Prebuilt Jornada 7xx linux image

I'm using the JLime opie base image for 720 at the moment with a new 2.6 kernel... A question to anyone who has used RTFM's image - how well does Opera compare to Konqueror (both mini versions)? I appreciate that it will be slower on the older 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels but in terms of usability/web page compatability/performance of the 640x240 screen and so on...

I bought an Encore ENP832-TX-PC PCMCIA Network Adapter. It's based on the Realtek chip you mentioned. It's a 32-bit Ethernet adapter. Will this card not work?

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=7217740&Redir=1&description=Encore%20Electronics-32-Bit%20Card%2010/100%20AUTO%20NEG%20Ethernet%20Card-Wireless%20Networking

Do you have a separate Jornada image you use to compile kernels and drivers? I noticed there aren't any gcc tools in the posted versions. I have tried emulating the using Qemu-arm on my Linux distro (since I don't have network capability yet), with no success. Do you have any tips for Jornada Linux developers?


Thanks a bunch!

He said it was better...

mboldidc: If you want to develop, you might as well use 720degrees for its Debian base.


RTFM: Your microdrive died on you? Heh! I think you just happen to be the unluckiest person out there with those things. I still haven't had a single problem.

Get a CF.

Edited by ProgramSynthesiser 2007-04-03 2:11 PM

Your ethernet card wont work. It needs to be 16bit, the jornada doesn't support 32bit.

As for gcc run ipkg install gcc. (but its minimal, not a complete toolset ). Although like PS said, use 720degrees for developing. I use a crosscompiler on my desktop and 720degrees to build various things.

PS: Yeah unfortunately

Well, for the people who like X over Opie, i've been severely overhauling my gpe image. Again, started from scratch, removed stuff, added stuff etc etc. It's not quite done yet, as i need to test out a few more things and add finishing touches. So when its ready i'll let you all know. Might be a few days yet, maybe weeks. Depends when i'm happy with it.

In the meantime, here are a few teaser screenshots.











(yes thats firefox)

Cheers.

Wow.

Truly impressive... did you make that theme yourself?

I can see a lot of people being drawn to that from the screenshots alone...

Hiya
I'm not a linux user so forgive me for being stupid.
I installed ubuntu a while ago so I tried following the instructions to get linux on my jornada 710. I partitioned and formatted the CF card as desctibed - a fat16 and an ext2 partition. I set the fat16 as "boot". I then extracted the tarball to my desktop and copied the fat files to the fat partition and the ext to the ext2 partition. I changed the params to correspond to 32m. On running linexec the screen blanks and then messages start scrolling. I'm getting error messages such as

cardmgr[14]: could no open /var/run/cardmgr.pid: no such file or directory

it then stops at

VFS: busy inodes on changed media

I'm sure i've made an elementary mistake somewhere.

cheers
Mike

mik82: Actually you didnt. You found a mistake i made on this last upload. Apparently after clearing out some temp files i must have accidently deleted cardmgr.pid. I fixed it and reuploaded the image. It's only a few kb bigger now. Sorry for the inconvienience.

PS: No, its the mbcrystal theme for matchbox, but i went on a massive 'cool icon' hunt, and changed most the icons, added directories to the default desktop, and made matchbox place the panel to the left to allow for a bit more screen space.

Cheers.

RTFM: And I was troubleshooting with a user too.

Permissions get messed up if they extract and then copy over - it is easier just to extract directly.

Btw: The Jlime guys are onto something big - it looks like we might be able to get image files we just pop onto the FAT drive, and linexec boots off of that. Shh.

i'm the user! anyway i'm getting a kernel panic:

kernel panic : aiee, killing interrupt handler!
in interrupt handler - not synching

hopefully PS will help me when he comes back on... otherwise, what am i do to

oh... perhaps i have to redownload it all... just reread your post...

Edited by Qkall 2007-04-05 7:15 PM

Yea redownload it. Was my mistake on the last opie image upload. Doh!

Cheers

i'm just happy i can follow PS patient orders... i'm a visual guy and written instructions unless given to me step by step don't work... i blame the chemist in meh

Hahah... we all just suck it up and keep going.

It didn't take as long as i thought. The new *bling bling* GPE image is now uploaded. If you dislike Opie, and want *alot* in a small package, this image is for you.
It's quite stable surprisingly, and well, it just plain looks cool. I also added quite a bit not available in the familiar package feed by either borrowing from debians arm repositories, or compiling them myself. So i guess in a way its a nifty hackjob of an OS. Anyway, as always read the README. It's there for a reason.

This my final release, i will not be updating this image in the future. (except maybe updating to 2.6 kernel when its finished)
Same goes for the opie image, might update that 1 more time yet, but jlime's 7xx release should be ready soon anyway.

Download site is here. http://hostwork.com/users/matt/j720/

Cheers.

The new image looks awesome and a lot of fun to play with. My Microdrive should arrive soon at which point I shall play with it. I have one question though... where'd Opera go? Is it Opie-only? I don't see konq either... and I don't wanna be stuck with dillo again Firefox runs WAY too slowly for me, I don't think I can stand it even with swap... perhaps I'm wrong though.

Either way still looks like a fun image to play with, I might go to the Opie one for Opera... but hey either ay it's still cool

Love what you've done with this, it's a very useful thing.

Thanks for the work