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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus C1000

« on: March 03, 2008, 09:09:28 pm »

Reserved for selling to another Singaporean !! Sorry, should have updated this long ago. Thanks all for viewing.

SOLD (long ago ... )

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus C1000

« on: January 28, 2008, 09:25:24 pm »

Reserved for selling to another Singaporean !! Sorry, should have updated this long ago. Thanks all for viewing.

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus C1000

« on: January 15, 2008, 10:44:06 pm »

lowered price a bit to match other posts  ...

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus C1000

« on: January 01, 2008, 08:14:33 am »

I've decided to sell my Zaurus C1000 as I'm getting myself a Sony Reader PRS-505 this christmas. I mostly use my portable devices for reading eBooks so the Reader would be more suitable for my needs, especially since the Zaurus needs too much tweaking for my purpose.

The unit is 8 months old but it is in almost new condition (not frequently used except for reading). The only thing is that the small rubber feet at the bottom are removed because the glue came off. There's still a remaining of 4 months warranty from Conics. I'm setting a price of $250. My location is in Singapore but I would ship to whichever corner of the world you want. I'd pay for the shipping cost too if it's not too expensive (USA should be fine), otherwise you might need to pay for up a maximum of 1/3 of the shipping.

Here's what you'd get in the deal:

1 SL-C1000, screen protector already applied (excellent condition), currently running Cacko 1.23
2 mini AC adapter (japanese)
1 Ambicom CF wifi card
1 USB host cable, and 1 USB sync cable
Original box, japanese manuals & CD

The stock stylus is lost, I'm currently using a metallic stylus for Palm PDA that fits perfectly into the Zaurus' stylus slot.

I'll even throw in a bonus 4 GB CF card (Kingston Elite Pro 45x) that I have lying around, since I don't have any other device that can accept compact flash, so it's useless for me.

My preferred payment mode is via paypal, let me know if you require other modes of payment and I'll see whether it can be arranged. Following is my contact info:

joewandy@gmail.com
+65-8288-1024

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13 5.3.3 Akita Full Install -- Poor Performance ?

« on: November 06, 2007, 11:08:58 am »

thanks a lot scheck.r ! much appreciated ...

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13 5.3.3 Akita Full Install -- Poor Performance ?

« on: November 05, 2007, 04:57:46 am »

Is there any further tips to improve performance on a pdaXii13 5.3.3 installation on Akita ?

I have removed scim as mentioned in the following post (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=22798&st=45&p=153264&#entry153264), and also enabled swap partition.

Despite above steps, opening more than 1 program, eg. FBReader and xmms would cause menu redraw and windows dragging to be much slower than usual. The system feels much more responsive under Sharp / Cacko ROM.

Am I constrained by hardware limitation of the c1000, or there is anything more that I can tweak/modify to improve the system's responsiveness ?

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Software / Opiereader Annoyance

« on: April 12, 2007, 08:45:38 pm »

That was quick    Thanks, TimW!

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Software / Opiereader Annoyance

« on: April 12, 2007, 12:45:43 am »

Hi,

I'm using OpieReader 1.2.1-r0 on OZ 3.5.4.1 (Collie), this is the latest version updated from the OZ feed.

One strange thing I have encountered is that the character combinations "fi" that occur in any string in an open document is always displayed as a box. This occurs in any document type (html, txt, plucker, chm ...) and in any encoding (ascii, utf8, palm, windows, ...).

For example the strings:

"First I file my fish online"

becomes:

"[box]rst I [box]le my [box]sh online"

While my brain can automagically parse the boxes as the correct characters, it feels like an unscratchable itch    ... Does anybody know the cause of the problem?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opera7.55 For Oz/opie 3.5.4-rc

« on: April 11, 2007, 03:15:43 am »

Everytime I download the ipk from the first post (in page 1), the resulting file appears to be broken. Does anybody have a mirror somewhere? THanks!!
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=158394\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

I just downloaded it using firefox, but I was unable to test it because I don't have OZ, and I cannot open and verify OZ IPKs
The filesize is 2.46MB or 2,588,910 bytes (this is on my windows box)
To download from the forum, since attachments are not working correctly, In firefox right click the file, and save link as, then paste in the full filename.ipk into the save dialog.

