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New products and alternatives / Open Linux Mobile Phone By Trolltech

« on: September 09, 2006, 07:29:14 am »

Hi all

Interesting article and photos here.

Cheers
Rich

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Sl5500, Wifi, 512mb Cf, Serial Cable, Case

« on: May 31, 2006, 02:29:59 pm »

Have reccomended you to an iPaq user who'me I'm trying to convert. I think he's taken the bait. ^^
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great thanks
 

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Sl5500, Wifi, 512mb Cf, Serial Cable, Case

« on: May 29, 2006, 01:42:32 pm »

Hi all

I'm selling my Zaurus SL-5500, UK model, with accessories on ebay.co.uk

It includes Buffalo WiFi CF card, 512mb and 64mb CF card, extra battery, car and USB charger, serial cable ce-170ts, case, original Sharp box, CD and manual.

I'm in the UK and shipping to the UK only.

ebay.co.uk

Cheers
Rich

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Sudoku

« on: January 16, 2006, 08:20:41 am »

If it's not working then load the ipks directly to the zaurus and try a local feed?
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Thanks, I installed locally before trying out the package. Thanks very much, I love Sudoku and its excellent having it on the Zaurus.

Cheers
rich

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Sudoku

« on: January 12, 2006, 02:52:25 pm »

Thanks for that, can you please include the libfltk_image.so lib so it can run?

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relevant ipkg is below:

[a href=\"http://members.kabsi.at/woody/feed/]http://members.kabsi.at/woody/feed/[/url]
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Hi

I'm struggling to use the feed, I get this error

Downloading [a href=\"http://members.kabsi.at/woody/feed/(null)]http://members.kabsi.at/woody/feed/(null)[/url]
sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Nothing to be done
An error occured, return value: 22
Collected errors:
ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 2: `wget --passive-ftp -q -P /tmp/ipkg-CRMpTJ http://members.kabsi.at/woody/feed/(null)'
Failed to download screenshotapplet. Perhaps you need to run 'ipkg update'?

My /etc/ipkg/woody-conf is

src woody http://members.kabsi.at/woody/feed

Any ideas to fix? I'm running Zaurus sl-5500 collie, with OZ/GPE 3.5.4RC

Cheers
Rich

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Gpe Advice

« on: January 11, 2006, 02:16:40 pm »

Hi guys,

I recently flashed my Collie with OZ 3.5.4 and GPE... Everything  works ok, but I can't find a web browser anywhere!

I've set up WiFi and I can access the internet... I've also edited the ipkg.conf files to point to the utwente.nl feed...

But I can't find dillo or minimo or any other browser in the feed!

Any ideas?
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Hi

Change all the feeds, X11 in particular in /etc/ipkg to this root dir, [a href=\"http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/]http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...ble/3.5.3/feed/[/url]

so for the X11-conf you would add
src/gz http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op.../3.5.3/feed/x11

Minimo and Dillo is in the X11 feed.

gpe-mini-browser, as you probably know is in this feed, http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/sfeed/

There is an extra hyphen - in the ipkg for gpe-mini-broswer, so add the feed and type ipkg install gpe-mini-browser and not gpe-minibrowser

Cheers
Richie

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Turn Off Lcd With Gpe Possible?

« on: January 11, 2006, 08:50:36 am »

What machine are you using (and if it's a clamshell, what version of the kernel?)?


Si
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Zaurus 5500 collie

thanks
Rich

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Turn Off Lcd With Gpe Possible?

« on: January 10, 2006, 03:40:47 pm »

Hi

Is it possible to switch off the LCD whilst listening to music using OZ/GPE? There was an applet thing for the Sharp roms using Qtopia, but I can't find anything for GPE, does anything exist?

thanks
Rich

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Gpe Advice

« on: January 10, 2006, 07:10:51 am »

Hi Simon

Thanks for your help, I had a go at removing stuff and found even with reboots that I needed more space or to run a kernel with a ramdisk. So I've since used rboot and running gpe of an SD card so loads more space. Though I think I need to think about fsck the ext2 image everynow and then.

I now have gxine and gpe-mini-browser installed, gxine is excellent, though it seems to have a few process consuming about 17-19mb each.

BTW gxine is okay for audio books, it doesn't bookmark where you in a file, but it does allow you to pause playback, suspend and resume from the same point or seek to a position, which is an improvement on the Sharp Qtopia mediaplayer.

thanks for your help.
Rich

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Gpe Advice

« on: January 08, 2006, 03:23:10 pm »

Hi Simon

Thanks for the reply. WiFi working now, WEP problem, I thought I knew the WEP key, but didn't! Now online!

Is it known what I can delete or move to the SD card without breaking things? Or should I just use a kernel with less memory to give more space?  

I have 700K left on internal flash using the 64Mb ram kernel. Just tried installing gpe-mini-browser and it tried installing dependant packages and died. I had to reflash, I'm not sure if a space issue or libc6 on SD issue though.

I did try and move the whole of /usr to an ext2 SD card and it killed it too and I had to reflash, back to square one.

Cheers
Rich

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Gpe Advice

« on: January 06, 2006, 04:39:25 pm »

Welcome to the club,
Si
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Hi Simon

Thanks. I'm going to stick with it and try the apps you listed, though I'm struggling with the WiFi connection.  I've got a Buffallo card using hostap_cs driver, but struggling with the Network Setup GUI.  Should GPE/OZ work with 802.11b and WEP? Do you have to setup networking by hand? Or should the gui work?

Cheers
Rich

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Gpe Advice

« on: January 06, 2006, 07:43:04 am »

Hi

I want to have a go using OZ with GPE. What is the best version GPE 3.5.3 or 3.5.4RC and what apps should I use with OZ/ GPE to use for the following? I have a collie Zaurus, 5500.

1. MP3 player app that allows resume for audio books
2. web browser to use
3. email app to use

Also, I want to use a full ram 64mb kernel and use an 128mb SD card to install programs though do I need to change it to ext2 format and do I need to mess with moving the filesystem to the SD card?

I have already installed the 3.5.4RC OZ/GPE, but not sure if this is best to use. I picked this as I assumed the kernel in this version has the collie suspend problems fixed, but should I go back to 3.5.3 and upgrade to the r21 kernel for an overall more stable OS?

thanks
Rich

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Sharp ROMs / Sl-5500 No Longer Boots Qtopia, Console Only

« on: January 05, 2006, 01:47:45 pm »

I couldn't figure out why Qtopia wasn't booting, so gave up and hard reset to restore Qtopia.

Rich

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Sharp ROMs / Sl-5500 No Longer Boots Qtopia, Console Only

« on: January 04, 2006, 02:21:09 pm »

Hi

My battery died before I had chance to charge it and the ni-cad battery inside the SL-5500 must have kicked in. Now I have charged it up, it won't boot in to Qtopia, it is just stuck after entering runlevel 5, with the Zaurus boot screen, please wait approx 1 minute.

I can boot in to runlevel 3 and all my stuff is still there, but how do I get Qtopia to boot in to runlevel 5?

I suppose I can reflash, but I want to avoid doing that and losing settings and data. I have managed to back up the internal memory to SD card, but I'd still rather avoid wiping everything.

thanks
Rich

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Software / Free Sudoku - Now All Zaurus And Archos Supported

« on: December 22, 2005, 08:01:36 am »

Thanks for the tip. Works great on 5500.
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Hi

How did you get it to work on the 5500? The resolution is too big for me? Is there a 320x240 5500 Zaurus version?

Cheers
Rich