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User Request for Applications / Anagramarama

« on: September 21, 2006, 04:05:53 pm »

Anagramarama:
This is an excellent word game based on sdl.
It is very addictive so I'd love to have it on my zaurus.
The source can be found at Anagramarama web site:

http://www.coralquest.com/anagramarama/download.html
A version for sharp/cacko would be nice   

thanks,


mat
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;-) gee shucks, you're making me blush....

anyone willing to port to the zaurus?, I've got a humble 5500 with latest oz/opie

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Return Of The Hang On Suspend :-(

« on: May 03, 2006, 07:43:21 am »

Hi Folks,

My Collie (64:0) was going great with opie 3.5.4 (rootfs), I've installed lots of useful software and was working away quite happily, but now it's started hanging on suspend again, just like it used to with old opie.

I've installed quite a lot of software and upgraded the system, but that asides, have not tinkered with the system in any way.

where should I post a bug and what information is useful?  (that info would be generally useful as a sticky on this forum)

thanks

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Colm

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

« on: April 26, 2006, 05:18:40 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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just new to GPE myself, so I can't answer your questions, but the contact app stuff sounds buggy to me.

Report GPE bugs to bugtracker
[a href=\"http://handhelds.org/~bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=gpe&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=gpe&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=gpe&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=gpe]http://handhelds.org/~bugzilla/buglist.cgi...&value0-0-3=gpe[/url]

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / How Do I Ensure Data Is Safe On Sd Before Restart

« on: April 20, 2006, 02:50:07 pm »

Hi Folks,

When I go to reboot my Z when playing with loop images, I'm always rather worried that things might not be saved to flash.  I want to put a launcher to some kind of "SD sync" command right next to the penguin apps menu button (matchbox expose theme) so that I can happily press that to be sure.

any suggestions of a console command that will do what I want?

thx.


on another note - just discovered the GPE meta packages ;-D

gpe-task-apps-extra
gpe-task-games
gpe-task-web
gpe-task-desktopapps

just installing right now

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Colm

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Network Weirdness

« on: April 20, 2006, 02:45:49 pm »

Recently I changed some things in wifi configs so some cards which was using hostap driver (shown as wlan0) use orinoco driver now (shown as eth0). If you have such card then follow this post: http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/2006/04/12...with-wifi-card/ please.
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Have done so, thanks hrw.  Reverted to 3.5.4 for now :-)

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Network Weirdness

« on: April 18, 2006, 04:08:20 pm »

Right thanks for the responses, have helped.

the eth0 was missing because I deleted it ;-)

when I look at ifconfig, or the Lightbulb in Network Setup, I see an IPv6 address has been given out, there is no normal inet addr

No config changes have been my router (opie is ok) and I can't see anywhere to enable ipv4...

any pointers?


thx
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Colm

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Network Weirdness

« on: April 18, 2006, 02:32:58 am »

Did an upgrade yesterday to get the latest stuff and my Wifi card failed to be recognised, opened up PC/CF Cards, Socket 0 (which is my Sitecom CF wifi) was empty when my wifi card was in, Driver - no driver loaded.  After some trial and error, I Chose orinoco_cs driver and the wifi card got a connection from dhcp and was assigned an IP etc.)

Network settings - eth0 has Wifi ticked.  unticking wifi in eth0 and ticking it in wlan0, doesn't save.  Tried deleting eth0, same problem.

Problem is that the networking doesn't seem to be routing through the wifi anymore

In Etwork Setup global has DNS server = 10.0.0.2 (my router) so looks like something is working right...

available interfaces from ifconfig:  

irda1
lo

short of recreating the image and not updating, any ideas on how to get it going again?

Cheers

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Colm


[collie OZ/3.5.4 64:0 250MB gpe Loop image on SD, sitecom CF wifi, 1 GB sandisk SD]

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.4/gpe Problems And Good Bits

« on: April 16, 2006, 08:19:33 am »

I have a Collie 3.5.4 64-0 w 250MB gpe loop image on SD.

Firstly, FANTASTIC! love the way active tasks are being handled, especially the titlebar tap task switch - SO much better than panel icons, though would additionally suggest that the home button act like an alt-tab through running apps rather than just desktop/active.  
Plus the desktop doesn't have the title click functionality (home, settings etc.) so obliged to use active tasks folder or press home button, not really a problem, but it feels like there are two modes for task switching when there needn't be.

