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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Sd Card Very Slow Oz 3.5.4.1

« on: January 24, 2007, 04:51:31 pm »

I finally found the time today to install OZ 3.5.4.1 (GPE) on my C750. I am very impressed with the result. It is evident that a lot of work has been put in this version.

I have however a problem that renders my installation almost unusable.
My SD card, a Toshiba 512 MB, is extremely slow: read speed is around  300 KB/sec and write speed is around 20 KB/sec. The card was working perfectly on older versions of OZ (and pdaxrom).
The card has one partition with the ext2 fs. I tried recreating the partition and the filesystem but I didn't see any improvement.

The card seems to be working (tested in a cardreader and also I don't see any relevant messages in dmesg output). Is there a way to improve its speed in OZ?
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mount the sd with async option
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Indeed, it works. I had the same problem with OZ 3.5.4.2 on Tosa with Lexar 1GB SD card. With 'sync' it did 1,2MB/s read and 50KB/s write copared to 1,3Mb/s read/write with 'async'.

Thank Meanie for help!

Cheers, pm

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Jumbo Xqt Package

« on: November 30, 2005, 10:22:30 am »

The versions of the cramfs files I got didn't seem corrupted, so maybe you can pick them up from my site in the mean time, until the official site with them gets back in place.

XQT Cramfs files

I only have the apps, mozilla, and gtk-jumbo files.

Hope this can help some of you out until Meanie gets the regular site back in action.
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Hi soundwave106!

Thanks for your cramfs image. I can confirm that your is working fine for me. There is also new package available on Meanie's site but it isn't working again (it has the same size as yours but it's still broken).

So correct file size is 17398837 bytes.

MD5SUMs follows:
working file from soundwave106's page:

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dff38e395485d1de9146433a05b6f4e2  xqt-gtk-jumbo.zip
broken file from Meanie's page downloaded 2005-11-30 8:30 CET (GMT +1)

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885d475872348ce2a5f1498d0153b09d  xqt-gtk-jumbo.cramfs.zip
Thank you guys! PM

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Jumbo Xqt Package

« on: November 29, 2005, 04:57:14 pm »

Hello Meanie,

I also have problems with xqt-gtk-jumbo.cramsf file.
I downloaded it and used unzip on my desktop (UnZip 5.52 from debian unstable) for extraction. Unzip didn't complain at all. However after I mount cramfs image I can see that xqt-setup is corrupted, i.e. it contains only 0x0 chars. The same can be said about lot of other files included in this package. Some other files are OK. It seems that cramfs zip file is corrupted somewhere in the middle. It's also possbile that my unzip is not able to handle it correctly. Thus I want to ask you. Could you check original file and publish its MD5 sum? I was not able to find it.

I downloaded file from http://www.thegrinder.ws/Meanies_XQT/xqt-g...umbo.cramfs.zip twice. Both files have following MD5 sum.

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bdd3f359e1ad50cf4503e9ccfac3ae3c  xqt-gtk-jumbo.cramfs.zip
I downloaded also other cramfs images and scripts. They are working well. MD5SUMs are below.

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63e912995c89f857576780df48dd7ae2  xqt-apps.cramfs.zip
e77dc872abd41a0d13cc2dbc48068c5f  xqt-cleanup.zip
c56e138b292a5785b0bc2325926d769d  xqt-install.sh.zip
49eea238d0005df251aab1c8eccd759d  xqt-mozilla.cramfs.zip
094280fe05f924aa7c7d2617f5ff0cb0  xqt-openoffice.cramfs.zip
I tried also your .ipk package of xqt (i.e. xqt-gtk-jumbopack_0.4.3-0.7_arm.zip - BTW zip is bigger than included ipk package). I was able to install it on SD card (on SL6000 tosa) and xserver was working well(I got blackbox running with terminal).

Nice work! I didn't thought I will be running Xserver on sharp rom. Hopefully we'll find what's wrong with jumbo-cramfs file soon.

