Kathrin RC2 available now

[Zumi]

Got Kathrin-RC2 running on my c 700   
reflashed root partition to 40 MB - works like a charm

great work!

Denis

I comfirm this. 40 MB root partition is the key! Woohoo! It's working well!
Thanks!

Zumi

[alan]

does this mean that ashley's one partition script doesn't work with this RC2 ?

[Reaper]

And some of us are in dire need of Cyrillic fonts for console & browser. Fonts from 1.0.5 don't work and make the screen garbled - had to reflash.

Three other errors:

1) I was unable to perform a cold start of my 760 with AC adapter plugged in - only from a battery. That's VERY strange error, but I'll check error reports on pdaXrom.org to see if others encountered it. And if I select suspend when on AC power it also freezes. The last power-related error is that my Z doesn't seem to charge when running X11. After reflashing it had approx. 70 % of battery. Then, after 3-hour working on AC, it has only 15%!   Check the matter of this.

2) Right Shift doesn't work.

3) My TE-CF100 card which worked perfectly with 1.0.5 always goes to suspend so it's impossible to use it. Even cardctl reset doesn't help.

Later Maslovsky solved the third error (with CF LAN card) by typing:

cardctl resume; cardctl scheme qpewlan0

See if it helps others who have similar problems

[rgrep]

Firstly I like to say a big thanks to Sash, Laze and all the pdaXrom crew for this excellent new ROM.  I can't wait for the final release, I know it will kickass!

It's great to see that the ipkg script bug has been fixed, but unfortunately the script still isn't quite right.  Please refer to the patch below.

The first two bugs are just missing the '\n' (which were stripped off when I posted my original bug report).  The last bug is my mistake so sorry about that, I obviously didn't test it as well as I claimed I had.

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--- ipkg.kathrin        2004-08-19 20:44:22.000000000 +1200
+++ ipkg.kathrin.fixed  2004-08-19 20:51:39.000000000 +1200
@@ -546,14 +546,14 @@

                local maybe_new_pkgs=
                for pkg in $new_deps; do
-                       if ! echo $installed_pkgs | tr " " " " | grep -q "^$pkg$"; then
+                       if ! echo $installed_pkgs | tr " " "\n" | grep -q "^$pkg$"; then
                                maybe_new_pkgs="$maybe_new_pkgs $pkg"
                        fi
                done

                new_pkgs=
                for pkg in $maybe_new_pkgs; do
-                       if ! echo $all_deps | tr " " " " | grep -q "^$pkg$"; then
+                       if ! echo $all_deps | tr " " "\n" | grep -q "^$pkg$"; then
                                if [ -z "`ipkg_info $pkg`" ]; then
                                        echo "ipkg_depends: Warning: $pkg mentioned in dependency but no package found in $IPKG_LISTS_DIR" >&2
                                else
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@
        local pkg=`ipkg_file_part $filename | sed 's/\([a-zA-Z0-9.+-]\+\)_.*/\1/'`

        # Check dependencies
-       local depends=`ipkg_depends $pkg | sed -e "s/^$pkg$//" -e "s/^$pkg //" -e "s/ $pkg$ / /" -e "s/ $pkg$//"`
+       local depends=`ipkg_depends $pkg | sed -e "s/^$pkg$//" -e "s/^$pkg //" -e "s/ $pkg / /" -e "s/ $pkg$//"`

        # Don't worry about deps that are scheduled for installation
        local missing_deps=
Thanks,

Matt

P.S. I've added this as a bug report on pdaXrom.org.  This forum does a much better job of rendering code than the bug system though.

[vogon1]

Hi,

I installed Kathrin, and I like it!
I found 2 things so far:
1 - ppp dealer does not work for me, see bug 106
2 - I installed Gnumeric on SD, together with lots of Gnome stuff. It didn't work because libraries were not found. I solved it by adding /mnt/card/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf. I don't know if it is a bug, or whether I did something wrong.

Any ideas?

Oh, and the patch from the previous poster for ipkg is necessary to prevent all kinds of circular dependencies...

Sietse

[jerrybme]

Didn't see the following issues on the bug list, so not sure if they are only user-stupidity or true bugs:

%< snip

In past versions I've been able to modify the ipkg.config to point to a feed on my CF. I tried both manually and using the Pakage Meneger to configure a new feed, I get this error

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/mnt/cf/feed/Packages: Unsupported scheme.ipgk_download: ERROR: Failed to retrieve /mnt/cf/feed/Packages, returning to ipkg_update: ERROR downloading /mnt/cf/feed/Packages to /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/feed1
%< snip

Well, my ipkg problem was indeed user-stupidity   When setting up a local feed you to use the following syntax:

Code: [Select]

file:///mnt/cf/feedI was missing the 3rd slash after file  
I did find that there is precious little documentation on the ipkg.config file.

