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5x00 General discussions / Os Options?

« on: August 03, 2005, 02:13:11 pm »

I'm just wondering, are there other OS options besides Linux that will run on our hardware?

What prevents the Zaurus from booting something like MS Pocket PC (from a hardware perspective)?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Any Way To Shut Off Network Connection

« on: July 14, 2005, 11:00:39 am »

My Sharp ROM Zaurus has a little icon in the taskbar which you click and choose to connect to the internet ... I don't see this at all in my Opie Zaurus.

you can have the same effect of card eject just pressing on the computer taskbar icon, and select 'eject card ....', so no need to type in terminal
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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Any Way To Shut Off Network Connection

« on: July 13, 2005, 09:41:22 pm »

One way to do it:
In a terminal do cardctl eject. In konsole it's already pre-configured in the drop-down command list.

To activate your CF wifi card again do cardctl insert

Bonus hint: If you go to a coffee shop and you're trying to get on their network but you're not getting a lease, even though you've made the proper network settings, doing cardctl eject && cardctl insert will help by resetting the card.


Hmmm, on the other hand, my Opie does have the taskbar utility to eject the card....  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie Dies - Not Responding To Input

« on: July 12, 2005, 09:41:53 am »

Well, my /home/root/Applications/opiemail has the email & news accounts stored there.  Check yours, I'm curious.

Removing the file from there smtp-0 fixes my Opie failures. Go figure.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie Dies - Not Responding To Input

« on: July 12, 2005, 08:50:18 am »

Alright then, to see if I could systematically break Opie I would begin to copy directories over from the saved Application dir to the newly created one. Opiemail had the most files in it so I copied it over first. So I dropped into the console with Logout and restarted Opie /etc/init.d/opie start.

Opie comes up but does not repspond to input.  

Perhaps there is a switch within opiemail I need to turn off.  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie Dies - Not Responding To Input

« on: July 12, 2005, 08:22:01 am »

The system locked up again last night while attempting to stream audio in xmms.  Like before, after a switch reset (reboot) Opie does not respond.

This morning I'm thinking, right, rather than a shotgun approach of removing the whole of /home/root, I would boot into the console (selection 3 in Hentges boot menu) and methodically rename the directories there until Opie works. I would do the Settings dir last to save the hassle of reconfiguring everything. So I first  rename Applications, start Opie from the console,  and  Opie's working again.  Sorted!  

So now I know there is a file within /home/root/Applications that keeps Opie from starting up properly, and that it's happened twice after xmms has hard-locked  the system.

Nearly there.

Is xmms notoriously wobbly in OZ or am I just having bad luck?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie Dies - Not Responding To Input

« on: July 11, 2005, 07:42:37 pm »

I thought that too, lardman, since I have a 1G SD card. So once when it was 'locked' I stuck it in the cradle, ran some errands and and when I came back home it was still dead.

Does that Doctab feature work very well, in your opinion? How much time does it take to scan a drive? I always have some mp3 and avi in /mnt/card/Documents but I could never count on Doctab to list them. <shrug>

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie Dies - Not Responding To Input

« on: July 11, 2005, 01:02:23 pm »

Well, I had been starting and stopping Opie through ssh (that's what I refer to as a "remote shell"    ).  I did get some output but nothing I could relate to the problem.

I used it all evening and have been listening to mp3s today.... no problems at all since I wiped /home/root/* which basically reset Opie's configurations. What I did do was disable the 'autostart after resume' feature of the Today PIM app, which also had the weather plugin enabled. I also disabled the Doctab search feature.

All is well so far.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie Dies - Not Responding To Input

« on: July 10, 2005, 06:39:01 pm »

Another thing to add:
The cancel key will still suspend the system and resume, though Opie excepts no input.

Some progress to report:
I did rm -rf  /home/root/* and rebooted. This put me throught the initial base config script and Opie was up. It's at least a relief to know I can get around this without a re-flash.

After reconfiguring a few things I tried to drop into the console with Logout. Opie would have none of that as it locked up again. From a remote shell I stop and start opie and it is responsive again. Again from the remote shell an attempt to reboot locked her up hard with considerable screen corruption requiring a hard reset from under the battery lid.  

It does suspend/resume nicely with this new kernel. I think I just need to find out what setting in Opie is borking this little tiger.    

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie Dies - Not Responding To Input

« on: July 10, 2005, 05:30:26 pm »

SL-5500 running Hentges 64-0 Opie with the newest OZ kernel.
1G SD card - Viking

I have owned my Z for a little over a week now and have had this repeated problem of Opie becoming non-responsive yet the OS is still running. Today I was playing mp3s in xmms and when the playlist ran to the end Opie was locked up. No reponse to the touchpad or keys. I can put in my CF wifi card then shell in and reboot, but when Opie comes back up it is still not responding to any input.

This is the third time it's happened and I have only been able to fix it by reflashing the ROM.  

Did a just get a bad Z or is there a configuration within Opie that will prevent this (such as turning of the Doctab search thing)? I suppose if I can't find a way to fix this from the shell I need to look into RMAing it, which I really don't want to do.

Any suggestions?

 

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz "zimage" On Hentges?

« on: July 02, 2005, 04:37:05 pm »

Apart from several stern warnings during bootup that I am "booting the wrong kernel" it seems to be working:

root@collie:~# uname -a
Linux collie 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix #1 Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:18:23 +0200 armv4l unknown

I'll report back with any problems <fingers crossed, touch wood>  



Edit: A quick edit of /etc/init.d/checkversion to replace all entries of the old kernel with the new one (2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix-3.5.3) has fixed the bootup warnings.  

No resume problems to report.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz "zimage" On Hentges?

« on: July 02, 2005, 03:58:59 pm »

Failing that I will blame a couple of very nice beers

Mmmm...  beers.

Ooooooooooooo I can scroll right now  
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Do I take it that you are able to use the new OZ kernel? I was having lunch at Panera today and Z-surfing in Konqueror on their wireless. Once when using the scroll button the Zaurus crashed.... poof gone! Is this what you are refering to?

Methinks I will try it. I'll report back.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz "zimage" On Hentges?

« on: July 02, 2005, 10:36:55 am »

Hello all. I am on day 3 of being a proud Zaurus owner (but a long-time Debian user) and, after getting over the usual hurdles, I have my Z doing pretty much what I expected of it using the Hentges rom. I am pleased!    

Like others, mine doesn't always resume from a suspend. It takes a lot out of the Coolness Factor when you bop over to your co-worker's cube (who uses an x5) to show off your shiny Z and it's comatose. "Hey, look at that reboot... cool!"

The announcement on openzaurus.org on 6/30 is that they have a kernel upgrade to fix this. Could this work in Hentges? If not, does anyone have a tweak or workaround to the current (r19) kernel?

Also, I installed a kernel module for ext3. Can the sd card be formatted as ext3 for the cardfs so fsck doesn't run after every reboot?

My humble thanks in advance.


Edit 8:24PM: I just found a thread for doing this in OZ/Common   Oops