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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Matchbox Windowmanager

« on: September 07, 2006, 01:41:11 am »

Is there any way to resize a window in the default windowmanager in GPE? To make it full-screen?

When using some apps (most speficially the "Edit entry" windows in GPE-Contacts app), the windows get so small that most data entry fields are 2-3 characters wide - which makes them very difficult to use.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4.1: Where To Report Application Bugs?

« on: September 06, 2006, 09:21:23 am »

So the bugs in packages go to bugs.openembedded.org. But where do I report a bug which is not in the way the distribution is put together, but in a single specific application?

E.g. I have two reproducable bugs in OZ 3.5.4.1/GPE - one in the Contacts app, the other in the virtual keyboard, xkbd.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4.1: Package Problems

« on: September 05, 2006, 02:21:34 am »

Could you please file bugs for that into http://bugs.openembedded.org ? Fora are not suitable for bugtracking
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Sure. Reported all the three bugs there.
Sorry for the inconvinience caused.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4.1: Package Problems

« on: September 04, 2006, 05:48:20 am »

Minor issues I discovered when installing various packages:

When installing "firefox" (1.0.6-r0) package, it attemps to directly chmod '/usr/bin/firefox' in postinst.sh. Which causes an error when installing to SD or CF. Could it be fixed to use relative path..?

The modules "perl-module-encode" (5.8.7-r14) and "perl-module-encode-alias" (5.8.7-r14) list each other as dependencies, which makes it impossible to install either without force switches.

The module "scummvm" (0.6.1b-r0) lists a dependency to "libmpeg2 (>= 0.4.0b)", while the actual name of that package is now "libmpeg2-0" (0.4.0b-r1).

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4.1 On Akita: Problems

« on: August 31, 2006, 01:43:31 am »

I use a plain OZ 3.5.4.1/GPE rom image on Akita. Not much hacks done yet - just some very basic packages installed.

    I've found that, when loading UTF-8 encoded plaintext files on Akita into FBReader, there occurs a strange bug whereby some of the spaces between the words disappear. Muchlikethis. This doesn't occur when loading HTML or .fb2 files. I can provide screenshots if necessary.

    Also, I am having probelms entering non-latin characters into rxvt-unicode. I have installed the necessary locale packages and then used localedef to compile en_GB.UTF-8 locale. Having also installed an appropriate monospace font (Andale Mono) I can display cyrillic text files in rxvt-unicode with 'more' and suchlike commands. But using a virtual keyboard with a russian layout, I don't seem to be able to type in cyrillic characters - nor at command prompt, nor in VIM. The same layout allows me to enter cyrillic characters in GPE applicatins like Contacts or Calendar without any problems. What gives?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.4.x Upgrades

« on: August 30, 2006, 02:41:28 am »

Can I request VIM 7.0 to be recompiled with VIM keymap support included? To someone who uses VIM a lot, this is the only sensible option for editing texts in foreign languages (like Russian in my case), as it solves the problem of having to constantly switch back to English keyboard layout to enter VIM commands to manipulate the text.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4/gpe On Collie: Problems With Contacts App

« on: April 21, 2006, 01:46:29 am »

I have been test-driving OZ 3.5.4/GPE for last few days on my Zaurus SL-5500. I must say that I am favorably impressed: it has now at last reached a stage of reliability and smoothness where one can really switch to it from Opie. However, in the process I have encountered few annoying problems with GPE Contacts app:
1). When trying to import VCard data into the Contacts app, it ignores ROLE and BDAY fields. Nor does it fill in the BDAY field when exporting a user record as a VCard data.
2). A really showstopping bug, is that when I use Properties/Editing Layout menu to change the fields to display and edit in user records (e.g. to add a Nickname or a Job or an Occupation field), the program doesn't save the changes I make upon quitting. Next time I start the program, the editing layout is back to a default one. This is rather strange, as the changes I make in Properties/Setup menu get saved just fine.
3). Is there no option for beaming user records in/out as Vcards via IrDA? E.g. for exchanging contacts data with a mobile phone..?

The Contacts app is vital to PIM functionality of OZ/GPE and it is really a shame to have it mar an otherwise excellent setup.

I have a few more general questions about OZ/GPE:

1). Is there any way to resize menu windows..? In some File Chooser menus, the file selection part of the window ends up being just a few letters wide on SL-5500.
2). Is there any way to use BDF/PCF fonts for rxvt..? TTF look quite bad at low resolutions, plus I'd like to use 'fixed' fonts from XFree, as they can support Latin/Cyrillic/Japanese Kanji without a horrible memory overhead of running, say, Arial Unicode MS truetype font.
3). I haven't fiddled with it yet, but how do I add more layouts to the Virtual Keyboard..? Where are the layout files stored..? In particular I'd like to use a cyrillic-yawerty layout, would that be possible..?
4). Finally, is there any alternative to the rxvt for a terminal application..? In particular anything that could do on-the-fly full-screen mode switch, like the opie terminal does nowdays..?

Thanks in advance!

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Suspend Mode Issue

« on: May 05, 2005, 04:35:34 am »

Recently I have repartitioned the microdrive of my Zaurus: I've cut down the size of the FAT partition, /dev/hda3, to 1GB and created another partion, /dev/hda4/, which I formatted with an ext3 filesystem. I mount is as /usr/local, to have lots of space to play with when custom compiling applications.

   Unfortunately, ever since then, I have a problem with a suspend mode. Every time I suspend the Zaurus, with about a 50% probability a following thing will happen: firstly, the hard disc LED will turn on green and stay like that while the Zaurus remains in the suspend mode. Secondly, when I bring it out of the suspend mode, it freezes for much longer than usual. It remains complete unresponsive - to the stylus or to the keyboard - for close to a minute. Then everything returns to normal.

   My guess is that it is happening because the Zaurus thinks /dev/hda4 is a CF card (I can see it as a CF card under the File tab) and does something stupid to it. Like runs some filesystem check or something. I have tried my best to read the hotplug scripts, but I can not locate the point where that happens. As far as I can figure out, on suspend it calls first  "usbd" with "suspend", which unloads one bunch of modules (what are all these *_fd modules like storage_fd?), then calls "usbdstorage" with "inactive",  which erases the /var/run/usbdstorage.pid, then calls "usbh" with "suspend", which essentially umounts any /dev/sda and/or /dev/sca devices (which I dont have) and then removes "usbcore". When coming out of the suspend the process is reversed:  first "usbh" is called to load usb_ohci_pxa27x and to mount usbdevfs.  Then "usbdstorage"  is called to update /var/run/usbdstorage.pid with new PID. Then "usbd"  loads the rest of modules.

So what gives? Is the hard-disk suspend purely kernel-based? I REALLY do not want to try and read THAT source code.   And I am fed up with waiting for ages for the Zaurus to come back after a suspend mode.  Help?