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Zaurus - pdaXrom / C750 Install Questions

« on: October 05, 2006, 10:20:52 am »

I use 57MB (Patch the installer from the installer menu, then enter 57MB for your root size, even though it still says 30-45 or whatever it is). This gives me a larger contiguous area to install stuff. I believe that /dev/mtdblock/3 is mounted twice for installing software there. It allows you to use the free space in your home area, but keeps the files separate.

By patch do you mean Item 3 on the Nand flash utils?

  3. Fix loader 64MB limit (for SL-C760/C860/C1000/C3100)

and do you still get a /home partition then?

Or do you mean the modified installer from Ashley that gives you just a root partition?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / C750 Install Questions

« on: October 04, 2006, 02:16:03 pm »

I've had a 750 since shortly after they were introduced. I spent many many many hours working on it trying to get all the things I wanted working correctly, but there was always something wrong. Too much buggy software and conflicts I guess. All my time was spent trying to make it useful, rather than actually using it, so I finally gave up and it has just been used for games for almost 2 years. Well, I've finally decided to try again, and pdaXrom seems closest to the functionality I'd like to achieve. I have a few questions though before I go too far.

I've seen some comments about the best version for the 750 is still beta 1. Is this true?

I have installed beta 1 to get started and had some problems. The instructions I've read say to use a 30 MB root partition, but the install fails. After reading other comments, I increased this, I think to 45, and then it worked. What is the correct value to use, and what are the consequences of using a larger size?

Related to this, is the root partition only installer by Ashley still a good thing to do? And is there any updated information?

Another question on disk devices, I see that I have /dev/mtdblock/3 mounted twice, as /home and as /mnt/user. I read that this is something for ipkg installation where /mnt/user is bound to /home/user, but df shows that 1500 blocks are used in the partition, while du for /home only shows 73 blocks used. What are the other 1400+ blocks?

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Wont Stay logged in

« on: September 07, 2004, 05:56:37 pm »

I can duplicate this problem with Firefox on Win NT.

If I enter the url, or use a bookmark, of www.oesf.org/forums/ then I get logged in automatically.

If I enter the url (or bookmark) as zaurususergroup...,  skipping the www. part,  then I am connected as guest.

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General Discussion / Bluetooth problem, hardware or software?

« on: August 17, 2004, 10:01:25 am »

I'm using the stock rom on a c750. The outofthebox compatibility was why I bought it. I have no probems with other cards (wifi, memory) so I doubt it's the Z hardware. I read some posts on Sockets forums about intermittent recognition of the card on an Ipaq and socket support suggested it was a faulty card. I would like some proof before trying to argue with the seller though, but I guess I'll just have to try and convince him.

Thanks for the reply.

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General Discussion / Bluetooth problem, hardware or software?

« on: August 13, 2004, 05:07:25 pm »

I bought a used Socket bluetooth card version F from eBay and I'm having some trouble with it. I need to quickly decide if the card is ok, or ask for a replacement.

I set up BlueZ using the howto and revision D of the bluez package. I already had sudo and susp-resume, and added the susp-resume for bluetooth.  I was able to pair with my phone and dialup to the internet. I can suspend and resume and it still works.

The problem came when I removed the card and put it back in. It wouln't connect to the phone. Restarting bluetooth gave me "Can't get port settings: input/output error
Can't initialize device: input/output error".  I tried a lot of variations of restarting pcmcia, cardctl suspend resume, pulling the card and replacing, etc. In the end it seems that sometimes when I insert the card it works, most of the time it doesn't.

I looked at cardctl ident, status and config, and hciconfig to try and see what's going on. When I insert the card and it works I get

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cardctl ident 0

  product info: "Socket", "CF+ Personal Network Card"
  manfid: 0x0104, 0x009f
  function: 254 ((null))

cardctl status 0

  3.3V 16-bit PC Card
  function 0: [ready], [req attn]

cardctl config 0

  Vcc 3.3V  Vpp1 0.0V  Vpp2 0.0V
  interface type is "memory and I/O"
  irq 39 [exclusive] [level]
  function 0:
    config base 0x01f6
      option 0x44 ext 0x00
    io 0xf6000000-0xf600001f [8bit]

hciconfig

  hci0: Type: PCCARD
        BD Address: 00:02:CE:76:DD:EA ACL MTU: 340:4  SCO MTU: 64:0
        UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
        RX bytes:142 acl:0 sco:0 events:12 errors:0
        TX bytes:350 acl:0 sco:0 commands:12 errors:0
and when it doesn't I get

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cardctl ident 0

  no product info available
  manfid: 0x0104, 0x009f
  function: 190 ((null))

cardctl status 0

  3.3V 16-bit PC Card
  function 0: [ready]

cardctl config 0
  Vcc 3.3V  Vpp1 3.3V  Vpp2 3.3V

hciconfig
  [nothing]
It's obviously not seeing the card properly but beyond that I'm not sure what this means. Does this indicate a hardware problem, or something wrong with my configuration? It can go from non-working to working just by pulling the card and re-inserting, so nothing is changing. It's only how the zaurus is detecting the card I think.

