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For Sale / Wanted / 5600 And Accessories For Sale

« on: January 13, 2006, 07:15:25 pm »

I'm glued to my tablet PC now, so i guess it's time to pass my zaurus collection on to somebody who will use it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

It's in great shape!

Happy Bidding!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz Package Management

« on: March 22, 2005, 08:00:43 pm »

I've had my 5600 for a few years now, but just recently i decided to make the switch to OZ 3.5.2.  I read that the package manager is currently broken\buggy, and sure enough, most of the times i tried to use it, it ended up freezing up the zaurus.

So what is the normal way to get new packages into OZ?  are most people just downloading ipkg's and installing them via console?

Is getting the package manager fixed a priority?

I'd love to "get into" OZ but i'm having trouble since i can't tell what is supposed to work and what isnt.  I hate sounding like a n00b, i'm a programmer for a living, but OZ is seriously kicking my butt so far.

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Sharp ROMs / Sharp Dev Environment Needed...

« on: March 22, 2005, 07:31:57 pm »

Thanks for trying!

so i guess i'm going to either

A. re-setup my zaurus dev environment and figure it out
B. just switch to OZ and see if i can get it built for that.

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Sharp ROMs / Sharp Dev Environment Needed...

« on: March 13, 2005, 11:29:35 pm »

I use to have a dev env for my z setup on a linux box, but that hard drive has since died.  would anyone be willing to compile a package for me?

the link is

http://icm532.sourceforge.net/icm532-0.3.tar.gz

it's a webcam driver so you'll need kernel sources.

I would really appreciate it.

(in case you're wondering why in the world i want a usb webcam driver, its because i made that ir webcam that was on slashdot earlier today, and i thought it would be sweet to get working on the zaurus)

I have a zaurus 5600 and the usb host card, so hopefully it will work.

If anyone could try and compile this i would be very appreciative.  if it has any issues i guess i'll have to go back and setup my env again.

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Software / New Gaming Possibilities brought to us by 3.5.1?

« on: October 01, 2004, 10:08:54 am »

I've seeing alot of posts from people comparing oz 3.5.1 with previous oz releases, and it appears as though the floating point calculations are WAY faster on the latest oz release.

I remember when i first got my 5600 i loaded up quake on it and it was unplayably slow, like 3-4 fps.

My thought is that perhaps with the newfound  quicker fp calculations, might something like quake become playable on the z?  has anyone tried this yet?

I'm going to try and get quake built for 3.5.1 this weekend, but i just wanted to see if anyone else beat me to the punch.

Also, does anyone have any inclinations as to which would be better for gaming...qt\opie or x\gpe?

~Corona_B

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Zaurus Flashing

« on: September 30, 2004, 11:23:49 am »

So where are the oz files stored?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Zaurus Flashing

« on: September 30, 2004, 10:39:35 am »

This isnt so much a problem as it is a question.  
I thought i was finally beginning to elevate my zaurus noob status (finally got my cross compiler setup, for compiling apps for the sharp rom, then i setup bitkeeper\oe for compiling for oe)

Normally i run zynergy with the special kernel (i have the pxa250 bug)

I recently flashed my 5600 to oz 3.5.1 with gpe using the cf card. it booted and loaded fine, it's very nice!  i tinkered a bit with settings etc no problems other than known bugs that have been mentioned in the wiki.

Later i flashed it to the 3.5.1 image with opie. same thing, no problems, tinkered a bit etc.

then...

i reflashed to my usual rom, zynnergy (i know i know, i should use oe full time, but seriously, remember this is a 5600, so oz prior to 3.5.1 is basically unusable without a ton of tweaking, and besides, i'm writing an sdl app that i already have the compiler setup to work with the sharp rom)

after rebooting after the flash it appears exactly as it was prior to flashing the oe-gpe image. EXACTLY! all settings, files, everything.  how the f did that happen?  i thought for sure that my zynnergy files would be erased when i installed the new rom.

so obviously, i have no concept as to how the zaurus update procedure works, why is my old filesystem intact? shouldnt it have been erased when i installed the new rom?

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5x00 General discussions / X11 on a 5600 anyone

« on: September 24, 2004, 02:22:15 pm »

man i feel like a moron. i didnt even realize that they had finally "released" oe last week on the oz website, otherwise i would have tried that a week ago.  thats what i get for not keeping up with the times i guess.

~Corona_B

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5x00 General discussions / X11 on a 5600 anyone

« on: September 23, 2004, 12:35:45 pm »

Has anyone gotten X11 working on the 5600. "Pure" X11, not the keypebble setup.  I read a post about a guy who had it going where he could drop out of qtopia and start x\icewm, but it was a bit old and i think he was talking about a 5500.

He used the following packages...
x11Zaurus_0.8_arm.ipk
icewm_1.0.9-5_arm.ipk

and made some changes to some files...

Running X11 on Zaurus

(This is not my info, just stuff off the net).

You will need X11 for the Zaurus which you can get at [2].

