Linwizard

---

FYI...

Looks like some progress has been made. I was just browsing around and curious as to whether anybody was still working on porting Linux to the Wizard. Sure enough some activity started end of last year and you can actually run a very limited version of linux from inside of wm. Here is the link, http://sourceforge.net/projects/linwizard/ I wish I had the skills to participate but I will be following their progress. Maybe I can be a help finding bugs.

cool i wish i could help in that project also but since i cant i can only volunteer my wizard as a lab rat

**double post sorry**

It's really basic at this point. no touch screen. no screen rotation. I've run it on mine. Follow the readme, expand the zip to a folder, then expand the initrd.bz2 into the same folder. copy that folder to your SD and run the .exe from inside wm.

I can't wait. I have a spare wizard and I'll definately be hacking away on that one.

hi guys!

i also tryed to get linwizard working on my htc qtek 9100 (wizard)

and really, it works! =]

i took the gizard package:

http://tinderbox.x86.dev.gentoo.org/...080602.tar.bz2

a gentoo distri

just login in with the the user root (no password) and type the command "startx"
now the X server and the window manager starts.

also the touchscreen is working!

btw:

if you connect your ppc with your computer (usb) you can connect to the the device over telnet (not ssh - you have to set the ip on your computer first)


i'm running it with haret 0.5.1

and my config looks like this:

set MTYPE 1229
set KERNEL "zImage"
set INITRD "initrd"
set CMDLINE "root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=20504 init=/linuxrc panic=30 video=omapfb:accel console=tty0"
bootlinux

all the files in the gizard package are stored in the root directory of my storage card!

greets hades00

[sorry for my english - i am from austria =)]

Well im downloading it now lets see what this sucker can do. Thanks for the heads up!

How do u know the touchscreen is working???

---

Hades,
i did what u said till the startx.. now i have 'Login' window with a ~$ prompt and clock like thing on the upper left hand corner. after this what ?? where are the apps? and my touchscreen does not work. i just have tht 2 windows and i cannot move them around or anything ... I am totally a noob in Linux. i had to ask my friend for even the ls command.
If u get time can u please help me out...

** I take all that back.. i had the wrong image file in the folder ... the things that does not work for me right now is
1. i cannot set the date and time
2. cannot change the theme through 'look and feel'

The mileage calculator is somthing.

as you can see, this version is just the alpha version of linwizard/gizard ... the problem is that all the software have to be compiled for the arm (omap850) processor architecture ... this can take a while, but when we have a look to the xanadux project, it works!

for example, for the gsm-modul, they took the same driver as the artemis has!

yesterday i read a little bit about the wifi-driver for the wizard, it's the TCS3500 and it's precompilerd for the mips-architecture (the openwrt project is using the same - [vlynq])
Now, it's the problem to cross-compiler the sourcecode to the arm-architecture


it's a hard work, but i think they will get it working


for me, i want to have a look to the python workaround and write some nice, small, useful programs


greets hades00

[sorry for my english - i am from austria =) - i only wite/speak broken english]

Personally, I don't think this would be worth it for me until you get the power button/power management working and GSM completely working.


But if I had a choice between windows and linux, and both would let me still have a functional phone (mustn't forget that this is the primary purpose of getting the device), you'd bet I'd go with linux in a heartbeat.

good job

i works fine on my HTC WIZARD 100, from Vodafone (VPA II compact)