Hardware Keyboard Works In Debian But Not Oz/gpe

[mitt]

I've installed debian pocketworkstation on my SD card on my SL-5500.  It also has running OZ/GPE 3.5.3.

Some strange things have occured to GPE as time has passed after installing debian.  The ctrl-c used to work on the software keyboard to terminate apps in the console, but now it opens the calender.  The hardware keyboard does absolutely nothing in GPE, so I have to use the software one exclusively.  The only hardware key that has any response in GPE is the on/off cancel button, which I am glad is working correctly to suspend the PDA.

The debian environment, which I run from a terminal window in GPE is able to use the hardware keyboard flawlessly, as well as the on/off button, the arrow keys, etc.

The problem started after debian froze one time and I had to do a hard reset (battery replace switch).

I don't mind about not having keyboard in GPE because right now I only use it to get into debian, but I hope in the future to boot to just an OZ console and start debian from there, not loading GPE at all, and I'm worried that I'll figure out how to get it to boot to the console but I won't be able to log in or anything because the keyboard won't work.  (speaking of which, if anyone knows how to exit GPE to a console that would be helpful).

[lardman]

Doesn't debian steal the /dev entries & place them somewhere else?

Perhaps this is messing things up?

I presume the hardware keyboard worked before installing debian.


Si

P.S. What do you need from debian that's not in GPE?

[mitt]

Doesn't debian steal the /dev entries & place them somewhere else?

I don't know, but that would certainly cause some of the dev things to not work, if debian crashed, it seems.  Do you have any idea of how I could get them back?\

P.S. What do you need from debian that's not in GPE?
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Well, I mainly want to use the zaurus for mobile developement, of which I need mainly to use gcc, SDL, and portaudio, which the debian thing can do quite well after i apt-get them.  Apt-get is also really a nice package system.  I also like the transparent keyboard better on debian, and I like to be able to have a desktop larger than the screen, which I can zoom in and out of, and when you zoom out it has nice anti-aliased fonts. It's also nice because I can install any sort of linux programs and not worry about their layout not fitting on the screen or something, because I can just zoom out until it fits.

THe thing I dislike about it is that it doesn't directly access the hardware, and some other rom must be running under it, so it's not as fast (I presume) as it could be if it were the base rom.  Though I think exiting out of GPE will help, whenever I figure out how to do it.