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Sharp ROMs / Qmusician

« on: July 14, 2008, 04:07:12 am »

Hi I wonder if anybody has a working version of the Qmusician, aka Tuner, application. I want to install it on my C-3200 with regular Sharp Rom.

After downloading from different sources, killefiz, another feeds, etc, I've found that Ipkg complains, even not showing the soft as installable.

Viewing the file through a text editor it's showed as a debian application  ?

I don't know what can I do.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.


Greets.

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Asus Eee PC / Interesting Link

« on: July 05, 2008, 10:58:35 am »

Hi,
     I'm not an Eee PC use, but I've found this interesting information.


        http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/E...ternal_Upgrades



Greets

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Spain / Debian En Collie

« on: March 17, 2008, 01:46:44 pm »

Hola, estando tan de moda Debian en el mundo zaurus y habiendo visto por la red que existe algún proyecto de instalación de una Rom Debian pura en la SL-5500, me pregunto si algún forero ha tenido alguna experiencia al respecto.

Yo he probado el Pworkstation con las X/QT y todo y arrancar la Sarge es bastante lento.

No sé, quizas algun sistema de instalación pura que le diera más recursos podría marcar la diferencia.

¿Alguna idea o comentario?

Saludos

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Linux Issues / Supergrub

« on: January 15, 2008, 07:29:59 pm »

Hi,

    this is a CD that recover automatically your lost Grub MBR, for example in those cases when we can't boot our linux Distro after re-installing windows in the same PC.

I have to live a little with windows because of one application that I need. Recently I had to re-install the windows system, and after that I felt very bad being unable to boot my Debian.

There are some method in order to restore the Linux Boot. The Pro one, as google says, is done by mounting chrooted our partitions and reinstalling Grub, by using a live CD or a Rescue CD.

I first proved that way, but for any reason it didn't recognize my Laptop Hardware.

Finally I' ve found the amazing SuperGRUB CD at:

http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/

...with foreign languages support. :-)

It works like a charm. In only 3 minutes, my Debian system was running again.

Don't miss this amazing tool.


Greets

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Software / Gps Tomtom-like Soft

« on: January 10, 2008, 06:27:45 pm »

Take a look to this site, they're making ports of their product for different OS  including linux.

http://www.sygic.com/about.html

The soft looks very nice, and some people in spanish forums claims that it works very well.

Greets.

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X/Qt / How Can I Make Apps Fit The Sl-5500 240x320 Geometry

« on: November 24, 2007, 05:37:26 am »

Hi, after having success installing Pwstation on SL-5500 collie, I've decided to change the default wmanager. Now the xfce4 desktop fits my SL-5500 geometry, but apps don't, neither the own xfce apps (settings,etc).

Does anyone know how to fix this xfce4 behaviour? (IceWM didn't have this problem)

Thanks in advance.

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5x00 General discussions / Debian Xqt/pwstation On Collie Revisited

« on: November 22, 2007, 03:43:28 pm »

Tested in TKRom with home in SD.Thanks to Meanie for all the refs and explanations, and also thanks to all the people who crash their brain in the past with this Collie issue and reflected the solutions in this forum.

My configuration is a 2 GB SD with two 1GB ext2 partitions. One for the Home dir and another partition for data and maps from wikipedia.

At least 500 or 600MB freespace is needed to feel comfortable installing apps

Install xqt-debian-jumbo-little

Install Meanie's Debian 4 packages (It will tale some time -maybe an hour and a half-:

#xqt-debian-install.sh  /wherever you want- in your home SD, or another SD or CF partition-/debroot

Mine will be /home/debroot, so:

#./xqt-debian-install.sh  /home/debroot

Install xserver-8.x.ipk In order to the Xserver to fit your zaurus sl5500 screen geometry without any headache. (This is a not very much technical procedure but works out-of-the-box)

Copy file resolv.conf from your zaurus /etc/resolv.conf to your debroot/etc/ directory, to benefit debian from your zaurus net settings.

