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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Mplayer Errors

« on: March 18, 2005, 06:57:49 pm »

I noticed you were trying to run a playlist-file (.m3u). This needs to be done with

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mplayer -playlist meteora.m3u

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Port Request: Ftpfs/lufs

« on: January 01, 2005, 08:33:48 pm »

why don't you just use nfs or samba?

LUFS supports arbitrary user-space plug-ins, allowing things like DavFS and SSHFS without recompiling a new kernel-module for them (once the LUFS module is compiled).

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Apache2, PHP

« on: December 26, 2004, 09:19:25 am »

How can I install lamp under /usr?  /opt is read-only on sl-c3000.

2 alternatives:

1. remount /opt with read-write access

2. unmount /opt, see if it's a link or a directory. If it's a directory, you can install the software there. If it's a link, remove the link and create an /opt directory instead. You can then create softlinks to the things you previously had in /opt (if any).

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Is Mysql 4 Working Together With Python?

« on: December 12, 2004, 12:06:26 pm »

python-mysql is in the unstable-feed.

It may or may not work with the crippled python that is installed, which is missing several of the core-modules.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Accounting Software

« on: December 07, 2004, 01:01:21 pm »

Ok, always one to answer my own posts, I've found Grisbi on
 http://pmf.neominds.net/zfeed.php#grisbi
which also requires libexpat1-compat, also available on pmf.
BUT it seems to only work in euros....
 

Edit -> Preferences -> Currencies

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Apache2, PHP

« on: December 03, 2004, 08:23:16 am »

but it doesn't have the SQLITE extension,
not built in, nor precompiled anywhere.

SQLite is built into libphp5.so.

Why do you think it is not? What packages do you have installed? apache2 and php?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kaffe (Java VM) uploaded (untested)

« on: December 02, 2004, 12:53:37 pm »

Hi,

I can definitely confirm that blackdown
(http://zaurus.spy.org/feeds/java/blackdown-jdk_1.3.1_arm.ipk)
works on RC5. I only had problems with the Boolean class, so I borrowed
it from kaffe.

Christoph

Try if floating-point arithmetic works, too.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Antialias

« on: November 28, 2004, 02:36:15 pm »

is it possible to use subpixel antialiasing instead of simple gray-scale antialiasing on our beloved pdaxrom zaurii?

Have you tried editing /etc/fonts/local.conf?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Java 1.3 and Swing in pdaxrom 1.1.0 RC5

« on: November 19, 2004, 01:05:49 pm »

AFAIK jdks from ibm sun or blackdown are not open source,
so either the jdk for arm work as it is
or there is no jdk and the only option is to find an  open source virtual machine that does what you want (and to compile it)

(or ask pdaxrom team to put the support for the old floating point way back into the rom)

I once had Kaffe working (cross-compiled for an older pdaXrom) with the basic X-backend for AWT/SWING (--with-awt=X), but it was buggy as hell (it could not run more than simple AWT-apps without crashing).

You'll also need GNU Classpath if you decide to go this route.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / What exactly is "Illegal Instruction"?

« on: November 17, 2004, 04:33:47 pm »

weird
i install perl, vdesk, mathomatic

all gives me this error .. can't run it

and stardict, gnumeric crashes at starting

any idea?

These applications need to be recompiled with the new toolchain so they don't throw this exception when they reach code segments that need floating-point support.

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Software / Java on the Zaurus SL-C3000

« on: November 12, 2004, 08:19:44 am »

Since I use Java a lot, I was taken by surprise, since I didn't imagine Sharp would do such a mistake, and after a little while I managed to get Java on the SL-C3000.

I explain how in this howto page.

It just works. I still don't understand why Sharp did that, but it can be fixed.

Probably Sharp didn't want to pay the Sun-tax.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / ANN: MySQL 4.1.17

« on: November 09, 2004, 03:21:39 pm »

Don't expect good performance, it is MySQL.

Is this what you mean by poor performance?

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks like mysqld is taking up 12MB ram, which is 20% of the memory...  that's not good

You can always play around with the values in /etc/my.cnf and decrease buffer/logfile sizes and/or the number of spawned child processes. Note that there is no way to decrease the memory-footprint below 4MB, since the mysqld-binary is of that size.

If you feel like trying it out, I recommend this page for further configuration of MySQL.
These options will have to be added to the /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld script.

If you find a configuration that both scales and is memory conservative, I will happily include it in the package instead of the current configuration (which is simply the "tiny" configuration of the source-distribution).

(If you really care about size and performance, use SQLite (as soon as they switch to PHP 5.0.x, this will become the default database for most hosting companies)).

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Apache2, PHP

« on: November 09, 2004, 12:57:49 pm »

i got a fatal error on running the php5 w apache2.

(the apache2 run well by itself and the apache1 & php4 runs perfect, but i need the sqlite extension!)

first it wanted libxml2.so.2   so i installed libxml2-2.4.16.ipk
the i ran apachctl start

the error is:
syntax error in httpds conf [...]
cannot load /[...]/libphp5.so [...]
undefined symbol: xmlSchemaFreeValidCtxt


cacko 1.21b, sl-c860.

(i tried to replace expat ... it just yielded a different missing function.)

any ideas?

I compiled it with the toolchain for pdaXrom, so I don't know how much compatibility with Cacko ROM is possible.

The version of libxml I use is 2.6.13; you could try using it (I could not attach it here; mail me at the contact-address-field of the package in the unstable feed). To avoid conflicts with your installed libxml, I'd suggest putting it into /opt/apache2/lib/ and doing

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ln -s libxml2.so.2.6.13 libxml2.so.2
ln -s libxml2.so.2 libxml2.so
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/apache2/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
This should solve the issue with this specific unresolved symbol.

But again, with a ROM other than pdaXrom I cannot really help very much, since I don't have or need a development-environment for Cacko ROM.

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Software / Apache-php software memory problem?

« on: November 08, 2004, 12:17:16 pm »

MySQL+Apache/PHP+Opera is very memory consuming.

Apache is very memory conservative. It is most likely a misconfigured MySQL-daemon that is problematic. Try adjusting (i.e. lowering) the values /etc/my.cnf or wherever your my.cnf is located.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / ANN: Ruby

« on: November 07, 2004, 12:13:35 am »

It's 1.8.2 and it is in the unstable feed at pdaxrom (http://www.pdaxrom.org/unstable).