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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / How To Make A City Time File?

« on: May 27, 2005, 01:03:37 pm »

Thanks, I'll give that a try. a/glm

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Life After "suspend"

« on: May 27, 2005, 10:17:07 am »

Ahh.. yes that makes sense. Thanks.
a/glm

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Life After "suspend"

« on: May 27, 2005, 09:35:41 am »

Thank you...

A search finds this fix that I use.

...

It frustrates myself and others who try to help out when users will not use the search feature... at least give it a try.

A search of "suspend problem" did not even come close to finding this post thread... Maybe if there were not a mirad of ways to ask a single question and vocabularies were limited to 1000 words we could all find our answers quickly.

But thank you for the suggestion.

Question say this fixes the suspend problem...

Is is normal for the SD disk to umount itself on a hard re-boot (which is what flipping the battery cover switch does correct)? I can reboot from the system - shutdown and the SD does not become umount'ed.

And to answer lardman's question, the Zaurus is in the craddle so it has power all night. And yes suspend revive almost always works for periods of time up to a couple of hours I guess, I've not timed it precisily.

Thank you I'll I try to do better on my searchs.

Larry

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Life After "suspend"

« on: May 27, 2005, 07:47:38 am »

I have OZ 3.5.3 installed with opie on a SL5000D, I've moved the package list, time zones, and installed Opera and Sharp-compat-libs all on the SD card. If I should put my little Z to bed for the night (in suspend mode I guess by using the cancel button) and leave it for a significant time, more than a few hour, when I get up in the morning the Zaurus won't come back to life. Suspend seems to work short time, but not for a significant time.

When it dies in suspend, I need to flip the battery cover switch to turn it on... then the SD card is not mounted, and nothing is linked...

I go through the steps of
mount /dev/mmcda1 /mnt/card
ipkg-link mount /media/card/packages
then I have to add opera to the sharp-compat-libs

I guess this works... but it is like every morning taking the air filter off the engine of your car to hold the butterfly value in the carburetor open while staring the car and then putting the air filter back and going to work...

It works but it is a pain.

Is this one of those things you have to live with if you own a Zaurus SL-5000D?

Larry

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / How To Make A City Time File?

« on: May 25, 2005, 08:39:56 am »

look at things like 'zic'.

zic does not seem to be on the Zaurus, I presume it is to big, and the Zaurus can't hole all Linux utilities...

So one would find and desktop type Linux machine, create a city zone file with zic and move the file to the Zaurus? Is that the way to do it?

Mahalo,
Larry

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / How To Make A City Time File?

« on: May 25, 2005, 07:20:11 am »

look at timezones-* packages - they provide all you need.
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Ok that solves the immediate problem, now I got a Chicago time zone... but it doesn't answer the question,
what are these binary files? why binary? and how can I make a city file?

If I wanted enigmas I'd stick with Microsoft and Windows  

Thanks Larry

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / How To Make A City Time File?

« on: May 25, 2005, 12:00:12 am »

Opie comes with very few time zones specified, I realized that in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America That there is a city for each time zone except Central time, New_York = EST/EDT Denver = MST/MDT and Los_Angeles = PST/PDT but I wanted to make a city info for Chicago CST/CDT but I found the file are in binary, how and what are they compiles in and how can I make one for Chicago? Or where can I otherwise tell the Zaurus that Chicago time is GMT -6/-5?

Larry

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5x00 Hardware / Rom Images For Sl-5000d

« on: May 24, 2005, 08:44:01 am »

Thank you...

I have finally gotten the one application I wanted running; installed on the SD card with the OZ 3.5.3,  (due to the patience of many people, of which you where one, so thank you...) so my ROM question is answered by default.

What are the package names for the applications in the PIM that can be safely removed?

Thanks again, Larry

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Newbie: Proper Upgrade Procedure

« on: May 24, 2005, 08:37:57 am »

The index files are too big, add something like

lists_dir ext /path/to/more/storage

to /etc/ipkg.conf. That will put the index files in /path/to/more/storage instead of /usr/lib/ipkg/lists
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Does this mean that after I change the path/to/more/storage... that I can safely remove the lists in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists ?

Also, what are the package names for the things in the PIM. I would like to remove all PIM application that are safe to remove as I have no desire to use any of the PIM applications.

And one last irksomquestion where do I change the offset for the internet time. Even though I set city time (it is the first city in the city list is the default for system right?) I still GMT instead of GMT -5.

Larry

PS You probablly hate it when someone asks three questions in one post...but I thought I sneak it in and no one would notice.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / I'm Sorry I'm Such A Newbie...

