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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Mysteriously Ran Out Of Space

« on: November 10, 2005, 01:39:17 pm »

Thanks for that
it was a runaway file in the var section
not sure what it was but deleting it made everything work fine again

Z

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Mysteriously Ran Out Of Space

« on: November 08, 2005, 09:47:10 pm »

pdaXrom crashed and is now telling me there is no room left in the / area whereas there was 14M free last time I checked. What's wrong and how can I resolve it?
Could it be coredumps?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Rc12 For Sl-c7x0/7500/c860/c1000/c3100

« on: November 02, 2005, 07:25:06 am »

Not sure what you've changed but the user experience in RC12 is far better than it was in RC11 - great work. I may even keep PdaXrom as my standard OS but I have to find a way to transfer my information from Cacko first

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Software / Bookreader - Severe Bug...

« on: September 07, 2005, 08:46:19 am »

I've found a very problematic bug in bookreader with the zoom function in the menu. It has a tendency to lock up the entire system with no comeback but removing the batteries for a reboot unless you're lucking enough to be connected to your LAN and be able to ssh into it to kill the program.

The problem is the program seem to be Japanese and the website for it too - so I'm not sure how to file a bug to the guy about this. I can provide a good bug report but if they chap can't understand it, there's little point  Does anyone know of a developer on the program (which is incidentally a top program for reading comics)?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Question On Installing Hentges Rom 3.53

« on: September 03, 2005, 08:02:58 pm »

here's the output from my c750 (but bear in mind that I'm using Cacko 1.22a) Will that be useful?

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# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                27.0M     27.0M         0 100% /
/dev/ram1                44.0k     26.0k     18.0k  59% /dev
/dev/loop0               22.6M     22.6M         0 100% /usr
/dev/mtdblock3           30.0M      4.6M     25.4M  15% /home
none                     10.0M     48.0k     10.0M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcda1             961.0M    563.6M    348.6M  62% /usr/mnt.rom/card

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Keep Pdaxrom Alive

« on: August 16, 2005, 07:06:14 am »

Although I don't use pdaXrom( I have tried it though  ), I'll be making a donation since I think it's a cool project and I'd like to see it develop...
Keep up the work chaps

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / What Are Hentges Roms ?

« on: August 14, 2005, 05:59:17 pm »

Hentges is the best I could find until my 5500 broke down. Seriously worth a try
for anyone with a 5500...

Z

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5x00 General discussions / Dead Battery - Hosed Zaurus

« on: August 02, 2005, 05:19:43 pm »

yeah i read somewhere that you are not suppose to keep the lighter power pluged into the zaurus when starting a car.
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So could that have completely killed the Zaurus then? Is there actually any point still trying with it and should I start trawling ebay for a replacement?

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5x00 General discussions / Dead Battery - Hosed Zaurus

« on: August 02, 2005, 03:43:08 pm »

if you have a charger light come on, you might have some hope.

Nope no light  at all from the LEDs  Maybe some powersurge killed it as I use it in the car quite a bit.

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5x00 General discussions / Dead Battery - Hosed Zaurus

« on: August 02, 2005, 03:36:25 pm »

Try to take out the battery for 5 minutes. put it back in, flip the switch, plug in ac power, let it charge over night.
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Thanks. will try that. Here's hoping

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5x00 General discussions / Dead Battery - Hosed Zaurus

« on: August 02, 2005, 11:28:50 am »

my battery's life was getting worse and worse until it eventually died. Couldn't get anything from it at all (no LED even with AC connected) but it does exhude a lot of hear above the battery.

Anyways, I bought another battery but that makes no difference. It seems well and truly bricked despite not having flashed it...  Reset+C+D has no effect and the lights won't come on.

What's the next step? I suppose something could have fried inside it - so any tips on repairers (Europe wide)?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz3.5.3 (collie) On/off Button Problem

« on: June 22, 2005, 09:43:15 pm »

I speak as someone who has tried OZ and given up on it as nothing more than a cool developers project. Its focus is not end users. It is of no use to end users.

Nonsense. I can't hack to save my life but it does more than what I need it to (I use Hentges' roms as I find them to be better fitted to my needs). I  can understand that you may be frustrated with the speed of progress but all the chaps are working in their own time and doing a pretty good job of it. The suspend issue may be a little frustrating - I just remember to use my stylus to suspend it - not the end of the world and something I accepted when using OZ which is after all still in testing phase (correct me if I'm wrong on that).

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Sd Mount Problems On Boot

« on: May 14, 2005, 06:54:48 am »

Thanks for the tips.

I added links to "/etc/init.d/umountfs" to rc0.d and rc6.d and that fixed the problem.  I wonder why these links aren't there as default?  Maybe most people wouldn't use them, but maybe they can't hurt.  I don't know.
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Worked for me too - great tip that one. It was getting quite irritating when I accidentally turned it off with the button and had to go through the entire process again.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Turn Off Alarms?

« on: March 02, 2005, 07:41:56 am »

I think they're stored in Clock.conf (in the home directory then in Settings IIRC)
I had the same problem with the alarms - was woken up at 2 am once even though
it was set for 9:30

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / mp3 skips and blips in XMMS w/OZ 3.5.1 on 5500

« on: February 04, 2005, 11:05:15 am »

So the bottleneck really is the SD card - what's the best option for extending the caching of the SD card? Would that depend on the image I choose when I flash the Zaurus? I'm currently running 64-0 so what should I change it too... It makes sense not using the CF for caching if I want to keep it alive

Should the SD be so slow that it can't play files properly though? It seems chronically slow considering the size of the files we're talking about.