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Software / How To Add A Custom Dictionary?

« on: March 11, 2006, 10:57:13 am »

Hi everyone,

I'm still using my C760 for Japanese-English, one of the best, most useful things I ever bought. I've come up against a snag I can't find a google answer to. Without going into linguistic details, I have a text list of irregular Japanese verbs I'd like to add to the Zaurus for reference.

I could easily do it by having a text list I open up in a doc viewer but it's not very elegant. Ideally I'd like to have the list accessible in Zten or JISHO/JISPA (the built in dictionary) so that when I look up a verb it will say "Ah ha, that's on my list of irregular ones". It's kind of like a custom dictionary I add to the Epwing ones in Zten and or whatever JISPA uses. But is that easy to do?

I've tried creating an entry in the "User Dictionary" from the utilities pane but nothing appears to show up in JISPA, I don't know whether JISPA can access the User Dictionary? I'm sure someone here will have done this for themselves.

Cheers -- Edwin.

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General Discussion / Question For Japanese Language Users

« on: September 22, 2005, 02:50:42 am »

I know there are a few people here who use their Zaurus for Japanese Language study like me. Have you noticed that problem whereby whenever you open the character input screen using the stylus to draw in characters, the input language switches automatically to Romaji. So whenever you close it again you have to switch it back to kana. Hardly the end of the world but it's the only thing on my C760 that doesn't work right and I wondered if anyone has a fix for it?

Otherwise the best little device I ever bought.

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Cxx0 General discussions / Kanji Nirvana scrollbar problem

« on: October 25, 2004, 02:19:59 pm »

Sorry, I didn't see your message until today. I took some elements from the Kompany Rom, some from OSX and made up a few graphics in paint programs to finish it. It looks a lot better on the PDA than on a computer monitor though.

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Cxx0 General discussions / New C760, kanji display problem

« on: October 25, 2004, 02:34:35 am »

Thanks Stu, I knew it had to be something simple. Be great if you can get your modificaiton done, you're right that at the moment you have to use the font set into Nirvana and it would be great to have some choice. Thanks again.

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Cxx0 General discussions / New C760, kanji display problem

« on: October 23, 2004, 06:57:01 pm »

Hi, I've just got my new (used) C760 which is a massive improvement on the C700 but I have a couple of problems. I've done a Nand backup to get it back to factory status but in Kanji Nirvana most of the kanji don't show. For example, if I type in the word "kuruma" (car) in hiragana characters, the hits field displays a few spaces then a kanji. If I click on one of the spaces it gives me the translation "car" above but displays no kanji. Strange that one of them displays in the hits field but not all. The same thing happens if I draw a kanji within nirvana's drawing pane, a series of spaces and a kanji, there are several kanji but they display as spaces, only one displays properly. In both the 760's default jisho and zten there's no problem.

I'm sure it's simple to fix but I can't figure it out. Also, I'm running the Sharp 1.20 ROM, I read in another post that there's a 1.40 version but I can't find where to download it, any pointers?

Many thanks everyone.

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Cxx0 Hardware / DIY RAM upgrade on C700

« on: September 23, 2004, 06:11:49 pm »

A very nice man sent me this link which I'm adding for completeness sake. Amazing. http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/..._co=excitejapan

If anybody ever does it I'd like to hear from you. Good luck.

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General Discussion / Swapfile causes Zaurus to freeze

« on: September 19, 2004, 10:29:44 am »

Well I'm a linux novice but it sounds like something that's begging to be fixed or worked around. From what I've read lots of people are forced to use swap files and it must be a pain in the butt to have to keep activating deactivating them. Kernels are beyond me but hopefully someone will release one that addresses it. Thanks for the reply.

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko back to Sharp Rom, Flash repartition?

« on: September 19, 2004, 08:40:04 am »

Hi, do I need to do anything about the Flash repartitioning that the Cacko installer did when I replace Cacko with the default Sharp Rom? The first time I did a Nand Restore from my own backup I got memory error messages and erroneous problems.

The cacko installer instructions tell you to enter 27MB for the flash partition size but the installer itself tells you the default for the C700 (my machine) is 25MB, I don't know whether it means for Cacko or the default machine settings -- Sharp Rom. I can't find any information online about the default partition size for the Sharp Rom and set it to 25MB then did a Nand backup from the original Sharp Rom. Is that enough? Maybe the Sharp Nand file takes care of all of this? Thanks.

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General Discussion / Swapfile causes Zaurus to freeze

« on: September 19, 2004, 07:44:16 am »

Used fdisk, made a swapfile partition on my CF card which I configured in fstab to run at startup. Guess what, makes no difference. Still freezes on suspend. I checked with a "Free" command in terminal and the swap file was there after restart (I can prevent freezing on restart by not running any applications at all). Today I've installed cacko temporarily and ran Qswap to see what happened. It STILL freezes so I've figured out that swapdisks just freeze either on all machines or on the C700 if you leave them running and put the machine to sleep.

