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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Ejecting Sd Card

« on: August 15, 2006, 11:31:08 pm »

Meanie,
This may not be much of a solution but it works for me.  I only eject the SD to transfer backups I keep there to my workstation via a cardreader.  And this is not very frequent since most of the time I can copy them over samba.  But in any case, what I do is suspend the Z and then pop out the SD and use it with the cardreader.  Then when I'm done I put it back and wake up the Z.  Kinda low tech but effective (unless you have some reason you need the Z while the SD is out).  I only have one SD and it's big enough for all my Z stuff that doesnt fit on flash.  So this is fine for me.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Can't Find Cardfs?

« on: August 11, 2006, 06:40:05 pm »

seandiggity,
flashing hentges for opie with cardfs is all written step-by-step here
http://wiki.openzaurus.org/Collie/TipsAndTricks
nothing is left out
and if you discover anything was, tell me about it and it will be fixed, or you can even fix it yourself

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie/gpe

« on: July 09, 2006, 06:12:18 pm »

Opie suspends itself if you change to another VT via the VTapplet. If GPE would do the same, then you had no conflicting PM.
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I think that there are several GPE developers who might be willing to help.  Perhaps if you guys would join #openzaurus and #hentges.net on irc://freenode.net we could really get this thing going.  I expect the developers would be more responsive if they hear the same request coming from multiple users....

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie/gpe

« on: July 09, 2006, 09:09:54 am »

Have you guys who got it working updated the wiki?  If not, I hope you will do so while it's fresh in your mind.  

Power management seems like all that you Opie+GPE folks are missing.  According to Bundabrg it's possible to pause the GUI process that has become inactive (and its child processes).  He said 'It would be trivial in the script to determine what vt is active. Maybe as simple as putting it into /etc/apm somewhere such that if a call is made on another vt it doesn't suspend. Something similar for dimming as well.'
Has anyone worked on this yet?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie/gpe

« on: July 03, 2006, 04:24:11 am »

I intended to set up a dev environment.  But my workstation is Mac OSX and there is no way for me to do so.  The only other alternative for me would be to use a virtual machine (vmware image) to set it up on a work pc.  My boss won't mind a vm using a little space and some cpu cycles.  But installing linux on a real partition is not permitted.  I don't suppose one of you already has a virtual machine vmx file (all open-source of course) and would like to put it on a DVD and send it to me?  I have Vmware 3.2.0 installed on the pc.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie/gpe

« on: July 03, 2006, 01:21:19 am »

Koen, What about Kspread and KWord for Opie?  The microKDE libs are working great for kopi so far.  Why not supply these other apps too?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie/gpe

« on: June 30, 2006, 08:26:26 am »

I also was interested in trying GPE and Opie together but my feeling was that I didn't want to run them simultaneously.  I use a Collie and even if I didn't I would probably still feel this way.  I use hentges Opie ROM with his Opie cardfs (on SD), which I recommend because if I have to reflash, I can easily restore the non-UI files I customized, such as fstab and ipkg.conf, using mhbackup.  (mhbackup is a utility written by hentges)  I don't suppose you have mhbackup on your ROM do you, Bundabrg?

The most basic customization I used was to partition the SD card FAT/ext2/ext2.  The first partition is for the mhbackup and opie-backup archives (so I can transfer them to a workstation in case the Z gets stolen or bricked and I have to buy another one).  The second and third partitions were meant to be Opie and GPE respectively.  (But I think that I may end up going with only one ext2 partition.)

I wonder when using the two GUIs how easy it is to update to a newer version of Opie or GPE.  Does anybody have insight into that?  And I have had to reflash a few times already due to some corruption.  If I upgrade a bunch of ipks, then I don't want to have to reinstall them all after a reflash (but running ipkg-link on the 2nd partition of the SD would be my preferred alternative).  Bundabrg, can you please update the wiki on installing both GUIs and add a section on the implications of reflashing? (especially how to restore things that aren't part of the flash)

As for your problems with the inactive GUI suspending the Z, it seems like you need a way to pause the GUI process that has become inactive (and its child processes).  Does anyone know if this is possible?

The power management features are too valuable to me to go without.  So I would rather exit one GUI and start the other.  Bundabrg, do you think  you can update the wiki to explain how this would be done as an alternative to running both simultaneously?

Thanks.