[Peeweelinux] success! thanks all
Asfe e
[email protected]
Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:59:04 +0000
Hi Ashley,
I just read your letter and I'm wondering if you happen to know what
embedded platform it's possible to install the pee-wee on ?
I'm talking about boards like 8051 and such...
Thanks in advance,
Seth.
>From: "Ashley Rolleston" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: [Peeweelinux] success! thanks all
>Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:01:23 -0000
>
>Hi,
>
>Well my peeweelinux project is now all but finished. It's looking great,
>using peeweelinux with bootx and an updated kernel, an 800x600 TFT +
>touchscreen on a SBC. All my net drivers and touchscreen drivers are
>working, although I had to revert to standard vesa framebuffer drivers
>together with the XF86_FBDev X server because of a problem with my hardware
>configuration and the SiS drivers for my particular graphics/lcd setup.
>
>Together with Netscape and the Flash 5 plug-in this will be used as an easy
>to use interface for other hardware (flash still leaves a bad taste in my
>mouth though...)
>
>I have one last question on my configuration. I need a driver program in
>/usr/bin to run automatically on startup before startx is called. This
>driver creates some custom devices in /dev and it appears to need to be ran
>as root. I have tried adding the program to .bashrc in /home/autologin but
>this doesn't work. I have also tried creating /etc/rc.local , and trying
>rc.sysinit.
>
>At the moment the only way is to stop autologin running startx, and
>manually
>'su root' then run the driver program and then exit the root shell and run
>startx manually...
>
>Where can I specify in the startup scripts to run this process ?
>
>Thanks for all your help, I will remain subscribed to this list in case I
>can help anyone else with the experience I have had.
>
>Ashley Rolleston
>Software Engineer
>ashley AT smartsw DOT co DOT uk
>
>
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