Messages

1

Qt/Qtopia / How-to for software development for SL-6000

« on: October 04, 2004, 03:24:38 pm »

I knocked up some quick instructions a while ago.
It might be worth having a look to see if they're of any use to you.

Some introductory development notes

- markb

2

Qt/Qtopia / Dev environment setup instructions

« on: April 23, 2004, 09:04:13 pm »

Thanks for all the feedback, and for the link.
I wish I\'d seen that page earlier! :-)

I\'ll try to get the page finished off soon.
I\'m happy to ask for it to be added to the HOWTOS page when it\'s finished.

- Mark

3

Off Topic forum / question for gurus

« on: April 22, 2004, 02:29:40 pm »

It\'s worth having a look at The Linux Cookbook.
The full book is available for free.
It gives lots of examples of how to do things with Linux.
http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/

For System Administration, I like this book. Very readable.
Linux System Administration: A User\'s Guide  by Marcel Gagne
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201719347/

-Mark

4

Qt/Qtopia / Dev environment setup instructions

« on: April 16, 2004, 09:31:37 pm »

I\'ve finally got around to doing something with my website.
There\'s not much there yet, but I\'ve had a stab at some instructions for setting up a Zaurus development environment.

http://www.brintsoft.com/zaurus/dev.html

There were some discussions recently where people had problems with setup scripts and configuration files.
So I thought I\'d put all the information on one page.

I can only document what I\'ve done personally on my RH8.0 setup, so I hope there aren\'t too many mistakes.

I\'ve still got a bit left to do. But I\'d appreciate it if anyone has any feedback.
Please point out anything that\'s wrong, misleading or badly explained.

I hope someone finds it useful.  :-)

Thanks.

- Mark

5

General Discussion / Bricked Zaurus SL-C860. Please help!

« on: April 15, 2004, 07:40:06 pm »

I\'m afraid I can\'t offer any suggestions.
But you might find this discussion useful:

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...iewtopic&t=2897

- Mark

6

Software / Anyone have a copy of qMusician handy?

« on: April 10, 2004, 06:43:17 pm »

The broken link points to a file called tuner_0.1.0_arm.ipk
A quick google search found a few references to it.
One of which comes back to this web site! :-)

The file is on this page.
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/feed/

I haven\'t tried it out though.

- Mark

7

Software / Where to find fdisk?

« on: April 07, 2004, 04:20:26 pm »

fdisk comes as part of the armutils package.

You can get it from here:
http://www2.hisec.co.jp/~masui/feed/armutils_1_arm.ipk

Here\'s a full list of the utilities it provides:

Code: [Select]

usr/bin/arch          usr/bin/csplit  usr/bin/join      usr/bin/namei      usr/bin/sdiff     usr/bin/tsort

usr/bin/bc            usr/bin/diff    usr/bin/ldd       usr/bin/nl         usr/bin/skill     usr/bin/unexpand

usr/bin/bunzip2       usr/bin/diff3   usr/bin/less      usr/bin/od         usr/bin/snice     usr/bin/unzip

usr/bin/bzcat         usr/bin/expand  usr/bin/lessecho  usr/bin/paste      usr/bin/split     usr/bin/vmstat

usr/bin/bzip2         usr/bin/fmt     usr/bin/lessfile  usr/bin/pr         usr/bin/sum       usr/bin/watch

usr/bin/bzip2recover  usr/bin/fold    usr/bin/lesskey   usr/bin/ptx        usr/bin/tac       usr/sbin/fdisk

usr/bin/cksum         usr/bin/getopt  usr/bin/lesspipe  usr/bin/readlink   usr/bin/tcsh

usr/bin/cmp           usr/bin/gpg     usr/bin/lspgpot   usr/bin/rev        usr/bin/tempfile

usr/bin/comm          usr/bin/gpgv    usr/bin/mawk      usr/bin/run-parts  usr/bin/top


- Mark

8

Qt/Qtopia / 640x480 pdf

« on: April 06, 2004, 03:07:36 pm »

I have qpdf2 running on my C860 and it works fine.
It uses the full resolution in landscape mode.

Have you unticked the \"Display with magnified screen\" box?
Click on the qpdf icon for a couple of seconds until a window opens up. Then you\'ll see the magnified screen tick box.
If you untick it, the app will run in full screen landscape mode.

- Mark

p.s.
You may have better luck posting in one of the more general forums.
This one is for software development discussions.

