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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opera 7.55 Seg Fault

« on: March 11, 2005, 02:42:44 pm »

Wahoooo!!

You guys rock  

Here's a recap of what I did (haven't tested it on anything but local docs yet, but given that it didn't crash on the animated Java logo on the default homepage, I'm hopeful that I am good to go...)

1. Uninstall previous Opera (7.3 something).
2. Removed all opera directories (find / -name opera and .opera and delete them)
3. Grabbed the package ref'd at the start of this thread.
4. ipkg -d sd install <pkg name>
5. ipkg-link add opera
6. ln -s /mnt/card/opt/QtPalmtop/opera/.opera /home/root/.opera
7. (fiddled with the .desktop to put it where I wanted it and to use my preferred icon)
8. edited /mnt/card/opt/QtPalmtop/opera/.opera/opera.ini and changed cache entries to the Large settings
9. Launched it!  It worked
10. Tried it out on the full index of my local jdk1.1.8 javadocs.  No problemo... big file.
11. Thanked the gods and any deities I could think of that greater (and more patient) minds than mine had trod this road and DOCUMENTED their travels!!!!

Did I mention that you guys rock?

EDIT:  I forgot to mention my details...
SL-5500 w/ OZ 3.5.2 Hentges ROM
256M SD
32M CF / DLink 660 CF Wifi
Jeode (maybe obvious from the java refs, but there ya go)
Whole bunch of other stuff
+ brand spankin' new Happy Browser


-Matt

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie-tinykate Copy/paste Weirdness

« on: January 26, 2005, 11:23:03 am »

Has anyone else noticed weirdness with the current TinyKate package?  I absolutely LOVE the highlighting, but there are a couple of strange behaviors that I wanted to confirm with other folks...

1) Double (even triple!) paste when using the toolbar button for paste.  Also, the clipboard applet does not paste at all (although fn-c and fn-v work just like the toolbar button)

2) When opening files (not .desktop entries), I get the "Do you want to open the .desktop or the file" dialog twice.  If you click on the the file option both times, you get the file, otherwise you get nothing.

BTW, removing the built in text editor desktop entry allows TinyKate to associate with all text file (nice), but I would absolutely KILL for the AdvancedFM context menu to allow for using tinyKate as the "Open as text..." action.  Anybody know how to do this in Opie?

Thanks in advance!
-Matt

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Zfceu Gui... Sorta

« on: January 20, 2005, 02:00:27 pm »

Do you have the same problem with the screen being positioned too low?  On mine, the last few pixels (5 or 10 maybe, hard to tell) are off the bottom of the screen.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Zfceu Gui... Sorta

« on: January 20, 2005, 12:59:59 pm »

Sweet, NES on the Z

I had to change zfceu to run with the compat libs on OZ 3.5.2, just change the last line of the script to:

runcompat zfceu -frameskip 40 -sound $SOUND $LOCATION/$ROM

One question, though.  My screen (SL-5500) seems to be just a few pixels too low.  The last few lines get cut off the bottom.  Is there a way to tell zfceu to push it up a line or 3?  Other than that, though, the demo roms I tried seem to work great, and the little opie-sh script is just the example I've been looking for to do some other things!  Thanks guys!!

-Matt

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Problems With Task Switching Some Apps?

« on: January 20, 2005, 10:56:28 am »

First off, huge thanks to the OZ team!  I love my zaurus even more since I installed 3.5.2 (upgrd from Cacko/Sharp).  It's pretty, it runs fast, and it does almost everything I want (sound recording needs help badly for my 5500).

Anyway, what I wanted to ask about was task switching between applications.  Some of my apps (MinIDE - java editor, Nethack, opie-sh help etc) refuse to come to the foreground when you click their icon in the taskbar.  After a couple of seconds, a window comes up saying that the application is not responding, do you want to terminate it?  If, however,  you close the apps that you have opened afterwards, the original app is still there and working fine.  I can't seem to narrow it down to any specific problem with the apps.  Nethack is using compat libs, but so is Opera, and it switches just fine.  MinIDE is a java app, so is EIDE which does the same thing.  I have no idea about Opie-sh help.

