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Wong McGregor · 11-24-2015, 05:52 AM

Yes - I'm certainly not about to claim that the M92, even with Obuntu, is anything like a perfect solution - far from it. It's just an alternative, in many respects low performance, screen. I doubt that a laptop is entirely avoidable given how much more affordable and mature they are, so I'll probably be using multiple devices much the time, but it would be nice to escape them for at least part of the time. Eink certainly remains an unfinished experiment for me, so I'm certainly not trying to sell it as a solution - at least not yet.

RE laptops, I don't know that a X220 is going to be that different from my X200. Indeed, my X200 seems less reliable that my X40s were in some respects (eg. more reboots). I don't know whether its the XP install or something else. So it might be wise to stick with the X61Ts. I haven't tried one or a tablet PC for that matter, which may be a mistake on my part. The bane of the X40s is their slow hard drives and they aren't afflicted by that. I'll upgrade the X200 to an SSD when I get the time, which will probably be more significant than any model upgrade.

One thing that increasingly strikes me about Obuntu is that it would seem to be somewhat Frankensteinian in its makeup, being built under certain constraints that Seaniko discussed more in the 'Boox (M92) Developer community' than the 'Obuntu images' thread.

While the packages from the repository seem to work, I can't seem to get Make to work. I discussed this a bit earlier in the thread.

The sources.list says:

Code:

deb cdrom: [Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 TLS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release
armel+imx51 (20100427.1)]/ lucid main

Code:

uname -m

returns:

Code:

armv7l

and

Code:

uname -a

returns:

Code:

Linux lucid-desktop 2.6.35.3-power
EDT 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux

But if I attempt to install the kernel headers in response to, for instance, Make reporting errors, as seems to be the usual procedure, thus:

Code:

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

This returns:

Code:

Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.35.3-power

But:

Code:

apt-cache search headers

returns:

Code:

linux-headers-imx51 - Linux kernel headers for imx51 machines
linux-headers-2.6.31-607-imx51 - Linux kernel headers for version 2.6.31 on I.MX51-based systems

But when I attempt to install these, they are all claimed to already be installed.

So I don't know whether this kernel naming problem is confusing Make but I keep getting errors. I don't know enough about Make and haven't really spent enough time on this thus far (there are other possible problems like getting the symbolic links right). But perhaps it isn't going to work.

Now I presume, if one cannot use Make, one is limited to what is in the repositories for solutions, rather than being able to compile something else. That could be limiting.

11-24-2015, 05:52 AM	#17
Wong McGregor Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 41374 Join Date: Dec 2014 Device: Onyx Boox M92	Yes - I'm certainly not about to claim that the M92, even with Obuntu, is anything like a perfect solution - far from it. It's just an alternative, in many respects low performance, screen. I doubt that a laptop is entirely avoidable given how much more affordable and mature they are, so I'll probably be using multiple devices much the time, but it would be nice to escape them for at least part of the time. Eink certainly remains an unfinished experiment for me, so I'm certainly not trying to sell it as a solution - at least not yet. RE laptops, I don't know that a X220 is going to be that different from my X200. Indeed, my X200 seems less reliable that my X40s were in some respects (eg. more reboots). I don't know whether its the XP install or something else. So it might be wise to stick with the X61Ts. I haven't tried one or a tablet PC for that matter, which may be a mistake on my part. The bane of the X40s is their slow hard drives and they aren't afflicted by that. I'll upgrade the X200 to an SSD when I get the time, which will probably be more significant than any model upgrade. One thing that increasingly strikes me about Obuntu is that it would seem to be somewhat Frankensteinian in its makeup, being built under certain constraints that Seaniko discussed more in the 'Boox (M92) Developer community' than the 'Obuntu images' thread. While the packages from the repository seem to work, I can't seem to get Make to work. I discussed this a bit earlier in the thread. The sources.list says: Code: deb cdrom: [Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 TLS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release armel+imx51 (20100427.1)]/ lucid main Code: uname -m returns: Code: armv7l and Code: uname -a returns: Code: Linux lucid-desktop 2.6.35.3-power EDT 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux But if I attempt to install the kernel headers in response to, for instance, Make reporting errors, as seems to be the usual procedure, thus: Code: apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) This returns: Code: Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.35.3-power But: Code: apt-cache search headers returns: Code: linux-headers-imx51 - Linux kernel headers for imx51 machines linux-headers-2.6.31-607-imx51 - Linux kernel headers for version 2.6.31 on I.MX51-based systems But when I attempt to install these, they are all claimed to already be installed. So I don't know whether this kernel naming problem is confusing Make but I keep getting errors. I don't know enough about Make and haven't really spent enough time on this thus far (there are other possible problems like getting the symbolic links right). But perhaps it isn't going to work. Now I presume, if one cannot use Make, one is limited to what is in the repositories for solutions, rather than being able to compile something else. That could be limiting.