« on: May 23, 2005, 10:39:26 pm »

Damn, welll a'l bee... Thanks...

I'll be sufing on OZ and Opera 7.55 after all.

Thanks to the cast of thousands who have helped me through this!

Larry

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / I'm Sorry I'm Such A Newbie...

« on: May 23, 2005, 09:54:27 pm »

Did you do the ln -s /home/opt/QtPalmtop/opera /usr/share/opera trick and link the package with ipkg-link (if you installed to nonroot)?
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I installed to sd

I did do ipkg-link add opera,

I did do ln -s /mnt/card/packages/opt/QtPalmtop/opera/.opera /home/root/.opera
(but the ipkg already must have put the the link there because I got the message  that the file existed... I had no previous opera installed).

I did this from a fresh flash, mount of sd as a ext2 file system, a fresh install of the sharp compat libs and linked it to the sharp libs...  but I did not do a usr/share link, but opera is there already.

Installing a browser should not be this hard!!!

Larry

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / I'm Sorry I'm Such A Newbie...

« on: May 23, 2005, 09:02:21 pm »

Heres Sharps page that describes installing an os pack on a 5500, the 5000D should be the same.

http://www.myzaurus.com/ROMupdate5.asp


With that being said I strongly you keep at OZ!  It's a little tricky but so fast and cool!!!
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I'm just about readu to do it....

Greg....
Here is the output - after going through the total rebuild I get the same error;

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Using username "root".
root@192.168.1.103's password:
root@collie:~# opera
/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/opera
QDir::readDirEntries: Cannot read the directory: ../apps
opera: Could not find "ini/standard_voice.ini"
opera: Could not find "ini/standard_mouse.ini"
opera: Could not find "ini/standard_keyboard.ini"
opera: Could not find "ini/standard_mouse.ini"
opera: Could not find "ini/standard_keyboard.ini"
opera: Could not find "ini/standard_voice.ini"
Segmentation fault
Larry

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / I'm Sorry I'm Such A Newbie...

« on: May 23, 2005, 07:51:53 pm »

Is there any reason for you not to use the Sharp ROM? it comes with Opera and most wireless cards just work.

Felipe
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Actually I would not be apposed to using the sharp ROMs but I'm not sure which one and there are no instructions. All the ROM I have been adding I put a initrd.bin file and zImage file on the cf card, but the sharp roms say name file "ospack", but then there is not other instructions to go with it, so I not sure I getting all the info.

Larry

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / I'm Sorry I'm Such A Newbie...

« on: May 23, 2005, 05:41:22 pm »

Actually I was thinking more along the lines of removing them all together, I don't use the PDA feautures at all and though it might give me more room to developing stuff...

But, that is getting ahead of myself... I need to trying and get Opera running first then I'll worry about that later. The one little hitch though, I was removing what I thought was  safe stuff this moring but appeartly not, Opie won't come up any more... something about thinking I already have a home root... only the Linux session comes up.

So I thought I'd take the oportunity and re-flash and start from the begining, now that I know what to do should take much time.

Maybe the SIGSEGV error has something to do with all the fumbling around I did at first.

Either way I'll post the result, if successful I'll recap, if not I send the output of any error statements now that I realize I can run it from the terminal.

Larry

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5x00 Hardware / Rom Images For Sl-5000d

« on: May 23, 2005, 01:20:51 pm »

I have an SL-5000D, I'm trying to configure it for a remote controll to a web based server program on my home-office network. My Zaurus has a wireless network card and a 128 SD card.

I have been working with the OZ-Opie 3.5.3 ROM and trying to install Opera 7.55, I'm getting closer all the time and may eventually but it has been an education.

I was trying to unistall some of the PIM application this morning and corrupted something becausr now the Zaurus only comes up in Linux terminal mode and blah blah blah... I don't think it is a big problem... but I figured I'd do a flash install of the ROM this evening after work as an easy fix, since I have not data to protect..

But now I'm wondering and asking for advice from fellow SL-5000D users which is the best ROM for my needs.

OZ-Opie:
 addvantage - starting to know what I'm doing...
 addvantage - great wireless network recongnition...
 disaddvantage - A lot of stuff I don't need and missing the one thing I do want (Web    Broswer - though it can be installed

Cacko
  addvantage - home is on a SD card lots of room for system (well maybe not lots, but more)
  unknow Wireless networking out of the box?
  browser installed?
  easy to install?
  getting rid of application (PIM)

Qtopia
  looks pretty
  alot more stuff than needed
  browser?
  wireless?

Any advice...
Thanks Larry