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[Other TouchPad Development] sorrowuk:
Hey crimsonredmk,

I followed the installation.md and entered each command. I made a partition of 2048 mb (2gb) in size.

Then when I typed : tar xzf ArchLinuxARM-touchpad-latest.tar.gz

I got these errors later on :

"

tar: ./etc/ssl/certs/GeoTrust_Universal_CA_2.pem: Cannot create symlink to `/usr

/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/GeoTrust_Universal_CA_2.crt': No space left on de

vice "

Does this mean I've ran out of space? Maybe because the tar file is around 550mb so I only have 1.5gb to unpack.

When I try to boot arch linux I get

"INIT : ID 'x' respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes"

And keep getting that in a loop
[Other TouchPad Development] lologuil:
Hey everybody,

As for me, i've got an other bug. The installation seems to run completely fine but when i try to boot with moboot, i've got an error : "Checking uImage... Invalid Size" whereas the file uImage.ArchLinuxARM is OK.

First i thought it came from the curl command because it returns : "curl: (23) Failed writing body (11426 != 16384)" but then I manually copied the file and the error was still here.

If anyone has an idea, i would be pleased to grab it!
[Other TouchPad Development] crimsonredmk:
Mmm you're right, you'll need more than 2GB if you've got both the .tar.gz and want to extract it there. I'll update the guide...dodjecjr there is a keyboard in the menu so you don't need to buy the whole cable setup. I've never seen an invalid size for a uImage error before either.

Edit: Are you sure you didn't run out of space in /boot? Having CM7, webOS, and CWM fills the tiny /boot partition up fast. Maybe check the md5sums? uImage.ArchLinuxARM should be "60955b50b96f0a285e03800f3b77d47f".

SorrowUK you should run the following on webOS to give yourself 2GB more space (for a total of 4GB):

pkill -SIGUSR1 cryptofs
umount /media/internal
lvm.static lvresize -L -2048M store/media
lvm.static lvresize -L +2048M store/arch-root
mkfs.ext3 /dev/store/arch-root

Then "cd /tmp" and follow "Installation.md" from the "mkdir linux" line near the end. You should not get errors this time. Sorry about the hassle...
[Other TouchPad Development] sorrowuk:
I'll try that.

Also what size is the boot partition? Is it possible to make this bigger or is it restricted?

And one thing.. the command lvs shows all my logical volumes and there total size.

How do you get it to show the amount of free space for each logical volume ?

Also is there a command similar to lvs that shows partitions which are not logicial.

*****

UPDATE

Ok got it working :)

I see what you mean about the touchscreen. Seems way to sensitive. Mine is pressing stuff without my finger even touching the screen just hovering over stuff.

I also went in that irc.freenode channel #archlinuxarm and no ones in it :P
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
Don't know how accurate this is, but Internalz Pro shows the /boot directory as 9.21MB.

Edit - Just checked in novaterm with the du -xh command. The /boot directory is 9.21 MB with approx 4.6 MB usage (webOS only).

The remaining space is what's available for moboot, cm7, archlinux, ubuntu, etc.
[Other TouchPad Development] rohan32:
Can someone please post a video of this running? I want to know how well GNOME 3 runs (like speed) so that I will know whether it is worth getting rid of Android yet at this point.

Thanks!
[Other TouchPad Development] blkhockeypro19:
This doesn't replace android. You can install them together. Nothing in the directions changes android stuff unless you're really stupid about your partition resizing =)

But it runs well. However, GPU acceleration is off. If you move around a window, both cores spike to over 50% usage =\

Also, the touchscreen is off. It's too sensitive and gets uncalibrated quickly!
[Other TouchPad Development] crimsonredmk:
Acceleration is being worked on right now and it'll be an update and likely an xorg.conf change, and jcsullins says he's changed the touchscreen driver to make it less sensitive - when he does I'll rebuild and that will also be an update, though pacman -Syu.

Edit: sudo pacman -Syu, and then a sudo reboot will give you a much, much better touchscreen driver. This update makes it pretty much perfect!

