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Linux Issues / UPDATED: SOLUTION: HOW TO setup 4GB (Muvo) Microdrive

« on: August 11, 2004, 02:01:26 pm »

Nice, I don't have one of the Muvo drives, but I did notice a minor issue... The command for formatting the partition as ext2 is almost correct, but not quite... It should be:

# mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1

NOT

$ mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda

Note that you should do it as root, and specify the partition number. It may work not as root, depending on your setup (who has permissions to access /dev/hda*). Also note that if you are doing this on a Linux box (not the Zaurus) with a card reader, the device WILL be different. If you run this command on a normal Linux box (again, not the Z), it will probably format one of your data partitions (depending on setup).

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Mac Issues / Better MacZSync?

« on: August 11, 2004, 01:52:42 pm »

Speaking of ZMacSync, when will it be ready for actual syncing of (at least) iCal to Calendar/Todo List and Address Book to Address Book? I don't know about other users, but I'm really looking forward to being able to sync my PowerBook with my Zaurus, and this definatly looks like the most promising way to do it.

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Accessories / replacement stylus

« on: August 11, 2004, 01:43:14 pm »

zenyatta Where did you get it i'm still looking for som, or a good stylus for my z 5600

I beleive the one refered to is the Palm Tungsten T stylus. I have three fro my 5600 (came in a three pack) and got them at Future Shop. You can probably find them wherever has Palms. They fir very snugly, and the telescoping part is a simple push down, and it pops up, making it easy to pull out of the Zaurus.

Vrey nice if you can get your hands on a few.

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Software / I Need an instant messenger

« on: August 10, 2004, 09:10:36 pm »

As far as my experience goes, it does not work at all on the Sharp ROMs on the 5600. It simply will not save the accounts, prefs and other things, and spits out a console error. I already posted about this about a month back, and got no response that solved the problem. Heck, I'm even running Qtopia as root and it can't write the files.

If anyone does have a solution, or has qpe-gaim working, mind telling me your setup to see if I can figure out what's wrong?

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Software / Help with 5600 updates please

« on: August 09, 2004, 07:33:58 pm »

I think you misunderstand something. SSH is a terminal program. Do you have the Terminal installed? If so, run it by using this command (once you install ssh):

ssh -l username hostname

It will ask for the password, and just enter it when it does.

Although if you have enver used Linux before (as your first post implies), it would be useless to you until you at least learn to use the command line.

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Software / Which key for jump in prBoom?

« on: August 08, 2004, 02:43:27 pm »

Ahh, yet another person who asks this question...


There is NO button to jump in Doom 1, and therefore no jump button in prBoom.

Should be a label on the thing... "Jumping not included."

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5x00 General discussions / flash is full

« on: August 05, 2004, 01:58:17 am »

Errrm, you sure you aren't reading a listing of space available on the read only ROM space, instead of the read/write?

Can you create new files even though it's "full"? If so, you're probably misreading it somehow.

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Software / QPE-Gaim issues

« on: July 17, 2004, 10:57:32 am »

Hm, good idea. Now just to drop to console and remount / as readwrite...

Reounted, symlink created, reboot (to make SURE it's mounted / as ro now)...

And Gaim... Still doesn't work. -.-

Any more ideas?

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Software / QPE-Gaim issues

« on: July 17, 2004, 06:19:19 am »

In QPE-Gaim (0.4-1) using all the default files from the feed, except libopie (using 1.0.3 instead), on the Sharp 1.32 ROM for the 5600, Gaim refuses to save preferences or accounts.

It appears to be trying to write to /.gaim, instead of ~/.gaim.

The output of the console is this:

prefs: Reading /.gaim/prefs.xml
prefs: Error reading prefs: Failed to open file '/.gaim/prefs.xml': No such file or directory
accounts: Error reading accounts: Failed to open file '/.gaim/accounts.xml': No such file or directory
pounces: Error reading pounces: Failed to open file '/.gaim/pounces.xml': No such file or directory

I am using the libpng fix, in case it makes a difference. I tried re-installing the files, but nothing new, it still spat out the error.

Also, even though the accounts aren't saving, Jabber refuses to connect and crashes when it tries. On the console I get no error messages - just messages about it connecting to the server, nothing about what went wrong.

Are there any solutions to these two problems?