Cheers, PM

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6000 - Tosa / USB Mouse?

« on: July 24, 2005, 05:10:43 pm »

Oh well, USB mice work like a charm. However I fell into troubles with my PS/2 to USB convertor. It has both keyboard and mouse PS/2 ports. So you can use both devices on "one" USB port wIthout need of USB hub. It is usefull toy when you want to use friend's/customer's/etc keyboard and mouse. It's still more common that it will be PS/2 and not USB device.

Keyboard works well but mouse was dead. It identifies itself as

dmesg:
input0: Symbiose lab inc. Symbiose PS/2 Keyboard - PS/2 Mouse on usb1:8.0
input1: Symbiose lab inc. Symbiose PS/2 Keyboard - PS/2 Mouse on usb1:8.1

lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 04b4:8081 Cypress Semiconductor Corp.

Once plugged to zaurus it loads hid.o module. I've loaded usbmouse as well but it wasn't working while usb mouse worked at the same time. I played with it few hours and saw it working few times. However I wasn't able to find why it sometimes works and sometimes not. Finally I've found that hid module must be released before usbmouse module is loaded.

It means sequence:
- plug PS/2 to USB convertor
- rmmod hid
- modprobe usbmouse

Later hid module can be loaded again without impact on PS/2 mouse functionality. Releasing of hid module doesn't have impact on keyboard or USB mouse functionality. It is also possible to use both ps/2 and usb mouse together if you find it usefull

What's strange is mouse wheel behaviour. Wheel works well on USB mouse but when the same mouse is connected via PS/2_to_USB convertor then wheel is dead. It seems to me as problem with (old) usbmouse driver on Zaurus because it works well on my desktop.

'cat /dev/input/mice' on desktop shows mess when wheel is rolled but on Zaurus it is silent (it reacts only on wheel click).

Any ideas?

Cheers, poorman

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6000 - Tosa / Restore A Sl-6000 Sharp Rom Without Using Nand

« on: January 21, 2005, 08:35:33 am »

Well, I given up and I did NAND restore with original sharp rom. I followed instructions from next post

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...indpost&p=50945

Cheers, PM

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6000 - Tosa / Restore A Sl-6000 Sharp Rom Without Using Nand

« on: January 21, 2005, 05:52:31 am »

Well, some link to "guylhem's zip"? BTW, it's US 1.03 ROM but what about 1.12 ROM?

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6000 - Tosa / Restore A Sl-6000 Sharp Rom Without Using Nand

« on: January 21, 2005, 05:06:00 am »

Hi guys,

guinea pig wants to share his experience with you. For impatient reader - it didn't work.

Well, I thought it is reasonable to use described "limited" list of files to be flashed. I was thinking about something similar before a found this thread. I can see one problem there - size of initrd.bin and initfs.bin. In backup.sh and your derived updater.sh are next sizes

restore initrd.bin 0x00700000 28672
restore initfs.bin 0x02300000 29696

as far as I understand it initrd.bin should be 28672*1024 = 29360128 bytes long
and initfs.bin should be 29696*1024 = 30408704 bytes long

However real sizes of these files are (taken from http://www.externe.net/zaurus/flash/SL6000L-US-1.12.zip)

initrd.bin has 27459600
initfs.bin has 851984

It's strange that real sizes are not rounded to whole 1024 blocks.

It was a big fight before I decided to ignore this differences in size. Finally I decided to flash it. I've used the same script which pldrouin sent in his post. With small modification for SD card (cd /mnt/card  instead cd /mnt/cf).

After boot flashing has started. nandlogical is quite verbose so I've seen what it is doing (lot of "write" messages with ofset, etc.). I was possible to see "breaks" among various files. Finally it writes "...invalid argument" and it rebooted immediatelly. So I'm not sure where exactly the error was and what exactly it said. However it seems that it was due described problem with sizes. I think that it flashed initrd.bin but it was shorter than option passed to nandlogical so it failed.

