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Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 10, 2007, 01:47:40 am
Just got my new C3200 and I clicked on 'reboot' in the Qtopia menu, & now it's in Japanese. How do I fix this back to English? I haven't got a backup. I am using Sharp ROM that came with the Z.
 
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Snake on May 10, 2007, 02:06:03 am
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Just got my new C3200 and I clicked on 'reboot' in the Qtopia menu, & now it's in Japanese. How do I fix this back to English? I haven't got a backup. I am using Sharp ROM that came with the Z.
 
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Look at /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf what Language is set. If not en try to change to en and reboot again.

Regards,
Frank
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 10, 2007, 02:26:14 am
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Just got my new C3200 and I clicked on 'reboot' in the Qtopia menu, & now it's in Japanese. How do I fix this back to English? I haven't got a backup. I am using Sharp ROM that came with the Z.
 
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Look at /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf what Language is set. If not en try to change to en and reboot again.

Regards,
Frank
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Apologies, I don't know Linux so I don't know how to get into that path. I am surprisded I could mess it up by selecting something like reboot in the menu...

Is there a locale.conf icon I should be looking for in settings tab?

Regards,
Zauri

Ps. I look forward to getting Cacko on here sometime soon.
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: sdjf on May 10, 2007, 02:45:46 am
Do you have a console installed?  If you do not, there should be one on the CD that comes with Sharp ROMs, if Sharp included them the same as on the sl5500.  If you do, then to look at that file, type:

more /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

And look at the Language listed.  On my early Sharp ROM, the language is not set, so I don't know the syntax to guide you.  For orientation to Linux in general, you might check out the resources on my newbies page http://www.sdjf.esmartdesign.com/new.html (http://www.sdjf.esmartdesign.com/new.html) for some simple command-line resources.

I am sorry you had to end up with this problem so early, and hope you can resolve it without too much difficulty.

Also type:

 cat /proc/deviceinfo/locale

My Z shows "US" on the above, although the locale.conf file has no language info

Post your results and hang in there!

sdjf
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 10, 2007, 02:51:48 am
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Do you have a console installed?  If you do not, there should be one on the CD that comes with Sharp ROMs, if Sharp included them the same as on the sl5500.  If you do, then to look at that file, type:

more /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

And look at the Language listed.  On my early Sharp ROM, the language is not set, so I don't know the syntax to guide you.  For orientation to Linux in general, you might check out the resources on my newbies page http://www.sdjf.esmartdesign.com/new.html (http://www.sdjf.esmartdesign.com/new.html) for some simple command-line resources.

I am sorry you had to end up with this problem so early, and hope you can resolve it without too much difficulty.

Also type:

 cat /proc/deviceinfo/locale

My Z shows "US" on the above, although the locale.conf file has no language info

Post your results and hang in there!

sdjf
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CD's are in Japanese for C3200. I don't know where to find a console in it. I thought I had one up on the screen before I messed it up, but I can't remember the icon.

Zauri
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: sdjf on May 10, 2007, 02:59:17 am
It should look like a television screen, maybe in black?  They usually do.

sdjf
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 10, 2007, 03:10:09 am
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It should look like a television screen, maybe in black?  They usually do.

sdjf
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I managed to download and install a terminal. I typed in those commands for locale.conf & it says 'Language = ja'
How do I change it to en?
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: sdjf on May 10, 2007, 03:16:38 am
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It should look like a television screen, maybe in black? They usually do.

sdjf
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I managed to download and install a terminal. I typed in those commands for locale.conf & it says 'Language = ja'
How do I change it to en?
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First, make a backup of the file so you can retrieve it if editing goes whacky:

cp -p /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf.bak

I'd like you to look at the LearnUnixIn10Minutes article on my newbie page because I can't teach you all of vi here.  I'm running out of lines, so will try to give commands in a second post, but please get that article.

back in a second,
sdjf
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 10, 2007, 03:26:30 am
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It should look like a television screen, maybe in black? They usually do.

sdjf
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I managed to download and install a terminal. I typed in those commands for locale.conf & it says 'Language = ja'
How do I change it to en?
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First, make a backup of the file so you can retrieve it if editing goes whacky:

cp -p /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf.bak

I'd like you to look at the LearnUnixIn10Minutes article on my newbie page because I can't teach you all of vi here.  I'm running out of lines, so will try to give commands in a second post, but please get that article.

back in a second,
sdjf
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My battery has gone flat so I'll follow your instructions after I get some power back. Thanks for all your help sdjf & snake
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: sdjf on May 10, 2007, 03:28:21 am
Okay, someone else will have to tell you the best method to reboot or reset after the editing as our Zaurii are different and I don't want to give wrong advice.  But here goes for the editing.

