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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oe Builder Vmware Player Image

« on: December 14, 2005, 01:04:01 pm »

When running the ./oe-configure.sh script, it manages to connect to http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl to download the metadata but usually stop after 5 or 7 % (sometime less).
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Hi LeTic,

Sorry to hear that the VM crashes under Linux (I imagine it will get better over time), with regard to the problem with the OE.db server, you might try koen's suggestion or alternatively you could try downloading the OE.db.bz2 file from [a href=\"http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/OE/?C=M;O=D]http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/OE/?C=M;O=D[/url] with a something other then wget (i.e. curl, links, lynx, ncftp) to see if that helps...  once you get the file drop it into ~/oe-build/ (make sure oe-build is mounted first), the bunzip2 it, and restart ~/refresh-toolchain.sh ...  

The script should pick up the DB file and do pull to refresh any newer changes.   Then you should be ready to build.

Cheers,

-G

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oe Builder Vmware Player Image

« on: December 06, 2005, 11:51:13 pm »

An untested OZ3.5.4 Collie Kernel / Root FS Image built using this VM has been posted here:
Dec 5 builds
http://www.northern.ca/projects/oebuilder/...51205064650.bin
http://www.northern.ca/projects/oebuilder/...50.rootfs.jffs2

(there is also around 85MB of packages which have not been posted)

UPDATE: Dec 9 builds -- fixed bug #498
http://www.northern.ca/projects/oebuilder/...51208061539.bin
http://www.northern.ca/projects/oebuilder/...39.rootfs.jffs2

Just tested the Dec 9 Build and CardMgr works again, network time works...  looking good.

Cheers,

-G

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Vmware Player Oe Build Environment

« on: December 05, 2005, 11:44:44 pm »

You can stop voting now...

The Aye's have it!

New thread started to cover the first release here: https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16476

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oe Builder Vmware Player Image

« on: December 05, 2005, 03:02:40 pm »

OE Builder VMware image is a Ubuntu VMware disk image preconfigured to build OE distributions.  It is intended to drastically simplify the compiling of OE distros to running 2 shell scripts and waiting for the build to complete.

Start the VM, login as oe/oe, run ~/oe-configure.sh and then ~/start-opie-image-build.sh to build an opie-image.

This release is designed to run on the free [beer] VMware Player (http://www.vmware.com/products/player/), requires 256MB dedicated to the VM, and about 10GB of disk space to complete a build of opie-image.  Building is time consuming (8+hrs on a fast PC) and should be checked on from time to time...

The set-up assumes it will be running on a Windows host, however with QEMU installed (for QEMU-img tool used to create vmdk) it should be easy enough to get it started under a Linux host.

Image Logon/Password is oe/oe

Download:
http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/OE/vmware-image/ See the release fixes section!

Screenshots:

oebuilder_scripts_20051209.tar.gz

Release Fixes:
* Unzip the file  [ Invalid Attachment ]  in your oe home directory, this will update the scripts to fix the partition detection problem and also the problem with stale OE.db data (bug #498)

* Some packages didn't get installed, this fixes that problem when oe-configure runs... you need to give the bold answers

Checking for required Debian Packages ...
Password: oe
Reading package lists... Done

--OUTPUT CUT--

Score is 47

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n

--OUTPUT CUT--

Score is -1089

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y

--OUTPUT CUT--

Need to get 20.3MB of archives. After unpacking 54.0MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Vmware Player Oe Build Environment

« on: December 05, 2005, 01:25:26 am »

This is about ready to go...

I'm hoping offroadgeek will mirror the image file, it's about 290MB compressed.

You'll need VMware Player to use it and something in the area of 10GB of free space to build an opie-image for collie.

I'll start a new topic when it's ready to be downloaded...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Vmware Player Oe Build Environment

« on: November 30, 2005, 09:50:14 am »

In June, I put out a QEMU image for building OE ( https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13311 ).  

The idea being that one could unzip the image, install the emulator, fire it up and start a  build of OE/OZ by invoking 3 or so quick shell scripts.

The June image has been obsolete since July or so when the devs finally switched over to monotone.

Recently, I picked up on this again and started updating it...  got things going with monotone and ported the set-up to run under VMware Player to try to boost speed.

Last night I managed to complete a build for Collie on this set-up, it still needs some polish.

I'm wondering if there is general interest in this type of roll-your-own set-up...  If so I'll put the effort into cleaning it up for consumption.

Cheers,

-G

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Fun With Shoutcast

« on: November 27, 2005, 02:39:38 pm »

Thanks to rabies in the IRC channel, I found out why my Mplayer playback was failing, the default codec doesn't work on OZ3.5.4RC/Collie...

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Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 20000->176400 (160.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)^^^ - that's the default non-working codec...

Using:

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mplayer -ac mad SONG_or_STREAM
forces the codec over to libmad:

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Forced audio codec: mad
Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 20000->176400 (160.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mad] afm:libmad (libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3)
which plays back local MP3s and remote shoutcast streams without any skipping.

I can control the volume using / (down),* (up), m (mute) ...  so I'm pretty happy with this solution for now.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4 Rc Bug & Work-around List

« on: November 22, 2005, 03:52:59 pm »

aumix from 3.5.3 is broken on 3.5.4RC on Collie/z5500...  outputs:

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aumix: SOUND_MIXER_READ_RECSRC
and exits...

