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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Frogpad On C3x00

« on: September 28, 2007, 12:09:01 pm »

I bought a leftie frogpad from ThinkGeek because it said that it's USB plug-and-play. I made the assumption that this meant that all of the keys would present to the O/S exactly the same as they do with my USB keyboard.

They didn't, but I'm not sure if it's a driver or recognition issue, or automounter isn't working, or what the exact problem is. I hate to admit that I'm not very knowledgable with the inner workings of the USB host, automounter, and keyhelper.

Here's what I do know:
When I started using a standard USB keyboard, I initially had problems with keys working but mapping to really really crazy key combos. For example, one letter would suspend the Z (I don't remember which). I used poor problem-solving methods to fix it: I started installing a bunch of stuff and stopped when the problem went away, so I'm not sure what app fixed that problem.

The standard keyboard still works but FrogPad's keys map crazy. I am not sure if it's the same crazy. The "f" key suspends and the "g" key acts like the cancel key.

I tried using usbkey enable, but it doesn't fix the mapping issue.

After some painstaking work to pull out FrogPad's key input to match what is written on each key, I was able to develop a keyhelper.xml which gives me most of the alphabet. I still can't type F or G because they will either suspend (and possibly freeze the Z) or cancel. The shift key works ... kind of ... I can type a capital letter but because the shift key naturally inputs "2" instead of "shift", typing shift+t gives me "2T" if I get the T in there quickly or a whole string of 2s ("222222222T") if I don't. I'm thinking I probably have to map the 2 to shift instead of just defining it as a modifier.

Attached is my keyhelper file up to this point.

It seems like with time and practice and more understanding of keyhelper that I might be able to eventually get a mapping that will properly map the entire frogpad. I would assume that this would be helpful to people since I wasn't able to find much information about it in connection with a Zaurus before I bought it. Maybe others have thought about using one and would like to know that it works with their Zaurus.

Or maybe there's a much much much simpler fix that doesn't involve severely altering my keyboard mapping?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 21, 2007, 12:17:07 pm »

It probably doesn't help that I don't have an "easy" wifi connection available and I am not very familiar with wifi in general (Linux or Windows). I don't have a laptop with wifi and there are only rumored local free wifi connections. My home wifi uses an ssid, wep, and probably PPPoE authentication, so I don't know how to tell whether the problem is the setup or the card. I can get the Z to recognize both my cards and to provide me with the little connection icon in the tray, but it always fails to connect. It takes longer to fail when I try to use PPPoE and fails within 30 seconds if I take that off.

Maybe it'll help when my sister gets her laptop and I can get more familiar with how wifi works. You can do all the reading up on it that there is out there, but it doesn't help much unless you have the hardware to work with.

Thanks for the Cacko link, speculatrix. I'm guessing I want to get and install first cacko-1.23-kernel-2.4.20.tar.gz then SL-C3100-Qtopia-1.23-1029311005.zip ... ?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 21, 2007, 06:47:35 am »

Well, I have gotten myself confused now. I was hoping to install the Tetsu special kernel, which apparently has fastfpe, tspressure (which I have not been able to get working ... are you supposed to restart something after you echo 1 > /proc/zaurus/tspressure ? rebooting sends the value back to 0). On Meanie's site it says with the Sharp ROM, Tetsu kernel, and Cacko lite packages, you can have an almost-ish Cacko distro. But I don't know what packages to install to give me better networking options. It seems I have purchased two WiFi cards that can't work on stock ROM (Socket low power and SanDisk ConnectPlus).

So, I would like to try to install Cacko 1.23 except the downloads area of http://my-zaurus.narod.ru/cacko.html gives me 404 errors. I went to the ZUG downloads area as the page directs, but it gave me PHP errors when I clicked on the Cacko link.

I went to the kernel page adf recommends, and I looked at the documentation, and it said the kernel modules are "not necessarily required for Cacko 1.23, which is confusing because I thought you could flash a new distro, or flash a new kernel. You can do both? A site that explains how to get hostap (which I've been told comes on Cacko by default), says you have to compile it into the kernel ... well ... I'm certainly not competent enough at this point to try that stunt. So if you have Cacko, wouldn't flashing the kernel lose all that great extra device compatibility?

