Hi,
after quite a bit of positive responses from the thread about my experiences with pdaXii13v2, I gave a try to r198 once again. I will try to document my experiences again, together with my solutions. I am not sure whether I should put all this to a bug tracking system (is there one? it seems so, but I probably have to register at pdaxrom.org, do I?).
[size=]First touches - U-boot and install[/size]- the step-by-step guide does not seem to be up-to-date, therefore I followed the quick install guide at
http://www.pdaxrom.org/?q=docs/installation/quickguide.
- BTW on my C1000 the system menu (the one with 4 options in Japanese, or U-boot loader) appears only when 1) unplug all the power, 2) press the reset button after 5 sec., 3) hold OK button, 4) at the same time plug-in the power cord (still hold OK), 5) press the power up button while still holding OK. And 6) then be patient, because the screen will show something after some 3-5 seconds. If impatient, you can press power button again what will cause a preliminary shut-down again...
- after successful install of the U-Boot loader there's a kind of bug in the system. Trying to run
[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ ls /mnt/cf[/div]
reliably crashes the system. What works (after a restart) is [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ cd /mnt/cf
$ ./autoboot.sh .[/div] i.e. first "cd" and only then you can do "ls". Otherwise it crashes...
[size=]First boot[/size]- after the first boot, pdaXrom install asks whether to add a new user. Of course I did that! It finally asks for a login/passwd. I provided the new user credentials and then (after being greeted by a warning screen about my rights ) ran "startx". Something strange appeared. It seems to be window maker, or that kind of thing. 2 cyan windows with some english interleaved with unknown characters. And of course uncalibrated stylus! No way to make this work... So a reboot was needed...
- after reboot, I logged as root and ran "startx". I got the calibration screen and everything worked well...
[size=]WLAN[/size]Of course the first thing to do is to configure the network connection...
- first thing is the orinoco vs. hostap confusion. My D-Link DCF 660W cannot be activated. [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ ifconfig wlan0 up[/div] yields nothing.
- knowing what to do, I immediatelly uninstalled the orinoco driver: [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ ipkg remove orinoco[/div]
- then reinsert the card (or re-activate using card applet) and [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ ifconfig wlan0 up[/div] starts the card well.
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bug?: trying to configure the card and immediately a problem!
wpa_supplicant is not installed by default!!! That's bad... fortunately at least "dhcpd" is there...
- take the CF card to my laptop and download wpa_supplicant from the
r198 feed to it
- insert the CF card into the Z and see whether it mounts automagicaly... Somehow no... Why? [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ ls /mnt/cf[/div] yields nothing. Maybe it's normal. I do not complain... But the card is identified by the card applet (Toshiba THNCF256MPG - actually, it's Hama 256MB, but that's alright, probably Hama uses Toshiba chips). So [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ mount /mnt/cf[/div] solves the problem.
- so running [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ ipkg install wpa-supplicant...ipk[/div], everything seems to be OK.
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bug?:let's edit the
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf config file by [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ vim /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf[/div], and there we are.
vim is not installed! OK, not everybody is into
vim. So what is there? nano, pico, joe, emacs, jed... Nothing... Is there any suitable editor pre-installed??? Leafpad... At least...
- although actually I do not need it, right? This [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ wpa_passphrase ESSID PASSWD > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf[/div] should make it right away...
- then [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']$ ifconfig wlan0 up ; wpa_supplicant -Dhostap -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B ; sleep 5 ; dhcpcd -t 30 -h HOSTNAME wlan0 ; ping pdaxrom.org[/div] makes it as a fresh breeze. Done and network is up...
[size=]Packages[/size]- open Package Manager and see what goes on... Nothing... The only pre-configured feed is cacko-unstable and even that one does not work... Nada, zero, nic...
- so let's try to upgrade to
SP8. Download to SD card, then install... Done.
- Package manager now correctly lists some feeds. Great...
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bug?: what is not nice, is in the package manager that the top-right listbox ("Install on ...") somehow goes out of the window... In the normal mode, as well as in the maximized window.
- what is nice, I obviously have 70MB free on my NAND root partition. With pdaXii13v2 it was about 30. Possibly I had a lot of pre-installed software which now I will put mostly to the SD card...
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feature request: unclutter could be in the pre-installed package, couldn't it? In the end, this is a touch-screen, so no need for the cursor anyway (most of the time)...
[size=]Misc[/size]- checking menu and icons... Icon set is beautiful, I like it very much...
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config bug?: menu is somehow weird. Settings goes below the screen edge! The same for Applications, which on the first place contains "Exit". Hmmm... Does it belong there at all?
- when I press the power button the screen shows some white stripes on shut-down as well as on power-up. It was not present in pdaXii13v2. I mean, I do not mind, but somehow it is not very aesthetic...
- When I turned the display, I noticed there's an almost invisibly small text written on the background in OpenBox. Nice one ... But I suspect a typo in there:
---pdaXrom - the rom with at twist --- www.pdaxrom.org ---. I guess, that "at" is a typo, isn't it?
[size=]Conclusion[/size]- all in all, this r198 seems to be pretty usable version already... I am going to give it a try... Could somebody tell me where can I report such issues/testing results like I list here? Is this a stuff for bugtracker?