Bug Filed: http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Fun With Shoutcast

« on: November 20, 2005, 02:06:19 pm »

p.s: I tested this on my sl-C3000 but i think once you install the mplayer it runs on any Z.
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It installs on my z5500, starts up as if it's going to play, but all I get is 'click... click,click ...  click' as far sound goes....

With the screen being so small on the 5500, there's really not much use in a text browser...  so I stick with `wget -qO -` for pulling down html source...

opieplayer (1) handles shoutcast streams
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Yeah, I figured this out last night...   It seems its the only option that handles streams properly - it doesn't skip at all.  
It doesn't like remote playlists but it doesn't mind local playlists with remote streams, which is alright.

Wrote a script to start up the player using qcop:

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#!/bin/sh

# XTC Radio
wget -qO - http://stream.xtcradio.com:8069/listen.pls > /tmp/playlist.pls
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'setDocument(QString)' '/tmp/playlist.pls'
Apparently it supports the following QCOP commands:

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qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'play()
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'stop()
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'togglePause()
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'next()
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'prev()
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'toggleLooping()
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'toggleShuffled()
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'play(QString)' 'fullpath_to_local_audio_or_m3u_or_pls'
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'add(QString)' 'fullpath_to_local_audio_or_m3u_or_pls'
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'rem(QString)' 'fullpath_to_local_audio_or_m3u_or_pls'
qcop QPE/Application/opieplayer 'setDocument(QString)' 'fullpath_to_local_audio_or_m3u_or_pls'
It looks as if 'volUp()' & 'volDown()' might work given there close position inside the opieplayer binary (when using `strings` on it), however they don't seem to do anything when invoked.

So, I have no way as of yet to control volume/mute...  since aumix is broken and I can't figure out if VolumeApplet has any qcop interface...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Fun With Shoutcast

« on: November 19, 2005, 03:42:46 am »

I'm running OZ 3.5.4RC...

I've been trying to employ my Z5500 as a shoutcast reciever to pump sound into my stereo.

Unfortunately, the state of shoutcast in OZ is somewhat weak...  That is to say neither XMMS (doesn't recognize streams at all) nor Opie-Player2 (crashes right away) can handle shoutcast streams.

This has forced me to fall back to the console, making use of mpg321...  And while mpg321 recognizes streams and plays them back, it also skips during playback...  I suspect either the Z is too slow or it suffers from the bug described here -> http://angerman.net/articles/jukebox/#mpg321 ...

Are there any other alternatives known to support shoutcast streams?

While we are at it is there any way to script volume changes?  

I used to use aumix in the old days, however trying it now just gives an error (SOUND_MIXER_READ_RECSRC) ...   I thought about trying to script the volume applet, but there is no documentation anywhere for it's support or lack of support for QCOP calls.  

Cheers,

-G

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4 Rc Bug & Work-around List

« on: October 28, 2005, 02:54:10 pm »

K,  I had a quick test of Collie/GPE and Collie/OPIE and here are some observations...

What machine is that on?

Si
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A very beat-up old sl5500

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4 Rc Bug & Work-around List

« on: October 28, 2005, 11:05:06 am »

K,  I had a quick test of Collie/GPE and Collie/OPIE and here are some observations...

GPE:
- I had problems with the Z, freezing up...  They maybe related to Rosetta since I was using it both times.   Openned calendar, started to create a new appointment, then went through start menu to open Rosetta trainer to check how to make a 't' and machine froze for a couple of minutes...  
- After saving rosetta DB, roestta stopped working until I logged out/in...
- Background colour of selected icon is same as text colour -> Black on Black
- Manual suspend/resume works (using button)...  didn't test auto suspend.
- Wifi worked fine with my MA701 as root (seem to remember having had troubles getting Wifi configured as regular user)

OPIE:
- seems snappier then before
- Calendar font is nice and small, fits well.
- Opie-console has bug were last line scrolls off bottom (this was a bug before, don't know if it was ever fixed)
- Opie-console profiles default to font DejaVu_Sans, which results in typing that has tabs between each character i.e. "l   s       -  l   a   h"...  
Workaround: using DejaVu_Sans_Mono instead works as expected
- Manual suspend/resume is very fast now
- Automatic suspend does not occur
- Wifi worked fine with my MA701
- PCMCIA launcher applet does not detect card insertions or removals...  insert submenu item does not work either.   Media is successfully automounted though.

Overall, I think Opie has improved, not that familiar with GPE so I won't comment on that guy...

I look forward to getting some new packages into the feed, so I can try to get opie-player2 to play shoutcast audio (3.5.3 packages abort after pulling down the station info).

-G

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4 Release Date?

« on: October 23, 2005, 04:33:01 pm »

Curious does the entire tree have to be rebuilt for each machine's ROM?  Is that why it takes so long to get RCs and releases out?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4 Release Date?

« on: October 19, 2005, 09:41:22 pm »

I'll add a vote for collie, either opie or gpe...

Looks like Tosa is up now for those that use it. (http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4-RC/sl6000/)

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.4 Release Date?

« on: October 17, 2005, 04:25:05 pm »

I see a directory structure at:  http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4-RC/

Guess that's just a skeleton and the RC build has not happened yet?