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Got anyone's attention?
(Link to the wiki page: http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi...p?title=Debian )

What this is: a downloadable early beta, tarball of Debian that you can boot from your SD card.

Who this is for:
* Linux gurus who run alpha and beta software for fun
* People who want to try and improve how Debian runs on the NITs
* People interested in having Debian running on a tablet so they can get Hildonized apps for ITOS working right on Debian/Maemo.
* People who just want to play with it.

Who this is not for:
* End users
* Sensible people who expect finished software.
* People who don't like the command line


What works:

* X11
* Hildon Desktop!
* Touchscreen
* Wireless (even WPA!)
* CPU frequency scaling (cpufreq)
* Bluetooth
* suspend-to-ram: works, seems reliable (echo mem > /sys/power/state) (watchdog will kill your device in 60 seconds though :/)
* backlight control: works, access to all 128 levels. (echo 90 > /sys/platform/

What doesn't work:

* Sound (is a dsp task. we might need to borrow gstreamer libs from maemo to get this to work)
* Power Management (is largely done through dsme, this could be difficult)
* Buttons (I can get a keycode with showkey, but they don't work in X11)


For more info: check out the wiki page: here.

I know people will have a lot of questions, and I don't mind answering them! However, please read the FAQ on the wiki page I just linked before asking questions. And if you ask a question and get an answer, please add both to the FAQ. Thank you and happy hacking!

-John

Last edited by Johnx; 2008-01-31 at 12:05. Reason: updated current status
 

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