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PocketPenguin / Hardware

« on: August 12, 2006, 11:05:49 pm »

With reguards to the LCD, I think we should be looking at widescreen (800x480) panels, such as the ones iRiver is using in their G10 in their hand held video players, as many people will undoubtably be using it for playing videos (and most are widescreen nowdays).

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Development Using X86 Iso

« on: July 25, 2006, 07:39:14 pm »

You can use Vmware with the x86 ISO image

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Solved: Xmms With Ce-rh2 Remote Control?

« on: July 14, 2006, 12:33:34 am »

XMMS already has shortcut keys that work as long as the window is active.

Z      Previous Track
X      Play/Restart/Unpause
C      Pause/Unpause
V      Stop
B                              Next Track

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom-builder Not Working

« on: July 01, 2006, 03:10:32 am »

This new beta4 x86 live cd doesn't even have the "svn" command.

Yeah it does, I've used it.

http://mail.pdaxrom.org/download/1.1.0beta...X86/pdaXrom.iso

Note: this image was updated on the 1st of June, you may have to redownload if you downloaded it earlier.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom-builder Not Working

« on: June 30, 2006, 06:05:07 pm »

Try this one:

http://mail.pdaxrom.org/node/101


Btw, use the latest (beta4) x86 live cd in vmware (you'll need to create a new virtual machine), otherwise it just won't work.  Use the beta4 sources.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Zaurus Software Effort

« on: June 19, 2006, 04:42:08 pm »

However, I don't think pdaXrom needs to be forked. I just think it needs to be opened up, updated, cleaned up, debugged, given a direction and a clear roadmap for all to see where it's going, how it's going to get there and when.
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I agree with this statement.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Important Update...

« on: June 16, 2006, 06:41:15 pm »

http://mail.pdaxrom.org/node/101 :

Download pdaXrom-builder from svn repository:
svn checkout https://mail.pdaXrom.org/svn/pdaXrom-builder/trunk

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I feel I must apologise here, I never realized that this existed!  Last time I checked the documentation on the pdaXrom site and the oesf how-to's it didn't!
Thank you for pointing this out, I will start using it immediately - it will be very useful!  

My previous comments about not having a central repository for the latest development code and patches now seem null and void - please ignore them!  ;

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Important Update...

« on: June 15, 2006, 04:31:19 pm »

"If you want to have it done, do it yourself". What prevents anyone from starting developing? pdaXrom, Opie, GPE, whatever... pick the one you'd like more and improve upon it.
-albertr
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At the moment with pdaXrom - the lack of a version control system (such as CVS or Subversion) that everyone can contribute to, and obtain the very latest version of code (so any patches that are developed arn't useless or obsolute or would just take too much time to adapt to the latest code, as it seems has happened a few times when people have submitted patches to sashz) is a big problem.

I would also like to write some small utilities, and patch a bunch of stuff with pdaXrom and also add some more ipk packages (I am an electrical engineer and do embedded programming for a living), but as I don't know what is in development, and don't have the latest version of code, I have no idea whether it would be useful to do it, and whether my patches would just be igored as the code has changed so much since last release or are irrevelent.

The version control system would allow integrating any patches much easier for the primary developers (and they would still have full control over the distribution and direction, although I hope they would welcome the extra hands doing bits and pieces here and there).

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Important Update...

« on: June 15, 2006, 12:43:37 am »

While I have much appreciation for the excellent job Sashz has been doing with pdaXrom, I also feel that allowing the (large) community to help out with development by using some sort of version control system (such as CVS) would speed up development towards a very stable distribution.

pdaXrom has a lot of potential, but at the moment it has many small bugs that could be fixed quite quickly by the users who are affected by them who could then share them with the rest of the community instead of having to wait a month or two until the next release (which often comes with a whole new set of bugs).

This could also help out Sashz who would have more time to work on new features, instead of having to worry about fixing all the bugs in the old release.

It would also be easier to develop extra features by anyone, as people would all be working with the same version of code, and their changes could be integrated easily using the tools provided by CVS (or other version control system).


I have no problem with Sashz and Laze still having full control over the integration of patches, such as what happens with the main linux kernel, where the core developers have to approve patches, but anyone can submit them and people can see the submitted patches, and bugs get fixed very quickly.

That being said, congratulations on the new job Sashz, I hope it goes well.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kmobiletools

« on: May 28, 2006, 10:39:45 pm »

I'm keen on getting my zaurus working with my motorola mobile phone for sending txts (easier with zaurus keyboard than cellphone number pad!) and the best program I have found for this is KMobileTools.

Was wondering if anyone has got this working with pdaXrom on the zaurus?  Is there a feed somewhere with it?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom For Sl-c3200

« on: March 30, 2006, 04:10:30 am »

I'm trying to build a rom for the C3200 using the vmware builder image, but am unsure about which version of the sources to get.

I've read the Builder Howto from the wiki but it seems to be for the 860

What are the exact files that I need to grab for the C3200 to get a kernel the same as in the 1.1.0beta2 ROM?

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Rom And Sl-c3200

« on: March 24, 2006, 04:12:43 pm »

I have hacked around with the updater.sh script and manged to get cacko to install on a Sl-C3200!

It works!!

I have attached the script I used (I just replaced the model SL-C3500 with SL-C3200 in the script, seems it was already prepared for a new model).  Note that the script is encrypted so you need to read
https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=C3000_Device_Specifics
if you actually want to read it in plain text.

You also need to copy the C3100 kernel and name it to the C3200 kernel in the tar file (or use symlinks) for it to work.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom For Sl-c3200

« on: March 24, 2006, 01:02:49 am »

Okay, well I managed to hack around with the files a bit - made a copy of the 3100 image and patch in the tools.tar and named them 3200, and hacked the updater.sh script to allow flashing to the 3200.

Well it worked - I managed to flash the 3200 with the image for the 3100!

Unfortunately, my brand new SL-C3200 now doesn't do anything on startup.  I hit the power button, the screen flashes, and then the pda shuts down again.  I can get the bootloader menu (hold down ok when hitting power button) no problem, even tried reflashing for same effect.

Can anyone help me getting the pdaXrom running on the SL-C3200 - does it need a special kernel that is different to the 3100 in some way?



Note: this is with the  1.1.0beta2 image

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom For Sl-c3200

« on: March 23, 2006, 07:24:21 pm »

1.1.0beta2 also does not work with the 3200.

Can someone post an updated script to allow it to install or point me in the right direction to build my own?  It seems the 3200 is the same as the 3100 but for the 6gb hard drive.