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General Discussion / Yoo Hoo........anyone Out There?

« on: August 18, 2008, 10:56:28 am »

I still have my Zauruses, but they don't get used any more (batteries are pretty knackered now). I moved to the Nokia internet tablets, which are pretty cool, just waiting for the next gen tablet to come out with an omap3430 or similar. I'm working on a variety of things, but mainly DSP programming (SBC encoder, Vorbis decoder, MP3 decoder).

Cheers all

Simon

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General Discussion / Any Admins About?

« on: June 28, 2007, 05:53:46 am »

Da_Blitz informed me by PM of the "hack", but was not sure whether to delete the posts. I emailed Offroadgeek and I also thought that the "report a post" link goes to all Admins.

Therefore, where are the admins? I have some admin rights in certain fora, but not enough to look at the details of the posts in question.

Anyway I have locked the topic for the time being.


Si

P.S. Bloody Firefox, will not let me type an apostrophe, nor use the cursor keys, nor copy & cut & paste. Need to restart it me thinks, grrrr

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Ipkg Error

« on: April 24, 2007, 09:31:23 am »

Ah, I missed the GUI bit.

The 'easy' way to get around this is to use ipkg from the command line.

i reported this as a bug a long time ago in the OE bugtracker...

Yep, these issues (with the gpe and opie versions) have been ongoing for a long time. The problem is that no-one has yet decided to fix/write a new GUI package manager. If there's anyone out there who fancies the task, then I'm sure you'll get a lot of kudos.


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Ipkg Error

« on: April 23, 2007, 06:59:08 am »

Post the full output...

Si

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Roadmap For Pdaxrom?

« on: March 06, 2007, 11:29:15 am »

You could always choose a different xserver, e.g. xorg rather than kdrive.

This is as easy as changing the xserver preferred_provider line in one of the .conf files and re-issuing the bitbake gpe-image command.

Though this sounds like it might be partly window manager related too. Again, you can change this by altering a conf file and letting it build the new requirements.

I also understand that there's acceleration for the PXA270 machines' graphics now which may improve the speed issues you were having.

On my c3100 - both installed OK but only got to a certain point in the boot sequence before stopping with an error I don't recall.

Did you add it to the bugtracker?


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angband On Oz/collie?

« on: February 22, 2007, 07:26:09 am »

There are a fair few steps to set it up, but if you follow the instructions it will just work. The biggest issue I imagine you'll have is filling out your local.conf with the correct paths, and the correct distribution, etc. (not very hard

Learning to write a .bb file is a bit of extra work, but there are lots of examples, and we'll will be happy to talk you through it.


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angband On Oz/collie?

« on: February 20, 2007, 06:32:51 am »

Also it still seems not very clear to me or i miss something: can i simply set up BB on an ordinary linux box instead of Z?

Yes, on a normal desktop Linux machine.

It's a build tool that builds various things, including a cross-toolchain which it then uses to build the apps you want.


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angband On Oz/collie?

« on: February 12, 2007, 03:54:17 am »

You should start on http://openembedded.org with the GettingStarted page.

This will build the cross toolchain (etc.) for you, then you just need to write the .bb file for the game.


Simon

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Iptables Kernel Modules For 3.5.4.1?

« on: January 31, 2007, 09:45:39 am »

You sure it's not compiled in?

Take a look in (iirc) /sys/modules/


Si

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5x00 General discussions / Looking To Have Collie Installed For Me.

« on: January 30, 2007, 12:00:45 pm »

The other option is that you could be talked through the process on irc...


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poky Image Please !

« on: January 30, 2007, 05:00:16 am »

There will be some as hrw is working on the oz 3.5.5 release.

See the oz.org webpage,


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Ipkg Tmp Packages Location

« on: January 28, 2007, 10:28:28 am »

It should download and extract them somewhere under /tmp, which is mounted as a tmpfs (in RAM).

Try rebooting, you may find that the jffs2 garbage collector just hasn't got round to reclaiming the (flash) space used by firefox before you uninstalled it.


Si

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Cxx0 Hardware / You Gotta Be Kidding Me!

« on: January 28, 2007, 10:26:01 am »

Don't use halt, use suspend (or apm -s).

It'll switch on faster that way


Si

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Cxx0 Hardware / Is There A Special Trick How To Turn 760 On? And..

« on: January 28, 2007, 10:24:51 am »

Perhaps you have kernel issues, as this is what detects the keypress.

What are you running on the machine?


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poky Image Please !

« on: January 28, 2007, 10:24:04 am »

They all come from the same OE information (afaik) so I wouldn't expect any major changes.

Try an Angstrom build (or an openzaurus-unstable).



Si