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General Discussion / Opensolaris Running On A Zaurus

« on: July 07, 2009, 02:33:18 pm »

Hi,

fyi:

There's now a project a OpenSolaris.org to port OpenSolaris to the ARM platform:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/osarm/

I would be interested in running OpenSolaris on my Zaurus but unfortunately I'm not a developer so that I can not really help there ..

regards

Bernd

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Create New Image For Zaurus

« on: June 13, 2009, 08:31:34 am »

Hi,

Hello Bernd.  Are you still working on compiling Opie?  I am trying to find a copy of 2008.1 and it seems compiling my own is the only way.  Any advice?

yes, more or less ... Unfortunately I always get an error if I try to create a new image for 2007.12 or 2008.1. So from time to time I refresh my development tree and do a bitbake opie-image to see if it now works . Until now it did not work

But at this time I do not have the time to investigate why it does not work.

regards

Bernd

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Create New Image For Zaurus

« on: May 13, 2009, 02:47:20 pm »

Hi,

Look at recipes/images. Most images consists from chain of tasks from recipes/tasks, ant these task recipes may contain another tasks or package recipes.

Hmm, what I did until now is:

create a new description in the image directory

cp  packages/images/opie-image.bb  packages/images/my-opie-image.bb

In my-opie-image.bb I added "task-my-opie" to the IMAGE_INSTALL variable:

IMAGE_INSTALL = "task-base-extended task-opie-base task-opie-base-applets \
          task-opie-base-inputmethods task-opie-base-apps \
          task-opie-base-settings task-opie-base-decorations \
          task-opie-base-styles task-opie-base-pim \
          task-opie-extra-settings \
          task-opie-bluetooth task-opie-irda \
                    task-my-opie"

Then I created the task file task-my-opie.task:

$ cat packages/tasks/task-my-opie.bb
DESCRIPTION = "My Tasks for OPIE"
SECTION = "opie/base"
LICENSE = "MIT"

PR = "r12"

inherit task

PROVIDES = "task-my-opie"

PACKAGES = "opie-tetrix opie-solitaire opie-sheet opie-rdesktop \
            opie-notes opie-notesapplet opie-keypebble opie-ftp \
            opie-embeddedkonsole opie-calculator opie-write opie-zsafe \
            qpdf2 opie-wellenreiter zuc \
            screen \
            ldd \
            apache2 \
            cvs \
            e2fsprogs \
            dosfstools \
            bzip2 \
            gzip \
            grep \
            kexec-tools \
            less \
            lsof \
            mc \
            nfs-utils \
            procps \
            nmap \
            qpe-nmap \
            rsync \
            tar \
            tcpdump \
            glibc-localedata-de-de+euro \
            tzdata-europe \
            glibc-binary-localedata-de-de \
            file \
            util-linux-swaponoff"


RDEPENDS_task-opie-everything := "${PACKAGES}"

PACKAGES += "task-my-opie"

#
# Dependencies
#

# Recommend both landscape and portrait backgrounds
#RRECOMMENDS_task-my-opie = ""


And did a

 bitbake my-opie-iamge

The result was a working image --but without my added apps ...

Why you need a special image? Isn't installation of a standard and installation of needed packages from feeds sufficient for you? Using standard image makes possible problems simpler to reproduce.

In principle that would be enough : I've some scripts to customize my OPIE environment after the installation (e.g. change config files & and add packages).

But unfortunately kexec-boot does not find the image on the internal ram anymore if I install all packages in one go . It does find the image on the internal ram if I install a small number of packages (about 5); reboot the Zaurus, install the next 5 packages , etc.

I don't know the reason for this behaviour (I already asked on the openembbeded mailing list but did not get a solution for the problem).

That's why I want to have a image that already contains my customizations.

regards

Bernd

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Create New Image For Zaurus

« on: May 12, 2009, 01:46:36 pm »

Hi,

I've successfully installed the OpenEmbedded development environment and compiled an image using "bitbake opie-image"

Now I want to create my own image with some more packages -- can anybody point me to a documentation about how to do that?

Thanks

Bernd

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Security and Networking / Usb Ethernet And Solaris

« on: May 03, 2009, 01:17:14 pm »

Hi,

has anybody already got a network connection via USB between the Zaurus and Solaris 10 (x86) working?

I just switched my desktop from Ubuntu to Solaris but I'm still searching for a solution .

