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General Discussion / SL6000 Questions and general Zaurus Q\'s

« on: May 02, 2004, 07:56:10 pm »

Hi all. I have several general questions about the SL6000.

1) Has anyone had success using USB devices with it? I know the specs say \"USB host compatible with Sharp products\" or something like that. How about other (non-Sharp) products?
 
archos 10g mp3/hd came in as /mnt/sda1
sony dsc-p51 digicam in as /dev/sdb1
Using universal usb cables from staples

2) Has anyone installed OpenZaurus on the SL6000?

No, but pdaXrom works somewhat in console mode (the keyboard isn\'t mapped properly yet). X comes up and looks good but is not quite functional (see the dual booting article in the pdaXrom groups).

3) What is up with www.myzaurus.com? It appears to have stopped in time. The latest news/info/updates on that site appear to be fro June, 2003.

dunno

4) What battery is the proper spare (model number, please) for the SL6000?

dunno, but pcconnection sells them whatever they are.

5) Should I just get the 5600 and save myself 300 bucks? (I saw a 5600 listed on Amazon for $289!!!) Actuall, I will do the analysis on this one myself -- lessee, add in Wireles CF card, compare the screen size, hmmm... compute compute...I think I\'d go with the SL6000. But I just wanted additional impressions and comparisons between the new Zaurus and last year\'s Z.

Depends on what you value for your money. I value screen quality and expandability (but this thing is BIG ... not something you\'re going to flip out in the supermarket to look at the shopping list. That made me strongly consider the 860 )

6) Zaurus SL600 versus full-featured notebook. (e.g Dell Inspiron 1100, which I found refurbished for only around $800) Pros/Cons?

It\'s not a notebook. By a notebook if that\'s what you need, especially if you\'re looking to run any commercial or mature software.

Thanks, all. I\'m sure I\'ll have plenty more questions.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dual Booting pdaX from SD

« on: April 30, 2004, 02:29:30 pm »

Probably off topic .. but while you guys are discussing dual booting, thought I\'d drop a not for any newbies (such as myself) out there that another reason to have a dual boot from a sd card, is so that you can get into the unit if the original one crashes.
Toasted my  sl-6 installing some libs or other the other day (would not boot into Qt) ... ok, I was able to eventually reformat the internal rom as per the manual, but not before booting through the sd card and mounting the internal flash/rom (mmtdblock3 I believe) and searching every file and lib that had been touched. I just couldn\'t figure out what was vanilla, and what was add-on as per the stuff I was trying to install.

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6000 - Tosa / can I change the screen rotate direction?

« on: April 30, 2004, 02:19:59 pm »

yes. somewhere in the settings .. forget where

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General Discussion / 2.2G CF 179.00

« on: April 26, 2004, 07:44:54 pm »

Thanks coolass ... I presume I won\'t have to get out the soldering iron to remove the cf then ? Does it just snap out ?

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General Discussion / 2.2G CF 179.00

« on: April 26, 2004, 07:17:34 pm »

what model player would that be then ?

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General Discussion / 2.2G CF 179.00

« on: April 26, 2004, 07:05:53 pm »

So is this a deal, or is there an issue with transcend\'s CF cards ?

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc....-136&depa=02.2G cf

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dual Booting pdaX from SD

« on: April 26, 2004, 09:25:54 am »

Found ts_calibrate in /usr/bin/ ... was nothing like that in /etc/. Anyways, ran it, and it went through the 5 point and taps ... afterwards nothing new was in /etc/ (should there be a file generated from this ?). X was the same .. I could navigate using the buttons (not so straightforward, but probably not hard to fix) a bit, but the pen still does nothing. For instance, use the keys to highlight a folder, then use the pen to tap another folder, the highlighted folder will blink, but not open. There is a hint of a pointer somewhere on the screen, but does not follow the pen. So there is also no way top get down to the menu on the bottom where the taskbar is either. When I get some more time I can hack at it some more, so any pointers appreciated. Does pdaX use a config file like xf86config-4 or something ?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dual Booting pdaX from SD

« on: April 25, 2004, 08:36:38 pm »

Just a note to let you dude(tte?)s know that following stu\'s instructions and caveats, then pdaXrom dual booted on an sl-6 with an sd card. X pops up with the xfbdev from x11zaurus, and looks clean. Problem is it doesn\'t recognize the pen input ... should I just be able to edit the xfree86 file and change input devices ? Any ideas on this appreciated ...