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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Right Click In Fluxbox On Sl6000

« on: October 20, 2005, 03:49:41 pm »

Well, now I've installed xmonobut, but it doesn't seem to work.  It works fine in matchbox, but not in fluxbox.  I've tried changing the init and key files in .fluxbox and I've tried running x with a script:

startx /usr/local/bin/fluxbox
xmonobut &

Can anyone help?
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I've fixed it.  I wasn't loading tosa.xmodmap or userdefined.xmodmap.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Frozen Bubble for pdaXrom

« on: October 15, 2005, 03:22:07 pm »

Hey! Recently transfered to PDAX. Where can I find sdl-perl, perl, and supertux? They arent in the stable or unstable feeds...

EDIT: Frozen bubble- not supertux 
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Hi,

Did did you happen to get frozen bubble working?  I've followed the instructions in this thread, but I still get errors:

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Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/armv5tel-linux/auto/SDL_perl/SDL_perl.so' for module SDL_perl: libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/linux/DynaLoader.pm line 230.

at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/armv5tel_linux/SDL.pm line 9

Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/armv5tel_linux/SDL.pm line 9.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/armv5tel_linux/SDL.pm line 9.

Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/frozen-bubble line 51.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/frozen-bubble line 51.
I tried changing /etc/ld.so.conf by adding

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/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/armv5tel_linux
Any other ideas?

Thanks

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Right Click In Fluxbox On Sl6000

« on: October 13, 2005, 11:47:36 am »

Well, now I've installed xmonobut, but it doesn't seem to work.  It works fine in matchbox, but not in fluxbox.  I've tried changing the init and key files in .fluxbox and I've tried running x with a script:

startx /usr/local/bin/fluxbox
xmonobut &

Can anyone help?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Right Click In Fluxbox On Sl6000

« on: September 22, 2005, 08:23:12 pm »

I tried what takuan said, but when I changed it back, it still didn't work.  While using the terminal, I noticed that the fn button doesn't work for making special characters either.  So it must be a problem with the fn button.  Any ideas?  I'm going to see if I can find any threads about getting started in fluxbox - there may be something I need to do to get the fn key to work.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Right Click In Fluxbox On Sl6000

« on: September 17, 2005, 02:00:54 pm »

Can anyone tell me how to right click in fluxbox on a z 6000?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Falling Back To The Stock Rom... Reasons

« on: July 31, 2005, 02:22:27 am »

@scoutme> i will give you an example. rotatating the screen should grant that the
"direction keys" work properly, but they didnt. so i learned how to modify some key
tables.. such things give me more insight in the rom. but in the end you are damned
right. i am thinking in a similiar way and i have my pdaXrom backup for the near future:-)

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Hi,

I'd like to do that.  Can you point me in the right direction?

zach

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Falling Back To The Stock Rom... Reasons

« on: July 31, 2005, 02:18:11 am »

hello,

i think its a good idea to write down my experiences with this rom.

first i have to say that i tested pdaXrom for more than 4 weeks.
the main reason to  come back to the stock rom is time. it takes
some time to get things to work with this rom. certainly as a side effect
one learns a lot of new things. the rom recognizes the installed progs
on a card. so i did a copy of it and a nand backup to get back to the
state i leaved. okay, here are some points i dont like:

1) my z didnt wake up after a suspend, compare forum thread...
this happened about 7 times. i had to take out the battery, plug in
the charger and so on. this is not good if you are away from your
charger. one time i had to reflash.

2) system (X) crashes nearly every second time after exiting the wm
(matchbox/xfce4). exiting from landscape mode workes without problems, why?

3) similiar to 2) suspending works only every second time. it seems to be a light
issue and the solution "tapping the screen" lead me sometimes to further crashes.
rotating the screen and suspending worked much better.

4) the time problem after reboots...

5) the annoying warnings while booting "inode...". i think (but i am not sure)
that this is the reason why sometimes library files or symbolic links (for instance
for xpdf) are missing. reinstall the application...

i dont want to list the things i like. there are a lot of them (!) and i am sure that i will
return to this rom until the next release..

malik
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Hi,

For number 2, a hackish way to fix it would be to modify that exit function so that it switches to landscape, and then exits.  I don't know how involved it would be to do that, but it might work.

zach

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Gimp Please

« on: July 30, 2005, 05:27:49 am »

I had the same problem but it was fixed by installing the bzip2 package which includes libbz2.  The gimp ipk should have bzip2 in the "Depends" list but this has been missed by accident.
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@rgrep: That does take care of the library loading problem, but it still seg faults when I try to open or save.  Were you able to open and save files?

