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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Open Zaurus Flash, Z Now Dead

« on: July 07, 2005, 01:41:57 pm »

And, of course, if all else fails, just reflash with the Sharp ROM or some other ROM and see if it works.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Bug: Vi Goes Wiled Via Ssh

« on: June 28, 2005, 12:45:55 pm »

Generally if you are using bash you can put it in .bashrc
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Or .profile for regular sh.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Bug: Vi Goes Wiled Via Ssh

« on: June 27, 2005, 10:48:02 am »

I haven't had any problem using vi over ssh or on the machine itself.  I installed micro-emacs, but it took me forever to figure out what it was called (mec).

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / GPE Login Anomolies

« on: June 27, 2005, 10:45:06 am »

and I've had this behaviour and it was fixed by removing keylaunch.

Si
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Ah, yes, that's what I had mangled when I had this problem.  The keylaunchrc file was borked, so keylaunch wouldn't start and it crashed the X session or something.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / GPE Login Anomolies

« on: June 24, 2005, 06:33:22 pm »

I've had this problem when I changed my Xinit files and inserted things that didn't work.  Perhaps the apps you're installing have edited these files and they're now broken?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz3.5.3 (collie) On/off Button Problem

« on: June 14, 2005, 07:18:36 pm »

Today I am having a strange problem (actually, I've had it before but it's frequent today).  If I hold the Cancel button to suspend the Zaurus (as I always do) then usually it just suspends.  However, sometimes (more often than sometimes today) it will look like it's suspending, but only get halfway.  The screen is dimmed and the unit doesn't respond, but it's not completely suspended.  The only way to recover is a reset with the replace battery switch.

Is this a related problem?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Zaurus Newbie

« on: June 10, 2005, 05:49:25 pm »

With regard to flashing, AFAIK you can only use the CF slot for flashing, which is a limitation of the Zaurus itself, not OZ.  When you do the flash routine, the hardware looks for those files to be on the CF card.  The root on SD thing is for if you want to run your Zaurus off an SD card instead of the internal flashram.  That's what I'm doing and it's great - I have tons of space for stuff and don't have to worry about where ipkg installs programs and stuff like that since the SD card is /.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz3.5.3 (collie) On/off Button Problem

« on: June 10, 2005, 01:16:42 pm »

Upon resume I could not connect to the Z from my slackware box, it appears to effect the network connection in some way, because normally I just have to give my usb port an IP address and a route and I have connection.
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The USB networking can be resumed after suspending that way by calling /etc/apm/scripts.d/usbnet (as root of course).  For the moment I'm perfectly happy suspending/resuming from the cancel key and running that script when I resume and want a network connection (I just setup a "resume usb" icon on my desktop so I can do it quickly).

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Configuring Buttons

« on: June 10, 2005, 01:12:19 pm »

In OZ/opie the control key is mapped to the fn key.  Is there any way of separating out the control key and mapping it to the fn key?

darmou
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If someone can figure out the keycode for the function key (which shouldn't be too hard - just need to compile xev for the zaurus) then it should be possible to do that.  If you unmapped the calendar key from control and mapped the function key to control, that may work.  However, you may also run into the problem that Fn-W gets interpreted as Control-W rather than 2 as it should (although I suppose one may be able to map Control-W to 2 as well... not sure if this is possible in xmodmap, but it may be).  This wouldn't be much of a problem if (like me) you don't use the keyboard much but if you rely on the keyboard for input it would be a big problem.

Perhaps I'll play around with it this weekend and see what I find.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz3.5.3 (collie) On/off Button Problem

« on: June 10, 2005, 01:12:55 am »

Hmm...Well that is interesting.  Could you see if apmd is running?

Update: I found this in the execution script for /etc/X11/Xserver:

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               # Horrible hack required to enable resuming after suspend
                rm -f /dev/apm_bios
                killall -9 apmd
Now I just need someone to tell me about the how a Zaurus that doesn't have these problems in the first place behaves with no apmd running.
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Aha, it would seem that on my machine, even though the /dev/apm_bios line in /etc/device_table exists, there is no apmd running and /dev/apm_bios doesn't exist (which would explain the error that apm -s gives - Cannot open APM device: No such file or directory).

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz3.5.3 (collie) On/off Button Problem

« on: June 09, 2005, 01:06:56 am »

/dev/apm_bios is not commented out on mine (and I haven't changed it from the default), however it exhibits the behavior that you describe as happening with it commented out.  How odd.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.3 Gpe-image

« on: June 09, 2005, 01:00:57 am »

When the Zs plugged in or being charged it gets pretty warm.  So im assuming that your chargeing it in the cradle but not when you take it out?
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Yep.  I figured it was probably more due to the charging than anything.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Configuring Buttons

« on: June 09, 2005, 12:38:01 am »

On another note, I have been unable to work out on collie what control x and control c are.

Do you have any ideas on that Penguin Man?

Thanks,

darmou
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By default, it would seem that the calendar button is setup to be the left control key, so pressing that and the C key should work.  However, this starts the calendar.  Similarly, if I do Control-C with xstroke, it brings up the calendar.  Perhaps when I xmodmaped the calendar button to be XF86Calendar, it didn't unxmodmap it from Control_L.

Edit: Doing some exploring, it seems like somehow the calendar key is mapped to both control and XF86Calendar, but it won't act as control.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz3.5.3 (collie) On/off Button Problem

« on: June 08, 2005, 12:02:18 pm »

I'm running 3.5.3 with the GPE image, and the only problems I have suspending are that it doesn't lock the screen when I do it (even though I have the "lock screen on suspend" option set) and it won't wake up for alarms.  Susending and waking up using the cancel key works every time, although the apm --suspend command doesn't work at all.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Syncing - Effort To Create A Definitive Doc

« on: June 08, 2005, 11:42:24 am »

SL-5500 (Collie)
OpenZaurus 3.5.3 / GPE
Ubuntu Linux 5.04 (Hoary) - kernel 2.6.10 (stock)

Setup on PC:
- Installed multisync
- Installed GPESync plugins from binary packages, as described here
- Generated ssh key (as described on above page)
- Added the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces:

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mapping hotplug
script grep
map usb0

iface usb0 inet static
        name USB to Zaurus
        address 192.168.129.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        pointtopoint 192.168.129.201
        up iptables -t nat -F
        up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j SNAT -o wlan0 --to 192.168.1.3
        up echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
        post-down echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
        post-down iptables -t nat -F
Note that my connection to the internet is through wireless card wlan0.  If you're using a regular wired connection, you probably need eth0 istead.  192.168.1.3 is my desktop's IP address (wlan0 = 192.168.1.3).  The iptables lines are to let the Z use the desktop as a gateway to connect to the internet.
- Setup a Multisync pair with first plugin as GPE (IP address 192.168.129.201) and second plugin as backup, although second plugin could be anything.

Setup on Zaurus
- Copied over ssh public key from desktop, added to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
- chmod -R 600 ~/.ssh
- Installed nsqld via ipkg - will not work without this - I tried

That's it.  If the Zaurus has been suspended since the last reboot, then when I put it in the cradle, I have to run "/etc/apm/scripts.d/usbnet resume" on it before it'll connect to the computer.  Once it's connected, I just hit the Sync button in Multisync and it does its thing.