Thread: Arch Linux ARM on N900
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Skry is offline Skry
2012-11-23 , 21:06
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Originally Posted by hardfalcon View Post
First, I want to thank you for your great efforts. I haven't tried Arch for more than half a year on my N900, and I was amazed how smooth the whole instalation worked out. Even more, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that you even had adapted the whole thing to systemd already.
This is just a dream come true.
Nice to hear you find it useful, and it's great to hear installation went well. Welcome aboard

Originally Posted by hardfalcon View Post
That is quite easy indeed. All you need is to setup acpid (and acpi). Both the power button and the screen lock trigger acpi events.
Apparently systemd can do this also, it's all in the wiki.

Originally Posted by hardfalcon View Post
Any chance that you'll release the PKBUILDs of your packages (especially for linux-n900)? For example, cryptsetup isn't working properly, as it can't load/use the dm_mod kernel module, or I'd like to try out omapfb vs omapdrm. Usually, I'd just have recompiled the kernel (or the needed modules), but that's quite a bunch of work without the PKGBUILD scripts and patches you used. :/
I'll put the more important PKGBUILDs to somewhere at some point. Meanwhile, you can just clone my git repository for kernel, which has all the patches and grab kernel config from a running system.

I will, however, upload a new kernel version once I'm done testing it and am more than happy to include dm_mod etc. Said kernel will also have BFS and BFQ (in the veins of -ck) which should make your Alarm fly (based on my own test builds).

For now you should be better off with omapfb, for 3.5.y at least. IIRC omapdrm didn't even work with 3.5 for N900 but I do use it in my 3.7 test builds currently. It does not offer any benefits at all currently and the only xorg-driver that is trouble free with it is still the good old -fbdev. So, for now it really is not worth the trouble.

Anyways, if you need anything, f.e. kernel modules, just let me know and we'll see what can be done.
Last edited by Skry; 2012-11-23 at 21:10.
 

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