There - www.pdaXrom.org

Any release notes so we'll know what new features/bug fixes to look forward to?

Who'll be the first to try this out? I'm quite happy with beta3 right now, there're no major show-stoppers and apart from a flaky bluetooth when doing obex transfers it pretty much does everything that I want (for the moment!)

Is it based beta3 or beta4 based? It would be better to wait one day more and write a bit more information.

Hey thats nice. Never expected a new version so soon. Thats great news.

I will try it later on today, no matter if it is for "extreme testers" only or still based on beta3. A beta4 based release with bugfixes would be really nice though.


No matter how it works: Great work sashz!

Thank you!

Lol and I JUST got beta3 working pretty much how I like it.

Like somebody asked previously...is this for "extreme testers" or is it a somewhat-stable release?

Thanks,
Frank

Like nearly everyone else, I'm on a nicely setup beta3. Beta4 made me nervous . in fact i gave up on pdaXrom for most of the summer. I realize that you warned us that beta4 was an early release and for extreme testing only. Still, I think i want to know more about whatI'm getting into before i trash a perfectly good beta3 setup.

What is it?
edit: I take it based on the downloads that it is a uboot 2.6 release....

video optimizations?

4gig sd card support?

what is still a problem?

settings widgets working?

I really like pdaXrom, and I have been looking forward to a solid uboot/2.6 release. is this it? I've also been looking forward to a rerolled patched up beta3 (so new installs won't take quite so much tweaking). Is that what this is? I fear another Beta4 experience. is it likley to be one of those?

Oh wow! Great news!

Sashz: I see you now have a release for 'sl-cxx00' - does that include the c3000? Strictly speaking it should do but I know in the past pdaX was just released for all the other cxx00 models except c3000.

Hopefully the c3k is no longer a second class machine in the pdaXrom world!

EDIT: Even worse, looks like it could be just for Akita. Tell me I'm wrong (truthfully!) please!

EDIT2: I'm a bit more hopeful now as it would seem this new cxx00 release installs on the c3200.

Apart from the possibility of c3000 support I'm also very curious to see if any progress has been made with the cxx00 video driver. Of course that would probably be no use unless mplayer knows how to make use of it.

Hi Sashz, I have some complaints, with the hope to be usefull.

I bought my Zaurus, the SL-C860, because I knew of pdaXrom.
PdaXrom has been an awesome project, fast and active, and I have been very happy with every release I tried.
Then came beta1 and so on.

I have to undestand if you all, developers, have the will to continue development not only for newer Zauruses, but also for mine. You made me used to amazing releases; now every release is a step more behind for my 860, since everyone is developing and compiling for the last betas while older "stable" revisions are outdated.

I think that feeling the need to change my zaurus for one of the newest would be a defeat for the project.
Maybe I'm wrong, and also Cxx00 releases aren't that stable these days... but I read posts of users so happy of their latest beta...

Maybe the problem is that you haven't a 860 or 760 to test releases on?
Really, I don't want to bother you... you all are hard working, and I didn't either donate a cent till now. I just want to know some more about project status and future.

Thank you, I'll keep trying releases hoping to make my Zaurus a bit productive.

Bye

still no word on if this is something stable enough to replace beta3?

I think it is a little early for that to be decided since it has only been out for less then a day.

Based on the fact that someone has already bricked their Z installing it; I would say it may not be stable.

Hopefully, someone proves me wrong on this.

Any news on a new update for the 6000 ?

It looks nicer... but still holds the same bugs that I noticed in beta4... I will work on some fixes for the small things I noticed... and post back with anything I find... my main thing is working on some of the settings apps... going to test out the whole "fltk" thing... then XFCE!

Late

agreed, the fltk config applets will be a big gain for the 2.6 versions

Any C3000 owner had the balls to try installing this yet to see if its possible?

Anyone tried mplayer or can report on the state of the cxx00 video driver?

Tested on SL-C3200 works fine, no problems so far, the installation a bit tricky and i had to do it manualy. great to have on sl-c3200

I'm on the same boat too...am willing to beta test the release on my C3000 if the developers have nothing against it...is there any serious risk to flashing C3000 with this new beta?

How did you go about installing it manually? I can get to the point where I flash the new emergency system, but then on reboot there is no activity or charging light.

excellent work! I've noticed a few bugs (using C750):

- no cardctl for switching wifi schemes
- no audio!
- menu button does not work, have to use stylus
- some menu pixels are displayed "off screen"
- everything displayed on screen is "ghosted"

These all present in beta4 as well as r121, but were not present in beta2. (never got around to trying beta3)

On a SL-C3200
Very fast!!!!
but the usbfunction.py doesn't start, try to open /proc/deviceinfo/product, that doesn't exist, so i edited the file to override the machine autodetection.

actual problem.. i can't use my planex gw-cf11x, i tried the patches used in beta4 but no luck.
Daniel.

