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Corona_B

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X11 on a 5600 anyone
« on: September 23, 2004, 12:35:45 pm »
Has anyone gotten X11 working on the 5600. "Pure" X11, not the keypebble setup.  I read a post about a guy who had it going where he could drop out of qtopia and start x\icewm, but it was a bit old and i think he was talking about a 5500.

He used the following packages...
x11Zaurus_0.8_arm.ipk
icewm_1.0.9-5_arm.ipk

and made some changes to some files...

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Running X11 on Zaurus

(This is not my info, just stuff off the net).

You will need X11 for the Zaurus which you can get at [2].

1. Unzip zx64.zip somewhere on your Zaurus (CF, SD, etc...) 2. Install X11 for the Zaurus 3. Reboot your Z 4. Press your / on the keyboard to select the boot prompt. 5. Select A and log into your Zaurus 6. Type X to start X11

X11 on the Zaurus works great but conflicts with Qtopia over power management. Here are some solutions from Zaurus Zone's forum:

After installing X11 for the Zaurus, open the file :

  /usr/local/Xredir/etc/zapmd
and commented out

  /usr/local/bin/zapmd (just add an #at the beginning of the line).
or here is another one

1. I added a # at the beginning of each line in

  /usr/local/Xredir/etc/rc.d/init.d/ztsd
and

  /usr/local/Xredir/etc/rc.d/init.d/zapmd
2. At the beginning of /usr/local/bin/wm I added 3 lines

  /usr/local/bin/ztsd &
  /usr/local/bin/zapmd &
  sleep 2
(the sleep may not be needed, or possibly could be reduced)

3. At the end of /usr/local/bin/wm I added 2 lines

  killall zapmd
  killall ztsd
4. I was still having problems with ice's config. So I ran

  ln -s /usr/local/Xredir/usr/local/lib/x11/icewm .icewm
in /home/root (somehow icewm wasn't finding its setting at this original location)

With these settings, I can switch between qtopia and X. I drop out of Qtopia using the terminate qtopia butting in the Shutdown app.

I hit /? then 'a' during the countdown to drop to a prompt

I run: wm

after I logout of icewm, I type exit to drop back into Qtopia.

I made all these changes etc, but when i drop out of qt to the console and type wm, all i get is a black screen where it just sits.

Any help is welcome

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X11 on a 5600 anyone
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2004, 02:40:35 pm »
Your best bet is OZ 3.5.1 with GPE (there's a current thread about this somewhere). I believe it's pretty much working, but more testers are always welcome/required.

GPE is X11 + matchbox as the wm; that should sort you out.

Take a look at http://openembedded.org


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« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2004, 02:22:15 pm »
man i feel like a moron. i didnt even realize that they had finally "released" oe last week on the oz website, otherwise i would have tried that a week ago.  thats what i get for not keeping up with the times i guess.

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