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| 02:25.56 | pjz | I'm trying to boot the unstable-20071003 image and kernel on my A780. I've untar'd Angstrom-x11-pimlico-image-glibc-ipk-2007.9-test-20071003-a780.rootfs.tar.gz onto my sd card and then done ezx-boot-usb zImage-2.6.21.4-ezxdev ; what am I doing wrong? I just get static on the bottom half of the screen and then it goes dark... maybe turns off? I can't tell really. |
| 02:26.35 | pjz | what's modules-2.6.21.4-ezxdev-ezxdev-r23-a780.tgz for? |
| 02:26.47 | sn9__ | kernel modules |
| 02:27.12 | sn9__ | you would merge that tarball with the rootfs tarball on the sd card, usually |
| 02:27.34 | sn9__ | but the kernel has to work first |
| 02:27.50 | pjz | maybe it's failing because the modules on the SD card are busted? |
| 02:28.00 | mickey|tw | does it boot at all? |
| 02:28.10 | mickey|tw | e.g. can you see the boot logo? |
| 02:28.14 | pjz | no boot logo |
| 02:28.24 | pjz | the only kernel I can see the boot logo with is laforge's old old one |
| 02:28.33 | sn9__ | do you see any green or white text on the screen? |
| 02:28.39 | pjz | nope |
| 02:29.29 | sn9__ | ok, sounds like somebody totally broke the framebuffer while trying to fix the bpp problem -- at least that would be my first guess |
| 02:29.48 | pjz | do I need to give the kernel any args when I try and boot it from the cmdline? |
| 02:29.59 | pjz | shoudl I untar those modules and hope one of them maybe fixes the problem? |
| 02:30.09 | pjz | is there somewhere else I should be getting images/kernels from? |
| 02:30.24 | sn9__ | no, the kernel has to work before it can even see any modules |
| 02:30.50 | sn9__ | you can try building your own kernel, like i will in a few minutes |
| 02:31.04 | pjz | so you're saying that the framebuffer isn't in a module, then |
| 02:31.47 | sn9__ | it wouldn't make much sense to have it as a module in this case |
| 02:31.54 | pjz | hrm, what's that take? I'm okay with building kernels for my normal boxes, bu they're not cross compiled |
| 02:32.17 | sn9__ | well, it takes cross-compiling ;) |
| 02:32.29 | pjz | right |
| 02:33.01 | pjz | so let me rephrase my question: how hard is it to set up a cross-compile environment on my ubuntu box? |
| 02:33.45 | sn9__ | theoretically, it may also be possible to compile the kernel for the phone directly on the phone, but atm, that would pose a little chicken&egg problem |
| 02:34.08 | pjz | right |
| 02:34.21 | sn9__ | i am doing this on ubuntu 7.04 powerpc edition atm |
| 03:32.48 | pjz | on what kind of hardware? |
| 03:32.57 | sn9__ | ibook 2001 |
| 03:33.07 | sn9__ | 600MHz G3 |
| 07:07.36 | Hopscotch | good morning |
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| 09:06.22 | janneg | pjz: zImage-2.6.21.4-ezxdev works on my A780 with the openmoko rootfs |
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| 14:55.52 | pjz | janneg: which one is the openmoko rootfs? |
| 15:30.55 | janneg | pjz: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/images/a780/20071001/Angstrom-openmoko-devel-image-glibc-ipk-2007.9-test-20071001-a780.rootfs.tar.gz |
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| 22:23.19 | matejcik | hey folks |
| 22:24.24 | matejcik | i succeeded in running angstrom distro on e680 ... but ... the damn thing ate 45MB of RAM, and e680 seems to have 46 ... so it's pretty unusable |
| 22:25.06 | matejcik | so, is there any other distro i could try? |
| 22:25.16 | matejcik | and if it is, where can i find it? |
| 22:36.01 | janneg | matejcik: are you sure it used the entire 45M as memory? I would guess that a big part was file cache |
| 22:39.44 | matejcik | it used the whole thing |
| 22:39.55 | matejcik | (i know how free shows memory usage ;e) ) |
| 22:40.17 | matejcik | i was able to gain back about 5MB by killing unnecessary things like panel applets |
| 22:40.39 | matejcik | and the thing, howsitcalled, that runs on background and asks you to log in when you resume |
| 22:41.31 | matejcik | ...then i ran package manager, it ate everything, started to swap, and since there's obviously nowhere to swap to, went dead |
| 22:41.35 | matejcik | ;e) |
| 22:46.51 | janneg | ok. the angstrom openmoko rootfs just uses 18M. http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/images/a780/20071001/ |
| 22:47.36 | matejcik | i'll try that, thanks |
| 22:47.53 | matejcik | hope it will work on e680 ... i was just downloading openmoko's own rootfs to try |
| 23:32.41 | matejcik | well. |
| 23:33.56 | matejcik | turns out i am stupid and can't read free output after all |
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