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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Hitachi 6g Microdrive From C3200

« on: May 24, 2006, 06:10:28 pm »

I replaced the microdrive with a CF card, so now I'm selling the microdrive. I used it for less than a week, and it's been wrapped in an anti-static bag since then.

I live in the US, and I'd prefer to ship to North America. I will pay the shipping cost for something like UPS 3-day.

Here's the deal: it's US$125, but NOT to me. You have to donate US$125 to one of the Z developers who is really active on this forum (like Hrw, sashz, Mickeyl, or maslovsky, or someone else if we agree ahead of time). Then the dev will PM me that he got the money, and I'll send you the drive.

This idea came to me while I was driving to work listening to public radio, you can figure out the rest   it seems to work for them. -- wylbur.

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Sharp ROMs / Specify Fast Load From Console?

« on: May 22, 2006, 02:18:55 am »

Bam,

I found ~/Settings/Launcher.conf in the same thread (and PM'd you on on a related question you asked there).

However, when I run my script from Launcher.conf, the *script* stays resident, but Ko/Pi is closed when I hit the close button. Worse, somehow they're in separate shells, so Ko/Pi can't see the ssh-agent I'm trying to glue to it.

If I run this script from a console, it works:

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eval `/usr/bin/ssh-agent -s`
/usr/bin/ssh-add
kopi >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
I can close the console, and it's all good -- except that Ko/Pi closes when I hit the X button instead of staying in RAM. Does the cacko WM have a minimize option?

thanks to all -- wylbur.

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Sharp ROMs / Specify Fast Load From Console?

« on: May 22, 2006, 12:27:52 am »

thanks for the tips! A few follow-up questions:

I've checked the {/home/zaurus/Settings/|/usr/QtPalmtop.rom/defconf/}qpe.conf files, and I don't see a section on fastloading. They seem to be ini format, which is easy enough to hack, but is it just

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[fastload]
kopior something like that?

And if I put the script there, will it launch on boot as Meanie suggests? The bigger picture is that I'm trying to put an ssh-agent where kopi can see it so that syncing goes passwordless. Thanks -- wylbur.

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Sharp ROMs / Specify Fast Load From Console?

« on: May 21, 2006, 05:01:39 am »

I want to load KoPi in a script, but with the remain-in-memory feature that can be specified in the gui. Is there a wrapper or switch for this?

tia -- wylbur

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Gpe Pim Apps

« on: May 20, 2006, 06:14:08 pm »

thanks, Xromer, this is pretty neat stuff.

Could you repost libeventdb_cvs.240406_armv5tel.ipk to your feed? Only the earlier one is there, and as you pointed out a couple of weeks ago, the two versions can live next to each other. gpe-calendar needs the newer one, I think.

thanks again -- wylbur.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / *re*solved No Power Led

« on: May 20, 2006, 02:18:38 pm »

If you can't get the battery and the AC to cooperate (e.g., because the amber LED won't come on with the battery in and the AC connected), then you've b0rked the NAND and the Z is extremely confused. At that point, do a complete NAND restore (see "in case a backup won't work"), and from there you should be able to flash normally.

Sigh. On to the next thing -- wylbur.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / *re*solved No Power Led

« on: May 20, 2006, 03:02:37 am »

So I'm back to the problem of being unable to flash. Here are the symptoms.

When I do the AC out-battery out-battery in-lock-AC in-OK+power to get to the flash menu, I get no response from the Z. I've noticed that unless the amber power LED is on, the Z won't respond at all.

So I *can* get to the diagnostics menu by AC out-D+M-AC in. At that point, going to the low battery check (page 2 item 5) with no battery in the "Fatal Status" is "L" (which I assume means "low"?) and the "Main Bat:" reports "1.0V (53)"   (does the 53 mean mA?).

So then I put the battery in, without changing the menu. "Fatal Status" is now "H", and the "Main Bat:" reports "3.7V (199)" with seems reasonable enough. No amber light during any of this.

I skip down to charge on the same page (item 10), and it *always* says "off." I can force it up to "full" and immediately get an amber light.

But from there, I can't get to the "exit" menu leaving the charger set at "full." If I hit the cancel button, the amber light immediately goes off, and returning to the charge menu shows that it's off again.

If I tap the "full" box, it flashes green for a moment, then returns to yellow when I release. If I tap "half" or "exit", it flashes light blue for a moment then returns to yellow.

So there's no way I can force the amber light on long enough to flash.

Last time I had this prob, apparently I misdiagnosed it as the battery not fitting properly. The battery fits fine, as the charging stuff above indicates.

I'm going to leave it set at Full for a while, then see if (a) the low battery check reports different values, and (b) if I can get the amber light to come on when I want to flash.

