[Linux-7110-psion] Nu X server

[<rev_wv14@ya...>]

I have managed to compile the xc-011010 src code, with the X server so that it works with Xfont.so, with freetype. This means that now the X-Server works with TTF , TrueType fonts, and the like. Having compiled gnome b4, I can happily say that now Gnumeric works on it. Getting a newer version of gnumeric today, (one where you can hide the toolbars for extra space!). Will have a screenshot out soon. If any one wants what I've got (the source code compiled, CF disk image - tar'ed), email me, and I will send you a CD for £1, or something, cos I can't get access to enough bandwidth to upload anything yet. K,



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[Linux-7110-psion] Fwd: Linux on s5mx

[Inertia - In7 <inertia@in...>]

Guys,

If any of you are able to give this guy some advice... please drop him
an email ;).

Thanks. =^_^=

Jason : Inertia
inertia@...

This is a forwarded message
From: Pliskens <pliskens@...>
To: inertia@...
Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2002, 7:35:53 AM
Subject: Linux on s5mx

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Hi

I just tried out linux for my psion 5mx and it works
like a charme. I don't know if I am emailen the
correct person but I read that CF ethernet is
supported, do you have any idea were I can obtain info
on which cards are supported and to what extend it is
supported.

Kind regards
  Stefan Kuipers

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[Linux-7110-psion] Resource temporarily unavailable

[kensyu@y.email.ne.jp]

Hi,

I would like to use LAN card with 5mx, so I run cardmgr in psilinux,
Unfortunately, cardmgr (or cardctl) seems to be not worked with even CF.
What happened? What should I do?

Kernel version is 2.4.18-rmk6-5mx1 (with ETNA_DEBUG defined in psion_etna.h),
cardmgr and cardctl are in pcmcia-cs 3.1.34.

dmesg reports:

ETNA Socket: SS_OUTPUT_ENA
ETNA Socket: SS_DETECT
skt0: PMR: 0000, CPCR: 0000, CICR: 0000 PCIMR: 0041 (Vcc = 33, flags = ---o, csc = ----c)
ETNA: __etna_get_status
ETNA: Status: skt0: status: 000000b8 -> rdy det -- -- 3v --)
ETNA: __etna_get_status
ETNA: Status: skt0: status: 000000b8 -> rdy det -- -- 3v --)
cardmgr[26]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
# cardmgr[26]: executing: 'modprobe ide-cs'
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 50MHz system but speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ETNA: CompactFlash PCMCIA controller hard init
PBDR = 0x0
ETNA: Restoring selected card configuration to: 0x1
hda: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead of ALTSTATUS(0xa0)
hda: SanDisk SDCFB-160, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 5
cardmgr[26]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable


lsmod reports:

Module                            Size   Used by
ide-cs                            3632    0 (unused)
ide-probe-mod                     8160    0 (autoclean)
ide-mod                          44560    0 [ide-cs ide-probe-mod]


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Re: [Linux-7110-psion] IPKGdistro v0.4 beta uploaded

[Wookey <wookey@al...>]

On Thu 25 Jul, Marc Grunberg wrote:
> Le Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 06:28:00PM +0100, Wookey =E0 =E9crit :
>=20
>=20
> hi,=20
> this link seems to be broken
>=20
> http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/files/Distributions/5mx/IPKGdistro/v0.4=
/utils/install.pl

ah - that's the server being too cleaver I suspect and trying to run said
perl script rather than just dish out the file. reming the executable bit
doesn't fix it (you get 'you don't have permission to access this file'
instead). So I've just created utils.zip which is everything in that dir in=
 a
zip file.

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Re: [Linux-7110-psion] IPKGdistro v0.4 beta uploaded

[Ralf Meyer <ranf@gm...>]

On 25 Jul 2002 at 21:59, Ralf Meyer wrote:

> On 25 Jul 2002 at 21:31, Marc Grunberg wrote:
> > this link seems to be broken
> > http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/files/Distributions/5mx/IPKGdistro
> > /v0.4/utils/install.pl

> Ahh ok. I did a "cp install.pl install.pl.txt" -- could not download.
> Then a "mv install.pl.txt install.txt" -- works now.

No solution. Just a very quick hack to enable a download of that file.

