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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: Onetrack on December 29, 2004, 10:24:22 pm
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Hey Coredump
I see there is another update on your site for the sl5500 rom, the last one from a few days back broke wireless, but I've been messing with the Z here and there.
The wireless card sometimes shows up as an anonymous memory card, so I have to eject the card and reinsert it for it to work. This is what happened on your first release, your second release completly fixed it, but it seems to be back now.
Basically it seems to work, locks into my network, even with WEP. but as soon as I connect to the package manager or anything requiring a net connection, it drops the connection, its like the card shuts off.
Could you include some more packages in your next release kind sir?
A web browser
Snes9x, mame, frodo (game type stuff) - maybe incorporate the script and front end to make the rom builds from a recent posting here.
codecs for mplayer (xvid/3vix/divx/.avi)
xmms works very well for mp3s, but i understand it can be used as a front end for mplayer?
I kinda got some wmv to work, but the framerate is about 1/2 and the voice is way out of sync, although the voice is not choppy at all.
Whats the best way you would choose to install these new roms, how would I wipe out the sd card to flash as I don't want my changes interrupting your ' clean ' rom and cardfs, perhaps you could put a requestor in to format the card before the install of the apps happens?
You're probably a really busy guy, but you've made serious inroads into this Z - thanks for all the work
Cheers,
one
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I would also like to see emulation included in the next release and codecs etc. cos my snes9x is yet to work on hentges ROM.
Would be very much appreciated coredump.
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Could you include some more packages in your next release kind sir?
A web browser
Snes9x, mame, frodo (game type stuff) - maybe incorporate the script and front end to make the rom builds from a recent posting here.
codecs for mplayer (xvid/3vix/divx/.avi)
xmms works very well for mp3s, but i understand it can be used as a front end for mplayer?
Konqueror-Embedded is the only GUI browser available for Opie.
It doesn't compile and noone seems to be interested in fixing it.
snes9x doesn't compile either.
As for the mplayer codecs: are they included in the 3.5.2 feed?
If so, what are the package names?
Dunno about XMMS. I don't listen to mp3s or watch movies on my Z
Whats the best way you would choose to install these new roms, how would I wipe out the sd card to flash as I don't want my changes interrupting your ' clean ' rom and cardfs, perhaps you could put a requestor in to format the card before the install of the apps happens?
I'd rather not format the card on new installs. There a few "easter eggs" in CardFS ROMs which would become useless otherwise.
I always do a
cd /mnt/card && rm -rf opt usr bin sbin lib etcbefore re-installing cardfs.
A dialog to do this on request isn't a bad idea though. I'll think about it.
I'm currently preparing version T4 w/ opie 1.1.8. Any special wishes for additional applications?
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Absolutely
I vote for:
Konquerer ( I see some people got Opera embedded working)
Gaim without a broken MSN - or another way to use msn, such as msn2go
Frodo - maybe...
Zmame
...?
I'm not even sure whats out there as the filenames are pretty cryptic sometimes
maybe Samba client so I can see / mount my winxp directories.. hmm
Its up to you Coredump - anyone else have suggestions? I've got to run off to work..
cya
-One
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There a few "easter eggs" in CardFS ROMs
CoreDump
Your new opie1.1.8-T4-RC2-DE has the z and y reversed on keyboard use, e.i. y makes z and z makes y, unless you do 'FN-key' – z for a z . Is this an Easter egg?
Happy New Year!
Greg
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There a few "easter eggs" in CardFS ROMs
CoreDump
Your new opie1.1.8-T4-RC2-DE has the z and y reversed on keyboard use, e.i. y makes z and z makes y, unless you do 'FN-key' – z for a z . Is this an Easter egg?
Happy New Year!
Greg
Well no
The "-DE" stands for "german" and german keyboards are "qwertz" and not "qwerty".
This RC still has some bugs, namely icons are missing in some applications.
That will be fixed in a newer snapshot.
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Ahh... it's a German thing, I was thinking it could have been the bier! lol
Greg
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I've uploaded another snapshot (T4-RC3) which features prboom (w/o .wad of course) and
snes9x.
I'm interested in feedback by people who have more than one partition on their SD or CF cards.
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Is the new update only available in german? or is an english one available soon?
Good to see your persuing with this coredump, much appreciated.
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Early snapshots will only be in german, but that doesn't mean you can't use it
Just select english as your language on the first boot and remove opie-zkbapplet.
The last snapshots before the final release, and the final release itself will of course be available in
german and english.
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I've uploaded RC4 with german and english ROMs.
You no longer need to wipe the SD card for CardFS, the installer
will do it for you now.
