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6000 - Tosa / Which File Format Is Better?

« on: April 15, 2005, 11:07:13 pm »

I just bought a 1gb sd. Now I am wondering which file format will do me good in the long run? FAT32 or ext2? If I use fat32 do I need to defrag after awhile?
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This is up to your needs.
For instance, compatibility with that thing m$ sells forces to Fat.
Hability to link to the internat FS requires ext2.
I would go with half each.
Two partitions, 512 each.

Regards.
Sebastian.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Working On Poodle?

« on: April 15, 2005, 08:50:45 pm »

Well, it seems that the sound problem I noted earlier is limited to the builtin sounds. Opie-record works fine as well as mplayer and xmms-embedded. Anyone else noticing poor sound quality on the calendar alarm and CF/SD insert/eject notifications?
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Mickey already explained it is a known bug in opie.
Regards.
Sebastian.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Working On Poodle?

« on: April 15, 2005, 08:49:59 pm »

If you install Gaim for example that has many subdirectories on /usr/share/
ipkg fails silently to make them and on the GUI the Gaim Icon is missing.

Does it fail to make them really? ipkg attempts to produce symlinks for each file all the way down to /, therefore some of them will fail (as a real directory already exists).

Or are you trying to install Gaim to a FAT formatted card?

To make the icon show up you need to restart opie (or use the QCop command to do this).

Error linkling '/home/opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/reload.png' to '//opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/reload.png'
Error linkling '/home/opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/editpaste.png' to '//opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/editpaste.png'

Perhaps because /home/opt doesn't exist - this looks like it might be a Sharp ROM package, or like it needs some tweaking. Can you give me an URL?


What fun hey? The trials and tribulations of releasing software for devices which it can't be tested on.

Keep up the bug reports, analysis and patches.


Si
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Lets imagine that you have made a /home destination that is on /dev/mtdblock3 (NAND).
Forget about SD and/or CF.
You install KaPi and it uses a file at /opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/reload.png
but since dest is /home it will locate it in
/home/opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/reload.png
This works perfectly. Al directories under /home are created successfully and all files placed.

_BUT_ opie needs that file under /opt/QtPalmtop so a symlink must be done.
It should finish like:
/opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/editpaste.png ->  /home/opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/reload.png

Yes?
Well, but as you have just installed KaPi then the
/opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/ and icons22/ does not exists...
So simlink fails.

After reading the log you have to
mkdir /opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/
mkdir /opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/

and run Update from the Package Manager for it to creat the link.
Yesterday I discovered that if you run
ipkg-link add kapi
It will link it ok.

Of course, if you are installing wget that puts the files under already existing directories, there is no problem making the symlinks.

Hope this helps
Sebastian.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Socket Low Power Wi-fi Under 3.5.2?

« on: April 15, 2005, 08:29:31 pm »

This is Probably not terribly useful, but I've got a Symbol Spectrum24 (Identifies as an LA4100, too) that works perfectly for me using the latest Hentges ROM (T7, OZ 3.5.2) I had to re-flash with T7 recently to get the 802.11 settings in the Network Control Panel, but since then it's worked perfectly.
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I've got the same card, working great, and I believe it's identified as an LA4100 too.  The spectrum_cs module is present and works great in stock OZ 3.5.3.
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I see you both have a SL-5500
So I must conclude that is not present for the SL-5600...?
Sniff
Well, anyway, it was ununsable un 3.5.2
I recall Orinoco-modules to be in the opie image. That should be the reason for not appearing in my sl-5600.
...sometime later....
Yes!
at [a href=\"http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/poodle/]http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3....machine/poodle/[/url]
is the  orinoco-modules-cs AND  orinoco-modules.
Orinoco-modules-cs has spectrum_cs and is not in the feeds nor in the 3.5.3 opie-image.
But orinoco-modules (without _cs) is already.