Thoughts? -- wylbur.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Media Player Problems In Opie

« on: May 18, 2006, 12:42:00 am »

I observe the same problem with opieplayer2 on this ROM (OZ/Opie 3.5.4.1-rc2) -- I cannot affect the volume which seems to come out of the Z at max. Neither onscreen opieplayer controls, nor the volume applet, nor the buttons have any effect.

-- wylbur

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie Notes

« on: May 17, 2006, 11:54:05 pm »

Hi Hrw,

sorry that I just found this thread. Elsewhere I suggested what could be a kind of ics-style backend for notes:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=19441&hl=

This might be a step to being able to sync notes with KDE's knotes application which also stores notes in ics.

What do you think? -- wylbur.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / App To Sync With Kde Knotes?

« on: May 17, 2006, 03:40:17 am »

KDE's knotes is one of those yellow-sticky makers. My desktop is littered with tiny to-dos, phone messages, etc. They live long enough to be migrated into more serious apps or get deleted, but they're very convenient.

I've found that kde stores the knotes in an ics format file, which is the same as korganizer's internal format which we already know how to sync with Opie-calendar. If there were a simple notes-generator-viewer in Opie, the sync tool would happily sync the desktop notes with the Z notes.

any ideas?  TIA -- wylbur.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / C3k & 8gb Card (what Size To Format?)

« on: May 17, 2006, 02:31:31 am »

I'm no expert, but I have managed to wipe my NAND, replace it with d+b to terminal, totally repartition the microdrive repeatedly, and then replace it with a CF card. And now it works!

Anyway, the OZ developers could tell you more, but AFAICT, all OZ needs is about 150 megs of ext2 in /dev/hda1, and it's then good to go. I have no idea where it puts the "altboot" bootloader, but it's got to be in there somewhere.

My partitions are as follows:

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root@spitz:~/# mount
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)
ramfs on /dev type ramfs (rw)
ramfs on /dev/.static/dev type ramfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock2 on /mnt/nand2 type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)
/dev/mtdblock3 on /mnt/nand3 type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)
and /dev/hda2 is about 130 megs of swap. I hacked /etc/fstab to set this stuff up at boot, and it's working pretty well. hth -- wylbur.

ps. I live in Palo Alto. If you're close, we could hack a bit.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Why Is Oz Not Using Flash On The C3100?

« on: May 17, 2006, 02:16:36 am »

after I flashed OZ/Opie 3.5.4.1-rc2, I found that for reasons I don't know, there are four partitions in the NAND. First I tried to look at the partitions:

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root@spitz:~/books# fdisk /dev/mtdblock
Unable to open /dev/mtdblockThen I tried to mount the first and second partitions:

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root@spitz:~/books# mount /dev/mtdblock0 /mnt/nand0
mount: Mounting /dev/mtdblock0 on /mnt/nand0 failed: Permission denied
root@spitz:~/books# mount /dev/mtdblock1 /mnt/nand1
mount: Mounting /dev/mtdblock1 on /mnt/nand1 failed: Invalid argumentOk, I'm root, so I don't quite get the permission denied error. Are these the famous backup images? Anyway, I was able to mkfs.ext2 -j /dev/mtdblock{2,3}, and now I have the following:

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root@spitz:~/# df
/dev/mtdblock2           31729      4127     25964  14% /mnt/nand2
/dev/mtdblock3           88243      4127     79560   5% /mnt/nand3My plan is to store stuff that I don't want overwritten during OZ flashes to /mnt/nand2 and /mnt/nand3. Similarly, I've moved /opt and /usr/local to links on /dev/hda3 (mounted as /home), and I figure that will be safe too.

Am I right, OZ developers?

TIA, and for all the great work -- wylbur.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Mini Opie-x11 Howto

« on: May 16, 2006, 01:42:27 am »

very nifty, I look forward to trying it out tomorrow. My hope is to get OO.o running under Opie, with as minimal additions as necessary. This might be the  route ...

-- wylbur.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / *re*solved No Power Led

« on: May 13, 2006, 05:21:00 am »

Sigh.

While I was nudging the internal boards about, I must have pushed the three gold power lead coils back a bit. Pushing the battery forward makes all the contacts, the charging light comes on, and I can flash again.

-- wylbur.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / *re*solved No Power Led

« on: May 13, 2006, 04:32:18 am »

update:

I *can* get to the service menu using the battery out, reset, D+M, battery in+lock, AC on combination.

There's a menu there for charging, and it said "off." I clicked "full," and the power led came on. But when I exited, the led light went back off.

Resetting normally to reflash, I'm back to a dead on/off button and a blinking power led. I guess I'm going to let it charge overnight and see if it comes back to life  

-- wylbur