Everyone asking for a video...I'll consider doing something soon now that the touchscreen isn't a disaster.
[Other TouchPad Development] yeahman45:
ok i am installing it now .. i am at the last step.. still downloading arch linux archive... i got that message :

"There are differences between boot sector and its backup.

There are differences between boot sector and its backup.

Differences: (offset:original/backup)"

at the resizeFAT step...

wondering : will i lose cm7??
[Other TouchPad Development] sorrowuk:
Ok got the touchscreen working alot better now thanks :)

crimsonredmk do you know whats the best way to use the onscreen keyboard at the moment. Like if i touch a text box is it able to open the onscreen keyboard automatically.

If I go to Applications , accessories , keyboard I get a keyboard on the desktop but not on top of the active window. Also how do I close the keyboard. There is no button.

And also any idea why pacman -S firefox won't work. It says package not found . Also same with pacman -S chromium
[Other TouchPad Development] Adonis K.:
Thats most probably cause there is no arm compiled firefox package, so it can't find it.
[Other TouchPad Development] yeahman45:
finally installed it :) cm7 still there. :) good...

any idea how to get flash to work on the browser?

how or where can i dload more apps?

and how do you shut it down? lol and right-click?

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i cannot copy any file on the touchpad now... help please

i cannot create new folders via a file manager in cm7 also :(

my cm7 is slow and laggy too now... something messed up my cm7 install when i installed arch linux :(
[Other TouchPad Development] rohan32:
For some reason, wifi isn't working for me, it finds it and stuff but it says that the IP address is not getting associated. Can someone help? Do I need to change some setting or something?

Other than that, it is awesome! Great work! Its really smooth. I can make a video if you want after I get wifi working.

Oh and wifi works fine in CM7 and webOS.
[Other TouchPad Development] yeahman45:
removed arch linux. i can now copy files to device when connected to pc but when using a file manager in cm7 i cannot create folders nor copy files to any folder. what should i do. how to restore the device before arch linux install?
[Other TouchPad Development] k1l:
try the update-cm-7.1.0-tenderloin-sdcard_check_fix_r4-signed.zip http://www.mediafire.com/?g52q4zr03c3z1gx
[Other TouchPad Development] yeahman45:
i will try thx

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not working... :( i get a message in status bar "sd card damaged, you may need to reformat it" :( should i format?

oh my in my desperation i attempted a full wipe and reinstalled cm7... was able to copy some files from samba shares and then same issue... cannot copy anything nor create folder within android... what should i do? i lost all my cm7 apps and settings too in the process :( titanium backup does not seemed to have backed up my apps properly...

edit: i am going to webos doctor it

i have successfully webos doctor it... now when mounted as usb drive.. win xp does not recognise disk.. need formatting.. formatting now... what a mess

formatted disk... touchpad does not boot anymore ... stuck on hp logo splash screen.. need to webdoctor it again i think.. oh my... not going to try install native linux next time lol
[Other TouchPad Development] yeahman45:
still stuck... help plz... i webdoctor it.. and everything was fine.. when i connect it to my pc.. mounted as usb drive.. it asked me to format it.. formatted... (10.5gb) .. now not booting again.. stuck at hp logo splashscreen.... i am fed up web doctoring like 5 times now... any suggestion is welcomed

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i think i messed up with the partitions.. please how can i restore it to default?

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finally seems to work... but i have only 10.3gb storage.. is that normal? i have 16gb touchpad version
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
Connect it to the computer, do not put it into usb mode.

Run the

novaterm

command as your regular user.

Once novaterm is open and you have the TouchPad/webOS prompt, run these commands.

lvm

puts you into lvm management mode

lvs

shows all logical volumes

Delete unneeded volumes, like archlinux and cm7 by

lvremove <store/name-of-volume>

lvresize -L +90000M store/media

this will make your internal storage take up all available space
[Other TouchPad Development] yeahman45:
lvresize -L +90000M store/media

this does not work... it tells me not sufficient extents something like that... i had to +100m, +100m ,etc... i managed to get about 11gb... can you tell me what size i actually supposed to get? i have cm7 partitions
[Other TouchPad Development] Dragoon0309:
I'm installing this now to check it out!

