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General Discussion / Cringley's latest article includes impressive use

« on: October 01, 2004, 11:39:01 am »

See http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html

Andrew Greig at Starnix in Canada seems to be living a geek's wet dream. Very impressive.

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General Discussion / New SL-6000L User/Owner With Many Questions

« on: September 20, 2004, 09:35:37 pm »

For  qpdf2 on a 6000 go to the home screen and hold down the qpdf2 icon until the settings come up. I have both  the following settings unset

"Execute with root privilege"
"Display with magnified screen"

I think the latter is your problem.
I also don't have a problem with qpdf2 in landscape. I think it works really well and prefer reading a book that way.

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X/Qt / Landscape significantly slower than Portrait?

« on: July 21, 2004, 03:39:31 pm »

I'm using XQt version 0.8 on a 6000L with blackbox and the Tcl/Tk demo app and it seems fast in portrait but noticably slower in landscape. Anyone know why?

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Sharp ROMs / Where is dlopen() and libdl?

« on: July 21, 2004, 06:56:18 am »

I have a  6000L and using zgcc I've compiled Tcl/Tk for XQt. It works great. However, the configure script concluded that dynamic loading wasn't avaiable. It was looking for -ldl and the dlopen() call. Is it really not available in the Sharp ROM?

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Linux Issues / linux desktop mobo recomendations

« on: July 16, 2004, 11:55:50 pm »

I'm running on an A7N8X-E Deluxe with Mandrake 10  Community edition. I think the A7N8X-X is probably better value ($62 on newegg today). I had a couple of problems
1) freezing up - fixed  by adding   acpi=off noapic nolapic to the LILO boot line
2) I had trouble getting the sound to work but in googling around everyone else seems to be happy. I did have a duff sound "card" on the first motherboard but newegg replaced it.

I'm currently wondering how to set up a cross compile environment as  Mandrake 10  is gcc 3.3.2 not 2.95 and I don't know whether I'll just screw  things up if I try to overlay it. Maybe a Debian install would be a good idea as they also have feeds for the arm platform.

I also have a 6000L and am finding it very frustrating as I want to port a Tcl/Tk app and there are no X roms for the 6000L yet. I have XQt working but can't find a version of Tcl/Tk that doesn't have some dependency problem.

The app is an augmentative communication program I wrote for my 7yr old who can't speak so I'm focused on making that happen and not spending months delving ever deeper in the innards of the Zaurus (much as I would like to). The whole thing reminds me of the old adventure games where every passageway just leads to another puzzle.

(Sorry, I wondered off topic. Frustration venting)

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General Discussion / python ipk doesn\'t appear in install app

« on: June 25, 2004, 02:51:11 pm »

They are 'ar' formatted.  (vanille.de).  Convert to tgz.

e.g.

mkdir foo
cd foo
ar x file
tar zcvf file

I  tried this and it didn't work for me. I then came across the advice to be explicit with the tar command, in particular the ./ are important
tar zcvf file   ./debian-binary ./data.tar.gz ./control.tar.gz

It then worked (this is on a 6000L)
Now on to PyQt

BTW is there a glossary somewhere? I'm an old timer but a newbie to Zaurus and it reminds me of a text adventure game where every explanation contains at least three mysteries for which I have to search for an explanation and so on recursively.