And if it's not part of the kernel, is there a place that provides that great extra compatibility as lite modules or kernel modules? Or would flashing one of the kernels on evilJazz's download area that adf linked to make my WiFi cards work? I looked at the changelog file and it seems like the fastfpe-cached kernel for the C3200 will give me hostap, device support, tspressure, and all the goodies I could want in the kernel. So I wouldn't need to install Cacko-full (since I'd be doing it only to make 2 devices work properly and for no other reason) if I update to this kernel?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 19, 2007, 08:45:03 pm »

Whatever benefit can be gained by running pdax isn't worth it to me if I can't run my 5500 apps on it.

I think I have the fastfpe on the Tetsu kernel 18i? The boot up text shows "fast floating point emulation 0.94M by Peter Teichmann" ... Seems a likely candidate to me. Also, Gimp's response time after each pen stroke has improved so much that now there's no waiting needed. I run out of memory after the second flood fill on a 1024x1024 image, but that's not a big deal and I haven't enabled swap yet so I imagine that will get better.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 16, 2007, 06:32:09 am »

There are some programs that I have carried over from SL-5500 Sharp distro that I do not want to be without. Do you think they would still work under pdaxii13? If so then I might consider changing.

What's the fastfpe kernel (other than what it stands for, I think I can figure that it means floating point emulation) and how would I get it?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 15, 2007, 12:59:51 pm »

I know it's faster on pdaxii13, but I like my QT apps and I thought that distro didn't have QT. So X/QT jumbo was my best option for both worlds. I had thought about going to the super jumbo one, but it was stated as "running half as fast" so I thought X/QT jumbo was the simple solution.

Gimp is usable as slow as it is, and I'm an artist so I would be the first to declare it unacceptably slow. I think when I enable swap it'll be a little faster. It's amazing that the full blown Gimp can run on my little Zaurus, even without swap, and still be usable. Here's my first Gimp on the Zaurus picture: http://kaleyobsidia.deviantart.com/art/The-Fallen-61527085

I was hoping to see pressure sensitivity work, but that's not as necessary.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 14, 2007, 07:36:55 pm »

I definitely prefer that over the blank screen that seems to take a long time.

Thanks for the help.

I'm really liking the Zaurus. It was a good investment. I think I'm going to try out Tetsu + Cacko lite (for wifi support, hopefully).

The USB 120GB HDD works with NTFS. The joypad works for SNES9X after I got a Logitech one instead of the cheapie one. I haven't got the NES+joypad thing working yet, but I haven't given up. GBA runs too slowly to be used, but well ... seems kind of stupid to be upset about that since I own a GBA and it's designed to be portable. X/QT Jumbo on cramfs worked flawlessly thanks to Meanie's efforts ... it's awesome that you really have to do 0 work and suddenly you have Gimp and Firefox and Java 1.3 and so much more all available to you without having to reflash anything or quit out of Qtopia.

I work an hour away from home, so the Z really is my portable laptop.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 14, 2007, 06:28:50 am »

I'm trying to flash Tetsu's kernel from Tetsu's website, which points at an updater.sh from Sharp's website.

Of course I can't read Japanese so I don't know what it's supposed to be named. According to the translation:
"It is noted that it is not zImage.bin. When changing to the setting to which the extension of the file is not displayed with Windows etc.There is a possibility of remaining even if bin is not displayed."

The original filename is zImage-v18i-c3200.bin

Oh there it is in the big text, it's supposed to be zImage without the bin. I'll try that right now.

I always flash it without any other cards in there.

EDIT: I guess I should change my sig now, because the System Info shows the kernel was built August 2007 and I think I have successfully flashed the kernel. Is it always going to show that extra stuff when my Z boots or was that a forced fsck from the new kernel?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 13, 2007, 06:43:38 pm »

Should I be able to read the updater.sh as I would any shell script? I tried (not on the copy that's on the card but on an extra copy) and I don't know if I don't have the correct text format (UTF8, ISO, etc), but it looks like garbage text to me.

Thanks for the help with the CF card thing. I will try that.

No, I did not see any progress, it was just BOOM done. It took less than a minute to go from the Sharp splash screen to "please reset".

