>-----Original Message----- >From: Klaus Weidner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:59 PM >To: Tony Godshall >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Gigabyte-class SD [or MMC or MMCplus] cards > >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:24:03PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: >> You mean it's not really useful as an organizer when running >> even the innovative pocketworkstation.com user interface? > >That interface turns it into a miniature Debian system, but I haven't >found any tools that make it useful for PIM tasks, such as address book >and calendar, and syncing with a desktop machine. The Qtopia/Opie PIM >tools apparently don't work in the X11 environment unless you recompile >them yourself, and GPE was still mostly useless last time I checked >(which was a couple of months ago).
I also found GPE mostly useless, at least for the PIM tasks. Overall I really liked GPE, it just seemed a little rough around the edges. This was also a couple of months back... One possibility is setting up a dual boot environment. Something pretty close to the original Sharp ROM image for PDA tasks and something more like pocket Debian for experimenting and more workstation oriented tasks. But currently I am just going to see if Open Embedded, www.openembedded.org, keeps me happy on both fronts. > >But maybe things have improved since then - if anyone can recommend >specific Debian packages please do so. > >> But before I order I just want to be clear on this... if I >> get SD, I won't be able to use it if I upgrade my kernel >> past whatever Sharp gives me (can I run pocketworkstation >> and Opie and GPE with Sharp's kernel)? > >pocketworkstation works with the Sharp kernel, don't know about the >others. You can run Opie and / or GPE with the OpenZaurus / OpenEmbedded kernel which either is the Sharp kernel or (what I believe to be the case) uses the Sharp SD/MMC driver module. There was some discussion, probably on a more Zaurus centric list, of somebody writing an MMC only driver module since avoiding the whole SD issue would allow it to be open sourced. I don't know if anything happened with that. >> I can't seem to find MMC at 2GB, so to get that cap. I'd >> have to go SD. Kingston also mentions MMCplus but nobody >> seems to sell that. It's supposed to be faster than MMC, >> bus then again so is SD. > >Don't count on anything being faster than plain MMC, as far as I know all >the fancier modes require special driver support to work, and you don't >see any improvement with the stock driver. > >-Klaus > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
