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5x00 Hardware / Battery Pack For Sl-5600

« on: September 13, 2005, 03:36:44 am »

best place is to power the cpu directly, I don't think that's ported though.  Next best is the least number of conversions, and that's the battery itself (the one conversion being the voltage regulator/interal 'final' power supply).  Next best is two conversions, which is the io port and coax connector, having to go through the charging circuit then through the battery conversion to the cpu.   Of these last two I'd more likely choose the coax connector as its durability is higher and resistance is slightly lower due to the better connector...

YBLWV.  Or is it just YMMV?

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5x00 Hardware / Converting Z To Use Std Digital Camera Battery

« on: September 12, 2005, 12:12:19 pm »

There are three contacts on the battery, +, -, and a third - what is the third contact?  Is it a smartbattery?  My laptop has a I2C controllable battery monitor, is it the same way with these batteries?

Anyway,

For those in the US here's an option for collie/poodle batteries

http://www.pdainternalbattery.com/sharppdabattery.html

Unfortunately $29 is higher than some other options, wish there was a source for around that 17 euros mark even if US currency is less than the original USD to Euro conversion

Anyone have any other good places to go for batteries?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie-tetrix 3.5.3 Bug?

« on: September 09, 2005, 05:00:05 pm »

opie-tetrix appears to not redraw the screen properly often, thus if I don't remember the top layer topology I'll misplace blocks.

running ipkg remove opie-tetrix for now as a workaround. (easy thing to choose for more space on root filesystem

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle R43 Kernel To Test

« on: September 08, 2005, 04:53:10 pm »

Looked at the hentges oe stuff. did a diff against his 3.5.3-T3 (-R39 !) .bb and .inc files and it looks mostly the same as the -R41 that I picked up from monotone.  Were there any user mode hacks?    all that appears to be changed is mostly the cache bugfix where hentges disabled the workaround.

Seems there are so many bug trackers, not sure which one is still being used, a lot of them are just idle... is poodle kernel bugfixing unmaintained now?  (posted on the one on sourceforge since I already had an existing account...)

What was changed in -R42, is -R43 just the experimental APM patch?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle R43 Kernel To Test

« on: September 08, 2005, 03:41:56 am »

Heh... more kernel hacking.

Right arrow key problem is fixed in this patch *I THINK... "it works for me" famous last words ;-)*, BUT I do _NOT_ like how apm is working here (same as before, the useless suspend hanging push, then push suspend, then upon resume it suspends right away again, then resume... see other posts).

If you want to try this kernel, here it is: right arrow plus broken apm fix zImage binary

The patch, again against -r41 because monotone doesn't seem to want me to checkout anything newer, is in the attachment and also in my webpage directory.  I imagine it will patch cleanly against a newer version.

NOTE: My version stuff is really screwed up on this build, so don't use for production use, just to play with.  You can workaround the issues if you want though, that's your choice   Also it seems to break compatibility with hostap, I might have mucked with some stuff I shouldnt have when customizing other stuff.

I guess I'll have to study how apm works some more or find working code to mess with...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle R43 Kernel To Test

« on: September 07, 2005, 08:01:46 pm »

I haven't tried the hentges kernel, where is the source code available?  I'd like to look at that too and compare.

What I'm really curious about is why it was working and now broken.  I'm also not in sync with development because I'm a newcomer to all this (I haven't even tried my own hack yet, if everything else is equal it should be the exact same behavior...) Question is, what changed, why'd it break...  Anyone familiar enough with monotone with how to check out old versions without making a whole new build environment?

I need a new disk drive for all this, it's terrible (not to mention my build machine is only a celeron...)

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5x00 General discussions / Building Jffs2 / Backing Up Jffs2

« on: September 07, 2005, 04:36:54 pm »

I guess this is two different, but very related issues:

1. On a poodle, can I dump /dev/mt* as an image to a file and back and they'll still work exactly as they were before, i.e., is this viable as an image backup method?  Is this the same file format as the initrd.bin images and can I use these when duing a firmware update?

2. There's no linux 2.6 jffs2 driver I hear, that's OK - but is there a way to generate jffs filesystems either with 2.6 (mkfs.jffs2?) or on the Z itself?  How are the initrd images generated?

On a side note, anyone wear out the flash in their Zs?  How many flashes have people done without any issues?  How about fat16 - AFAIK about FAT16 if it was implemented as a magnetic media filesystem, certain regions of the disk will wear out quite fast, will CF/SD media auto-remap bad regions, even if the bad region ends up in the FAT itself?

Just worried about burning out my flash...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle R43 Kernel To Test

« on: September 07, 2005, 12:58:30 pm »

Ok finally tested Hrw's image.  Not quite perfect yet (but a bit better).  Had some issues though.