Re: [Linux-7110-psion] IPKGdistro v0.4 beta uploaded

[Ralf Meyer <ranf@gm...>]

On 25 Jul 2002 at 21:31, Marc Grunberg wrote:

> Le Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 06:28:00PM +0100, Wookey à écrit :
> this link seems to be broken
> http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/files/Distributions/5mx/IPKGdistro/v
> 0.4/utils/install.pl

Just looked at it over SSH where it seems to be fine:
---
ranf@...:/home/groups/l/li/linux-
7110/htdocs/files/Distributions/5mx/IPKGdistro/v0.4/utils$ ls -laF
total 72
drwxrwsr-x    2 wookey   linux-71     4096 Jul 25 10:19 ./
drwxrwsr-x    5 wookey   linux-71     4096 Jul 25 09:42 ../
-rw-rw-r--    1 wookey   linux-71       97 Jul 25 10:17 5mx
-rw-rw-r--    1 wookey   linux-71      255 Jul 25 10:17 64MBsftable.dsk
-rwxrwxr--    1 wookey   linux-71      848 Jul 25 10:17 buildrelease*
-rwxrwxr--    1 wookey   linux-71      474 Jul 25 10:17 changelibc*
-rwxrwxr-x    1 wookey   linux-71     4892 Jul 25 10:17 formatcard*
-rwxrwxr--    1 wookey   linux-71      323 Jul 25 10:17 getsources*
-rwxrwxr-x    1 wookey   linux-71    10817 Jul 25 10:17 install.pl*
-rw-rw-r--    1 wookey   linux-71    10403 Jul 25 10:17 ipkg-util-020417.tar.gz
-rwxrwxr--    1 wookey   linux-71      257 Jul 25 10:17 ipkg2build*
-rwxrwxr--    1 wookey   linux-71      284 Jul 25 10:17 makeindex*
-rwxrwxr--    1 wookey   linux-71      967 Jul 25 10:18 psionppp*
ranf@...:/home/groups/l/li/linux-
7110/htdocs/files/Distributions/5mx/IPKGdistro/v0.4/utils$ cat install.pl
---
No permission probs as it looks...

But yes Mozilla 1.0 has probs accessing it too...


A content-type prob most likely.

Ahh ok. I did a "cp install.pl install.pl.txt" -- could not download.
Then a "mv install.pl.txt install.txt" -- works now.

Re: [Linux-7110-psion] IPKGdistro v0.4 beta uploaded

[Marc Grunberg <marc@re...>]

Le Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 06:28:00PM +0100, Wookey =E0 =E9crit :


hi,=20
this link seems to be broken

http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/files/Distributions/5mx/IPKGdistro/v0.4=
/utils/install.pl

Thanks for your work :)

bye
Marc.



> Hi guys,
>=20
> I've finally got round to uploading my work so far for you all to play =
with
> (Got a faster connection today :-).
>=20
> It's now available at:
> http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi?url=3Dfiles/Distrib=
utions/5mx/IPKGdistro/v0.4/AAA_IPKG_NOTES.htm
>=20
> And that URL gives most of the details although I haven't managed to wr=
ite
> any decent install instructions. Essentially it's 'download the
> ...IPKGdistro/v0.4/feed, /epoc and /utils dirs plug a 64MB CF into your=
 CF
> adaptor. Edit utils/formatcard to point to the correct drive to find th=
e CF
> card and run it. That should then do everything for you.
>=20
> If you use any of the build scripts you'll need to change the paths and
> install ipkg on your host.
>=20
> Things I know don't work and need some work are:
> pygps (needs python libglade stuff)
> mixer segfaults
> madplay makes a horrible croaking noise then complains about formats
> ipatience needs libfreetype
>=20
> feedback and improvements very welcome
>=20
> I'm away for a month from 28th July to 26th Aug, so I'll be very quiet =
for a
> bit.
>=20
> Wookey

[Linux-7110-psion] IPKGdistro v0.4 beta uploaded

[Wookey <wookey@al...>]

Hi guys,

I've finally got round to uploading my work so far for you all to play with
(Got a faster connection today :-).

It's now available at:
http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi?url=files/Distributions/5mx/IPKGdistro/v0.4/AAA_IPKG_NOTES.htm

And that URL gives most of the details although I haven't managed to write
any decent install instructions. Essentially it's 'download the
...IPKGdistro/v0.4/feed, /epoc and /utils dirs plug a 64MB CF into your CF
adaptor. Edit utils/formatcard to point to the correct drive to find the CF
card and run it. That should then do everything for you.

If you use any of the build scripts you'll need to change the paths and
install ipkg on your host.

Things I know don't work and need some work are:
pygps (needs python libglade stuff)
mixer segfaults
madplay makes a horrible croaking noise then complains about formats
ipatience needs libfreetype

feedback and improvements very welcome

I'm away for a month from 28th July to 26th Aug, so I'll be very quiet for a
bit.

