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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: pp4zaurus

« Last post by maynard on April 22, 2024, 07:16:30 pm »

Hi Varti,

Good to hear from you and thanks for looking into this for me.
I am trying to run some Java Swing applications. I was able to get them working in Jeode, which runs Java 1.1 and works well with the swingZ.jar library. I was also trying to get it to work with the latest version of Sun's pp4zaurus (1.0-fcs-b25-1_arm), which is Java 1.3, but that isn't compatible with Swing 1.1. I get a 'getPeer()' error. It seems that Java 1.3 is looking for java/awt/peer, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with sun/awt/peer.

Looking at this post from 2002 - https://forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/post/swing-on-ipaq-step-by-step-7569 - the older version of pp4zaurus does work with Swing 1.1, which is why I am trying to get hold of it.

I am looking for pp4zaurus build 1.0_ea4-b18.

Thanks

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: pp4zaurus

« Last post by Varti on April 22, 2024, 08:09:08 am »

I have also done a search on archive.org, hoping that for one of the multiple redirections there would be a backup, from a different date, to an actual page, but to no avail. I have checked among all the attachments here too, no one has ever uploaded it here. I'll search through my archives this evening and let you know.

Is this required by some program you're attempting to run?

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / pp4zaurus

« Last post by maynard on April 22, 2024, 03:54:32 am »

Hi,

Does anyone still have a copy of the original pp4zaurus?

pp4zaurus-1_0-ea4a-linux-arm-OptimizedJIT_nosym.zip

It can't be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/pp4zaurus on web.archive.org.

Thanks

P.S. I do have personal-profile-for-zaurus_1.0-fcs-b25-1_arm.ipk but I am looking for the earlier one.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Modern Debian

« Last post by AnotherLinuxUser on April 21, 2024, 09:25:07 pm »

I tried to do a partial upgrade from Debian 9 to Debian 10 so that I could then resolve any kind of package conflicts to do a full upgrade.  The partial upgrade was successful but I got the same problem as others have when they tried to upgrade to Debian 10.  I figured out what had happened.  I remotely control my Gemini PDA via ssh and edited the xorg.conf file.  It looks like something surrounding the 'hwcomposer' driver is failing with Xorg as using 'fbdev' gets me a screen.  I had to also use 'xdm' instead of 'sddm' as 'sddm' failed to load.  I'm going to look into this further, but it looks like the Xorg fork being used to get 'glamor' rendering with the 'hwcomposer' method is failing severely and it seems to be very outdated.  Maybe a Wayland desktop environment that supports 'hwcomposer' might help with this.

I'm unsure if Gemian uses a heavily modified version of Halium or just the Halium initramfs.

As far as the kernel goes, I tried to bring the vendor code over to AOSP 4.4 and it's quite a lot to say the least.  I postponed it for now though.  It may not even work at the end of it all, who knows though!

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Storing an unused Astro Slide without damaging the battery?

« Last post by Robsno5 on April 20, 2024, 05:08:48 pm »

Yes I factory reset and a month later booted up set the language and the battery had the same percentage as  a month ago, then factory reset and power off. Two months wait next time and 1% less so now just boot up every couple of months to check still around 40-50% and if below top up. But so it should be, given that is how it would sit in a box until sold initially.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Storing an unused Astro Slide without damaging the battery?

« Last post by slide on April 20, 2024, 10:04:28 am »

Have you actually tried that? Do I have to factory-reset the device each time I check the battery level?

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Gemini PDA - Linux / worth picking up a Gemini PDA today (2024) for Linux ?

« Last post by TheNetEffect on April 19, 2024, 06:49:20 am »

I already have a Cosmo but was considering picking up a Gemini to install Kali - is that still worth it / a viable option today ?

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Storing an unused Astro Slide without damaging the battery?

« Last post by Robsno5 on April 19, 2024, 04:40:07 am »

I think the best way is to put it in the same state as a new one ie factory reset and power down then power per engage will hardly alter after months switched off.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Keyboard-map

« Last post by LinuxGuy on April 19, 2024, 04:36:42 am »

Hi Zimbix


Thanks for your reply.
I never thought of this option, as the astro is such an exotic device. One of the tiny conductors on the mat got interrupted by the key

But it worth a try, in my town there is a repair shop - I will report, what they say.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Keyboard-map

« Last post by ZimbiX on April 18, 2024, 11:45:44 pm »

Have you asked a phone repair shop if it's repairable?