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Sharp ROMs / How to boot in console mode?

« on: April 26, 2004, 03:29:06 am »

Hi,

Since \"runqpe\" in /home/QtPalmtop/qpe.sh never returns, where can I call my vlc program to be executed on bootup? It seems that it needs to be *after* qpe, otherwise it doesnt start up. I have successfully tried this from the commandline. If I put it in rc.local which executes before qpe, \"vlc\" doesnt start up.

Are there any scripts accessed by the runqpe command? Or is there any way to register a callback that checks every few minutes/seconds to see if vlc is running and if not, runs it? Since we dont have \"cron\" and \"at\" doesnt seem to understand the \"now\" syntax i am at a deadend.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
A

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Sharp ROMs / How to boot in console mode?

« on: April 25, 2004, 10:56:34 pm »

Thanks Stubear and Joshp. That gives some insight.

I get \"getty\" working, but an application like \"vlc\" doesnt seem to work there.  It complains about:
QSocket::writeBlock: Socket is not open

So i tried letting the system come up as normal in runlevel 5 and checked all the running processes where I found a \"qeserver\" and a \"qpe\". I let \"qpeserver\" run and killed \"qpe\". That kills the desktop that we see and which is what i want. Also, vlc now runs in that environment.

How can i now make it respawn if it crashes? Since we are not using inittab, there has to be another program that allows that. Any tips would be helpful.

Regards,
A

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Sharp ROMs / How to boot in console mode?

« on: April 24, 2004, 11:39:47 pm »

Thanks tapjpa

This does help.....but it still requires manual intervention. I am looking to create a runlevel that simply completes all the initialization (sdcard, network, yada yada..), but instead of launching qpe, it launches the \"vlc\" application.

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Sharp ROMs / How to boot in console mode?

« on: April 24, 2004, 11:30:23 pm »

You wont say that once you see the demo of multiple zaurii booting up and displaying streaming video

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Sharp ROMs / How to boot in console mode?

« on: April 24, 2004, 10:30:12 pm »

Hi all,

It  might seem strange...but I would like to boot my zaurus in a console mode like a regular linux machine for a project i am doing.

What i want to achieve is the following:

1. Boot into console mode with automatic user login (any user)
2. Networking should be up as normal
3. Start a \'vlc\' instance that will fetch data off the network and display it onto the screen.

I started by disabling qpe.sh, but i get \"ld respawing\" messages. Also i cant seem to find where qpe.sh is called...definitely not in /etc/rc.d

I am using a 5600 with zynergy ROM.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
A

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5x00 Hardware / Can anyone help me with VLC?

« on: April 21, 2004, 01:23:48 pm »

Yes i did try version 0.5.3 somewhere and then the 0.7.0 version. Didnt work. Plus I am kinda confused with the plethora of variations in the zaurus models, kernel versions, ROM versions, vlc versions, cache bug reports in 5600, etc. etc.

But thanks for the link. I will try it. But if you could post a more detailed howto, i would be indebted.  

Regards,
A

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5x00 Hardware / vlc on SL-5600?

« on: April 20, 2004, 11:52:04 am »

Has anybody succeeded in installing VLC (videolan.org) on a 5600? I have tried different version from the vlc homepage, but i get \"relocation errors\" when I execute vlc on the commandline.

Any info is welcome.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
A

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5x00 Hardware / Can anyone help me with VLC?

« on: April 20, 2004, 03:59:10 am »

Has anybody really succeeded with installing the zaurus port of VLC on a 5600? I cant understand how it is possible since the port is an ARM port, while the 5600 is an Xscale port.

Any info is welcome.