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Hi all
You can find a new Hentges ROM RC here: http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/ (http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/)
Collie: Now ships with the new "r21" kernel, fixing all suspend/resume bugs
Poodle:
Akita: This is the long awaited updated Akita image. It fixes most bugs of the OZ 3.5.3 Akita snapshot.
Please test!
Happy flashing
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So does this really work with Poodle?
I thought Hentges only worked on the 5500 series.
radioz
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So does this really work with Poodle?
I thought Hentges only worked on the 5500 series.
radioz
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Yep, Poodle works, too.
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OK I will try all this tomorrow.
However I have added a few other programs, is there a way of making sure that I do not lose all the programs I have added.
I guess I am really asking what is the upgrade process?
Is it just a fresh re-install and you lose your additional settings/programs?
Samac
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Hi all
You can find a new Hentges ROM RC here: http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/ (http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/)
Collie: Now ships with the new "r21" kernel, fixing all suspend/resume bugs
Poodle:
Akita: This is the long awaited updated Akita image. It fixes most bugs of the OZ 3.5.3 Akita snapshot.
Please test!
Happy flashing
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Is there someway to get the benefit of the suspend fix in Collie without losing all your programs and settings?
BTW, thanks for the great Doom in your last version which works great...unfortunately I got stuck after a couple of rooms and can't figure out how to go to the next area....not your fault.
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So does this really work with Poodle?
I thought Hentges only worked on the 5500 series.
radioz
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Yep, Poodle works, too.
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Thanks for the report.
How does Hentges differ from the standard OZ releaze?
Radioz
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Thanks for the report.
How does Hentges differ from the standard OZ releaze?
Radioz
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It ships with more apps and requires an SD card >= 64Mb.
It also comes with altboot and a few other tweaks
Is there someway to get the benefit of the suspend fix in Collie without losing all your programs and settings?
I guess I am really asking what is the upgrade process?
Is it just a fresh re-install and you lose your additional settings/programs?
If you keep your /home/root directory, all settings will be kept. The apps are gone though.
Since the kernel doesn't work w/ a stock OZ image, I'm afraid I see no way to keep your apps.
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Thanks for the report.
How does Hentges differ from the standard OZ releaze?
Radioz
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It ships with more apps and requires an SD card >= 64Mb.
It also comes with altboot and a few other tweaks
Is there someway to get the benefit of the suspend fix in Collie without losing all your programs and settings?
I guess I am really asking what is the upgrade process?
Is it just a fresh re-install and you lose your additional settings/programs?
If you keep your /home/root directory, all settings will be kept. The apps are gone though.
Since the kernel doesn't work w/ a stock OZ image, I'm afraid I see no way to keep your apps.
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I downloaded the new images and placed the cardfs files on the CD card. After flashing i get a series of questions starting with it asking for a new password. I then get more Q's after the cofiguration stuff and ssh key generation which i OK.
Booting into Opie goes ok but am i missing something as there are only two applications under the applications tab (file manager, Konsole)
Done something wrong or just being stupid!
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Sounds like you said no to the "Install cardfs question" or it did not locate the cardfs. Ensure that it is on your CF and reboot. Also make sure you have your SD/MMC card in
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duh!
OK this time round i placed the cardfs, zimage and initrd files on my CF card and flashed.
Everything went ok until Opie booted and the "new storage media detected" dialog popped up. Stuck now as i cannot get rid of it.
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Solved by following this thread
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13321 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13321)
Will let you know how i get on
thanks
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So does this really work with Poodle?
I thought Hentges only worked on the 5500 series.
radioz
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Yep, Poodle works, too.
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FYI the poodle installation (with cardfs to /home) installed without any problems and works very well. I like the changes you've made to the altboot... where the install doesn't prompt you for a menu selection.
I do have one question... I read a post dated 7-21-05 that your akita screen-tap and key-click sounds where broken in that CVS snapshot of libopie2 and this snapshot appears to be 7-24-05, do your sounds work now? I still have no key or screen-tap clicks... it's no big problem, but I miss them.
Thanks again for your work on an image (and fast kernel) for the poodle... that you can't test. Please let me know if you want me to check anything for you.
Now I must go take care of my collie.
Thanks,
Greg
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Time to try and understand cardfs...
I'll have to download these images tonight or tomorrow. Can't wait!
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FYI the poodle installation (with cardfs to /home) installed without any problems and works very well. I like the changes you've made to the altboot... where the install doesn't prompt you for a menu selection.
I do have one question... I read a post dated 7-21-05 that your akita screen-tap and key-click sounds where broken in that CVS snapshot of libopie2 and this snapshot appears to be 7-24-05, do your sounds work now? I still have no key or screen-tap clicks... it's no big problem, but I miss them.
So did I The solution is simple: just install opie-qss and reboot (thanks mickeyl!)
Thanks again for your work on an image (and fast kernel) for the poodle... that you can't test. Please let me know if you want me to check anything for you.
Testing is always welcome
Please report any bugs or oddities you encounter.
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All seems to be good on the collie.
Many thanks
Samac
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I do have one question... I read a post dated 7-21-05 that your akita screen-tap and key-click sounds where broken in that CVS snapshot of libopie2 and this snapshot appears to be 7-24-05, do your sounds work now? I still have no key or screen-tap clicks... it's no big problem, but I miss them.
So did I The solution is simple: just install opie-qss and reboot (thanks mickeyl!)
Thanks Mickey
Greg
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Hi all
You can find a new Hentges ROM RC here: http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/ (http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/)
Collie: Now ships with the new "r21" kernel, fixing all suspend/resume bugs
Poodle:
Akita: This is the long awaited updated Akita image. It fixes most bugs of the OZ 3.5.3 Akita snapshot.
Please test!
Happy flashing
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CoreDump:
You're the greatest! I had fun turning my collie on and off after your flash with NO PROBLEMS. What a relief.
I had the "what do you want to do with this card" problem and worked around it ...very ungracefully.
I had some apps that acted like they weren't symlinked - OpieMail, FTPOpie, and others said "could not find application", GAIm didn't start, etc. but after I ran a line in the console to link everything to the media/card, all worked.
Doom runs great...I got out of that room I was stuck in before...I need cheats though because I am so lame at playing it.
I even managed to install Zbedic again and had saved my old zbedic.conf file so that it found the dictionaries.
Merci beaucoup! Wonderful work.
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Testing is always welcome
Please report any bugs or oddities you encounter.
You need to modify your prboom.sh to include the poodle for -height 240... sorry I forgot to tell you this the last time. Should I report this to Opie bugs?
Greg
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Testing is always welcome
Please report any bugs or oddities you encounter.
You need to modify your prboom.sh to include the poodle for -height 240... sorry I forgot to tell you this the last time. Should I report this to Opie bugs?
Greg
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No need, I'll do it when I get home
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A question on CardFS. . .
How does it handle partitioned SD cards? I was thinking about partitioning my SD card into three, one for Documents (formatted vfat, to share with WinXP systems), one for OZ/Hentges (formatted ext2), and one for pocketworkstation (also formatted ext2).
My question is can CardFS handle these, and if so, is there any particular order in which I should partition it? (i.e. CardFS partition first). I'm working under the assumption that using fstab I can make sure the Documents and pocketworkstation go where they're supposed to.
TIA. . .
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A question on CardFS. . .
How does it handle partitioned SD cards? I was thinking about partitioning my SD card into three, one for Documents (formatted vfat, to share with WinXP systems), one for OZ/Hentges (formatted ext2), and one for pocketworkstation (also formatted ext2).
My question is can CardFS handle these, and if so, is there any particular order in which I should partition it? (i.e. CardFS partition first). I'm working under the assumption that using fstab I can make sure the Documents and pocketworkstation go where they're supposed to.
TIA. . .
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Cardfs installs into the partition mounted as /media/card, it doesn't care for any additional partitions.
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All seems to be going well on the collie, except....
1) I keep seeing a message on the taskbar every so often, "Error - Folder could not be initialised" (or something like that)
2) i booted into non-GUI mode and did an "ipkg upgrade" - it installed a few things. i rebooted and now all my ipkg sources are gone !!!
nothing in ipkg.conf and only arch,.conf in /etc/ipkg
Any chance someone could paste the src's ?
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Hi,
Installed your image onto my C1k... I really like everything you've done, great job. I usually run a custom image I build but I might switch to yours or have mine inherit from yours, not sure which yet.
I was really happy to see usb host mode working... I was able to plug in my mp3 player and it was recognized and mounted immediately. Pretty sweet.
Have you seen anything strange with the on/off button? Instead of suspending when I push it while the device is on, it seems to almost switch to a non-existent VT. I get a blank screen with a cursor in the upper-left, but if I ssh into the device and "chvt 2" it goes back to opie.
On an Akita, I'm not sure what the altboot install gives me... I guess I'll search around for altboot. Is this something I can use to (someday) fire up GPE or maybe pocketworkstation now?
EDIT: Nevermind, I found the altboot.txt file explaining. :-)
I haven't played around too much with the other stuff, I'll try to this week. Thanks again for putting this out there, it looks really nice.
jason
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All seems to be going well on the collie, except....
1) I keep seeing a message on the taskbar every so often, "Error - Folder could not be initialised" (or something like that)
Looks like the infamous opie-mail message
2) i booted into non-GUI mode and did an "ipkg upgrade" - it installed a few things. i rebooted and now all my ipkg sources are gone !!!
Ugh, don't do that! Hentges is based on the newest working sources in OE.
There is no point in upgrading since you've already got the most recent versions (no matter what ipkg says).
nothing in ipkg.conf and only arch,.conf in /etc/ipkg
Any chance someone could paste the src's ?
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=89513\")
Sure thing:
src upgrades [a href=\"http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/upgrades/]http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/upgrades/[/url]
src machine http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3....d/machine/akita (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/akita)
src base http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/base/ (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/base/)
src libs http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/libs/ (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/libs/)
src console http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/console (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/console)
src devel http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/devel (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/devel)
src net http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/net (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/net)
src opie http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/opie (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/opie)
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Hi,
Installed your image onto my C1k... I really like everything you've done, great job. I usually run a custom image I build but I might switch to yours or have mine inherit from yours, not sure which yet.
I was really happy to see usb host mode working... I was able to plug in my mp3 player and it was recognized and mounted immediately. Pretty sweet.
USB is still a little bit flakey. I had to use some serious hacks to get USB Host mode auto-detected. Also I had to unload the USB modules on suspend or USB is dead after resume.