Wookey
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[Linux-7110-psion] Re: kernels r us

[Nigel Garnett <nyje@ot...>]

1st Ralf thanks for helping  me find the problem with the rtc, ure kernel & advice were very helpful I now have the kernel compiling happily - If NEone out there wants a rmk6-5mx4 kernel binary drop me a line with what u want included & I'll compile & post one (until the one on PsiLinux is fixed 8)

Thanks all 4 the help so far,
Nigel.

hmmm now to work on x-compiling some toys 4 little timmy ;o)

Re: [Linux-7110-psion] uploaded my Kernel

[Wookey <wookey@al...>]

On Wed 24 Jul, Ralf Meyer wrote:
> On 24 Jul 2002 at 17:47, Wookey wrote:

> > The only other difference between your config and the one I assume
> > Tony is using for the kernels he uploads is (apart from keyboards)
> > that you've turned off module support

> I have mentioned that before on the ML IIRC. I was just bored to
> create the directories under /lib/modules every time I installed
> another kernel.

yes - Iwas getting bored of that - keeping the versions in sync is tiresome.

> > and included the PCNET driver.

> I don't have the slightest idea what this is supposed to do...

I think it's the driver that let you use CF ethernet cards.



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Re: [Linux-7110-psion] Linux on Series7/netBook

[Wookey <wookey@al...>]

On Sun 21 Jul, Paul Tap wrote:

> After having tested this, I've finally started writing
> a HOWTO for the Series7/netBook based on the 5-HOWTO
> already on the site, so expect something soon.

Can I appeal to you to consider doing this in docbook SGML based on the
conversion I did of mostly-Brian's howto recently?

We've got a lot of variants of hardware and software at the moment and rather
than having n diffeent HOWTOs for all the combinations I'd like to try and
have one that covers the various options. Doing it in SGML means we can
automatethe production of the different HOWTO flavours but something common
to everything only has to be updated once, not 4 times.

I'm currently rewriting this HOWTO to cover the ipkg-based distros as well as
the dpkg one. I need to have finished by the end of the week as I'm off on
hols for a month.

The current version of the SGML HOWTO is here: 
http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/howtos/series5mx_new/

But as I say I'm just starting a wholesale re-arrangment of it. (I've got it
scrawled on paper - just need tying in...). Have a look but wait till friday
before doing any major work on it.

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Re: [Linux-7110-psion] Series 7 kernel config

[Paul Tap <p_tap@ya...>]

Well, the framebuffer works (with some remarks still 
from Peter). I'll have a look at the 5MX stuff and see
if I can add it to my ramdisk to get some logs on
starting it.

Cheers,

Paul

--- Wookey <wookey@...> wrote:
> On Tue 23 Jul, Paul Tap wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> > 
> > good to see you booted the machine with Peter's
> stuff.
> > I started to doubt myself with people not managing
> to
> > get it going. 
> > 
> > For the moment this is as far as it goes. A lot
> ARM
> > compiled packages may work without to much hassle.
> > Just add them to the ramdisk (but keep it
> acceptable
> > size). I've succesfully added the watchdog program
> for
> > instance. 
> 
> > I know Peter is working on the PCMCIA/CF stuff,
> but
> > don't know how much time he has, so I don't have a
> > clue when it may start to work.
> 
> He's gone very quiet recently so I assume he's busy.
> 
> > I'm thinking of taking a look at X but the
> learning
> > curve may be to steep for me. 
> 
> 'All' we have to do to make X work is get the
> Framebuffer (and 
> touchscreen or mouse) working. That's not actully
> too hard in general
> but does depend on the docs being reasonably
> informative, and they
> don's seem to say much useful about controlling the
> display.
> 
> 
> Wookey
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Re: [Linux-7110-psion] Series 7 kernel config

[Wookey <wookey@al...>]

On Tue 23 Jul, Paul Tap wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> good to see you booted the machine with Peter's stuff.
> I started to doubt myself with people not managing to
> get it going. 
> 
> For the moment this is as far as it goes. A lot ARM
> compiled packages may work without to much hassle.
> Just add them to the ramdisk (but keep it acceptable
> size). I've succesfully added the watchdog program for
> instance. 

> I know Peter is working on the PCMCIA/CF stuff, but
> don't know how much time he has, so I don't have a
> clue when it may start to work.

He's gone very quiet recently so I assume he's busy.

> I'm thinking of taking a look at X but the learning
> curve may be to steep for me. 

