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General Discussion / Running Zaurus (akita) Without Battery

« on: November 08, 2009, 03:36:35 pm »

You're somewhat out of luck, I'm afraid. Whilst the D+B trick does allow you to start the system up, the power hardware will still permanently report critical-low battery status.

Thanks for the info, I already thought so. But as a Zaurus is a mobile device, it's not very usable without a battery, is it? So if I want to get it running again, I guess I'll need to look out for a cheap one on eBay or so, the original one is far too expensive.

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General Discussion / Running Zaurus (akita) Without Battery

« on: November 04, 2009, 03:13:45 pm »

I think it's primarily the main battery that's dead. The Z seems to charge (yellow LED on) when plugged in, but after a day the battery voltage is still at 2.7V.

Could someone with a working C-3100 test if the Z boots reliably (and is usable) without the battery and just the charger plugged in?

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General Discussion / Running Zaurus (akita) Without Battery

« on: November 04, 2009, 03:26:27 am »

I had a similar issue of battery running out and the unit being unresponsive.  I remember I connected it to a charger and left it there for a day or two.  Then, it fixed itself.

As the Z obviously does not like running without a battery, I checked mine and found it to have only 2.7V (instead of 3.7V), even after a night of charging. I guess I'll first need to resolve that issue and it'll hopefully work again with a functional and charged battery.

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General Discussion / Running Zaurus (akita) Without Battery

« on: November 03, 2009, 02:37:16 am »

Hello all,

I currently try to revive my Z (C-3100, Cacko 1.23) I haven't used in a while and run into the same problem. I can only get it to start using B+D, after issuing a reboot the device starts, but turns off directly after loading the OS. I can get into the maintenance mode using D+M, but that does not really help. I tried reflashing, but for that I'd need to get into flashing mode (Enter and On), but that does not work, the Z does not respond.

Any ideas? It was working perfectly last time I used it, it just ran out of battery in the meantime.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rox Keeps Reverting Backdrop On Screen Rotation

« on: June 27, 2007, 02:20:09 am »

This is a ROX issue. You should complain to the ROX people. That's where ROX puts things. pdaXrom is just following the ROX 'standard'

I agree, there is not much pdaxrom can do about this. About the "Choices"-directory deriving from phython - well, I personally think the unix/linux convention of putting everything system-wide under /etc and everything user-specific under ~/.something is not that bad. At least one knows where to look, that's the advantage of a standard. Maybe it's a bit overpowered for a PDA, as I don't think many people use their Z as multiuser-machines.

However, I still would like to know where that rox-bg is called elsewhere when rotating. Sadly enough the busybox-version of "grep" does not understand the "-r" option, that would help...maybe I'll try to compile my own version of "grep" someday.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rox Keeps Reverting Backdrop On Screen Rotation

« on: June 26, 2007, 02:12:42 pm »

the pdaxconfig tool (in pdaxii13) allows you to set a default backdrop for rox.  it doesn't stretch the image(in my experience) but it does rotate and tile....is that at all helpful?

Do you mean the tool which just edits the conf-file in /home/root/Choices? No, that did not help, but the general Idea was good - I did not know that configuration files were in there (honestly, who'd look in a directory called "Choices" with a capital "C"?)
Anyway, underneath there are some rox-pinboard-specific configuration files, one of which defines the default backdrop to be /usr/apps/Settings/Backdrop/default.xml (another configuration directory - can't that stuff be all in /etc where it belongs?)
I then erased the backdrop lines in the default.xml and voila - standard backdrop is set no more and the set backdrop is kept after rotation.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rox Keeps Reverting Backdrop On Screen Rotation

« on: June 25, 2007, 03:44:28 pm »

Well, yeah, of course that would work. The point is that my zaurus takes about 5-6 seconds to complete rotation of desktop, panel and windows into the portrait mode and vice versa. I'd hope to reduce that time if it does not need to rotate the background, at which I don't look at anyway. Setting a solid color picture as a background would not help here.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rox Keeps Reverting Backdrop On Screen Rotation

« on: June 25, 2007, 07:39:00 am »

Hello all,

ROX on pdaxii13 with xfce4 (SL-C3100)  keeps reverting to its default backdrop (the one defined as default with "rox-bset"), which resides in /usr/share/pixmaps/Wallpapers/background.png.