Problems:
o  If I don't login, the login freezes and I need to reset.  don't know exactly how long, but looks like its failing to sleep or something.

o  Can't use package manager, lists update fine, choose a package gpe-minibrowser for example, installing gpe-mini-browser window appears, then after about 1 minute,
I get Error - IPKG backend failure, cannot continue.
Have same problems with gpe-tetris, abiword, gnumeric, and anything else I try, same problem every time - any ideas?  If I can't install software, it's effectively unusable :-(   - {EDIT- Okay, just realised that #ipkg is fine from the command line, Cool!}

o Don't like the way that modal windows such as "gpe-package reading packages list..." stay on top of other apps when I switch, should only be app modal, not system modal.

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5x00 Hardware / Zaurus Hi Power Battery?

« on: April 15, 2006, 05:51:54 am »

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13084
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Thanks Cresho, hopefully he's still in business!

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5x00 Hardware / Zaurus Hi Power Battery?

« on: April 15, 2006, 05:42:57 am »

Hi Folks.

remember a time ago (last year) someone in Europe (germany maybe) was offering to sell recased mobile phone batteries that were good for the Z 5500...

Can't get any joy from search, does anyone who knows what I'm talking about point me in the right direction?

OK, further forum browsing got the answer, it was user "Lauter", have sent a pm...
I should have spent longer searching...  #blush#


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Colm

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5x00 Hardware / Sd Card Fails On Insert

« on: August 07, 2005, 11:26:04 am »

Hi Folks,

Got a Sandisk 1GB SD Card (£79.99 from ASDA (walmart) photo shop).  Works a treat, so I'm a happy bunny!

FWIW, the other SD card also fails in an iPAQ 3600, so it's not just the Z being picky, works every other place I tried though.


Question now is - /root on /mnt/card - 64MB ram...  LAMP on the Z...  these are all my aims whilst also continuing to run hancom stuff, I'll report back with a howto when I get all this working, the info is spread far and wide out there!

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Colm

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5x00 Hardware / Wifi Cf Cards For Sharp Rom

« on: July 31, 2005, 03:48:02 pm »

I've got a Sitecom Wireless Network CF Adapter WL-007 and it works out the box on sharp rom 3.13 and latest oz.  Good range too

www.sitecom.com

http://search.ebay.co.uk/Sitecom-Wireless-...romZR40QQsojsZ1

I got mine for £21 from ebay

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5x00 Hardware / Sd Card Fails On Insert

« on: July 20, 2005, 01:28:59 pm »

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Gee, can I have a crystal ball just like yours?

Uups, sorry. I thought, I had read that he tested two different cards.
So you are right. It could be either SD-Card or SD-Port or the combination of them.

greets
Mag1c
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OK, tried the SD card, works a treat in a compaq laptop.  So that means I can at least re-sell and try again.

Tried a 64MB Lexar branded SD in my Z and that works too, so it just looks like this particular card is not compatible

So Overall I'm happy, but wiser

I've seen some talk about another driver for SD but can't track down the details - think that's worth a pop before I get another card?

back to sharp rom again...

Thanks for the responses folks.

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5x00 Hardware / Sd Card Fails On Insert

« on: July 19, 2005, 03:41:01 pm »

UPDATE: Just tried OZ+opie, same thing from Dmesg

Hi Folks,

Just got a noname 1GB SD Card, seen on lots of posts that brand is quite important for zaurus, but chanced on a cheap (£40) ebay auction.  Card is used - normal usage scoring on contacts.
When I insert the card, the SD card icon does not appear

dmesg reports:
SD read CRC error : ffff : d1d7
VFS : Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
(9 times, presumably the retries)

#mkdosfs /dev/mmcda1
mkdosfs 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
/dev/mmcda1: No such device or address

hardware: 2nd Hand Zaurus 5500 (£70 from ebay)

this is the first SD card I've tried, so I can't confirm that the slot works (only have CF and memory sticks in other devices...), but the "Disk change detected" reported in dmesg is promising that the hardware at least works.  Can't confirm that the card works elsewhere until tomorrow...

running Sharp 3.1 rom, just about to try latest OZ+opie

Think reformatting the card via iPaq or PC might work?

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Colm