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Ubuntu / Flash For Zubuntu's Firefox

« on: October 03, 2009, 08:03:36 am »

I hosed my ZUbuntu install a couple days ago in a misguided Maemo/Mer experiment

Interesting news. So what had happened?

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Briquolo On Sl-c3200

« on: July 25, 2009, 07:41:45 am »

At least on the C1000 it does not and exits with a segfault.

Oliver

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Mer / Mer - A New Ubuntu-based Distro Derived From Maemo!

« on: July 25, 2009, 07:34:08 am »

What might be cool is if zubuntu were to be eventually built on top of mer. That way mer would provide the ubuntu layer as well as their ui to play with and zubuntu could add the zaurus customizations and a window manager and tweaks more suited to the zaurus.

Well, ideally I would l like to install zubuntu and then add a simple repository which enables to "apt-get install mer-base" to get a lxde replacement.
That would be my favorite solution.

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Apt-get In Zubuntu

« on: May 09, 2009, 10:47:38 am »

Thanks for the help guys but i think its a little ove rmy head now,im still pretty new to linux and i think i have a hell of a way b4 im up to your standrds. I did a lsmod and this is what it came up with, i realy dont know what im looking at.

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']
orinoco_cs             13860  0
orinoco                40916  1 orinoco_cs
hermes                  5824  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
hostap_cs              54772  3
hostap                104900  1 hostap_cs
[/div]

The operating system loads some driver modules into the kernel if required. Which ones are loaded can be gathered via the lsmod command.
On zubuntu it is a known issue that for some prism chipset based cards the orinoco and hermes driver modules get loaded as well as the hostap module.
This will lead to incompatibility and faulty behavior of the card.
What you should do: Edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and the lines

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']
blacklist orinoco
blacklist orinoco_cs
blacklist hermes
blacklist hermes_cs
[/div]

hostap and hostap_cs must not be blacklisted.

Then reboot. This will prevent the orinoco and hermes modules from being loaded and should make things a lot better (though it is not very convenient for a newcomer, but hey, it is a Zaurus and you opted for some hacks by installing zubuntu  )

After the reboot lsmod should not show the orinoco and hermes modules being loaded and there should be a wlan0 network interface if you do ifconfig.

I hope this helps, if not, ask

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Apt-get In Zubuntu

« on: May 08, 2009, 01:16:16 am »

Thats just how i had mine, then in a terminal i typed ifup wlan0 and it came up with this

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']root@Zubuntu:~# ifup wlan0[/div]

You should not need to "ifup wlan0" if autoenable is set in the interfaces file.
In case that dhcp is already running (which the lock file implies) the ifconfig should show an interface besides lo0. True?
Is the dhcpd really running then (check with "ps aux |grep dhc"), if not manually remove the lock file and retry.

Btw I just scrolled down and found that there seem to be 2 different wlan interfaces initialised: wifi0 and wlan1 which looks odd. Should be wlan0 and wifi0 but both not correctly set up.
If you do lsmod which modules are loaded? hostap or orinoco/hermes?

Good luck,

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Apt-get In Zubuntu

« on: May 06, 2009, 04:40:26 pm »

Like this:

Code: [Select]

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless_mode managed
wireless_essid sukmebeautifull
wireless_key xxxxxxxxx
wireless_channel 11
Oliver

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Ubuntu / Apt-get In Zubuntu

« on: May 06, 2009, 01:06:06 am »

Hi
Ive tried all the things i have been shown on here and i am still having troubleconnecting to my router. Ive change my interface file to this

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless_mode managed
wireless_essid sukmebeautifull
wireless_key xxxxxxxxx
wireless_channel 11[/div]

What happens if you add

Code: [Select]

auto wlan0to /etc/network/interfaces ?

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Openzaurus.org Domain Expired

« on: April 29, 2009, 02:59:32 am »

Hi,

I wanted to reflash OZ yesterday and I found out that OpenZaurus.org domain expired. I eventually found the hentges mirror and was able to install from there...
Is there another way to connect to the openzaurus website?