Of course, it also may be easier if someone else with a 3200 would give you their file, but here's what I can try to explain for vi.  Put the file into vi with the following line, and then move your cursor inside the file to the same line that language is on:

vi  /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

Then type a colon followed by what I've typed below and hit enter or return.  You should see the change appear on that line.

:s/jp/en/

and then save the file with a "wq" to write and quit:

:wq

And that's it.  I don't think it will take effect until you restart the system but someone else had better tell you how to do that.  And I'm not sure it's the only place to make a change, but we need 3200 owners to confirm that.

You can also check your new file with the original command you used to display it.

sdjf
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 10, 2007, 05:50:39 am
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Okay, someone else will have to tell you the best method to reboot or reset after the editing as our Zaurii are different and I don't want to give wrong advice.  But here goes for the editing.

Of course, it also may be easier if someone else with a 3200 would give you their file, but here's what I can try to explain for vi.  Put the file into vi with the following line, and then move your cursor inside the file to the same line that language is on:

vi  /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

Then type a colon followed by what I've typed below and hit enter or return.  You should see the change appear on that line.

:s/jp/en/

and then save the file with a "wq" to write and quit:

:wq

And that's it.  I don't think it will take effect until you restart the system but someone else had better tell you how to do that.  And I'm not sure it's the only place to make a change, but we need 3200 owners to confirm that.

You can also check your new file with the original command you used to display it.

sdjf
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Nope, for some reason it didn't work. I still hope I can upgrade to Cacko and get out of this situation. And I hope Cacko has that audible text reader in it too  Here's a hoping newbie.
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Meanie on May 10, 2007, 06:17:10 am
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Okay, someone else will have to tell you the best method to reboot or reset after the editing as our Zaurii are different and I don't want to give wrong advice.  But here goes for the editing.

Of course, it also may be easier if someone else with a 3200 would give you their file, but here's what I can try to explain for vi.  Put the file into vi with the following line, and then move your cursor inside the file to the same line that language is on:

vi  /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

Then type a colon followed by what I've typed below and hit enter or return.  You should see the change appear on that line.

:s/jp/en/

and then save the file with a "wq" to write and quit:

:wq

And that's it.  I don't think it will take effect until you restart the system but someone else had better tell you how to do that.  And I'm not sure it's the only place to make a change, but we need 3200 owners to confirm that.

You can also check your new file with the original command you used to display it.

sdjf
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Nope, for some reason it didn't work. I still hope I can upgrade to Cacko and get out of this situation. And I hope Cacko has that audible text reader in it too  Here's a hoping newbie.
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you will lose that text to speech app if you install cacko!

for your current problem type the following in your terminl./console


cp /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf.bak

sed -e "s/ja/en/g" /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf.bak > /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

reboot


and once its fixed, make a backup of your nand
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 10, 2007, 06:39:23 am
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Okay, someone else will have to tell you the best method to reboot or reset after the editing as our Zaurii are different and I don't want to give wrong advice.  But here goes for the editing.

Of course, it also may be easier if someone else with a 3200 would give you their file, but here's what I can try to explain for vi.  Put the file into vi with the following line, and then move your cursor inside the file to the same line that language is on:

vi  /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

Then type a colon followed by what I've typed below and hit enter or return.  You should see the change appear on that line.

:s/jp/en/

and then save the file with a "wq" to write and quit:

:wq

And that's it.  I don't think it will take effect until you restart the system but someone else had better tell you how to do that.  And I'm not sure it's the only place to make a change, but we need 3200 owners to confirm that.

You can also check your new file with the original command you used to display it.

sdjf
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Nope, for some reason it didn't work. I still hope I can upgrade to Cacko and get out of this situation. And I hope Cacko has that audible text reader in it too  Here's a hoping newbie.
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you will lose that text to speech app if you install cacko!

for your current problem type the following in your terminl./console


cp /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf.bak

sed -e "s/ja/en/g" /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf.bak > /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

reboot


and once its fixed, make a backup of your nand
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And presto! Thanks meanie. It's all back to English. Now I don't have to learn Japanese. Thanks for all your help - much appreciated
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Meanie on May 10, 2007, 06:51:33 am
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And presto! Thanks meanie. It's all back to English. Now I don't have to learn Japanese. Thanks for all your help - much appreciated
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yeah, you can learn chinese instead. much more people speak it...