BTW: Check out Settings/USB Mode to switch between USB Networking and USB Storage mode
Have you seen anything strange with the on/off button? Instead of suspending when I push it while the device is on, it seems to almost switch to a non-existent VT. I get a blank screen with a cursor in the upper-left, but if I ssh into the device and "chvt 2" it goes back to opie.
Whoops, I was playing around with the keymap and used the "On" button for testing as it doesn't do anything currently anyways. Looks like I commited one of these tests
On an Akita, I'm not sure what the altboot install gives me... I guess I'll search around for altboot. Is this something I can use to (someday) fire up GPE or maybe pocketworkstation now?
EDIT: Nevermind, I found the altboot.txt file explaining. :-)
Booting pocketworkstation does bot work out of the box w/ altboot. PW wasn't designed to be
really booted and hangs during init.
I haven't played around too much with the other stuff, I'll try to this week. Thanks again for putting this out there, it looks really nice.
jason
You're welcome
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I'm having trouble with the install... I'm new the the Zaurus world but have successfully switched between pdaxrom and OZ before but i'm having problems with this one.
After holding down OK to get the flash menu up I pick option 4 and then either CF or SD on the next menu just gives an error (i can only guess it's an error) in japenese.
I've checked the md5 of the initrd as thats the only files with a md5sum provided. I also noticed that the updater.sh script isnt human readable. I've tried redownloading it but I get the same thing.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Ben
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I'm having trouble with the install... I'm new the the Zaurus world but have successfully switched between pdaxrom and OZ before but i'm having problems with this one.
After holding down OK to get the flash menu up I pick option 4 and then either CF or SD on the next menu just gives an error (i can only guess it's an error) in japenese.
I've checked the md5 of the initrd as thats the only files with a md5sum provided. I also noticed that the updater.sh script isnt human readable. I've tried redownloading it but I get the same thing.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Ben
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Make sure your AC is connected. updater.sh is "encrypted", it is not supposed to be human readable.
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I'm having trouble with the install... I'm new the the Zaurus world but have successfully switched between pdaxrom and OZ before but i'm having problems with this one.
After holding down OK to get the flash menu up I pick option 4 and then either CF or SD on the next menu just gives an error (i can only guess it's an error) in japenese.
I've checked the md5 of the initrd as thats the only files with a md5sum provided. I also noticed that the updater.sh script isnt human readable. I've tried redownloading it but I get the same thing.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Ben
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I don't know if it's the same but I had a similar problem, the file updater.sh was at fault. The Z was keeping writing "ADD...tmp/data...bin" something like that. Once I used the updater.sh from the official OZ 3.5.3 release from the C1000 folder, everything went OK. So try that file instead to see.
Hope it helps
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I'm an idiot! I dont have the AC adaptop with me at the moment. I'll try and reflash tonight when I have AC power!
Cheers,
Ben
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The updater.sh you have for the akita is not the last one I edited, I am attaching here the "fixed" one, that shows the "progress bar" for the initrd as it should be, instead of the debug data.
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A small problem - when you choose the "storage" usb mode, you should also be able to specify which device will be exposed - SD, CF or /home
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The updater.sh you have for the akita is not the last one I edited, I am attaching here the "fixed" one, that shows the "progress bar" for the initrd as it should be, instead of the debug data.
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--- updater.sh 2005-07-19 19:35:51.000000000 +0200
+++ /home/mhentges/updater.sh 2005-07-27 10:35:57.175672140 +0200
@@ -198,9 +198,9 @@
DATAPOS=`expr $DATAPOS + $TMPSIZE`
#handle data file
- echo 'ADDR='$ADDR
- echo 'SIZE='$TMPSIZE
- echo 'TMPDATA='$TMPDATA
+ #echo 'ADDR='$ADDR
+ #echo 'SIZE='$TMPSIZE
+ #echo 'TMPDATA='$TMPDATA
if [ $ISLOGICAL = 0 ]
then
next_addr=`/sbin/nandcp -a $ADDR $TMPDATA $TARGET_MTD 2>/dev/null | fgrep "mtd address" | cut -d- -f2 | cut -d\( -f1`
Applied, thanks!
Looks like the 0% -> 100% width is hard-coded for a normal sized OZ initrd.bin so it could use some hacking
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Looks like the 0% -> 100% width is hard-coded for a normal sized OZ initrd.bin so it could use some hacking
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I really do need to get my oe build machine back up and working... Also, the zImage part isn't doing the progress bar, I have to fix that too.
And I do need to start working on porting the rt2570 usb driver to oe, a 802.11g usb stick that works with my akita would be cool...
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Coredump - thanks for newbie-slapping, it's always obvious when someone else points it out
I eventually gave up on this ROM because i "played about" with it by reflashing, installing stuff, reflashing etc.
I couldnt get irk to install properly.
It appears in the update list but ipkg says it cant find it.
I tried installing locally from CF and that "installs", but no keyboard options appear.
Justreader (my most used app) failed, then it worked fine, then it failed again.
Opiereader is just nasty - is there no way to jump to a specific page in an ebook?
Other than these niggles, the rest of it seems fine, if not damn fine!!!
I'll try it again when it's officially released.
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Just tried to flash to the Hentges Rom. It seemed to flash ok but then i'm just left with a window half on the screen half off which apears to be in german. Nothing seems to do anything.
What did I do wrong...
Cheers,
Ben
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I couldnt get irk to install properly.
It appears in the update list but ipkg says it cant find it.
I tried installing locally from CF and that "installs", but no keyboard options appear.
Have a look at this thread, it solved all my problems
How to install IRK (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13637)
Samac
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The "window half on the screen" could be the medium mount dialog. Did you erase your old HOME directory before installing?
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Thanks for the responce mickey. I didn't delete the home directory before flashing and I did suspect that the window I can partially see was the mount window. Don't know why it's in german though and i cant get rid of it.
What should i delete before reflashing again? I don't need anything kept on the C1000, I just want a nice clean install.
Cheers,
Ben
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Thanks for the responce mickey. I didn't delete the home directory before flashing and I did suspect that the window I can partially see was the mount window. Don't know why it's in german though and i cant get rid of it.
What should i delete before reflashing again? I don't need anything kept on the C1000, I just want a nice clean install.
Cheers,
Ben
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I removed both my sd card and my cf card and rebooted once...you get very minimal apps showing when Qtopia comes up....then I put the cards back in and rebooted again. I think I then got a media screen but it was smaller and I could "okay" out of it. Anyway, you could try that - shouldn't hurt.
Maybe you installed the German version by mistake?
Hope this helps.
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Coredump - thanks for newbie-slapping, it's always obvious when someone else points it out
I eventually gave up on this ROM because i "played about" with it by reflashing, installing stuff, reflashing etc.
I couldnt get irk to install properly.
It appears in the update list but ipkg says it cant find it.
I tried installing locally from CF and that "installs", but no keyboard options appear.
Justreader (my most used app) failed, then it worked fine, then it failed again.
Opiereader is just nasty - is there no way to jump to a specific page in an ebook?
Other than these niggles, the rest of it seems fine, if not damn fine!!!
I'll try it again when it's officially released.
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I had some difficulty with Justreader installation also. I think I finally found a version in the Opie feed and installed it right from within the Zaurus package utility. But as I recall, it still had some problems but they disappeared when I rebooted or something....I know this is not much help, but just wanted to tell you that JustReader is MY favorite app also and I got it working on the Hentges latest ROM and am using it.
Irk I haven't had the nerve to EVER try to install on any Open Zaurus so I can't help you there.
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Thanks for the responce mickey. I didn't delete the home directory before flashing and I did suspect that the window I can partially see was the mount window. Don't know why it's in german though and i cant get rid of it.
What should i delete before reflashing again? I don't need anything kept on the C1000, I just want a nice clean install.
Cheers,
Ben
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I removed both my sd card and my cf card and rebooted once...you get very minimal apps showing when Qtopia comes up....then I put the cards back in and rebooted again. I think I then got a media screen but it was smaller and I could "okay" out of it. Anyway, you could try that - shouldn't hurt.
Maybe you installed the German version by mistake?
Hope this helps.
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Cheers tombraider!
Everything works now, it switched to english when i booted without CF or SD cards inserted and stuck to english from then on.
Ben
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Opie apps use some settings $HOME/Settings/*.conf - if you don't remove your old configuration files, then you won't get our default settings - which are necessary for large icons, large fonts, sane theme, etc.
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Opie apps use some settings $HOME/Settings/*.conf - if you don't remove your old configuration files, then you won't get our default settings - which are necessary for large icons, large fonts, sane theme, etc.
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FWIW, Hentges allows to wipe /home/root/Settings during the first boot on Akita.
Other PDAs should not experience problems with old settings (I hope)
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Hi all.
Finally making some progress with my C1000. Currently i'm desperate to get a vnc server installed. I've tried installing fbvncserver from oz feed\console but it says it needs fbvncserver-kmodule, libvncserver-storepasswd, libvncserver-javaapplet which I can't find in the feed.
I'm also having problems with prboom. It runs rotated and is not fullscreen but more importantly I don't seem able to do anything other than go up and down through the initial menu. Can't select to start a new game or even quit. I imagine this is just a config or keys problem but I cant find any information on where the keymap file is for prboom or where i can change a startup script to try it at a higher resolution.
Any pointers for either problem would be great!
Cheers,
Ben
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prboom -width 640 -height 480
Hitting the touchscreen = enter
Then configure the keys in prboom to your preferences.
Might be an idea to ship prboom with device-specific config files.
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small question: I want to install cardfs to CF
I copied the file to /mnt/ram. loged out opie and in as root. ran cardfs_install.sh
it looks for a SD then quits. no blue screen and no way to tell it to use the CF.
thanks,
Niv
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small question: I want to install cardfs to CF
I copied the file to /mnt/ram. loged out opie and in as root. ran cardfs_install.sh
it looks for a SD then quits. no blue screen and no way to tell it to use the CF.
thanks,
Niv
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whoops, a bug from the times when cardfs was SD only.
Insert any SD card and select /media/cf as destination.
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thanks
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I have a couple of issues, one is that the suspend mode for a 64-0 collie image is still broken despite the claim it was fixed in this release. Also wireless seems to work fine with the standard oz rom but not for henteges with my linksys card.
Daryl
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I have a couple of issues, one is that the suspend mode for a 64-0 collie image is still broken despite the claim it was fixed in this release. Also wireless seems to work fine with the standard oz rom but not for henteges with my linksys card.
Daryl
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Works perfectly fine here. Please make sure that the new kernel was really flashed.