'All' we have to do to make X work is get the Framebuffer (and 
touchscreen or mouse) working. That's not actully too hard in general
but does depend on the docs being reasonably informative, and they
don's seem to say much useful about controlling the display.


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Re: [Linux-7110-psion] GPM and touchpad

[Ralf Meyer <ranf@gm...>]

On 23 Jul 2002 at 21:43, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:

> I've used the woody disks-arm images with kernel from PsiLinux. I've
> installed it from msdos partition. The Debian doesn't support Psion
> officially, but I'd like to change it.

Ahh. cool.

> I'm looking for GPM with Psion touchpad support. Unfortunatelly, the
> sources you directed me are very outdated and not compatible with
> /dev/tpanel.

Do you happen to hang around on IRC? Openprojects.net? What channel #debian, #debian-
arm most likely?

I actually had a look at different tpanel routines (PicoGui, Psion X, Qtopia) and 
_might_ be able to give *some* assistance...
But mail is ok as well.

Re: [Linux-7110-psion] GPM and touchpad

[Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@ne...>]

> On 22 Jul 2002 at 19:15, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > I've installed Debian woody on Psion 5MX and it rocks :)
> 
> Were you the one that put the screenshots up on:
>         http://screenshots.tader.net
> ?

Yes, they were the screenshots of my installing session.
I've used the woody disks-arm images with kernel from PsiLinux. I've installed
it from msdos partition. The Debian doesn't support Psion officially, but I'd
like to change it.

I'm looking for GPM with Psion touchpad support. Unfortunatelly, the sources you
directed me are very outdated and not compatible with /dev/tpanel.

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Re: [Linux-7110-psion] Linux on Psion 7

[Paul Tap <p_tap@ya...>]

Resolution for the Series7/netBook is 640x480 256
colours.

Paul
--- Ralf Meyer <ranf@...> wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2002 at 11:11, Frouin Jean-Michel wrote:
> 
> > I am new to the list !
> 
> No problem :-)
> 
> > Now i have a little question
> > Do you know if someone works on a X server for
> psion 7 ?
> > In color with touchscreen
> 
> Since Thilo has taken the Ipaq X server and mostly
> did some tweaks for the Psion 
> touchpanel I suspect that this might "just
> work"(tm). But I can't confirm. 
> What's the screen resolution of a Series 7?
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Linux-7110-psion] Series 7 kernel config

[Paul Tap <p_tap@ya...>]

Hi Jeff,

good to see you booted the machine with Peter's stuff.
I started to doubt myself with people not managing to
get it going. 

For the moment this is as far as it goes. A lot ARM
compiled packages may work without to much hassle.
Just add them to the ramdisk (but keep it acceptable
size). I've succesfully added the watchdog program for
instance. 

Using Tex may work but since you don't have a way to
save stuff except via the serial connection, it may
not be very useful.

I know Peter is working on the PCMCIA/CF stuff, but
don't know how much time he has, so I don't have a
clue when it may start to work.

I'm thinking of taking a look at X but the learning
curve may be to steep for me. In the meanwhile over
the past days I've done some HOWTO typing. Needs to be
done as well. 

Also I found out that finally there's a driver for the
Socket CF WLAN card I've got so I can't wait to see
that work with my iPAQ.

Cheers,

Paul

--- JT Williams <jeffw@...> wrote:
> I have managed to boot Linux on the S7, using files
> and information
> from Peter's site.  Is there anything more I can
> expect to do, or is
> this (currently) the end of the show?  (It is
> certainly the end of my
> know-how.)  To be specific, is it possible to
> install and use TeX on the
> S7 (using xdvi for the 640x480 screen)?
> 
> TIA/jtw
> 
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Re: [Linux-7110-psion] GPM and touchpad

[Ralf Meyer <ranf@gm...>]

On 22 Jul 2002 at 19:15, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> I've installed Debian woody on Psion 5MX and it rocks :)

Were you the one that put the screenshots up on:
        http://screenshots.tader.net
?

Re: [Linux-7110-psion] Series 7 kernel config

[JT Williams <jeffw@da...>]

I have managed to boot Linux on the S7, using files and information
from Peter's site.  Is there anything more I can expect to do, or is
this (currently) the end of the show?  (It is certainly the end of my
know-how.)  To be specific, is it possible to install and use TeX on the
S7 (using xdvi for the 640x480 screen)?

TIA/jtw

Re: [Linux-7110-psion] Linux on Psion 7

[Ralf Meyer <ranf@gm...>]

On 19 Jul 2002 at 11:11, Frouin Jean-Michel wrote:

> I am new to the list !

