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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Anyone Ever Get Exult To Run On 5x00 W/ 3.5.2?
« on: December 17, 2004, 04:48:19 am »
I gave up trying... Turns out all I needed was an upgrade to the SHARP 3.10 ROM, and a small tweak in the CFG file.
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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Ok, What Am I Doing Wrong?!
« on: December 17, 2004, 04:47:08 am »
Heh... Solved ALL my problems by ditching OpenZaurus and going to the 3.1x Sharp Rom. Haven't had even the slightest hiccough since... STUFF ACTUALLY WORKS!
Now, that may be because I'm a total idiot, and the SharpROM is idiot proof... But still... Happy to see that my 5500 isn't broken or something.
Open Source (in general) has never liked me
Now, that may be because I'm a total idiot, and the SharpROM is idiot proof... But still... Happy to see that my 5500 isn't broken or something.
Open Source (in general) has never liked me
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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Ok, What Am I Doing Wrong?!
« on: December 13, 2004, 03:46:01 pm »
I just can't get this damn Zaurus to work properly, no matter how many flashes, reflashes, or re-reflashes I do.
1) It's unstable as all hell. My XP machine's been running for 200 days without a reboot. I haven't gone more than 24 hours without having to smack my zaurus with a flash
2) The CF keeps dropping randomly, causing any and all programs ON the CF to stop working. Usually, though, it just stops recognizing the CF after waking up
3) The Zaurus seems to work just fine IF and only if you do NOT let it suspend. As soon as it shuts itself down, there is slim to no chance of anything working properly on resume.
Honestly, I didn't think I was asking that much of it; Just the PIM apps, an e-book reader, and a couple of games to pass them long bus trips.
I'm running 3.5.2, which I will say is a lot more stable than the 3.2 I was running before. But it still isn't boiling my kettle
I haven't touched any of the bootup scripts, nor set any funky options. Networking to my PC works perfectly, I can resolve DNS and download remote IPKs.
I think, what I I'd LIKE to do is go back to the Sharp Rom. But supposedly, that isn't a whole lot better
Any and all advice is welcome. I'm about ready to try reflashing the Zaurus with a large axe
1) It's unstable as all hell. My XP machine's been running for 200 days without a reboot. I haven't gone more than 24 hours without having to smack my zaurus with a flash
2) The CF keeps dropping randomly, causing any and all programs ON the CF to stop working. Usually, though, it just stops recognizing the CF after waking up
3) The Zaurus seems to work just fine IF and only if you do NOT let it suspend. As soon as it shuts itself down, there is slim to no chance of anything working properly on resume.
Honestly, I didn't think I was asking that much of it; Just the PIM apps, an e-book reader, and a couple of games to pass them long bus trips.
I'm running 3.5.2, which I will say is a lot more stable than the 3.2 I was running before. But it still isn't boiling my kettle
I haven't touched any of the bootup scripts, nor set any funky options. Networking to my PC works perfectly, I can resolve DNS and download remote IPKs.
I think, what I I'd LIKE to do is go back to the Sharp Rom. But supposedly, that isn't a whole lot better
Any and all advice is welcome. I'm about ready to try reflashing the Zaurus with a large axe
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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Anyone Else's Zaurus Hang...
« on: December 12, 2004, 04:29:34 am »
... when trying to use Package Manager to install more than about 5 IPKs? God, this damn Zaurus is seriously more trouble than it's worth
Running 3.5.2 off of OpenZaurus, with the 32-32. It's pretty damn consistent. Works fine for less than 3 or 4, usually crashes with more.
Running 3.5.2 off of OpenZaurus, with the 32-32. It's pretty damn consistent. Works fine for less than 3 or 4, usually crashes with more.
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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Anyone Ever Get Exult To Run On 5x00 W/ 3.5.2?
« on: December 11, 2004, 08:18:09 pm »
Subject says it all. The version on exult.sf.org says that it'll work with the Sharp Rom only. It has the source, but I'm not at the point where I feel I can competently compile it properly...
Anyone get it to work?
TIA
Anyone get it to work?
TIA
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5x00 General discussions / Anyone Ever Used "viking" Cf Cards?
« on: November 27, 2004, 11:13:00 pm »
Looks like I can get a sick deal on a Viking 128mb CF card; Just the thing I need to start monkeying with my Z 5500. Anyone have any experience good or bad with this brand?