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Lib Sdl Rotation Issue On C1000 C3x00

« on: August 13, 2007, 07:53:17 am »

Thanks for that. I made an XML file that inverted all the arrow keys with keyhelper so that when I play SNES without a joystick the down arrow moves my little guy down instead of up. The weird thing was changing the direction keys around using the export of the SNES9X keys method would work for some of the directions but not all of them (I think a direct swap of the export numbers makes it so that you can only walk left and down, never right and up).

I haven't had a chance to try your fix yet since I'm at work and can't really have Chrono bopping around on my screen, but I figured it had to be several things are fighting to interpret my direction keys at once and I imagine your script is the key to the fix.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 13, 2007, 07:37:45 am »

Okay, I tried to update to Tetsu's special kernel. I'm sure you don't have to restore to factory settings before you install it, but I did just in case.

I downloaded the zImage 18i 3200 bin file (not the stock image that's also on the site) and renamed it simply zImage.bin. I renamed updater.sh.3200 to updater.sh. I copied these 2 files plus the kernel ipk onto a blank SD card. I did a hard reset, held the OK button while turning on the Z, picked option 4, picked the SD card option, picked the left option (Y). The Sharp screen appeared (like on a reboot, except there was INIT text at the bottom), and then a message that ended in "Please restart" showed up in the upper left corner.

So, I did a hard reset again and booted it back up. Then installed the kernel ipk using the GUI installer. I switched SD cards and loaded the terminal package, copied my saved locale.conf file over (I prefer the quick and easy switch to English over the localization ipk), rebooted again.

Why doesn't the new kernel show up in System Info? It's still showing the Feb '06 Lineo kernel. I also tried "echo 1 $ > /proc/tspressure" to enable touchscreen pressure and the response was "cannot create /proc/tspressure: directory nonexistant". (Edit retried with /proc/zaurus/tspressure and got same result)

Am I doing something wrong or is there a way to verify that the kernel was successfully installed?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 02, 2007, 06:04:01 pm »

Thanks pelrun. Well, formatting on the PC fixed it and now I'll know for next time.

As far as powering the drive, I have an AC adapter for my iPod. It's just a small box with a USB port and a plug. I had been using it to charge my iPod and my Zaurus SL-5500 (I had to replace my power cable and I found a retractable USB sync/power cable for it).

There's no way the Zaurus can power my USB drive alone, but the drive came with a USB Y cable. The red connector goes into my USB hub and the black connector goes into the iPod's adapter. It doesn't take up much space and it works just fine, except so far it seems I have to disconnect it while the Zaurus is rebooting or else the mount command fails when I start back up again. That's not a problem to me.

So I guess the next step is installing the tetsu special kernel and hoping that fixes the joypad issue.

I really like the C3200.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 02, 2007, 09:21:41 am »

The directory usbstorage exists, and /dev/sda1 exists (fdisk /dev/sda shows it exists) ... so doesn't that mean they are both there? I have a Maxtor OneTouch III Mini which has a cable that has 2 USB connectors on it. The instructions say plug the red one in, and the black one is in case you need extra power, so I plug that one into my USB power adaptor. The Zaurus gives all indications that it recognizes the drive properly with fdisk, it just won't mount.

Or would a symptom of not having enough power show up as fdisk working but mount doesn't work?

I'm considering pdaXrom and Cacko but haven't decided to switch yet.

Edit: USB HDD problem solved: Fdisk didn't change partitions properly on the Zaurus (data showed up in Windows after I had supposedly deleted, created, and written  the FAT32 partition in fdisk and even verified by removing the cable and plugging it back in again several times with reboots ... odd). So I reformatted as NTFS in Windows, and now the USB HDD works with the NTFS drivers Meanie provided. Yay!

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 01, 2007, 03:34:25 pm »

Update on usb hdd:
I used fdisk to change it to fat32. Retyped what I see on fdisk:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1    1    14593 117218241 b Win95 FAT32

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstorage causes the USB drive's light to blink but reports:
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usbstorage failed: Invalid argument

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Some Questions About The C3200

« on: August 01, 2007, 10:28:21 am »

Hello. I have had my C3200 for about a week now. Before that, I had an SL-5500. So far my impression is "why did I wait so long to upgrade?" I thought the SL-5500 was like a mini computer, the C3200 is so much more so.

