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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rc11 On C3000?

« on: October 15, 2005, 01:30:11 am »

excuse me, i am french, what do you by" tweak your system"?
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I would not bother with PdaXrom on the C3000 since it is oviously not supported. Use Open BSD.

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OpenBSD / Gdb Single Step Fails

« on: September 11, 2005, 01:54:26 am »

Create a simple "hello world" C program, compile with debug (gcc -g), then try to single step through the program with gdb. This fails, is this a know problem ? I am using the latest 3.8 snapshot.

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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo

« on: September 03, 2005, 07:24:38 pm »

I've done the install over and over like a moron. The problem is after I calibrate the screen, halt, reboot, I can't seem to find the boot partition in the boot> prompt.

I've tried every device name I can think of... nothing will boot. bsd, obsd and bsd.old are not found anywhere.

I made sure the OpenBSD partition was bootable/active. I even tried reinit'ing the MBR. The offset for a is 63 bytes. / is on a, /tmp is on b.

What the heck stupid newbie mistake am I making?
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I had a similar problem, but that was because I did not create the "a" label at the beginning of the a6 partition. I created the "b" label (swap) first. Once I corrected this mistake, it booted.

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OpenBSD / New Bsd 3.8 Beta Snapshot ?

« on: August 31, 2005, 06:06:04 pm »

Looks like the OpenBSD "daily changelog" for current hasn't been updated since May, but it should have most of the major changes listed in it. Prepare for a lot of reading.

OpenBSD.org daily changelog:
http://openbsd.org/plus.html


P.S. There's always CVS if you really want the latest info on a particular feature.
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Thanks, that is what I was looking for. I have not tried the CVS thing yet, I need to seup my wireless connection first.

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OpenBSD / New Bsd 3.8 Beta Snapshot ?

« on: August 31, 2005, 02:03:16 pm »

I noticed a newly created snapshot directory for 3.8 beta. Anyone knows what bugs have been fixed, and what new features have been implemented ? It would be nice to include a readme.txt file with this information.

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OpenBSD / Small Anoyances With Bsd 3.8 Beta 0 On Sl-3000

« on: August 30, 2005, 06:03:25 pm »

Good Day!

I am using 3.8 beta[0].

Details please, including dmesg.

It seems like the HD light is programmed to reflect the device on/off
state, rather than the disk activity.

No, HD light if for pcmcia bus controller activity.  Power led if for
device on/off and charging state.

Once in a while, when the device
is suspended from the main console (no X), the screen turns off, but the
HD light remains on. Once in that state, the only way to turn the disk
activity light off is to hard reset the machine (remove the batt.. etc).

That a hang then, what are the peripherals attached?  USB net adapters,
CF wifi?


Mabuhay! barryg

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I have a Hitachi 4G Microdrive attached to the pcmcia slot. I did not know that the drive LED reflected the pcmcia controller status. Anyway, on occasion suspending the device (apm -z) leaves the pcmcia controller active (green LED is still on while the screen is off). This does not occur often though.

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OpenBSD / Welcome To The Zaurus Openbsd Forum!

« on: August 29, 2005, 02:23:03 pm »

Good Day!

 
        <SNIP>

The installation instructions are indeed complicated and inacurate in
places, but they make more sense once you installed successfully.

        Can you point out areas/sections that are ambiguous and
inaccurate?  I am helping out in editing INSTALL.zaurus[0].  The devs
are *very* much concerned about the documentation as much as the care
about security related bugs.



Mabuhay! barryg

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapsho.../INSTALL.zaurus

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Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga, bofh
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1) At the start, the installation procedure states that a DOS partitions can be used to install, but later claims that only fss and ext2 are supported.

2) The openbsd37_arm.ipk for 3.8 beta cannot be installed (either with the GUI or from the command line). Something to do with incorrect permissions while installing (I was root when I tried to install). The only technique which worked was to insmod the zbsdmod.o and running zboot.

3) rc.zboot script was not installed. I had to fetch it from the web and manually install it to get to the bsd boot prompt. This meant remounting the / directory to be writable and copying the file to the expected location.

4) The disk labeling process never stated that the a partition should be at the beginning of the A6 partition. I created the b partition first which prevented bsd from booting (the machine failed to boot with a very obscure error message).

5) Right in the midle of the installation instructions, there is a reference to running newfs to intialize a new dos file system (and shrinking the existing dos partition). This makes no sense to a user who never ran bsd before. The majority of existing Z users are Linux users.

6) The recovery procedure (what to do to restore a corrupted system) should be moved to the end of the instructions (in a separate section). Right now, it is right in the midle of the installation procedure, causing the user to wonder about what to do if recovery is not needed.

There are many other possible variations to the install, I only went through one of them.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Keep Pdaxrom Alive

« on: August 29, 2005, 01:33:35 pm »

Currently and for the last 1.5 years i have been working fulltime on the pdaXrom project but that might not be the case for much longer due to cashflow problems

We need roughly $500 a month to pay all my bills and stay alive and pay for hardwarde/internet/site etc. - the $500 makes it possible for me to work fulltime on the project.  Usually each month we get a maximum total of $200 from donations and banner clicks - what normally happens is that Laze pays the difference up to the $500 we need each month to keep everything running. But due to problems with Lazes private economy he can't be paying this difference for the next 4-6 months at least.