Edit: most works for me but touchscreen is iffy and the keyboard lacks. Others then that great start!
[Other TouchPad Development] blkhockeypro19:
pacman -Syu from terminal. That'll upgrade packages, including the touchscreen driver. Keep in mind you'll need to use wicd to connect to wifi. I recommend taking the password off your router so that you don;t need to type in the wifi password with the iffy touchscreen. Once you reboot after running pacman -Syu, then re-enable wifi security and use the working touchscreen to do whatever =)
[Other TouchPad Development] Dragoon0309:
Thanks for that! What I meant by keyboard is the fact it doesn't go away after you enable it.
[Other TouchPad Development] gamer-Kenny:
Hi, I installed this and its quite nice, but as mentioned before the touchscreen is too sensitive.

How do I close the onscreen keyboard? "sudo killall Keyboard" is not working.

Is there any posibility to adjust the brightness?
[Other TouchPad Development] Sudeaux:
That would be "killall matchbox-keyboard" :)
[Other TouchPad Development] crimsonredmk:
Adjusting brightness can be done in Terminal as root, running: echo [0-255] > /sys/class/leds/lcd_backlight/brightness
[Other TouchPad Development] comhack:
Is the Y cable still required to get this up and running? I
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
Not required to get it up and running, but useful for a real keyboard. The on-screen keyboard is annoying.
[Other TouchPad Development] comhack:
Awesome, thanks for the info. I plan on installing this in the next day or so when I get some time.
[Other TouchPad Development] Puenos:
but pairing with an BT keyboard would be an option?

Is BT supported?
[Other TouchPad Development] comhack:
Not yet. From the first post:
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
It's easy now, very clear and concise instructions.

Takes about twenty minutes, not counting waiting on one of the downloads.
[Other TouchPad Development] comhack:
Sweet!! I am about to go to work but I will install this tonight or in the morning.

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Ok, I am on the step:

with 15 minutes remaining. The servers must be getting hammered considering I am only getting 387K with a 22mbps connection.
[Other TouchPad Development] comhack:
NM I got an IP now. Time to update

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Installed and setup: http://www.imagebam.com/image/1b5664166906896
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
Sweet.

I am playing around with getting KDE Plasma Active installed and running. Let you know if I get anything accomplished.

pacman -Ss kde plasma

finds kde-plasma-mobile-git 20111219-1. It installs, now to get it to run.
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
keyboard

I did the following to get an on-screen keyboard in terminal. It is different than the one in the Applications > Accessories menu. It is still a bit annoying, but it goes away when you close the terminal.

Applications > System Tools > System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Universal Access > Toggle on-screen keyboard. Tap the 'Disabled' and it changes to 'New shortcut...'. Use your real keyboard to enter the shortcut you want. Exit System Settings.

Open a terminal and enter the shortcut on your real keyboard. A pop-up will come up and tell you to enable Caribou, enable it. It says to log out but mine worked without.

Now I have a little less annoying keyboard attached to the terminal when it opens and it closes with the terminal.

Edit

After rebooting and playing with other settings, I have a keyboard which pops up when needed. In Advanced System Settings I am presented with a little keyboard when I select the "Search" box. It goes away when I select a non-text item.
[Other TouchPad Development] comhack:
Gnome works fine except for the lack of power management tools to turn off the screen and power notification
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
Applications > System Tools > System Settings > Screen has a power off setting.

Applications > System Tools > System Settings > Power has suspend, hibernate, and shutdown settings.

I have not tried them, but they are there.

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I've tried this a couple times and messed it up. It's a pain to fix, so I am looking for advice this time. I tried installing other managers and setting them to run, but they just loop at the login screen. Not good.

How do I set up the /etc/inittab entry to give me a choice of Gnome or KDE when it boots?

It uses slim, and it currently says

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >/dev/null 2>&1

How should I modify this to ask for login preferences?