Does anyone have (or had in the past) the gimp 2.0.5 working?  If so, I'd like to know where you got the ipk from.

zach

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Gimp Please

« on: July 29, 2005, 08:10:57 am »

Hello,

I really want to get the gimp working, but have had some difficulties.

Gimp 1.2.5 seems to run fine, but most of the buttons don't have text ( or have misaligned text ), so I have been unable to do much testing to see if everything is working.

Gimp 2.0.5 runs beautifully, until I try to open or save a file (that is, by creating a new image and then trying to save that).  At which point it seg faults.  I can open an image by using GQview as a middle man.

I would really rather try to fix 2.0.5 first, since it's a lot better than 1.2.5.

Here's my terminal output, with comments:
"
# gimp
/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/svg: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gimp:10583): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp: wire_read(): error
//gimp done loading
//create new, and attempt save
Segmentation fault
#
(script-fu:10585): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error
"

I had the gimp and some of the libraries installed on the cf card, which might account for the loading error, but I can't account for the seg fault.  Could it be that the ipk i got is bad?

Zach

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom On My 6000, Now What?

« on: July 29, 2005, 07:08:56 am »

I finally decided to get rid of the default Sharp ROM on my 6000L, and decided to use PdaXrom since everyone seems to like it.  I followed the instructions posted on http://www.pdaxrom.org & installed 1.1.0 RC 10 Kathrin.  (In the process I resized my root partition to 45MB as recommended.)

Following the instructions I logged in as root & changed my root password.

I had to manually create /home/root because when I rebooted I a message came up on the screen saying it did not exist.

So far everything seemed pretty good.  Then I typed "startx", and instead of seeing a beautiful user interface, I see an X-window terminal screen & a copy of xclock running.  Thats it.  Nothing else.  There are no user settings.  No programs.  No menus.  No way to log out! 

Is this what I am supposed to see?  What do I do next?   

It seems the documentation does not include such information.

Please help me.  I don't want to go back to the Sharp ROM.

-John
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If you haven't already gotten it working, do this:

Go here:
[a href=\"http://externe.net/zaurus/guylhem-rom/]http://externe.net/zaurus/guylhem-rom/[/url]
and read the README.  Follow the "Installation instructions for Guylhem ROM for the Sharp Tosa SL-6000" and then flash with pdaxrom using whatever instructions you used before.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / A Tut To Install Pdaxrom On Zaurus 6000

« on: July 29, 2005, 04:19:05 am »

Hello,
I wrote a tut about installing pdaXrom rc10 on Zaurus 6000 in english (I'm french)
Tell me what you think about it, and if you see any mistakes, please tell me  


See you   

TaZ

Big Thanks to SuN   
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There is a typo in the instructions.  Most readers probably catch it, but it might cause problems for 'some.'

3-Then, do this:
  'tar --no-some-owner -xf /root/.home_default.tar'

should be

3-Then, do this:
  'tar --no-same-owner -xf /root/.home_default.tar'

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom On My 6000, Now What?

« on: July 28, 2005, 06:26:55 am »

Ok.  I figured out how to suspend since its running TWM.  I guess what I need at this point is a little advice.

From reading the forum, it seems the most used window manager is matchbox,  but I have a choice of KDE or FVWM if I want. 

I am familiar with KDE since I run that on my desktop, and I haven't run FVWM in years, although its is probably less resource hungry than KDE.  I don't know anything about matchbox.

Here are my questions.  (Remember I'm new to pdaXrom.):

(1) Which window manager is the most stable, and which would you recommend I use?
(2) What are the packages I need to download to use it?
(3) What is the command sequence to install the package.

I would like to connect to the internet through my WiFi router.  Do I need to download a package to do that?

I would also like to install AbiWord, Gnumeric, xmms, gaim, Firefox, and an email client (either Thunderbird or Sylpheed).

Could I get a JDK running on my 6000 with pdaXrom?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John
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In xterm, type "m" and hit [tab] twice.  You'll see a list that includes some of matchbox's programs, which you can run from the command line.  (If you have trouble getting a command to work, google: "man 'command name'" for the manual page on that command, though this shouldn't be necessary for any of the matchbox progs.)  The bad part is that everything runs in a separate window.  So , for example, the panel is not imbedded in the desktop.  In theory, this gives you all the functionality you want, but it's not in a nice package.  I'm still trying to get that to work for me.  I've seen the same problem before, when using debian, x and nautilus, but I can't remember how to fix it.  I think maybe it still needs a widget set.

Most of the programs you want can be downloaded from, or are linked by, the pdaxrom site.  (Downloads -> IPK Feed)  I think that you can then simply install them with ipkg, though there is a package manager with a gui that i haven't tried.  The manager can also access online feeds easily, or so i've read.

zach