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Sharp ROMs / Cacko 1.23 Mirror Site

« on: March 17, 2010, 08:59:16 am »

Dont think its an issue

If you download the zip for your Z look in the instructions all the files for the ROM are in the ZIP, dont think I ever needed an additional kernel file after flashing the Z

C

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko 1.23 Mirror Site

« on: March 15, 2010, 08:55:04 am »

Cool

Im guessing

http://www.katastrophos.net/zaurus/mirrors/cacko/feed/

added to the application feeds list will allow packages to be installed....

fantastic

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5x00 General discussions / What Os To Use For My Poor Old Collie (5500)?

« on: February 18, 2010, 08:02:09 am »

Fraggy

A while ago I droped my 750 and went back to my 5500 (with a 750 battery) and ended up putting TkCv1 on it.  I'm pretty sure the ROM is still up on the downloads area and can be patches with the >1GB SD patch and Overclocked

I used to use the Opie Player compiled for the SHARP rom on it which worked well but needed a swap file for MP4/DivX movies but plays MP3 without.  ebook reading can be done with ebook reader or FMReaded

Hope this helps

C

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Ubuntu / Multiboot Issue

« on: September 16, 2009, 09:41:58 am »

I bet you have formatted the Angstrom as ext3...
However ext3 is not built in the kernel so it is not available at boot time.

Format the partitions as ext2 and give it a go.

Oliver

Cool, thanks, I'll give it a go when I get home.

ext3 was the reason it took me 2-3 goes to get Angstrom to boot also.   Its easy to do and unfortunatly the documentation doesn't cater for mortals......

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Ubuntu / Post Install Tweeks

« on: September 11, 2009, 05:56:20 am »

Another batch of tweaks:

Do not use LXDE, it has a bug (not sure which component) causing high cpu usage after resume (probably something with changing date/time too rapidly) and it doesnt have fill-all-space behaviour.

Install aosd_cat as osd functionality.
in .xbindkeysrc put similar configuration to display-backlight for volume controls (amixer sput PCM ...)
and for checking battery.
Add some osd to those scripts to have nice OSD while changing volume, brightness and similar. It is independent from WM-s.
Aosd_cat is very early version but it works quite nicely (lacks bar and multi line functionality)

In my experience changing the date once the gui is up causes MAXout of theCPU and eventual lockup.  The only way I've found round this is to set the date at first login at the command line.

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5x00 Hardware / Sl-5500 - Won't Power Up

« on: July 28, 2009, 07:45:42 am »

Could it be your backup battery has failed and is iether grounding the 3v rail or causiing a voltage drop accross your main battery?

https://www.oesf.org/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t11337.html

C

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Ubuntu / Post Install Tweeks

« on: July 27, 2009, 06:47:44 am »

oh!
yes from shell it works, but from the menu icon doesn´t.
thanks anyway!!!  

Some apps seem to run gksudo {command} in their menu entry

I know WIFI Radar does

Try editing synaptic.desktop and take out the gksudo

C

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Ubuntu / Post Install Tweeks

« on: July 24, 2009, 10:44:32 am »

Having installed ZUBUNTU for the first time, here are some bits that people might find of use

after loging in the first time run

ts_calibrate

to calibrate your touch screen

run killall tskeys

to get some free memory

ensure dhcp is running properly by changing the 102 and 103 entries for dhcp in /etc/passwd to 0

get your wifi / network running by looking on the forums

once you have internet connectivity, install synaptic so you can find packages with

apt-get install synaptic

now you're ready to rock

i cant run synaptic in Zubuntu 8.04, it installs but when i click it in the menu, nothing happens...
someone who can throw some light...

What do you get from a command line when you type in synaptic?

C

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5x00 Hardware / Sl-5500 - Won't Power Up

« on: July 22, 2009, 11:18:13 am »

The 5500 also has persistant memory which somtimes needs reset.  from memory there is a reset point inside the battery cover area.

C

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5x00 General discussions / How To Play Video On Poodle ?

« on: June 26, 2009, 08:32:44 am »

Try this on a Linux PC

mencoder dvd://trackno -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vqmin=2:vqmax=20:vmax_b_frames=2:vbitrate=192:vqcomp=0.6:vpass=
 -vop scale=320:240,eq=6 -ofps 25 -sws 2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=64:aq=1:mode=0 -srate 24000 -o test.avi

Its what I used to use to code for my 5500

C

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5x00 General discussions / Watapon Test

« on: June 18, 2009, 05:23:56 am »

The TKC Rom v1.0 was free, not sure where its hosted not (might be on the OESF repository)  They created it as a SHARP based ROM without PIMS etc so leaving more room for their apps.

I agree opie2 player is a little tricky to install but with even a small swap file is stable and used to work fine for me.

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5x00 General discussions / Watapon Test

« on: June 17, 2009, 12:41:56 pm »

Give tkc v1.0 with opie player2 a try


Its been  a while since I fired my 5500 up but with a small swap fiel setup, tkc should trounce the SHARP ROM if only because you will be able to play mpeg videos in landscape at 25fps

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Ubuntu / Stupid Question But

« on: June 08, 2009, 01:38:57 pm »

Guys  Thanks for the replies.

It does pose a couple more questions though.

1. To wait for the next release or not?

2. How to know what runs well on the Z?

3. How to know where to get other apps from other distros and how to get them onto ZUBUNTU?

Sounds like the horisons are opening up though.  I'm happily working my way though synaptic, overjoyed at the number of packages available that make ubuntu real easy to use.

so far I'm running

Dillo - simple web browser thats quick and lite (DSL browser of old)
Claws-email
ePDFViewer - without gnome dependancies (xPDF didnt work)
SAMBA Client (though get error 20 when trying to mount my NAS box one thing to play with tonight)
WIFI Radar - Cool gui for WIFI configs (only accepts HEX passwords though but still cool)
fbReader - ebooks ebooks ebooks ebooks
mscoretruetype fonts ha-har my CV looks like it should on ABIWord now...

and have spend a night going through the games section.  one thing I am running out of though is space on my SD.  Anyone got an upper limit on card size? I've used 2GB cards in CACKO before but not tried lately.  Whats the biggest anyone has managed to run rc1 off of?

While other distro's have obviously done very good work, I have never found a distro that had so many applications available in the feeds, not even CACKO / SHARP feeds had the availability of current software that UBUNTU has.  

Cortez  Many thanks for your hard work,

C

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Ubuntu / Stupid Question But

« on: June 07, 2009, 02:34:13 pm »

So are you talking about things that are in the Ubuntu repos, but not the Ubuntu-armel repos, or apps that Ubuntu doesn't have any packages for? The former is much easier to accomplish (eg, apt-get the_command_to_build_from_source_here and you're done).

Yup I was refering to packages available to i386 UBUNTU but not zubuntu

so for example mplayer

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Ubuntu / Stupid Question But

« on: June 07, 2009, 11:50:08 am »

Realising this is a comunity effort so rather than having a winge that such and such app isnt available, I thought it might be an idea to see if we can get some people together to add to the zubuntu feeds.

I have no idea where to start but it sounds like some of the people in the forum do.  So If anyone has some time to post up a howto then we might be able to get everything thats posible to package packaged and then we will all benefit.

I'm assuming we would need to either cross compile on a PC (gulp) or download source and compile on the Z (slow)

Comments / abuse / howto's welcome

C

(posted from my C1000 running ZUBUNTU rc1 and Dillo)

PS one of the things that makes UBUNTU so usable is not so much that its any better than any other distro, its more that there is user friendly documentation everywhere you look.