I'm using OPIE/Angstrom 11.2007 on my Cl760 right now and I think that does not matter for this  problem.

regards

Bernd

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Ubuntu / Howto: Zubuntu Installation On Sl-c760

« on: February 23, 2009, 12:07:10 pm »

Hi,

It went pretty well. I just took my previous installation and applied your changes. Touch screen worked pretty well. I was also able to use USB network to connect to the internet via my Windows XP box.

However, rtc is NOT working for me. Everytime I reboot it went back to 1970.

Did you issue the date -u command and the hwclock command?

Looks like the -u is mandatory to make the time persistent

The other issue is that when I leave the device in sleep mode for a while and turn it back on, sometimes X will freeze or go blank. The only way to get out of it seems to be pulling out the battery. I was able to get sound with your alsamixer settings but for only for one channel.

Hmm, I did not try the supsend / resume with Zubunutu in depth.

regards

Bernd

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Ubuntu / Howto: Zubuntu Installation On Sl-c760

« on: February 20, 2009, 04:47:12 pm »

Thanks for sharing. I will try this tonight on my sl-c760 variation: SL-7500C. BTW, google web page translation helped because I don't read Germany.

Let me know how it's going so that I can update the webpage if neccessary

regards

Bernd

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Ubuntu / Howto: Zubuntu Installation On Sl-c760

« on: February 19, 2009, 10:33:07 am »

Hi,

after getting Zubuntu to work on my SL-C760 with a lot of help from this forum I've created a detailed description about the steps that are necessary to install Zubuntu on the SL-C760:

http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/z...he_SL_C760.html

The description is in German language but hopefully it's useful for non-german speakers only ... If not , let me know and I'll create an english translation.

Thanks again for the gread help from this forum to get this working

regards

Bernd

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1 Upgraded To Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Armel

« on: February 18, 2009, 12:09:46 pm »

Hi,

BerndS: edit /etc/ts.conf and comment (add the #) at the line module_raw corgi, this step was just in case the previous steps haven't worked.

I already did that direct after the failed test

if C+Alt+S works, the keyb is up under X? seems wrong keymap loaded in (.xinitrc)
the line test -f uses the reply of the grep Hardware /proc/cpuinfo, try hardcoding it (replace $HARDWARE with one given by ls /etc/X11/kb/) try different options or comment this line.

With Akita the keyboard works; /proc/cpuinfo returns "Husky".

About boot splash, edit /etc/defaults/psplash and remove -a 270 but it will look weird

Done (I don't think it looks better with the -a 270)

Thanks again

Bernd

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1 Upgraded To Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Armel

« on: February 17, 2009, 10:38:47 am »

Hi,

>>BerndS: i don't have acces to a 760,
>>but from command line, does the ts_calibrate program work?

No, it fails with

ts_open: No such file or directory

>>if not:
>>1) do a grep -i handlers /proc/bus/input/devices

H: Handlers=kbd event0 apm-power
H: Handlers=event1

>>and check the second line starting with a "H: Handlers="

   export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event2

>>2) then grep TS ~/.profile
>>this line should have the same event* as the previous command
>>if it's not the same, nano ~/.profile and change the TSLIB_TSDEVICE line and specify the proper device

changed to

   export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event1
   

>>3) then logout, login, and run ts_calibrate again

works

Restarted X and now the Stylus works in X!

But the keyboard still does not work while X is running (excpet CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE) ...

>>4) if it doesn't work, try editing /etc/ts.conf and uncomment (remove the #) at the line module_raw corgi and run ts_calibrate again

Tested this also:

ts_calibrate
xres = 640, yres = 400
ts_read: Invalid argument


One other (very) minor issue:

After the installation the GUI started in Portrait mode. Therefor I removed the line

xrandr -o right

from the .xinitrc file . Now the GUI starts correctly in Landscape mode (hopefully I did not mix the Portrait/Landscape here ..)

The boot messages are also correct but the initial graphical Ubunutu logo is still in the wrong mode -- can this be corrected?

Thanks

Bernd

BerndS: i don't have acces to a 760,
1) do a grep -i handlers /proc/bus/input/devices
and check the second line starting with a "H: Handlers="
2) then grep TS ~/.profile
this line should have the same event* as the previous command
if it's not the same, nano ~/.profile and change the TSLIB_TSDEVICE line and specify the proper device
3) then logout, login, and run ts_calibrate again
4) if it doesn't work, try editing /etc/ts.conf and uncomment (remove the #) at the line module_raw corgi and run ts_calibrate again

bobey: you need to extract two files, with a z 3000
1) the kernel an modules: http://www.zaurus.org.uk/cortez/ubuntu/dow...addition.tar.gz
2) and the desired rootfs

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1 Upgraded To Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Armel

« on: February 16, 2009, 01:20:47 pm »

Hi,

I installed it in on my CL-760 (a partition on the SD card booted with kexecboot) and I have the same problems as with the cortez release:

Ubuntu boots fine and I can use it in cli mode but I can't input anything (neither with the stylus nor with keyboard) in the GUI

The only keys that work are CTRL-ALT-Backspace ...

regards

Bernd

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Compiling Qt Programs For Angstrom With Opie

« on: January 28, 2009, 12:42:09 pm »

Hi

I got it working!