Any idea what is wrong, or is this just "something to live with".  If it's wrong, any idea on how I can fix it?  It's kind of a pain to have some apps that you can't get back to without closing everything you've opened since...

-Matt

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz Mime Types?

« on: January 12, 2005, 03:17:01 pm »

I've removed the desktop entries for addressbook and datebook.   Did that before trying any of this, and it still doesn't work.  I'll try associating some other (never used) type with another application and see if that works, but otherwise, I'm still at a loss.

Thanks for the reply, though!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz Mime Types?

« on: January 12, 2005, 01:59:27 pm »

Can someone "in the know" explain how OZ (or OPIE?  not sure who is responsible) handles mime types?  I have a file /etc/mime.types that lists out a whole bunch of mime types and their extensions.  All good so far.  I notice that text/plain is an entry.  In AdvancedFM, files with those extensions (for text/plain) show up with the TextEditor icon.  Looking at the texteditor.desktop file (in /opt/QtPalmtop), I notice line like this:
MimeType=text/plain

When I tap-and-hold on a text file, the open with TextEditor context option appears (separate from the "Open as text file" that is always there).

I want to do this with other applications (namely kAddressbook and .vcf files), but OPIE does not seem to associate my .desktop entry with MimeType=text/x-vCard with the text/x-vCard entry in /etc/mime.types.

I must be missing something basic, but I can't seem to find ANY documentation on the .desktop file specification or how OPIE reads it/uses it etc.  The only mimetype docs I can find say that OPIE should be looking for a file in /opt/QtPalmtop/etc/mime.types, which definitely does NOT exist on my system.

Can anyone straighten this out?  I'm desparate to get my beaming working, and the mime types seem to be the main thing holding it up...

-Matt

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie-nethack Not Working!

« on: January 04, 2005, 05:34:36 pm »

Congrats!  I will have to try that one.  I've got qpe-nethack going right now, and some things about it are definitely annoying me.  For one, I can't figure out how to set what @#%@#$ing font it uses.  I had to uninstall verdana-small, it was simply unreadable.   That, and the dialog windows going all funny-sized is pretty rough.

Speaking of icons, though, I whipped out Photoshop and cranked out what IMHO is a kind of fun icon.

It should be attached, but we'll see how it goes...

(edit)
Hmm, the attachment worked!  It looks kinda funny on the big screen, but it's pretty legible on the Z.  It's a wizard and his dog in front of a big @ sign.  If you've ever played the text version, you know where I'm coming from...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / How-to: Opera 6 On 3.5.2 (hentges)

« on: December 30, 2004, 12:11:42 pm »

javamatte, great howto, thanks!  This worked perfectly for me. Just have one small problem, Opera doesn't respond to any of its shortcut keys.  For example, "G" does not bring up the window to type in a URL.  Don't know why, but I can live with it, got any idea why it doesn't work?  Thanks again.

Thanks for the thanks   I'm just hacking around and trying to get browsing!

Unfortunately I have NO idea why the shortcut keys don't work.  I've never used them except on accident...

I did notice someone complaining about Opera6 on another thread saying they couldn't scroll w/ the directional pad.  If you go into options and turn off the click to drag scroll option, the pad starts working fine, I think...

-Matt

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Problems Receiving Vcard From Palms

« on: December 23, 2004, 04:10:50 pm »

Good News:  Beam receive worked with no configuration (Hentges 3.5.2)!!!

Bad News:  Palm (Treo 650) contact beaming VCard files cannot be imported.

When I beam-receive a vcard from a Treo 650 (Palm OS 5 something), I receive the file, but opie-addressbook complains that the VCard is corrupt.  It is correct, but I wonder if there is some way I can get a hook in BEFORE it tries to import.

I checked the beamed file manually (it was laying around int /tmp) and there is one obviously non-compliant line in there.  It is a line that simply reads "Unnamed".  If I delete that line, I can import the .vcf file into opie-addressbook no problem.