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CoreDump and everyone involved in the Hentges/C1000 release, thank you, thank you!
I hadn't touched my c1000 in weeks before this release.
How can I donate to you guys directly?
Kphone/pi installed a new tab that has a question mark in it, and i consistantly get 'error initalizing folder' and about a 10 second pause every so often since installing it. How can I move it to Applications and get rid of that folder? It wasn't under Launcher.
Also I read CoreDump's post about 'On' not doing anything, it appears to work for me? But i do get the non-existant VT ocassionally with a blinking cursor, and if I'm not networked I have to turn it entirely off. Is there a fix for this?
I'd also like to dualboot with pdaXrom, is that possible?
Thanks!
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CoreDump and everyone involved in the Hentges/C1000 release, thank you, thank you!
I hadn't touched my c1000 in weeks before this release.
How can I donate to you guys directly?
Donations are always welcome please see http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/developers/ (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/developers/) for more information.
Kphone/pi installed a new tab that has a question mark in it, and i consistantly get 'error initalizing folder' and about a 10 second pause every so often since installing it. How can I move it to Applications and get rid of that folder? It wasn't under Launcher.
Sounds like a packaging bug to me. Check out /opt/QtPalmtop/apps to manually fix this.
Also I read CoreDump's post about 'On' not doing anything, it appears to work for me? But i do get the non-existant VT ocassionally with a blinking cursor, and if I'm not networked I have to turn it entirely off. Is there a fix for this?
Ah, the "On" button works to resume the device. Suspending however, does not work.
I'll fix the keymap to remove the "blinking cursor" problem.
I'd also like to dualboot with pdaXrom, is that possible?
Thanks!
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In theory yes, but a lot of work is involved to do it. You'd need to extract pdaXrom's initrd.bin and copy all files into a folder. Then check if updater.sh does anything special after the flashing is complete (you'd need to decode it for that btw).
Once you have all the files, one could write a altboot plugin to pivot-root into the pdaxrom folder.
You wouldn't see a difference to a normal pdaXrom installation.
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I'm getting a gzip error on the T3 cardfs release.
http://oz.hentges.net/releases/3.5.3/T3/co...pie1.2.0-r1.bin (http://oz.hentges.net/releases/3.5.3/T3/collie/cardfs-opie-collie-openzaurus_oz3.5.3-opie1.2.0-r1.bin) seems to be corrupt.
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Thank you very much for this ROM !!!!
Unfortunately I have run into a problem. I initially tried out the "fast" kernel on a PXA250. It seemed to work OK, but I wanted to debug some wierdness with fbvncserver. So I tried to flash to the regular zImage, but now all I get is the splash screen and a blinking cursor. How do you just flash the kernel without having to re-flash the initrd.bin?
Thank you very much,
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How do you just flash the kernel without having to re-flash the initrd.bin?
You follow the same procedure you would use to flash both, except only place the updater.sh and the kernel (zimage.bin) on your card.
Greg
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How do you just flash the kernel without having to re-flash the initrd.bin?
You follow the same procedure you would use to flash both, except only place the updater.sh and the kernel (zimage.bin) on your card.
Greg
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Well, I tried that and now all I get on bootup are the OpenZaurus spalsh screen and a blinking cursor.... Any Ideas on how to get my Z to boot again?
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Whoops, looks like the Collie Cardfs.bin was indeed damaged
I've uploaded a fixed version, sorry guys!
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Thank you very much CoreDump
I have been holding off on installing 3.5.3 for a while (the dreaded suspend-resume bug).
I was wondering if the 5600 Kernel you provide includes the suspend on rigtht arrow key fix as well. I am still getting right-arrow suspends on my poor poodle. If not, could you build one? I would like to test it, but I only have a dial-up at home and have not been brave enough to try and set up a full OE build system.
Thank you very much,
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Okay, apologies for my confusion, but...
er, since I'm not sure how current the visible Hentges pages are, the posted "do_not_use" directory is now empty, I can't find the .md5 signatures, and the link to the OZ install guide isn't available...
Er, how do I install your latest version to my brand-new Akita? I'm nervous about just searching the forums when I don't know what the latest installation procedure is...
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Okay, apologies for my confusion, but...
er, since I'm not sure how current the visible Hentges pages are, the posted "do_not_use" directory is now empty, I can't find the .md5 signatures, and the link to the OZ install guide isn't available...
Er, how do I install your latest version to my brand-new Akita? I'm nervous about just searching the forums when I don't know what the latest installation procedure is...
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The "do_not_use" directory only contains Release Candidates, stable releases can be found at [a href=\"http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/oz3.5.3-opie1.2.0.shtml]http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/oz3.5.3-opie1.2.0.shtml[/url].
And as there is no new (public) RC yet, the do_not_use folder is empty.
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Nice work on the ROM Hentges
Has anyone got the cardfs to work from a compactflash card? I'm installing the latest Hentges T3 ROM for a friend on his SL-5500 (256MB CF card), but I just can't seem to make it work. OPIE boots up fine but only the non-cardfs apps are available (eg. konsole plus a few preferences and applets). The same ROM images work fine on my 5500 where I'm using a 256MB SD card for cardfs.
Any pointers as to debugging the problem? I can't seem to find how the cardfs system is mounted.. is it a pivot_root ? I did a quick scan through the init.d scripts but nothing jumped out at me.
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The "do_not_use" directory only contains Release Candidates, stable releases can be found at http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/oz3.5.3-opie1.2.0.shtml (http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/oz3.5.3-opie1.2.0.shtml).
And as there is no new (public) RC yet, the do_not_use folder is empty.
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Thanks! I had apparently missed the post where it made it to release status (hurrah!). And I'm not trying to be a pain, but the last time I flashed something to OZ, it was my 6k to 3.5.2, and something in the process went wonky and it seemed bricked for a while. So I'm nervous when trying to follow the instructions when it gets to this part.
Follow the installation guide [Currently down]
Well, while I can't fault the honesty there (it is, in fact, currently down), I guess I'm looking for pointers to an installation guide that is not, in fact, currently down. I'm not trying to be a weenie here--just nervous. I have done some searching and found what I think is the google mirror of the guide [a href=\"http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:qAgLqPIL87YJ:openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c1000/+c1000+zaurus+updater.sh&hl=en]here[/url] (if that doesn't work, do a google search for "c1000 zaurus updater.sh" and grab the cache of openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c1000/).
Just making sure before I try it--is that still the same procedure?
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The "do_not_use" directory only contains Release Candidates, stable releases can be found at http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/oz3.5.3-opie1.2.0.shtml (http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/oz3.5.3-opie1.2.0.shtml).
And as there is no new (public) RC yet, the do_not_use folder is empty.
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Thanks! I had apparently missed the post where it made it to release status (hurrah!). And I'm not trying to be a pain, but the last time I flashed something to OZ, it was my 6k to 3.5.2, and something in the process went wonky and it seemed bricked for a while. So I'm nervous when trying to follow the instructions when it gets to this part.
Follow the installation guide [Currently down]
Well, while I can't fault the honesty there (it is, in fact, currently down), I guess I'm looking for pointers to an installation guide that is not, in fact, currently down. I'm not trying to be a weenie here--just nervous. I have done some searching and found what I think is the google mirror of the guide [a href=\"http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:qAgLqPIL87YJ:openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c1000/+c1000+zaurus+updater.sh&hl=en]here[/url] (if that doesn't work, do a google search for "c1000 zaurus updater.sh" and grab the cache of openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c1000/).
Just making sure before I try it--is that still the same procedure?
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[a href=\"http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/]http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/[/url] has all the info you seek. Why use the cache when the real thing works fine?
And maybe someday I'll get to fixing that link.....
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Nice work on the ROM Hentges
Has anyone got the cardfs to work from a compactflash card? I'm installing the latest Hentges T3 ROM for a friend on his SL-5500 (256MB CF card), but I just can't seem to make it work. OPIE boots up fine but only the non-cardfs apps are available (eg. konsole plus a few preferences and applets). The same ROM images work fine on my 5500 where I'm using a 256MB SD card for cardfs.
Any pointers as to debugging the problem? I can't seem to find how the cardfs system is mounted.. is it a pivot_root ? I did a quick scan through the init.d scripts but nothing jumped out at me.
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Was cardfs installed during the first boot? Did you get any errors?
CardFS installs apps to SD, no pivoting or other tricks there.
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http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/ (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/)[/url] has all the info you seek. Why use the cache when the real thing works fine?
And maybe someday I'll get to fixing that link.....
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Rofl... thanks. Since the link was broken, I had somehow made the assumption that the whole site was down, so went for the cache. Not to worry, I'll flash that puppy tonight (assuming I can find a CF card big enough around the house).
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Was cardfs installed during the first boot? Did you get any errors?
CardFS installs apps to SD, no pivoting or other tricks there.
I installed the cardfs manually after first boot, using the 'cardfs_install.sh' script. It found the cardfs.bin image on the SD card and I selected the option to install to /media/cf.
If I browse the /media/cf I can see the installation was successful. However all the symlinks in /opt/QtPalmtop/bin seem to point to /media/card/... instead of /media/cf/...
Is there some way I can get this all working without having to manually relink all the files ? Or should I start debugging 'cardfs_install.sh' to see where it's going wrong?
Thanks for your help.
PS. just trying the cardfs_install.sh once more, will send an update if anything different occurs.
PPS. I think ipkg-link is the tool that does all the symlinks? I think it must be getting screwed, maybe related to the fact that the SD card I'm installing from has a full cardfs filesystem on it already? I'm clutching at straws here
PPPS. This is ridiculous, the built-in 'vi' won't let me edit the shell script without going screwy, I don't have a card reader, and I can't get onto the network here at work. Giving up for now
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nice new hentges rom at all. but there are some problemes on my Z 5500(hetges 3.5.3 T3):
- z hangs at opie startup if asus-wlan-device is plugged in, perhaps i messed the system 0:)
- opie-today doesn't show the todolist or the plugin... i have reinstalled it, linked with ipkg-link... but the problem still exists... is this a hentges-rom-related problem??
thx for some infos
greets tobi
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PPS. I think ipkg-link is the tool that does all the symlinks? I think it must be getting screwed, maybe related to the fact that the SD card I'm installing from has a full cardfs filesystem on it already? I'm clutching at straws here
I'm not sure what your trying to accomplish here... but I believe this is at least part of your problem?
