[Angstrom-distro-users] Hentges to Angstrom

[Rolf Leggewie]

Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote:
> Lo folks,

Hi Steven,

> So yeah! Angstrom - finally final :D woo!

Take it easy.  It is not there yet, especially for the collie.  Be 
patient.  http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2148 has the 
latest status for angstrom and collie.

> 1) I boot the hentges ROM off my SD card, and have alt boot installed on 
> the zaurus itself, can I do the same with Angstrom and is it advised to 
> reflash the zaurus and not keep the old altboot?

To use angstrom you will have to reflash the Zaurus.  altboot does not 
yet work (see bug 2148 which links the relevant bug)

> 2) Did the bug get fixed where loading Opie for the first time would 
> hang with a 'what do you wanna do with this SD/CF card' screen?

Never experienced this.  OE bug?

Opie is not yet officially supported.  The main GUI is GPE.

> 3) Did the suspend button get fixed - so it suspends, instead of freezes

Never experienced this.  OE bug?

AFAIK, power management is completely disabled at this point in time for 
angstrom/collie.

> 4) Can I still use XMMS - it's nice :D

Right now? No.  You won't even have a GUI on the collie.  And your SD 
card has maybe a 50% chance of working.  I own three cards and none of 
them are recognized yet.  This is alpha-stage!

That being said, at the time of release you should see a working 
distribution.  If you are not afraid of flashing your device back and 
forth (altboot on OZ should help since you don't lose data) it would be 
nice if you helped out testing.  We need to increase the ratio of givers 
to pure-takers (although we sometimes fail to treat the givers in a 
decent manner).

Regards

Rolf
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