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General Discussion / Re-greet

« on: December 25, 2017, 09:53:47 pm »

Thank you!

BTW do you still have any Zaurus, or any similiar device?

I still have a C1000 which I think still works. I haven't used it much since I broke down and got an Android smartphone. I should keep it working since its retro-computing value continues to increase.

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General Discussion / Re-greet

« on: December 25, 2017, 12:06:29 am »

Hello, OESF!

I'm glad to see this sight resurrected. Zaurus was a great machine.

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OESF Wiki / Account Registrations Turned Off At Then Wiki

« on: July 23, 2012, 12:15:54 pm »

Thanks for minding the dying flame, Tux.

Would you have to volunteer to take over as admin if you contacted dz? Couldn't you just ask him to log-in and register the user as a once-off deal? It's not like the demand is very high.

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General Discussion / Larger Sdhc Cards On Sharp Rom

« on: August 12, 2011, 10:14:49 pm »

With the SDHC driver on my SL-C1000 I have tried a range of SD and microSD cards of capacity from 128M to 4G (4G SDHC card purchased yesterday for 500 JPY = 6.51 USD) and have yet to find one that WON'T work. (Some require the Zaurus to be rebooted to detect the card. I have yet to determine the cause of that. File system type?)

I was about to start a chart in the wiki of memory cards supported by the SDHC driver, but now think there's not much point with that kind of success rate.

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General Discussion / Larger Sdhc Cards On Sharp Rom

« on: August 10, 2011, 10:38:28 pm »

What I meant by "older SD cards" was cards on Sharp's old verified support list, which hasn't been updated in years and lists no cards larger than 1GB. Before I installed the SDHC driver, I couldn't use any SD memory cards that didn't appear on the list.

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General Discussion / Larger Sdhc Cards On Sharp Rom

« on: August 08, 2011, 11:50:51 pm »

I just installed the SDHC driver on my SL-C1000 and retired SL-C860 and it seems to be working fine. This will really extend the useful life of my Zaurus since it has become impossible to find any of the older SD cards that will work on the Z.

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Software / Ed Is The Standard Text Editor

« on: February 01, 2011, 11:03:47 am »

Thanks. I'll look for the checkbox next time.

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Software / Ed Is The Standard Text Editor

« on: January 31, 2011, 08:23:07 pm »

For those times when vi is too much, and emacs is way too much, there will always be ed, man!

ed 1.5 for Sharp ROM is now available on ELSIx. (My first ipkg! But why is it listed twice on the ELSIx home page?)

• ed manual (bigger than the source code (maybe))
• My ed cheat sheet

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Linux Applications / Ed On Elsix

« on: January 30, 2011, 12:18:50 pm »

(Sorry, I guess new package announcements should go in the Software forum.)

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Qt/Qtopia / Developer Image 1.6 Configuration Question

« on: January 25, 2011, 07:15:34 pm »

Thanks! Space on SD-card or CF-card is a lot cheaper than in former times. I'll try to extract the dev-image on a desktop linux with squashfs-support (e.g. with Slax or Puppy LiveCD) and transfer the files on a SD card for the Zaurus.

That is a great idea, & here's one better: Repack the uncompressed image files in cramfs format, which is supported by default at least in Sharp's C860  ROM. Developer Image version 1.5 was provided in cramfs format, though that package has long since disappeared from the Internet.

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Sharp ROMs / Sharp Rom Version Numbering

« on: January 24, 2011, 08:45:29 pm »

Does anyone know on what basis Sharp assigned version numbers to their ROM? Unique over all products? Unique per model (SL-C750, SL-C3000, ...)? Unique per CPU or OS (PXA255, PXA270, ... / OpenPDA, Lineo uLinux, ...)?

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Qt/Qtopia / Developer Image 1.6 Configuration Question

« on: January 24, 2011, 08:40:37 pm »

Another update: The squashfs module I found appears not to work on my SL-C860, so I assume it won't work on the SL-5500, either.

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Qt/Qtopia / Developer Image 1.6 Configuration Question

« on: January 24, 2011, 07:11:02 am »

My questions: Are the dev_img16.img from elsix for Sharp ROM and OpenZaurus the same? Can the Image be used on the SL5500, too?

ELSIX has only a single version of Developer Image 1.6 (http://www.elsix.org/downloads/dev-img/dev-img-1.6.zip) that gets downloaded no matter what ROM you specify on the download page. The package documentation says Sharp and Cacko ROMs are supported, but it might work on OpenZaurus if you a) stay away from GUI applications, b) provide the Qtopia runtime on OZ for Qtopia apps, or c) provide X-related headers and libraries for the compiler for X apps. Also, the image file is in squashfs format, so you will need the squashfs kernel module for whatever platform you want to use the image on. After years of on-and-off search I've finally found a squashfs module IPKG that works on my SL-C1000 (Sharp ROM 1.1 JP). I'm in the middle of testing the module on my SL-C860, but haven't tried it on anything else. (I don't have anything else to test it on.) (I plan on putting the IPKG on ELSIX after I've completed the testing.)

UPDATE: The squashfs package I'm testing is here: http://zaurus.up.seesaa.net/software/kerne...-2.2-r2_arm.ipk. Am I correct to assume that since squashfs is released under GPL (as is everything on Sourceforge?), I'm free to upload the package to ELSIX whether or not I can contact the original author? I suppose since it's GPL I'd also need to post the source files, too.

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Off Topic forum / I'm Back

« on: January 18, 2011, 11:16:38 pm »

http://quickening.zapto.org/ZaurusFeed/

That is a great collection of packages. Thanks for making them available.

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Qt/Qtopia / Developer Image 1.6 Configuration Question

« on: January 18, 2011, 09:04:38 pm »

I have a question about the Zaurus Developer Image version 1.6 package published by Anton Maslovsky on the Embedded Linux Software Index (www.elsix.org) back in 2005.

The setup scripts call for both a mount point for the image squashfs file and a symbolic link to the mount point at /home/zaurus/develop. Then additional symbolic links are created in the standard file hierarchy (/usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/local/include, etc.) to the various compilers, libraries, and tools in the image, all referencing the link /home/zaurus/develop. Why is the link /home/zaurus/develop necessary? Couldn't all the compiler, library, and tool links reference the squashfs mount point directly?