From szob at gazeta.pl Sun Nov 8 08:32:41 2009 From: szob at gazeta.pl (Szob) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:32:41 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] Freerunner Message-ID: <200911080932.41913.szob@gazeta.pl> Hello, >The Slackware ARM packages user land packages, in the main, will be fine >on the system - although perhaps may require some additional tweaking. >I think the majority of work would be the installation and resolving all >of the requirements and parameters required to boot the system. >I have had a brief look through: >http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner >If somebody is interested in making an out of box experience, including >installation documentation, then let me know. Well, I would love to have my Slackware on the FreeRunner. The question is time. I simply lack it at the moment. But I would love to have my Slack on the FreeRunner and I will experiment with it as the time allows. I also read the Debian wike page mentioned above and if Debian can run on FreeRunner, so can Slackware. I also looked into the installation of armedslack on the emulator and I agree the issue is mostly around booting into the installer. Once you're booted on the FreeRunner the installation should most likely go OK. Later the GSM stack from FSO can be installed from the source and the same packages can be used as Debian uses compiled from the source. My goal now is to have a dual boot with OM2009 and Armedslack from the microSD (if possible). This way if I want to use the FreeRunner as a phone, I can boot OM2009 and if I need to have a mobile Slackware terminal and light windows manager, I would boot into the Armedslack. Does it make sense? I still struggle with purchasing FreeRunner GTA02 V7 (with the buzz fix). Most distributors still offer V6. It seems I will have to purchase it abroad. Oliwer From linuxxr at yahoo.com Sun Nov 8 19:35:15 2009 From: linuxxr at yahoo.com (brian kelley) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:35:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ARMedslack] Freerunner In-Reply-To: <200911080932.41913.szob@gazeta.pl> Message-ID: <262197.90392.qm@web52403.mail.re2.yahoo.com> shr-unstable is the current trend as far as i can tell,,,???? on nand?? . ?? i have debian installed on microsd card because android took over everything on both,, so i kicked android out..?? so????? maybe we can get u a? piece of hardware {freerunner} somehow,?? to make things go well for u ,,?? --- On Sun, 11/8/09, Szob wrote: From: Szob Subject: [ARMedslack] Freerunner To: armedslack at lists.armedslack.org Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 2:32 AM Hello, >The Slackware ARM packages user land packages, in the main, will be fine >on the system - although perhaps may require some additional tweaking. >I think the majority of work would be the installation and resolving all >of the requirements and parameters required to boot the system. >I have had a brief look through: >http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner >If somebody is interested in making an out of box experience, including >installation documentation, then let me know. Well, I would love to have my Slackware on the FreeRunner. The question is time. I simply lack it at the moment. But I would love to have my Slack on the FreeRunner and I will experiment with it as the time allows. I also read the Debian wike page mentioned above and if Debian can run on FreeRunner, so can Slackware. I also looked into the installation of armedslack on the emulator and I agree the issue is mostly around booting into the installer. Once you're booted on the FreeRunner the installation should most likely go OK. Later the GSM stack from FSO can be installed from the source and the same packages can be used as Debian uses compiled from the source. My goal now is to have a dual boot with OM2009 and Armedslack from the microSD (if possible). This way if I want to use the FreeRunner as a phone, I can boot OM2009 and if I need to have a mobile Slackware terminal and light windows manager, I would boot into the Armedslack. Does it make sense? I still struggle with purchasing FreeRunner GTA02 V7 (with the buzz fix). Most distributors still offer V6. It seems I will have to purchase it abroad. Oliwer _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mozes at slackware.com Sat Nov 14 14:43:28 2009 From: mozes at slackware.com (Stuart Winter) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:43:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ARMedslack] KDE 4.3.3 updated in -current Message-ID: Hi A quick note to say that I've just pushed armedslack-current to the ftp site. It's now in sync with x86-current, and includes KDE 4.3.3. Once Linux 2.6.32 is released I'm going to start looking at getting armedslack running on the OpenRD client. Cheers s. -- Stuart Winter www.slackware.com/~mozes Slackware for ARM: www.armedslack.org From kendlt at hdsnet.hu Sun Nov 22 19:09:03 2009 From: kendlt at hdsnet.hu (Tibor Kendl) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:09:03 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] Newbie