net/?page_id=90[/url]

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Restablishing Usb Networking After A Suspend

« on: November 11, 2006, 06:33:30 am »

First, I'd like to thank the developers of OZ, GPE, and Opie, and also give a big round of applause to CoreDump.  The software is so much better than when I tried it a year ago!

Well, my round of applause goes to the countless anonymous developers working on OpenEmbedded  

My Z is a C1000 running hentges gpe 1.0.0-wip-20061029. 

There are updates available to -wip-20061108 or so (use the dist-upgrade script to..err..upgrade the distro) However, these updates to not mess w/ USB at all IIRC

My PC is running Kubuntu 6.06.  I got TCP/IP over USB working, mostly following the instructions at http://wiki.openzaurus.org/HowTos/Bridging_with_Ubuntu .  My Z is set to connect with usb0 using dhcp, and it works.  (Yay!)

Well, mostly.  I have to

# modprobe g_ether

on the Z to make it connect.  Indeed, judging from the system logs, my PC doesn't even see the Z until I do that.  

Last time I checked, it was impossible to auto-load g_ether on cable-insertion (udev didn't pick up the client cable). And since g_ether conflicts with other client and host modules, we can not load it by default.

Now then, I was surprized to see that the network connection was lost and could not be re-established after the Z suspended.  I unplugged and replugged the USB cable; I tried 'ifdown'ing then 'ifup'ing usb0 on the Z, and doing the same with br0 on the PC, but it didn't work.

I finally found that I could

# modprobe -r g_ether
# modprobe g_ether

on the Z to restore the connection.  This seems very much like a hack -- surely I am doing something wrong, and there is a more elegant way to recover from suspending.  Isn't there?

No there isn't  
USB pretty much dies during a suspend / resume cycle and indeed the only way to ressurect it is to rmmod / modprobe some modules. IIRC hentges already has such a work-around in place (check /etc/apm.d) but it is likely to not touch the g_ether module. You may want to have a look at /etc/hutils.conf if the USB work-around on resume is enabled for akita, and which modules are unloaded / reloaded.

BTW, how do I view the system logs under GPE?  Utilities | System Info | Log Display | System Log does not appear to show usb kernel messages.  dmesg shows some usb stuff, but I don't know how to 'tail' it, and don't know if it is only boot-time info.  /var/log does not contain 'messages'.

sys-logging to /var/log has been disabled to reduce disk-access on NAND storage.

Code: [Select]

dmesg | less
should work fine on hentges at least  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 09, 2006, 10:45:32 am »

Also users running into Opies cursed medium-mount bug should be happy to hear that this bug should no longer occur with the new images.
EDIT: Well, at least on Poodle it should be gone...

I'm sorry to have to tell you that the damn bug is still there... and 'ipkg remove opie-mediummount' shows 'no package found nothing to do'  

So I will use my old hack again.  

Thanks

Greg
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You have a new personal message.
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I don't see the medium-mount bug on my Poodle with the latest snapshot.  Thanks coredump!

One question.  opie-qss is installed, but still no sound.  Do I have to do something with alsa?  What packages do I need and what is the procedure?
Thanks.

-Phil
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Sound worked out of the box when I last tried a clean image  

Please check if
cat /usr/share/sounds/beep.raw and mplayer /usr/share/sounds/gaim/$SOME_WAVE_FILE produce sound on your System.

If not you may need to play with "alsamixer".

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 09, 2006, 09:40:46 am »

Also users running into Opies cursed medium-mount bug should be happy to hear that this bug should no longer occur with the new images.
EDIT: Well, at least on Poodle it should be gone...

I'm sorry to have to tell you that the damn bug is still there... and 'ipkg remove opie-mediummount' shows 'no package found nothing to do'  

So I will use my old hack again.  

Thanks

Greg
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You have a new personal message.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 09, 2006, 09:37:44 am »

Has there been any improvements to altboot?
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Sure, just search for it: [a href=\"http://www.openembedded.org/bonsai/query/description/altboot/]http://www.openembedded.org/bonsai/query/d...iption/altboot/[/url]
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Wow, that's one nice link for me to bookmark, thanks!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 09, 2006, 09:36:37 am »

Has there been any improvements to altboot? ie. is kexec integrated and allows booting to different (older) kernel?