Great work Sashz!

I would have tried it right away if I still can use my 7500C. Right now I'm waiting for a solution or a new Flash chip.

I hope the APM works alright in this release.

I will try the new Cxx00 release later.

1- Yaeh it is because new Kernel and using udev now
2- Audio is working for me!
3- OK it can be patched
4- Here it is OK!

my Z is a SL-C3100




I working at a patch for usbfunction.py, and still planning dev a new C/C++ one with Zumi!




APM is working nice for me, and battery having very long time.... no more consumes at standby....

Hi there,

just installed r121 to my C860. I found that the apm for 860 is
not working. the battery is at 5% all the time and is not charging
at all since the charging (amber) light is not on.

Can anyone help ?

BR,

Felix.

boot to emergency system

and do the installation manually ( i use cf card ) so

have fun

The following worked on my 3100 after I reached the emergency system

not as much typing for the lazy

good luck
webslngr

Anyone have any luck with network config app?

Late

Great! that's save the time looking to autoboot.sh script and copy&paste proccess
ok now we have a bootable system let's get down to fix minor issues and optimize it, do u have a flickiring screen when overclocking to 520? also it seems i can't get rid of screen shadow with any value i have tried to adj screen: any recomended values?

by the way there are no guides or tips regard using pdaxrom with internal 6GB hard drive, just wondering how to utilize a good HD scheme to wotk with pdaXrom.


thanks for the tip about autooboot.sh script

Hi iczer3,

Your C860 has the same apm issue as my 7500C. I guess the reason why anunakin says it's OK is because he uses C3100, which at least has some different hardware than C7x0.

I'm just thinking about the possible ways to fix this issue:

1. We can ask Sashz to modify his code or the configuration for C7x0 and release another build. (But Sashz needs to find out what caused the problem)

2. Since the apm in OZ/GPE is working pretty well, can we borrow something from it's rom? My knowledge doesn't allow me to do that by myself now. But someone might be able to do that. I think the apm is a very essential part for pdaXrom. (Right now if I unplug my 7500 it will shut off right away. The testing guys in my company will call it a "Lines down" level 0 defect).

BTW, has anyone tried to build pdaXrom using pdaX86 LiveCD and the pdaXrom builder? I found that it's a very time consuming process and takes up a lot of disk space. But I suppose anyone can use that to build his own pdaXrom with his own fixes and sumbit to Sashz for review.

Anyway, I really hope the apm and the sound issues can be fixed for C7x0 soon.

Keep up the good work Sashz!

webslngr

or just:
# cd /mnt/cf
# ./autoboot.sh ./

Hi All,
I installed 121 with no issues on C1000.
The main thing for me at this point is the wireless config is grey'd out.
I noticed that the hostap drives are not installed.

Is something else being used for the wireless config?
Anyone have any luck getting it working?

Thanks.

Andmann

The app doesnt seem to work... but if you create a new scheme you can make changes and the options arent greyed out....

Late

Anyone know if the spectrum24 socket wifi card (the old blue one) working? I dropped beta 4 because this didn't work at all.

Thanks!!
--Fish

Symbol Spectrum24 Firmware

Copy these to CF/SD



Unplug and plug back in...

LIGHTS!

Late

1. Udev? Is there a way to get wifi & switching between networks working then, with the current beta?
2. You're lucky! I miss my audio so much. Anyone else experiencing this? C750
3,4,5. I can expect this in a future release?

Try go to SHELL and load alsamixer , look for MUTED audio channels and unmute it... do it while playing somethink with mplayer....

Someone test out this *hopefully* fixed USB Setting App...

Looking mainly for 3100 and 3200 users... to test... but still am looking to stable functionality from all...

Thanks

Late

Just flashed u-boot and r121 on my C760 (was KathrinRC12); here are some comments:

u-boot
- Flashing u-boot is OK, but after, there is screen is flickering. Did not bother to fix it, so, can't say more about this.
- In order to boot after flashing the bootloader, i had to remove power sources (alim AND battery) and plug AC while holding "OK" for a few seconds.
- Had some problems with CF card: unable to read, "df -h" segfaults, ... Had to boot without the CF, then plug it, copy CF content to a SD and run autoboot.sh manually. This worked, but could be related to the card formatting.
- After flashing, the Zaurus didn't reboot. Had to unplug the power.

r121
- / is still not mounted noatime in fstab. This is bad.
- Keymap is broken: ctrl, alt, mail, home and menu doesn't work.
- When loading X then exiting, console is really weird.
- KR9 seemed faster to me.