After reboot it started but it was a bit magic. First original "SHARP" image was displayed but it was overrided by openzaurus booting procedure in few seconds.
GPE has started but touchscreen wasn't working any more. I tried to flash OpenZaurus rom once more but it wasn't possible. It complained that dialog is not possible to find. I extract dialog from bootstrap.bin and store it in the root of SD card together with rom file and uptater.sh. After this modification it was possible to flash openzaurus rom by standard way...

So finally I have openzaurus again on my 6000 bu I'm still looking for "safe" procedure to flash it to original SHARP rom. Why? Well, there are few anyoing thinks especially keyboard and buttons are not working properly and it's not possible to control backlight.

Cheers, PM

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Czech / Sl-c3000

« on: January 14, 2005, 08:43:53 am »

daXd: Muzes mi poslat presne rozmery screen protectoru? Obavam se, ze na 6000 bude maly, protoze ma uhlopricku 4". Pokud vim, tak ostatni modely mely 3.7". BTW, jak jsi platil tu objednavku z Hong Kongu? Predpokladam, ze kartu visa elektron tam asi neudam :-)

Mate nejaky tip na pouzdro? Prece jen nosit to jen v kapse se mi moc nechce - prece jen je to velka a tezka cihla. Navic nemam clamshell, takze displej je prvni na rane... Celt jsem ze na 6000 pasuje idealne pouzdro z Psiona 3, ale to uz tezko nekde sezenu.

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Czech / Sl-c3000

« on: January 14, 2005, 06:07:35 am »

O Shirtpocket.co.uk uz se tady mluvilo a myslim, ze ve stejnem duchu.

Kazdopadne Conics nas nemile prekvapil. Samozrejme jsme necekali, ze by dodaval do Cech. Zaurus byl objednany pres nasi materskou firmu ve Svycarsku. Podle stranky Conicsu uctuji za dopravne do Evropy $49 a Svycarsko maji v seznamu akceptovanych platebnich karet a v seznamu EMS partneru jednotlivych zemi. Nicmene jsme nepochodili. Uz vice nez mesic se snazime o nejaky kontakt, ale marne. Netusime, proc objednavka pres web byla ignorovana.

Dovazet Zaura do Cech je dost odvazna myslenka. Neverim tomu, ze by si ho koupil nekdo mimo linuxovou komunitu. Kazdopadne nas problem by to stejne nevyresilo, protoze Zaura kupuje centrala v CH.

BTW, jak velky screen protector je? Predpokladam, ze folie bude vetsi a vystrihnes z ni co ptrebujes. Displej na 6000 je totiz o neco malo vetsi nez ma 3000. Dvanact dorlaru i s postovnym? Wow. Platil jsi kartou nebo prevodem? Jak dlouho trvalo zaslani? Mimochodem usb host kabel jsem tam nenasel. Doufal jsem, ze ho budou mit v prislusenstvi k iPodu, ale bohuzel nic.

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Czech / Sl-c3000

« on: January 13, 2005, 12:54:24 pm »

Muzu se zeptat, jak jsi SLC3000 dostal do Cech? Snazili  jsme se ji objednat od Conicsu pres znameho ve Svycarsku, ale Conics se s nami odmita bavit. Nereaguje na objednavky ani na emailove dotazy. Dalsi moznosti jsou Dynamism nebo Trisoft.de, ovsem ponekud drazssi (predevsim u Trisoftu).

Dnes konecne dorzil SLC6000, ktery jsme obednali z Amazonu a marne se uz nekolik dnu snazim sehnat USB HOST kabel. Podarilo se Ti ho sehnat? Nasel jsem, ze se dodava spolecne s iRiverem, ktery dovazi Fast, ale samostatne koupit nelze (iRiver ma pekne fotky s obema USB konetory zde:  http://technet.idnes.cz/digital.asp?r=digi...5265160_digital ). Rad bych k Zauru pripojil USB klavesnici, ctecku karet (mam Sony fotak s Memory Stickem) a samotny fotak. Vsechno by melo fungovat celkem bez problemu, ale zatim je nemam cim pripojit :-(

No nic, jdu nacist, ktery ROM nainstalovat. Dokud se na me nebude ze Zauru smat konzola, vim a mc, tak budu nervozni.

