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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Java Environment

« on: February 26, 2006, 03:55:20 pm »

I rebuild GNU classpath with Java2D/Cairo enabled. I also compiled jEdit version 4.3pre3 to see if it runs with current versions of JamVM and GNU Classpath.
jEdit can be run as follows:

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jamvm -Dgnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.Graphics=Graphics2D -jar jEdit.jarWell, the good news is that jEdit indeed starts, but is't like Mark Wielaard, one of the Classpath developers said a while ago:

I always make sure jedit at least starts up when we are doing a new
release. And with each release it does become more and more usable. You
can now actually open a document, edit a bit, search and replace, etc.
But there are certainly still a lot of drawing/refresh bugs. Also the
embedded beanshell used to not work properly, but this might now be
fixed.

It's a nice to see such a demanding Swing application almost works.
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Can someone help ?
I installed jamvm and classpah on /hdd4/usr/java but when I try to run something I get:

bootclasspath is empty !

If I use -Xbootclasspath with classes.zip and glib.zip, I get

Cannot create syste class loader.

Does jamvm expect an install in /usr/java ? How can I link it ?

thanks

brice

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General Discussion / Hitachi 6gb Cf -- Anybody Using It With The Z ?

« on: February 12, 2006, 05:13:36 pm »

Bought an Hitachi 6GB CF taken out of an Ipod and reformated it as FAT32.
The drive works fine on XP and OSX but when I try to put it into
my C3100 running cacko, it doesn't mount.
Anybody with experience of that ?
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I have some bad news for you, Brice.  Hitachi usually (but not always) cripples iPod microdrives to prevent you from doing that.  They were selling them basically at or just above cost to Apple and other MP-3 player manufacturers and people would take them out and throw the player away or stick a CF card in it because it was cheaper than buying the micro in the store.  As a result, the firmware was recoded to prevent this.  The same is true of Seagate.  No-one's really found a way around this, unfortunately.  I'd try and get my money back if I were you.
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Thanks, I'm trying to get my money back now  I'll have to wait a bit now to get one at a reasonable price ( <100£ )

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General Discussion / Hitachi 6gb Cf -- Anybody Using It With The Z ?

« on: February 10, 2006, 06:30:28 am »

Bought an Hitachi 6GB CF taken out of an Ipod and reformated it as FAT32.
The drive works fine on XP and OSX but when I try to put it into
my C3100 running cacko, it doesn't mount.
Anybody with experience of that ?

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General Discussion / Any News For The Next Zaurus?

« on: December 11, 2005, 07:26:20 am »

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but one thing I really miss on my Z is a mouse !
That might be because I haven't mastered the keyboard properly yet, but it seems some apps don't have everything available from the keyboard :<

So please Mr Sharp, anybody knows the designers names and emails ?

Include a mouse pointer in the next Zauri, maybe if you don't want to reinvent the wheel just put one of these IBM thinkpad type balls, not the best but quite good
My guess is you could put it as a replacement for the OK button in the middle of the arrow keys, and add an ok beside the cancel.

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brice

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / 4gb Sd Card On C3100 ?

« on: December 05, 2005, 05:37:14 pm »

I've got a 4GB Adata SD card gathering dust since my faithful cacko doesn't seem to recognise it.
Anybody has been able to ues these cards on any distro.
I was checking the customisation page on

http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/

the author explains he's got a 4GB SD card but doesn't say anything special about it.

help

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brice