PPPS. This is ridiculous, the built-in 'vi' won't let me edit the shell script without going screwy, I don't have a card reader, and I can't get onto the network here at work. Giving up for now
You can use the preinstalled TinyKate to edit the script... if it's working?
Please note that your CF-card has to be formatted with ext2 for this to work properly. If it is do:
ipkg-link mount /media/cfYou may however have to remove any symlinks in /opt/QtPalmtop/bin that point to
/media/card first, for this to work properly.
It sounds to me like your trying to setup 2 cardfs at once? You will have to choose one or the other... SD or CF?
Greg
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You can use the preinstalled TinyKate to edit the script... if it's working?
Yeah, but it's missing from the barebones ROM image.
Please note that your CF-card has to be formatted with ext2 for this to work properly. If it is do:
ipkg-link mount /media/cfYou may however have to remove any symlinks in /opt/QtPalmtop/bin that point to
/media/card first, for this to work properly.
It sounds to me like your trying to setup 2 cardfs at once? You will have to choose one or the other... SD or CF?
I'm trying to get it working on a CF card, I couldn't care less about the SD card I just have the cardfs.bin image on a SD card which is why that is mentioned.
What you're saying with ipkg-link makes sense to me, I didn't quite understand what it was doing till now. The CF card is ext2 formatted, I just tried the ipkg-link and got the symlinks all updated but I now seem to have trashed something important along the way as OPIE no longer boots. I'll have a better look at this when I get home from work tonight.
Thanks for your help.
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What you're saying with ipkg-link makes sense to me, I didn't quite understand what it was doing till now. The CF card is ext2 formatted, I just tried the ipkg-link and got the symlinks all updated but I now seem to have trashed something important along the way as OPIE no longer boots. I'll have a better look at this when I get home from work tonight.
I think I understand now. It sounds like when you manually used the cardfs_install.sh it symlinked (or rather tried to) /media/card? Now I'm guessing you have symlinks to both the SD and CF so you will have to clean that up for this to work.
I've never installed the cardfs to the CF-card... I will look at that script later tonight or tomorrow morning.
Edit:
I took a quick look at the instructions on CoreDumps site. Did you run:
rm /etc/.cardfs_installed
before you reran the cardfs_install.sh?
Greg
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Edit:
I took a quick look at the instructions on CoreDumps site. Did you run:
rm /etc/.cardfs_installed
before you reran the cardfs_install.sh?
Yeah, it won't do anything unless you remove that first I'm back at home now so just about to have a poke around in cardfs_install.sh, at least I can get net on the zaurus here so I'll be able to ssh in and use a real keyboard
From first glance, I don't understand why it shouldn't work. I'm gonna put a debug in on the line before it calls ipkg-link to see what the params it passes in are.
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Right, ipkg-link is a pile of shit
The problem was that I left the SD card in (and it had a cardfs installation). The ipkg-link tool for some reason found the cardfs filesystem on the SD card instead of the CF card (despite the fact I specified /media/cf on the command line).
Removing the SD card before running ipkg-link seems to have solved the problem (mostly). Hopefully someone else can learn from this piece of advice
Thanks to everyone for help.
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Right, ipkg-link is a pile of shit
The problem was that I left the SD card in (and it had a cardfs installation). The ipkg-link tool for some reason found the cardfs filesystem on the SD card instead of the CF card (despite the fact I specified /media/cf on the command line).
Removing the SD card before running ipkg-link seems to have solved the problem (mostly). Hopefully someone else can learn from this piece of advice
Thanks to everyone for help.
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I'll have a look
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Not sure on this one, but I flashed my akita with T3-DE and zImage-akita-20050726082551.bin, and am having trouble with my wireless (buffalo WLI2-etc-etc, started a separate thread for that one). Normal confusion aside, I tried as part of the debugging process to "modprobe hostap_cs", and got a TON of unresolved symbol errors.
Was that supposed to happen, or is this unusual and I must have had a bad flash?
Also--in Konsole, scrolling the screen quickly generates artifacts--characters are left behind, etc. Makes things very confusing after a while.
Any suggestions on either?
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Not sure on this one, but I flashed my akita with T3-DE and zImage-akita-20050726082551.bin, and am having trouble with my wireless (buffalo WLI2-etc-etc, started a separate thread for that one). Normal confusion aside, I tried as part of the debugging process to "modprobe hostap_cs", and got a TON of unresolved symbol errors.
Was that supposed to happen, or is this unusual and I must have had a bad flash?
Also--in Konsole, scrolling the screen quickly generates artifacts--characters are left behind, etc. Makes things very confusing after a while.
Any suggestions on either?
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Your /proc/version should look like this:
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.20-3.5.3-snapshot-20050730 (mhentges@mhcln01) () #1 Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:57:58 +0200
If not, then the new kernel wasn't flashed (which would explain your problems)
As for the screen artifacts, I'm seeing them, too. No solution, yet.
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Right, ipkg-link is a pile of shit
The problem was that I left the SD card in (and it had a cardfs installation). The ipkg-link tool for some reason found the cardfs filesystem on the SD card instead of the CF card (despite the fact I specified /media/cf on the command line).
Removing the SD card before running ipkg-link seems to have solved the problem (mostly). Hopefully someone else can learn from this piece of advice
Thanks to everyone for help.
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I'll have a look
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I've checked the script and didn't find anything that could cause this problem
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You were right, wrong kernel (had named it zImage instead of zImage.bin... silly Zaurus owner!).
Reflashing now (and SO NICE not to see the SHARP logo filling the screen--nothing against Sharp, but I couldn't read any boot messages!).
One bit of "human interface" stuff. I've gotten to the questions about "I found a .backup, do you want me to restore?" and answered no.
The next question is confusing: "Do you want me to delete your settings? If you upgraded from Sharp rom, this is required". Well, I *do* want to delete my settings then. But the prompt is actually "enter OK to restore your backups". So the answer to one question is "yes", but you really want to type "no" I think, and I have to admit that is confusing to me. Maybe changing the wording there would be a touch more clear.
Works great, and having the right kernel fixed my Buffalo problem of course. Thanks again!
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How do you just flash the kernel without having to re-flash the initrd.bin?
You follow the same procedure you would use to flash both, except only place the updater.sh and the kernel (zimage.bin) on your card.
Greg
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Well, I tried that and now all I get on bootup are the OpenZaurus spalsh screen and a blinking cursor.... Any Ideas on how to get my Z to boot again?
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Well I'm new here so I will say hello first, HELLO, ok now that thats done,
on my 5500 no matter how I flash it I get the same thing, the open zaurus splash screen and a blinking curser.
I've tried renaming the zimage since one thread says use .bin at the end but the OZ site says not to but I get the same results either way.
what I am doing is putting zImage.bin and initrd.bin on the cf card and putting cardfs on sd and always get the same result.
Any help is appreciated.
Hydro
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what I am doing is putting zImage.bin and initrd.bin on the cf card and putting cardfs on sd and always get the same result.
Hello Hydro
For the collie (5500) it’s zImage. Copy the zImage, initrd.bin and the cardfs-whatever.bin onto your CF-card and flash as per instructions.
Instructions:
http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-50005500/ (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-50005500/)
http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/docs/ca...ml#installation (http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/docs/cardfs_howto.shtml#installation)
If you still have problems let us know.
Greg
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what I am doing is putting zImage.bin and initrd.bin on the cf card and putting cardfs on sd and always get the same result.
Hello Hydro
For the collie (5500) it’s zImage. Copy the zImage, initrd.bin and the cardfs-whatever.bin onto your CF-card and flash as per instructions.
Instructions:
http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-50005500/ (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-50005500/)
http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/docs/ca...ml#installation (http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/docs/cardfs_howto.shtml#installation)
If you still have problems let us know.
Greg
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I've tried that also and still the same results, not sure what to do at this point, let me know what the secret is , and while I wait for it I'll try again
Hydro
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I've tried that also and still the same results, not sure what to do at this point, let me know what the secret is , and while I wait for it I'll try again
OK…
Is the CF-card filesystem ok? You may have to format.
Are the md5sums of your files ok? You may have to d/l again?
Greg
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Its strange, but I tried the same files today and it works fine (near perfect ... ok ok, have not found any bugs so far! ) ...
Even suspend/resume works! boy, I got lucky today!
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I've tried that also and still the same results, not sure what to do at this point, let me know what the secret is , and while I wait for it I'll try again
OK…
Is the CF-card filesystem ok? You may have to format.
Are the md5sums of your files ok? You may have to d/l again?
Greg
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I re-Dl'd twicw and formatted 3 times so far and all with the same results
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I re-Dl'd twicw and formatted 3 times so far and all with the same results
What is the size of your CF-card? Some users have problems with large cards and some CF-cards just won’t flash properly… can you try another card?
CF/SD fdisk/formatting just in case you need it:
https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-b...ing_for_newbies (https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-by-step_CF/SD_fdisk/formatting_for_newbies)
The md5sum of the initrd.bin is in the T3.tar.gz (please check that)
Greg
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I re-Dl'd twicw and formatted 3 times so far and all with the same results
What is the size of your CF-card? Some users have problems with large cards and some CF-cards just won’t flash properly… can you try another card?
CF/SD fdisk/formatting just in case you need it:
https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-b...ing_for_newbies (https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-by-step_CF/SD_fdisk/formatting_for_newbies)
The md5sum of the initrd.bin is in the T3.tar.gz (please check that)
Greg
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well same thing, I can use the older versions just fine but not this one, not sure at this point but I as much as I hate to say it microsoft and PPC has been better than any of this.
thanks for your help. I'm done for tonight but might try again later in the week.
Hydro
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hmmm ... I spoke too early. Now I tried to install cardfs and it keep failing. When I format the SD card, it keeps getting errors. I'll retry and post the error messages.
EDIT: After fdisk and mkfs.ext2, when I mount it and try to create a directory, it says "... Input/Output error ..."
Sometimes mkfs.ext2 will have errors saying the partition is zero size. Any idea? I just got this SD card new.
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I re-Dl'd twicw and formatted 3 times so far and all with the same results
What is the size of your CF-card? Some users have problems with large cards and some CF-cards just won’t flash properly… can you try another card?
CF/SD fdisk/formatting just in case you need it:
https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-b...ing_for_newbies (https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-by-step_CF/SD_fdisk/formatting_for_newbies)
The md5sum of the initrd.bin is in the T3.tar.gz (please check that)
Greg
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btw, the umount command should read umount /media/CF and umount /media/card respectively in the link above.
* Updated the wiki page. In case if I got that wrong, let me know and I'll revert to the original ...
