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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Full Debian On The Sl-c3000

« on: January 06, 2005, 07:38:25 pm »

Hi,
- the on/off button does not work. Pressing it does not suspend the device, but rrunning zsuspend does (and after that, the on/off switch *does* unsuspend!)

Fbvnc needs to be run as root to be able to run zsuspend. (Welll, there is maybe another solution, but this is easier). If it is allready, see if there are any messages in the console when you exit Fbvnc with Fn+Shift+Q.

Lastly, does anyone have any mplayer tips/tricks for this setup? (I must admit that I haven't even istalled mplayer yet - can I expect problems with the vnc setup? Will mplayer bypass vnc and use the framebuffer directly?)

I have compiled a mplayer with framebuffer support and it works rather fine. However, I still don't manage to change resolution to 320x240 with should avoid some software scaling.

I'm also trying to compile an X server directly for the framebuffer.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Full Debian On The Sl-c3000

« on: December 30, 2004, 04:37:55 pm »

I've got a Mercury Wireless CF card that works fine on QT. Do you know if this will work on debian.

It should work fine, since I didn't change the kernel.

However, you won't be able to go to the configuration menus , so if there is some setup to do you'll have to do it by hand (but I don't know how exactly; I've never used any wireless card).

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Full Debian On The Sl-c3000

« on: December 22, 2004, 04:30:41 pm »

/dev/hda3 Start=1 End=1 Blocks=0 id=0 System=Empty

I think this is an artifact from fdisk.

Recreate a /dev/hdc3 partition with fdisk (you shouldn't have removed it), and format it to fat with

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mkfs.msdos /dev/hdc3(You might want to add some options, though)

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Full Debian On The Sl-c3000

« on: December 20, 2004, 12:51:29 pm »

Before you launch Fbvnc I used used the command:-
mount -o binf /usr/mnt.rom/card /hdd3/debroot/mnt/card

I think tou mean "-o bind" and not "-o binf"

Anyway, you can allso mount it from inside the debian with

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mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/card
If you don't have a /dev/hda1 device, you can create it with

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mknod /dev/hda1 b 3 1(You can get those numbers from "cru ls -l /dev/hda1")

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Full Debian On The Sl-c3000

« on: December 14, 2004, 09:45:05 pm »

This debian installation doesn't use X/Qt (X over QT), it uses over Xf4vnc an X server over VNC, and a VNC server, fbvnc. I don't know what X server is in OpenZarus or in PdaXrom.

You can get those programs from the debian-big tarball (see the howto -- you should get the patched fbvnc for the SL-C3000, too), but you can as well install the full system, it's not that big (and you can take debaian-base instead of debian-big).

But the thing is that you can't run this X server over QTopia (the graphic system provided by sharp), you have to exit QTopia (ie to reboot) to run it, and vice-versa.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Full Debian On The Sl-c3000

« on: December 13, 2004, 05:37:28 pm »

In fact, I don'y run Vncserver and Fbvnc as user zaurus; I run them as user root, but the chroot changes user to zaurus (you can choose any user you like, in fact, and it doesn't even need to exist outside the chroot).

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Full Debian On The Sl-c3000

« on: December 12, 2004, 07:41:09 pm »

I am very poor with Window Manager generally, so this will be a good
learning exercise. I wonder if you could give me any tips on launching
IceWM.

IceWM is launched by zvncserver (itself launched by Vncserver) in the default config. In my config, I have moved it to ~/.xinitrc

First once I was root, I did a :-
df -h
To confirm which partition is the biggest spare...
In my case this was hda3 not hdc3. I believe looking at the rc.rofilesys,
this hints at the fact that it could be hda hdb or hdc:-
mount -t $LINUXFMT -o noatime /dev/${IDE1}3 /hdd
Hence refernces to hdc3 were replaced with hda3

Yes that's funny, rc.rofilesys detects if the microdrive is on hda or hdc. Maybe there are different SL-C3000 hardware ?

When doing the command 'mount -o remount,rw /dev/root' I get an error that
/dev/root is not listed in fstab. I therefore copy the line from mtab to
fstab. (I used an editor but here it is in one line)

Oh, it is not in mine either. This must be an error in the HOWTO.
I will correct it to 'mount -o remount,rw /dev/root /'.

cat /etc/mtab | grep /dev/root >> /etc/fstab

To copy the debian-tar ball onto the zaurus I used :-
wget http://pocketworkstation.org/files/zaurus-...n-big-v0.17.tgz
wget http://pocketworkstation.org/files/gnu-tar.gz

I then had to make gnu-tar execuatable.
chmod ugo+x ./gnu-tar

./gnu-tar xvzf zaurus-debian-big-*.tg
Should read ./gnu-tar xvzf zaurus-debian-big-*.tgz

Yes, you're right.
Anyway, gnu-tar is in fact not needed, the are allready a zcat and a tar on the Zaurus, so you might just do 'zcat zaurus-debian-big-*.tgz | tar x'

I was unable to launch the fbvnc inside the tar ball - screen calibration
error. Had to use the one suggested
http://www.tcp-ip.or.jp/~naorou/linuzau/fb...20041121.tar.gz

I'll add a note in the HOWTO. the included fbvnc worked fine for me (excepted for the keyboard). In fact I remmember I had added '-hw c700' when it was launched. That might be it.

