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Guylhem Rom / fast 6000 kernel, along with special libsdl
« on: December 13, 2004, 04:33:18 am »
I have a kernel with ext2/3 reiserfs, etc. But it's a bit useless since I blew away the existing modules. The new kernel does not compile with many modules, so I need the existing ones. I have yet to find a source for them.  Can anyone tarball up the /lib/modules of a stock z6k for me?  I am not sure how well they will work with the new kernel, but it's worth a shot.

Th4nkz

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Guylhem Rom / fast 6000 kernel, along with special libsdl
« on: December 11, 2004, 05:27:12 pm »
I grabbed the source and recompiled the kernel with ext2 support. My SD card now works fine.
How do I tell the overclocking is working. The vids seem to play faster, but it's hard to tell.

Can't get the socket CF to work.  How do you compile modules for this thing?

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6000 - Tosa / battery life & flying?
« on: December 10, 2004, 05:53:40 am »
You would think it would use less power. I don't charge my 5600 for a week plus if I only use it now and then. When I did a shutdown, the batt was about dead when I started it back up.

With all the other stuff, like cell phones, pagers, etc.. that are left on. I don't think a PDA is going to bring down a 747.

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Guylhem Rom / fast 6000 kernel, along with special libsdl
« on: December 10, 2004, 05:41:23 am »
I am having the same issues as amdonati.
It does not look like the ext2 filesystem is compiled into the kernel.
Least it's not listed in /proc/filesystems

Also, my socket CF ethernet card does not work.

Seems fast tho.

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6000 - Tosa / Software for the SL-6000
« on: October 27, 2004, 12:52:26 pm »
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Be smart and download programs from feeds particularly for 6000 and/or c7x0 models, you will save yourself a lot of greif.
Can you please post the links to the feeds you found all this at?

Thanks
-Zar

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6000 - Tosa / SL-6000 carry cases
« on: October 27, 2004, 12:50:49 pm »
I just got my 6K Monday. Now I can give up my broken down laptop.

I found a good case when I was in Target.  Link here to BestBuy.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?j=...t&ref=03&loc=01

It's a little bulky, but it has a nice big pocket in the back that is well padded for the Z. The front 2 pockets are large and hold my USB power ethernet switch, charger, and CF cards.

It's not perfect, but it was easy to find.

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General Discussion / A few questions before I buy a 5600 - please help
« on: October 11, 2004, 01:13:11 pm »
I guess I will be the only one to stick up for the 5600.  I have had mine since they came out. I had a software issue at first, but since it's been out for a few years, not any more.  You get a real speaker in the 5600 and not a beeper like the 5500. Everything is not stored in RAM like on the 5500 so you don't loose it if the battery goes dead. (You can install some non-Sharp ROMS to SD so that might not be an issue.)
But the best thing is battery life.  The 5600 has over twice the batter life of the 5500 and it's just usable for everything I do with it.  At work, I often plug it into the office network and use the 1GB SD card I have in it for network storage.  I get about 6 hours of it like this.  Last night I forgot about it and left it on with the wireless card in.  Found it after 1.5 hours of Halo with half the battery still left.  I have a friend with a 5500 and he takes the charger with him.

As for memory. 32 is a bit low and you have to watch what you do. a 8MB swap file solves 90% of the problems.  A few massive web pages will overload it, but things like EBay are fine.

As for speed, I am running Sharp ROM 1.0 because it works so well for me. Apps do take some time to load over the ready right now of the PALM, but I can live with that.

I would only give up my 5600 for a 6000, and only if it has BT and WF.

-zar

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General Discussion / SanDisk regular vs Ultra II
« on: October 08, 2004, 04:48:15 am »
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Becide this I think there have been some kind of problem with SanDisk cards which was solved with ne version of kernel module. Plus that you can't use all space on sd card because of security isues. I think that there was something wike 1000b user useble of 1024b or something like that.
I gave a SanDisk 1GB SD. Normal type. Works fine in my 5600 with Sharp 1.0 ROM.