No problem :-)

> Now i have a little question
> Do you know if someone works on a X server for psion 7 ?
> In color with touchscreen

Since Thilo has taken the Ipaq X server and mostly did some tweaks for the Psion 
touchpanel I suspect that this might "just work"(tm). But I can't confirm. 
What's the screen resolution of a Series 7?

Re: [Linux-7110-psion] GPM and touchpad

[Ralf Meyer <ranf@gm...>]

On 22 Jul 2002 at 19:15, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:

> I've installed Debian woody on Psion 5MX and it rocks :)

The freshly released woody or the one from psilinux.org?

> Do you know if there is any Psion support for GPM?

The best I was able to dig up was:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~bg3k-ysd/psion/src.html

It is a patch to a quite old gpm.

And here:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~bg3k-ysd/psion/

[Linux-7110-psion] GPM and touchpad

[Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@ne...>]

Hi,

I've installed Debian woody on Psion 5MX and it rocks :)

Do you know if there is any Psion support for GPM?

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AW: [Linux-7110-psion] Psion 7 docs now available elecronically

[Klaus Luchs <klu@ge...>]

Wookey

I'll do it to the end of august. send me the file please.

Klaus



I'm happy to send it to Linux developers wanting to work on the series 7.
Anyone wnat to run it all through an OCR system and see if we can get a
smaller doc out of it? (could be very difficult to do well as there are a
lot
of tables).

Wookey

[Linux-7110-psion] Re: Psion's customer loyalty program...Series 5MX

[Brian Dushaw <dushaw@ap...>]

>George sez:
>That's a pretty awful deal, considering I got my (2nd hand) 5mx off eBay for 
> 100 GBP (about $130). And also considering that my Zaurus 5000D cost me $300 
> (essentially brand new off eBay), that's a total rip off. I suppose they're 
> targeting customers that are loyal enough (ie - stupid enough) to pay that 
> amount of money for a 5mx...

Allow me to clarify...I agree that for what the 5MX is, $370 is quite high and 
that with smart,lucky buying on e-bay one can get a deal.  My comment was more 
along the lines of the market price for the 5MX - presently on e-bay there are 
three MX's nearing completion of their bids - two in U.S., one in U.K.   Their 
present prices are US$202, US$221 and US$243, all with 1-2 days left in the 
bidding, which is consistent with what I've seen before.  So $250-300 is roughly 
the market price for these (seems to me).  Considering the (moderate/minor) risks
of buying on e-bay for stuff that may well be in a used condition, $370 for a 
brand new Psion 5MX directly from Psion Corp is (economically...) not that bad.
Then consider that the alternatives for something with a keyboard (e.g., NEC 
Mobilepro) are running in the $900 range (and as far as I can tell don't run
linux)...well, so it goes, the endless dance of computer hardware pricing...

[Linux-7110-psion] Linux on Series7/netBook

[Paul Tap <p_tap@ya...>]

Hi all,

I've done some testing again to find out why there may
be so many problems running the current kernel on the
Series7/netBook. I've started with a empty formatted
CF card and loaded Peter van Sebille's last
arlo/boot2nd/kernel combined with "my" ramdisk. 

Steps:

- Cold boot the machine to allow for a new arlo lib
- Unzip arlo.zip on the "root" of the CF
- Copy the kernel into the arlo directory
- Boot the machine in EPOC
- Create D:\System\data\wsini.ini with line STARTUP
D:\arlo\arlosh.exe
- Run arlo from the Extra's bar
- Arlo registers itself and comes up with the menu
- Update the arlo.cfg to address the kernel
- Boot the kernel
- Reboot to get back to ARLO.

Everything works out of the box.

Machine:

- netBook 64Mb RAM (arlo sees it, but the kernel still
 only reports 16M ==> Peter's kernel is for the
series7 and has only 16Mb mapped)
- keyboard: UK layout plus Euro sign

I still don't think, despite some remarks into that
direction, that a different keyboard would stop the
machine from booting. You may not have a working
keyboard (or badly mapped). Anyone in doubt, may try
an old kernel from Peter that didn't have any keyboard
support ;-) I started with this one about a year ago.

After having tested this, I've finally started writing
a HOWTO for the Series7/netBook based on the 5-HOWTO
already on the site, so expect something soon.

I'm sorry that I can't be of more help at the moment
for those struggling with their Series7/netBooks. I'll
gather all machine info that I can find on mine and
will make it part of the HOWTO. Hopefully we'll get
the clue soon.

Cheers,

Paul


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...that Linux can't fix.

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