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Archos forum / Pma400 General Questions

« on: June 08, 2005, 04:57:56 pm »

A few questions for anyone out there who has one of these:

is there a zgcc that works with the stock OS image?

do you have full use capabilities with an external display (meaning, can you use a lcd tv as a monitor for opera or word processing, etc.)?
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Not sure zgcc has been used yet, there might not be enough space, unless you could use the hard disk. External display is tv-out, in Qtopia at 320x240 res, the video apps are higher resolution. Maybe it might be possible to increase res for Qtopia tv-out?

Rich
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hrm

increasing the rez for video out from inside qtopia would work. Or maybe a chroot debian environment could handle the 320x240 internal display x (yeah, but ONE xterm window is all i need if i have screen!) with higher resolution output to a tv/monitor--- now, that wold be useful.

( I assume the drive could be partitioned so that debian would be able to live on it adequately)

Or, of course, pdaxrom, which is what i tend to run- could support multiple resolutions in x with different outputs. I would probably lose the cool encoding and playback, though.

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Archos forum / Pma400 General Questions

« on: June 08, 2005, 12:03:18 pm »

A few questions for anyone out there who has one of these:

is there a zgcc that works with the stock OS image?

do you have full use capabilities with an external display (meaning, can you use a lcd tv as a monitor for opera or word processing, etc.)?

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6000 - Tosa / Keyboards?

« on: June 27, 2004, 09:03:47 pm »

Another Update:


Well, I've now tested 5 usb keyboards with the zaurus, and the keymap is all messed up on all of them.  i've managed to get dump/load/show keys onto the Z and can now write a keymap, but Im wondering if this is a bug, or if it is a deliberate Sharpism to prevent anything except 'special driver' devices from working.

I'm assuming bug, since no one is dumb enough to advertise usb and then deliberately make it less useful.

expect a keymap to be posted sometime.

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6000 - Tosa / Keyboards?

« on: June 25, 2004, 07:40:26 pm »

Update:

the 6000 is here, and gorgeous. really nice machine.

The stowaway usb keyboard is just as good as i remember the old handspring one being.

It claims to be a standard usb keyboard and not require any special drivers.

The Z sees it, and i can type..... sort of. about half the keys work, the rest do very odd things, like the mapping is wrong.

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6000 - Tosa / disk booting

« on: June 23, 2004, 05:55:24 pm »

I'm not sure if this is strictly a 6000L issue, nor if it will be something we will see until we have all the driver kinks worked out, but here goes:

Is anyone doing a disk boot from microdrive? I'm very interested in making the 6000L into a real laptop replacement, including perhaps booting from a microdrive (or booting testing environments from micdrodrive, at least)

I'm not certain that there is much point to it, when you could just run /boot out of the flash area. I suppose I'm mostly looking for ways to get a regular style of distro onto the Z.

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6000 - Tosa / Keyboards?

« on: June 23, 2004, 05:46:17 pm »

MY 6000 is on its way right now, and I'm looking for portable keyboards that work-

The stowaway IR keyboard is reported as working, has anyone got any experience with other IR keyboards?

Has anyone yet tested the Stowaway USB folding keyboard? This is the one I'm most interested in.

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6000 - Tosa / Wish List

« on: June 17, 2004, 10:55:31 pm »

First- while I\'m not sure about SD cards, there *are* performance differences amongst CF cards. Several speed tests are available via the altar of Google, butsandisk cards are, oddly, among the slowest. (I use lexar cards in some really OLD and SLOW palmtops and the speed difference is noticeable)

The next thing is.. If at all possible I\'d hold off on anything larger than a 256MB SD card for several months. The prices have dropped dramatically over the past year as the top sizes continue to increase, and your main storage may end up being the CF slot (where $ per megabyte is best).

A gps in CF format.. yeah, I\'d take one, though I\'d try for usb connectovity first. BUt that\'s something where I\'d only use the gps with the sled, since when I do need a gps, I\'m often out of range of the mains for day days on end.

Wired ethernet is handy when you need it, but again- any old ne2k compatible cf 10/t card should be fine. Most of the time it will be just as easy to d usb  networking anywhere you need wires YMMV, of course, but this has been my experienve with a C750.

We are ordering ours soon, and I will have a chance to check the fit, but OtterBox may make something that will work- i know that it holds a jornada 720 HPC just fine, and those are pretty large.

Other cases to look at are larger digital camera cases, or older 110 style camera cases.

Anyone know of a really small or foldable USB keyboard?