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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zoom/pan View With Fbvnc?

« on: March 13, 2006, 08:07:05 pm »

That would be great... if... any other window managers were available for the 5500. As far as I can tell, there aren't.

I've looked that the main feed and the user contributed feeds and searched the forum, and I can't find any other window managers for the SL-5500.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zoom/pan View With Fbvnc?

« on: March 12, 2006, 02:59:51 pm »

Hello,

Most applications are basically a nightmare right now on my SL-5500, because in Matchbox I can't access most of the window, and in twm I'm incessantly dragging things around to see.

I know from the debian "pocketworkstation" thing that it's possible to use some form of VNC client to view the GUI with zoom and pan options, so... is there any feasible way to do this with pdaXrom?

If there are any alternate ways to zoom/pan or better deal with my screen size problem, I would appreciate any info on those as well.

Thanks.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Practically Nonexistant Storage Space

« on: March 12, 2006, 03:03:35 am »

Well, even if it's installing to SD it tries to download the file to /home/tmp/ipkg/inst, so I had to move /home to my SD card and make a symlink to it. I would have just changed the tempinst destination in ipkg.conf, but when I tried that it had no effect (I don't know why).

I did finally get installing packages to work since it's doing everything on the SD card, but I'm still concerned. With only about 1MB, just package lists and the like may fill it up after a while.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dialog Window Too Large To Display

« on: March 12, 2006, 02:35:38 am »

Is there anything I can do about this on the 5500?

There is no Alt as far as I can tell, and I can't find the shortcut Laze mentioned.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom On Sl-5500 For Dummies

« on: March 12, 2006, 02:16:47 am »

Hello,

After about 24 hours worth of struggle spread out over a week, I finally have things working reasonably well. There are still convenience issues, but I'm at the point where I can actually install XMMS with a graphical package manager and use it to successfully play MP3s.

So, here's how I did it:
First off, I started with a 128MB CompactFlash card, a 128MB Secure Digital card, and a D-Link DCF-650W CompactFlash wireless card. You could do this without the SD card, but I'd rather not go into explaining alternate routes unless someone wants to ask me something specific.

1. Make sure the CompactFlash card is formatted as FAT16, and format the Secure Digital card as ext2.

2. Copy initrd.bin and zImage.5500 to the CF card, and follow flashing instructions from here: OpenZaurus's flashing instructions

3. Move your home directory onto the SD card so you don't run out of space (seems only about 1MB of internal storage is free?)

mkdir /mnt/card/home
cd /home
cp -rs * /mnt/card/home
cd /
rm -r /home
ln -s /mnt/card/home home

4. Set up wireless:
Go ahead and put in your wireless card.

Depending on your network, you may have to do some configuration with iwconfig. Some good info on that can be found here: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/iwconfig8.html

In my case I had to specify essid, WEP key, and "key on".

Run "dchpcd", and if you're lucky your wireless will work now. You could test this using wget to download a file at a known URL. Due to space issues, I suggest only downloading files to SD.

5. Fix ipkg's configuration - hopefully you know how to use vi.

vi /etc/ipkg.conf

Change the first line in the file to the current correct feed URL for the 5500.
At the time of writing this, it's: http://mail.pdaxrom.org/1.1.0beta1/Zaurus-5000D-5500/feed/

6. Install qt-mt and packagemanager to your SD card

ipkg update
ipkg -d sd install qt-mt
ipkg -d sd install packagemanager

7. Start the GUI

startx

8. Find the packagemanager under System Tools, and run it. It may be a little annoying to use the interface on the low-resolution screen of the 5500, but it's possible.

Be sure to install everything to SD of course, or you'll most likely be out of room before you finish installing the first package.

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I hope that helps somebody, and if something doesn't work I may have made an error in typing this so please feel free to ask about it.

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General Discussion / how to send control charactersin terminal

« on: March 12, 2006, 01:15:24 am »

What about on pdaXrom? Anybody know how to do Control+C there? Specifically, I'm interested in how to do it outside of any GUI in case it varies.

I'm using an SL-5500, pdaXrom version 1.1.0beta1, and as far as I can tell there's no way to do it initially but I'll gladly accept a solution that requires configuring something first.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Practically Nonexistant Storage Space

« on: March 12, 2006, 12:40:03 am »

Hello,

I seem to have a bizarre lack of space available. If I start over from scratch by re-flashing the rom, configure my wireless with iwconfig, and then run ipkg to install qt-mt, I run out of space before the package even gets halfway downloaded.

I know the 5500 isn't exactly loaded with RAM, but I think something is wrong here. Shouldn't the OS be stored in flash memory? Or is it too big and it's actually using up almost all the RAM I have for storage as well?

If I'm stuck with almost no internal storage, is there some way I can expand onto my ext2 formatted SD card? I had been trying to move directories to my SD card and create symbolic links to them, but that's not working out well.

Device: Zaurus SL-5500 (64MB of RAM)
pdaXrom Version: 1.10beta1 "Kathrin"

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / No Ram Disk Image? (boot Errors)

« on: March 12, 2006, 12:13:49 am »

After re-flashing the rom, that problem seems to have gone away. I think that only appeared after ipkg started putting stuff in internal memory (it ran out of space almost instantly, and then nothing else had space to modify any files).

I've got to say, it's a brutal pain trying to get things working with this on my 5500, but I haven't given up yet.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / No Ram Disk Image? (boot Errors)

« on: March 07, 2006, 06:24:38 pm »

Hello,

I've got some errors at boot, and I'm guessing I need to resolve these before dealing with my other problems:

Couldn't find a valid RAM disk image starting at 0
Mounting local FS [ Failed ]
Also, something about not being able to modify modules.dep because it can't write
(It went by too fast for me to copy)

I'm running this on an SL-5500, pdaXrom 1.10beta1 "Kathrin" and in case it's relevent, startx works and I get somewhat-working GUI.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
"Stathgar"

[ Edited because I didn't see the guidelines until after I posted, so I'm doing some more searching on my other issues first. ]