Comments on: Great New Z2 Userland from RootNexus

By: rkdavis

rkdavis — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:29:22 +0000

@Kevin

No there isn’t because the GPIO that the ac is on is also one of the wakeup GPIOs for the processor however I have made a workaround for IZ2S/IZ2Se/EZ2S. I wrote a small little utility that at the beginning if the booting script tests whether the lid is open or closed and if closed powers off the zipit — it still boots a little bit but it powers off again as soon as possible. You can find it here http://russelldavis.org/2010/04/debian-binaries-of-my-lid-acpower-and-powerbtn-utilities/

With regard to the charging light I also have a couple of utilities in IZ2S/IZ2Se/EZ2S to handle that as well but they haven’t been compiled for debian based rootfs yet.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:47:45 +0000

@Vincenzo
i have the same problem with charging my zipit
as soon as i plug it in it boots, kinda annoying and the led doesn’t work indicate anything and sometimes doesn’t work at all
i would like to know if there is any way for it to not boot when plugging in to charge, and for the battery light to work like it did when charging pre-hacked (amber when charging, green when charged)

By: Hunter Davis

Hunter Davis — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:26:54 +0000

Hey Joe,

Glad to hear you’ve got it worked out! Looks like it only took you 15 minutes too. I am now glad I installed search unleashed on here (better comments searching). Hope your Z2 is doing well

By: joe_egypt

joe_egypt — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:16:49 +0000

Just went through the older comments and found the answers. Thanks all

By: joe_egypt

joe_egypt — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:01:28 +0000

Hii All,

I have just got my zipit a week ago and currently using this userland.

I have two small issues but I need to know if it’s only me

1. The battery charging LED no longer lights up. The battery actually charges but the charging status at the top is always on “D” and changing without ever reaching 100%.

2. It does not remember time. I can use ‘date’ to set and retrieve the date correctly. However, the GUI doesn’t time does not change. And whenever I restart, time goes back to 1 JAN 2000 00:00.

Is it only me having these issues? Any advice for workarounds?

Thanks for your help
Joe

By: Hunter Davis

Hunter Davis — Sat, 29 May 2010 04:33:07 +0000

Smiley face key

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 May 2010 04:18:32 +0000

I installed it, but the pointer isn’t working. How does that work?

Thanks

By: rkdavis

rkdavis — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:16:04 +0000

lowest.common.denominator: you might find it worthwhile to pop into the irc channel #zipit if you haven’t already done so as you’ll find the marjority of people in there are using rootnexus/sidetrack or ubuntu on their zipits and will probably be able to help solve your problems.

By: lowest.common.denominator

lowest.common.denominator — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:11:54 +0000

Cheers mate that’s awesome, I’ll check it out tonight.

By: rkdavis

rkdavis — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:01:22 +0000

the gspi8686.bin and gspi8686_hlp.bin files are just the wifi firmware. wrt audio check that all the modules are loaded and that the devices are created in /dev