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Software / Is there any Taskswitcher utility?

« on: April 26, 2004, 02:22:01 pm »

Thank you to whoever updated the links on killefiz.de.... looked at the source for keyhelper and its a far more reliable method of finding out what\'s running.... might see if I can get round to updating the TaskList applet to use the same method.

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Kernel For Sl-5500/5000d

« on: April 17, 2004, 07:16:05 am »

Do you have a 5500 or 5000D device?

5500 - might have a closer look what\'s going on on Monday and reflash it.

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Kernel For Sl-5500/5000d

« on: April 16, 2004, 04:17:58 am »

Yes, I must have been not clear enough on my instructions, sorry. I\'ve updated them. 64-0 cannot work on normal ROM, since there is no space for /home. You have to flash Cacko/Crow ROMs to use 64-0 config.

I run a Crow like ROM and the 64-0 still doesn\'t work, maybe I didn\'t make that clear in my previous reply.  No worries as I\'ve gone back to my own kernel, if I can find the details of the patches I might roll them into mine and see what happens.

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5x00 General discussions / Kernel mem

« on: April 15, 2004, 07:15:29 pm »

What do you have to chaning in the kernel config file so you can have say 64:0 on the Z.

You need to configure the command line options prior to build the kernel, i.e. set the default kernel config under the General Settings.

root=/dev/mtdblock0 mem=64m

you\'ll also need to have a filesystem that copes with this configuration, look at the /root/etc/rc.d/rc.rofilesys in the Crow initrd for the basic idea.

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Kernel For Sl-5500/5000d

« on: April 15, 2004, 06:46:38 pm »

There\'s now 4 of us with this problem so clearly it doesn\'t work - will have a go with the 32-30 one and let all know the results.

Make that 5.... no joy with the 64-00, but the 32-30 is fine.... 64-00 locks up after the boot image - throws up running the rc.rofilesys script as far as I can tell.  I run my own custom filesystem image that works with either sort of kernel and it looks like it blows up when its checking the /proc/cmdline to find out the memsize used....

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For Sale / Wanted / For Sale? How Much!!!

« on: April 13, 2004, 08:41:04 am »

Last two ebay.co.uk 5500 auctions ended around £132-£135, one just had an extra 128Mb CF card, no wifi or SD... I keep an eye out as I might get a backup machine one day.

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General Discussion / Zaurus sl-5500 not flashing... a little help please.

« on: April 08, 2004, 02:48:48 pm »

My zaurus sl-5500 wont flash. after i had it for a few weeks i started experimenting with diferent roms. I decided to try the 1.xx sharp rom just to see how the zaurus started out. after flashing it my zaurus would not boot. I tried to flash the tkc ROM, however it would flash and then just show the pic and say booting. i left it on all night and it wouldnt boot. i then tried to flash the origanal zaurus 3.13 ROM and when i put it on my cf card and pressed the reset botton wile pressing C&D all i would get was the mail and power lights on for 2 secs and then they would shut off. I then flashed the open zaurus ROM and it works. I still canot flash the sharp ROM after several trys with several different compact flash cards. Please help me.

The 1.xx ROMS (not the 1.3x 5600 ones) were for the SL-5000D as far as I can remember... I have no idea if they would even be compatible with a 5500... and I can see why you could make that mistake as there is no indication of what Zaurus models those ROMs are for on the downloads page!  I have horrible visions of incompatible ROM updating routines....

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Linux Issues / USB device 4 is not claimed by any active driver

« on: April 07, 2004, 02:16:02 pm »

Follow the how-to\'s from this place.

Mandrake specific bit:

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...ake%20%28USB%29

and then the generic bit for doing hotplug configuration:

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...ric%20%28USB%29

Though you don\'t need to do the module downloading and building as you should have the module already.   In fact just jump to the bottom for the code you need to put in /etc/hotplug/usbnet to do hotplug configuration of the network.

As someone else mentioned you normally have to blacklist the acm and CDCEther modules (put them in /etc/hotplug/blacklist)

At least on Mandrake 10 the matching flags used in the usb.distmap seem to be too restrictive - so I copy the usbnet entry matching my device (vendor 0x4dd, product 0x8004 for the 5500) to the /etc/hotplug/usb.handmap file and change the matching flags from 0x0383 to 0x0003 (i.e. match vendor and product id only)  Adding this stuff to the usb.handmap also means you don\'t have to do a depmod - but this is in the Mandrake note - just means the usbnet code which has the right bits for a number of zaurus\' doesn\'t spot the devices correctly.....sigh.

I\'ve just run through this on my new Mandrake 10 install and it all works fine - I\'ve done the same on Mandrake 9.2, RedHat 9, AS 3 and the same basic recipe (with the odd difference) has always worked for me.

Good Luck,
Steve

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General Discussion / flashing rom on SL 5500 - get blinking lights

« on: April 05, 2004, 04:35:57 pm »

Have just spoken to a very nice man on the Sharp tel support line who has said the  the ROM will not update to a previous release and that the instructions given on the web-site to flash back usually don\'t work!

Can people confirm that he\'s right or alternatively say that he\'s wrong (as in you have done this yourself?)

But even if that\'s right you should be able to flash the latest version available... but I think he\'s confused and searching for an explanation for why it doesn\'t work.... otherwise how can people flash OZ, tkcROM, etc...

Is the CF card being written from Windows or Linux....?  I can\'t remember for sure but I think I had problems sometimes when I used mine under windows.  

Do you have anyway to confirm the md5sum of the files you\'ve written to the CF card match those on the PC before the transfer?  That would at least factor out the card reader as part of the problem.

zImage and initrd is preferrable to the OSPACK - won\'t overwrite the routine in the ROM that does the loading.... which isn\'t a problem unless something goes wrong writing that portion of the ROM.

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Sharp ROMs / Made my system tray icons disappear...

« on: March 24, 2004, 03:01:52 pm »

I must really write the postrm script for the SubApplet to unhide any hidden applets.... my apologies (one of the few remaining rfe\'s that was left to do).
 
About the only way you could move the subapplet onto its tray would be using the AppletManager - the SubApplet can\'t move itself.  You might have been able to use the AppletManager to unhide the subapplet.

Really you shouldn\'t need to use the AppletManager - the SubApplet can move applet on and off its applet bar or disable them completely - customise the names used in the menu as well as their order.......  Click and hold the SubApplet icon to popup the menu for enabling disabling and do the rest of the configuration by clicking on the (i) button at the left of the subapplet bar..

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Software / SubApplet back on the web....

« on: March 19, 2004, 02:26:23 pm »

Sorry, been way too busy to be around... But the SubApplet/TaskList Applets are now back hosted on SourceForge.net.

SubApplet   and TaskList Project Files

Changes on the killefiz.de site are pending...

On the plus side got rid of my crappy zaurus community monikor for my more normal one...