Mikko ,is this to say that it works even partly, I have not been able to get past the screen alignment settings page on my x50v. I am using the same image you list or has this image been edited within the last year (the date of the image being 2007-06-27) is the name should be appended.
--- On Wed, 5/14/08, Mikko Silvennoinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Mikko Silvennoinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Aximx50-port] Still alive?
To: "The porting effort for the Dell Axim x50" <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 5:23 AM
There is something wrong with the web-site. Some of the stuff can be found elsewhere in the web, but it migth be hard to get everything. I haven't tried really hard to find out what's the situation of the web-site, but I think it migth be down because of lack of money or interest. I think it would be great if you could put up a new one and a backup mailing-list if this one stops working. I think irc-channel is not so good, because often there is information lost and not everybody is getting it. I can put up an FTP-server and put all the stuff there. When I get it up, you should get it all and save it on a cd. To re-create the mailing list/ backup everybody who wants to make sure to stay with in the future should send their e-mail-address directly to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Stavros , who must let us know to
what address ? Or who wants can put their e-mail addresses on this list to make sure all others get it. I can make a link for further info to my web-page http://www.bittiainen.com or at some point http://www.pwar.net or if those break for some reason to http://www.sci.fi/~topweb/Mikko Silvennoinen Stavros Fox Polymenis wrote:
OK i just tried to get the kernel and the rest but non of the links
work :(
Any ideas?
Stavros Polymenis
-----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 23:48:50 +0300
Easiest making the SD-card:
I used gparted on a linux desktop for partitioning the SD-card and
formatting it, qparted works well too,
found from System Tools menu.
You can use your linux desktop's archiving tool-programs found usually
from Accessories menu for
unarchiving the Ångström image to the formatted ext2 partition on the
SD-card.
Or better first to hard drive, and then copy to SD.
Try Krusader with root mode found e.g. on Kanotix live linux cd for
tools.
Or more widely on almost every linux desktop: Konqueror-web-browser,
with this trick:
Start it and from menu: Settings > Load View Profile > Midnigth
Commander.
You can make changes to settings and save the view-profile with an other
name.
e.g. FileCommander, then make a new launcer for it to panel and put to
the "command":
fmclient openProfile FileCommander
These are more thorough instructions on what needs to be accomplished:
(I don't know if all the web-links are up to date, but most was
originally found from http://www.altavista.com )
Note: This Readme is a modified Version from
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~zabel/magician/README
0) Select correct Image
First you have do know which device you have. Select the aximx50 (non
vga) image for the following devices:
* Dell Axim x50
* Dell Axim x51
or select the aximx50v (with vga display) image for the following
devices:
* Dell Axim x50v
* Dell Axim x51v
1) Download
To boot the experimental GPE image from SD card on a aximx50, you'll
need the following files:
* the experimental GPE image itself:
[aximx50 series]
http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50/Angstrom-x11-image-test-20070316-aximx50.rootfs.tar.bz2
[aximx50v series]
http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50v/Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-test-20070627-aximx50v.rootfs.tar.bz2
* the linux kernel:
[aximx50 series]
http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50/zImage-2.6.20-hh2
+cvs20070316-aximx50-20070316105623
[aximx50v series]
http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/aximx50v/zImage-2.6.21-hh9-aximx50v-20070625071129
* HaRET:
http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/haret-0.4.8.exe
* A default.txt that tells HaRET how to boot the kernel:
http://law.hostsen.net/oe/axim/default.txt
2) Prepare
The SD card needs to be partitioned into two partitions: one small FAT
partition that WinCE can see, and one EXT2 partition used as root file
system. I'll assume that the block device of the SD card is
called /dev/sda. Replace this with the correct device on your system.
Instruction could be slightly different for each version of fdisk :
* Delete all partitions on the SD card:
fdisk /dev/sda
d
1
d
2
d
3
* Create partitions, for example a 10MB /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2
using the rest:
fdisk /dev/sda
n
p
1
<default> (should be cylinder 1)
+10M
n
p
2
<default>
<default> (should be last cylinder of the card)
t
1
4
w
* Create file systems, a VFAT on /dev/sda1 and EXT2 on /dev/sda2:
mkdosfs /dev/sda1
mke2fs /dev/sda2
* Copy HaRET, the kernel and default.txt onto sda1:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
[aximx50] cp zImage-2.6.20-hh2
+cvs20070316-aximx50-20070316105623 /mnt/zImage
[aximx50v] cp zImage-2.6.21-hh9-aximx50v-20070625071129 /mnt/zImage
cp haret-0.4.8.exe /mnt/haret.exe
cp default.txt /mnt/default.txt
umount /dev/sda1
* Unpack the GPE image onto sda2:
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
if mounted in Fedora with mouse from Computer /..to: /media/disk
[aximx50] bzcat
Angstrom-x11-image-test-20070316-aximx50.rootfs.tar.bz2 |
(cd /media/disk; tar x)
[aximx50v] bzcat
Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-test-20070627-aximx50v.rootfs.tar.bz2 |
(cd /media/disk; tar x)
umount /media/disk
3) Boot
Put the SD card into the axim, start haret.exe and tap the "Run"
button...
On X50v/X51v, enable Mirror Mode(Start -> Settings -> System>Mirror).
Note: If linux don't boot try turning WIFI and BLUETOOTH ON or only one
of them.
4) Communicate
Mailing List: [email protected]
(https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/aximx50-port)
Wiki: http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/DellAximX50
You most likely need to edit the default.txt a little to have the
settings you want rigth from
the boot and not having to set so much by hand every time. They are for
haret, and goes to the SD-cards
FAT partition (FAT or FAT32 VFAT all works) .
I changed the ip-numbers, the first is for Axim, the second of the
internet connection eth-card of the machine
it is connected with usb and third the gateway and fifth the net
mask.
Mikko Silvennoinen
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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