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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: cycojesus on September 23, 2004, 05:48:21 am
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One thing I miss a lot in OZ 3.5.1 compared to Sharp based ROMs is chess...
There are good apps as gnuchess (http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/) and zKinghts (http://free.pages.at/uberger/zaurus/zknights_en.html) which exist for Sharp ROMs, but apparently nobody is insterested in porting it for OZ/OE
Am I the only one who miss that or is anyone actually working on that ? Would a good soul with OE skills think about it ?
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I also miss alot while I try to install, it say qpe-base dependancy lacks. This means that we can not install directly some of our favorite applications.
By the way have you been able to sync or use file manager cyco jesus?
Thanks
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I also miss alot while I try to install, it say qpe-base dependancy lacks. This means that we can not install directly some of our favorite applications.
By the way have you been able to sync or use file manager cyco jesus?
Thanks
The filemanager works fine here. I haven't tried to sync.
You've tried to install gnuchess ?
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No I did not.
What is the desktop OS?
How did you make File managerwork?
Thanks
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No I did not.
What is the desktop OS?
How did you make File managerwork?
Thanks
I just tried gnuchess 5.04 from ZSI (http://killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=456) and... it works !!
But there's still no GUI
- My desktop OS is GNU/Linux Slackware-current
- the filemanager was installed by default in the opie-image, I just launched it.
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Errr... shame on me ! I just saw there's knights in the feed ... but it complain about not finding phalanx as a dependency
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Errr... shame on me ! I just saw there's knights in the feed ... but it complain about not finding phalanx as a dependency
Well, I managed to compile Phalanx using OE, but it didn't make an ipk ; so I copied manually the compiled files on the Z and now knights accpet to start... but phalanx won't make a move, and if I launch it (phalanx) from the commandline it throw an error :
/opt/QtPalmtop/chess/engines/Phalanx/phalanx: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
knights refuse to play with gnuchess either
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While we're at it - how about GnuGo ? ( The Go game is that comes on sharp rom is so anemic a raw begginer could eat it for lunch)
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Have you tried taking Knights from regular Linux and compiling it for zaurus
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I use this GUI on OZ 3.3.3, try it on 3.5.1 with the gnuchess version noted above and report back (I have not flashed to 3.5.1 yet):
http://www.tekprosystems.com/zaurus/downlo...ard_1.1_arm.ipk (http://www.tekprosystems.com/zaurus/downloads/feed/qboard_1.1_arm.ipk)
soycap
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Have you tried taking Knights from regular Linux and compiling it for zaurus
I didn't saw it at first sight but knights is in the feed, and it works ; so the GUI is OK.
Now the problem is to find a working chess engine. There's Phalanx in OE, with a little help it compile (add break; in io.c line 898) but it don't build an ipk ; and if you try to copy manually the files where they should be on the Z it refuse to play, no error, it just do nothing when it's its turn...
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A bit OT, becaus I'm using the Sharp ROM, but I just bought and started using icschess from handango. (Yes, all done over my Z with my Trendnet 10/100 at a cafe with RJ-45 jacks. ) Anyone use this? Its not bad for $5, but for the life of me, I cannot find a config file for it, so I have to reenter my ICS l/p every time. Anyone know of a workaround? Also (back on topic) does this work on OZ? I've been holding off switching (partly b/c OZ doesnt seem to like my 5600). GNUchess is ok (and the QT frontend is nice - it would be a shame to lose them if I switched...) though the lack of an opening book is annoying; 1 e4 d5 - every time center counter for king's pawn! I've started playing 1g3 for fun. Another workaround to deal with. At least it helps with tactical combinations.
Anyone dealt with any of this?
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cycojesus, I put a fixed phalanx package into the upgrades feed. Have fun.
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cycojesus, I put a fixed phalanx package into the upgrades feed. Have fun.
Thanks a lot... trying... it install fine along with knights, but... there's a "but" it still don't want to play (maybe it's just a matter of configuring it, I'll try to look in that direction).
By the way, there's a little bug in the knights package, it install its knights.desktop in /opt/QtPalmtop/Games instead of /opt/QtPalmtop/apps/Games. I don't know how to patch it yet so I just signal the problem here.
P.S. : I just tried 'oemake phalanx' after updated OE cvs and now it build the ipk.
P.S. : I'm now waiting for more than 12 minutes that phalanx make a move
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the upgrade feed still suffers from the problem reported above
/opt/QtPalmtop/chess/engines/Phalanx/phalanx: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
if your really desperate
install phalanx and knight from 3.5.1 feed and upgrades
make symlink from /opt/Qtopia to /opt/QtPalmtop
(knights trys to call phalanx from qtopia directory (believe coredump may have fixed this but not in upgrades yet)
copy the phalanx binary from 3.3.6 to /opt/QtPalmtop/chess/engines/Phalanx
dont forget Phalanx needs to be executable ;-)
Start knights and enjoy.
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phalanx-r2 is now in the upgrades feed. r1 was completely broken.
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phalanx-r2 is now in the upgrades feed. r1 was completely broken.
Thanks, it works now
One thing : on startup phalanx complain about not finding his book (and it's big, almost 5MB !!)
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is that starting it from the command line .
if it is it cant find it cause it looks for it from where you start it.
cd into the folder conraining the executable and start it from there
or is it from knights?
if so ensure that you have a link from /opt/QtPalmtop to /opt/Qtopia
at least until knights links are fixed.
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is that starting it from the command line .
if it is it cant find it cause it looks for it from where you start it.
cd into the folder conraining the executable and start it from there
or is it from knights?
if so ensure that you have a link from /opt/QtPalmtop to /opt/Qtopia
at least until knights links are fixed.
no, starting it from knights I have a message box saying (it's truncated because the msgbox is too small)
Phalanx tells you:
Phalanx: Cannot open both [sbook.ph
Starting from the commandline : root@poodle:/opt/QtPalmtop/chess/engines/Phalanx# ./phalanx
Phalanx XXII
primary book ./pbook.phalanx, 48749 bytes
secondary book ./sbook.phalanx, 0 bytes
learning file ./learn.phalanx, 0 bytes
tellics set 1 Phalanx XXII, 820 kB hashtable, 47/0 kB P/S opening book
[ white, 1 ]
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I just made the symbolic link from /opt/QtPalmtop to /opt/Qtopia and now it works fine, without error message, thanks.
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Lastest knights in upgrades feed (r1) is artificially made dependent from oz-compat which is huge. This is absolutly not necessary, I uninstalled oz-compat and it's still working.
Anyway, with this new version the symbolic link trick is not needed anymore, thanks.
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Lastest knights in upgrades feed (r1) is artificially made dependent from oz-compat which is huge. This is absolutly not necessary, I uninstalled oz-compat and it's still working.
Anyway, with this new version the symbolic link trick is not needed anymore, thanks.
I've uploaded -r2 of knights into the upgrade feed, fixing the broken dependency.
Thanks for your report!