I´ve already downloaded it and installed but my card still doesn´t work.
Same problem as in 3.5.2 (sorry the long post :-S )
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Apr 16 02:16:46 dino daemon.info cardmgr[760]: socket 0: Socket Communications CF+ LP WLAN Card
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: spectrum_cs.c 0.4.2 (Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> and others)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: hermes_read_ltv(): rid  (0xfd20) does not match type (0x0021)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: Truncating LTV record from 129544 to 8 bytes. (rid=0xfd20, len=0xfd05)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: eth0: Station identity 0002:0001:8400:a120
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 33792.41248
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: hermes_read_ltv(): rid  (0xfc01) does not match type (0x3d00)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: Truncating LTV record from 129030 to 6 bytes. (rid=0xfc01, len=0xfc04)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: eth0: MAC address 9C:A7:01:00:00:84
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: hermes_read_ltv(): rid  (0xfc0e) does not match type (0x7200)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: Truncating LTV record from 129058 to 34 bytes. (rid=0xfc0e, len=0xfc12)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: eth0: Station name "m  I"
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: hermes_read_ltv(): rid  (0xfd10) does not match type (0x72ff)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: Truncating LTV record from 129538 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfd10, len=0xfd02)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: hermes_read_ltv(): rid  (0xfc06) does not match type (0x72ff)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: Truncating LTV record from 129022 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc06, len=0xfc00)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: hermes_read_ltv(): rid  (0xfc83) does not match type (0x722b)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: Truncating LTV record from 129026 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc83, len=0xfc02)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: hermes_read_ltv(): rid  (0xfc25) does not match type (0x722b)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: Truncating LTV record from 129022 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc25, len=0xfc00)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: hermes_read_ltv(): rid  (0xfc0c) does not match type (0x7264)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: Truncating LTV record from 129026 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc0c, len=0xfc02)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: hermes_read_ltv(): rid  (0xfc0d) does not match type (0x7264)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.warn kernel: hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: Truncating LTV record from 129026 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc0d, len=0xfc02)
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: eth0: ready
Apr 16 02:16:47 dino user.debug kernel: eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 39, io 0xf6000000-0xf6000047Apr 16 02:16:49 dino daemon.info cardmgr[760]: executing: './network start eth0 2>&1'
Apr 16 02:16:49 dino daemon.info cardmgr[760]: + udhcpc (v0.9.9-pre) started
Apr 16 02:16:49 dino local0.info udhcpc[1322]: udhcpc (v0.9.9-pre) started
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using iwconfig locks the sl-5600 so bad that I have to retire the battery    

Regards
Sebastian.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Working On Poodle?

« on: April 15, 2005, 01:17:17 am »

I just wish I could figure out how to get the development environment up and running on my FC3 system so I could at least try to help out. Unfortunately I can't even seem to get a working image to compile.

My wish too.. there should be more documentation on this.
Did you try
http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.31/...tool-howto.html  ?
I just downloaded yesterday.
Maybe is the right tool. I don´t know.

Wow! I remeber I had read this somewhere..
the problem for me are the 512MB  
http://www.openembedded.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/GettingStarted
That must be the starters give for OE.
Regards.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Working On Poodle?

« on: April 15, 2005, 01:03:10 am »

- Resume after suspend is hit-or-miss. If I manually suspend it (hold the Cancel key down), then try to resume, it doesn't respond. I noticed once that, after waiting nearly 10 minutes, it seemed to resume after another try, but the screen immediately went back to grey. I was able to make the Z come back on successfully by trying again immediately. If an alarm wakes it up, the alarm screech (see above) can be heard, but I can't make it stop by hitting Cancel, OK or the center pad button. I end up having to reset it from inside the battery compartment.

Well, I have a theory for this.
Did you see that when pressing On/Off the syslog echoes messages from the apm events?
Seems to me that those messages stays somewhere and then at the wake up moment they
make the Z sleep again. Until the buffer empties.
Maybe I´m getting worse. I run out of pills  

- The backlight is also hit-or-miss upon reboot or resume. Sometimes it comes on, sometimes it doesn't.

Same History...

- GUI package manager still crashes and causes full Zaurus freezes.

Did you notice that if you are still able to connect by ssh?
Z is alive but QPE (the graphics "manager") is dead.
/etc/init.d/opie restart
turns the lcd on again... fully working.

I just wish I could figure out how to get the development environment up and running on my FC3 system so I could at least try to help out. Unfortunately I can't even seem to get a working image to compile.

My wish too.. there should be more documentation on this.
Did you try
http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.31/...tool-howto.html  ?
I just downloaded yesterday.
Maybe is the right tool. I don´t know.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Working On Poodle?

« on: April 15, 2005, 12:47:45 am »

At this stage sometimes gpe dies

You mean Opie I presume.

No, I mean
812 root       8924 S   /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/qpe -terminal 2
Now I notice that the process is called QPE. He dies.

-Installing with destination other that root fails to link. Seems that installer fails to make directories and then it can not link. (Dest on SD or /home is the same)
More info, this should be easy enough to fix.

If you install Gaim for example that has many subdirectories on /usr/share/
ipkg fails silently to make them and on the GUI the Gaim Icon is missing.
Then I run Package Manager a do an Update just to see the directories that could not be created.
Then I mkdir them.
Then I run Update again, just to make the symlinks for each file in the newly created directories.
For example, have a look at this part of the log that Package manager gives me when Updating:
8<--8<---8<--8<---
Press the start button to begin.

loading conf file /etc/ipkg.conf
Nothing to be done
Linking packages installed in: <dest-name>
Linking packages installed in: home
Error linkling 'strfile.1.gz' to '//usr/share/man/man1/unstr.1.gz'
Error linkling '/home/opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/reload.png' to '//opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/reload.png'
Error linkling '/home/opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/editpaste.png' to '//opt/QtPalmtop/pics/kdepim/kaddressbook/icons22/editpaste.png'
8<--8<---8<--8<---

-Of course my socket low power Spectrum chipset CF wireless card doesn´t work :-(
Hmm, how much work has been done to try to get this working? Does it work for anyone else?