Happy flashing
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I've uploaded RC4 with german and english ROMs.
Where can I find this? Your website only has the 1.1.7 T3 rom. Or am I just blind and not seeing it
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Nevermind, I found it in the ~/tmp directory. Thanks anyway.
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CoreDump
Your RC4-en looks good and everything works that I've tried so far. But I'm having a lot of lock-ups when trying to eject or insert the CF-card. I've tried 3 different cards and tried using the terminal with umount and it still locks up, you must soft reset to fix it. The RC2-de did not do this.(is it the same kernel?) I thought I would let you know and see if anyone else has this problem?
I really like that new installer!
Thanks
Greg
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I'm not having any troubles with my CF card, and so far everything is going well. I'm gunna try and get frodo going shortly.
Thnx Coredump
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CoreDump
Your RC4-en looks good and everything works that I've tried so far. But I'm having a lot of lock-ups when trying to eject or insert the CF-card. I've tried 3 different cards and tried using the terminal with umount and it still locks up, you must soft reset to fix it. The RC2-de did not do this.(is it the same kernel?) I thought I would let you know and see if anyone else has this problem?
I really like that new installer!
Thanks
Greg
Hmm I'm not seeing any lock-ups here w/ my two SanDisk CF cards.
How are your cards partitioned?
What FS are you using on them (ext2 by chance?)
Are there any error messages after inserting the card in dmesg or logread?
The kernel is the same, however the auto-mount script for CF changed.
In any case you should not see any freezes as the script basically just handles
mount and umount operations.
Could you post a dd dump of a 128Mb or 64Mb CF card somewhere?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/cf/delme (wait for the out-of-space error)
rm /mnt/cf/delme
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/card/hda.dd
gzip /mnt/card/hda.dd
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My CF-cards have 1 single FAT16 partition.
I haven't been able to get a logread because everything stops.
I will copy and paste the tail of syslog here after a soft reset, and attach the dd dump.
It is my kodak card... don't laugh.
<7>ide_attach()
<7>ide_config(0xc3f8e980)
<4>Trying to free nonexistent resource <c4850000-c485000f>
<4>hda: KODAK TB, ATA DISK drive
<4>ide0 at 0xc4850000-0xc4850007,0xc485000e on irq 35
<6>hda: 250368 sectors (128 MB) w/4112KiB Cache, CHS=978/8/32
<6> hda: hda1
<6>ide-cs: hda: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
<7>VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
<6> hda: hda1
<7>VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
<6> hda: hda1
<7>VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
<6> hda: hda1
<4>MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8
The Zug says: "You cannot upload this type of file"
I will try again later
edit: I will try a zip this time... it works, the Zug won't upload gzips.
Greg
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Since no one else has reported this problem it must be only my Z, or a screwed up flash. I will simply reflash the rom I was using and move on.
Thanks for all your help.
Greg
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Hello all,
T4 final is out, grab it @ http://www.hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/oz3...opie1.1.7.shtml (http://www.hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/oz3.5.2-opie1.1.7.shtml)
If you are running -RC4, there is no need to upgrade, as T4 and RC4 are nearly identical.
Just use http://www.hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/feeds/opie_1.1.8/ (http://www.hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/feeds/opie_1.1.8/) as opie feed (this is already the default for T4 final)
Happy flashing
/edit: Here are some screenshots taken directly after the installation: http://www.hentges.net/misc/zaurus_look.shtml (http://www.hentges.net/misc/zaurus_look.shtml)
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One question- is using CardFS required for the Hentges ROM's? Or can I just flash initrd.bin and zImage as usual, and install applications from the feeds to Flash, RAM, and SD?
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is using CardFS required for the Hentges ROM's? Or can I just flash initrd.bin and zImage as usual, and install applications from the feeds to Flash, RAM, and SD?
Not required, but cool.
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It isn't required.
However, for openssh, mkfs and all the other small tools. I had to remove almost all Opie apps from the initrd.bin and there isn't any free room left to speak of.
While you can choose not to use cardfs, it doesn't make much sense since a SD card
is basically required.
You won't have much fun with the barebone ROM and no SD card.
People w/o SD card (or a SD card < 32Mb) should use the official ROM for the best experience IMO.
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Just a small note here to tell everyone that CoreDump's T5-Opie1.1.8 Rom has been working without any problems for 3 days on my Z... my earlier CF-card problems are gone. I would recommend this rom to anyone with a 5500 to use, and highly recommend it to a newbie using OZ for the first time! I might add that it now comes with opie-tinykate (and much more) preinstalled which is a feature that I find very useful.