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what I am doing is putting zImage.bin and initrd.bin on the cf card and putting cardfs on sd and always get the same result.
Hello Hydro
For the collie (5500) it’s zImage. Copy the zImage, initrd.bin and the cardfs-whatever.bin onto your CF-card and flash as per instructions.
Instructions:
http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-50005500/ (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-50005500/)
http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/docs/ca...ml#installation (http://hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/docs/cardfs_howto.shtml#installation)
If you still have problems let us know.
Greg
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In "CardFS HowTo", under
Re-Installing cardfs without flashing
If you have messed up your SD card, you can easily re-install the cardfs.
* Copy cardfs-$whatever.bin into /mnt/ram, /mnt/cf or /mnt/card
* Quit the Opie GUI (Settings / Quit)
* Log in to the console as user root (no password)
* Run "rm /etc/.cardfs_installed"
* Run "cardfs_install.sh
the 2nd last command should read
"rm /etc/.carfs_installed"
There should not be a "d" ... carfs_installed and not carDfs_installed.
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One bit of "human interface" stuff. I've gotten to the questions about "I found a .backup, do you want me to restore?" and answered no.
The next question is confusing: "Do you want me to delete your settings? If you upgraded from Sharp rom, this is required". Well, I *do* want to delete my settings then. But the prompt is actually "enter OK to restore your backups". So the answer to one question is "yes", but you really want to type "no" I think, and I have to admit that is confusing to me. Maybe changing the wording there would be a touch more clear.
This was a bad copy'n paste job. Fixed!
Works great, and having the right kernel fixed my Buffalo problem of course. Thanks again!
-->VPutz
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You're welcome
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In "CardFS HowTo", under
Re-Installing cardfs without flashing
If you have messed up your SD card, you can easily re-install the cardfs.
* Copy cardfs-$whatever.bin into /mnt/ram, /mnt/cf or /mnt/card
* Quit the Opie GUI (Settings / Quit)
* Log in to the console as user root (no password)
* Run "rm /etc/.cardfs_installed"
* Run "cardfs_install.sh
the 2nd last command should read
"rm /etc/.carfs_installed"
There should not be a "d" ... carfs_installed and not carDfs_installed.
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Heh, bad copy'n paste job, take two. Fixed! (It should indeed be cardfs_installed.sh)
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In "CardFS HowTo", under
Re-Installing cardfs without flashing
If you have messed up your SD card, you can easily re-install the cardfs.
* Copy cardfs-$whatever.bin into /mnt/ram, /mnt/cf or /mnt/card
* Quit the Opie GUI (Settings / Quit)
* Log in to the console as user root (no password)
* Run "rm /etc/.cardfs_installed"
* Run "cardfs_install.sh
the 2nd last command should read
"rm /etc/.carfs_installed"
There should not be a "d" ... carfs_installed and not carDfs_installed.
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Heh, bad copy'n paste job, take two. Fixed! (It should indeed be cardfs_installed.sh)
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Cool CoreDump!
btw, I seem to have problem installing CardFS on my 512MB A-Data SD card. Its new, rated at 150x (read) and its just giving errors when the cardfs install runs. I tried like 10 times yesterday ... both manually fdisking and formatting the card and letting the install do the job. Both resulted in error.
Just 10mins ago, I took an old (very old, like 5yrs old!) 64MB CF card. Pop the cardfs###.bin into the SD card (now formated in vfat) and intending to use the 64MB CF as the destination for cardFS instead. Voila, it works the first time. Is there something wrong with my config? Now I have the cardfs installed and mounted on the CF card fine and running well.
Anyway I can change some settings to do the same on the SD card?
The SD card is working fine on XP (via card reader), on a PocketPC and in vfat format, works fine on the hentges rom on the Z5500. When I fdisk and format it for ext2, it just keep having errors. Any ideas? Pls help ...
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Nice work on the ROM Hentges
Has anyone got the cardfs to work from a compactflash card? I'm installing the latest Hentges T3 ROM for a friend on his SL-5500 (256MB CF card), but I just can't seem to make it work. OPIE boots up fine but only the non-cardfs apps are available (eg. konsole plus a few preferences and applets). The same ROM images work fine on my 5500 where I'm using a 256MB SD card for cardfs.
Any pointers as to debugging the problem? I can't seem to find how the cardfs system is mounted.. is it a pivot_root ? I did a quick scan through the init.d scripts but nothing jumped out at me.
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I can't say with authority, but I think I have been successful by opening a konsole and typing
# ipkg-link mount /media/cf
I was planning to add that to an /etc/init.d script so it takes on reboot. I am not an expert; I've only been doing OZ for about 4 days. I am using the Hentges ROM on a 5500 though.
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Right, ipkg-link is a pile of shit
The problem was that I left the SD card in (and it had a cardfs installation). The ipkg-link tool for some reason found the cardfs filesystem on the SD card instead of the CF card (despite the fact I specified /media/cf on the command line).
Removing the SD card before running ipkg-link seems to have solved the problem (mostly). Hopefully someone else can learn from this piece of advice
Thanks to everyone for help.
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I'll have a look
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I've checked the script and didn't find anything that could cause this problem
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Yeah, the script is working just fine. The problem was with the ipkg-link program. The script ran:
ipkg-link mount /media/cfHowever, when the ipkg-link program ran, it picked up the cardfs installation I already had existing in /media/card and used that instead of the brand new one I had under /media/cf. The problem was resolved by manually calling ipkg-link with the same parameters, but with the SD card ejected.
I don't know who's responsible for ipkg-link but it may need patching?
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Yeah, the script is working just fine. The problem was with the ipkg-link program. The script ran:
ipkg-link mount /media/cfHowever, when the ipkg-link program ran, it picked up the cardfs installation I already had existing in /media/card and used that instead of the brand new one I had under /media/cf. The problem was resolved by manually calling ipkg-link with the same parameters, but with the SD card ejected.
I don't know who's responsible for ipkg-link but it may need patching?
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Ahem, I've rewritten some parts for OZ3.5.3, will have a look.
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Hi there,
Hengtes rom is now running smoothly on my collie, thanks to a Sandisk 512MB SD card that I swapped with someone for.
I got the SD partitioned into 2 parts: 1. ext2 2. Fat16. Its working fine now, but the Fat16 needs to be formatted. Anyway for me to do it in Hengtes? Where can I download the feed for mkfs.msdos? Thanks!
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Where can I download the feed for mkfs.msdos? Thanks!
I just answered this in your other post... It's the dosfstools ipk in the base feed.
Please don't double post.
Greg
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Where can I download the feed for mkfs.msdos? Thanks!
I just answered this in your other post... It's the dosfstools ipk in the base feed.
Please don't double post.
Greg
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Thanks and roger that!
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Another quick question on this release.
I read earlier in the thread how to get prboom working on my Akita with a few command-line options. Any equivalent for snes9x? I have tried a couple of roms from the command line, and I get sound and music, but just a blank screen. I wasn't sure if there was a QtEmbedded-0.spec I needed to write, or what...
Other than that, fantastic ROM, a real pleasure to have a Z up and running again with OZ. Thanks!
-->VPutz
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Another quick question on this release.
I read earlier in the thread how to get prboom working on my Akita with a few command-line options. Any equivalent for snes9x? I have tried a couple of roms from the command line, and I get sound and music, but just a blank screen. I wasn't sure if there was a QtEmbedded-0.spec I needed to write, or what...
Other than that, fantastic ROM, a real pleasure to have a Z up and running again with OZ. Thanks!
-->VPutz
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I have a collie and the only rom I've been able to get to work with the Hentges ROM install is Castlevania - Dracula X (U).zip which I got fromhttp://www.rom-world.com/toproms.php
With the collie it is just too difficult to try to work the keys to play the game...at least I'm not coordinated enough to do it, but then I'm 63 years old so if you have young reflexes and an akita with a different keyboard orientation, it will probably work.
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Tomb, I have my Z5500 installed with Hentges OZ 3.5.3 Opie 64-0 and somehow I cannot install apps like Opera 7.55 from my CF properly.
The installation runs successfully but I do not see a link on Opie and when I find the binary and try to execute, it does not work ...
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Tomb, I have my Z5500 installed with Hentges OZ 3.5.3 Opie 64-0 and somehow I cannot install apps like Opera 7.55 from my CF properly.
The installation runs successfully but I do not see a link on Opie and when I find the binary and try to execute, it does not work ...
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Oh, yeah, I forgot, I think I usually wound up copying the ipk to my sd card in order to install. I didn't think that was a general problem; I just thought it was a peculiarity of my configuration.
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Tomb, I have my Z5500 installed with Hentges OZ 3.5.3 Opie 64-0 and somehow I cannot install apps like Opera 7.55 from my CF properly.
The installation runs successfully but I do not see a link on Opie and when I find the binary and try to execute, it does not work ...
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Oh, yeah, I forgot, I think I usually wound up copying the ipk to my sd card in order to install. I didn't think that was a general problem; I just thought it was a peculiarity of my configuration.
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So, => if I install using the ipk in the SD card instead of the CF, it would work? Thanks!
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Still love Hentges but latest release Segmentation faults on Opie-Sheet, which I would prefer to use.
Any hints?
Chas
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Just an update, I got the Opera thingie fixed with help from Greg on another thread.
Again on the note of compatibility, installation of IRK on Hentges rom do not show the IRK option in the handwriting "tab". Do I need to run it with compat libraries too?
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Just an update, I got the Opera thingie fixed with help from Greg on another thread.
Again on the note of compatibility, installation of IRK on Hentges rom do not show the IRK option in the handwriting "tab". Do I need to run it with compat libraries too?
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Do you mean the irda beaming? There's an icon on the taskbar for that (if you expand the bar to show the clipboard). I got the beaming to work with my other Zaurus - beaming recipes from zeecookbook from one zaurus to the other. The only trouble is that it renames the files to .dat files and so at the other end you have the bother of having to rename them one by one.
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Just an update, I got the Opera thingie fixed with help from Greg on another thread.
Again on the note of compatibility, installation of IRK on Hentges rom do not show the IRK option in the handwriting "tab". Do I need to run it with compat libraries too?
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Do you mean the irda beaming? There's an icon on the taskbar for that (if you expand the bar to show the clipboard). I got the beaming to work with my other Zaurus - beaming recipes from zeecookbook from one zaurus to the other. The only trouble is that it renames the files to .dat files and so at the other end you have the bother of having to rename them one by one.