I can change the background graphically (ideally, I'd like no background at all), but the rotation mechanism keeps changing it back. I removed the line about rox-bg in the /etc/sysconfig/clamshell/scripts.d/x11scr script (which calls rox-bset with either the -portrait or -landscape option), but I keep missing something.

Is there a way to tell rox not to use any background at all? There must be a system-wide configuration option somewhere. Deleting the background.png gives me a very annoying error message each time I rotate the screen.

Alternatively, where else might rox-bg be called upon rotation?

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Software / Serving Wikipedia Locally On The Z

« on: June 10, 2007, 10:25:49 am »

Hi all,

just to get this topic back into discussion - I do think that the way wiki2static works (compress and reformat downloaded dump, then use apache with cgi to generate pages and do searches) is the way to go. Installing a complete wiki with mysql to access the database is probably too much for the Zaurus, not only concerning the available storage space.

As I'm not really satisfied with the *bedic variants (neither "q" nor "z"), wouldn't it be great if someone with knowledge of perl had a look at wiki2zaurus? Maybe that someone could get it working again...

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Shopping List Application

« on: May 15, 2007, 09:17:45 am »

I have the same problem unfortunately.  It's strange because I could compile Portabase for pdaXrom with no problems. 

I run into the same problem trying to compile it on the zaurus.
Do you have a working ipk for pdaXrom? I'd love to try that on my Z (pdaXii13, but will hopefully work).

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Shopping List Application

« on: May 15, 2007, 02:39:05 am »

Hello all,

I've searched quite unsuccessfully for a shopping list application for pdaXrom. You know, something where you select items from a previously created list you need to shop and tick them off as you load them into the cart.

There are several such applications for OpenZaurus, mostly based on xml. But if I'm correct then OZ-applications are QT, which doesn't run on pdaXrom. A Gtk-application should run, shouldn't it?

Does anyone know of such an application for pdaXrom?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rotate.sh Ceased Working

« on: April 04, 2007, 10:39:22 am »

try
xrandr -o left
xrandr -o normal

Nope. However, I really did not hope for it as it is basically the same as 0-3.

Is there any other way I can troubleshoot this? xrandr duly reports that is has set the rotation, but does nothing.

I'm pretty sure it's not a problem of the X system but of the window manager. When I alternatively start up xfce4, it works. It doesn't in openbox.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rotate.sh Ceased Working

« on: March 27, 2007, 02:05:10 pm »

can you rotate with "xrandr -o X" where X is 0 - 3?

No, that does nothing. Running it with "--verbose" it claims it is setting the rotation, but doesn't.

Sometimes Xfree gets confused though so quitting and restarting X fixes it.

I already did a reboot, but that did not help either.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rotate.sh Ceased Working

« on: March 27, 2007, 09:10:46 am »

Hello all,

not having used the portrait mode for a while (Borzoi, pdaxii13 with openbox and ROX), I noticed that the screen is no longer rotated. I'm pretty sure it worked before, but I might have changed something I'd better had not done.

Calling "rotate.sh -force" should always rotate the screen, no matter what position is is, right? Well, it flickers a bit but that's it. The only peculiarity I found is when calling chkhinge. I get:

chkhinge: Case open landscape (so far, so good)
Gdk-WARNING **; locale not supported by Xlib
Gdk-WARNING **; cannot set locale modifiers

What does locale have to do with rotating the screen? And if it really does, might I just be missing a certain package?

Thanks in Advance!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zbackup For Pdaxii13

« on: March 14, 2007, 08:54:22 am »

does the following work:

mkdir -p /mnt/nand
mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock2 /mnt/nand

Yes, it does (as to be expected). Actually, the mtdblock-devices do represent the NAND-memory, don't they? And as far as I have seen "/dev/root" is just a symlink to "/dev/mtdblock2" which is mounted as "/".

I'm not sure what the other mtdblock-devices are, though. 0 and 1 both have a size of 7MB on my system, so I guess that the boot block must be somewhere there. This, of course, would also have to be included in a backup.

Would it be a good idea to "dd" the whole nand, i.e. mtdblock0-3, into an initrd-file and just flash them back on restore?