anyway, you should install pico so that when you have problems in the future, you cn use pico to edit files (similar to old DOS edit program) instead of vi....
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: speculatrix on May 10, 2007, 05:18:41 pm
just use the echo command thus

echo en > /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf


no editor required?!
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 10, 2007, 06:13:24 pm
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just use the echo command thus

echo en > /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf


no editor required?!
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Thanks speculatrix! It seems to be working ok now. I even am able to reboot & it comes back English, so it's edited now.
I have downloaded pico for the time when I am able to do some editting. I purchased the Z as my first Linux device so it will be a good learnig curve to acquire skills to be able to use a terminal screen. I am also planning on loading Opensuse onto my home PC, so this will also help my learning curve also.

Zauri
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: sdjf on May 10, 2007, 09:42:05 pm
Be careful with the echo command, folks.  The following would erase Everything Else in the file.

echo en >  locale.conf

To add a line instead, use ">>",  but be careful not to destroy the format of the info inside:

echo en >>  locale.conf

Meanie was right.  sed is a much better tool for this.  I was too tired to feel comfortable using it last night, especially since I hadn't seen the conf file on the 3200.  I'd be curious what it looks like, now that it's working.  Zauri, maybe post "cat /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf"?

sdjf
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 10, 2007, 10:17:32 pm
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Be careful with the echo command, folks.  The following would erase Everything Else in the file.

echo en >  locale.conf

To add a line instead, use ">>",  but be careful not to destroy the format of the info inside:

echo en >>  locale.conf

Meanie was right.  sed is a much better tool for this.  I was too tired to feel comfortable using it last night, especially since I hadn't seen the conf file on the 3200.  I'd be curious what it looks like, now that it's working.  Zauri, maybe post "cat /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf"?

sdjf
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I removed the terminal software today. I was using qpe terminal & found it very hard to read last night, when I was punching in commands. The text shows very small & I didn't know how to enlarge it. I am on the hunt for a better terminal program - suggestions & attachments welcome!

Zauri
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: sdjf on May 10, 2007, 10:50:11 pm
qpe-terminal has the word Font in the upper left-hand corner.  If you tap it, there is a dropdown menu with options Micro (tiny), Small Fixed (I use this, 47 characters per line, 34 lines), and "Medium Fixed" (40 chars per line, 18 lines per screen). (Version: 1.5.0-2)

Medium Fixed is quite easy to read.

I found the other consoles I tried way too complicated and they seemed to give me less data per screen.  They were cluttered up with fancy features I didn't want.  I don't recall which was which at this point, I just know qpe-terminal is nice and simple, at least for me.

sdjf
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 10, 2007, 11:09:27 pm
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qpe-terminal has the word Font in the upper left-hand corner.  If you tap it, there is a dropdown menu with options Micro (tiny), Small Fixed (I use this, 47 characters per line, 34 lines), and "Medium Fixed" (40 chars per line, 18 lines per screen). (Version: 1.5.0-2)

Medium Fixed is quite easy to read.

I found the other consoles I tried way too complicated and they seemed to give me less data per screen.  They were cluttered up with fancy features I didn't want.  I don't recall which was which at this point, I just know qpe-terminal is nice and simple, at least for me.

sdjf
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Thanks sdjf! I notice the font size option. Although still small, medium fixed is better than before. I punched in "cat /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf" and the lanuage is set on en so it looks like it's working the way it should be. I have also backed up my NAND.

Zauri
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: sdjf on May 11, 2007, 11:34:30 am
Another option, although slow, is to use a GUI browser to read files!  They all should give you the ability to fine-tune your display size.

If you have Opera, which version?  Don't have time now to explain how to increase font, and I don't know what browser(s) you have on board, but read the help menus for starters.

You could read that file in opera by typing in the address bar (if you can find it  ),

file://localhost/home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

assuming I didn't make any typo's.   If that doesn't work, I would try:

 file://home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

Same address should work in a different GUI browser if you use Netfront or whatever.

sdjf
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 11, 2007, 09:20:41 pm
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Another option, although slow, is to use a GUI browser to read files!  They all should give you the ability to fine-tune your display size.

If you have Opera, which version?  Don't have time now to explain how to increase font, and I don't know what browser(s) you have on board, but read the help menus for starters.