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oh good to know that ir beaming works out of the box. IRK is the driver for ir keyboards. Specifically, I found one that works for Belkin Universal keyboard using IRK-j or something on the SHARP 3.10 and 3.13 rom. Now I am HAPPILY(!:D) running hentges rom on my Z5500 and hopes to have the Belking keyboard running as well ..
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Just an update, I got the Opera thingie fixed with help from Greg on another thread.
Again on the note of compatibility, installation of IRK on Hentges rom do not show the IRK option in the handwriting "tab". Do I need to run it with compat libraries too?
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Do you mean the irda beaming? There's an icon on the taskbar for that (if you expand the bar to show the clipboard). I got the beaming to work with my other Zaurus - beaming recipes from zeecookbook from one zaurus to the other. The only trouble is that it renames the files to .dat files and so at the other end you have the bother of having to rename them one by one.
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oh good to know that ir beaming works out of the box. IRK is the driver for ir keyboards. Specifically, I found one that works for Belkin Universal keyboard using IRK-j or something on the SHARP 3.10 and 3.13 rom. Now I am HAPPILY(!:D) running hentges rom on my Z5500 and hopes to have the Belking keyboard running as well ..
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I have an external irda keyboard also - it's around somewhere...maybe I'll get it out and dust it off and try it if you get yours working. Forget what kind it is, but it works with the Sharp ROM.
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Hi all
You can find a new Hentges ROM RC here: http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/ (http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/)
Collie: Now ships with the new "r21" kernel, fixing all suspend/resume bugs
Poodle:
Akita: This is the long awaited updated Akita image. It fixes most bugs of the OZ 3.5.3 Akita snapshot.
Please test!
Happy flashing
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CoreDump,
I want to thank you again for all your hard work. This ROM is awesome.
I have a few dumb questions (because I am not a developer or programmer...just an "enduser").
First, every time I've flashed a Hentges ROM, I wind up with a very tiny amount of internal memory according to system info. Like right now I think I have around 700kb available. Why is that? How can I free more or do I NEED to free more? Everything seems to run fine.
Second, I chose (on a whim) to say "yes" to make the sd card "home" or...something. :-) What does that do for me....is this for improved performance or what?
Also, I noticed I now have card1, card2, etc. which look like that may be partitions of some kind. Are these of any use? What can I do with them? (You are communicating with a pretty clueless person here, you understand.)
Lastly, thanks for allowing the boot to just "roll on" without an input as to which boot you want (1,2,3, etc.)...makes for an easier reboot. But what can I do with those other "boots"..like can I put pdaXrom or GPE as an alternate boot? Or what use can I make of these alternate choices now? If I have problems getting into OZ, will one of the other boot choices help me?
And why isn't Hentges ROM listed as a subforum on this board?
Thanks for any insight.
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ok, me no CoreDump, but some of the questions can be answered thus ...
AFAIK, if you want more memory, use 64-0 and install to cardfs to SD (or CF) and you should have plenty to spare. By internal memory, I assume you refer to running memory, ie, memory that can be used to run apps and not internal storage that is made from the same memory pool used by running memory... .
Making /home on SD card allows you to preserve much of your settings and apps from a hard reset. Upon reinstallation, just restore links to SD card and your Z will be back where it was.
the card1, card2 etc are really just mount points. They are (I think) directories and you can mount additional partitions onto them.
As to why Hentges is not having a subforum of its own ...
CoreDump,
I want to thank you again for all your hard work. This ROM is awesome.
I have a few dumb questions (because I am not a developer or programmer...just an "enduser").
First, every time I've flashed a Hentges ROM, I wind up with a very tiny amount of internal memory according to system info. Like right now I think I have around 700kb available. Why is that? How can I free more or do I NEED to free more? Everything seems to run fine.
Second, I chose (on a whim) to say "yes" to make the sd card "home" or...something. :-) What does that do for me....is this for improved performance or what?
Also, I noticed I now have card1, card2, etc. which look like that may be partitions of some kind. Are these of any use? What can I do with them? (You are communicating with a pretty clueless person here, you understand.)
Lastly, thanks for allowing the boot to just "roll on" without an input as to which boot you want (1,2,3, etc.)...makes for an easier reboot. But what can I do with those other "boots"..like can I put pdaXrom or GPE as an alternate boot? Or what use can I make of these alternate choices now? If I have problems getting into OZ, will one of the other boot choices help me?
And why isn't Hentges ROM listed as a subforum on this board?
Thanks for any insight.
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ok, me no CoreDump, but some of the questions can be answered thus ...
AFAIK, if you want more memory, use 64-0 and install to cardfs to SD (or CF) and you should have plenty to spare. By internal memory, I assume you refer to running memory, ie, memory that can be used to run apps and not internal storage that is made from the same memory pool used by running memory... .
Making /home on SD card allows you to preserve much of your settings and apps from a hard reset. Upon reinstallation, just restore links to SD card and your Z will be back where it was.
the card1, card2 etc are really just mount points. They are (I think) directories and you can mount additional partitions onto them.
As to why Hentges is not having a subforum of its own ...
CoreDump,
I want to thank you again for all your hard work. This ROM is awesome.
I have a few dumb questions (because I am not a developer or programmer...just an "enduser").
First, every time I've flashed a Hentges ROM, I wind up with a very tiny amount of internal memory according to system info. Like right now I think I have around 700kb available. Why is that? How can I free more or do I NEED to free more? Everything seems to run fine.
Second, I chose (on a whim) to say "yes" to make the sd card "home" or...something. :-) What does that do for me....is this for improved performance or what?
Also, I noticed I now have card1, card2, etc. which look like that may be partitions of some kind. Are these of any use? What can I do with them? (You are communicating with a pretty clueless person here, you understand.)
Lastly, thanks for allowing the boot to just "roll on" without an input as to which boot you want (1,2,3, etc.)...makes for an easier reboot. But what can I do with those other "boots"..like can I put pdaXrom or GPE as an alternate boot? Or what use can I make of these alternate choices now? If I have problems getting into OZ, will one of the other boot choices help me?
And why isn't Hentges ROM listed as a subforum on this board?
Thanks for any insight.
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Thanks, Snappy.
You answered most of what I wanted to know. Glad to hear that choosing to put home on my sd card is a GOOD THING.
I guess all these different "memories" confuse me...it's sorta like Microsoft with their Outlook, Outlook Express, Explore, Explorer, Microsoft Explorer...anyway, I have:
At the very top in System info storage tab:
Internal Storage / dev/root Used (13732 kb) Available (732 kb)
Internal Memory (media/ram) Used (1245 kb) available (22552 kb)
Sd card (/media/card) Used (110309 kb) Available (130836 KB)
Sd card (home/root) Used (110309 kb) Available (241145 kb)
I seem to recall that when I had used the 64-0 flash that I STILL had very little /dev/root space available. Is this a bad situation or does it not matter?
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CoreDump,
I want to thank you again for all your hard work. This ROM is awesome.
I have a few dumb questions (because I am not a developer or programmer...just an "enduser").
First, every time I've flashed a Hentges ROM, I wind up with a very tiny amount of internal memory according to system info. Like right now I think I have around 700kb available. Why is that? How can I free more or do I NEED to free more? Everything seems to run fine.
The internal flash (which is mounted as /) is very small on Collie, only ~15Mb. The base Hentges initrd.bin ships leaves only about 700 to 900k of free space. But: that shouldn't be a problem.
Just install all your applications to SD and everything is fine
Second, I chose (on a whim) to say "yes" to make the sd card "home" or...something. :-) What does that do for me....is this for improved performance or what?
As answered by Snappy, it "moves" your /home/root folder to the SD card. This way you keep
all preferences and settings even after flashing another image.
If you upgrade to a newer Hentges image, the folder on SD will be detected and automatically be used as /home/root again without the need for you to do anything but type "ok"
Also, I noticed I now have card1, card2, etc. which look like that may be partitions of some kind. Are these of any use? What can I do with them? (You are communicating with a pretty clueless person here, you understand.)
This is actually a bug in the current SD auto-mounter (/etc/sdcontrol). card1, card2 etc are not supposed to show up until you insert a SD card with more than one partition. Only a larger scale rewrite
would fix this bug. Time better spend on something else IMO Maybe one day I'll sit down and do it.
Lastly, thanks for allowing the boot to just "roll on" without an input as to which boot you want (1,2,3, etc.)...makes for an easier reboot. But what can I do with those other "boots"..like can I put pdaXrom or GPE as an alternate boot? Or what use can I make of these alternate choices now? If I have problems getting into OZ, will one of the other boot choices help me?
Since you can not boot another kernel than the one you've flashed during installation (zImage) you can not boot an OS which depends on a different kernel. pdaXrom will not work (I tried and failed).
You can however:
- Boot GPE or Opie
- Boot developer snappshots of either one (only interesting for devs)
- Boot any kernel-compatible OS
You can do so from SD, CF and NFS.
(Non-Hentges users: check out http://handhelds.org/scap/port.28585.png (http://handhelds.org/scap/port.28585.png) if you don't know what we are talking about.)
In case you've messed up Opie or installed some mean app which causes your Z to freeze while booting (ie: going through INIT) you can (if you know how) fix your Z manually by booting into init=/bin/sh.
And why isn't Hentges ROM listed as a subforum on this board?
I don't think the userbase is large enough to justify a subforum. It's basically OpenZaurus + tweaks, not a fork.
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Thanks, Snappy.
You answered most of what I wanted to know. Glad to hear that choosing to put home on my sd card is a GOOD THING.
I guess all these different "memories" confuse me...it's sorta like Microsoft with their Outlook, Outlook Express, Explore, Explorer, Microsoft Explorer...anyway, I have:
At the very top in System info storage tab:
Internal Storage / dev/root Used (13732 kb) Available (732 kb)
Internal Memory (media/ram) Used (1245 kb) available (22552 kb)
Sd card (/media/card) Used (110309 kb) Available (130836 KB)
Sd card (home/root) Used (110309 kb) Available (241145 kb)
I seem to recall that when I had used the 64-0 flash that I STILL had very little /dev/root space available. Is this a bad situation or does it not matter?
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It's actually quite easy once you "get" it
Collie ships with 16MB of flash storage only usable for storing stuff.
It then has 64MB of RAM (RAM is in RAM in any normal PC)
Parts of the 64MB of RAM can be used for additional storage.
A 32/32 kernel would give you 32MB of additional storage but leaves you with only
32MB of RAM.
With 40/24 you get 24MB of additional storage and have 40MB of RAM left.
Since most folks now own CF and/or SD cards it doesn't make any sense at all to use RAM for storage.
