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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Where Is Libpt.o?

« on: May 23, 2007, 12:19:16 pm »

Many thanks!  It pulled openldap automatically after pwlib, then ekiga whined about needing libopal - once I installed opal, ekiga will now launch.

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Where Is Libpt.o?

« on: May 23, 2007, 07:29:55 am »

I've installed Ekiga from the r197 feed, but it won't run for lack of libpt.o.  What package provides this library?

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Crt1.o?

« on: May 23, 2007, 07:28:07 am »

OK, I've manage to natively compile kiax on my C860, under r197.  But...

When linking kiax itself, it fails when it's unable to find 'crt1.o'.  Now, I can't find that referenced ANYWHERE except within glibc.  

What can I do?  Where can I find crt1.o?

Help!!

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Audio Always On?

« on: January 28, 2007, 02:21:18 am »

I noticed something the other day.  I'm running r121 on my C860, and with the power 'off' I get noise on headphones when I'm jacking them in, giving me the impression that the audio circuit is live even when the Z is on standby.  Is this correct?

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kiax?

« on: January 15, 2007, 11:22:22 pm »

very interesting idea, actually. (the gprs thing) I've been curious about setting up asteris for a while.
 I'm guessing the old sharprom ziax phone won't do?

The obvious question is --have you found the kiax source and tried to compile it?  What are the difficulties? Is this something the OE folks (given the projected capabilities of the neo) might be motivated to solve? Is r121 easier to build for or on than beta3?  (I kinda thought it wasn't)
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I've not tried the ziax package, I'll have to see if it can do anything under pdaXrom. (I'm on the road this week, not sure when I'll get the opportunity) When I try to build the kiax source (or the Qtiax source for that matter) it reaches a point where it's working on main.cpp and I get ".../armv5tel-cacko-linux/bin/as: error while loading shared libraries: libopcodes-2.16.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".  I posted about a week ago hoping for advice on that.  'libopcodes' doesn't appear anywhere in the kiax source itself.

Funny you should mention the Neo.  Three things have come together leading to me trying to compile an IAX softphone.  Desire for a nice softphone on my Z (I've not tried ekiga, am really looking for IAX - not even sure if I can route SIP+RTP over GPRS without VPN...), administering a few Asterisk servers, and recent discussion on the OpenMoko mailing list.  With Zaurus over bluetooth, or a phone environment like OpenMoko, it's possible to route VOIP calls over gprs to your own asterisk server at home, with a $40 FXS jacked into your home phone line.  You can set up Asterisk via Trixbox (centos-based install [centos is based on redhat enterprise] of asterisk and support packages - dedicated server but full linux so you can install services like webserver, mailserver, DNS cache, timeserver, all sorts of things useful in a modern SoHo network) in an hour and have it bridging calls from gprs to landline, handling voicemail, interactive-voice interface with the server, etc.  I know it varies wildly by location, but T-Mo in the US I have unlimited data for $20 a month, but $50 for 1000 minutes.  $20 is cheap for unlimited mobile data, but I still want to get my money's worth...

If you want to 'play' with asterisk, I recommend Trixbox installed under VMWare.  You'll need either an FXS (hardware linking computer to phone line) or a VOIP provider who allows freedom of choice in your client.  (Vonage will only allow a non-vonage 'device' to connect for certain classes of business plans or for a second line of service specifically for computer access instead of the provided Linksys FXO interface box - by contrast, Teliax offers cut'n'paste configs for various versions of Asterisk right in the customer support page)  The FXS can vary from a PCI card (like X100P) to an external box like a desktop router that supports a half dozen phone lines, and they can vary from $40 to $2000.  Asterisk has a deep well of potential, hence is (unnecessarily IMHO) somewhat complex to configure.  Configuring it via FreePBX web interface (provided with trixbox) has a bit of a learning curve both in VOIP/Telephony concepts as well as the software itself, but configuring asterisk by hand in /etc/asterisk (as I first learned it) can be a traumatic experience, especially if you want to achieve something unusual.

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kiax?

« on: January 14, 2007, 02:36:21 am »

While going trough the packages to install my c860 with r121  I noticed ekiga:
(formerly known as GnomeMeeting) an open source VoIP and Video Conferencing tool.
If you want more details look at
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ekiga/

Hope that solves your problem.
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No, Ekiga is SIP and H323 only.  Both are a PITA to NAT.  I'm trying to get an IAX2-supporting VOIP client, like iaxcomm,  or (my preference) kiax.

IAX2 is easy to NAT, supports multiple calls in a single packet stream (SIP+RTP needs at least 3 ports for a single call), is more efficient bandwidth-wise (and usually processor-wise) than SIP+RTP, and offers encryption.

