A new revelation (Zubuntu RC1)

After a hint speculatrix gave me, I followed this post to install Zubuntu RC1 (8.04) on my Zaurus. I first reflashed the zaurus with a rom including kexec.
This little nifty app enables the zaurus to boot from the SD/CF card.
I got me a 4GB SDHC card. On a desktop (actually a virtual machine) I repartitioned it using gparted (one ext2 and one swap partition). and extracted the rootfs to the SD,

# tar zxvf zubuntu-desktop-rc1.tar.gz -C /media/disk

and the kernel modules for my boxer,

# tar zxvf c7x0-root-addition.tar.gz -C /media/disk

and voila, I have ubuntu on my zaurus. I needed to fix the touchscreen by changing in ~/.profile:

export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event2

to

export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event1

alternatively the following command will change it:

sed -i "s#export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event2#export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event1#" root/.profile

And also removed from ~/.xinitrc

xrandr -o right

or

sed -i "s/xrandr -o right/#xrandr -o right/" root/.xinitrc

to keep the screen in portrait mode when starting.

To enable usb networking , i edited /etc/network/interfaces as I did before. I also had to add to /etc/resolve.conf:

nameserver 192.168.1.1

to have access to the internet.

The only major problem I have now is that the CF slot is dead so I cant use the bluetooth or wifi cards.

eventually I found this link (in german) after

# modprobe pxa2xx_cs

the port came back to life. I added g_ether (USB networking), pxa2xx_cs (CF slot) and snd-soc-corgi (Sound card) to /etc/modules.
this can be done by,

grep snd-soc-corgi etc/modules || echo "snd-soc-corgi">>etc/modules
grep pxa2xx_cs etc/modules || echo "pxa2xx_cs">>etc/modules
grep g_ether etc/modules || echo "g_ether">>etc/modules