9

Zaurus - pdaXrom / Prboom/SDL question

« on: April 03, 2004, 03:42:46 pm »

I only tried it with my standard sharp ROM.
Sorry it wasn\'t much help.

- Mark

10

Qt/Qtopia / Where can I find QTopia SDK which supprots XScale CPU?

« on: April 03, 2004, 12:57:44 pm »

I have qtopia sdk 1.7, and as far as I know it works with all models.
I\'ve built apps that run on an old 5000D as well as my new C860.

For info on setting up a development environment and cross-compiler, please
see the development howto docs.

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...name=Developing

The compiler setup section is probably the one you want to start off with.
There are also plenty of existing discussions on this website about setting up a development environment, and the problems you may encounter.

- Mark

11

Zaurus - pdaXrom / Prboom/SDL question

« on: April 01, 2004, 06:14:54 pm »

I think there is a different version of SDL.

I got doom running full screen in landscape mode on my C860.
I followed these instructions:
http://www.shirtpocket.co.uk/spforum/index...hp?showtopic=27

- Mark

12

Off Topic forum / Happy birthday to myself and zbones

« on: April 01, 2004, 05:43:17 pm »

Happy Birthday.
Still 17 mins to go by my watch :-)

- Mark

13

Software / OpenSSH on SL-C860 Warning

« on: April 01, 2004, 05:19:42 pm »

I just installed openssh on my C860 and it works OK.
But I did check the install script first and made some changes.
I noticed a number of the chmod commands had paths specified with \"\" instead of \"/\".
The \"\" was usually followed by \"bin\". So you end up with \"b\". i.e. backspace.

I didn\'t try out the install script before I fixed it, but I guess this would give you error messages about non existing directories.

e.g.
chmod 755 $PREFIXbinssh
 chmod: failed to get attributes of `/usrbinssh\': No such file or directory

- Mark

14

Cxx0 General discussions / c860, initial questions.

« on: April 01, 2004, 02:27:11 pm »

For some hints on keyboard mapping have a look on this page in the \"Key Mappings\" section.

http://viz.aset.psu.edu/ga5in/SharpZaurus.html

It has some other useful too.

- Mark

15

Accessories / Almost there with bluetooth, but need some help.

« on: March 31, 2004, 02:22:17 pm »

Thanks everybody!
I finally got it working.
I now have a permanent grin on my face, and will soon run up a huge phone bill. :-)

This seems to be quite tricky to set up.
Even though the example scripts work for the people that posted them, they still didn\'t work for me. I ended up taking a bit of each.

I used the dial-up applet to start with then edited the file it created.
The init string that finally worked was just \"ATZ\".

I used the suggestion from pakman to find out what number I should be using for GPRS.

Code: [Select]

Mar 31 16:04:06 localhost chat[11409]: send (AT+CGDCONT?^M)

Mar 31 16:04:07 localhost chat[11409]: expect (OK)

Mar 31 16:04:07 localhost chat[11409]: AT+CGDCONT?^M^M

Mar 31 16:04:08 localhost chat[11409]: +CGDCONT: 1,"IP","","",0,0^M

Mar 31 16:04:08 localhost chat[11409]: +CGDCONT: 2,"IP","orangemms","",0,0^M

Mar 31 16:04:08 localhost chat[11409]: +CGDCONT: 3,"IP","orangeinternet","",0,0^M

Mar 31 16:04:08 localhost chat[11409]: ^M

Mar 31 16:04:08 localhost chat[11409]: OK

After that I gave \"ATD*99***3#\" a try and it worked!

I\'ve been through so many permutations that I\'ve lost track of which suggestions I\'ve been following. But you\'ve all been a big help. Thanks!

My final working script is:

Code: [Select]

/dev/rfcomm0

115200

connect \'/usr/sbin/chat -s -v -t 60 ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "BUSY" "" "ATZ" OK "ATD*99***3#" CONNECT\'

crtscts

noipdefault

modem

usepeerdns

defaultroute

connect-delay 5000

remotename BLUETOOTH1080801963

By the way, I still get these messages, even though it works:

Code: [Select]

Mar 31 16:34:19 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can\'t locate module ppp-compress-26

Mar 31 16:34:19 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can\'t locate module ppp-compress-24

Mar 31 16:34:19 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can\'t locate module ppp-compress-26

Mar 31 16:34:19 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can\'t locate module ppp-compress-24

- Mark (A happy bunny)

p.s.
It worked once. But I can\'t get it to work again. :-(
Oh well, at least I know it CAN work with my C860 & P800. So I\'m still happy. :-)