You could read that file in opera by typing in the address bar (if you can find it  ),

file://localhost/home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

assuming I didn't make any typo's.   If that doesn't work, I would try:

 file://home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

Same address should work in a different GUI browser if you use Netfront or whatever.

sdjf
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I downloaded Opera 7.3 for SL-5x00 but I couldn't get it to work on my Z. I do still have Netfront but that wouldn't allow me to open locale.conf .
Also, I downloaded a file, what I thought was pico, but I couldn't get it to install. I am still hunting around for a decent copy of that. I believe i could view the locale.conf file in that program.
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Meanie on May 11, 2007, 09:31:53 pm
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Another option, although slow, is to use a GUI browser to read files!  They all should give you the ability to fine-tune your display size.

If you have Opera, which version?  Don't have time now to explain how to increase font, and I don't know what browser(s) you have on board, but read the help menus for starters.

You could read that file in opera by typing in the address bar (if you can find it  ),

file://localhost/home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

assuming I didn't make any typo's.   If that doesn't work, I would try:

 file://home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

Same address should work in a different GUI browser if you use Netfront or whatever.

sdjf
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I downloaded Opera 7.3 for SL-5x00 but I couldn't get it to work on my Z. I do still have Netfront but that wouldn't allow me to open locale.conf .
Also, I downloaded a file, what I thought was pico, but I couldn't get it to install. I am still hunting around for a decent copy of that. I believe i could view the locale.conf file in that program.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=161116\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

the correct url syntax is


file:///mnt/card/somefile.html

note the 3 slashes instead of 1 or 2 as given in other samples...


btw pico can be found here as well as many other goodies

[a href=\"http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/feed/pico_4.4_arm.ipk]http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/feed/pico_4.4_arm.ipk[/url]
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Zauri on May 11, 2007, 11:36:11 pm
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Another option, although slow, is to use a GUI browser to read files!  They all should give you the ability to fine-tune your display size.

If you have Opera, which version?  Don't have time now to explain how to increase font, and I don't know what browser(s) you have on board, but read the help menus for starters.

You could read that file in opera by typing in the address bar (if you can find it  ),

file://localhost/home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

assuming I didn't make any typo's.   If that doesn't work, I would try:

 file://home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

Same address should work in a different GUI browser if you use Netfront or whatever.

sdjf
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=161074\")

I downloaded Opera 7.3 for SL-5x00 but I couldn't get it to work on my Z. I do still have Netfront but that wouldn't allow me to open locale.conf .
Also, I downloaded a file, what I thought was pico, but I couldn't get it to install. I am still hunting around for a decent copy of that. I believe i could view the locale.conf file in that program.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=161116\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

the correct url syntax is


file:///mnt/card/somefile.html

note the 3 slashes instead of 1 or 2 as given in other samples...


btw pico can be found here as well as many other goodies

[a href=\"http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/feed/pico_4.4_arm.ipk]http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/feed/pico_4.4_arm.ipk[/url]
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Thanks for the link for pico but, when I run the install it says "This package seems to depends on other packages. Please install them, too."
What do i need installed?
Title: What Have I Done? - Clicked 'reboot' Now Japanese!
Post by: Meanie on May 12, 2007, 02:08:26 am
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Another option, although slow, is to use a GUI browser to read files!  They all should give you the ability to fine-tune your display size.

If you have Opera, which version?  Don't have time now to explain how to increase font, and I don't know what browser(s) you have on board, but read the help menus for starters.

You could read that file in opera by typing in the address bar (if you can find it  ),

file://localhost/home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

assuming I didn't make any typo's.   If that doesn't work, I would try:

 file://home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

Same address should work in a different GUI browser if you use Netfront or whatever.

sdjf
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=161074\")

I downloaded Opera 7.3 for SL-5x00 but I couldn't get it to work on my Z. I do still have Netfront but that wouldn't allow me to open locale.conf .
Also, I downloaded a file, what I thought was pico, but I couldn't get it to install. I am still hunting around for a decent copy of that. I believe i could view the locale.conf file in that program.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=161116\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

the correct url syntax is


file:///mnt/card/somefile.html

note the 3 slashes instead of 1 or 2 as given in other samples...


btw pico can be found here as well as many other goodies

[a href=\"http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/feed/pico_4.4_arm.ipk]http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/feed/pico_4.4_arm.ipk[/url]
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=161117\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Thanks for the link for pico but, when I run the install it says "This package seems to depends on other packages. Please install them, too."
What do i need installed?
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I think it is time for you to pick up zbook3k and read it. Then if you still have questions, you can ask away, but most if not all your current questions are answered/explained in zbook so I really recommend you to read it.
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Post by: Zauri on May 12, 2007, 02:43:12 am
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Another option, although slow, is to use a GUI browser to read files!  They all should give you the ability to fine-tune your display size.

