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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus Sl-c860

« on: January 26, 2005, 12:38:50 am »

Bump for note that I've put it on eBay (auction here)

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus Sl-c860

« on: January 25, 2005, 09:56:14 am »

Bump... Still FS, need to sell soon!!

Dave

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus Sl-c860

« on: January 19, 2005, 05:15:13 pm »

CAD - Canadian dollars?
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Yes

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus Sl-c860

« on: January 19, 2005, 12:39:28 am »

Ok... I must have left my wifi card at the office today, but here are some quick pics of my zaurus with everything included, minus the wifi card.

Please e-mail asap if you are interested; otherwise, this thing's headed to ebay in the next couple of days!

[img]http://zauruspics.dagsolutions.ca/zaurus1.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]
[img]http://zauruspics.dagsolutions.ca/zaurus2.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]
[img]http://zauruspics.dagsolutions.ca/zaurus3.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]

Dave

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus Sl-c860

« on: January 18, 2005, 07:13:24 pm »

For anyone interested, I will be posting pictures this evening after work.

Dave

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus Sl-c860

« on: January 18, 2005, 03:12:25 pm »

Hi all

I've finally come to the point where I've become 'bored' with my Zaurus - no longer have the time/energy/interest to continue to work on it.  So, my C860 is up for sale!

It's in like-new condition, with the original box, manuals, etc included.  I will also include my Linksys CF Wifi card, and a 512MB Lexar CF card.  I also have a 512MB Lexar SD card which is currently used in my gf's digicam, but is negotiable - ie: could be included if we work something out.

It's never been used w/o a screen protector (ever).  The one currently on it is a Brando Ultraclear, just needs to be reapplied properly to get rid of all the air bubbles.

I can pre-load it with any of the major ROMs out there if you'd like (Cacko, OpenZaurus or pdaXrom); it currently has pdaXrom Kathrin RC8 installed.

With all the above-mentioned "extras", I am asking $750CDN obo plus shipping (shipping cost depends on where the buyer is located).  It will be shipped from Calgary, AB, Canada.

Please e-mail me at dgoodlad (at) gmail.com if you are at all interested.

EDIT: I've put my Zaurus on eBay (auction here), but if anyone is still interested feel free to e-mail me - you might catch it before any bids come in!

Thanks!
Dave

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Problems Crosscompiling Imagemagick

« on: January 03, 2005, 12:32:38 pm »

You copied the script that libtool generates instead of the actual binary  

When libtool is used to build binaries, it creates a script in place of the binary that does a lot of autofoo-type magic to re-link the REAL binary, which is stored in a '.libs' subdirectory of wherever the script is placed.

My suggestion is to do something like

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INSTALL_ROOT=/tmp/ImageMagick-6.xxxx make install
Then in /tmp/ImageMagick-6.xxxx you'll get everything installed as if it went to '/'.  Including the real binaries and libraries this time

Dave

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pkgconfig Question

« on: January 03, 2005, 12:26:15 pm »

Go and download the gtkhtml tarball from somewhere (likely the gnome ftp site has it).  Compile and install it into your sdk directory (/opt/arm/3.3.2-vfp I assume).  Just like a program, except it installs shared object files and some headers.

Dave

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Status Update..

« on: December 18, 2004, 08:38:18 pm »

Definitively something I would like to see download and install. No way to debug applications on my Z or on the PC. On PC as on the device, the debug information are not handled correclty by gdb. Only way to fix bugs: browse source code with the eyes unsure.gif

So if someone have a solution, please tells me.

Amrein:  The solution that I used was to use the gdb server (it's already an ipk in the feed iirc).  You need to build gdb for your desktop machine with arm as the 'target' architecture.  Then, copy both the binary you want to debug and its source to your desktop.  Run the gdb server on your zaurus to run the desired binary, then run gdb on your desktop machine and connect to the server (can't remember exact syntax, it's been awhile - check the gdb manpage).

Dave

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / How To Setup Native Onboard Development On 3.5.2

« on: December 18, 2004, 09:32:08 am »

I tried to setup a native toolchain build with openembedded a few months ago and had some similar troubles, and eventually gave up.  As far as I could determine, nothing done on the zaurus end would completely fix the toolchain.  It was an issue in how binutils was built iirc, but I never did figure out how to fix it.

Dave

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Status Update..

« on: December 17, 2004, 03:15:22 pm »

- gdb not working (i.e. not triggering breakpoints) is a major drawback. I figured this was a known bug and really hope this is fixed by now.

I reported this originally, and from the sounds of it they've got it fixed.

- cross-compiling is way faster but still has annoying bugs. Apart for the usual configure specials that cannot run in x mode, I found out the cc1 frontend to generate x86 asembler instructions occasionally (when building tcpdump I encountered that on quite a few source files). When this happens I have to switch to the native toolchain, and for that rsync will be much helpful.

The cross-compiler should *never* generate x86 instructions.  It must be using the wrong compiler at some stage.  It's not that 'cross compiling' in general has bugs, it's packages that were not written to be portable (ie: do stupid things with the autofoo tools, try to run binaries build in the make process, etc).  Cross-compiling is a bit of an art at times

Personally, I'm really in favor of some of the packages that pdaxrom is using, and the general setup of the rom, but I much prefer openembedded as a build system over ptxdist (which is the base of pdaXrom's build system).  Makes dealing with cross-compilation MUCH easier.

Dave

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Live Cd For Developpers

« on: December 16, 2004, 01:07:49 pm »

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ipkg install makeshould do it

Dave

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Ext2 On A Cf Card

« on: December 15, 2004, 07:56:19 pm »

I dont know if its the same setup as with SDs, but when you format a SD its
/dev/mmcd/disc0/part1  rather than /dev/mmcda1

the cf might be similar to that, something like
/dev/hda/part1, /dev/hd/disc0/part1 or some such thing

just a stab in the dark tho

Stab in the dark indeed   No, it's /dev/hda1.  Check the output of 'mount' with no arguments, it shouldn't show the cf card as mounted.

Dave

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / I Accedently Deleted Sharp_mmcsd_m.o From Rc5 Rom

« on: December 12, 2004, 03:30:18 pm »

I'd post it if I had my zaurus with me, but sadly, it's at home today.

Anyway, this is definitely the biggest argument for supporting (and 'forcing') a non-root user from the start.  When you have ANYONE ranging from complete linux/unix newbies up to gurus, mistakes get made when you run as root all the time.  Period.  This should definitely be a priority for the pdaXrom developers to fix in upcoming releases.

Out of curiosity, how did you manage to 'accidentally' delete a file anywhere in /lib/modules?  Running 'rm' on anything in that directory should always make you think twice.

Dave

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Roadmap For Pdaxrom

« on: December 07, 2004, 12:44:31 pm »

If you want, I can throw it up on my server at home - send me a PM if you want to do this...

Dave