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Accessories / IR-Keyboard (Belkin F8U1500)

« on: December 18, 2003, 03:23:48 pm »

Hi all,

I am trying to get the Belkin IR-Keyboard working, but I\'m in doubt, that my Zaurus (OZ 3.2, Opie 1.0) is able to handle IR anyway. I\'ve install IRK (0.10) and lirc. For lirc (from the OZ feed, I had to provide \'-force-depends\').

So far - all to no avail.

What can I try or do in general to get such a keyboard working?



Martin

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General Discussion / zaurus.com IS UP!

« on: December 11, 2003, 03:54:27 am »

I got about 2 GB last night. Unfortunately, wget created some ugly filenames because of the php-based structure of that site. Anyway, lots of stuff is available. I hope I didn\'t miss something important.


Martin

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General Discussion / zaurus.com IS UP!

« on: December 10, 2003, 07:48:26 pm »

Right now, I\'m leeching the whole site. I hope it dont shuts done before this done. By tomorrow, I can tell you if I got it. Good Night.

Martin

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / lax interpretation of the word \'stable\'

« on: December 10, 2003, 05:00:13 pm »

What do you want a 2.95.3 for? I always develop Opie on X86 using my hosts gcc 3.x.

In earlier projects, I ran into trouble linking applications that where compiled with GCC 2.x with an application compiled with GCC 3.x . So I expected to need 2.95.3 - to more so as this version is mentioned in almost any docu I\'ve found. Maybe that\'s debian specific, but I must confess, I didn\'t try this on Opie. Actually, I didn\'t try anything Opie yet, just plain C++ for arm and a bit playing around with that qvfb and qpe stuff. Im slowly getting into it, but as I have less time, it will take a while.



Martin

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / lax interpretation of the word \'stable\'

« on: December 10, 2003, 04:54:59 pm »

Debugger, you seem to have everything setup correctly. I presume you followed this howto: http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...ompiler%20Setup

I tried to, but none of the mentioned downloads work and such packages doesn\'t exist on Debian.

For the x86 gcc 2.95.3 I used this: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/suse/8.1/i386...5.3-7.i586.html
It works fine for me, but that it to be expected since I have SuSE 8.1. It may well work for other distros though.

Unfortunately not. But I made a bit progress in compiling it myself. I did compile, but make install fails. This looks fixable.

This is all fine for general Qtopia development, but I was under the impression that Opie required a few things to be done differently. An OPIE developer can probably clarify that.

That would be nice :-)



Martin

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / lax interpretation of the word \'stable\'

« on: December 10, 2003, 07:21:44 am »

// qote from zenyatta
I\'ve downloaded the toolchain, QtE sources and Opie sources but I can\'t find time to set it up.
// end of quote

This is exactly my problem. Usually I\'m spending my worktime _and_ my sparetime in coding C++, but I don\'t like to mess with unusable development enviroments and I can\'t find decent docu to get the toolchain working. Can someone verify the following requirements?

1. a cross compiler that generates arm executables on my x86 system

2. an arm-compiled Qt/Embedded to be able to create arm Qt/E executables

3. an x86-compiled Qt/Embedded to be able to develop on the x86 host

4. a x86-compiled version of the compiler (see 1.) to develop on x86 host

I found toolchains, that seem to have a working gcc-2.95.3 cross compiler
that can make arm executables.

I also found (in that toolchains) a version of Qtopia and qpe/qvfb that works on
my system - so it must be x86 compiled.

I expect now, that for suitable tests I have to use a 2.95.3 compiler version
to get a working set of development tools. But my system has version
3.3.2 installed (which I need for my regular job). Unfortunately, 3.3.2 is
unable to compile the sources of gcc-2.95.3 (!).

So I\'m stuck. But maybe I get something totally wrong. Maybe decent environment
variables could help me out here. I don\'t know exactly what is needed: QTDIR / QPEDIR /
QTEDIR, ...... I wished zaurus.com didn\'t went down with all that
docu and software. sigh.




Martin
(btw: can someone send me the applet to switch of the screen on a 5500? It\'s unavailable :-(   )

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / lax interpretation of the word \'stable\'

« on: December 09, 2003, 06:27:20 pm »

The differences between distribution and application concerning the \'stable\' attribute seems to be different in debian and mandrake. Debian is only declared stable when packaged applications are known to run stable for a certain time. This doesn\'t mean, that you could not run into a rare situation where an application crashes, but the stable OZ contains applications that rarely or never work under _usual_ conditions (a clean flash and install).

Besides of that: If I use OZ stable (3.2) and Opie stable (1.0) I should expect a stable system. But it\'s far from being stable - independent of what part, the OS or the application, causes the malfunctions and crashes. Using a \'stable\' OZ and an \'unstable\' Opie (0.9.3) means what? OS is stable but applications may crash?

Hm. What is the suggested setup (concerning ROM/Opie combinations) to get a stable PDA that can play MP3 and view HTML and PDF documents and run Java-Applications using jeode? (Linux must be able to do that job, please...).


Martin

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General Discussion / zgcc 2.95.2 gone ??

« on: December 09, 2003, 02:15:33 pm »

Zaurus.com is down.  :-(  There are several postings concerning this issue.

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / lax interpretation of the word \'stable\'

« on: December 09, 2003, 02:02:14 pm »

That was me (Debugger) posting the issue above, but I forgot to log-in.... :-)

So it was not anonymous.