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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Debian/icewm On My C1000

« on: July 30, 2005, 12:20:05 pm »

You need to download it, either from chuckster's site or from Meanie's site. If you want to download from Meanie's site (I think there are the most recent versions), search for "X/qt jumbo pack" (Google), go to the first link and go down to "Installing PocketWorkstation". There, you'll find the link.

edit: Here's the link: Install script
You'll also want to load and install updated debian scripts 0.5 before running the install script: Debian scripts If you unzip the first file, you'll get xqt-debian-install.sh. The second file will give you the debian scripts ipk.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Genesis Neogeo Snes Turbografx Nes Gameboy Emu

« on: July 30, 2005, 04:56:51 am »

Thanks for that update, was already wondering how to save and load a game state!
I have a question, though: how do you make a ROM image out of a SNES cartridge?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Debian/icewm On My C1000

« on: July 29, 2005, 12:30:49 pm »

I have the same problem with the IceWM taskbar being on the bottom. But I can't find the settings file to edit (maybe I'm just a little bit blind?). If I look in /home/zaurus on my ROM, there's no .icewm directory at all. If I look in /home/zaurus in the Debian image, there is .icewm, but inside it, there is no settings file. Should I look in /home/root?

Please clearify this for me  

Thanks
osguru

PS: Sorry for asking so many questions...

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / How Do I Create A Swapfile On An C1000 With An Sd?

« on: July 29, 2005, 12:25:06 pm »

Hi!

I have a question regarding the swapfile. I installed PocketWorkstation on my C1000 and it created a 64MB swapfile, formatted it and initialised it using "swapon". It is working fine, "free" shows me the 64MB swap I have and something around 12MB of it or so gets used.

But, here's the question: how do I turn the swapfile off? "swapoff /mnt/card/swapfile" or "swapoff -a" doesn't seem to work, "free" still shows the swap. Trying to "umount" the SD card the swapfile is on (obviously without turning it off) seems to take forever, then the Zaurus crashes. After a reboot, swap is off ("free" shows 0 for swap) until I turn it on again.

Is this normal? With the swapfile being activated (and maybe being accessed), I can't umount or remove the SD card as this causes the Zaurus to hang. And it could wear out the card, couldn't it? So, does anyone have an idea how to turn the swap off (the best would be to turn it off after quitting PocketWorkstation)? I'm lost since "swapoff" doesn't work.

osguru

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Genesis Neogeo Snes Turbografx Nes Gameboy Emu

« on: July 29, 2005, 12:17:03 pm »

Works fine for me, too. Uninstalled old snes & sdl packages, installed these, updated keyhelper and rebooted. Worked out of the box. But I accidentally had the libsdl-zports installed that made my keypad controls backward. Removed it and all is perfect now. No sound stuttering at all.

Thanks for this package(s)!

osguru

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Problems Downloading Pocketworkstation/openoffice

« on: July 28, 2005, 03:25:18 pm »

Hello and thanks for the reply!

Believe it or not, I even had wget in mind  Thanks for the tip, I'll soon try it. As for the "wget" command - I'll either download the files on my Linux box or install wget on Mac OS X  (using fink) or my dust collecting Windows box (using cygwin).

Update: I have now installed wget on my Mac OS X box and am currently downloading the PocketWorkstation archive. It hasn't stalled so far (but it's only been running for a few minutes), but the speed is very low (again around 15-20 KB/s). I guess this has something to do with the server. Did you experience this as well?  

Another update: It worked. I could download PocketWorkstation and OpenOffice and am now installing it!

Thanks
osguru

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Problems Downloading Pocketworkstation/openoffice

« on: July 28, 2005, 07:11:01 am »

Hi all!


This is my first post and I am fairly new here (just got my Zaurus a few weeks ago) but I hope I'll do well.

I have downloaded the X/Qt jumbo package from chuckster's site and it installed without a single problem. I then tried to install Firefox on my FAT16-formatted SD card and that failed. Eventually, Package Manager hung so I decided to reboot. Everything, including X/Qt is working well now, but Firefox (expectedly) doesn't work.

Okay, so I wanted to try PocketWorkstation with OpenOffice, since it includes both Firefox and Thunderbird. But there's a problem: I can't download it. Whenever I try to download PocketWorkstation, it goes very slow (sometimes only 10KB/s) and suddenly, it stops. The temporary file Firefox/Safari creates when downloading disappears but I am left with a partial file – sometimes, I can download 24 or 25 MB (out of 94.5 MB), sometimes, I can get approximately 30 MB before it interrupts. I haven't tried to download OpenOffice so far. So I'd like to test OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird and of course Debian on my Z (I'm so glad that X/Qt is working, thanks Meanie!) but I can't download it.

My question is: has everyone else experienced this (slow download speed, interrupting downloads) and got a hint for me to get the files down completely or am I just too stupid?

Sorry, this is a lot of text but I've been reading so many posts here that Debian etc. is so great on the Z and it drives me nuts that I can't test it!  

Sorry again for the English, it's not my mother tongue.

Thanks for reading
osguru