I want to completely reflash my C3000 and plan to put OZ bootstrap onto it (the first partition of the microdrive) as a pseudo bootloader which then boots loop images of Hentges GPE and Hentges OPIE from the second or third partition on the microdrive. In addition, I also want to boot pdaXrom beta4/r121 from a CF card which shouldn't be a problem since the kernel is similar in this release. However, the tricky bit is that I also want to boot the older 2.4 based version of pdaXrom as well. How can this be achieved? The C3000 version of pdaXrom was using a borrowed pivot boot from OZ so I am hoping that altboot and kexec can be used to achieve something similar
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AFAIK altboot does not support multiple partitions on a MD out of the box.
Also kexec support is less than ideal currently.

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General Discussion / Fic Neo 1973 Linux Gps Phone

« on: November 08, 2006, 02:59:09 pm »

What more do you want than an affordable, hackable and open phone running our favorite OS?

Rumor has it that its OpenEmbedded support will be quite good from the get-go

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 08, 2006, 02:05:49 pm »

Also users running into Opies cursed medium-mount bug should be happy to hear that this bug should no longer occur with the new images.
EDIT: Well, at least on Poodle it should be gone...

I'm sorry to have to tell you that the damn bug is still there... and 'ipkg remove opie-mediummount' shows 'no package found nothing to do'  

So I will use my old hack again.  

Thanks

Greg
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Well, that stinks  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 08, 2006, 06:49:22 am »

I encountered the decor issue. I found that my external root home was no longer mounted as /home/root.

Got it back through an /etc/.<some hentges file> edition before some init script rerun. Can't remember which file, but I'm giving a clue.
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The decor issue is planned for the next upgrade  
I'll also look at the extroot script.

FWIW, /media/root is beeing converted to /media/home/root. /media/home/ is then mounted as /home

Fresh images for all machines [a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/snapshots/Hentges-ROM/1.0.0/20061108/]are online[/url].

The images contain all updates from the hentges feeds. Also users running into Opies cursed medium-mount bug should be happy to hear that this bug should no longer occur with the new images.
EDIT: Well, at least on Poodle it should be gone...

I've also pushed a new upgrade into the feeds fxing the following bugs:

- altboots no longer prints modprobe / insmod messages on some machines
- The rootfs partition on Poodle and Collie is now automatcally fsck'ed on boot
- The root-partition on Poodle is no longer mounted twice
- The medium-mount bug of Opie should be history (thanks to hvontres)

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 07, 2006, 06:42:47 pm »

For future reference: If you get hit by the medium-mount dialog bug do the following:

- Reset the machine
- Do not let the Opie GUI start but press a button during the 5 second window
- Login as "root" (no password)
- Enter "ipkg remove opie-mediummount" and hit return
- Launch Opie with "/etc/init.d/opie start"

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 07, 2006, 04:14:28 pm »

PLEASE IGNORE THE BIT ABOUT PACKAGES. I speak much rubbish!!!! The bit about the decor is still OK.

Sorry

Samac
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No worry, these packages were never intended to be re-installed so some breakage was to be expected.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 07, 2006, 03:15:31 pm »

Can you set up opie to not build medium-mount? As far as I can see it's used with the Doc Tab, which itself is not all that usefull....
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I wonder if that's possible w/o breaking to much stuff? I'll have a look  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 07, 2006, 03:06:00 pm »

Well, what can I say. This bug in Opie is driving me [span style=\'font-size:21pt;line-height:100%\']NUTS[/span].

CoreDump

The simple hack I used was to include a copy of '.opiestorage.cf' in your hentges-xxx.rootfs.tar.gz  

Your dist-upgrade works very well for me.

Thanks

Greg
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Heh good one  
That however fails as soon as the user has a second partition on that card (which will be mounted as /media/card and OF COURSE trigger this blasted bug)

The worst part is that Hentges already had a work-around for this idiocy in place, which somehow stopped working about a year ago *sigh*.

I guess I'll use some udev magic to install ".opiestorage.cf" where needed.

EDIT:

By the way, the next upgrade will pull in a working auto-fsck of the rootfs on boot for Poodle and Spitz.

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General Discussion / Fic Neo 1973 Linux Gps Phone

« on: November 07, 2006, 02:10:39 pm »

this seems like something weve all been waiting for.  Maybe fic will be the successor to sharp ...?
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So that has been mickeys secret  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 07, 2006, 01:27:30 pm »

Hi CoreDump,
  Thanks for the work on Poodle. I flashed this new image and I'm sure it works fine, but on first boot, I get the pop up asking me what I want to do with the detected SD card, but it is too big for the screen and is immovible. I can't seem to use the arrow keys or tab to get to the "OK" button to make it go away. Any ideas?

Thanks,
   ennui719

edit:  Oh I see you are already on this... see post https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=21910
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Well, what can I say. This bug in Opie is driving me [span style=\'font-size:21pt;line-height:100%\']NUTS[/span].