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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Developing For C3000 W/ Sharp Rom?

« on: July 22, 2005, 08:02:32 am »

Take a look around at Trolltech's stuff for QT Embedded.  They have free (open source) tools and downloads for cross-compilers and libraries.  That's assuming you're programming apps.  Kernel hacking uses the same tools, but look at the Cacko ROM, Tetsu, and OpenZaurus threads/sites for pointers.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / C1000 Symbol/spectrum More Issues :-(

« on: June 23, 2005, 11:02:39 am »

Try turning off 'shared key' at the AP and the Z.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Hd On 3100

« on: June 16, 2005, 07:43:15 am »

they said the same thing for the 3000... the optional vga out is the compact flash card that conics also sells http://conics.net/shp/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/cfxga/
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I wonder what the refresh rate is.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Hd On 3100

« on: June 15, 2005, 01:32:34 pm »

According to Dynamism it's going to have VGA out.  

VGA out+USB mouse and keyboard==full laptop replacement.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Connect C3000 (cacko Beta1) With Pc (linux 2.6.11)

« on: May 31, 2005, 07:50:13 am »

a) anyone running cacko for C3000 and is able to sync with Linux? if yes, I would like to see the kernel config of the Desktop linux system if possible


Any help is deeply appreciated - kind regards,
J*
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When the "Alert USB" message appears (if the Zaurus is set to "PC Link") unplug the USB cable, click 'OK', and plug the cable back in.  The Z should then mount as an external drive.  Usually on /dev/sda.

Some distros, particularly Fedora and Ubuntu, will automount it multiple times to multiple mount points if you have it set to SD Card rather than Internal Disk.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Cacko Rom 1.23 Beta1 For 3k Ready To Use?

« on: May 27, 2005, 07:53:53 am »

I've been using it for a couple of weeks here at work and it's great!  It is a beta, and thus a bit flaky, but still highly usable.  Actually, the only bug we ran across was that the Konsole sometimes doesn't want to start.  Just keep trying and eventually it runs.

Personally, I think it's better than the stock Sharp ROM, and certainly less buggy than the OpenZaurus ROM.  I think that, by midsummer, OZ and Cacko will both be out of beta and either will be preferable to the Sharp ROM.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Please Help! My C1000 Is Bricked!

« on: May 26, 2005, 01:49:31 pm »

on/off button problem: It's a design flaw.

Sometimes, if you push it too hard, it sticks in the down position.  You then have to pry it out with a pushpin or similar.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Might Want To Avoid The C1000

« on: May 26, 2005, 01:44:19 pm »

It doesn't even start.  No power light when plugged in.  It's been RMA'd.

The C3000 works fine.  We've been beating the heck out of that thing and it still runs. Trying new kernels, adding lots of software, reflashing multiple times.  No problems yet. I suspect (given that some other C1000's have died with these symptoms) that there's a bad part on the mobo.  Sharp probably got a bad batch of $0.01 capacitors or something, and they all went into one run of the C1000.  

These things happen.  I used to work in industrial automation programming and once my employer spent a few thousand dollars because a $5 relay went bad.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Might Want To Avoid The C1000

« on: May 26, 2005, 09:12:36 am »

A few days ago the C1000 crashed with a 'memory low' error and wouldn't reboot.  The maintenance menus wouldn't work properly.  Selecting option '4' would reload the kernel, but selecting any other option just rebooted it.  No way to do a NAND restore or even restore the factory initrd.bin.  Eventually we were able to get an 'updater.sh' script going that would get us to a console, which showed us that /home wasn't mounting. Apparently it couldn't find the part of the flash that /home is on, or possibly that part of the flash had been scrambled by something.  

Today we experienced the issue discussed in this thread. Plug it in, get no light.  Won't start.  Swapping batteries with the C3000 has no effect.  That is, the C1000 (with the battery from the C3000 in it) is still dead and the C3000 (with the battery from the C1000) still runs fine.  

From looking at the above referenced thread, and some others, this looks like a not too uncommon problem.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Can't Locate Module Block-major-22

« on: May 24, 2005, 11:34:23 am »

Try Cacko 3k  works well.  If you can't get it to install, might be time to call Trisoft or Dynamism (depending on who you bought it from) and get an RMA...

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Yet Another Bricked C1000

« on: May 24, 2005, 07:54:07 am »

Working on it...

The guy who's playing with it has hacked together an updater.sh script that got him to the console, now he's trying to rebuild things by hand to the point where NAND restore will work.  We're thinking that we may somehow have overwritten part of the flash that stores all the maintenance menu functions, which is why they're acting weird.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Can't Locate Module Block-major-22

« on: May 23, 2005, 01:22:27 pm »

Tio get to the emergency console unplug the Z and pull the battery. Wait about 5 seconds then reinsert the battery and plug it back in.  Hold down the B and D keys while pressing the On button, hold them until it starts to boot.  This boots it to an emergency console that runs entirely from the 16 Mb flash.  You should be able to 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hda /hdd1' from there.  If mounting fails, take a look at it with fdisk and see if the partition table got hosed.  Hopefully it didn't.  

If you can't fix it by hand, then try putting the files I mentioned (look around this site for links on where to get them, maybe try the Cacko ROM) on an SD card and resetting with those files (pull battery and power as above and, when you restart it, it should come up in a japanese menu.  Use option 3, then 1)

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Can't Locate Module Block-major-22

« on: May 23, 2005, 12:11:21 pm »

All I can think of is do a B+D boot (to the emergency console) mkfs.ext2 hdd1 and hdd2 and then do option3->option1 from the maintenance menu to restore it to it's factory setting.  May need to format hdd3 as FAT as well.  

You need zimage, initrd.bin, updater.sh, and hdimage1.tgz on the sd or cf card when you do that.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Can't Locate Module Block-major-22

« on: May 23, 2005, 11:10:39 am »

What did you do while installing OpenBSD that screwed it?  Any idea?  

I'm going to take a swing at it later today (on the C3000) if we can unbrick the C1000 and I'd like to know what went wrong...

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Yet Another Bricked C1000

« on: May 23, 2005, 10:30:00 am »

Different symptoms than described in this thread.

We're playing around with custom kernels to do hings with loopback filesystems (mainly mods to loop.c and loop.h) so that we can store user data (bookmarks, mail account config, and the like) on a loopback.  

The loopback is mounted to /home.

Mounted the loopback, started a few other programs, started the mail program, and the Z gave a low memory warning.

Then it died screaming.  Screens rotating, error messages, so we rebooted.  It shut down, but wouldn't reboot.  Hangs at the Sharp screen.  B+D boot hangs.  Reflashing the kernel (option 4 in the maintenance menu) hangs.  Any other option in the maintenance menu just boots it, then it hangs.  EX: Normally, when restoring to factory state, you do option 3, then option 1.  On this Z you hit option 3 and it boots.