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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: aereinha on November 10, 2004, 07:56:05 pm
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Ok so I know I have been posting questions alot lately but here I go again. My collie (5500) has oz3.5.1 the opie version. My problem is that the zaurus freezes when I suspend with or without the cf card in, but especially after I run xmms-embedded, or any other program for more than a couple of minutes. It even freezes when an alarm on the calander would go off, it beeps once then freezes. I dont know enough about it to fix it on my own and reflashing doesnt work at all.
Thanks
Tony
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What I have found so far is that
a). You probably haven't flashed the right kernel. check to be really really sure you have. (there is a thread on this somewhere around here...Mickey explains it quite clearly.
. On my 5600 (for reasons likely having to do with package testing compulsion) usually freezes if I don't eject the cf BEFORE I suspend, and wait a sec or two, click something to be sure opie is active and working before I reinsert it
c). my 2.2g cf card just disengages it self sometimes for reasons best known to only to itself.... it works best if I terminate opie, mount it, then restart opie.
PLease don't take the idiosyncrasies of my z to be the fault of oe thought... I have some very non oe stuff on there that is likely the culprit (and a pathetic microdrive)
adf
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I used the two files from openzaurus.org the intrid.bin and the zimage so if im not mistaken I have the correct kernel....I could be wrong......but I also have read that you need to eject the cf card before suspending, but even if i try to eject the cf card, it freezes while it does the unmounting so it really gets me nowhere. Everything else works perfectly if only it would stop freezing I would be very happy.
Thanks
Tony
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I still cant find anything that has fixed the problem....please I need help, I love oz3.5.1, but if I cant get this to stop freezing, I will be forced to go back to another rom. I can not umount my cf card it freezes whether I click on the icon in the taskbar or use the terminal to umount it.
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Hmm, tough. So, I don't have to eject the cf card before suspending.... well, just, I mean, tell us what initrd and zImage EXACTLY you downloaded where. Just to make sure all the details are checked... I don't have any other idea, though... what if you just leave out the cf card from the beginning on? Does that change anything?
Cheers
Philipp
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ok well i played around with the Z without the cf card in and it still froze after about 5minutes. I got the initrd and zImage from the openzaurus website, I'm using the opie-image, and the 56-8 zimage, all are from the sl5500. I flashed it correctly, I didnt have this problem with oz3.3.5, so I dont know what else it could be. I had reflashed the Z many times and everytime it still results in freezing, I guess I'm the only one with the problem/
Thanks
Tony
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Hmm, sorry, I have no other idea than to try another kernel. Maybe you could install something like syslog, so you can check the logs after it froze?
Cheers
Philipp
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Can you ssh in? i.e. is it Opie which is freezing, or the whole thing.
Si
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the whole thing is freezing cant ssh
I guess I should expand on this better...It freezes the whole thing after it suspends and wont wake up...but if I am ejecting a card from opie...just opie freezes
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Hm. I get this on my newly flashed 5500 too. Mine seems to be randomly freezing now. Nothing short of flipping the battery switch will remedy it (which I hate doing). I might just have to switch back to a Sharp ROM
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I had a similar problem and uninstalling opie-wirelessapplet solved the problem.