How Much? I´ve surfed the whole internet from une side to the other.
I´ve found that this card needs the firmware downloaded after a reset.
The module included in OZ3.5.3 seems to fail at the memory address where it get the Hermes messages or something like that. Very weird messages. Any other module not from OZ fails to load
with unresolved symbol. It seems that Rmk made something from rmk6 to 7.
One of the spectrum_cs original developers told me that code had been included in
Orinico_cs, but I could not find it neither on the binary module nor in the sources.
No firmware downloader. (but I have could miss it, I´m not a developer)
My last hope seems to be hostap loading the firmware i got from Prosky.
http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/firmware/
I´ll try tomorrow.  

-After some work with any package they start o get killed by SIGSEGV or SIGPIPE. Sounds to me like a memory problem. But adding swap doesn´t help. On the other hand, doing the same (like installing the same packages) but with ipkg in console by ssh always works. This goes away for a while rebooting

I'm confused - are you saying that if you install a package using ipkg it doesn't die?
Or is the above two points - firstly that things start dying, and secondly, hmm, I can't quite work it out...
What are the apps which are dying? How much free mem is available when they die? What else are you running, etc.

Yes, ipkg _never_ dies.
Sometimes, specially after 2 or more packages being installed using Package Manager, it dies, sometimes SIGSEGV sometimes SIGPIPE, sometimes it takes QPE with it, but ssh stays working.
Regardin the memory use, just to boot:

                total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:        30000        24076         5924            0          152
Opening Package Manager shows:
Mem:        30000        27560         2440            0          152
Anda actually installing something (wget):
Mem:        30000        29420          580            0          120
Mem:        30000        29248          752            0            0
Mem:        30000        28940         1060            0            0
Installing Vorbis Tools:
Mem:        30000        29344          656            0            0
  815 root      14384 S   packagemanager
Mem:        30000        29292          708            0            0
  815 root      14552 S   packagemanager

Strange enough but it didn´t die..
Normally it would have died. ;-)

Hope this helps.
I´m attaching the ipkg output log just in case.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Socket Low Power Wi-fi Under 3.5.2?

« on: April 14, 2005, 02:31:28 am »

Mine works out of the box here w/ (standard) OZ 3.5.1 and OZ 3.5.2. The drivers are contained in the orinoco-modules packages.
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Hi. I´ve flashed OZ 3.5.3 and there´s no spectrum_cs in Orinoco-modules.

root@dino:~# ipkg files orinoco-modules
Package orinoco-modules (0.13e-r3) is installed on root and has the following files:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix/net/orinoco.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix/net/hermes.o

I could not find spectrum_cs nor orinoco_cs.

in the /etc/pcmcia/config there is the:
device "orinoco_cs"
  #class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"
  class "network" module "orinoco_cs"
That tries to load orinoco_cs.
There isn´t such module.
root@dino:/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix# find |grep orinoco
./net/orinoco.o

Maybe my feeds are wrong? (didn´t modify since flashing this morning)

src/gz base [a href=\"http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/base/]http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/base/[/url]
src/gz console http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/console
src/gz devel http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/devel
src/gz libs http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/libs/
src/gz opie http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/opie
src/gz upgrades http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/upgrades/

What am I missing?
Thanks!
Sebastian.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Working On Poodle?

« on: April 14, 2005, 01:22:56 am »

Well then, the wait is over already. kewl. I'm flashing as soon as I can.
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Well, already flashed.
Bugs that I found on 3.5.2 and are still present.
-Installing with destination other that root fails to link. Seems that installer fails to make directories and then it can not link. (Dest on SD or /home is the same)
-After installing I make an Upgrade from the Package Manager just to know what directories i must create. At this stage sometimes gpe dies and screen blocks.
I enter by ssh and a /etc/init.d/opie restart brings it to life again.
Strange enough, with 3.5.3 starting opie by ssh says this. That message was different in 3.5.2
It didn´t say from the :---: and downward.

root@dino:~# /etc/init.d/opie start
Starting Opie in 5 seconds... press key to interrupt.
You seem to already have a /home/root/Applications directory.
Assuming it is the Opie Applications directory. Exiting.
Starting Opie....
ODevice() - found 'Hardware     : SHARP Poodle'
:----:
Zaurus::init() - Using the Embedix HAL on a Zaurus SL-B500 or SL-5600
Zaurus::rotation()
OGlobal::creating global configuration instance.
OConfig::OConfig()
<unknown>: ODevice reports transformation to be 3
Zaurus::rotation()
<unknown>: setting QWS_DISPLAY to 'Transformed:Rot270:0'
qt_init() - starting in daemon mode...
root@dino:~#

-I still had to install locales by hand. I noticed they are separated by continent now.
-Of course my socket low power Spectrum chipset CF wireless card doesn´t work :-(
-After some work with any package they start o get killed by SIGSEGV or SIGPIPE. Sounds to me like a memory problem. But adding swap doesn´t help. On the other hand, doing the same (like installing the same packages) but with ipkg in console by ssh always works. This goes away for a while rebooting

I´ll post more bugs as I find/remember them.

Thanks.