If you have Opera, which version?  Don't have time now to explain how to increase font, and I don't know what browser(s) you have on board, but read the help menus for starters.

You could read that file in opera by typing in the address bar (if you can find it  ),

file://localhost/home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

assuming I didn't make any typo's.   If that doesn't work, I would try:

 file://home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf

Same address should work in a different GUI browser if you use Netfront or whatever.

sdjf
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I downloaded Opera 7.3 for SL-5x00 but I couldn't get it to work on my Z. I do still have Netfront but that wouldn't allow me to open locale.conf .
Also, I downloaded a file, what I thought was pico, but I couldn't get it to install. I am still hunting around for a decent copy of that. I believe i could view the locale.conf file in that program.
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the correct url syntax is


file:///mnt/card/somefile.html

note the 3 slashes instead of 1 or 2 as given in other samples...


btw pico can be found here as well as many other goodies

[a href=\"http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/feed/pico_4.4_arm.ipk]http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/feed/pico_4.4_arm.ipk[/url]
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Thanks for the link for pico but, when I run the install it says "This package seems to depends on other packages. Please install them, too."
What do i need installed?
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I think it is time for you to pick up zbook3k and read it. Then if you still have questions, you can ask away, but most if not all your current questions are answered/explained in zbook so I really recommend you to read it.
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Thanks Meanie! OK, I'll give it a read. I am thinking that pico has a dependancy on other files that I haven't got loaded. Someone in the forums told me to get pico, & so I just thought it would work... Anyway, I'll have a read of zbook3k. Thanks again

EDIT: Had a read of zbook3k & found the section on installing pico. It told me to install libncurses_5.0_arm.ipk before I install pico_4.4_arm.ipk & so I did that. But I still haven't been given an icon in the GUI for pico. Dunno what's wrong with it, so I give up on it for now. That zbook3k looks like a great reference - Thanks again for recommending that
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Post by: speculatrix on May 12, 2007, 06:50:16 am
I seem to recall that netfront doesn't like someone entering file:// URLs, so you have to create a dummy bookmark and then edit the file containing the bookmark!
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Post by: Jon_J on May 12, 2007, 09:25:55 am
file:///
works for me, look at the below screenshot.
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Post by: Meanie on May 12, 2007, 09:38:40 am
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I seem to recall that netfront doesn't like someone entering file:// URLs, so you have to create a dummy bookmark and then edit the file containing the bookmark!
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yeah, file:// wont work, it needs file:/// which is technically the correct syntax anyway... so dont blame netfront, but blame yourself for using wrong url syntax....
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Post by: Zauri on May 12, 2007, 09:32:25 pm
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I seem to recall that netfront doesn't like someone entering file:// URLs, so you have to create a dummy bookmark and then edit the file containing the bookmark!
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yeah, file:// wont work, it needs file:/// which is technically the correct syntax anyway... so dont blame netfront, but blame yourself for using wrong url syntax....
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I tried both file:// & file:/// as directed & I couldn't get it to work in Netfront. If it should work then I don't know what I did wrong  
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Post by: sdjf on May 13, 2007, 12:32:48 am
Without an exact replica of what you entered, it's pretty hard to troubleshoot.

If you try it again, copy/paste the exact address you put in the address bar, and also go into detail about the error message or whatever else happened that makes you say "couldn't get it to work."

Remember there is also always the console.  Just suggested the browser to give you ability to increase font size more.

sdjf
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Post by: Zauri on May 13, 2007, 02:15:31 am
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Without an exact replica of what you entered, it's pretty hard to troubleshoot.

If you try it again, copy/paste the exact address you put in the address bar, and also go into detail about the error message or whatever else happened that makes you say "couldn't get it to work."

Remember there is also always the console.  Just suggested the browser to give you ability to increase font size more.

sdjf
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Thanks sdjf! I have now flashed Cacko & have left the problematic Sharp ROM behind. The konsole is very good in Cacko too - nice sized font
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Post by: speculatrix on May 13, 2007, 06:38:36 pm
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Thanks sdjf! I have now flashed Cacko & have left the problematic Sharp ROM behind. The konsole is very good in Cacko too - nice sized font
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it's trivial to change the font in cacko, and install new ones.

ipkg update
ipkg list | grep -i font

ipkg install somepackagenamefont


when you're online is the way to do it... fixed point fonts look best for console.