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Czech / Vybirame spravny model

« on: November 17, 2004, 03:43:19 pm »

Diky za rady. Nakonec jsem se rozhodl vyzkouset diplej na SL6000. Nechal jsem HW objednat, ted cekam jak to dopadlo. Pak se podelim o zkusenosti. Bude s cim porovnavat, protoze kolega v praci dostane SLC3000. Jelikoz mame objednanou i GPS a WLAN kartu, tak poreferujeme jak behaji. Jsme zvedavi na USB host funkci. Uvidime co vse pujde pripojit a jak to bude fungovat.

Jak jsem se dival na test rychlosti pameti, tak to vypada, ze rychla FLASH zauru nepomuze. Jedina vyhoda je rychlejsi prace s kartou v USB 2.0 ctecce.

Kompilaci na Zauru provozovat neminim. U malych programku by to slo, ale pokud je to neco vetsiho a navic v C++ (jako Qt/Embedded a spol.), tak to nepripada v uvahu. Cross compiler bude nutnost. Predpokladam, ze navod pripadne odkaz na pripraveny "balicek", najdu nekde na foru.

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Czech / Vybirame spravny model

« on: November 15, 2004, 05:57:13 pm »

Delam pro firmu, ktera dost veci kupuje v USA, takze neni problem to nakoupit tam. Jen me zajimalo, kde jsi ke svemu pokladu prisel Ty a jak to probihalo.
Chapu proc sis vybral clamshell, sice jsem Zaura jeste nemel v ruce, ale jakz takz si to umim predstavit. V drevnich dobach elektronickych diaru, jsem delal servisaka pro vyrobky Casio a dostal jsem do ruky i par Sharpu. Vzhledem k tomu, ze klavesnice na Zaurech je o par generaci dale, tak to musi byt parada.

Kazdopadne jsem silne nalomen pro SL6000 a to kvuli displeji. Pohravam si s mysenkou pouzivat Zaura jako GPS a to jak na kole, tak hlavne pri litani. Software pro Zaura je (http://cumulus.kflog.org). Proto se ptam na pouzitelnost displeje 860 "outdoor". Prece jen lita se za slunicka :-) Podle recenzi by na tom transflective displej 6000 mel byt lepe nez ostatni rady Zauru.

Ovsem pokud se ukaze, ze se ani 6000 neda pouzit, tak me bude zrat, ze jsem prisel o dobrou klavesnici.

Grrr, pak se ma clovek rozhodnout :-)

P.S. Jak jsi spokojen s vykonem? Pred tremi lety jsem delal diplomku - modifikace QT/Embedded. Dracili jsme to na starickem ipaqovi s 206MHz a byli jsme z toho nadseni. Procesory od te doby poskocily, ale RAM je stale 64MB. Narazis na to behem prace? Nechybi pamet moc casto? Provozujes swap na FLASH kdyz je treba nebo se bez nej obejdes?

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Czech / Vybirame spravny model

« on: November 15, 2004, 07:33:27 am »

Zdarec,

no zatim jeste tuhle hracku nemam, ale vazne se o ni ve firme uvazuje. Ted je jen otazka, ktery model vybrat. Mel bych na Tebe par otazek:

1) Kde jsi ten svuj koupil? US/Japonsko/Evropa? Pokud vim, tak v Evrope stoji zbytecne moc (trisoft.de; stejne tak v UK). Zatim nejlepsi ceny jsem nasel na conics.net.

2) Proc jsi se rozhodl pro C860?

3) Jak je displej pouzitelny "venku"? Jde ho cist i na slunci?

Dik, PM