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kiax?

« on: January 12, 2007, 04:56:45 pm »

I've been trying to cross-compile kiax and getting an error where 'as' can't find libopcodes - which is not referenced anywhere in the kiax code itself.

Anyway, I was hoping someone with a stable proven development system would be willing to build kiax for r121.  Qt-based, should be self-contained.  (the source tarfile includes IAX, GSM, iLBC, and Speex libraries)

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading...tar.gz&97580772

IAX2 (Inter-Asterisk Exchange protocol) is SOO much easier to work with than SIP.  With SIP VOIP the SIP protocol (udp 5060) is used to set up/manage calls, but the audio goes via RTP over effectively random UDP ports - this makes it a major PITA to run SIP through NAT. (symptom - one-way audio or none at all)   With IAX2 (udp 4569) it encapsulates everything over a single connection & port, making it a breeze to NAT.  The Asterisk VOIP server software (duh) supports IAX, as do several soft- and hard-phone offerings, and several VOIP providers (like Teliax) directly support IAX. (and asterisk)   Depending on audio codec, IAX can handle a single call in as little as 28kbps, two calls in 40kbps.  I know I can achieve that over wifi without thinking about it, what I really want to test is whether I can push a call over my cellphone's unlimited GPRS/EDGE data service without undue trouble.  (I run my own asterisk server and have a line with Teliax, so this would be really useful)

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Change Wallpaper If Rotate Screen

« on: January 08, 2007, 11:02:41 am »

I've dug into this before, to the point of studying the matchbox source.  /etc/sysconfig/clamshell  is home to scripts that are called when clamshell state changes -  closed, portrait, landscape.  So, for example, you could put a script in /etc/sysconfig/clamshell/portrait.d/  and it would be executed when the screen is spun to portrait orientation.  It's more efficient however to put the script in scripts.d and symlink to portrait.d and landscape.d, since the script receives 'landscape', 'portrait', or 'closed' as first parameter.

The problem I ran into is that, as Daniel mentioned, matchbox-desktop doesn't reload the config file unless it's restarted, which is not what we want.  If there's some way to tell it to reload config files and repaint ('kill -HUP `pidof -x matchbox-desktop`' should work but doesn't) then the scripts would just need to change to the appropriate wallpaper (either modify config file or swap 2 config files), then trigger the reload.

Now, with all that said, I DID find a way to do it.  As it turns out, matchbox-desktop doesn't reload its config, but it DOES reload the wallpaper image itself.  SO I was successful insofar as I can configure it to use something like /mnt/card/wallpaper/paper.png, which is a symlink to the actual wallpaper to be used, then if that symlink points to a DIFFERENT image when the screen is swapped between portrait and landscape, it will load the new wallpaper.

caveats:  
1 - Loading the images takes a noticeable amount of time, so the smaller the image the smoother the transition.
2 - Images MUST be the same format - IE, both png or both jpg.
3 - you cannot change centered vs tiled vs stretched - that involves reloading the config.
4 - you can only select wallpapers by editing the swapper script, NOT via Look'n'Feel tool.

So here's my patch-up solution: Create the file /etc/sysconfig/clamshell/scripts.d/swappaper, make it executable, and put this in it, modified to reflect your chosen wallpapers and appropriate paths:

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#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in
portrait)
    ln -fs /mnt/card/wallpaper/DeanRock.jpg /mnt/card/wallpaper/paper.jpg
 ;;
landscape)
    ln -fs /mnt/card/wallpaper/CloudColumn.jpg /mnt/card/wallpaper/paper.jpg
 ;;
esac
Then symlink it:  

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ln -s /etc/sysconfig/clamshell/scripts.d/swappaper /etc/sysconfig/clamshell/portrait.d/0swapper
ln -s /etc/sysconfig/clamshell/scripts.d/swappaper /etc/sysconfig/clamshell/portrait.d/0swapperNote that the preceding zero is vital - 0swapper will come first in order, ensuring that it changes the picture BEFORE it actually reloads it...

