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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.1.0r121 Is Out!

« on: September 24, 2006, 01:04:04 pm »

Just flashed u-boot and r121 on my C760 (was KathrinRC12); here are some comments:

u-boot
- Flashing u-boot is OK, but after, there is screen is flickering. Did not bother to fix it, so, can't say more about this.
- In order to boot after flashing the bootloader, i had to remove power sources (alim AND battery) and plug AC while holding "OK" for a few seconds.
- Had some problems with CF card: unable to read, "df -h" segfaults, ... Had to boot without the CF, then plug it, copy CF content to a SD and run autoboot.sh manually. This worked, but could be related to the card formatting.
- After flashing, the Zaurus didn't reboot. Had to unplug the power.

r121
- / is still not mounted noatime in fstab. This is bad.
- Keymap is broken: ctrl, alt, mail, home and menu doesn't work.
- When loading X then exiting, console is really weird.
- KR9 seemed faster to me.

I will report other issues soon  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Looking For Native Compile Tutorial

« on: November 08, 2005, 07:07:42 pm »

You can simply install gcc and gcc-headers packages from the feed, edit a file.c and type

main()
{
printf("Hello World\n");
}

Save and compile the file with "gcc file.c". The compiled binary will be called "a.out".

You can then run your new application with "./a.out" or "/absolute/path/to/a.out"

 

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Sl-c860 Power Plug Pin Assignment

« on: November 08, 2005, 07:03:27 pm »

You need +5V at the tip (inner contact), but be _VERY_ cautious not to overvolt it. I read somewhere that 5.25v can be enough to blow it. Don't use a cheap power supply !

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Rc12 For Sl-c7x0/7500/c860/c1000/c3100

« on: November 06, 2005, 06:51:10 pm »

ROX-Session doesn't work with RC12. It needs ROX-Lib2 version 1.9.16; the version en the feed seems to be 1.9.15. ROX-Filer is OK.

Edit: Archive doesn't work either

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Partitioning Questions

« on: November 04, 2005, 06:20:23 am »

You can (should) resize the root partition to max size. Thanks to the great guys of the pdaXrom team, it will detect partitions at boot and act accordingly. If there is no user partition, it won't try to mount it and will work in root partition. No need to modify /etc/fstab, it's all automagic

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How To Use Vncviewer With Rc11

« on: November 01, 2005, 05:36:46 am »

This topic should be merged with the pinned one as the problem doesn't only concern vncviewer. It doesn't work on RC11 nor RC12 without installing libstdc++.so.5.

Should be nice to add a basic troobleshooting procedure for ipks to the FAQ:
- Run it from the console
- Search google/the forum with the error message

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Just got back from DefCon, idea for pdaXrom

« on: October 31, 2005, 01:43:05 pm »

This is very interresting.
The best (understand most easy) way to achieve that would be to port EncFS. It uses AES (Rijndael), so it is really secure but will probably somewhat kill performance. When this is done, it only needs some minor tweakings on pdaxrom to include it in roms.

We can boot, mount the shared filesystem (using passphrase for example), chroot into it and do what we want
The big advantages of working this way is to have a "rescuable" system, the ability to backup encrypted filesystem without the need of knowing the key, and it would be possible to make a package that installs a complete encrypted system (with X, apps, ...) on a compact flash/sd even on current roms ...