1. Unzip zx64.zip somewhere on your Zaurus (CF, SD, etc...) 2. Install X11 for the Zaurus 3. Reboot your Z 4. Press your / on the keyboard to select the boot prompt. 5. Select A and log into your Zaurus 6. Type X to start X11

X11 on the Zaurus works great but conflicts with Qtopia over power management. Here are some solutions from Zaurus Zone's forum:

After installing X11 for the Zaurus, open the file :

  /usr/local/Xredir/etc/zapmd
and commented out

  /usr/local/bin/zapmd (just add an #at the beginning of the line).
or here is another one

1. I added a # at the beginning of each line in

  /usr/local/Xredir/etc/rc.d/init.d/ztsd
and

  /usr/local/Xredir/etc/rc.d/init.d/zapmd
2. At the beginning of /usr/local/bin/wm I added 3 lines

  /usr/local/bin/ztsd &
  /usr/local/bin/zapmd &
  sleep 2
(the sleep may not be needed, or possibly could be reduced)

3. At the end of /usr/local/bin/wm I added 2 lines

  killall zapmd
  killall ztsd
4. I was still having problems with ice's config. So I ran

  ln -s /usr/local/Xredir/usr/local/lib/x11/icewm .icewm
in /home/root (somehow icewm wasn't finding its setting at this original location)

With these settings, I can switch between qtopia and X. I drop out of Qtopia using the terminate qtopia butting in the Shutdown app.

I hit /? then 'a' during the countdown to drop to a prompt

I run: wm

after I logout of icewm, I type exit to drop back into Qtopia.

I made all these changes etc, but when i drop out of qt to the console and type wm, all i get is a black screen where it just sits.

Any help is welcome

~Corona_B

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Software / Rise of the Triad for Zaurus

« on: September 02, 2004, 12:57:14 am »

Well that might be the incentive i need to finally switch from the sharp rom to oz.  the only problem being.....im using a 5600.

is it possible to get oe 3.5.1 compiled and running on the 5600?

~Corona_B

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Software / Rise of the Triad for Zaurus

« on: September 01, 2004, 11:34:04 am »

Yeah star control 2 is on my todo list to.

My goal at this point consists of rott, abuse, and starcontrol 2.

btw, dino, that is where i got the lib's from. the issue now isnt the lib's but rather from some constants in the sdl mixer...i'm workin on it.  

I dunno if i'll go through making ipk's....i'll leave that to someone else if they want to.  as soon as i get something working i'll post and make it availible somewhere for sure though.

the Error i'm getting is undefined reference to
SDL_ReadBE32 and SDL_ReadBE16

does anyone know why these constants are missing from the z port of sdl?  I assume these are constants from the original from of SDL.

I'll be looking into it more tonight....just got season 2 of aqua teen hunger force on dvd, so it's hindering my productivity

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Software / Rise of the Triad for Zaurus

« on: August 30, 2004, 09:28:42 pm »

OK i fixed the problems with the missing libs, all in all it couldnt find libSDLmain.a, libqpe.a, libqte.a, and libpthread.a.

i had all of those files on my z in some place or another, with the exception of libpthread.a, which i got from
http://paipai.org/~humorum/zaurus/develop/.../arm-linux/lib/
(i hope there is no problem with using this copy of this file, it didnt appear to be complaining about it)

at this point it gets to the final step of the compilation (gcc something.o somethingelse.o rott)
anyways, now it's giving me some guff about some undefined constants in sdl mixer, so it appears i'm going to be delving into the source after all.

now my big question is, is the version of libpthread i used causing this error? it doesnt seem like they are related, but i guess  i wont know until i get some time to delve into the source.  

I'll post the output i'm getting as soon as i get back to my z.

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Software / Rise of the Triad for Zaurus

« on: August 30, 2004, 07:01:44 pm »

I'm trying to compile Rise of the Triad for my z

I got the source\data from http://icculus.org/rott/

if you remember Rise of the Triad (rott) is about the most bitchin doom clone ever

so anyways, im having some issues. i installed the dev packages for sdl from http://www.gnurou.org/software/zaurus/

I also set the TMPDIR variable to my cf slot, so gcc would have plenty of room to work (it was bombing out when i was using the ram from running out of space)

when i run make it compiles for about X minutes or so before finally giving me the error
cannot find -lSDLmain
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: ***[rott] Error 1


does anyone know what that file is or where it should be?

I apologize but i'm a (cough hack) windows programmer by day, and my linux coding is pretty much limited to java and shell scripting.  Not that linux c is all that different from windows c, but i'd like to get rott compiled and running before i start learning the in's and outs of linux dev.

if i get this working then i'd also like to port abuse, and maybe star control 2 (all are availible at liberatedgames.com)

~Corona_B

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Accessories / Cypress SL811HS USB HOST CARD Drivers

« on: August 28, 2004, 12:15:46 pm »

i know this thread hasn't been touched in a while, but i'll post this in the hopes that it will help someone in the future.

I just got the new 20gb iPod with the click wheel, and wanted to make it a 20 battery powered hd for my z, it works like a champ!

there was only 1 difference between mounting the ipod and mounting any other usb mass storage device, for some reason when mounting the ipod use the /dev/sda2 device instead of the /dev/sda1 device you would normally use for like a jump drive or similiar device

at first i thought maybe that ratoc card was just another overpriced toy..... now its starting to prove it's worth!

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Qt/Qtopia / running duke3d : "undefined symbol: __muldi3"

« on: July 27, 2004, 01:17:44 am »

any chance that will make it into ipk form anytime soon?  I'm certain that the community would really like it