X11 and qtopia both

[chuckr]

I\'m looking for some help on my project.  I\'m trying to get X11 working side by side with one of the framebuffer-style giu\'s (like qtopia) so you we can have access to all the great X11 software, and all the PIM apps we paid for with the Zaurus.  This has been a long involved thing that\'s involved a new Xserver, chaning the xdm displatch method, chaninging virtual terminals, and remapping the keyboard in and out of X.

I have all the initial parts working now, X is switching on and off vt3, to the logins I have active on vt2 and vt1 just fine.  I\'m ready to begin the part for qtopia.  My Zaurus is all loaded up with my work env, though, and I don\'t want to trash everything just to get to the qtopia software.

I\'m running Cacko\'s X11, so that seems like maybe a good place to start for the qtopia part (althgough I\'m not very stubborn about that).  If you would like to see this project go forward, I can only program this on the weekends, so please, if you could get the pieces somewhere that I could download them it would really be appreciated.  Understand, just giving me the huge zip is totally worthless to me, I need to get INSIDE the initrd.bin, what\'s installed on your Z once you finish the flashing.

If your Z is on the net somwhere you could give me access (like I\'\'ve done for other folks already here and there) that would be great, but remember I\'ll be doing  a lot of startup downloading from you.  I don\'t expect the qtopia side to work, initially, any more than I did the X11 side of it.

Thanks. :oops:  This is a copy of another post, where I forgot to give a subject.  Very sorry!

[lardman]

I can only assume you have a linux box, what about rombursting the ospack file and mounting the initrd.bin as a cramfs fs?

Or you could grab an OZ initrd.bin and mount it as a jffs2 fs:

modprobe mtdblock
modprobe mtdram -o total_size=16384
modprobe jffs2
dd if=initrd.bin of=/dev/mtdblock/0
mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock/0 mnt/initrd


Si

[chuckr]

You\'re right, I have the Z usb-connected to a rh9 host.  Scott told me to go look at romburst, but it seems to want rom sizes that were incorrect for the 760.  I may have read it wrong... I\'ll go give it another look.

I had to do keymapping *twice*, because the method that worked for X11, once I used it to switch to a non-x11 vt, wouldn\'t work to switch back again.  I\'m really glad I compiled all the kbd-1.12 apps (including loadkeys and dumpkeys) because I think maybe I *might* now have a method that could work for qtopia, also, maybe.  Won\'t know until I get qtopia loaded.

If you\'re running one of the non-X11 roms, could I ask you to mail me a ps -ef listing, I want to see what the executables I\'ll need are.  I don\';t want to have to load my own machine with it (and lose the environment I have now).  Maybe I should just bite the bullet, I\'m not being bowled over by offers of help.

A lot of the executables I\'ve compiled, Absentia has stuck up on www.spy.org (he let me have a directory there).  you might take a look.  I just got Rsync working, Absentia tested it, perhaps thats a way to ease the pain of reloading and losing my environment.

Anyway, it\'s very exciting tosee the X11 switching so painlessly, finally.

[lardman]

Scott told me to go look at romburst, but it seems to want rom sizes that were incorrect for the 760. I may have read it wrong... I\'ll go give it another look.  

Sorry, you didn\'t specify what type of ROM you were after. I\'m afraid I don\'t know anything about the C machines.

Good luck though,


Si

[ScottYelich]

ya, he\'s looking for the contents of the zImage.bin and initrd, etc.  
perhaps he could talk to the OZ devs -- they seem very much on top of those files.. etc.

the files he has made are available at: zaurus.spy.org/chuckr

Scott

[cider101]

@chuckr,
now i\'m going probably to look stupid but anyway....
do you need a tar-ball of the full z running the stock sharp rom ? is that what you need ?