Sorry in advance for long post. The bold headings are the parts that are most important. There are a few things I was hoping to get working on my C3200 that I haven't been able to yet. I have done many searches and just haven't got these fixed yet, so I was hoping maybe someone knew the answers or could better point me in the right direction. I'm still using the stock ROM. I've installed stuff, but haven't flashed anything yet.

First of all...thanks a ton to Meanie. I'm sure everyone says that. I would still be reading Japanese on my Zaurus if it weren't for those extensive customization pages. And also thanks to Cresho because he was very helpful back in my SL-5500 days and I know he does a lot of helping around here.

What works:
USB-Keyboard - usbkbd-en_2.4.20_arm.ipk (I need to reconfigure the xml mapping, though, because some keys weren't mapped properly)
USB-Mouse - inputhelper_1.0.1-1_arm.ipk
Zemufeex - zemufe_0.1.1-3ex_arm.ipk (so far, I tested SNES9X and ZNESTER, I also installed snes9x-sdljoy to work with my joypad, the buttons work but the directional controls do not, see below)
opie-embeddedkonsole (qkonsole crashes when the mouse is plugged in, so I used the terminal app from my SL-5500 in non-mag mode)
qpose - space trader is finally available on my Zaurus, yay
2GB Sandisk SD card - worked perfectly without any coaxing (didn't work on SL-5500)

What does not work:
USB HDD I bought a 120GB USB HDD, it is formatted as NTFS. I installed automounter_c3000_0.5.0_arm.ipk and ntfs-zaurus_2.4.20_arm.ipk ... I can get fdisk to show me that the drive exists and that it is NTFS, but it doesn't mount, and if I try to mount it manually (mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstorage) then it tells me that it's an invalid argument.

WiFi I have a sandisk plus CF wifi 128MB card that doesn't work. I tried installing sandisk-plus_arm.ipk and it still wouldn't work. So I bought a Socket wifi card from eBay. If I can get that one to work, then I won't care that the sandisk one does not.

Joypad I also have a nice cheap retractable USB joypad which is a very nice small size. The Zaurus recognizes it and all of its buttons except turbo and clear (I don't care). I have verified this with jstest.

snes9x-sdljoy works nicely except for the directional controls. I can pause, unpause, open the menu, cancel, and okay just fine (all 6 snes controller buttons work), but cannot move at all.

I tried to use joy2key-z -config kbd1 and joy2key-z -config snes9x, and even tried to figure out how to use joy2key-z without arguments to configure itself to my joypad. When I did that, axis 0, 1, 2, 5, and 6 all did not respond, but axis 3 (up/down) and axis 4 (left/right) did respond. But even so, the buttons should have worked and I can't get any other apps to respond to any button pressing while joy2key is active. There's not a lot of documentation available, but I found one site in Japanese that seems to suggest that I need to install tetsu's special kernel.

Tetsu's kernel So on that note, I searched for tetsu's special kernel. I found the page at http://tetsu.homelinux.org/zaurus/kernel and downloaded zImage-v18h-3200.bin then followed a link above it to get updater.sh.3200. Because these pages are in translated Japanese ... I just want to make sure that these are the files I need before I do this. Meanie's page gives instructions, but he mentions an ipk to install after the kernel update. I can't find an ipk, so I'm assuming updater.sh needs to be run after the zImage is installed?

X/QT and Java The next step is getting X/QT and Blackdown Java 1.3 working. I did install Jeode and it works, except the text editor I wrote for my SL-5500 appears to need to be run in magnified mode. I haven't played around with Jeode's AWT on the C3200 yet, but I suspect it's going to be difficult to get the toolkit windows working correctly in landscape mode. I tried to install Blackdown, but got a lot of errors, ending up with one saying the device is full. I have 30MB left in the program area, so I was a bit surprised. Maybe I need to install it to the HDD instead? But non-GUI Java doesn't interest me much (Jeode would be just fine in that case), so I am going to try X/QT before I try Blackdown again. Any advice about which one? It seems like I should install X/QT Jumbo, but I wasn't sure.