Modify /debroot/etc/apt/sources.list, to catch the proper binaries and sources list, for apt-get to work. Maybe It's a bug in the installed sources.list. I couldn't fetch anything without doing these changes before.

 adding a backslash after .org/debian =   ...org/debian/

 changing testing for sarge and being sure to add "main contrib non-free", and changing stable for sarge:

deb http://jjñljñj.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
  (or ftp://)
 
deb-src  http://jjñljñj.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
  (or ftp://)

Now you have to copy .xmodmaprc file in /home/zaurus and /home/root in order to have the SL-5500 keyboard recognized.

Start debian from the desktop launcher icon or from console with (#xlauncher debian) command.

Pressing the zaurus Menu Application Key allows us to get Fullscreen and to shutdown Xqt/Debian.

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Make a swapfile wherever you like it.

#dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024k count=64
#mkswap /swapfile
#swapon /swapfile

I've made a mistake here about starting the swapfile. First I thought that it had to be started from the /debroot/startd script, but it had no effect.

It will start  at boot time,  by adding previously the line: swapon  /swapfile
to the file /etc/rc.d/rc  -just before the line "exit 0"-

In TKompany ROM it adds the new swapfile size to the regular amount of swap reflected by qtopia system info app., and Debian recognizes that amount of swap.

A good amount of swap is needed to run Debian PWStation without problems.


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Run #apt-get update from xterm

If you got warnings about locale not set,

run #apt-get install locales

After that you can install whatever apps you need by doing:

#apt-get install ( for example) mc (midnight commander)

After updating or installing you can do #apt-get clean  to recover some espace.

I've been in troubles trying to upgrade to etch so I'll just keep sarge which works OK.

Now I've changed the default windows manager icewm, to use xfce4 instead.

It works well, but programs don't fit the screen geometry. It should be hacked in some way that I'll see later.

Greets.



If you want to use xmodmaprc, please rename it from xmodmaprc.html to .xmodmaprc

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OpenBSD / Help!

« on: September 25, 2007, 05:39:46 pm »

Hi,

    after being waiting for an answer in the Linux issues subforum, I've decided to post in this subforum my question:

Hi, I've used OpenBsd in many occassions, and now I want to return again to it, having seen that a lot of people have interest on OpenBSD, and Developers are doing a great work, with big respect to the Zaurus Community.

So I get the last snapshot in my home PC first.

I want to be able to use in my desktop the common apps that I use in my zaurus daily.

So I start to set up the environment to compile the apps from source, in order to get Kde pwmanager (there's no port or package for it).

The first issue appears when compiling qt-x11, because pwmanager wants a specific version, and also because OpenBSD puts libraries in a different dir than Linux does.

After setting the QTDIR in .profile, i was able to successfully compile QT.

When I back to compile Kde pwmanager, the ./configure complains about the system doesn't have nor libjpeg6b neither libbzip2 installed, and then stops with a warning of "fatal error can't configure". (bzip2 version is 1.0.4)

These libraries are installed from their sources.

I don't understand why ./configure doesn't find them. I'm care about that such a case may repeat with other compilation and other libraries.

Any OpenBSD user could tell me if this is an isolated issue, or something general that needs to be configured in a different way?

What can I do?

Thanks in advance.

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Linux Issues / Openbsd Trouble Compiling

« on: September 08, 2007, 05:33:56 am »

Hi, I've used OpenBsd in many occassions, and now I want to return again to it, having seen that a lot of people have interest on OpenBSD, and Developers are doing a great work, with big respect to the Zaurus Community.

So I get the last snapshot in my home PC.

I want to be able to use in my desktop the common apps that I use in my zaurus daily.

So I start to set up the environment to compile the apps from source, in order to get Kde pwmanager (there's no port of package for it).

The first issue appears when compiling qt-x11, because pwmanager wants a specific version, and also because OpenBSD puts libraries in a different dir than Linux does.

After setting the QTDIR in .profile, i was able to successfully compile QT.

When I back to compile Kde pwmanager, the ./configure complains about the system doesn't have nor libjpeg6b neither libbzip2 installed, and then stops with a warning of "fatal error can't configure".

These libraries are installed from their sources.

I don't understand why ./configure  doesn't find them. I'm care about that such a case may repeat with other compilation and other libraries.

Any OpenBSD user could tell me if this is an isolated issue, or something general that needs to be configured in a different way?

Thanks in advance.