Meaning you have to shut down all applications, then shut down the swap file, then next time you reboot, switch on the swap file then launch applications... do you see? What's the point? If you're a user who uses the zaurus for a couple of hours at a time then you might live with it. If like me you use it for 5 minute spells frequently then it's a non starter.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

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General Discussion / Swapfile causes Zaurus to freeze

« on: September 18, 2004, 03:59:09 pm »

OK, now I've tried this solution http://cmisip.home.insightbb.com/zaurus.htm#SWP but changed the script for a CF card rather than an SD card. I ran it like this:

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ln -sf /etc/rc.d/rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99local


Now, in rc.local type in:

umount /mnt/cf
killall cardmgr
fsck.msdos -y /dev/hda1
sleep 2
/sbin/cardmgr


Now we can create the swap file on /mnt/cf:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/cf/swapfile bs=1M count=32
mkswap -v1 /mnt/cf/swapfile


Add the lines at the bottom of rc.local (before exit 0):

mount /mnt/cf
sleep 3
/sbin/swapon /mnt/cf/swapfile


Also add the corresponding commands to terminate the swap file in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt:

/sbin/swapoff /mnt/cf/swapfile
sleep 3
umount /mnt/card
umount /mnt/cf
sleep 2

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But couldn't get the swapfile to activate on reboot. Then I tried all the commands one by one in the terminal and any that didn't work (fsck wouldn't work after killall) were deleted, still no luck.

I also tried this thread https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...t=0&#entry42491 and especially:

If you use a swap file, instead of a swap partition, then you might have to run "su root" to gain full system access on the command line and edit the /root/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file and uncomment the section that runs the rc.local script. The Zaurus computers with the default ROM are somewhat non-standard in the places where they place some configuration files like rc.sysinit. Then put the "swapon /path/filename" command in the rc.local file. Someone else on the board mentioned how to make /root writable with the mount command.

Managed to find all the information on how to make the /root writable but still no swap file on reboot. What's going on? Nothing seems to work? My last idea is to learn how to use fdisk and try to make a bootable partition as per the same thread:

Regarding getting the swap file to work on boot-up: If you already have a separate partition for the swap space, then you can run "su root" to become the system administrator and then edit the /etc/fstab file. I do not recall off the top of my head the syntax for that. Someone else here probably knows, or you can read a reference manual.

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Cxx0 Hardware / Creating a Swap File

« on: September 18, 2004, 03:30:02 pm »

Someone else on the board mentioned how to make /root writable with the mount command.

It's at https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...?showtopic=1543

The 5600 ROM is a readonly JFFS2 partition, so to make the 5600 ROM writable just run this command as root:

mount / -o rw,remount

Then replace the files you need to change and run this command to protect the ROM again:

mount / -o ro,remount

No reboot required

I'm a novice but tried it and it works.

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General Discussion / Swapfile causes Zaurus to freeze

« on: September 17, 2004, 02:29:55 pm »

I posted this a few weeks back without success and the problem has come back to haunt me. I've tried running Qswap to generate a swapfile of varying sizes on my FAT formatted CF card but each time I reawake after a suspend the zaurus freezes. Strange thing is, the text cursor blinks on the screen but it won't respond to any key or pen commands and I have to switch of the battery and restart. It's a Zaurus C700 with the latest Sharp Rom.

I also installed a swapfile generating script from here http://rio.vg/zaurus/ which worked but didnt solve the freezing problem. I assume that a swapfile once generated doen't need to be deactivated, you just suspend and awake without touching the swap file? Assuming so, does anyone know what the problem might be?

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Cxx0 Hardware / DIY RAM upgrade on C700

« on: August 26, 2004, 05:38:12 pm »

Wow. Did you look at how complicated that is? I've soldered points on my games consoles that are only visible with a magnifying glass but THIS is unbelievable and as you say the pigeon English makes it even worse. "No way Hosé" comes to mind, I was going to be brave and give it a go but even if I could understand completely what's going on I think it's just beyond me. Still, very interesting and thanks a bundle for the link.

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Cxx0 Hardware / DIY RAM upgrade on C700

« on: August 26, 2004, 03:28:21 pm »

Now that's interesting, I thought I'd searched pretty much everywhere, I guess being in Japanese I could have missed it or just not seen it. I'll try a google myself...

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Cxx0 Hardware / DIY RAM upgrade on C700

« on: August 26, 2004, 05:10:33 am »

Thanks for trying, I think the one you're looking for is linked to from http://tuxmobil.org/disassembly_pda.html It's not possible for some reason to convert the language easily online but I did a cut and paste into an online translator and it seems to be a lot of information about dissassembly but I don't think much on RAM replacement. Another thing I'll try doing is emailing or even ringing PocketPC Tech, maybe they're nice people and they'll offer advice.