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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Problems With Pdaxrom

« on: June 20, 2005, 02:11:14 pm »

i tested this beautiful rom for two weekends, but i am struggling with it.
maybe somebody can help me. i flashed to guylhems rom and updated
to pdaXrom.

1. matchbox crashes and after a reset i get messages like

"Inode #... was a directory with children -removing those too..."

some libraries or symbolic links disappeared. has someone a good
workaround for this?

The messages ("Inode #... was a directory", etc.) are just diagnostic messages
from the jffs2 Filesystem (a special filesystem for flash storage). They do not
indicate an error. Just ignore them...

Your libraries most likely didn't disappear, just the symbolic links pointing to them
disappeared. They are rebuilt after a reboot by a program which runs automatically in
the background. Just wait a few minutes and the symbolic links to the libraries
should be there again.

Bye,
Christian

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Mplayer Freezes While Playing

« on: April 08, 2005, 08:31:02 am »

I used to watch 45 minutes long movies on my C700, sometimes suspending it while playing and I never had a lockup this way.
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#!/bin/bash
xrandr -s 1
sleep 1
FvwmCommand Restart
sleep 8
mplayer -nortc -framedrop -fstype fullscreen -fs -ac mad -really-quiet $@
xrandr -s 0
FvwmCommand Restart

The "-nortc" option did the trick. Now it works like a charm without freezing.  

Thanks!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Root Filesystem Corruption After Reboot

« on: April 08, 2005, 08:25:43 am »

To recreate the errors if you don't believe this reflash your Z so that its completely clean, create a large directory structure with a lot of files and directories and then delete that structure. You will get a LOT of those messages. They are just messages and some people on the jffs2 news groups really complain that the file system is just too 'chatty' and alarms too many users into rebuilding their systems.

As far as the missing libraries go, I would reinstall them.

That's good to know. I am not familiar with the jffs2 filesystem, so I thought these
messages would indicate an inconsistent state or something like that...

So there must be another cause for my problems. I noticed that the libraries themselves
aren't missing, but that symlinks pointing to them were removed (most of my applications
are installed on an sd-card).

In any case, thanks for your answer!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Mplayer Freezes While Playing

« on: April 07, 2005, 03:12:32 pm »

Hi!

Has anyone been able to watch full length videos with the
Mplayer integrated in pdaXrom kathrin rc9?

Small clips seem to be OK, but full length videos reliably
cause Mplayer to freeze after a few seconds to a few minutes.

These freezes always occur regardless of the way
Mplayer was started (from within X or from the console
with the framebuffer device).

Could this be a configuration error, is this a known bug
of the Mplayer version or does the Zaurus (SL-C750)  simply
lack the required CPU power?

Thanks!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Root Filesystem Corruption After Reboot

« on: April 07, 2005, 02:52:54 pm »

Hi!

I recently installed the pdaXrom kathrin rc9 on my Zaurus
SL-C750. The first reboot after the flashing finished without
any errors.

Today my Zaurus crashed with a garbled screen so I had
to reboot it. As I was still able to log in to the Zaurus via ssh,
I issued the "reboot" command.
The Zaurus seemed to reboot normally, but then I got
strange messages during startup:

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...
Eep. Child "System.profile-K0I8-U" (ino #2832) of dir
ino #2820 doesn't exist
Inode #1771 was a directory with children -removing those too...
Inode #2799 was a directory with children -removing those too...
...
startx then complained about missing libraries and I noticed that
some symlinks disappeared.

Has anyone else gotten these error messages during reboot?
Or is this a sign that my internal flash is going to fail soon (not good)?
Or could this be a bug in the jffs2 driver?

Is there any way to avoid this corruption?

Thanks!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zaurus Ui Freezes If Suspended Too Long

« on: February 20, 2005, 05:46:27 pm »

I remember this problem in pdaxrom way back in july.  Surely, someone has thought of a workaround or fix by now?

I have an SL-C750 and if it is left suspended for more than one day, the touchscreen and keyboard go dead on wakeup.  I guess it isn't a problem with matchbox, since now pdax is using openbox.  Strangely, sometimes the first tap or two after wakeup work and then no more.  The ON/OFF button on the back of the zaurus still works, but suspend/resume does not get the touchscreen/keyboard working.  Removing the battery is the only way to reboot the thing and them everything is fine. At least until I forget to use my Z for a day.
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I also had this problem once. After a long period in suspended state, the
touchscreen and keyboard seemed to lock up.

I noticed that the Zaurus still seemed to be working in this state (new flash cards
were recognized). So I inserted my WIFI-Card and logged in to the Zaurus from
my Desktop-Computer via SSH. I killed and restarted the X Server (on the Z)
and everything was fine afterwards.

Of course this is not a good workaround but at least I didn't have to remove
the battery and risk data loss to get the Z working again...

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Too Large Windows And X Display Redirection

« on: February 12, 2005, 05:41:10 am »

Hello!

I have been using the excellent pdaXrom (kathrin-rc8) for quite some time
now and I have some questions:

The windows of some applications, such as Firefox or Thunderbird are
too large to fit on the screen. They are so large that I cannot reach the
resizing controls with the stylus.
How can I resize the windows so that they fit the screen. Is there
a key combination?

Also: How can i redirect the X display to my desktop computer so that
I can login to the zaurus via ssh, start (for instance) firefox on the Z and
have the application window of firefox appear on my desktop?

Thanks!