Most folks should flash the 64/0 kernel, but that's just my opinion
I hope that cleared thing up.
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About the internal memory thingie, its kinda like the way memory is shared between storage and for running apps in wince. (Woaa) ....
In wince (think SIMpad SL4 running hpc2000 or ce.net), this allocation can be managed (altered) dynamically on runtime through the system settings in control panel. On some devices, like the Jornada 680, you cannot allocate more than 16MB for storage out of the 32MB RAM onboard.
In the case of OZ, this allocation is static, ie defined in code within the kernel. I used to think of the dynamic allocation in wince as moot, but now I think it does has its benefits.
Wonder if there is ever a chance to have Execute-In-Place capability? I think Palm allows EIP (or whatever its called), meaning that ROM code can be run directly without having it reside in DRAM. Of cos it means that it prob would be slower, but it means that there is no need to store two sets of code. Or is it the case right now for OZ?
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CoreDump,
I want to thank you again for all your hard work. This ROM is awesome.
And CoreDump, I fully echo Tomb's words! Great work!!
On that note, I am hoping to contribute with a bit of coding. Unfortunately, the base machine I use is running XP ... and as its for common use, I cannot just put linux on it, or dual boot. I am trying out colinux, but its mounting of existing partitions is really tricky ...
I installed cygwin before to code for Palm using PRCTools ... should be ok to code for OZ using cygwin right? Can you point me to some links? Thx!
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CoreDump,
I want to thank you again for all your hard work. This ROM is awesome.
And CoreDump, I fully echo Tomb's words! Great work!!
On that note, I am hoping to contribute with a bit of coding. Unfortunately, the base machine I use is running XP ... and as its for common use, I cannot just put linux on it, or dual boot. I am trying out colinux, but its mounting of existing partitions is really tricky ...
I installed cygwin before to code for Palm using PRCTools ... should be ok to code for OZ using cygwin right? Can you point me to some links? Thx!
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openembedded.org has all documents needed to get started. I highly doubt that it will work on cgywin though
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Thanks! I'll look into it and see if colinux works out ... ... or can I code in Z itself? With a belkin universal keyboard of cos!
SL5500 + Buffalo CF WLAN + SanDisk 256MB SD
OZ 3.5.4pre / Opie 1.2.0 -> hentges.net
SL-C1000
OZ 3.5.4pre / Opie 1.2.0
3.5.4pre!! ... oooh
EDIT: Hmmm ... actually, I was referring more to writing apps to run on OZ, than coding for OZ itself. I think I'll start small with the apps first ... is that link still where I should head to?
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didnt see it reported so:
Hi,
I just installed the current cardfs of Hentges website. seems to work fine of the SD. I followed the procedure to install SanDisk ConnectPlus.
1. Installed http://www.bentzon.net/acb/sandisk-files/h....3.7-r0_arm.ipk (http://www.bentzon.net/acb/sandisk-files/hostap-utils_0.3.7-r0_arm.ipk)
2. Put pm010101.hex and rf010704.hex at /etc/pcmcia/firmware
3. put the script at /etc/pcmcia/conf_cp128
4. edit the /etc/pcmcia/network script and add the relevent lines
the green light blinks but - doesn't light up
This used to work on 3.5.3
Any clues?
Niv
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didnt see it reported so:
Hi,
I just installed the current cardfs of Hentges website. seems to work fine of the SD. I followed the procedure to install SanDisk ConnectPlus.
1. Installed http://www.bentzon.net/acb/sandisk-files/h....3.7-r0_arm.ipk (http://www.bentzon.net/acb/sandisk-files/hostap-utils_0.3.7-r0_arm.ipk)
2. Put pm010101.hex and rf010704.hex at /etc/pcmcia/firmware
3. put the script at /etc/pcmcia/conf_cp128
4. edit the /etc/pcmcia/network script and add the relevent lines
the green light blinks but - doesn't light up
This used to work on 3.5.3
Any clues?
Niv
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isn't it easier to ipkg install prism3-support? That way you avoid using 3rd party stuff.
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has anyone noticed a small problem with gaim on this release... gaim launches fine and everything, it's when I try to /msg nickerv or /join channel I get an error each time:
NickServ: (notice) This nickname is owned by someone else
NickServ: (notice) If this is your nickname, type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY
offroadgeek: /join #zaurus
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/join]
offroadgeek: /msg nickserv identify
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/msg]
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didnt see it reported so:
Hi,
I just installed the current cardfs of Hentges website. seems to work fine of the SD. I followed the procedure to install SanDisk ConnectPlus.
1. Installed http://www.bentzon.net/acb/sandisk-files/h....3.7-r0_arm.ipk (http://www.bentzon.net/acb/sandisk-files/hostap-utils_0.3.7-r0_arm.ipk)
2. Put pm010101.hex and rf010704.hex at /etc/pcmcia/firmware
3. put the script at /etc/pcmcia/conf_cp128
4. edit the /etc/pcmcia/network script and add the relevent lines
the green light blinks but - doesn't light up
This used to work on 3.5.3
Any clues?
Niv
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niv:
I'm pretty much Ms. Clueless but I have been able each time to get the ConnectPlus card working by installing these ipks, which I place somewhere on my sd card:
hostap-utils_0.3.7-r0_arm.ipk
prism3-firmware_1.8.3-r2_arm.ipk
prism3-support_1.0.0-r0_arm.ipk
I've never had to modify any files at all. Just the installation of those 3 ipks and I have good connection. Now I do NOT have the use of the memory card part of it, but since I only paid $20 for it and it's tinier than my Belkin card and doesn't block the stylus, I'm happy.
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has anyone noticed a small problem with gaim on this release... gaim launches fine and everything, it's when I try to /msg nickerv or /join channel I get an error each time:
NickServ: (notice) This nickname is owned by someone else
NickServ: (notice) If this is your nickname, type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY
offroadgeek: /join #zaurus
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/join]
offroadgeek: /msg nickserv identify
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/msg][div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=91700\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
well ... asaik, I have not managed to get gaim to work on any protocol at all ... ... and found no answers so far.
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has anyone noticed a small problem with gaim on this release... gaim launches fine and everything, it's when I try to /msg nickerv or /join channel I get an error each time:
NickServ: (notice) This nickname is owned by someone else
NickServ: (notice) If this is your nickname, type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY
offroadgeek: /join #zaurus
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/join]
offroadgeek: /msg nickserv identify
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/msg][div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=91700\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
well ... asaik, I have not managed to get gaim to work on any protocol at all ... ... and found no answers so far.
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Have you installed the correct protocol handlers? I'm happily using irc and jabber with gaim. The only difference might be that I'm regular gaim, not the qtopia thingie
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has anyone noticed a small problem with gaim on this release... gaim launches fine and everything, it's when I try to /msg nickerv or /join channel I get an error each time:
NickServ: (notice) This nickname is owned by someone else
NickServ: (notice) If this is your nickname, type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY
offroadgeek: /join #zaurus
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/join]
offroadgeek: /msg nickserv identify
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/msg][div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=91700\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
well ... asaik, I have not managed to get gaim to work on any protocol at all ... ... and found no answers so far.
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Have you installed the correct protocol handlers? I'm happily using irc and jabber with gaim. The only difference might be that I'm regular gaim, not the qtopia thingie
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koen, you gave me faith to retry my attempts at gaim! ... I am using the default installed from cardfs in the latest hentges rom with oz3.5.3 under opie.
I'll uninstall and reinstall from the feed and retry.
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Thanks Snappy,
I've updated the wiki to reflect that.
Niv
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I re-Dl'd twicw and formatted 3 times so far and all with the same results
What is the size of your CF-card? Some users have problems with large cards and some CF-cards just won’t flash properly… can you try another card?
CF/SD fdisk/formatting just in case you need it:
https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-b...ing_for_newbies (https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-by-step_CF/SD_fdisk/formatting_for_newbies)
The md5sum of the initrd.bin is in the T3.tar.gz (please check that)
Greg
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well same thing, I can use the older versions just fine but not this one, not sure at this point but I as much as I hate to say it microsoft and PPC has been better than any of this.
thanks for your help. I'm done for tonight but might try again later in the week.
Hydro
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I wanted to update my progress and hopefully save people from the same hassles, what was happening is Izarc was not extracting the initrd correctly. Got it all working this morning and its great. Thanks for the help and the great software. Now I will hide in a corner somewhere and beat the stupidity out of myself.
Hydro
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I wanted to update my progress and hopefully save people from the same hassles, what was happening is Izarc was not extracting the initrd correctly. Got it all working this morning and its great. Thanks for the help and the great software. Now I will hide in a corner somewhere and beat the stupidity out of myself.
I'm happy you've made it work. Don't beat yourself up too bad... Windoze with it's many archiving tools can screw things up.
Greg
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Thanks Snappy,
I've updated the wiki to reflect that.
Niv
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Gee Niv, which entry are you referring to? ... in any case, you are welcome! hehe
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CoreDump or anyone else that might know,
I loaded up the latest Hentges Poodle version and it seems to work nicely - I especially like the expansion of the task bar with all the other apps running. Good job.
But before going farther, the configuration that I want is:
1. boot-image on SD (losetup, etc).
2. home in the boot-image OR load cardfs to /
I successfully got the Hentges image into the boot-image with no trouble, but in trying to load cardfs, I got the option of: cf, card or /home/. The problem with home of course is that it is back on the internal flash.
Is it practical to move home onto the SD ext image?
I haven't seen anyone post that they were doing this directly - i.e. without making the SD card itself formated as ext and putting it there which is obviously easy.
(The reason for this is to have multiple boot images on my 1GB card which I can back up easily also simply by copying the whole file. BTW - for what it is worth, I have had no issues with SD problems of the file system etc. And the standard OZ 3.5.3 distribution works "ok" - except for the suspend/restore issue and wifi issues).
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But before going farther, the configuration that I want is:
1. boot-image on SD (losetup, etc).
2. home in the boot-image OR load cardfs to /
There's not enough space to load the cardfs to /
I successfully got the Hentges image into the boot-image with no trouble, but in trying to load cardfs, I got the option of: cf, card or /home/. The problem with home of course is that it is back on the internal flash.
Why is that a problem? With the poodle set up this way you can boot anything you want off the SD-card... or remove it and still have a system that works. With the ability to do this you can change one or all of the multiple boot images on your SD-card you want... imho it's a nice feature for testing other images.
Greg
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But before going farther, the configuration that I want is:
1. boot-image on SD (losetup, etc).