I will report other issues soon

What is 121 like besides the wireless config issue? Is it stable like beta3, quirky like beta4?

In other words is it worth it for me to switch from beta3, which I use at work?

I've tried the new beta on my C3000, still doesn't work, I flashed the first segment holding ok, then selecting 4, and cf for the card i had it on. Once this finished it said Uboot and Emergency system are installed, hold ok to enter emergency system. After this i couldn't get it to boot, tried holding ok for 20 sec like the doc's said, and every other combination i could think of. I've flashed back to the sharp bootloader for now, but if someone can give me a push of what needs to be done to make it work on my c3000 i'll gladly do some work.

r121 works on my C3100, but there are a few problems.

I can't get XFCE4 to work, it gives me errors regarding the panel, never had these problems with beta3.

The xmodmap files are all the same, for the C700, so I can't use fn for right clicking inside X...

More to come.

In Beta 4 and rc121 the means of determining the device and xmodmap to load is done different due the device name being different and not being located in the same place (now in /proc/cpuinfo)
(Ex. Akita instead of C1000)

You will need to edit your xinitrc.xfce4 files to look for device name the same way it does in your .xinitrc file (sym link)

Late

Ps I will be working on getting it up and running good after I finish debugging rc121

On previous betas, the correct xmodmap file was akita.xmodmap in /etc/X11/kb.

Now the file is located at /etc/X11/kb/Akita/xmodmap

However, even if I try to load that, I still can't get the keyboard to function as it should...

this may be in the wrong part but i would like to install beta 4 and the newest release of pdaxrom but i can only figure out beta 3 because it installs like every other rom cacko and openzaurus so please help

Ok, the xmodmap loads and works properly now.

XFCE gives me these errors:

1)Whenever I click on quit in the menu or the icon on the panel, X crashes back to the console, the error given is:

'The application 'xfce-mcs-manager' lost its connection to the display 0:0'

2)After I get dumped back to the console, I can see many errors:

"(xfce4-menu-plugin:XXXXXX): Gtk-WARNING: **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "xfce",

I have everything installed correctly (gtk related libs etc.)... What could be the problem?

Hi,

I already knew about alsamixer, it is the same "problem" as in Beta4. But here I noticed something else: When I was using Beta4 I didn't have to change the settings of mplayer. Here mplayer said "Can't open eSound Output Plugin". I changed it to "ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin" and after unmuting the audio channel it works fine now.

Audio is essential for me, I don't want to carry around an MP3-player while I have my Z with me anyway.

On my C860 I have the same problem. The charging light remains off. When the Z is "switched on" the battery monitor applet indicates charging but I don't know if it is really doing anything??

Any fixes to that problem so far?

Jan

that's not the only problem on 860.

mapping in aterm is wrong, xterm doesn't work at all, and when you leave X mapping is not working anymore.
Wifi is buggy, touchscreen input sometimes lags or lose precision (when you use the on-screen keyboard you press a key and another one is actually pressed, while the cursor is far away from that...). Charging light turns off after a few seconds even if not completely charged. Not usable, actually, even for easy tasks.

2devs: Did you know of all these bugs? Have you an 860 to work on? It looks like you're working only on xx00. Maybe our bug-reportings about 860 aren't that good. Let us know about it.

Hi folks,

sorry, I was a bit fast to complain on charging. I don't know what happened, but now charging on my C860 seems to work. After I unplugged power it started to charge and since then it works fine (stopping when it is full, restarting correctly).

Apart from WiFi, which I was not able to test yet, everything so far works fine for me! This version seems much better than Beta4 which was already the best one so far.

- Backlight control works fine now
- Installation was smooth
- Installation of apps is 100% accurate
- It seems even faster than Beta4!

This is a really amazing release!

Jan

Reminder:

Anyone running into any bugs in the new beta...

Please document them to be tracked and fixed @

http://www.pdaxrom.org/bugtracker

Thanks

Is there any possibility to perform a NAND-RESTORE with this version? (which is essential for switching between versions during the long period of finetuning!)
I tried SD and CF with FAT. NAND-Backup works fine but NAND-Restore always ends up with "format error". The old Beta3-Nand-Backup restores without problems.
Any experiences so far?

REALLY??

Plaese, tell me how did you get these results

None of the problems I spoke about in my previous post?