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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz/opie On Collie

« on: April 04, 2007, 09:05:01 am »

Ok

That helped.  I got what I needed and have flashed succesfully.

Thanks
Jon

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz/opie On Collie

« on: April 03, 2007, 10:16:08 am »

I have used my collie with the Sharp ROM for about a year now and wanted to try something different.  I am not a lynux expert but can work my way through most things eventually.

My questions are;
1.  Where specifically (ie a link) do I get the files I need to flash to the latest stable version of OZ/opie?
2.  Exactly which files do I need to place on the CF card before I flash?  I believe there are two correct?
3.  Where specifically (ie a link) do I go to get the applications for this set up?

Thanks for any help in advance.
Jon Steckelberg

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs - 2 Sl-5500s (1 Is Black ) And Maybe An Sl-6000

« on: February 19, 2007, 06:14:36 pm »

miskinis

That does not look too bad.  Will you take $30 plus shipping?
Would PayPal work for payment?

Jon

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs - 2 Sl-5500s (1 Is Black ) And Maybe An Sl-6000

« on: February 19, 2007, 08:58:55 am »

miskinis

I understand. You mentioned a scuffed or sdratched portion of the screen on the silver unit.  Can you give me any more detail on this?  I know getting pictures of this kind of thing can be difficult but if you could that would be great.

Jon

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 19, 2007, 08:53:21 am »

sdjf

There are some that work well without the touch screen and some that don't.
Right now I am trying to decide what I want to do.
If I go to the time and expense of replacing the digitizer I am afraid it iether won't solve my problem or will cause others.
Maybe I should just buy another PDA.

Jon

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs - 2 Sl-5500s (1 Is Black ) And Maybe An Sl-6000

« on: February 16, 2007, 10:12:48 am »

Do you still have any of this for sale?
I am looking for a parts unit.
I need a digitizer mainly.
If so what price are you looking for?
If I could just buy the black one that would be best.

Thanks
Jon

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 16, 2007, 09:28:32 am »

I have tried various numbers in the pointercal file and it does not seem to make a lot of difference to the touch screen.  It does change but not in a logical manner that I can figure out.

I am begining to wonder if my digitizer is messed up?

I am assuming that my restore from backup should have replaced the pointercal file with the original.  If this is true then I believe my digitizer has a problem.

How hard/expensive is this to replace?

Thanks for everyones help
Jon

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 15, 2007, 05:39:28 pm »

I was thinking about just playing with the numbers to see what works better.
When I interupt the initialization cycle and go to the console as root I can change the file.  If I try to change the file through terminal program in qtopia it won't let me.  How do I log into root through terminal?

Another thing that I don't understand is why it works if I manually infut a pointcal file but if I do a hard reset in gets locked in the calibrate cycle again.

Oh well if I could find a pointcal file that worked everything should be usable again until I have to hard reset.

Thanks for all the help

Jon

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5x00 General discussions / Pointercal File

« on: February 15, 2007, 12:37:31 pm »

Does anyone know the format of the pointercal file?
The contents are like this
21596 0 173612 0 14745 978165 65536
If I manualy input this file I can get my 5500 to start by bypassing the calibration screen.

I have tried two different sets of numbers as above and both are far enough off that it makes the touch screen unusable.  If I knew what these numbers meant I might be able to adjust them so by digitizer works properly.

Jon

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 15, 2007, 12:01:21 pm »

sdjf

what are the numbers in your pointercal file.

I have tried the ones that quickening gave plus one other I found in this forum and they are not close to what mine needs to work right.

Jon

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 15, 2007, 10:56:44 am »

I restored from my back up and the restore worked fine but my calibration is still messed up.

Anyone have any Ideas on this?

Jon

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 15, 2007, 10:09:38 am »

I just thought of something.  I do have a backup of the system when it was working properly.  If I restore to this will it reset my calibration to the settings it had back then?

Jon

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 15, 2007, 10:06:54 am »

quickening

I did thisa part of your seggestion and got nothing

from the console,

cd /etc
ls -l pointercal

I then performed the second part.

If it's not there, do
echo "21596 0 173612 0 14745 978165 65536" > pointercal

If the filesystem is read-only , you will get an error message.

do "ls -l pointercal" again, to verify it updated. exit from console, and it should start up.

And when I exoted the console it started up without the calibration screen.
I can now get to the normal qtopia stuff but obviously the touch screen is way off.
If I go into calibrate it will just cycle through the points like it has been doing.  I can cancel out of that and get back to the menues again.

Are those numbers in the command locations on the screen?
If I fiddle with them do you think I can get the touch screen working?

Thanks for the help so far, I hope I can get this resolved I wan't to use my Zaurus at work.

Jon

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 14, 2007, 03:52:28 pm »

quickening

Your suggestion of a bad ram spot makes sense.
I am not very good at linux can you tell me step by step how I would create a file as you suggest.
I can now get into the linux console just need to know the speciifc commands to do what you are suggesting.

Thanks for the help
Jon

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 09, 2007, 12:42:51 pm »

Unfortunately it doesn't matter how I tap the screen ti still cycles.

I have tried exactly on target
I have tried various inaccuracies, both smaller than and larger than the target square.

Still no luck.

Thanks for all the suggestions

Don't know what to try next maybe reflash with OZ.
I have tried this but it won't flash can anyone walk me through the "exact" steps required from the download on?

Jon