EDIT: I later found out that the "ar" command opens these files.
I tested opera_7.55.OZ3.5.4_arm.ipk on my cacko zaurus and it extracted with no problems.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=158423\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Thanks, Opera now works well on my OZ 3.5.4.

One thing that bothers me is the font used to render page is very jagged. Is there any package I can install / options to enable to smoothen it?

I can see the following config parameter in opera.ini

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[Font.Normal]
FaceName=helvetica
But what are other possible values here and where can I see the font face that are already installed in the system?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opera7.55 For Oz/opie 3.5.4-rc

« on: April 10, 2007, 05:19:33 am »

Everytime I download the ipk from the first post (in page 1), the resulting file appears to be broken. Does anybody have a mirror somewhere? THanks!!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Help To Install Oz Opie On Collie

« on: January 05, 2007, 12:44:21 am »

What is the advantage of cardfs with ext2 over a loop-mounted image? 

The only disadvantage of loop image I can think of is that resizing can be quite a problem. Apart from this, all the advantages seem to favour loop-mounted image.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Help To Install Oz Opie On Collie

« on: December 29, 2006, 06:17:37 am »

I had followed the instruction on the above post when first doing it, however I don't seem to be able to modify the partition table on the SD card. Is this just a peculiarity of this card (Kingston 1GB)? Even a simple thing like:

fdisk /dev/sda
> d (delete primary partition 1)
> v (verified primary partition 1 is deleted)
> w (write)

After quitting fdisk, the partition table still shows:

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Disk /dev/sda: 1004 MB, 1004535808 bytes
7 heads, 38 sectors/track, 7375 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 266 * 512 = 136192 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        7376      980864+   6  FAT16
Even after reboot, it still shows the same. And upon mkdosfs and mount, it still shows the same error in dmesg:

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[17180045.520000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17180045.520000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
I've tried coredump's step in the altboot FAQ:

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# Zero out the media (dd if=/dev/zero of=$devicefile-of-SD-or-CF-card )
# Create a new ext2 filesystem (mkfs.ext2 -m0 $devicefile-of-SD-or-CF-card )
but still the same problem. Can anyone else advise ?

PS. I've managed to set up OZ by installing a loop-image from rootfs.tar.gz on another FAT16 SanDisk SD card  but if possible, would like to recover the previous card.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Hentges Opie Rfs/loop-file

« on: December 28, 2006, 12:27:54 am »

It works ! Thanks!!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Hentges Opie Rfs/loop-file

« on: December 27, 2006, 10:29:07 am »

Is there any other alternative way to bypass this screen?? I've tried to copy .opiestorage.cf from my CF to the SD card as .opiestorage.card. Also followed the tips from CoreDump at https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=21795&st=45 :

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- Reset the machine
- Do not let the Opie GUI start but press a button during the 5 second window
- Login as "root" (no password)
- Enter "ipkg remove opie-mediummount" and hit return
- Launch Opie with "/etc/init.d/opie start"
but still the medium mount screen appears. Any help??

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Help To Install Oz Opie On Collie

« on: December 24, 2006, 10:14:58 pm »

Following step (2) in http://wiki.openzaurus.org/Collie/TipsAndTricks to install cardfs, I tried to set ext2 filesystem on a Kingston 1 GB SD using fdisk and mke2fs . However it keeps on showing as FAT16 when checked from fdisk -l:

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Disk /dev/sda: 1004 MB, 1004535808 bytes
7 heads, 38 sectors/track, 7375 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 266 * 512 = 136192 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        7376      980864+   6  FAT16
I gave up on the idea, and try to delete the partition from fdisk and set it back to FAT using mkfs.msdos. This went successfully. However when I try to mount it afterwards, I got the following message:

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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail  or so
Output from dmesg is:

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[17179900.952000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17179900.952000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
While formatting the card from XP gave the following:

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C:\>format /FS:FAT F:
Insert new disk for drive F:
and press ENTER when ready...
The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is FAT.
Verifying 957M
Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable.
Some questions:

1. Is the SD card truly unusable now, or there's still a way to repair it ?
2. Is there another alternative to installation of OZ Opie without using ext2 SD card? Otherwise, what is the right way to format the card as ext2 without messing it up like this?

Your advices are much appreciated. Thank you very much!