Been trying this just recently on my pandora (1Ghz model) as well -- but using
these (the pandora wiki) instructions. For the distro I chose to use the newer debian jessie rather than the older squeeze or wheezy. I also decided to keep it as armel.
By and large what I have tried so far has been a "throwaway" install on an 8GB SD card as it was really a case of try it and see if I could even get it to boot
(which I did manage to do in the end!).
What works so far? I have wifi working (with wpa_supplicant), the keyboard seems fine, the display is working and is quite fast.
What dosen't work? (They only don't work because I've not tried to do anything with them thus far) -- sound, nubs, SGX, Bluetooth, Battery monitor. From what I've read 3D won't work in any case though I can live without it.
The touchscreen works but acts weirdly -- it is almost as if it's been turned upside-down!
I didn't need to create an xorg.conf. Also jessie uses xserver-xorg-video-omap and not xserver-xorg-video-omap3.
One piece of weirdness -- I had to use the program "usb-gadget" to get the pandora to see a USB mouse. Not sure how this should start up right now; at the moment I just
key in the command manually. Strangely the instructions in the wiki mention running "update-rc.d -f usb-gadget remove". Surely this should get run rather than be removed?
As a further test I decided to try to install the MATE desktop (just a minimum install) which works! I was able to get its
file manager up and running. Dosen't seem to be taking
too much memory either. Might also be intresting eventually to see if the
trinity desktop will work as well. Trinity desktop == KDE 3.5 btw.
Stuff I've not even looked at are things like CPU speed.
BTW There's one tiny mistook on that Debian on SD page in the pandora wiki. At one point it says;
UK people can set this to deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian main non-free contrib to get pretty much everything
Need to add one more piece to this, so instead of
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian main non-free contrib
it should read
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian jessie main non-free contrib
or it won't work! I also did try this all (using the same SD card) on my old original pandora. Worked like the newer 1Ghz pandora though just a little more slowly.
Can't do much more for the moment however as my pandora's battery is flat - !
ljones
