Howto: Zubuntu Installation On Sl-c760

[BerndS]

Hi,

after getting Zubuntu to work on my SL-C760 with a lot of help from this forum I've created a detailed description about the steps that are necessary to install Zubuntu on the SL-C760:

http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/z...he_SL_C760.html

The description is in German language but hopefully it's useful for non-german speakers only ... If not , let me know and I'll create an english translation.

Thanks again for the gread help from this forum to get this working

regards

Bernd

[wrc4]

Thanks for sharing. I will try this tonight on my sl-c760 variation: SL-7500C. BTW, google web page translation helped because I don't read Germany.

[BerndS]

Thanks for sharing. I will try this tonight on my sl-c760 variation: SL-7500C. BTW, google web page translation helped because I don't read Germany.

Let me know how it's going so that I can update the webpage if neccessary

regards

Bernd

[wrc4]

Let me know how it's going so that I can update the webpage if neccessary

regards

Bernd

It went pretty well. I just took my previous installation and applied your changes. Touch screen worked pretty well. I was also able to use USB network to connect to the internet via my Windows XP box.

However, rtc is NOT working for me. Everytime I reboot it went back to 1970. The other issue is that when I leave the device in sleep mode for a while and turn it back on, sometimes X will freeze or go blank. The only way to get out of it seems to be pulling out the battery. I was able to get sound with your alsamixer settings but for only for one channel.

I will try more things later.

[danr]

I've used Zubuntu and Debian, and I've also noticed that X sometimes crashes when turning the device on after suspending.  I can ssh into it, but that's not much consolation if I'm away from a PC.

My solution? Install xdm, so that if X crashes, it restarts itself straight away.

The only downside to this approach is that after reboot xdm kicks in and the touch screen doesn't work correctly, so I make sure a terminal is loaded immediately (edit .xsession to do this - just copy the contents of .xinitrc first), and then I can do

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']/etc/init.d/xdm stop[/div]

to stop xdm and go back to the command line.  Then I log in again, and do

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']/etc/init.d/xdm start[/div]

which gives X all the environmental variables necessary to get the touch screen working correctly.

Dan

[BerndS]

Hi,

It went pretty well. I just took my previous installation and applied your changes. Touch screen worked pretty well. I was also able to use USB network to connect to the internet via my Windows XP box.

However, rtc is NOT working for me. Everytime I reboot it went back to 1970.

Did you issue the date -u command and the hwclock command?

Looks like the -u is mandatory to make the time persistent

The other issue is that when I leave the device in sleep mode for a while and turn it back on, sometimes X will freeze or go blank. The only way to get out of it seems to be pulling out the battery. I was able to get sound with your alsamixer settings but for only for one channel.

Hmm, I did not try the supsend / resume with Zubunutu in depth.

regards

Bernd

[Chero]

Thanks for the great manual.
All up and running (Jaunty 9.04) on a C860.

Gnumeric, Galculator, Sylpheed, pidgin, even gnome-games (I love tetravex), ... everything seems to work !

Having fun,
Chero.

[WolfpacK]

Hello, I am having trouble booting into Zubuntu on my c860. I installed the kernel from the omegamoon blog and extracted the zubuntu root fs onto a 2g sd card. But I can't figure out the contents of the kernel-cmdline file. What should the kernel-cmdline file contain? I tried using the kernel-cmdline mentioned in this guide but that would only return me to the bootmenu selection after selecting Zubuntu.

Please, if somebody can help me out here I would really appreciate it. Thank You.

[YoG]

Hello, I am having trouble booting into Zubuntu on my c860. I installed the kernel from the omegamoon blog and extracted the zubuntu root fs onto a 2g sd card. But I can't figure out the contents of the kernel-cmdline file. What should the kernel-cmdline file contain? I tried using the kernel-cmdline mentioned in this guide but that would only return me to the bootmenu selection after selecting Zubuntu.

Please, if somebody can help me out here I would really appreciate it. Thank You.

I didn't have to edit anything for it to work. I just extracted the root fs (you can get the 9.04 one from here), and then the machine specific root addition (from here). And everything worked out of the box...