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Cxx0 Hardware / Sharp Zaurus C3000 For Sale

« on: December 18, 2008, 09:01:26 am »

Bills have been adding up, and its time I part with my Zaurus. I know they're hard to find lately, so I thought someone here might be interested in it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=230314343503

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pdaXrom Development / The Next Pdaxrom Wm

« on: October 12, 2007, 05:10:46 pm »

i've been using pdaxrom on my c860 for probably over 3 years now. its always been stable and fast, my c3000 i've been using angstrom on though, because their build environment is accessable, easy to get going, and updated between releases (not that they have any "stable" releases yet), so i have experience with how to port packages from openembedded to pdaxrom.

but enough off topic.

the point of that is that i've been using e17 and a 2.6.22 kernel on my c3000 for over half a year now, and am finding the kernel and window manager very effective. if people are interested in videos or other information related to the responsiveness of e17 i'll gladly provide what i can.

the positives of e17 as i see it are:

Very easy to remember window position / virtual desktop settings

Low processor usage eye candy ( not required but fun to show off)

Good centralized management of configuration options (everything gui related can be configured through the main interface, including changing default font sizes of different wm aspects, titlebar, and scrollbar to name a few that apply to pda usage. they help with easier finger dragging and scrollbar usage)

(tenative) some work has been done doing an iphone type keyboard based off e17 libs, keyboard looks pretty nice, but its not fully implemented right now. it would be a really nice feature though.

Actively developed


some negatives

there aren't that many epplets (their version of a taskbar app)  for e17 right now, so volume, brightness, cf/sd, wifi epplets would all have to be written. there are lots of example epplets in the e17 repository though.

i can't really think of any others right now, so how other people see it would be appriciated.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Builder Svn Unavailable

« on: October 12, 2007, 04:39:48 pm »

i went to set up a current development environment from http://www.pdaxrom.org/?q=node/101, but am unable to pull from the svn repository. anyone know when it'll be up again?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Rom Gentoo On Zaurus

« on: August 30, 2007, 08:33:19 am »

ignore your flash and set root=/dev/hda1 and they're both the same

The C3000 is a completely different beast than the C3100. It has much less space on NAND than the C1000/C3100/C3200. I would imagine some further hacking would be necessary to get it working on a C3000 (but I may be dead wrong here).
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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zpsx: High Performance Psx Emulator For The Zaurus

« on: August 06, 2007, 10:20:04 am »

any chance we'll see the source posted soon, a number of us that work on angstrom want to get it integrated into the feed. i've been working on getting sdl to run under a console, and should have it up soon. feel free to stop by #angstrom on irc.freenode.net.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zaurus Ide-cs Dma Support

« on: July 23, 2007, 02:12:43 pm »

the new 8 gig and 16 gig high end cf cards suport dma

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zaurus Ide-cs Dma Support

« on: July 20, 2007, 07:12:08 pm »

if i'm reading this reference document which says the pxa270 should support dma mode 0 1 at least.

http://www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellon...38_57-iwave.pdf

right now hdparm -tT /dev/hda lists 1.7 Mb/sec transfer rates. no dma or 32 bit io. everytime i tried to enable 32 bit io my z crashed. everytime i tried to enable dma  (hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda) i got - HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted.

i'm going to keep googling about this, but has anyone out there got dma working on their z?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Build System / Other Ipk Feeds

« on: June 03, 2007, 03:13:24 pm »

once we get to where we can pull a fully functional build system down that spits out the base rom i'll gladly take up a list of packages people want in the main feed and send them to whichever dev you want to look over them.

thats probably a ways off though, so what can i provide you with to get us there? do you just want lists of package / dependancies / where to get / compile options, or do you want the .make and .in files generated from the NEWPACKAGE script and modified with the dependancies src and compile options?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Build System / Other Ipk Feeds

« on: June 03, 2007, 11:52:21 am »

why not make a central feed in tyrannozaurus ?  ^^
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right now people are locked into a given release of pdaxrom because their key apps they want were built by someone on their own and released against the given lib's in that release. this type of thing can be ended if the packages get added to the main feed.

another feed isn't going to centralize the distro package management, when then main feed is built the central apps, like firefox, optimized mplayer, and openoffice should all be built with the main feed, and have their current recipie so anyone can check out the subversion repository and if they want pdaxrom built around libc 2.3.6 instead of 2.2.5. Then all they should have to do is pull down the latest version configure the toolchain, build configure the rom, build make the image and be set to go, as it stands now most of the key packages are built outside of the build system, so even if you built a seperate system, you'd still have to work past the quirks of other packages you want to have installed.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Build System / Other Ipk Feeds

« on: June 03, 2007, 10:51:00 am »

where do you want us to submit our .make and .in files for the builder to speed you along?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Build System / Other Ipk Feeds

« on: June 03, 2007, 08:57:58 am »

over the past few weeks i've been playing with pdaxrom's build system and getting more comforable with it. i'm noticing though that of all the new packages that people are taking the time to build that when i sync with svn they never get added to the central repository, so when a new release is done everyone has to re-do / re-figure everything out again.

It seems we could stop repeating alot of the same work if we added these to the pdaxrom build system so once a package is in it just needs updated and rebuilt there. I'll gladly submit the package updates i've done, and i'd like to be able to add the new packages i'm working on into the main feed.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Builder Make -j2 World

« on: May 29, 2007, 02:23:16 pm »

i got finished my first sucessful build of pdaxom svn yesterday

now i'm trying to shorten the total build time so i can try out some other settings and options. i'm building on a dual athon mp 2600 with a gig of ram.

i've just tried make -j2 world so make will compile 2 objects/executables at a time instead of one, but after it builds a few packages it just drops me to a shell, then if a type it again it picks up where it left off, no error messages or anything. it feels like maybe some make files are cleaning up how they end or something, i haven't really worked with anything makefile based before though, and don't know if this is a known issue. any information would be useful

thanks in advance.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Builder Packaging

« on: May 28, 2007, 03:00:41 pm »

in case anyone tries to find it :

/pdaXrom/myrom/rules/vendor-tweaks/cacko-akita-sysfs.make

starting around line 146

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Lxfixes

« on: May 28, 2007, 12:30:52 pm »

thanks for the fast answers, it had been a while since i last messed with this part of my z, all is happy and rom hacking is going strong

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Builder Packaging

« on: May 28, 2007, 12:29:20 pm »

i'd prefer to be able to have the pdaxrom build system output a tgz instead of img file, pretty sure the change i have to make is pretty small, but i don't know where to look to find where the image is being built.