Gentoo on PDA/Pocket PC??

rullzer · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:31 am Post subject: Gentoo on PDA/Pocket PC??

Hi all,

I'm currently looking for a nice PDA/Pocket PC. Now i was wondering who has successfully installed gentoo on 1 of these two? Now i know i can just use putty. But it would be cool to use gentoo on it. Of course wifi etc would have to be available what sadly enough limits the amount of working devices i think. So what are your experiences?

thnx in advance,
rullzer

bmichaelsen · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject:

How about these?
http://www.maemo.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet
... its at least linux.

rullzer · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject:

well then i geus it can also run gentoo. Altough today i was thinking if i would really want to sync portage on it

That nokia 770 looks very very nice btw. I'll look into it. Thanks

rullz

bmichaelsen · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:56 am Post subject:

No, there is no gentoo for the Nokia 770 yet. Nokia created a special linux distribution for the 770 - Maemo - which kind of makes sense.
The only PDA that gentoo runs on is Zaurus:
http://gentooforzaurus.opensistemas.com/
However, the community is quite small and not promoted by the device manufacturer.
Why does it have to be gentoo?

rullzer · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:18 am Post subject:

Hehe well i just love my gentoo installs. But that nokia looks so sweet. I'm going to borrow it from a friend at the university and play a little with it. I thank you again for you help

rullz

alexxy · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:54 am Post subject: Gentoo on hx4700

A mounth ago I have installed gentoo on my iPAQ hx4700
(See gentoo.ru for details and ftp://gentoo.ru for stages packages etc...)
Yesterday I make Xfbdev working...

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

Nice job man ! I tried a few times to get gentoo on my girlfriend´s 4150 ( booting form sd).
Main trouble for me is the X setup ( it never worked) but it used to work nicely on console last time i tried.

Two questions though : why don´t you build against uclibc and mind to share x setup experiences ?

Thanks !
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alexxy · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject:

I prefer normal glibc instead of uclibc because some softwere don't work correctly on it.
Check ftp://gentoo.ru
Today I've upload working X to gentoo.ru
I'll be very glad if someone want to join this smal project ;-)

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alexxy · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject:

Ok, I'll make english version of readme and wiki page soon ;-)

All this packages were made for armv5te processors such as pxa27x
But they may work on pxa25x. I'm not sure :-(

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alexxy · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:27 am Post subject:

There were some problems with X

For now we have working Xfbdev
Working touchscreen and e17 as wm
As login manager entrance

By the way
How to get virtual keyboard working with entrance?
I use matchbox keyboard

PS I've uploaded screenshots of working e enviroment to ftp://gentoo.ru/hx4700/screenshots/X
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PITABoy · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

I am very interested in this project. i have a h4100 and would like to help test. alexxy or current maintainer please contact me.

PITABoy · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

What happened to all of the files? They are gone. I would be happy to host them please contact.

alexxy · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject:

Many excuses but when we try to setup svn for portage overlay we've removed this files ;-(
I'll upload them back soon...
With some updates of couse...
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alexxy · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject:

I've just uploaded this files back from my backup...
Some screenshots are gone... May be I'll upload them later
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PITABoy · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

is there going to be a website with howtos?

PITABoy · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

i have gentoo booting but i am useing a sd card instead of cf so it crashes when trying to load root do you know what file i need to edit?

thanks in advance

edit: found the answer i just edited my fstab to the same root as my boot loader mmcblk0p2 or something like that

Edit2: i keep geting superblock errors and it wants me to run fsck but i dont have a keyboard how can i fix this?

Edit3: i ran efsk on my linux computer on my sd card i will now try to boot it 6415 days since last filesystem check. forced (probabally due to wrong time on pocket pc)

EDIT4: i got a working boot but it i command line only and i have no keyboard

p.s. i have a h4150

PITABoy · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

I am looking for a how to on getting x running with a window manager with keyboard.

alexxy · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject:

My stage4 automaticaly start usbnet and ssh2 server
So you need to setup usbnet on your box
add this to your /etc/conf.d/net

alexxy · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject:

In latest stage4 on ftp you have working e
and matchbox...

Matchbox support virtual keyboard....

Is touchscreen working on your pda with my stages?
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PITABoy · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

how do i run matchbox or preferably gpe?

entranced is missing libs so it wont run.

Also how do i change the fonts to english? EDIT: i figured out the font thing i just copied the config from my box. still isnt working correctly.

PITABoy · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

I know that this is probabally a lot of work but could you please make an english image possibly one that automatically boots into a gui?

alexxy · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject:

This image support english of cource...
You just need to modifiy some envirement variebles...
See
/etc/env.d/02local
/etc/conf.d/consolefont
/etc/conf.d/keymap
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PITABoy · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

I think that we need an irc channel or icq contact my aol is l33t linux h4x0r

please try to contact me i know that our timezones are way different but maybe we will be on at the same times

also more importantly how do you build a kernel for the ipaq's i need to build it so that i can install acx100 <-- the wireless driver for the hx4700 and h4100