2. home in the boot-image OR load cardfs to /
There's not enough space to load the cardfs to /
I successfully got the Hentges image into the boot-image with no trouble, but in trying to load cardfs, I got the option of: cf, card or /home/. The problem with home of course is that it is back on the internal flash.
Why is that a problem? With the poodle set up this way you can boot anything you want off the SD-card... or remove it and still have a system that works. With the ability to do this you can change one or all of the multiple boot images on your SD-card you want... imho it's a nice feature for testing other images.
Greg
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I guess I didn't mention that / would be on the image too - like standard "root on SD"
Yes Greg - swapping out images without the cardfs is a very legitmate way to use it of course - but I am looking to swap "entire" images - and even more importantly back them up.
An even more optimal situation, in some cases, would be to mount the "/home/" and/or "/" in another "ext image" file. This would allow easy swapout of any of the three in testing.
I am not really concerned about that though - unless it would make upgrading from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4, for example, easier.
If I am still not making myself clear, the desire after booting (with altboot) is to be running entirely off the image(s) on the SD card except for tempfs, etc and real RAM, of course. This would allow me on a daily basis, for example, to pop out the SD card, back up the image to a CD/DVD RW, and put it back in. So I have EVERYTHING backed up - like I would do with Acronis on my laptop. So if my SD card did fry, just copy the backup image onto a new one, plop it in and proceed. I have saved myself on my laptop(s) twice this way when hard drives died.
If I am missing something here - please correct me.
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Is it practical to move home onto the SD ext image?
I see what you want... and I believe it's possible. You will have to take a look at the script and try to modify it accordingly.
Let us know how it works out.
Greg
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CoreDump,
Can I verify if lirc and lirc-modules are installed and configured by default for hentges rom oz3.5.3? I installed the hentges rom with kernel 64-0 and has not succeeded in getting irk installed as it fails on dependency due to lirc and lirc-modules.
Attempts to install lirc and lirc-modules fail with status 1 and I am stuck.
Other users seem to have both lirc and lirc-modules installed by default and I would be happy to reflash my Z5500 (for the 8th time) with the rom that comes with it installed.
Thanks for your time and any advise / suggestions.
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CoreDump,
Can I verify if lirc and lirc-modules are installed and configured by default for hentges rom oz3.5.3? I installed the hentges rom with kernel 64-0 and has not succeeded in getting irk installed as it fails on dependency due to lirc and lirc-modules.
Attempts to install lirc and lirc-modules fail with status 1 and I am stuck.
Other users seem to have both lirc and lirc-modules installed by default and I would be happy to reflash my Z5500 (for the 8th time) with the rom that comes with it installed.
Thanks for your time and any advise / suggestions.
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Hmm I don't remember including lirc stuff, I'll have a look.
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CoreDump,
Can I verify if lirc and lirc-modules are installed and configured by default for hentges rom oz3.5.3? I installed the hentges rom with kernel 64-0 and has not succeeded in getting irk installed as it fails on dependency due to lirc and lirc-modules.
Attempts to install lirc and lirc-modules fail with status 1 and I am stuck.
Other users seem to have both lirc and lirc-modules installed by default and I would be happy to reflash my Z5500 (for the 8th time) with the rom that comes with it installed.
Thanks for your time and any advise / suggestions.
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Hmm I don't remember including lirc stuff, I'll have a look.
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Thanks CoreDump, look forward to your findings. ... also, if its not included by default, can you advise me on how they can be installed? A lirc config file and a /lirc node or something seem to be missing and the lirc, lirc-modules ipks just refuse to install as a result ...
Thanks!
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I forgot to mention an apparent curiousity - wondering if anyone else saw it. I have been trying out different scripts for moving all to the SD and noticed that when flashing the ROM initially, as it is doing the first configuration, just after the configure local "de" it gets a "memory exhausted" error. Then it carries on with the next locale - and apparently works. I didn't even notice it for a while because it is rather difficult to read the boot screen at my age.
Has anyone else seen this?
Is it a problem?
(Note that this is just flashing the Hentges Poodle image before I have made any changes later).
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CoreDump, any chance of having lirc, lirc-modules and irk ipkgs installed by default for next release of Hentges rom?
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Whilst we're at it, I'm trying to debug why a PCMCIA card won't be recognised by my collie (CF->PCMCIA adapter).
Can you point me to/include some utilities to help debugging in the next release. I think there should be a tool called "dump_cis" and "pack_cis" as well as others, but I'm a linux newbie so would appreciate some help.
Thanks.
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CoreDump, any chance of having lirc, lirc-modules and irk ipkgs installed by default for next release of Hentges rom?
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I'll see what I can do. Note that I do not own one of these fance IR keyboards, so there's no way to test.
+mhentges@oe-akita-head:..mbedded/packages/hentges >grep -Hirn lirc .
+mhentges@oe-akita-head:..mbedded/packages/hentges >
Or in other words: no lirc package is installed in the default ROM.
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CoreDump, any chance of having lirc, lirc-modules and irk ipkgs installed by default for next release of Hentges rom?
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I'll see what I can do. Note that I do not own one of these fance IR keyboards, so there's no way to test.
+mhentges@oe-akita-head:..mbedded/packages/hentges >grep -Hirn lirc .
+mhentges@oe-akita-head:..mbedded/packages/hentges >
Or in other words: no lirc package is installed in the default ROM.
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Hi CoreDump, thanks for considering it. Appreciate your help with it.
On the brightside, at least now I know it was not just me or my Z that is confused about lirc packages being installed.
hmmm ... wonder how those guys got their irk to work without lirc being installed!
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Is it practical to move home onto the SD ext image?
I see what you want... and I believe it's possible. You will have to take a look at the script and try to modify it accordingly.
Let us know how it works out.
Greg
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BTW, this worked fine. Just had to alter a few scripts. I haven't published a "cookbook" yet because I am back to just testing Hentges on the internal FLASH (no SD involved) because I am trying to get my Socket WLAN to work (with something besides Wellenreiter). And also trying to just test stability before I commit to it.
MSCDEX in a separate thread said he fixed the problem I was having with the Socket wireless card by re-installing the orinoco and orinoco_cs modules from the feed. I tried that and it went downhill. I get an exception dump on adding the card. (Machine doesn't crash - but the card is not "recognized"). I think that is because Hentges image already has a "newer" version. I don't believe MSCDEX was running Hentges.
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MSCDEX in a separate thread said he fixed the problem I was having with the Socket wireless card by re-installing the orinoco and orinoco_cs modules from the feed. I tried that and it went downhill. I get an exception dump on adding the card. (Machine doesn't crash - but the card is not "recognized"). I think that is because Hentges image already has a "newer" version. I don't believe MSCDEX was running Hentges.
I believe the Hentges image would have had the latest version available at the build date.
Sorry, but I can't help with this because I don't have a Socket wireless card.
Greg
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Just me, or can't xmms play mp3 stream ?
It doesn't play the default station,
It doen't play other stations
It doesn't remember my stations
While on the subject: how about adding VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-zaurus.html) ?
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nice new hentges rom at all. but there are some problemes on my Z 5500(hetges 3.5.3 T3):
- z hangs at opie startup if asus-wlan-device is plugged in, perhaps i messed the system 0:)
- opie-today doesn't show the todolist or the plugin... i have reinstalled it, linked with ipkg-link... but the problem still exists... is this a hentges-rom-related problem??
thx for some infos
greets tobi
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tobi,
I was having the same issue with the opie-today-todolist plugin. I used ipkg-link to link it and it started working. Maybe the same will help you out.
ipkg-link add opie-today-todolistplugin
Good luck,
Jeremy
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I'm missing some kernel modules like pegasus.o
Is it possible for me to get all kernel modules with running kernel 2.4.20 (hentges rom) for akita , latest T3 ..
I tried using the "big" kernel "with all modules" from someone in this forum, but having some problem updating the kernel because it was for C3000.
I can't even update it... unsupported device error..
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Sorry if this is a silly question, but: I take it there's no such thing as a 64-0 arrangement for a poodle, since the poodle doesn't have 64MB of RAM.
I'm having some issues with Pocketworkstation (Vncserver/Fbvnc, not X/Qt) that suggest a free RAM issue (all calls to dpkg fail) and I want to clear as much as possible.
Will the Hentges ROM help me start with more free RAM than, say, the stock 5600 ROM?
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I recently decided to come back to OZ after a long period of not using my SL-5500 (previously using a modified TKr because OZ was too annoying with the suspend issues) and to try Hentges again...
I downloaded the latest version from hentges.net:
I can install it fine... (well no error messages on install anyway) but when I come to boot Opie, just before Opie starts I get the error:
31: Cannot create /home/root/systeminfo/
linkver: Input/Output Error
You seem to already have a /home/root/Applications directory assuming it is the Opie applications directory
Then Opie loads and some applications don't work. (if run from terminal, some say libraries could not be found..e.g GAIM, MPlayer)
If you try and load TinyKATE, it says "Could not locate application Tinykate". Other apps such as VNC Viewer and Wellenteiter load fine..
I have tried reflashing a few times, and also downloading the files again, but I keep getting this same problem, so I figure I'm going wrong somewhere?
Any suggestions?
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I recently decided to come back to OZ after a long period of not using my SL-5500 (previously using a modified TKr because OZ was too annoying with the suspend issues) and to try Hentges again...
I downloaded the latest version from hentges.net:
I can install it fine... (well no error messages on install anyway) but when I come to boot Opie, just before Opie starts I get the error:
31: Cannot create /home/root/systeminfo/
linkver: Input/Output Error
You seem to already have a /home/root/Applications directory assuming it is the Opie applications directory
Grimmy,
While I have not directly encountered this error message on the Zaurus, I have been knocking around Linux for several years. Generally, in my experience, an Input/Output error is usually indicative of some sort of drive/media error. On a desktop/laptop machine, I have usually seen it in conjunction with the OS trying to read bad sectors on the hard drive.
Is it possible that your media (I'm assuming here that /home/root is on removable media, SD or CF card) could have problems? Do you have another card that you can try?
Regards,
--Storm
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Is it possible that your media (I'm assuming here that /home/root is on removable media, SD or CF card) could have problems? Do you have another card that you can try?
I forgot to mention i'd tried 2 different SD Cards. (The root is indeed on SD)
I'll try installing to a CF and not moving root to SD.
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Does anyone know if it is possible to use the CardFS image with the new 3.5.4 RC?
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'cardfs' contain 3.5.3 stuff and should work