Final prep, you'll need to execute the landscape 'ln' command from the script manually, then select the paper.jpg or whatever in lookandfeel. (until the symlink has been created you can't select it as wallpaper)

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / No Libopcodes-2.16.1.so

« on: January 07, 2007, 02:53:22 am »

I'm trying to cross-compile Kiax for r121 and have run into this stumbling block:

/data/pdaX86/opt/cross/arm/3.4.6-xscale-softvfp/bin/armv5tel-linux-g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -D_REENTRANT  -DICONS_PATH=\"/usr/local/share/kiax/icons/\" -DI18N_DIRECTORY=\"/usr/local/share/kiax/i18n/\" -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I/data/pdaX86/opt/cross/arm/3.4.6-xscale-softvfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/qt/mkspecs/default -I. -I../src -I../lib -I/data/pdaX86/opt/cross/arm/3.4.6-xscale-softvfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/qt/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -o main.o main.cpp

/data/pdaX86/opt/cross/arm/3.4.6-xscale-softvfp/bin/../lib/gcc/armv5tel-cacko-linux/3.4.6/../../../../armv5tel-cacko-linux/bin/as: error while loading shared libraries: libopcodes-2.16.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(/data/pdaX86 is an NFS share to my desktop, C860, and a pdaX86 vmware setup, from my server)

The only libopcodes within the cross-sdk tarfile is in opt/cross/arm/3.4.6-xscale-softvfp/i686-host-linux-gnu/armv5tel-cacko-linux/lib, which I presume is an x86 library?

Any nudges?

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Feature Request

« on: December 05, 2006, 01:42:19 pm »

I wanted to post a feature request - support for different wallpapers in portrait or landscape.

It would pretty much require the ability to change wallpaper without restarting the desktop, as has been necessary in the past.  (currently - r121 - change wallpaper settings and desktop goes away)  Ideally, if matchbox-desktop receives SIGHUP it should recheck its configs and refresh as needed for font/icon/wallpaper/etc changes, as well as when rotating.  (in fact, SIGHUP seems to do nothing, while SIGALRM handling seems intended to reload but simply terminates?  How is it notified to repaint after rotation?)

If that were supported, it'd be a simple matter to write scripts in /etc/sysconfig/clamshell/landscape.d and portrait.d to change the settings before rotating.    I've tried changing the configured wallpaper manually then rotating display, but even though some signal is sent to matchbox telling it to rotate, it doesn't appear to reread configs at that point.

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Installed Pdaxrom, Think I Already Messed It Up

« on: December 05, 2006, 11:23:54 am »

I too have run into the original posted problem - a few days ago I noticed that I only had one destination available for installations, where I was sure there had previously been several.  

Then the following day there are NO destinations, NO packages available, NO packages listed as installed.

ipkg from command line is helpless as well.

Turns out that /etc/ipkg.conf is empty...  Don't know how it managed that, but if someone could post ipkg.conf from r121 I'd really appreciate it...  

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Quick Kismet Question

« on: December 05, 2006, 09:43:57 am »

Glad I could help.  You don't know how many times I've reflashed my Z and forgotten to save kismet.conf, and when I got around to reinstalling kismet could never remember that line.  Now when I search here for 'kismet socket' I can find this thread.    

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Quick Kismet Question

« on: December 03, 2006, 12:41:20 am »

I'm running Beta 1 on my C860 with a Socket low power Wifi card, it works fine for networking but I can't seem to get Kismet working.  The problem is kismet no longer has a list of sources in the config file like it did last time I set it up.

Anyone have the list, or know the source name for a symbol card?
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try "source=hostap,eth0,hostapsource" - that's what I've been successfully using lately with my Socket Wifi and r121.  Used to be "source=orinoco,eth0,orinocosource"

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Bugs In Rc121 Accouncement Thread

« on: December 02, 2006, 05:18:31 pm »

4) Sometimes reads wrong coordinates from touchscreen.
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Not sure if this has been addressed by the team yet, but if not I wanted to add my observations.

C860 with r121.  A specific example of what I observe, about 20% of the time:  

I try to click (stylus) on the maximize widget on an aterm window.  The 'mouse' cursor stays on the widget, but the cursor changes from an arrow to a text insert shape, or the window starts dragging, or (something on) the top line of text in the window get selected.

The problem seems more likely to occur with gentler presses of the stylus (I have a screen protector installed, btw - a brando IIRC) and also more likely if the pointer was elsewhere on the screen before the tap.  It's very rare on the main menu, or for that matter anywhere in the bottom half of the screen I think.  If I had to characterize it, I'd say that the closer to the top of the screen (in landscape BTW) and the gentler the stylus pressure, the more likely it is to go wonky.

It acts as though the pointer is up to 16 pixels or so lower on the screen than it actually is.  (the pointer stays right under the stylus the whole time, it's nothing to do with touchscreen calibration)

j

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Bluetooth And R121 And Gui

« on: November 26, 2006, 03:15:19 am »

What's the status of this now?  I'm running r121 on my C860 and trying to get it to recognize my billionton is driving me crazy.  But at some point I really need to get it back in the saddle for file transfers and DUN with my cell.

j