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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Odd Suspend When Holding "right" Button

« on: June 28, 2005, 03:11:51 pm »

I just noticed today when trying to fast-forward though an MP3 that my SL5600 suspends when I hold down the right-arrow direction key (D-pad right, whatever you want to call it). It's as if I'm holding the Cancel button and sending it into suspend. It happens anywhere within the OS (even the VT), not just XMMS. And it doesn't appear to be a crossed wire: the arrow key still works (as does Cancel), I just don't dare hold it down too long.

Anyone else with a Poodle having this problem? It's really annoying because I can't ffwd my MP3s or play any games without accidentally suspending (which is flaky and another hassle altogether).

I apologize in advance if this has already been covered in the forums. I can't for the life of me seem to get the Search function of this BB system to take more than one word in the search string without failing.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Working On Poodle?

« on: April 15, 2005, 12:28:01 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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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.3 Wellenreiter Ii -- We V16/we V17

« on: April 15, 2005, 11:10:51 am »

Same problem on SL-5600 (Poodle)

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Working On Poodle?

« on: April 14, 2005, 06:28:23 pm »

Not sure if there should be a separate thread started for this, but I have a couple bugs to add:

- Sound is playing way fast (or something). Things like card insertion notices sound like a scratchy cricket chirp. Appointment alarms sound like short chirps of digital distortion (think split seconds of 'cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/dsp').

- 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.

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

- The clock doesn't hold time between reboots. I don't know how SharpROM does it. Perhaps they write the current time to flash before rebooting, and then estimate the reboot time after it comes back up, at least coming up with a good estimate time. It'd be nice if that were added in so that reboots weren't as painful.

- I can't get either opie-mediaplayer1 or opie-mediaplayer2 to install. They fail on dependencies of either missing default skin (v1) or libxine (v2). The packages don't exist in the feeds.

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

Though not a bug, I did notice that I had to download some of the OZ images 2-3 times before I got the MD5sums to check out. Why are these downloads getting corrupted?

On a positive note, I finally figured out how to actually get OZ to sync with Outlook via Intellisync. Now I can finally give OZ a fair shake. Kudos to the devs on this release. I'd been checking back on openzaurus.org for weeks now for a new release, and though I still have yet to see these showstoppers resolved from 3.5.2, I'm quite impressed with the speed and look of 3.5.3.

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.