I would prefer to use LXDM as it is actively developed and supported while slim is stagnant.
[Other TouchPad Development] comhack:
Just edit ~/.xinitrc like you would normally on the desktop: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM#Single_environments
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
Thanks for the reply. I did it a little differently and it works also.

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I installed LXDE and used it's login manager to choose between Desktop Environments at boot. It defaults to whatever the previous boot used, but can be easily changed.

Works great, LDXE very smooth and responsive. See this post

http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1948&start=60#p11813

Yeah!
[Other TouchPad Development] comhack:
I also ran across the same error when creating files/folders:

I tried flashing the fix listed above but nothing changed. Any ideas?
[Other TouchPad Development] crimsonredmk:
How does your LXDE look (anything special for tablets?) Plasma Active is slow because it's probably all being rendered by the CPU and not the graphics chip - we're still working on that. We could use some help...
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
LXDE looks exactly like it does on your laptop or desktop. Touch interface does work but it is nothing special. What do you want for a measly 25 MB installed. On-screen keyboard works properly on LXDE, not like it does on Gnome (same keyboard). Some minor bugs and glitches.

I have e17 up and running and it is amazing. It only weighs in at ~ 45 MB and is head and shoulders above LXDE or Gnome.

I had KDE Plasma Mobile running last night, it has a long way to go to be useable. Plus it's installed size was almost 670 MB.

Question - How is the Gnome environment configured to boot to the desktop without any login authentication? I can boot anything we can load, but it requires the external keyboard.
[Other TouchPad Development] dodgejcr:
Ive been saying this the whole time!!! LOL. Eventually I will get around to putting e17 on this but honestly havent even had time to pick up the touchpad in the past few days. Im glad it at least works decently.

Are you using the illume profile or the regular desktop version?
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
illume profile

It will be great once I become enlightened.
[Other TouchPad Development] Sphaerophoria:
When I tried to set up e17 the setup had some weird graphical errors which stopped me from running through the setup. Did you have any issues similar to that?
[Other TouchPad Development] dodgejcr:
I have been messing with it tonight. Ive got it set up just about perfectly for me and havent run into any graphic issues. During the initial set up, be sure to disable compositing (really dont think it will benefit at all on the tablet) and if it isnt obvious, you should probably choose the illume profile over the desktop as it is MUCH easier to use.
[Other TouchPad Development] yeahman45:
i fixed mine by formatting the device... refix the partitions using this guide http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-internals/295881-webos-doctor-12-issue-fixed.html as webos doctor would be stuck at 12% (i think the command : mkfs.msdos /dev/mapper/store-media did fix the "cannot create folder" issue). and finally i did a webos doctor restoring my webos... then i had to reinstall cm7 using acme installer
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
Are you seeing any weird behavior? Mine regularly presents the Gnome desktop after using an app from the base install. After that happens, Enlightenment just about shuts down. A reboot fixes it.

It makes me feel like both Gnome and Enlightenment are trying to run and are fighting over the user interface/touchscreen.

So I am back to an earlier question. How does the OS load the default Gnome desktop? There appears to be some kind of a failsafe to boot it if the ~/.xinitrc file is corrupted or changed to an invalid entry.
[Other TouchPad Development] mhmandthen:
can someone please post a video
[Other TouchPad Development] KrzychuG:
How's the battery life on this one?
[Other TouchPad Development] benru89:
Hi, i've been following archlinux progress in the touchpad for several weeks here and in the archlinuxarm forum, and i succesfully installed it in my touchpad, but here is a doubt i expect someone could resolve. It is possible to run the native installation of arm in a card within webos? sometimes i wanted to do a simple thing in arch when in webos and though it would be nice to just start it in a card instead of rebooting the system , and reboot back again. What i tried is to mount the arch partition , then chroot that partition and tried to launch gnome and lxde with no succes , but i could launch some programs from the webos xterm like xournal . Finally i tried with enlightenment and i could launch it but most of the programs i try to run from enlightenment desktop doesnt work at all . What im doing wrong? i need to bind some other partitions before chroot? or it's just impossible to run the native version as a card and i should take the chroot version? Thanks in advance.
[Other TouchPad Development] newbieandroid:
Hello I just downloaded NovaTerm for Windows and extracted it to "SDK/Bin" and after I already Connected to "localhost" it shows root@HPTuchPad:/f, as soon as I type a letter or character I get a message saying:

"Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immedaitely."

