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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bochs - Please Hlp Meanie Or Chyang

« on: December 07, 2005, 05:28:17 am »

Hi,

I have a c1000 & downloaded bochs that Chyang posted on this forum, followed his instructions - even edited the library binary to replace "c3000" with "c1000".  

I'm getting the following error:

"Unable to initialize SDL libraries".  

I also get: "SISharedManager: can't get proc entry".

I started with Bochs on my cf card - then moved it to internal flash.  No difference.

For some time I have been using bochs I installed for Debian with apt-get.  It uses the x server.  No problems except that, with dos installed, it only displays text not graphics so games or windows won't work even though dos text mode apps (eg, turbo c++) will.  I think there is a bug in Bochs itself - it's been very very frustrating   

So I want to try Chyang's version using SDL to run windows 3.1.  Any help with the error would be much appreciated.

NB Meanie, have you bought an OQO yet?  I am in Australia as well and am very tempted.  You can get a good deal at the moment from Dynamism (I wouldn't bother with Expansys).

Gary
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Great that you got it working.

Still haven't gotten my OQO yet  I am fed up with expansys and various other online retailers in Australia. Seems like online retailers in Australia sux. Haven't found any of them that are any good yet. Btw, mittoni major sux too. I wouldn't buy from them again. Anyway, I am now trying to get agile to get me the OQO through salary sacrifice.
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Go to www.dynamism.com  I bought a Sony U from them - you get a warranty and great service.  You can get an OQO+ with free spare battery and charger.  I salary sacrificed the U - just gave a receipt to my employer.  In $A the OQO will end up costing you about $3,400 (including import GST).  Much better than expansys $4k++.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bochs - Please Hlp Meanie Or Chyang

« on: December 07, 2005, 01:32:14 am »

Ok.  It works now.  I just had to uninstall a previous (presumably old) SDL library.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bochs - Please Hlp Meanie Or Chyang

« on: December 06, 2005, 11:41:54 pm »

Hi,

I have a c1000 & downloaded bochs that Chyang posted on this forum, followed his instructions - even edited the library binary to replace "c3000" with "c1000".  

I'm getting the following error:

"Unable to initialize SDL libraries".  

I also get: "SISharedManager: can't get proc entry".

I started with Bochs on my cf card - then moved it to internal flash.  No difference.

For some time I have been using bochs I installed for Debian with apt-get.  It uses the x server.  No problems except that, with dos installed, it only displays text not graphics so games or windows won't work even though dos text mode apps (eg, turbo c++) will.  I think there is a bug in Bochs itself - it's been very very frustrating  

So I want to try Chyang's version using SDL to run windows 3.1.  Any help with the error would be much appreciated.

NB Meanie, have you bought an OQO yet?  I am in Australia as well and am very tempted.  You can get a good deal at the moment from Dynamism (I wouldn't bother with Expansys).

Gary

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / A Few Problems With Emulators

« on: November 30, 2005, 09:14:39 pm »

Hi,

I have Meanie's debian running on my C1000.  I used apt-get to install Bochs and Bochs-x (to use x for the bochs window).  I installed ms-dos 6.22.  All text mode dos applications run fine.

But as soon as I load a graphics program (eg, original civilisation, windows 3.0 etc.) the screen stays black and the width of the screen narrows.  The Bochs output file doesn't record any error but I have to turn bochs off or reset it to get it to work again.

I'm thinking that this might have something to do with the Zaurus having a screen to small to fit the native VGA graphics that dos requires.  I have tried different VGA bios' for bochs with no success.

I tried the zbochs and dosbox Qt packages from this forum, but I get:

  "error while loading shared libraries:  libstdc++-libbc6.1-2.so.3: cannot load shared object file.  No such file or directory"

Does this mean that I haven't installed the shared libraries or I haven't linked them.  How do I link them?

Thanks
Gary

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Jumbo Xqt Package

« on: November 24, 2005, 10:10:58 pm »

Hi again.

For some reason the Qt file explorer can't write to the sd card (with ext2) on which debian is installed.  It told me to check that the sd card wasn't "locked" - and it isn't.

Thanks
Gary

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Jumbo Xqt Package

« on: November 23, 2005, 07:04:53 pm »

Sorry everyone - I've found that if I use the x icons in Qt, debian will launch.  So, problem solved.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Jumbo Xqt Package

« on: November 23, 2005, 06:59:09 pm »

Ok.  I figured out what sudo is, installed it and set: zaurus ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

I then typed: sudo xlauncher debian.

I get a grey screen with an "X" mouse cursor which then changes to a blue screen with an arrow for the mouse cursor.  A console (I think xtern) then launches.  That's all I get.

Is is possible that the taskbar for debian is out of view?

Gary

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Jumbo Xqt Package

« on: November 23, 2005, 02:00:45 am »

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you didn't install sudo
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Thanks for responding so quickly.

Unfortunately this is going to reveal more of my ignorance, but what is sudo and how do you install it?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Jumbo Xqt Package

« on: November 22, 2005, 11:02:53 pm »

Hi.  I'm new to Zaurus.  I went through the debian install procedure for a C1000 as per this page:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/lofiversion/ind...php?t14056.html

I didn't get any errors.

I can launch X, but all I get is a grey background with the mouse cursor.  Even if I specify, say "xlauncher open office", I get a grey background, but the mouse cursor is now an arrow rather than an "X".

I get no fancy background or menu or task bar  

This is very frustrating.  What am I doing wrong?

Gary