Using your MMC Card

To use your MMC Card you can simply plug it into your drive and use it as vfat. But then installing onto your MMC card won't work because vfat doesn't support symlinks.

I'm currently trying to work out whether it's possible to use jffs2 on a mmc, which would hopefully increase the lifespan while enabling us to use a nice journaled filesystem. The problem with ext3/reiserfs is, that they do a write on every read (normally), so the mmc can go pooooof very soon. But I read something about the mmc electronics doing intelligent caching or something? If somebody knows more about this, please mail me!

Using opie on your Ipaq and X via vnc from your mmc card.

Get qtopia-x (google zaurus killefiz gives http://www.longbros.com/benjamin/ipaq/dist/feed/other/) and keypebble (normal feed). Edit /usr/bin/vncserver and edit it to -gemoetry 320x240 -pixelformat RGB565 -depth 16 -dpi 100

ipkg -d mmc install task-x, ipkg -d mmc install gpe2, http://extrasensory.biz/~cbiffle/opie/cards.php, start with vncserver and /etc/X11/Xsession, use settings->configure keyboard to get the keyboard working...

Delete /mnt/card/usr/bin/ipaq-sleep, it's not usefull while running opie. Delete /mnt/card/etc/rc2.d/S99gpe-dm, we won't need it, too...

#!/bin/sh

set -e

killproc() {            # kill the named process(es)
        pid=`/bin/ps -e x |
             /bin/grep $1 |
             /bin/grep -v grep |
             /bin/sed -e 's/^  *//' -e 's/ .*//'`
        [ "$pid" != "" ] && kill $pid
}


case "$1" in
  start)
        export DISPLAY=:0
        echo "Starting VNC gpe"
        vncserver&
        /etc/X11/Xsession&
  ;;

  stop)
        echo "Stopping VNC gpe"
        killproc Xvnc
  ;;

  *)
        echo "usage: $0 { start | stop }"
  ;;
esac

exit 0

Sudden stop when running out-of-craddle: ipaq-sleep is running whilst running opie, this is no good...