What's new?
This release has much more applications then the older one. Well, but it's missing Konqueror embedded. I had some problems to compile it, I'll try it again, but it's missing for now.
Sound
A lot of people was asking how to turn sound on. It's easy, you just adjust volume in mixer. To make it even easier, current release has by default volume set to max. So you don't have to ask how to turn it on. Other sound related news is that volume applet in Opie is "fixed", so you can adjust volume much easier.
New icons
A lot of applications has a new, much nicer icons. That's because of the hard work of z72ka. He prepared this icons for you and he helped me a lot with building release. So great thanks to him.
Bugs
This release is basically release from LinuxExpo with several bugs fixed and some little adjustments. There is still some bugs left as everywhere. One thing is missing Konqueror embedded as I already mentioned. Other already known bug is some mistake in russian localization. I'll try to take a look at both these errors and try to fix them, but it will take a lot of time and I'm quite busy with school right now...
Download
Maybe I should mention where to get it too. You can get it as always on my webpages. Last note, there should be some surprise for you, so pay attention during the first boot ;-)
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Downloading and testing
With ext2 after this:
http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08195/treux_050808_002114.jpg
I got this, the last line says: Cant create etc in device, there is no enough space, I have 80 MB free in Ram and 500 MB in SD
http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08195/treux_050808_006155.jpg
Any help¿?
The archive "Opie root (05/05/2008) in ext2" is corrupt for me too...
Tried Squashfs-lzma one -
Same error (image "Opie root (05/05/2008) in squashfs-lzma")
I think I know where was the problem with ext2, I enlarged ext2 partition and problem disappeared. So it should work now. With squashfs-lzma, there was some error during upload, so in the end I reuploaded both files. Thanks for your reports.
Job Done
http://twitpic.com/wyc
I check with more deatil in the nigth
g_ether doesn't work for me in this release:-(. Otherwise nice work!
Miska,
There another date refresh on testing page with the date 16-May-2008.
Is it anything significant?
Hi, tested with Opie root (05/05/2008) in ext2 on a TT5 using kernel for 324x484. It's very slow and locks sometimes. Keep the good work!
Thanks for the excellent work Miska. Just one question: Can we play videos on the TX? If so which format? theora? divx? mpeg?
Thanks!
OK i downloaded the new stuff
(and the new rootfs 05/05/08 image)
booted as normal
halfway in the booting i heard a sound saying something like "booting angstrom"
I THOUGHT that was the computer Hal from movie 2010 hahaha
but...
it doesnt go any further :(
it says
The Angstrom Distibution palm ttyl
Angstrom 2008.1-test-20080505
palm login:
PASSWORD:
i dont know what to put here...
any help?
thanks miska
Nice work!
In the hackndev forum people comments that would be posible that wifi work's with the 2.6.24 kernel
It's true?
[http://hackndev.com/node/43]
(sorry for my english)
Thanks miska
enrique: Well, users keep hoping, Marex, as long as I know the only one who tried to make WiFi driver, keeps telling that drivers in vanilla are for different chip (same vendor, just newer chips) with different interface (different communication protocol) so it wouldn't work.
nicolas: That's strange, it should start opie :-(
tested on TX, everything /out WiFi works good but veryyyy slow @614Mhz
ooh never mind i found the culprit
it was the misc package "home.ext2" file
i deleted it and it now works :D
thanks miska for great image
i would really like it if opie started in landscape mode (i mainly use it this mode since you can rezise windows etc etc)
and could the next image have opie media player please? :D
thanks again for the image
Hi, after putting the TX on suspend the unit seems to be dead. Not possible to give it a soft or hard reset. Any idea?
Robert
Hi saintpe,
I also tried the suspend option. Leaving the T|X overnight drained the battery completely. I had to recharge from the socket before I could use it again. I guess that the GNU/Linux suspend implementation isn't as rigorous as the PALM OS one.
reset button is disabled during suspend, but you should be able to wake up your palm with any other button.
Great work
3 Months without any post? are you alive miska?
Just a comment, when I reset back to the Palm OS, the date is always set back to 5/5/1942 10:49PM. Anyway to fix this? Also the OPIE system doesn't have my timezone -5GMT no daylight savings. Other than that, cool to have Linux on my Palm TX. I hope someone figures out the WIFI problems and you get the web browser back on the image. Thanks
chiefalex: nope, I'm dead. I'm just a ghost wandering around ;-)
kevin: I know about that clock problem, but didn't found any quick solution and there is still a lot of more interesting things to do ;-) About konqueror, as long as I know, bluelightning was working to fix it in OE, so maybe I can be back in next release.
Miska, I download and unzip the kernel for Palm TX (named "tx-hires-kernel"), the "Opie root (05/05/2008) in ext2" (I've also tried with the other ones) but, it doesn't work (cocoboot needs the kernel to be named zImage). If I rename it to zImage, it seems it's booting, but the screen turns crazy and it halts. If I use an old zImage (1 year ago) and rename Opie to rootfs.ext2 (and an old initrd.gz) it boots, but it does not turn into graphical mode (Opie). What can I do?
Thanks
Fixed. It was a problem with my decompressor ;)
I have a problem with the new release. When I click in Boot cocoboot, system loading, and displays an error
[Code]
.mmcblk0: error 1 transferring data
end_request: I/o error, dev mmcblk0, sector 63
FAT: unable to read boot sector
mount: mounting /dev/mmcb1 on /mnt/mmc failed
[/Code]
I am not an advanced user of linux, but I think it means that the card is named as otherwise ... Also, I tried to write about this in the forum palmz.in(http://palmz.in/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=41554&view=findpost&p=411714), they propose to create three partitionson flash, fat, swap and ext2, and say that this contributed greatly to the system. This is about as Alex proposes to deal with debian on the treo.(http://hackndev.com/node/212#comment-781)
I put the old release, about a year ago, everything was fine, it loads, but it works very slowly, and did not support bluetooth and wifi, now I want to try the new, I've read about him a lot of good feedback.
Sorry for my english, i'm using google-translator.
4 Gb flash cards not supported in your kernel. OMG.
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