Opie boot. Complete procedure+questions.

Hi, All.
Decided to try and boot opie, since I found a lot of ipkgzzz for it.
So that's the full story from the very beginning, since it can help
newbies.

1st bug i've noticed in ramdiosk rescue. I firstly wanted to use CF
card for the tarball storage and the SD for installation, since my SD
is a 128mb and there wasn't enough.
The ramdisk said that it found a fat partition, but couldn't mount is
and printed out below that :
(/dev/)
as far as I think that should be /dev/hda for CF
Had to write the tarball on SD and than delete it via a card reader.

So here comes opie with its own toolset and bugset=)
Firstly, I liked the bluetooth manager until I tried it.
Always crashes and looks like a very very preprepreprepreprealpha
version - most services are  unavaliable.
And while scanning the device my big pc didn't find any services at
all!
Anyone knows how to fix that stuff?
> The same bug as with GPE! VFAT refuses to mount.
here's the terminal output:
root@AiFiLTr0:~# mount /dev/hda1 -t auto /media/cf
mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /media/cf failed: No such file or directory
root@AiFiLTr0:~# mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 -t auto /mnt/card
mount: Mounting /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /mnt/card failed: Invalid argument
Anyone, help, please!!!
Here's the lsmod output if that can help:
lsmod Module         Size  Used by
ppp_deflate             5088  0
ppp_async               9760  1 
ppp_generic            26004  6 ppp_deflate,ppp_async 
slhc                    6336  1 ppp_generic 
hci_uart               17568  4 
snd_pcm_oss            49184  1 
snd_mixer_oss          15328  2 
snd_pcm_oss sa1100_rtc              9580  0 
rfcomm                 35832  6 
ircomm_tty             21704  0 
ircomm                 12068  1 
ircomm_tty irda                  117960  2 ircomm_tty,ircomm 
ipv6                  264700  8 
hidp                   13056  2 
l2cap                  22724  12 rfcomm,hidp
bluetooth              47196  8 hci_uart,rfcomm,hidp,l2cap 
g_ether                13906  0 
vfat                   10752  0 
fat                    47356  1 
vfat nls_base                7072  2 vfat,fat 
root@AiFiLTr0:~#  
> Next was the problem how to transport ipks to the device while
> running windoze
Since I don't have free space for linux on a big pc here (I wasn't at
home), I had to find a way to connect a linux pda with a windows
machine. Windows recognises pda as Ethernet Gadget and doesn't have a
diver. I don't have irda on pc... so Bluetooth.
I used "Lan access point service" of my bt device. Yet the manager
always crashed upon connecting and connection was only successful when
I turned encryption and authorisation off on both devices.
Then I started Apache and downloaded ipks to device through terminal:
ipkg install http://10.20.0.1/1.ipk
(renamed ipks to save time)
Then I've installed vsftpd to simplify the information transfer.
After that life became a lot easier =))))

Finally! keyboard supports russian and there is a russian locale for
opie in an ipk. cool! I'll be fixing the translation errors the other
day, since there are many bugz here. hehe!
KillBill for opie also made me a good deal happy. I hate this guy and
even have a "Microsoft must die" T-shirt.

So now the most of the bugz.
>Touchscreen is killing me.
It seems to be ... don't know how to describe the strange behaviour ... 
inacurate
I've picked some previous topics from
maillist about the subject, but didn't get what's the exact procedure
to fix that. Anyone knows?
> Buttons.
 The power button doesn't seem to suspend the device as in
 GPE, but resumes it. Not so comfortable... Seeking for a fix.
The first two hardware buttons work and can be mapped easily, but the
Joypad, power button and the other to don't seem to act as supposed.
Anyone knows a fix?
> battery
No battery readings as in GPE. =(
> Wallpapers.
Strange, but opie had no GUI for changing wallpapers. hehe.
/opt/QtPalmtop/pics/launcher/opie-background.jpg if anyone needs.
Player
> audio
Works perfectly. I liked the player design.
> video
converted with mencoder
here the opts:
-ofps 30 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=400:acodec=mp3:abitrate=64 -o
was a bit slow and with no sound.

Anyway looks and works better than GPE. Thanks to all involved.
I'll be making some manuals in russian about linux on a PDA and will
send a link as soon as I've done that.
-- 
Cheers!
Andrew                      
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