With bitbake version 1.8.10  angstrom-2007.1 compiled without errors! So now I have a self-compiled image and a working portabase for angstrom-2007.1!

I still don't know why bitbake version 1.8.12 does not compile angstrom-2007.1 (bitbake 1.9 beta compiled some parts of angstrom-2007.1 but not all; the error message was the same: ld not found)

Anyway, it works now    

regards

Bernd

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Compiling Qt Programs For Angstrom With Opie

« on: January 27, 2009, 05:09:00 pm »

The error is here:

It is looking for the native linker which lets me believe that your native machine does not have a compiler/linker package installed.

The gcc is installed and working (I already compiled angstrom 2008.1 without problems) . The main problem seems to be that gcc when called via bitbake does not find ld. But ld is installed and available via the PATH variable:

xtrnaw7@t61p:/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/build$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc

xtrnaw7@t61p:/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/build$ which ld
/usr/bin/ld

xtrnaw7@t61p:/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/build$ ls -lL /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/ld
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 222688 Oct 11 06:24 /usr/bin/gcc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 457416 Jan  3  2008 /usr/bin/ld

So I don't know why ld is not found.

Doing the compile manually with the commands from the log works also:

xtrnaw7@t61p:/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/build$ cd /data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/oetmp/work/x86_64-linux/shasum-native-1.0-r1
xtrnaw7@t61p:/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/oetmp/work/x86_64-linux/shasum-native-1.0-r1$ ls
main.c  mhash_sha256.h  sha256.c  temp

xtrnaw7@t61p:/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/oetmp/work/x86_64-linux/shasum-native-1.0-r1$ gcc -isystem/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/oetmp/staging/x86_64-linux/include -Os -isystem/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/oetmp/staging/x86_64-linux/include -o oe_sha256sum main.c sha256.c

xtrnaw7@t61p:/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/oetmp/work/x86_64-linux/shasum-native-1.0-r1$ ls
main.c  mhash_sha256.h  oe_sha256sum  sha256.c  temp

xtrnaw7@t61p:/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/oetmp/work/x86_64-linux/shasum-native-1.0-r1$ ls -l
total 40
-rw-r--r-- 1 xtrnaw7 xtrnaw7  1161 Jan 27 19:23 main.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 xtrnaw7 xtrnaw7  1808 Jan 27 19:23 mhash_sha256.h
-rwxr-xr-x 1 xtrnaw7 xtrnaw7 15236 Jan 27 19:45 oe_sha256sum
-rw-r--r-- 1 xtrnaw7 xtrnaw7 10047 Jan 27 19:23 sha256.c
drwxr-sr-x 2 xtrnaw7 xtrnaw7  4096 Jan 27 19:44 temp

After I wrote my last email I replaced bitbake 1.8.12  with the 1.9 beta and now it seems to work (I will further investigate here to find the real problem)

regards

Bernd

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom 2008.1 On Sl-c760 Is Dead After 30 Seconds

« on: January 27, 2009, 11:02:24 am »

BTW: What are the side-effects of disabling ipaq-sleep? Only automatic suspend won't work (but manual suspend still works)?

Automatic suspend will not work. (ipaq-sleep bases it on X activity, if you are working in console, it goes to sleep during work)

Just checked my self-created image .. there is no ipaq-sleep in the image
(this is Angstrom with OPIE)

regards

Bernd

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom 2008.1 On Sl-c760 Is Dead After 30 Seconds

« on: January 27, 2009, 07:55:29 am »

I guess that yes, but I never tried it. ipaq-sleep work incorrectly in console and suspends Zaurus even if you are working on it.

So this is a known problem and will be solved in the future? If yes, I stay with Angstrom 2007.12 and wait until the error is fixed (if I only get bitbake working for 2007.12 ...).

You can also start emergency system and delete them.

I'll try that

BTW: What are the side-effects of disabling ipaq-sleep? Only automatic suspend won't work (but manual suspend still works)?


regards

Bernd