Un-able to figure out how to get the IceWM panel. I got a feeling it
something stupid I am missing.

I think I know what's happening: the default zvncserver launches a 640x640 desktop, so the IcemWM panel is hidden down. You should be able to scroll with Fn+Menu+Drag&Drop.

In my zvncserver I have changed the desktop size to 640x480 which seems more usefull to me. The point of having a 640x640 desktop is that you can rotate the screen and still have no black borders.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Full Debian On The Sl-c3000

« on: December 11, 2004, 08:35:24 am »

Well, the original environement (QTopia) is still present if you need it, but it isn't run at all when you use the debian system (well, the sharp kernel is still used). The debian comes with it's own X server, and you can run any windows manager you like.

If you want to get back to QTopia, you'll have to reboot the zaurus. There is maybe a better way, but I don't need it so I haven't searched in that direction.

So the drawback is that when using debian you don't have acces to QTopia and QTopia apps (but to me it is more an advantage than a drawback).

As foar as kanji are concerned, the debian programms are in english, but you can put some of them in other language if you like. However ther seem to be a bug somewere, and unicode chars are not displayed properly, so you should stay with latin-1.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Before I Buy Questions--partitioning

« on: December 11, 2004, 08:12:08 am »

Thanks. Is there any way to safely make one partition for all the space?

Actually the microdrive has 3 partitions:
- /hdd1 : 97Mo
- /hdd2 : 389Mo
- /hdd3 : 3.3Go

The fisrt two contains some system files, and the third ariginally contains the english/japanese dictionary.

If you want to have only one partition, you'll have to modifiy more heavily /root/etc/rc.d/rc.rofylesys.d and to change all the symlinks sharp as put everywhere. Indeed, you'll need to have a useable system while you move files around, you could use a CF card for that, but it makes things more complicated.

In fact, I think it's a bit risky (if you miss something, I don't know if you'll be able boot) and not worth 500 Mo (and you can use those 500Mo anyway)

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Full Debian On The Sl-c3000

« on: December 10, 2004, 09:55:39 pm »

Here is a quick HOWTO (to be continued) to install a debian on the SL-C3000.

Feel free to ask if you have any question...

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Before I Buy Questions--partitioning

« on: December 09, 2004, 09:00:37 pm »

I'll write a quick howto today or tomorrow.

By the way, you don't need any network card, the usb cable is good enough if you have a linux box nearby :-)

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Before I Buy Questions--partitioning

« on: December 06, 2004, 11:16:29 am »

Yes, you can reformat the big FAT partition to something more usefull. But you must edit the startup script /root/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.rofilesys zhich tries to mount /dev/hdc3 as FAT (you'll need to "mount /dev/root / -o remount,rw" first)

About running a debian on the SL-C3000, there is no problem, this is exactly what I'm doing :-)
I mustly followed instructions from this page, and will post more details soon...

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / SL-C3000 questions

« on: November 13, 2004, 04:17:38 pm »

Hi,

I've got some questions about the SL-C3000 but I didn't find any detailed review:

- What is the graphic chip of the C3000 ? Intel 2700G ? ATI Imageon 100 ?
- Does it allow full screen video playback ? How many video RAM is there ? (see this post)

- Is there any benchmark of the Microdrive ? How does it compare to solid state CF/SD or internal flash?

- How does the new CPU (PXA270) compare to the old one (PXA255) ?

Thanks for any answer...

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General Discussion / What's the difference between free RAM and memory

« on: November 09, 2004, 11:35:53 pm »

But then when I do free I get

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Mem:     total  62112      used  60660      free  1452

Just to complete the other responses, it is perfectly normal to have your RAM allmust full. A reasonnable OS uses the RAM to keep the latest data you have read from the hard drive (or some other kind of slow acces storage, ie the internal flash or a SD/CF card for the Zaurus) in case you need them a second time. This speeds up the thing, and of course if some app needs more RAM this cache is freed.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Movie Playing

« on: November 02, 2004, 10:03:29 pm »

the fact is that there is NO possibility to use direct frame buffer acceleration in 640x480, since the ati chip has 384 k of vram embedded

So, how does the X server gets 640x480 ?