What should I do to fix this issue? Also do I resize the partition first or do I follow the commands to install Arch Linux first?

Thank you and Happy New Year's Eve.
[Other TouchPad Development] amenditman:
You need to follow the directions in the Instructions text. Be careful, some are just explanations, but most are terminal commands.
[Other TouchPad Development] edude03:
Hey Devs thanks for the hardwork, I ran this all day today and it works great! This will be my future netbook replacement once composing and bluetooth work.

Anyway, I noticed somewhere that we are looking for a better keyboard for this project? In that case look no farther than Maliit, it's a advanced multitouch keyboard akin to the iPad or WebOS onscreen keyboard, it also offers auto input on input selection so it's great for using a full OS on a touchscreen.

I managed to get it up and running today however there is a known bug that causes it not to work without composing (otherwise it looks like this however once the devs get it working we'll have the perfect keyboard ready to go!

Hope this helps and let me know if anyone needs help getting it installed.
[Other TouchPad Development] newbieandroid:
I can't find a fix to use Novaterm on Windows 7. I keep getting the same error every time I type. Is it because I have Android on my Touchpad? Is there a different command line I can use to install Arch Linux?
[Other TouchPad Development] scrizz:
I'm on windows 7 x64 and novaterm works fine...

to use novaterm, you have to be in WebOS and have developer mode enabled.

in this link you will links to novaterm, palm SDK, and everything else you will need to be able to access your touchpad.

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Portal:Accessing_Linux
[Other TouchPad Development] newbieandroid:
That is the same guide I followed and I still get that same error while trying to type anything into NovaTerm. I am positive developer mode is enabled and I'm in WebOS or else Novaterm wouldn't notice the Touchpad. Thanks for the reply.
[Other TouchPad Development] scrizz:
If I were you, I'd reinstall everything(the sdk, novaterm, etc...)
[Other TouchPad Development] k1l:
wow

that really sound like a good OnScreenKeyboard. IIRC maliit is used in meego so far.
[Other TouchPad Development] newbieandroid:
Thats exactly what I did, I apparently had like 3 different sdk's installed so I uninstalled them deleted the paths if they stayed behind and reinstalled now NovaTerm works perfectly.

After that when I follow the instructions I assume I'm doing something wrong when I get here:

Do I use this command?
[Other TouchPad Development] jacobas92:
This will display the size of /store/media in MB. Use this to determine how much space you should allocate to arch-root.

Make sure to use hyphens correctly when resizing. It's easy to make mistakes there lol
[Other TouchPad Development] newbieandroid:
I messed up pretty badly with resizing the parition and failed to boot. The ArchLinux/Arm splash screen pops up than keeps rebooting. I ended up making my 32GB Touchpad 10GBs. than fixed it and now it's only 23GBs instead of the 27Gb before I started. How can I get the 4GBs I lost back?

These are the exact commands I typed in and I probably messed up badly.
[Other TouchPad Development] k1l:
congratulations, you messed up with your lvms. this is the reason its labled alpha.

the ECHO line was to point you to the text below the codebox. because there is a part were you have to use your brain and make simple maths to set up the partitions to your personal needs. (see https://github.com/crimsonredmk/ArchLinuxARM-TouchPad/blob/master/Installation.md )
[Other TouchPad Development] shinelt:
Have anybody tried playing games on it, like dwarf fortress or so?
[Other TouchPad Development] groogh:
Everything works fine, until ...

root@TouchPad3:/tmp# mkfs.ext3 /dev/store/arch-root
mke2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
327680 inodes, 1310720 blocks
65536 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=1342177280
40 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks):
Tue Jan 3 12:21:57 2012
novacomd socket was closed prematurely
novacom: unexpected EOF from server

Edit: Just rebooted the device and everything works great.