Dual Booting pdaX from SD

[jerrybme]

Just put a new kernel in my desktop machine so hopefully I\'ll have better luck at extracting ROMs now and won\'t have to reflash to get new tarballs. Would really like to get pdaX running under X/Qt though

Stu

Hmm, you think the newer kernel will help. Which kernel did you upgrade to?
I couldn\'t get the extracted fs from a mounted initrd.bin to work from my laptop with Mandrake 10 with 2.6.3 (I think).  Let me know if you get it work.
Thanks,
Jerry

[dahukanna]

I would like to try this on a C860 using Cacko 1.21 \"Elena\" and  pdaxrom SD tarball from this thread.  How do format my SD card to ext2 ?

[jerrybme]

I would like to try this on a C860 using Cacko 1.21 \"Elena\" and  pdaxrom SD tarball from this thread.  How do format my SD card to ext2 ?

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umount /dev/mmcda1

mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcda1
Then remove SD card & reinsert it.

I sent anonuk a tarball of the newer version of pdaXrom for use on SD. Hopefully he\'ll post a link soon.

Jerry

[dahukanna]

Jerry, Thanks for the tip.  How big is the new tarball? I\'d rather use the latest. How can I get my hands on it ? D.

[jerrybme]

Jerry, Thanks for the tip.  How big is the new tarball? I\'d rather use the latest. How can I get my hands on it ? D.

Weighs in around 19 megs. I can\'t get the ZUG upload area to work, tried both firefox & ie without luck.
Jerry

[anonuk]

Tarball for the 1.05 pdaXrom (courtesy of Jerrybme) is available (for the moment) at the following url:

http://www.webspinners.co.il/pdaxrom/pdaX-...1.0.5-SD.tar.gz

the script for dualbooting (courtesy of Stubear and others) is also there at:

http://www.webspinners.co.il/pdaxrom/Dual_..._boot_files.zip

If someone can mirror these files or upload them to ZUG it would be much appreciated, not sure how much bandwidth i can afford this month :-)

[anonuk]

Jerry, my wifi card isnt working properly either with the 1.05, only with the 1.00 release - so it isnt just your card, it finds it in console mode, but not in xwindows. Also have you managed to get either the suspend or rotation features working, neither autorotation or any suspend type work for me, any ideas?

[jerrybme]

Jerry, my wifi card isnt working properly either with the 1.05, only with the 1.00 release - so it isnt just your card, it finds it in console mode, but not in xwindows. Also have you managed to get either the suspend or rotation features working, neither autorotation or any suspend type work for me, any ideas?

I could only get the suspend & auto rotation to work when I had the pdaXrom kernel flashed into internal memory. However that\'s not practical as the pdaXrom kernel doesn\'t work with Cacko ROM, the digitizer is all screwed up so screen taps do not work. I think we\'ll have to wait for sash & maslovsky to use a compatible kernel. Perhaps someone with better linux skills than I can roll a custom kernel that\'ll work. However maslovsky has said a compatible kernel is his goal after the next release of the next Cacko ROM.

It concerns me that your Wifi worked with the 1.0.0 version & not with the one I tarred. I might have done something that broke the wireless.  :cry: Stu might want to take a look at what I did, since I used his tarball as a source of fixes to get this to work. I used the startx, and rc.rofilesys from his tarball, not clear why/how that\'d screw up wifi, though.
Jerry

[anonuk]

maybe a stupid suggestion, but perhaps it is because you are tarring to a cf card and this is blocking the socket? i cant seem to mount any cf cards with the pdaxrom 1.05 on SD either as well as the wifi problem. Maybe try tarring it to SD instead - i attempted this but failed to produce a good working version of the tar.gz it booted with various errors.

In xcardinfo it shows socket 0 as empty regardless (although it registers the insertions and removals of the card in the log window) whereas in the other version (and when flashed natively) it showed the wifi card in socket 0. cardctl ident works in the console though....

[Stubear]

I think it might be a kernel issue, we know that the pdaX kernel is different for fbdev and it\'s likely that the modules for wifi may also be different.

I don\'t have wifi to test, but you could try copying the modules from zaurus to SD card and see if that helps.

Stu

[anonuk]

the wifi worked fine for me with your 1.0 tarball, just not with the new 1.05 tarball - thats why i thought it wasn\'t to do with the kernel but the tar.gz instead. I think ill stick with 1.0 installed for the moment with working wifi, and keep fiddling with 1.05 to try and get the wifi going well....

[jerrybme]

Wifi not working with the tarball I made is definately a kernel issue. To test it, I flashed the pdaXrom kernel and sure enough, wifi worked fine. However, now rotation is not working, nor is suspend. Unless, I\'m going crazy, I thought on an earlier test last week, they were working with my tarball & the pdaXrom kernel.  But I\'ve done so much flashing - no, not that kind , in the last week trying different combinations and different extractions it might have worked with a different tarball (in my earlier versions I didn\'t exclude /proc & /dev when tarring). When I get a chance I\'ll use Stu\'s 1.0 version to see if I can get my Symbol card to work with the Cacko kernel.

Jerry

[raduga]

has any progress been made toward making this possible?

Using either QT or pdaXrom kernel?

Stubear I believe had this running at some point;
was going to release a tarball of the QT environment....

Is it possible to have pdaXrom on flash, and QT working from SD?
(preferably with pdaXrom\'s native kernel...)

There have been reports of screen corruption and TS calibration issues;
the latter I can live with.

(I have a few QT apps that I run occasionally, that don\'t really need TS input)

Stubear: if you have any tarballs of a working QT-on-sd environment, I\'d love to see them.

Possibly with the next pdaxrom kernel things may be easier....

[jerrybme]

raduga:
I\'ve got it working with pdaXrom on SD, wifi will work with pdaXrom 1.0 (stubear\'s tarball), with 1.0.5 wifi, rotation don\'t work. Plus both versions have calibration issues in pdaXrom.

Stubear never reported getting QT on SD to work, maybe he\'s still working on it...

I\'m waiting for the next version of either Cacko or pdaXrom in the hopes of the kernel being able to work with either. maslovsky has mentioned his hope to use the same kernel, keeping my fingers crossed  ..

[raduga]

raduga:
I\'ve got it working with pdaXrom on SD, wifi will work with pdaXrom 1.0 (stubear\'s tarball), with 1.0.5 wifi, rotation don\'t work. Plus both versions have calibration issues in pdaXrom.  
..

I have it working in the same configuration, with slightly more success.

The calibration issues are due to an old X server that doesn\'t appear to play well with the  QT kernel.  (The standard X server is even worse)

Are the calibration values hardcoded?  I can\'t seem to recalibrate at all.

The problem with 1.0.5 networking (maybe rotation too) is definitely one of modules;  I copied over the /lib/modules/ from the QT side of things,
and replaced pdaxrom\'s on SD, and everything worked great.

pdaXrom runs even better on SD, with its native kernel /X server; though I haven\'t used it long enough to see if SD writes are a major bottleneck.