Question Message-ID: <4B098C4F.9060008@hdsnet.hu> Hi Everybody! Thanks for adding me to mailing list. I have an Acer N30 PDA (http://www.arm.com/markets/mobile_solutions/armpp/5571.html), and i would like to install ARMedslack on it. Is it possible at all? If so could you give me any link to a documentation or howto about that? Thanks: Tibor From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Tue Nov 24 18:44:16 2009 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:44:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [ARMedslack] Newbie Question In-Reply-To: <4B098C4F.9060008@hdsnet.hu> References: <4B098C4F.9060008@hdsnet.hu> Message-ID: Hi Tibor > Thanks for adding me to mailing list. I have an Acer N30 PDA > (http://www.arm.com/markets/mobile_solutions/armpp/5571.html), and i > would like to install ARMedslack on it. Is it possible at all? If so > could you give me any link to a documentation or howto about that? I ought to write an FAQ for this question :-) There's kernel support for the Acer N30 PDA and the URL I found is here: http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/AcerN30Documentation However, what do you want to do with the PDA once you get Linux onto it? You could get Slackware ARM on to it but it'd require some effort on your part: - compiling a kernel with the support for that device (there is kernel support in 2.6.32, and probaly earlier) - getting the boot loader configured and working so that it boots linux - figuring out how to install Slackware onto its storage. My opinion is that: Slackware is good for servers, desktops and devices that have adequate storage and RAM, since it's a general purpose distribution. I don't think that Slackware is good for PDAs because PDAs usually have: - small RAM - small storage - slow CPUs The Acer N30 has a slow CPU but it could still run Slackware ARM, but I'd question how you would interface with it given that most likely need adjustments or additions to X in order to use those buttons. My concern is that you turn what is a useful gadget into something that really isn't useful at all! ;-) But as I said, it depends what you want to achieve and how much time you want to put in. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org From jwsmythe at gmail.com Wed Nov 25 03:43:00 2009 From: jwsmythe at gmail.com (JW Smythe) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:43:00 -0500 Subject: [ARMedslack] ArmedSlack on EmbeddedArm TS-7800? Message-ID: Good evening all... I just started on a new project, and it happens to be ARM based. The bought me two TS-7800's from embeddedarm.com. It's a 500Mhz ARM9 with 128Mb RAM. They were excited that it came with Debian, and had a somewhat modern kernel. Unfortunately for me, it's Debian 3.1, and much of the hardware isn't supported under the more modern releases. That's sent me wandering a bit. I've put Slackware on almost everything I've worked with for many years, so this seems like an obvious thing for me to consider jumping into. So, my initial questions.. Is this worth pursuing, or am I going to run into serious and unsurmountable headaches? The board is kinda funny. Well, imagine that, an ARM being not like a PC. :) They have their own boot loader, that only knows how to go to the second partition for an uncompressed kernel, then partition 4 for the root partition. It can either boot to the built on NAND, a SD card or a micro SD card. Am I going to be able to support all the devices? It has DIO for a 4x4 matrix keypad, LCD for a 2x24 LCD screen, and a whole variety of serial and other ports. On this project, I'm going to use at least some of everything. It doesn't have a VGA connection, so the console has to go to the serial, which I don't suspect will be a serious problem. I'm not exactly sure how much is in the kernel, and how much is in user space. The problem that's tripped me up today is a wealth of information, and now trying to rebuild the kernel to have the FUSE module (built in or module, as long as I have it). -- I ????? ??; - Socrates (15/Feb/399 BC) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leandrosansilva at gmail.com Mon Nov 30 18:21:24 2009 From: leandrosansilva at gmail.com (Leandro Santiago) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:21:24 -0200 Subject: [ARMedslack] OT: Is anyone here? Message-ID: <4B140D24.1080900@gmail.com> Hello to all. I'm a new user of armedslack (but I used Slackware from 10.1 to 12.2), and decided to see if it run well on arm systems. And run :-) Is this list active? From laurens at daemon.be Mon Nov 30 20:47:11 2009 From: laurens at daemon.be (Laurens Vets) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:47:11 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] OT: Is anyone here? In-Reply-To: <4B140D24.1080900@gmail.com> References: <4B140D24.1080900@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4B142F4F.7040703@daemon.be> Leandro Santiago wrote: > Hello to all. I'm a new user of armedslack (but I used Slackware from > 10.1 to 12.2), and decided to see if it run well on arm systems. And run > :-) > > Is this list active? Yes :)