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Software / Sprite Studio Demo

« on: July 14, 2007, 06:51:30 am »

Hi, I wonder if someone has downloaded in the past  this application. Now it's impossible to get from anywhere.

Greets

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5x00 General discussions / Sprite Studio Demo

« on: July 14, 2007, 06:49:43 am »

Hi, I wonder if someone has downloaded in the past  this application. Now it's impossible to get from anywhere.

Greets

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5x00 General discussions / 2g Sd Working In Sharp 3.1 (ospack)

« on: June 30, 2007, 07:54:34 pm »

Hi, after lot of in an outs, probing in TheKompany rom without success, I try this modifyied sd driver

 http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~miguel/zaurus/

and I have been able to make a 2G ext2 partition on a Kingston Regular SD, and the system mounts and recognizes it without problems.

I'm thinking about taking sdcontrol file from Sharp ROM to TheKompany.
Perhaps, this is the missed point. I don't know.

A big step for the human being  

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Greets

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Software / Gps Soft Navicore

« on: May 30, 2007, 08:48:28 pm »

Hi friends,

          I've found this page

http://www.navicoretech.com/Consumer/Suppo...t/en_GB/tablet/

that seems to provide soft and maps for GPS navigation suitable for Nokia's Tablet PC with linux inside (I guess).

They show these instruction in order to install the soft:

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Nokia 770: How do I install the Navicore Personal 2007 application without Windows installer?

You can install Navicore Personal to your Nokia 770 Internet Tablet without a Windows installer by copying the needed files into a memory card.

Please follow these instructions:

1) Download and uncompress file "Navicore.tar.gz" to your PC

2) Copy the contents of the folder to the root of your memory card

3) Download and uncompress the wanted map region file to your PC.

4) Copy the mapdata_XXX folder to the "Navicore" folder on your memory card

5) Add wanted additional map regions by repeating the steps 3 & 4.

6) Making a 64MB .swap file into the memory card is recommended.


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That Navicore.tar.gz file contains  .deb (I guess) packages and also .ogg and other kind of file extension.

I wonder if that soft can be used in our Zaurus.  Note that they remark a license is needed.

What do you think about it?

Thanks in advance.

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5x00 Hardware / Mini Din 6 Pin Male Gps

« on: April 01, 2007, 05:44:02 am »

Hi friends,

   I've  got a Haicom HI-204-III GPS receiver (It looks like a Mouse) that I'm able to use with success on my laptop and my Zauri C-3200 USB Host port, with a ps/II to USB adaptor ( RS-USB-HT   M203060 RoHS V02).

Since I have my very lovely SL-5500, which I find amazing and very useful, I want to connect the GPS receiver to the I/O port on my Collie.

I've been searching at the forum and it seems that nobody uses that kind of GPS.

I've purchased the connectors from Fivestars in order to try to build my own cable, but now I don't know exactly what to do.

First, I don't know if I have to connect the zauri I/O to the GPS PS/2 Mini Din 6 pins Male connector, which uses 4 pins (5 TX, 4 RX, 2 VCC, 1 GND), or to the USB adaptor ( I don't know how it's pinned).  

Second I've found that the GPS unit has 5V DC Main Power input, 75 mA Supply Current,  0,38 W Power Consumption, and 3 V Li-Ion rechargeable Battery as Backup Power,

and VCC on the SL-5500 I/0 is just 3,2 V.  

This makes me doubt about if it is possible for the Collie to work with this GPS because of the 5V Power input required, or if some kind of circuitery or conversion is needed.  

I'm not a Pro in electronics, but I'm able to solder and I got lot of patience, so any help will be appreciated.    

Thanks in advance.  

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General Discussion / Zaurus Begins

« on: January 31, 2007, 01:49:59 pm »

Hi,

        Seems as "we" only care when we got troubles, and so there's a lot of good things that we left on the air.

I think that Zaurus is more than a technology, more than a device or a brand, maybe is more like a special way of life, an special approach on things, which turns the zaurus movement into magic, and the Zaurus into a myth.

I can't avoid to think on it, while reading the posts, in this times when the end is almost  
announced.

Well, it's well known that when Dead, we'll reach the glory.

So, don't stop working. The legend has just started.

Best Regards.