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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom.org Down?

« on: January 16, 2007, 10:48:13 am »

Is it just me or are others too having problems reaching www.pdaxrom.org??

I tried from various locations (work, home) and could not connect

Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Irda Not Working In Cacko 1.23

« on: February 23, 2006, 06:25:45 pm »

Hi,

I am having no success in trying to use IRDA on my C3100 under Cacko 1.23. With my "old" C760 with cacko 1.22b beaming files (addresses, meetings) works fine. Is anyone else having this problem?

Has anything changed concerning with IR from 1.22 to 1.23? Or perhaps since the hardware is different, a different /etc/irda.conf file is necessary?

Any hints welcome

Andrew

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General Discussion / Wlan And Battery Life

« on: November 14, 2005, 05:22:28 am »

So I have a Sl-760 and a Pretec wlan card (Cacko rom). The wlan works fine (even for my WPA enabled setup at home), but the time I get out of being online appears to be very short. At max I can get something like 30 min without the battery running out. Is there any way to improve this?

Do the wlan drivers support any energy saving mode. If so how is this enabled? Bandwidth is not normally the problem. I mainly want to read my mail and surf the web, which is sufficiently fast in most cases. But the battery life is so short being online, I hardly do it without having my power adapter with me, which is a bit odd  

So what do you do to improve the battery life while being online? Do you have similar experiences?


Any  clues welcome,

Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Uploaded Ed And Rlpr To Cacko Package Feed

« on: September 16, 2005, 10:40:02 am »

Hi,

I just uploaded two packages to the Cacko feed upload.

1. ed. ed is the classic Unix line editor. While proably nobody will use it as his/her main editor, it still is useful in scripts (Sources originally from www.gnu.org)

2. rlrp. Rlpr is an implementation of lpr the Unix line printer. It allows you to print to remote printers using the lpr protocol. In contrast to standard lpr you can print directly to a printer queue wihtout having to setup an /etc/printcap file. Thus you can do things like

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rlpr -Pqueue@remote.printer.com myfile.txt.

Of course your printer has to understand the file format you are sending, as rlpr does not convert anything. Unfortunately, printing is not a strong point of the Z, but I just learnt that TextMaker, the wordprocessor, allows printing via lpr. So now with rlpr and TextMaker, you should be able to print out your documents.

If you want  to try them now, you can download them from my web page at www.andrew.maier.name/zaurus/



Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Z As A Japanese Learning Aid

« on: September 12, 2005, 11:30:51 am »

Hi,

this evening I will start toto take Japanese lessons, and I was wondering if and how to use my Sl-760 for this. Does anyone have recommendations on what to install.  In addition I have a few questions, before I dig any deeper:

1) Does it make sense to install the Cacko Japanese ROM? Specifically I read that the ctrl alt mapping is turned off for the Japanese rom, Does that mean I won't have any ctrl keys. I heavily rely on the ctrl key in the terminal app.

2.) I read in the excellent Cacko Japanese Howto (http://my-zaurus.narod.ru/cacko-jp-howto.html) that I can install several different input methods. Are these inputmethods self explanatory, or is there some knowledge necessary and if so where  can I find some docs?

3) What Kana and Kanji training tools are there around. Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Custom Kernel Howto?

« on: May 19, 2005, 05:07:55 pm »

Hi,

I am starting to get adventurous and I have compile a custom kernel, using the cacko 1.22 config file and basically turning on the ipv6 support.

Now I would like to install this Kernel (and its modules) on my Sl-760. How do I do this? I assume it is possible to only install a kernel +modules without having to recreate a new ROM

I googled around a bit and searched this forum, but I did not get any clear answers.


Any help welcome.


Andrew

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Linux Applications / Extending Dev_img With Additional Headers And Libs

« on: March 10, 2005, 04:58:52 am »

Hi,

I am using the dev_img for compiling and packageing some software for my Z. I am very happy with it, since my attempts to crosscompile have never really been very successfull.

Yet I am now facing the problem, that naturally the dev_img cannot contain rverything I need for compiling certain software packages. E.g. openssl and Berkeley DB are missing.

So how do I extend the dev_img in an intelligent way, that is not to unpack the thing and repack it again with my extensions? Or can I simply mount the image rw and add the stuff I want? CRAMfs does not allow you to do this. Is squashfs different?

For the Berkeley DB I simply made a dev ipk and installed it, but this will get annoying over time, so I am sure there should be solution which is more intelligent.

How do other people solve this?


Andrew,
who is close to having a full chain of an imap-based mail solution, using mutt, ssmtp for mail, rlpr and a2ps for printing

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Qt/Qtopia / Stat64 Missing In Dev_img-1.6

« on: February 27, 2005, 08:44:37 am »

Hi all,

I frequently seem to run into trouble when compiling software using the dev-img (1.6), While linking, I get errors related to stat64 not being available, E.g. when compiling cpio I get:

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gcc  -g -O2   -o cpio  copyin.o copyout.o copypass.o defer.o dstring.o global.omain.o tar.o util.o filemode.o idcache.o makepath.o userspec.o ../lib/libcpio.a
main.o: In function `parse_opt':
/mnt/card/Documents/Develop/cpio-2.6/src/main.c:413: undefined reference to `stat64'
main.o: In function `process_args':
/mnt/card/Documents/Develop/cpio-2.6/src/main.c:594: undefined reference to `stat64'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [cpio] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/mnt.rom/card/Documents/Develop/cpio-2.6/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/mnt.rom/card/Documents/Develop/cpio-2.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I am sure this has been dealt with, or there is a workaround. BTW the debian arm cross-compiler package seems to have stat64 implemented, as I was able to cross compile cpio, but still I would like to compile packages natively

Any clues?

Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Pyqt Available For Cacko Rom

« on: February 18, 2005, 10:52:28 am »

Hi,

no idea if I should post it here or in the developer forums, but:

does anyone know of an ipkg (compatible with python ipks on the cacko feed) of pyqt, the python bindings for qt? It would be really nice to have them available for writing some gui code which can run on the Z.

Andrew

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Accessories / Removing A Microdrive

« on: January 31, 2005, 03:52:08 am »

I recently bought a "Transcend Type 2 CF+ 2.2 Gb microdrive. It appears to work fine, but how on earth do you remove it from the CF slot on a C760? The labelling of the card say to "Grip here", where "here"  is the left and right side of the card. SInce the cards completely disappears in the Z there is nothing to grip  

On my normal CF cards (type 1)  it is possible to pull them, since they have a little nodge at the bottom. Is the a problem particular to this card or do other people face this problem too. If so how do you solve it?


   Andrew