So now we are left with two options:
1. We get more donations and banner clicks so the total amount each month reaches the $500. If each user that was active in the forum just donated like $10-20 it would be solved. I know some people donate but not as many that downloads the rom at least  Maybe we should make it so you could have a regular subscribtion for each month?

2. I go find a "real" job and thereby i would only me able to work like 1 hour on the pdaXrom project a day and that would not be good for the project. Yes we could find more developers but each time we have tried they work on the project for a week and then they lose interest - so we have decided that i stay the core developer and we have sub-developer making applets/programs etc for the rom.

I of course prefer option 1 so please, please help keep pdaXrom alive and donate today
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Why don't you sell your product ? Seems like you have something some people want, so why not get some venture capital an start a company. There is nothing wrong with making money writting software.

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OpenBSD / Small Anoyances With Bsd 3.8 Beta 0 On Sl-3000

« on: August 29, 2005, 01:22:55 pm »

Good Day!

        <SNIP>

2) Suspending the machine outside of X turns off the screen, but leave
the device powered on.

        How did you test this?  What is your OpenBSD version.

        On a my OpenBSD 3.8-beta[0], suspend works on X and the console.


Mabuhay! barryg

OpenBSD 3.8-beta (GENERIC) #142: Sun Aug 21 22:14:15 MDT 2005


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I am using 3.8 beta[0]. It seems like the HD light is programmed to reflect the device on/off state, rather than the disk activity. Once in a while, when the device is suspended from the main console (no X), the screen turns off, but the HD light remains on. Once in that state, the only way to turn the disk activity light off is to hard reset the machine (remove the batt.. etc).

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OpenBSD / Small Anoyances With Bsd 3.8 Beta 0 On Sl-3000

« on: August 28, 2005, 03:37:10 pm »

1) If one exits X, the console keyboard becomes very slow to respond.

2) Suspending the machine outside of X turns off the screen, but leave the device powered on.

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OpenBSD / Question About Openbsd

« on: August 27, 2005, 01:27:41 am »

I got several questions about openbsd
i think many users who are thinking about installing openbsd should want to know something the same

1. support battery or rotation like sharp rom?

2. can I run Java SE on it(swing,awt and applet)?

3. can I create a swap on the sd card rather than the MD?

4. it seems that it dont support bluetooth, isnt it?

5. any restore/backup tools like the one in sharp rom?

6. what about the speed when running some application?

7. does it support chinese(bulid-in)?
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1. Battery is supported in 3.8 beta (suspend and resume work like a charm).

2. Something called Kaffe (JDK 1.1) is available.

3. Don't see why not, but why would you want to do that ?

4. Some USB BT devices are supported.

5. You can use the same Unix desktop tools to backup your data.

6. Speed is adequate. It's no P4, but is very acceptable.

7. Don't know about this one.

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OpenBSD / Welcome To The Zaurus Openbsd Forum!

« on: August 27, 2005, 01:11:35 am »

I want to ask if there is really anyone having openBSD on their Z..
if so, can those tell me if it is stable or not?
and it seems that the installation instructions are so complicated
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I installed 3.8 beta, and it is stable. No crashes so far. The installation instructions are indeed complicated and inacurate in places, but they make more sense once you installed successfully.

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OpenBSD / Openbsd On Sl-3000

« on: August 27, 2005, 12:54:23 am »

with or without a gui?

Would it support the battery and rotate and suspend features?
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Suspend is supported. Just type "apm -z" in the shell and the unit goes to sleep within a second or two. Press the power button and it comes alive again, in the same state it was before going to sleep. Desktop machines can't do that so instantly, its very cool. I don't see an easy way to rotate the screen, wich is fine cause I don't have the need to do this. Bsd does not support my CF wireless card though (SocketComm), so I ordered one of the supported ones ($35 Linksys). I should get it next week so I can get on the internet with firefox, which is already intalled.

If you are hard set on the Linux way of doing things, you may dislike the Bsd way of doing the same things. But as I learn, I increasingly find the Bsd way more intuitive. In addition, since the very well written man pages are also installed, help is never more than a few keystrokes away.

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OpenBSD / Openbsd On Sl-3000

« on: August 26, 2005, 07:33:48 pm »

Dare I ask how will openbsd on the Z be better than linux on it?
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I need to play more with bsd to provide a complete answer. But from what I have observed so far, this implementation has the following very nice features,

1) This a full bsd distribution, the same one which can be installed on desktop class machines (bsd 3.8 beta).

2) Support for compiling all userland packages and the kernel natively. This is a truly amazing feature  .

3) Includes gcc 3.3.5 and supporting libs, not the very old gcc 2.95.x.

4) All the unix man pages are included. This makes the system completely self contained.

5) This distribution is purely X window based, no need for QT at all.

6) Runs very well on the sl-3000.

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OpenBSD / Openbsd On Sl-3000

« on: August 26, 2005, 01:29:51 pm »

Since pdaXrom is not available for the sl-3000, I decided to give openBsd for the zaurus a try. The installation is a bit of a challenge (particularly if you have a Linux background), but the result is worth the pain.