The installing was quite succesful, and
easy, if you can find the instructions and can follow them.
The more trickier part is to first back up everything.
Also and especially the bios of Axim. And test if you can restore
everything, if
something goes wrong.
It is not anyhow absolutely necessary with Axim X51v to back up bios.
With some other models it is.
It is safest to anyhow make sure you have a rigth new bios from Dell
company web-site, and
ability to load it, if something goes wrong. There is also some useful
programs that is helpful
to install on Axim, before doing anything dangerous to bios.
I have a laptop with Fedora 6 linux, which I used to do most of this,
and you probably need a Windows machine
to use for backup and installing programs for Axim, before proceeding
and to prepare and to be able to
load Dell factory bios back if something goes wrong, but
I recommend first everybody try to use the system you are most familiar
with.
If you only have Windows, and need some linux-system fast try:
http://www.kanotix.org/changelang-eng.html
it is a bootable live-linux cd, that is the best available now. It's up
and running in minutes.
I think, I will change more to Debian in the future, which I have on
some machines.
Instructions: http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/x50vHowTo
Once booted the Ångström-image from SD-card, everything else works
reasonably well, but
the trouble is, that when trying to type text with the small virtual
keyboard
on the touch screen, it is often difficult, because, there is something
wrong
with the calibration system or some settings of the touch screen.
I don't yet exactly know what it is, but, somebody said earlier, that,
it could be
something in the kernel. There migth be something in some settings file,
that could be an other reason, but I don't know.
If there is something wrong in the kernel, it must be fixed first.
If it is of some settings file fixing it by editing is possible, but you
would have to know
where to look for.
Then also installing an other windowing system could work. Like I think,
the Google android is
one possible. Someone said earlier he wants to try that. There are
several others that are possible.
I think it depends on, what you want to use your Axim for, that you can
make a sensible choice.
At first the most sensible is, what works at all. Later you could have
even several different SD-cards
for different systems.
We would have to make a better version of the Ångström-image with the
problem fixed.
Has anyone a bluetooth keyboard that would work with Axim and linux,
that migth be a temporary
work around, so you can use the current image better, to study it and
try to fix it on-line ?
Mikko
Stavros Fox Polymenis wrote:
Hi Mikko,
Thanks for your quick reply. How successful were you installing linux on
your x51v ?
what did you need to install it and what problems do u have?
Regards,
Stavros
-----Original Message-----
From: Mikko Silvennoinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50
<[email protected]>
To: The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Aximx50-port] Still alive?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:25:44 +0300
Stavros Fox Polymenis wrote:
Greetings all,
Is this effort still alive?
Regards
Some are still trying something.
Although I noticed, that the certificate of the secure-pages on web-site
is outdated.
If your browser is configured rigth, it should complain about this.
Who is responsible of maintaining the list web-page ?
Has anybody the .config -file of the kernel source-code for Axim
(ARM-processor kernel),
I have Axim X51v. I am planning to maybe reconfigure it, in hope of
correcting the
problem of the touch-screen-keyboard and touch screen calibration, (by
using command: make xconfig) and
changing what want/need, and recompiling from newest source-code.
Mikko Silvennoinen
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