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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / gpe-task-base dependancies

« on: November 04, 2004, 12:51:11 pm »

Thanks for the tip.

I'll try installing an xserver and see what happens as well as emailing gpe and oe.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / gpe-task-base dependancies

« on: November 04, 2004, 12:37:13 pm »

I'm tying to install gpe on a sl-5500 with oz 3.5.1 bootstrap loaded.

I've been able to get opie-task-base working and now I'm trying gpe.  I've installed gpe_i.0-r-14_arm.ipk and tried to install gpe-task-base.

After a whole lot of screen fly-by it comes up with an error about not being able to resolve a dependancy for 'diet-x11 virtual/xserver'.  I've looked for the diet-x11 and haven't found any packages, there are xservers in the packages list (I'm not sure what the difference is between them though) so I thought this might work, but I still get the same dependancy error.

any sugesstions?  and what is the difference between the xservers?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / new way to kill a Zaurus

« on: November 01, 2004, 03:24:18 pm »

Mostly I move the /usr/lib/ipkg to sd card so the feed lists don't fill up the root directory.  The tmp folder was just a test that wasn't fully thought through, but I was hopping to increase the size of my tmp drive via the sd card, and to decrease the ware to the internal storage.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / new way to kill a Zaurus

« on: October 19, 2004, 03:47:33 pm »

something I forgot to mention was the screen was still on  and it started to go slowly grey while the lights were on.

well after an hour of waiting, i decided i would try to do the reflash commands and see what would happen.  the screen turned off, the lights went out then back on and after the normal reflash time the lights went out.

I still have a Z  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / new way to kill a Zaurus

« on: October 19, 2004, 03:08:19 pm »

Well I hope I haven't broken my zaurus sl-5500... here's what happend
I've just reflashed to OZ 3.5.1 Opie from OZ 3.5.1 GPE.

  I've read in different places that you can move parts of the root file system to other places.  In the past I've run out of room on the root partition because I installed to many applications, so now after a reflash I move /usr/lib/ipkg to /mnt/card/usr/lib (sd card formatted as ext2) then I symlink ipkg back to /usr/lib. (I usually put ipkg on /mnt/card/root/lib/ipkg, but I forgot this time   )

  Then I thought I'd try to move /var/tmp to the sd card.  That did some funny things at first, but after a reboot things worked fine.  I did notice more messages about not being able to find a file system on /dev/hda, usually there's one this time I saw at least 3.  Another post said this was normall, so I ignored it as usual.

  So I was back up with my Z and things were going okay so I decided to do an upgrade of my system from a cf card.  I got one error about not being able to find opie-console (didn't put it on my card) and a number of interesting items about not being able to find a tmp folder, I didn't like that.  Everything still seemed to be working.

  I figured I'd do a reboot to refresh everything.  so I switched to vt 1 and ran shutdown -r 0, then bad things started to happen.

  At the end of the reboot sequence I saw a brief message of "system restore" then the message and charge lights came on like a reflash and it's been sitting there for about 1/2 hour now.  I would talk about this on an IRC but the firewall at work won't let me.

  Any Idea on how to interupt this process without bricking the Z would be great

Thanks

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User Request for Applications / GCC3.x.x Onboard Development

« on: October 15, 2004, 03:50:17 pm »

I second the notion.  one of the reasons I went with the zaurus was the on-board development.  I would really like an OPIE and GPE version.

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / On the Z development

« on: October 06, 2004, 02:32:12 pm »

I want something like the dev-img 1.5 for OZ 3.5.1, there are many packages labeled 'The GNU cc and gcc C compilers' and 'GNU C Library' what do I need to be able to write and compile apps on the zaurus?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / dev-img 1.5 - Problems in OZ

« on: September 20, 2004, 03:55:59 pm »

progress on dev_image for OZ

after initial modifications to the setup scripts I've also added a few things to the /etc/profile

I mounted the dev_image in a loop back deview on /root/develop as well as uncompressing tmake from trolltech and making a simlink to /root/tmake

-added
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/root/develop/lib
PATH=$PATH:/root/develop/bin:/root/tmake/bin
CPATH=/root/develop/include
LANG="en-US"
LC_ALL="C"
TMAKEPATH=/root/tmake/lib/linux-g++


then down in the export line add ' CPATH LANG LC_ALL TMAKEPATH'

this will cause the terminal app to be setup for development any time you open it, if you want you could make the changes in a script and run it before development.

with this setup i've been able to compile a simple c++ file

#include <iostream.h>

main()
{
  cout << "hello world" << endl;
  return 0;
}


however I get an error from ld saying that it can't find lqt at the end of the compiling process for a qt app.

I've searched my Z high and low and I can't find it either.

Any help on this would be great!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / dev-img 1.5 - Problems in OZ

« on: September 16, 2004, 04:35:06 pm »

OZ doesn't have bash installed... "sh" is the built in busybox shell. It uses a slightly different syntax for defining functions in scripts.
Just replace "function mlink {... }" with "mlink { ... }" (i.e. just get rid of the word "function" in front of it).

did that and now it does seem to be working (very preliminary check though).  I also change the DEVELOP variable to /root/develop (OZ doesn't have /home/Zaurus/develop).

I pointed the 'echo "export PATH=\$PATH:$2/bin">>/home/Zaurus/.profile' to 'echo "export PATH=\$PATH:$2/bin">>/ect/profile'
 and took out the other export line.

I also stopped the script from running the compiler setup script, so I could modify it.

I took out the 'function' labels before the functions, and it seemed to work.

I've not done anything yet, but perl responds and I'm going to try a compile soon

sl-5500 OZ 3.3.5

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / dev-img 1.5 - Problems in OZ

« on: September 16, 2004, 11:43:17 am »

The setup script was written for Sharp based ROM. It needs some tweaking to run on OZ properly. It's not that hard, but since I'm not using OZ, I can't do that...

What kind of things do we need to do to get dev_image 1.5 working on OZ (3.2 or 3.3.5)

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.3.5 and Hancom Apps

« on: August 23, 2004, 10:43:05 am »

in the stable feed for OZ 3.2 there were some replacement programs for the spreadsheet, word processing and presenter programs, I don't think these are ports, but replacement apps.  If these programs are there for 3.2, they might be there for 3.3.5

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Software / 3D Blender

« on: August 19, 2004, 03:14:28 pm »

I'm a new owner of an SL-5500 and was a ipaq 3600 user, who had a Blender port working on said ipaq.  I would love to see Blender on the Zaurus.  I've been blending for 4 years now, so a toy 3-d modeler would be absolutely fantastic for me.  I also happen to be a programmer.  I don't have much free time, but I would be interested in helping a port effort

Trevor