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Linux on the Psion 5MX/5MX-PRO HOWTO
DEPRECATED!
This HOWTO is now deprecated. The new 5MX HOWTO is
5MX HOWTO.
It is a translation of this howto into a more portable format, and it is undergoing
revision and update. A PDF of the HOWTO is available there.
Please update your bookmarks and links accordingly.
Last modified 9 February 2003
(Updates to X installation procedures, X applications, minor html fixes,
octave/gnuplot screenshot)
This document contains brief instructions on how to get a Psion 5MX or 5MX
PRO to boot into the Linux operating system and subsequent system configuration
issues. This document is fairly new and will probably continue to undergo
revisions.
(c) 1997-2002 The PsiLinux Project. All rights reserved.
- 3.1 What Works, Generally
- 3.2 Psion Series 5MX Specifications
- 3.3 A PsiLinux Screenshot
- 6.1 Serial Ports, Minicom, and Comms
- 6.2 PLP Tools
- 6.3 Partitioning the Compactflash using initrd
- 6.4 Partitioning, Formatting, and Copying to Compactflash using a Desktop Computer
- 6.5 Using RSH/RCP and PPP Between the Desktop and PsiLinux
- 8.1 Installing ARLO
- 8.2 Getting a Kernel
- 8.3 Getting the Kernel Booted from EPOC
- 8.4 Autobooting ARLO from Reset
- 8.5 How Do I Get Back to EPOC?
- 9.1 Mounting /proc and Compactflash Partitions
- 9.2 The Keyboard and Setting Keys
- 9.3 Setting the Font
- 9.4 Setting Framebuffer Depth
- 9.5 Pointers and Things that Work
- 9.6 Serial Connections: Wire and Infrared
- 9.7 Setting up PPP
- 9.8 /etc Adjustments
- 9.9 Keeping Time between Reboots
- 9.10 Installing New Packages
- 9.11 Sound Support
- 11.1 An X11/Blackbox Window Manager on PsiLinux Screenshot!
- 11.2 Prerequisites
- 11.3 Packages to Install
- 11.4 Configuring the Blackbox Window Manager
Screen shots of WindowMaker and IceWM window managers.
- 11.5 Mouse Issues
- 11.6 Memory Issues
- 11.7 Keyboard Issues
- 11.8 Useful X applications
- 12.1 Prerequisites
- 12.1 The Cross Compilation Environment
- 12.2 Compiling a Kernel
- 13.1 Please see the
FAQs
on the main PsiLinux page.
- 13.2 Q: Which Psion 5MX model do I need (5MX, 5MX-PRO (24MB), 5MX-PRO
(32MB))?
- 13.3 Q: How come after PsiLinux boots up the text is faded so as to be
illegible?
- 13.4 Q: My disk gives errors when my psion wakes up from sleep mode, or
otherwise?
- 13.5 Q: Can I have a dual boot system (EPOC and linux)?
- 13.6 Q: How come when I turn my psion off for the night, it turns itself back on again?
- 14.1 The PsiLinux Website
- 14.2 Plp Tools
- 14.3 ARLO
- 14.4 Precompiled Kernels
- 14.5 Initial Ramdisks (initrd's)
- 14.6 The Mail List
- 14.7 The Psion PDA Graveyard (sob.)
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