I think something's going on with the updater.  I tried flashing the new kernel by itself with OZ's updater.sh and I get that stuck blinking cursor problem as well.  This is with an OZ353 build already on my poodle.  I tried just reflashing the original kernel and it still gets stuck.

I then tried flashing both initrd and the r43 kernel next, it starts up fine minus that 1 minute version mismatch warning.  It boots up fine afterwards.

So much for not saving the initrd... once again start over from scratch *sigh*

Anyway, off to APM testing:

First time the button is pushed and held it freezes the machine for a few seconds and the machine becomes responsive again.  Then if I press and hold it again, it will suspend.  However if I push the button again to turn it on, it will turn on but then turn off suddenly!  then when I push it again, it will turn on and stay on.  A bit annoying but it's better than stuck off.

This is just first pass testing... more later...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Upgrades

« on: September 07, 2005, 05:29:22 am »

Ok.   Here's my attempt at a patch versus the repository openzaurus-pxa-2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix-r41 ...

I haven't tested it yet, it's late. and I'm not really a developer, but I've written lots of code in the past...

zImage of my attempt at backporting

I based the patch off of what was in the collie r22 directory.  Luckily the structure of the files look very similar so I just made it.  It compiles, that's about all I can say at this point.

I'll try my hack sometime tomorrow if I have time, anyone else willing to try before then, it's there with no warranty.  The stuff I did to patch sharpsl_apm.c is there too, it should look fairly similar to the patch in collie-r22.

This only is an attempt to fix the suspend issue, but not the right arrow/button issue.  I can live with the right arrow problem (I dont play games on my poodle), but having broken power management, that is just not a PDA!

(Delete this post if some more official patch is available, this is just stopgap...)

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Sound Quality

« on: September 06, 2005, 11:28:45 am »

I posted about a similar issue on another area, take a look, perhaps it's the same issue I'm seeing as well?

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...t=0&#entry94659

I haven't tried it yet, still using mediaplayer1 until I get my networking issue straightened out (seems it won't connect out of my network until it 'warms up'...) weird... (oh yeah! I can tcpdump now! .. wanders off to try

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Opie Mediaplayer2

« on: September 06, 2005, 03:43:02 am »

Reporting some weird behavior here.

I tried ipkg install opie-mediaplayer2

It runs fine from the menu, however, mp3s it plays is garbled - it seems like it's not synching, and playing off-beat, missing frames, etc.  So I remove it and try opie-mediaplayer1 which works fine (except that pausing seems to have a slight delay)

just an observation...  This is with a 250 poodle if it makes a difference (stock oz353 kernel).

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Upgrades

« on: September 06, 2005, 12:44:48 am »

PM sent.

Ok, I now have bitbake working and have a checkout of the kernel source.  I tried building a kernel and it seems to have completed, haven't actually tried running the resultant kernel yet.  I havent figured out how to get mono to checkout different tags yet, that will be my next step...

About that tcp/ip issue that I'm having, it seems if I let it sit there for a while, it will also "self heal" and start working? odd.  very odd...  Both usbd0 and wlan0 have the same issue.  Could it be because of bad hardware (and I may need to have the cache disable patch?  is that default off on stock kernels?)

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.3 Upgrades

« on: September 04, 2005, 03:14:32 pm »

SL5600/Poodle OZ3.5.3: LAN/network issue

(first off) I am seeing the power on/off issue a lot now too, and this might be a showstopper for me using my 'new' poodle.  Before it seemed to work OK with OZ3.5.3 but it might have been after messing with the CF card that it stopped working correctly...

Anyway I'm wonderring, I'm using OZ 3.5.3 and the SanDisk ConnectPlus 128MB WiFi card.  It recognizes fine and starts up fine.  I can even ssh to my poodle from my lan machines.  However, when I try to connect out (whether using opie-package manager, opie-konqueror, telnet, ssh) of my LAN it just hangs.

So, obvious problem solution here... I have my default route set up wrong?  I used DHCP, and other machines on the LAN work just fine!  What's even worse is that when the net hangs in an opie app, it tends to hang Opie completely, requiring a ssh in to kill, or a warm reboot.  Usually I have to end up rebooting the machine.

Now here's the interesting issue - I can PING and TRACEROUTE to machines outside of my LAN but cannot telnet, http, ftp to them!

And this too:  If I fidget with ifconfig/route, setting it up and down, sometimes I can get it to work fine(!)  The things I do I cannot explain as they are the commands I normally use to setup a connection.

So I'm thinking perhaps I'm missing something with the kernel dealing with TCP packets.  Anyone seen this issue before?  I'm beginning to think it's a kernel bug.  I'd like to figure out how to download the kernel source and try to patch in the 'collie' apm fix but no idea where/how to get the trees, and my machine's not fully setup for crosscompile yet (gentoo...)