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Hardware Mods / Refitting Cf Card For Sl-c3000

« on: January 27, 2009, 05:01:05 pm »

Well, I undertook this with varying degrees of success. First, I managed to break the copper contact mentioned in the instructions. As I have some spare parts, I thought what the heck, let's see what happens without it. It's just a ground strap, and it looks like there is another on the bottom of the board. And as I thought, it had no negative effects. YMMV, of course.

I replaced it with a Sandisk Ultimate 8GB 266x CF card, thinking it would increase the speed. Alas, no such luck! Disk speed is still bloody slow.

Edit: And by slow I mean buffered reads of ~2-3MB/s. The card tested about 10-15x that outside the machine. What a disappointment.

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Meets Jaunty Jackalope

« on: January 14, 2009, 12:54:14 pm »

Excellent news! Happy to see the .28 kernel. Is ext4 support compiled in? Given the drastic improvements I've seen on my desktop with the new fs, I'd be pleased to see it on the Z as well.

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Android / Touchscreen On Sl-c3000

« on: January 13, 2009, 09:31:08 pm »

Thus far no good, and I believe I am running the latest and greatest. I to am looking more towards Zubuntu, just waiting for a good fast CF card to replace the internal HD to put it on.

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Android / Touchscreen On Sl-c3000

« on: January 11, 2009, 04:17:56 pm »

Ok, a search has brought up something from 2007  about the touchscreen not working. Is this still the case?

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Android / Touchscreen On Sl-c3000

« on: January 11, 2009, 03:33:11 pm »

Hey folks,

I just popped Android on my SL-C3000 via the Omegamoon site (Thanks!). INstalls and boots with not a problem, but I am having trouble getting any sort of response out of the touchscreen? It was working peachy under Angstrom before the upgrade.

Other than that, it is quite lovely and I look forward to playing with this.

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Sharp ROMs / Swap Partition, Sharp Rom

« on: June 21, 2007, 03:13:32 pm »

Hey folks,

I've recently put a swap partition on an SD card (/dev/mmcda2) in place and is perfectly functional when used with swapon from the console. However, it seems to disappear whenever the device is put into suspend or powered off. I have added a line in fstab, but still no lovin. I can't even get it to work if I run it from rc.local (nor can I get apache to run from within there or inetd as well, but it works fine from the commandline?)

Am I barking up the wrong tree here? There is a couple apps that I do need this for.

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5x00 General discussions / Suggestions Requested

« on: June 13, 2007, 03:05:20 pm »

Well, the thread says it does not work on OZ, but I may try it out. Worth a shot.

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5x00 General discussions / Suggestions Requested

« on: June 13, 2007, 12:58:05 pm »

Indeed, I've been playing around with wget with some success. I've also had to install thttpd, but that's no big thing really. So far I've grabbed two sites with wget, one of them doesn't work because it uses a ?=gobbledeegook formet (and quite possible as something to do with the aspx pages?) that doesn't seem to want to work, but I can live without that site. So far very simple and promising, and I'm loving that I can slap it into a cron job.

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5x00 General discussions / Suggestions Requested

« on: June 13, 2007, 08:20:10 am »

Good day folks,

First, thanks to the people that run this forum and those who have creatied OZ & Opie.

I have recently come into posession of an SL-5600, trading it for a LifeDrive. I certainly got the better end of the deal, I couldn't stand that LD. The hardware was nice enough, but the OS.. oh the OS. I have successfully got it running from a 2GB SD card, so now that I've freed up the RAM and have a swap in place, I can actually use the graphical package manager. Also, kudos to the team for running sshd on boot, that was quite helpfull.

Anyways, I do a fair bit of photography and would like to utilize the 5600 for a portable proofing machine, something I can pop a CF into and take a look at the pictures I've just shot as the screen on my D60 is tiny. I've tried tximage and opie-eye. tximage is almost workable, but it seems to want to go through the entire card upon insertion, and going through a 2GB CF with a few hundred pics on it is just bloody time-consuming. Truly, I could boot my laptop up quicker and view them on that.

I have in the past used various iPaq models that had a CF card and even the built-in image programs seemed to work better, but since I have successfully weaned myself from Windows on the desktop 98% of the time (at home), I would like to do this as well. tkcGallery looks like it may work, but getting it to install in OZ/Opie has been fruitless. So, does anyone have any suggestions? I do have the oz-compat stuff installed, but it doesn't seem to help.

Secondly, as a Gnome fan/fanatic, I was hoping to use GPE on my 5600, but I'll be darned if I can figure out how to synchronize it to my machine at work (XP, Outlook). Opie works just fine with the Qtopia desktop, but I don't know where to begin in GPE.

I'm also looking for suggestions for replacing AvantGo. That is one program I've been using since the days of my Palm III and I really enjoy the functionality. Konq-Embedded doesn't seem to have an offline mode, and Opie-Reader with the plucker codec isn't ... optimal. Slap together a script with wget? Or is there a real program.

Anyways, I've typed entirely too much. Thanks to you all for your time and consideration.