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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / At my wits end: SL-5500 + OZ + IPKG
« on: October 22, 2004, 09:07:45 pm »
Thanks for the prompt reply, I'd love to take the advice, but I have no CF card of my own (the other was a loaner) so I'll have to wait until reflashing.
After I posted, I realized that I was using newer feeds on an older OZ version. But being the suspicious bastard that I am, I went ahead and dug up some archived IPKs and started my own server. Same kind of trouble; nothing bloody works.
Same problems. The pointer about force-overwrite kicks ass though; thats one less thing to worry about. Thanks
As far as debugging programs from the command line, it's going to have to wait, but I'll
After I posted, I realized that I was using newer feeds on an older OZ version. But being the suspicious bastard that I am, I went ahead and dug up some archived IPKs and started my own server. Same kind of trouble; nothing bloody works.
Same problems. The pointer about force-overwrite kicks ass though; thats one less thing to worry about. Thanks
As far as debugging programs from the command line, it's going to have to wait, but I'll
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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / At my wits end: SL-5500 + OZ + IPKG
« on: October 22, 2004, 02:54:39 am »
I'm at my wits end. I am totally and utterly frustrated and lost.
I am a linux newbie, but I'm a fast learner... At least, when things work well enough for me to make sense of them
What I HAVE is an SL-5500 with OZ 3.2
What I don't have is a Zaurus that does a whole hell of a lot of ANYTHING.
The thing boots fine (long and involved hike to get to this point) now, and all of the apps that came with the ROM flash seem to work.
However, I cannot get ANY IPKG applications on any feeds to work;
They sometimes seem to sinstall fine (despite persistent "ERROR: opie-mediaplayer2-codecs.postinst returned 127" errors after each package download and install), but I get big, empty looking "Could not start <insert name of application> error messages, and my Zaurus hangs for about 30-45 seconds.
Other times, I get "Package <insert name> wants to install file <insert file> .... but that file is already provided by <insert other name>
I got the thing used, with a butchered (badly) copy of OZ. After reinstalling a few times, I tried to give up, and go back the the SharpROM version. The install didn't go so well, got a screenload of errors; But after a hard reset, it would run, but not much better than OZ. So I went back.
It seemed to install OK, except that, as stated before, I can't get any bloody thing to work.
It connects to the net fine, I can update IPKG lists etc through networking... But I can't do anything with them.
I've done a little browsing on the forum (proper internet forum decorum), but I have to say. When one has to wade through 7 or 8 nested "try a search on" posts, it gets a little out of hand. Compound this with the fact that I really don't know where at all to start.
Does ANYONE have any possible insight? I'm at my wits end. I have a very powerful, (compared to my Clie, anyway) functional tool that I cannot use for anything but the most basic telephone number storage... And that functionality is already taken by the backs of Water and electricity bills on the fridge.
I'd read the manual... Except that there isn't one
HELP!?!
I am a linux newbie, but I'm a fast learner... At least, when things work well enough for me to make sense of them
What I HAVE is an SL-5500 with OZ 3.2
What I don't have is a Zaurus that does a whole hell of a lot of ANYTHING.
The thing boots fine (long and involved hike to get to this point) now, and all of the apps that came with the ROM flash seem to work.
However, I cannot get ANY IPKG applications on any feeds to work;
They sometimes seem to sinstall fine (despite persistent "ERROR: opie-mediaplayer2-codecs.postinst returned 127" errors after each package download and install), but I get big, empty looking "Could not start <insert name of application> error messages, and my Zaurus hangs for about 30-45 seconds.
Other times, I get "Package <insert name> wants to install file <insert file> .... but that file is already provided by <insert other name>
I got the thing used, with a butchered (badly) copy of OZ. After reinstalling a few times, I tried to give up, and go back the the SharpROM version. The install didn't go so well, got a screenload of errors; But after a hard reset, it would run, but not much better than OZ. So I went back.
It seemed to install OK, except that, as stated before, I can't get any bloody thing to work.
It connects to the net fine, I can update IPKG lists etc through networking... But I can't do anything with them.
I've done a little browsing on the forum (proper internet forum decorum), but I have to say. When one has to wade through 7 or 8 nested "try a search on" posts, it gets a little out of hand. Compound this with the fact that I really don't know where at all to start.
Does ANYONE have any possible insight? I'm at my wits end. I have a very powerful, (compared to my Clie, anyway) functional tool that I cannot use for anything but the most basic telephone number storage... And that functionality is already taken by the backs of Water and electricity bills on the fridge.
I'd read the manual... Except that there isn't one
HELP!?!
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