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Software / Adding Perl modules
« on: September 30, 2004, 01:50:12 am »
If you have time, can you try.

[code[
select count(*) from <table>;
[/code]

it's hanging if i do that. However,

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select count(*) from where == 1;
having anything where in the statement and it seems to work.
Not sure what is going on here.

Thanks
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Software / Adding Perl modules
« on: September 29, 2004, 08:25:39 pm »
Thank for the code. I got it working.
The trick is not to say what host you are connecting to. It defaults to the localhost and that seems to work.  

My test program blow.
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#!/usr/bin/perl

use lib qw(/mnt/card/perlmods);
use DBI;


# Connect to the database.
my $dbh10 = DBI->connect("dbi:mysqlPP:inv","root","");


$sth = $dbh10->prepare( "
    SELECT itemnumber,itemgroup,descrip
    FROM maininv" );


$sth->execute();

while ( ($itemnumber,$itemgroup,$descrip ) = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) {
    print "$itemnumber,$itemgroup,$descrip\n";
};


$sth->finish;
Thanks a bunch. Now to see if my Zaurus can handle this large program.  

-Eddie

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Software / Adding Perl modules
« on: September 29, 2004, 04:00:40 pm »
Hello to everyone.

I am trying to install Apache/Perl/Mysql on my Zaurus. I write a lot of perl scripts that work with mysql and it would be handly to test stuff on the Zaurus.  Speaking of, it's a 5600 with 1GB SD and Sharp 3.00 rom (I really should upgrade the rom, but I don't want to blast everything away.)

Ya, I know it's going to be slow and all that,  but I am doing this more to just see if I can.

Apache, mySQL, and Perl 5.8 installed fine.  It's the Perl DBI module that I am having problems with.
In order to build it, I need make.  I downloaded dev_img and tried to install it, but I got this error.

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# ./image_setup.sh /mnt/card/devel/dev_img-1.5 /mnt/dev
Setting mount point /mnt/dev...
Mounting image /mnt/card/devel/dev_img-1.5...
Failed to mount image /mnt/card/devel/dev_img-1.5 on /mnt/dev
#
It does mount the image fine, but seems to fail seting up the symlinks.
I tried to set them up by hand and I think it's right. Least the config script is happy.

I downloaded the Perl DBI source and did.
Perl Makefile.pl

and it was happy. I edited the makefile to point to the correct location of gcc and ran make, but I get this error.

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cp lib/DBI/DBD.pm blib/lib/DBI/DBD.pm
cp lib/DBI/ProxyServer.pm blib/lib/DBI/ProxyServer.pm
cp lib/Win32/DBIODBC.pm blib/lib/Win32/DBIODBC.pm
cp dbi_sql.h blib/arch/auto/DBI/dbi_sql.h
cp lib/DBD/ExampleP.pm blib/lib/DBD/ExampleP.pm
cp lib/DBI/PurePerl.pm blib/lib/DBI/PurePerl.pm
cp lib/DBI/ProfileData.pm blib/lib/DBI/ProfileData.pm
/home/system/var/mnt/dev/usr/bin/perl5.8.0 -p -e "s/~DRIVER~/Perl/g" ./Driver.xst > Perl.xsi
/home/system/var/mnt/dev/usr/bin/perl5.8.0 /mnt/pkgs/perl/perl5.8.0/lib/5.8.0/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /mnt/pkgs/perl/perl5.8.0/lib/5.8.0/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  Perl.xs > Perl.xsc && mv Perl.xsc Perl.c
/mnt/dev/bin/gcc -c   -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -O3   -DVERSION=\"1.43\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.43\" -fpic "-I/mnt/pkgs/perl/perl5.8.0/lib/5.8.0/linux/CORE"  -Wall -Wno-comment -DDBI_NO_THREADS Perl.c
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
make: *** [Perl.o] Error 1
I have not had this problem when installing on X86 systems, so I am assuming that it is something that I need to change for arm CPU support.

Can anyone offer any tips or pointers on how to debug this?

Thank you
-Eddie

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