Thanks,

The OpenZaurus project is dead and has been replaced by OpenEmbedded/Angstrom.

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Ubuntu Jaunty / Zubuntu Alternative Kernels?

« on: April 27, 2009, 10:18:26 am »

@ofels: There might be some minor differences between the akita and spitz, but I think support for both devices is compiled in
@jeana: I'll try that later. For now flash the multiboot kernel (details here) and setup a partition on SD/CF and copy the kernel into the /boot directory. This way size don't matter.
@adf: Try 'export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event1' before starting the gui, that should help ;-)

Kernel bombs out after booting on Akita. Last thing it loaded was zaurusd, then a huge stack trace is spit out and it states:

(GPIO_SET_VALUE+0X0/0X6C) FROM SPITZ_MIC_BIAS+0x50/0x64 [SOUND_SOC_SPITZ]
with some more stack traces, however I could not type that fast. However this was the first one so I believe it is sound related.

All I did was moving /boot/zImage out of the way (by renaming it), copying the 2.6.30 image as /boot/zImage and unpack the modules archive to /, then call depmod -a

Update: I can move the snd_spitz_soc.ko module out of the way and it boots right away, then manually load the module via insmod and call /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart.

This works.
And I can confirm the touchscreen issue.

Tried with Jaunty.

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Ubuntu Jaunty / Zubuntu Alternative Kernels?

« on: April 26, 2009, 08:21:16 am »

Hmm, not too fond of the Omegamoon kernel?
How about an upgrade to the 2.6.30 kernel then. I just got a working version ;-)

A link would be a good idea as I havent found a reference to some archive or whatever

Oliver

Download links can be found here. Please report your findings!

Thanks a lot.
I believe there is no difference between the C3000 and an akita so it should be working in the C1000 also ?

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Ubuntu Jaunty / Zubuntu Alternative Kernels?

« on: April 26, 2009, 05:12:41 am »

Hmm, not too fond of the Omegamoon kernel?
How about an upgrade to the 2.6.30 kernel then. I just got a working version ;-)

A link would be a good idea as I havent found a reference to some archive or whatever

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Newest Version Of Ångström?

« on: April 22, 2009, 04:24:10 pm »

Thankfully, there's more to OpenEmbedded than just Angstrom. You can tailor it to your liking.

Yep and if a needed package is broken (e.g. incompatible old version), it is not that much of effort to include an updated version and rebuild it so that it works again.

Oliver

P.S.: Hi Mickey, how is life ...

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Ubuntu / Sound In Jaunty?

« on: April 21, 2009, 04:12:15 am »

Will alsa work? the mixer seems to "understand" the Z's capabilities pretty well, I just don't seem to have any sound actually coming out yet... suggestions?

Open alsamixer from the console and enable all mixers you can find disabled (labeled as [MM]), then carefully disable those you dont need or which have implications on the sound quality.
You might also want to use a headset to adjust headset sound.

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Apt-get In Zubuntu

« on: April 16, 2009, 12:05:34 pm »

# Wireless interfaces
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless_mode managed
wireless_essid sukmebeautifull
wireless_key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wireless_channel 11
iface atml0 inet dhcp

Why is there a separate atmel0 interface if there is already wlan0 on the wireless interface side doing dhcp?

And 2 lines later I see:

# Wired or wireless interfaces
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

There is lots of redundancy in that interface file...

What do ifconfig, iwconfig and dmesg report?

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / X.org Problems

« on: April 07, 2009, 03:35:40 pm »

This is a problem of the kernel. According to the Cyril Hrubiš's blog and private talk, touch screen code in the kernel needs rewrite: Current implementation is polling based, but it should be interrupt based. To eliminate noise, reading of touchscreen should be synchronized with the LCD panel refresh.

As an ugly work-around you can use tslib filtering.

Note: Collie have had the same problem in past.

Needless to say that the same is occuring under zubuntu...

Oliver