OpenZaurus, OZ on the 6000 Options

[BarryW]

Are the files in a folder or seperate? They have to not be in a folder. It does work, did it with mine. Although it is a different version than what came on mine. I had to do a restore from my zaurus after I reflashed from the website. If it still doesn't work redownload the zip file and try again.

[nevarrie]

As BarryW said all files have to be in the root of the cf card. I have seen the problem you are seeing before' and usually it was do to having the wrong initrd.bin file on the cf card or one of the other files where missing. I would try removing all fo the files from the cf card and unzip them on there again.

[pldrouin]

Actually I really like the hardware of the 6000 with its USB port, but I hesitate to buy it because of the limited number of working OS & softwares. The most important thing I would need to be working (after Wi-Fi and an ethernet CF card) would be SSH X11 forwarding. Does it actually work with OE/OZ on the 6000? Also, is APM still not working?

Thanks!

[bazmi]

the sun is shining again! thanks a lot. the problem seems to be with my CF card. i tried formatting it and copy files again and again but no luck. changed the CF card and everything worked fine.

thanks guys. and the OE/OZ looks super. great going!!

/bazmi.

[coolass]

hi,

HELP!!!

i flashed my 6K with OE/OZ just to check it out and it looks cool. but i now have problems getting back the original sharp ROM (v1.12) which i downloaded from http://www.zaurus.com/dev/tools/rom.htm.

when i try to follow the instructions - unzipped the archive on a fat16 CF card, connected power to the zaurus and hitting the reset button after keeping Q & T keys pressed, i do get the power and mail LEDs glowing but they just stay like that and never go off. have tried to leave it for more than an hour. if i press reset the the OE/OZ boots up so presumable the flash hasnt been overwritten.

any help much appreciated.

thanks in advance,

/bazmi.

just a question...Did you flash oe/oz with opie or gpe???

[BarryW]

The one nevarrie is working on is GPE.

[coolass]

The one nevarrie is working on is GPE.

Yes I have that one too but I thougt he was talking about another one.

[nevarrie]

The one nevarrie is working on is GPE.

To tell the truth I have an opie 3.5.1 image too...The biggest problem with it is that the Touch screen does not respond...though I am also having the problems with the touch screen on gpe for my newer images...though I can go back to the Sharp 1.12 and the touch screen works fine so I know I have not Bricked my Z yet...

Current Issues I am trying to work out:

• Touch Screen not responding after calibration on gpe
• Touch Screen not responding at all on opie
• fn key combinations not working
• apm -s returns the user to login prompt
• Get power button so that it suspends
• make wlancfg on gpe so that it will uses wlan-ng and the builtin wifi card
• add "xst write MATCHBOX/composite str off" so that firefox works

[bazmi]

yes, i was using GPE.

btw, i read from nevarries posts that he was using firefox. when i tried to launch firefox, it didnt come up and all i got was a window in the middle of the screen with nothing in it. i had to kill the firefox process manually.

/bazmi.

[nevarrie]

yes, i was using GPE.

btw, i read from nevarries posts that he was using firefox. when i tried to launch firefox, it didnt come up and all i got was a window in the middle of the screen with nothing in it. i had to kill the firefox process manually.

/bazmi.

you need to run this command in and x-terminal to get firefox to work. I need to figure out what needs to be changed so this it not needed. Thanks for reminding of this.

xst write MATCHBOX/composite str off

[nevarrie]

I though I would let people know I have a working opie image for the 6k now. wlan-ng is still just from console to start and stop, hopefully someone will show me how to fix this. I have been pointed to opie-sh but have not had the time to look into it.

Any one that is intereested in finding problems with it you can download it from http://zaurus.gethondo.com/roms/tosa/opie-...20041008.tar.gz

to get the dpad orented correctly install:
http://zaurus.gethondo.com/roms/tosa/libqt....7-r18_tosa.ipk

[rospahr]

Thanks for making this available. Have you had any luck in getting the Fn keys to work? How about the opie control panels, are they functioning more than the gpe ones?

[nevarrie]

Have you had any luck in getting the Fn keys to work?

In opie the fn key works though NUM lock and CAP lock is still not working.

How about the opie control panels, are they functioning more than the gpe ones?

I know that the brightness control is not working...Though most other things I have tried at least come up unlike GPE...Suspend works as long as you do nto have the screen rotated, if the screen is rotated then it suspends but when it unsuspend it rotates back to portate and then waits 5 seconds before shutting off again...after that point it does that over and over again till you reset...I have not had time to work with it more then that other then to install konqur and make sure it worked...

[rospahr]

Just flashed my sl-6000 with the opie rom. Looks really nice! Can't seem to get the wlan0 up in the console. What am I missing? What is the command you use to bring up the wireless?

thanks!

[BarryW]

Okay I'm a dumbass, flashed the new opie rom to my z. Looks really cool, but still not quite there yet. Anyway I lost the origional rom . So, I pm'd nevarrie to see if he has the rom, havn't got an answer yet. So, anybody have a copy of the rom??