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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Ir Keyboard Drivers - Alpha Release

« on: June 17, 2006, 03:17:58 am »

Hey there-

Zaurus: c860 running pdaxrom 1.1.0beta-1
Keyboard: micro-innovations universal wireless keyboard (design by Pocketop).  
Installation:
ipkg install zkbdd (it was in the feed! woo!)
modprobe keybdev
modprobe uinput

Using the pocketop driver.  Here are the few problems:

Problem #1: sticky keys
Problem #2: cannot type the ^ which is [punct][6]

In the test mode [punct][6] is registers and I remember reading in the thread about key mappings so I'm sure this is fixable.

Problem #3: After some time the keymapping goes a bit strange/nuts.  Including both IR keyboard and clamshell keyboard.  I think it is after a certain set of keystrokes and I'm guessing it is with one of the "special" keys (caps lock, shift, ctrl, punct, cmd, num, etc..) at which point I need to reboot the zaurus

Overall:  The stickey keys are mostly a nuisance when typing in passwords.  Rebooting is a bit of a nuisance too.  But other than that works great.   Thanks!

Also as far as starting and killing, i basically use these aliases in my .bashrc file and it works for me.  Shouldn't be any implications of running the modprobes repeatedly should you be typing the "keyon" command repeatedly


alias keyon='modprobe keybdev; modprobe uinput; zkbdd -t pocketop &'
alias keyoff='killall zkbdd'


Thanks again

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Software / Winconnect Z (or Other Rdp Software)

« on: June 14, 2006, 12:43:05 pm »

wow rdesktop worked great.  and it was right in the feed too.    there's such an overwhelming amount of stuff to go through, and that's just normal packages.

thanks for your help guys

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Software / Winconnect Z (or Other Rdp Software)

« on: June 14, 2006, 06:02:04 am »

not supposed to run vnc server on the windows box.

first time i've seen mention of rdesktop.  will take a look-
tx

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Software / Winconnect Z (or Other Rdp Software)

« on: June 14, 2006, 02:47:05 am »

Hey there-

Just got a zaurus - mostly for work but also becuase of the high tinker factor.   I got a c860 and am running 1.1.0beta1 on it.   Still doing basic installs right now and not any sort of compilations on it yet. Love it so far  

So I need a remote desktop client to remote desktop to my windows machine at work.  From doing searches it seems winconnect Z is the software of choice.  However thinsoftinc.com does not seem to sell it anymore and I can't get a response from my inquiries to thinsoftinc if it's available and/or if one of their other product will work on the zaurus out of the box (from the trial downloads none of them will work)

Does anyone have a recommendation?  Or anyone like to sell me a used copy?

Thanks!
Ben
p.s. the thing that took the longest was getting the vpnc client to work.  it does and feel free to message me if you want my instructions.  still on the list: wpa supplicant which looks like I will have to go and compile it since the wpa_supplicant in the feed doesn't seem to work.