My question(s) is/are what happens when a beamed file is received and can I get my fingers on it before opie-addressbok does?  I assume that some script is being fired off that sees a .vcf file incoming and hands it over to opie-address.  What I want to do is put a filter in before it and remove any lines that contiain 'Unnamed'.  If I can do that, I can show off my super-dooper Zaurus without any 'can't talk to my palm' egg on my face.  I know, I know...it's the Palm's fault for not adhering to standards, but I'm on a Linux box... I can fix it w/ a script, right?

Any help would be appreciated (and I'll write up a how-to if we can get it running).

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / How-to: Opera 6 On 3.5.2 (hentges)

« on: December 23, 2004, 04:03:12 pm »

Okay, I've been fiddling with this for a couple of days now, and everyone seems to have some idea or another about how to do it, but I finally got it to work.  So, here is what I did:

1) Download opera6_1.5.4_arm.ipk from the ZUG Downloads section (listed under Applications as Opera6)

2) ipkg -dest sd --force-overwrite install opera6_1.5.4_arm.ipk
(from the directory you placed the file in, obviously.  The --force-overwrite is probably --overkill, but I've installed opera6 and 7 about 931 times over the past few days, so it can't hurt)

3) ipkg-link add opera6

4) Go to the Settings tab, click "Reload Icons"

5) ln -s /opt/QtPalmtop/opera /usr/share/opera
(this will enable png files somehow...don't know, frankly don't care at this point)

6) Go to the Settings tab, click on Libraries, List, Applications, Opera Browser and okay it.

7) Go to Applications, click on Opera Browser and surf your happy heart out.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE leave a message if this works or not so that this thread can be useful!!

We need more HOW-TO documents on this stuff.  Most of this was culled from this message board, but with the *cough* wonderful *cough* search functionality and rampant thread hijacking, it was DIFFICULT to hunt down and even more difficult to sort out.

I hope this helps someone.  If helps you, and you happen to get some other PITA install to work, consider writing up something along these lines.  Good Karma and all that...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie-nethack Not Working!

« on: December 22, 2004, 12:12:22 pm »

Well, I got it working, thought I would follow up for posterity.

I never could get opie-nethack to save, so I removed it.

Downloaded gpe-nethack package from (feed at http://trolls.troll.no/warwick/nethack/ipk).

Installed (ipkg -dest sd --force-depends install qpe-nethack*).
It complains about qpe-base missing...ignore that.  I'm a total newbie with OZ/Opie, so I don't know why you should/shouldn't igore that, but I can tell you what worked for me.

Linked to root (ipkg-link add qpe-nethack)

Clicked on the funky makecompat icon, selected nethack from the lists and viola!

Now I need to fix the logo...

-Matt

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie-nethack Not Working!

« on: December 21, 2004, 06:17:53 pm »

Anybody had luck getting opie-nethack to install to sd?  After an ipkg install to sd and ipkg-link and make compat, it seems to work fine, BUT it won't save.  The only message I can get out of it is: "Cannot save file".

I absolutely love OZ, but I can't live long without my Nethack.  Some kind soul please help a poor adventurer    

BTW, it's the Hentges 3.5.2 OZ, nothing super special installed.

Thanks in advance...
-Matt

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Best Cf Wireless Card For Oz????

« on: December 21, 2004, 05:19:01 pm »

I've got a DLink DCF-660W and it worked right out of the box just fine.

YYMV

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General Discussion / User Permissions Hosed :(

« on: December 20, 2004, 12:54:48 pm »

Well, I apparently toasted my user permissions.

I installed a user manager application, hoping to be able to set the zaurus user up as a root user to avoid having to su/chown new directories that I create in my java development.  Unfortunately, this seems to have nuked my user permissions.

Here are the symptoms, maybe somebody can tell me what is wrong or tell me how to set the zaurus user back to its default from the command line?

1) I can no longer edit app options accessed by holding down on an icon.  The edit screen comes up, but no matter what I check (execute as root etc.), nothing is changed.

2) Some apps no longer launch from the desktop, but launch fine from the terminal (kopi in particular is causing me much pain.  I need my calendar!)

3) Nethack still runs fine, so all is not lost

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-Matt