Ångstrom touchscreen

Okay, I managed to get the touchscreen to work, with the kind help of bluelighting from the #opie irc channel, To fix the problem I had to change /dev/input/event0 to /dev/input/event1 in /etc/profile.d/tslib.sh and in /etc/zaurusd/mach-config-vars

Ångström is dead long live (dead)OpenZaurus

After a long time my boxer slept in the corner, I decided to wake it up... looking around I've found the Ångström online image builder. The builder creates compressed rootfs - not knowing how to continue from here, and being disappointed from the 2007 and 2008 releases I decided to revert to OpenZaurus.
Alas, I found out that the OpenZaurus.org domain was dead... after searching around I've found the hentges mirror. I've downloaded the the GPE flavour and I was up and running it in no time. Actually, I'm surprised by the smoothness of this version with respect to the Ångström one.

Installing Ångström

I decided installing Ångström eventually... Installed the 2007.12 release (follow this howto). The only way I could get internet access was to disable the wifi security (usb networking did not work), then I did update/upgrade,

# ipkg update
# ipkg upgrade

After the upgrade I could enable the WEP password on my wlan. I manually setup /etc/network/interfaces. But I couldn't make the usb networking to work.
Sound also did not work by default. To make it work (following Ian's post),

# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

to make some noise, and then played with alsamixer a little until I heard something (I think enabling "Output Mixer HiFi Playback Switch" did the trick.

I also installed pango-module-hebrew-fc and hoped to get hebrew keyboard (which I didn't...),

# ipkg install pango-module-hebrew-fc

For the Jerusalem time zone, I installed tzdata-asia,

# ipkg install tzdata-asia

Replaced dropbear with open-ssh:
first remove dropbear,

# ipkg remove dropbear -force-depends

The "-force-depends" switch is because task-base depends on dropbear. Then,

# ipkg install openssh

and to start the ssh server,

# /etc/init.d/sshd start

Now I can do "ssh -X"

I found this file, which work with matchbox-keyboard (put it inside /usr/share/matchbox-keyboad).

Many packages are not in the standard feeds (bash for example*). After some searching I eventually found the bash package under the unstable feeds, I use the armv5te architecture.
Later I flashed the autobuild R19 unstable version hoping the usb networking will work there (which didn't).

*update: I found the bash package in the 2008 feeds (see following post).