Comments on: Don’t Panic! The REAL HitchHikers Guide is here TODAY

By: Hunter Davis

Hunter Davis — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:22:17 +0000

Good luck. Let me know if that works out for you. I had dillo working, but nothing that required multiple windows concurrently.

By: Russell

Russell — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:16:51 +0000

thanks alot. i’ll give it a go. maybe then i can use pidgin rather than finch for my iming

By: Hunter Davis

Hunter Davis — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:09:21 +0000

Sure Here's what I've been using so far


Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Card0"
        Driver          "fbdev"
        Option          "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
        VendorName      "Unknown"
        BoardName       "Unknown"
        Option          "Rotate"        "CCW"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Screen0"
        Device          "Card0"
        SubSection      "Display"
                Modes "240x320"
         EndSubSection
EndSection

By: Russell

Russell — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:48:54 +0000

Any chance you can post your xorg.conf? i’m having a pig of a time with getting X installed and working on the zipit

thnx

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:34:53 +0000

Ahhh, that would do it. I guess I was missing something simple after all, lesson learned- always re-read the directions, something may have changed since last time XD. Time to order a backup and get to work. Thanks a ton Hunter!

-Karl

By: Hunter Davis

Hunter Davis — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:09:00 +0000

Hey Karl,

Yeah this happened to me too. It’s because the new sweetmre kernel is designed to be flashed directly onto the Z2 with the z2flasher.sh that’s on the sourceforge site. I’ve been meaning to do that very thing, but have a family visit this past week. Hopefully this weekend I’ll post about the experience. Glad to hear that things are picking back up in the Z2 circle. I think a lot of people agree a nice working image with some emulators running may entice people back

good luck,
/H

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:47:17 +0000

This post and the one on running Dosbox on the Zipit 2 have really given me the motivation to start playing around with the Zipit 2 again.I recently went and got OE running on my computer with Sweetlilmre’s repository, but I’ve been having an issue with the builds. I tried to post on the Zipit yahoogroup forum instead of bugging you personally, but it states that my post needs to be verified first, and that may take a while. I was hoping you could shed some light on my issue.

When I’ve been bitbaking the images, they build without issues but they fail to boot on an SD card. It hangs at the point it says “Taking root…” (left it for about 20 minutes with no change) while using a known working base-image tarball works. Also, while using the known working image, when I try to install packages it gives errors about being unable to find the packages. This occurs even if I specify the full path and filename. From what I could tell from searching online, this can happen when trying to use packages built for the wrong architecture, but my zipit2.conf sets TARGET_ARCH=”arm” so I don’t know where to go from there.

Am I doing something wrong that would cause this? How did you set up your OE toolchain? I’ve worked my way around the other issues I had, but this has left me stumped. I’m still very inexperienced using OE, so I very well may be missing something really simple.

By: hunter davis

hunter davis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:56:27 +0000

NP, it’s using an OE kernel. Hopefully I’ll get around to flashing it tonight

By: Frankiej

Frankiej — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:30:20 +0000

Sweet, thanks for the input, is the new kernel using a modified z2 native kernel or an open embedded kernel?
The site didn’t really go into it. I noticed it says userlands are availabe now.. I promptly did a little dance of glee. *ahem*
Thanks for the new links, thats gonna be a big help when my zipit comes in. I was going to linux.zipitwireless.com which is rather out of date, all the forum entries are from 6 months back or more.
I’ll be keeping an eye on your site to see what other awesome things you come up with!

Thanks again!

By: hunter davis

hunter davis — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:04:04 +0000

Hi Frankie,

YES! I have gotten back into the Z2 scene in a big way these past couple of weeks. Currently the activity has shifted to getting a new kernel (with working sound, etc) mainlined and set up based on work that sweetlilmre1 did on his website and sourceforge.

The current method is to flash the z2 kernel using this software on an SD card:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/openzipit/index.php?title=AutoFlasher_Software

In general, the newest info is availabe at the sourceforge project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openzipit

And at his blog at:
http://sweetlilmre.blogspot.com/

I’ll personally be re-flashing my zipit this evening via this new method. From there I’ll hopefully be re-porting dosbox from the arm port (thanks exophase) and pushing patches up to the new sourceforge tree.

As always the zipit yahoo group is kind of active, but