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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Manual

« on: June 19, 2008, 03:41:09 am »

One thing that I would like to see (and I'd add it myself, but I don't yet know) is what the "relevant packages" to install GPE from a console image are.

Please refer to Angstrom Manual section 6.3 Installing GPE onto Console Image

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Manual

« on: June 19, 2008, 03:29:19 am »

a lot of work has been done on the manual, so do please consider taking the time to read it and then consider whether you're more willing to give Angstrom a try... and consider join the user's mailing list and also perhaps contributing to the wiki?

Great work. Since Paul will be gone for a while. There is only a handful of knowledge people that can provide in-depth answer.

btw. I strongly feel a Zaurus interest subgroup under Angstrom is a good idea.

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6000 - Tosa / Angstrom Status On Tosa

« on: June 19, 2008, 03:16:05 am »

but with the latter, I get more in my PATH.  what does the

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I think it's a convention (busybox?). su is what debian/ubuntu uses for root including all PATH, while su is what Fedora uses for limited root, you need su - in Fedora for root with /sbin. I have no insight or historical knowledge about why it is so, although Angstrom is closer to debian than Fedora in lineage.

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6000 - Tosa / Angstrom Status On Tosa

« on: June 18, 2008, 05:24:04 pm »

I can't seem to get insternal WiFi to work (out of the box,) I select the "Wifi device" in the wlan0 tab under network settings, but next time I open network settings, it has unchecked itself.  I also don't seem to have the tools like ifconfig ifup etc. to work with.  What image are you using?  I'm using the x11-image which gives me GPE.

Edit: Well I've installed the console edition and I have the networking tools.  Could they have gotten overlooked in the x11-istall package?  Also, do you know what are the "relevant packages" to install GPE and x11 from the base console flash?

-AeroSigma

The wlan0 network setting gui is known broken. Try to manually edit /etc/wlan instead. There is a nice tutorial in the openzaurus wiki which works the same for Angstrom.

The /sbin directory is not in the normal users' path.

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su - to get root access (just enter for password) for ifconfig, ifup etc.

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Deals and Great Z Buys / 4bg Sdhc For <$10

« on: June 18, 2008, 07:26:24 am »

I've got the 4gb Transcend (150x) SD awhile back. Been working great!

I'll prob get an 8gb sdhc ... for my eeepc!  ... 16gb is still a bit hefty (in price) for now.

Patriot 16G SDHC6 @ zipzoomfly for $55 + $7 shipping -$10 Rebate = $52. Just got one for testing.

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Brand New Sl-6000l's For 230 Euros Shipped

« on: June 18, 2008, 07:22:01 am »

Well I got 2...Anyone else buy some more?

I would really like to have one 6000W. If I want to get one 6000l, ebay price is usually good enough for me.

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6000 - Tosa / Angstrom Status On Tosa

« on: June 18, 2008, 07:11:15 am »

I tried the r17, and got an error right at start-up.  The backlight went off, and I got a line of text <something I can't remember> then ->no info.

have any info?  Is this the same problem that r9 had with the 2.6.24 kernel?

-AeroSigma

Yeah. Still the same problem with r9. The one built from dev branch boots fine fore. I'm trying to figure out what's the difference.

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Software / Is Kde Pim/pi Dead?

« on: April 08, 2008, 06:21:57 pm »

I've taken his changes, and released a [very beta] version of KDEPIMPI for the Nokia Internet Tablet (the successor to my Zaurus SL6000). This version has some rough edges, and contains no substantial changes over the 2.2.7 release, but it does work on both the desktop and Nokia Tablet. The source code is available at the Maemo Garage website for KDEPIMPI. The code needs some changes make it fully workable on the Nokia Tablet. Once that happens, there will be a new group of users and potential developers to support the project.

I think we should avoid forks here. Is it ok to send your patch to Zautrix or ask Zautrix to add you to the sourceforge project.

For the record, I'm also interested in the KDEPIMPI development. And I will try keep it up-to-date in Angstrom.

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6000 - Tosa / Angstrom Status On Tosa

« on: March 12, 2008, 05:25:12 am »

is there a decent browser working in Angstrom on 6k?

in opie, bluelightening is working with konqueror-embedded upstream to get qt2 patches upstream.
in x11, there are couple of options: links-x11, netsurf, minimo, gpe-mini-browser and openmoko-browser2

I've used minimo which works very well on tosa (except the FN key is borken), I've heard netfurf is also a good alternative. personally, I don't like gpe-mini-browser. no experience with openmoko-browser (there is demo on youtube though.

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6000 - Tosa / Angstrom Status On Tosa

« on: March 12, 2008, 05:15:35 am »

thanks, I will dig out my Tosa and see how far I get . When Angstrom is good enough and I can use my Tosa more, I will get a new battery. I'd like to use it as an in-car media player (with a wireless hard drive) and to run tomtom,!

Please skip r8 and test r9 with 2.6.24 kernel.

sorry r9 with 2.6.24 kernel is not bootable right now. please test r8 instead.

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6000 - Tosa / Angstrom Status On Tosa

« on: March 12, 2008, 01:56:27 am »

thanks, I will dig out my Tosa and see how far I get . When Angstrom is good enough and I can use my Tosa more, I will get a new battery. I'd like to use it as an in-car media player (with a wireless hard drive) and to run tomtom,!

Please skip r8 and test r9 with 2.6.24 kernel.

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6000 - Tosa / Angstrom Status On Tosa

« on: March 10, 2008, 05:24:23 am »

r8 release from the Angstrom stable branch has been released. No critical change from r2. The next big thing is to bump kernel to 2.6.24. That should solve or remedy a bunch of kernel related problems.
status updated.

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6000 - Tosa / Making Angstrom Work On Tosa

« on: March 10, 2008, 05:08:04 am »

I've moved the latest Angstrom 2007.12-r8 to the unstable/image/tosa folder.

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Android / Yet Another Install Image - Testers Wanted!

« on: January 30, 2008, 02:40:49 am »

The console image works well, except for suspend.  Actually suspend works fine the first time, but the second time it hangs with a message about waiting for ac97.

I'll post the exact message when the bugtracker is back up.

you can use http://bugs.openembedded.net/ for now. .org is constantly having dns problem recently. I can confirm the suspend/resume problem you've seen with the 2.6.23 angstrom tosa kernel.

The latest 2.6.24 kernel and suspend/resume issue is being worked on by Dmitry at http://tosa.lumag.spb.ru/news/7/51.html. You can kexec into the zImage provided on the site. If you need more details, we can take our discussion into the tosa forum.

Regards
Gordon

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Sharp ROMs / Zroadmap

« on: January 18, 2008, 02:42:38 am »

is there any interest in zroadmap 1.1.0 (2006 US map) on the sharp rom? Zroadmap is already available for opie/Angstrom, I can try to build one with the sharp compatible tool chain in OE if anybody is interested.