I'm beginning to see there may be no need to go back to Qtopia based ROMs for me.
@ ladybug if you compile KO/PI please post it because that's the one app I need to make this ROM complete!

Again, great work pdaXrom team!

Cheers,
Jerry

[Kaze]

just dropped ashley patch in the RC2 package,
upgraded maintenance kernel, (used 1.0.5 for this)
resized /root to 57megs,
installed ROM.
Now rc2  works ok on my 750 with 57 megs /root partition

[alan]

dear pdaxrom team : how long have you planned to test this RC ?

I'm just a basic user (i.e. not a programmer) so i might be VERY slow to help the community, even though i would really like to help you.

So i hesitate between flashing this new version (= troubles for my newbie brain BUT involving in a project that is very important to me (I use abiword everyday at University so i owe you something but as a (quite poor) student i can't give money for now...  )) OR keep on playing with my 1.0.5 version (= being sure i won't help anyway)

If this rc is scheduled to stay as the only available version for quite a lot of time, maybe i could be usefull.

[Xumbi]

just dropped ashley patch in the RC2 package,
upgraded maintenance kernel, (used 1.0.5 for this)
resized /root to 57megs,
installed ROM.
Now rc2  works ok on my 750 with 57 megs /root partition

Where is this "Ashley's script"?  I can't find it anywhere.

[jerrybme]

just dropped ashley patch in the RC2 package,

What does this mean? Can you describe in a little more detail? I'd love to have more room in internal memory.
Cheers,
Jerry

[bluedevils]

There is a RC2 feed available at http://www.pdaxrom.org/feed2/

Hmm, does this mean that the IPKs in the standard feed are not compatible with 1.1.0?
And what about the SDK? Can we compile stuff to 1.1.0 with the 1.0.5 SDK?

I know you're busy with just getting the 1.1.0 released properly, but I have a reason to ask.
My key application is KoPI. If there's no recent kopi ipk available, I'd need to roll my own.
And if that's not possible due to lack of SDK, no pdaxrom for me.

that pretty much summed up my main reason from flashing to this rom.  I rely on kdepim too much.

[Kaze]

Ok detailed "Flash your 750 to 57Megs root"

- Grab the wonderful Ashley patch:
here.

- untar it on a SD or CF with the pdaXrom 1.0.5 installer, make sure you overwrite updater.sh

- reboot, Maintenance menu,plug in AC, choose 4,choose SD or CF,  let it boot rom installer

- Choose 4 (update maintenance Kernel)

- then say yes when it ask for flash repartition as : only root

- reboot

- Put the pdaXrom RC2 installer files on your SD or CF root ( WITHOUT THE UPDATER.SH)

- Now reboot, Maintenance menu,plug in AC, choose 4,choose SD or CF,  let it boot rom installer

- Choose 1: "Install new Rom"

- Let it install & reboot

Your done, now enjoy full root on 750.

[Xumbi]

Ok detailed "Flash your 750 to 57Megs root"

- Grab the wonderful Ashley patch:
here.

- untar it on a SD or CF with the pdaXrom 1.0.5 installer, make sure you overwrite updater.sh

- reboot, Maintenance menu,plug in AC, choose 4,choose SD or CF,  let it boot rom installer

- Choose 4 (update maintenance Kernel)

- then say yes when it ask for flash repartition as : only root

- reboot

- Put the pdaXrom RC2 installer files on your SD or CF root ( WITHOUT THE UPDATER.SH)

- Now reboot, Maintenance menu,plug in AC, choose 4,choose SD or CF,  let it boot rom installer

- Choose 1: "Install new Rom"

- Let it install & reboot

Your done, now enjoy full root on 750.

These instructions look good, but when I'm trying to flash "only root" it says "Flash pattern NOT recognized".  This is on my C750.

I even tried flashing back to cacko 1.21 first, still no luck

UPDATE: I downloaded the latest ashley script, everything goes fine until I flash with RC2, it gets to 72%, then it kicks me back to the main menu.

[Kaze]

xumbi try resizing the root with the 1.1.0 files on the card. then install it.

[firepile]

hello! thanks very much for the good work on pdaxrom! I was wondering if there was a kernel .config for the kernel distributed with rc2? Also, are there guides to compiling a Kathrin-compatible kernel? thanks again.