Thanks
Greg
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Hi CoreDump,
Still very impressed with the cardfs implementation. Just a couple of problems since moving to opie 1.1.8 that weren't there in 1.1.7. Opie Eye bombs out on a SIGSEGV when you try to change from camera to Dir view, and Tetrix doesn't always remove the blocks from the screen on a complete line, even though it 'knows' they are gone ie you can put another block in it's place.
Starting opie-eye from the command line gives the following when changing from camera to dir view:
: QuickLauncher invoked as: opie-eye
: mainwindow constructor done
: ===
: PIconView::polish()
: ====
: WARNING: StartPath2
Segmentation fault
Not sure whether these are app problems or opie problems, tbh. Not hugely important in the grand scheme of things but i thought that the tetrix issue might be indicative of general refresh problems. Haven't found any other example of it though.
On another matter, do you have any idea whether the opie login screen has been dropped altogether?
Thanks,
Harry.
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Application problems happen all the time.
A lot of the problems in 1.1.8 are already fixed in CVS and will be included
into the next Opie release.
We'll have to sit this one out, I'd say. Once I get my scripts converted to the new
OZ directory structure, I'll see if it is possible to inlcude CVS versions into the next release.
On another matter, do you have any idea whether the opie login screen has been dropped altogether?
Notz that I'm aware of. The 3.5.1 opie-login .ipk was broken due to faulty packaging. The packaging was fixed for 3.5.2. I didn't try opie-login since Opie 1.1.6 so I really don't know its current status. However, I do remember some problems w/ it in the early stages of cardfs which was the reason it wasn't included.
If it is missing from the 1.1.8 feed for some reason, I can upload it later.
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Thanks for the info. I know it's not specifically your area.
By the way, a work around for the Dir View issue (if anyone only uses dir view in opie-eye) is to edit /root/Settings/opie-eye.conf.
Change
[main]
Last View = Digital Camera
to
[main]
Last View = Dir View
and start the app again.
Unfortunately, if you change off Dir View and then try to change back, it crashes as before.
Regards,
Harry.
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You could try to install the 1.1.7 .ipk and see if it helps.
The differences between 1.1.8 and 1.1.7 ain't that big, it might just work
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hi all...
a web browser works for me...
im using hentges ROM, and konqueror works on it for me..
i got it from this feed (http://svc.mobihealth.org/handhelds/feeds/opie/)
or am i misunderstanding?
was that what yall were referring to? or did you mean a preinstalled one?
anyhow.. great job coredump, keep up the good work
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After I installed the latest hentges roms..I got a few problems :/
Don't know how to get PrBoom, Portabase working.....:/
It said I have the problem of :
portabase: symbol lookup error: portabase: undefined symbol: _ZNK6Config13readBoolEntryERK7QStringb
prboom v2.2.6 (http://prboom.sourceforge.net/)
Z_Init : Allocated 8064Kb zone memory
IdentifyVersion: IWAD not found
sh: ../bin/qcop: not foundAlso, I can't get knigts (chess game) working as well
The console said it can't load the .png files
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@mahoro
Your installation is somehow broken.
Knights and portabase are suposed to run w/o problems.
prboom requires a doom1 or doom2 .wad file to run which i can not include
into the ROM for legal reasons.
Please do a new clean install.
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A couple follow-up questions to my previous post about whether CardFS is required. . .
First, if I use CardFS, can I install/uninstall the applications within normally? Secondly, if I remove the SD card, will it bork?
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Yes you can uninstall and install normally. And yanking the card out will crash the whole thing. If you umount /dev/mmcda1 all your cardfs apps will disappear and leave you with a konsole and filemanager only. Remounting the card brings them back.
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OK, I've flashed the ROM (with CardFS), and I'm liking it. There is a little wonkiness when removing and inserting the SD card (for example, although all the apps [dis|re]appear like they're supposed to, I get two tabs each for PIM and Games (of which, one is blank). But otherwise, it's not that big a bother for me to leave the card in--I can always SCP the files I need out and back.
So. . . my question for now is. . . to install apps to CardFS, do I only need to do a "-d sd" as usual? Is this not going to install to /opt/QtPalmtop/, etc.., like in the stock OZ ROM? I noticed that the files are in /mnt/card/bin, as opposed to mnt/card/opt/QtPalmtop/bin. Thanks for your help. . .
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So. . . my question for now is. . . to install apps to CardFS, do I only need to do a "-d sd" as usual?
Yes, then do
ipkg-link add 'whatever'
or
ipkg-link mount /mnt/card
If you restart Opie it should fix your tabs... but I'm not positive because I don't remove my SD-card.
Greg