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X/Qt / Pdaxqtrom & Apps

« on: May 06, 2006, 08:19:23 pm »

Meanie, firstly thanks, thanks, thanks, for all your wonderful work. Finding your website was the last element to fall into place in the decision making process I went through regarding replacing my old PalmOS device with something more capable.

However, I am struggling with this X stuff. I switched from pdaxrom because it just wasn't stable enough and was too slow in some areas. However, I really do need the email handling of something like sylpheed and the wordprocessing capabilities of abiword or better.

Since switching to Cacko (1.23) I have never once been able to get Abiword to work and while Sylpheed ran under X/Qt, it isn't now that I have switched to PdaXqtrom  

Sylpheed gives lots of GdxPixbuf warnings about 'xpm' images not being supported and the failure then to load the images.

But then it comes up with 3 GtK-CRITICALs:

gtk_pixmap_new: assertion `val != NULL' failed

gtk_box_pack_start: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (child)' failed

gtk_box_reorder_child: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (child)' failed

and then ends with a segmentation fault.

(These look like the symbol after the assertion is a grave (`) and the one before failed is an apostrophe ('). Is this how they should be? Or does this point to the problem?)

Abiword has a pixbuf warning and then three CRITICALs:

gtk_icon_set_new_from_pixbuf: assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed

gtk_icon_factory_add: assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed

gtk_icon_set_unref: assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed

and then the message Aborted comes up.

This is all on a fresh reinstall of Cacko.

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Later:

Hmmmmmm,

then I loaded some additional programs. Included was the gdk-pixbuf package from cacko with its cacko gtk and xlibs dependencies.

Now all the pixbuf and icon warnings and criticals are gone  
but I now have the "error while loading shared libraries: /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_option_context_new" error and now programs that did work (like gnumeric) don't.  

Note that this particular file is still a link to the pdaXqtrom-base file!!! It hasn't changed. So it must be something else which is connected to libgtk which has changed... yes???

Should I try to install the cacko gdk-pixbuf package without its dependencies with the --force switch? Do you have a gdk-pixbuf package in the pdaXqtrom image? Maybe its not being linked correctly? Or ... ?

Doug

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Back To Cf V. Sd Etc

« on: March 10, 2006, 10:25:03 am »

Okay, will be buying a C3100 in the next couple of weeks and may have enough cash left over to splurge a bit. So here is what I'm thinking:

replace the MD with an 8GB cf flash card
   add both a swap partition and a 3.5GB ext2 partition in the extra 4GB!

put one of the new relatively high speed 4GB MMC cards in the SD slot

for a grand total of 12GB on board!!!!

My questions are, is the 8GB flash card fast enough compared to the 8GB MD (half the price) to be worth the added expense?

And though MMC is slower than SD I should be able to exceed the 1GB limit of the SD cards and the latest MMC (not MMCplus) are supposed to be what 200x?? or so. So is there that much of a speed hit? I would probably stick my openoffice documents, etc on this where I just need to load the document and then occasionally save it. Leave the constantly read/write files on the cf card.

Any comments?

If I do spend the cash then I will be happy to run some benchmarks and report back if someone wants to tell me what I need.

Doug

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Hardware Required To Record Voice In C3000

« on: March 10, 2006, 09:46:40 am »

You know, a USB sound card might work (or a USB headset).  Might have to compile ALSA modules though.
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The other possibility (still needing alsa) would be Core Sounds PDAudio CF card. This has alsa drivers already and is a cf card! So none of the potential problems of latency, etc of a usb sound card.

Check out the PDAudio system at [a href=\"http://www.core-sound.com/default.php]Core Sound PDAudio[/url]

Doug