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Sharp ROMs / cacko ROM for the SL5600

« on: July 17, 2004, 06:10:38 am »

I feel sort of bad for having to do this... But I just don't have the time to work on Cacko for the 5600... In the over-two weeks I've had the rootfs and the kernel patches all of what I've been doing really doesn't amount to very much. I've built a couple kernels, and played around with the rootfs a little, and in the past week I haven't had the time to do anything... I haven't even gotten a flashable version yet.

Also, there doesn't seem to be much interest in this project either. I asked for suggestions a while back and only a single person came up with any. There hasn't been a post to this thread in over two whole weeks. I think that both the number of people using 5600s and the number of people interested in an alternate ROM has decreased. The C-series is more or less taking over the Zaurus market.

Also, from my albeit short time working on this, I do think it would work better if the maintainer owned both a 5600 and a C7x0, for reference, as to how things work on the Cacko ROM. I don't, unfortunatly, bringing up more roadblocks for work I tried to do on this.

If anyone who does have the time feels like working on this project, I would be willing to help a little, but I just simply do not have the time to do the bulk of the work.

Once again, I'm sorry for not being able to work on this.

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Sharp ROMs / cacko ROM for the SL5600

« on: July 01, 2004, 02:53:56 am »

- Disable CONFIG_SYNC_IO for faster SD and CF writes

As I was looking through the kernel config... I can't seem to find this option anywhere. Is it perhaps "CONFIG_FS_SYNC" instead?

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Sharp ROMs / cacko ROM for the SL5600

« on: June 30, 2004, 02:52:57 am »

maslovsky:
That set of patches is intended to be applied to a standard 2.4.18 source tree? Or one of the 2.4.18 versions specfic to the Zauri?

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Sharp ROMs / cacko ROM for the SL5600

« on: June 28, 2004, 10:57:28 pm »

Wireless support would be nice.

I'll see what I can do.

And what about something like Ko/Pi integrated?

I'll see. Maybe I'll do something like putting the Sharp PIMs (the Datebook/Todo List) and the Ko/Pi both in IPKs, and do a similar thing to the Opera/Netfront thing, and let people choose what they want. And once Ka/Pi is working, throw that into an IPK too. (Reason being that some sync options require the DTM format to use.)

I think you can leave out most applications and leave them to be installed later as the users want. Please also think about real built in rotation (preferably at the push of a button).

I'll see what I can do on the rotation at the hit of a button, but it'll probably not be easy (anyone who knows a way (on the 5600), please speak up...

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Sharp ROMs / cacko ROM for the SL5600

« on: June 28, 2004, 10:09:33 pm »

Ok, I've got the stuff to start working on the 5600 version of the ROM.

Currently, I have yet to build a working version (the initrd.bin is still about 1.5 MB too large to fit on the 5600 by default, so no testing it yet, and I don't think I'd be able to safely set it up for re-partitioning the flash ROM yet), but I have some questions to put to the people who'd be using it when I've finished it (and a few notes about my own plans).

First, what features do you want in the kernel? The ones I currently are planning on setting up are disabling the PXA250 cache bug workaround, and adding in the pre-emptive options, making it similar to the special kernels by ced. Any other requests?

Second, I'll be setting up an IPKG feed for this ROM for a few reasons. One, I cannot fit some applications by default on the ROM itself, since I don't feel I could re-partition the 5600 without error, so the feed would be used to provide those. What other applications would be nice to have in this feed?

And third, since I'm still 1.5 MB off of being able to fit this ROM on the 5600, I'll need a poll from C-series users of this ROM too. I've already taken out the Opera, Netfront, Music Player, MPEG Player, Movie Player, and Kino2 applications, planning to put them in IPKs for installation choices (what works, and what is better to your needs) after the ROM is installed. What else can be removed that wouldn't cause major problems?

Thanks for your time.

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Sharp ROMs / cacko ROM for the SL5600

« on: June 26, 2004, 03:55:37 pm »

Well, just so you know, I've been offered the position of maintainer for Cacko for the 5600. And I've accepted.

I won't be doing this full time (I do have other things to do -- school comes to mind), but during the summer I don't have too much to do, so I'll be working hard on it. I probably won't be perfect at it right away, so it's all of your job to point out whatever I'm doing wrong (weather it's a bug, a feature request, or something to do with the overall management of it), and maybe give me some insight into how to fix it.

Also all of you with both 5600s and Cxx0s, I'll need to know how similar to the Cxx0 ROM the 5600 ROM is when I first get something workable out of it (because I don't have a C-series, I don't have a clue what the ROM is supposed to look like, or how it's supposed to act under some circumstances).

Thanks, and I'm looking forward to start working on this by sometime early next week.