Being a bluetooth newbie, let me say that it is cool dialing up though my phone when it's in the other room. Now if I could get it to work more than once in a while  

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Search Flood Control

« on: June 30, 2004, 11:29:52 am »

Yep search flood control. I can recreate it on demand by going view new posts and then doing a search.

It also happens if you do a search again after getting no results. For example, you mispell something, get no results, correct the spelling and try again.

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General Discussion / Serial Modem

« on: June 25, 2004, 01:40:38 am »

Yes, using a serial cable to connect to a cell phone and using that as a modem.

You didn't mention which Z or ROM, but here's how I did it on a C750 with Sharp ROM

1. In the Network app, setup an IRDA profile
2. Edit /etc/ppp/peers/IRDA?
    add "/dev/ttyS0"  as the first line to use the serial port
    change baud to desired value
    added "idle 500"

If you edit the profile with the network app, you'll need to make these changes again.

I think this is called the IRDA trick commonly used for setting up bluetooth connections.

wuurp

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General Discussion / AAARRGHH! I just want to watch a movie!

« on: June 20, 2004, 05:20:05 pm »

Why is setting up a Z to watch movies so difficult?

I have a C750, stock rom. The included Video Player works well but very limited on encodings it supports. So, I\'ve been trying to get mplayer to work.

Posts recommended installing Kino2 since it included an optimized mplayer. I tried Kino2 0.21 (I think) a while ago. Playback was never as smooth as Video Player playing the same file. Later upgraded to 0.22, not much better, perhaps even a tiny bit worse. Kino2 0.3 doesn\'t work at all. I get the same \"bus error\" mentioned by others with the included mplayer. Doesn\'t seem very optimal to me.

So, I decided to try other mplayer packages. Read about mplayer-w100_1.0pre3.1-2_arm.ipk at http://wiki.self-core.org/atty/
I installed that along with all the libraries.  From the command line it seemed to play much better. I haven\'t figured out how to get mplayer to play full screen yet, but the small output looked better than previous versions. I tried using these binaries from Kino2, didn\'t work.

I read some posts about using mplayer fullscreen under pdaxrom using vidix and tried the command line suggested there. Video was still just small in the corner, with the corner above distorted with vertical lines moving horizontally. A screenshot didn\'t really capture it, so I am guessing it is an overlay. After that, the Qtopia desktop had display problems until rebooting.

It also screwed up qkonsole somehow. Any attempt to access the menu, or use function keys, and it would just quit. Reboot didn\'t help, had to reinstall.

So, if anyone gets good fullscreen video playback from mplayer (or anything else that supports more that Video Player) on a C750 using the default rom, I would really like to hear how you did it.

Mike

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General Discussion / MySQL, not quite

« on: March 23, 2004, 11:49:15 pm »

Yes, probably a permission problem. IIRC mysql runs as daemon.  I did a chown -R daemon on mysql\'s data directory, /var/lib/mysql I think.

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Accessories / Poor Holux GM-270 CF gps signal strength

« on: February 28, 2004, 10:10:54 pm »

I bought a Holux GM-270 to use with my C750 and qpegps. I have a problem with signal strength. With the external antennae attached, it works great, even inside the house,  good signal, stable lock.

However, without the external antenna, it is hard to get any signal at all, much less a lock.  If I lay it down flat, outside, away from any trees etc I can sometimes get what looks like reasonable signal strength on the qpegps screen for 3 or 4 sats, but it will drop one, pick up another, etc. I never get a lock even after 20 minutes. If I hold the Z in my hand I pretty much lose all signals. What I was hoping for was a setup I could pull out of my pocket and get a quick fix on my location. Not pull out my Z, an external gps, and cables. This defeats the reason for having a CF gps

Does anyone else use a holux and Cxxx? Could this be a bad card, or bad combination of hardware?

Mike