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Ubuntu / Briquolo On Sl-c3200

« on: July 24, 2009, 04:13:26 am »

Can someone check if briquolo runs under zubuntu on an SL-C3200?

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']sudo aptitude install briquolo
briquolo[/div]

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Debian / Can A Card Get "tired"?

« on: September 24, 2008, 04:50:49 am »

I'm running Debian on the HTC Universal. It runs from an SD card. I'm using a 16GB SDHC Kingston card.

Lately I've been having issues with the SD card, experiencing some ext2 system irregularity, and yesterday the phone would lock up also, the card then having errors.

I thought originally the card was going bad, as I'd expect an SD card to eventually go bad while using it for the rootfs, and sometimes swap.

However, running badblocks on it shows no errors.

I've had some similar problems with it (not only this card too) before, whereby it would show these errors. Then I'd reboot, try to fsck one partition on it starting from another partition, and also fsck it on the PC. It would fail with I/O read/write errors.

However, leaving it a day unused, lo a behold it would go through, no prob.

Now it failed yesterday, same problem, fsck would cough up I/O read/write errors. badblocks then found no probs on it overnight. And in the morning it's fine, Debian is running off of it again.

So I'm wondering, could it be somehow that a card would be "tired", like in physically after much use, sorta like a runner being exhausted, albeit there are no bad sectors on it and nothing, and it then revives after a rest? Probably a dumb idea, but what else could be the explanation?

Or is it associated with speed issues - reading and writing to the card?

And is there anything to remedy, minimize this behavior, so Debian could run well off of the SD on the Universal, without worrying the whole time that it's gonna fail when I'm on the road somewhere?

Any thoughts anyone?

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Debian / Conkeror In Eabi

« on: July 06, 2008, 01:02:15 am »

Anyone using conkeror?

It's now in Debian unstable repo also for armel, however I have a severe problem with the armel version, in that it doesn't allow you to select a text box to enter text. I.e. f will not bring the cursor into the text box, even tab doesn't jump there, even a stylus tap will not put the cursor in to allow you to enter the text.

Anyone experiencing the same? Am trying to investigate what the prob, but it's not replicated on the PC and everything else is working, so not sure what could be causing this...

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General Discussion / Installing Debian To A Usb Flash Drive With A Swap Partition

« on: October 16, 2007, 03:04:18 pm »

I'm considering doing the following thing:

I'd like to get a new USB flash drive that's fast.

Install a fully encrypted debian to it with only boot unencrypted, so that I can then use it to boot a computer with it and work on it, saving all the documents to it too.

I'd like to also have a swap partition on the drive, since I don't want to swap to an unencrypted swap partition on the host computer. Now obviously swapping will decrease the life of the flash drive.

What's the best way to minimize damage to it.

Some time ago there was talk about formatting a CF card, with leaving a part of it, i.e. 200 MB for a big one un mkfsed, as this would reduce the wear on the card. Would this be advisable here?

Also, will having a separate swap partition limit the wear just to these parts of the flash?

Probably not, since I want to install debian: create a 100 MB /boot (ext3) as primary partition, and make the rest of the hard drive one huge partition which has "Use as:" set to "physical volume for encryption".

Any thoughts on how to best go about this?

Also, since ext3 uses heavy journaling it's usually advised to set up flash drives as ext2, on the other hand, when the whole huge partition will be encrypted, maybe preventing data loss via using ext3 would be desirable?

Can anyone comment on this?

Thanks.

Later.

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Sharp ROMs / Finding Out The Battery Status From Commandline

« on: August 03, 2007, 01:41:46 pm »

There's the battery applet which shows graphically how much battery you have remaining.

Can I get this info from a commandline, i.e. some qcop command or whatever, that would return: Battery percent remaining, estimated time remaining...?

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Sharp ROMs / Meanie's Pdaxqtrom Always Closes Down On Resume

« on: July 25, 2007, 05:20:16 am »

I'm using Meanie's pdaXqtrom package on an SL-C3200 stock Sharp ROM with Tetsu's kernel. I'm consistently witnessing the following behaviour:

If I leave the X/Qt window in foreground when the Z suspends, then upon resume, the app crashes/closes, have to restart it.

I always have Qkonsole open also, now if I have the Qkonsole in foreground, upon resume, it switches to the Home tab, and I can then switch to Qkonsole, or the X/Qt which remains running.

Now, often I forget to switch to Qkonsole before suspend, or it suspends because there's no activity.

I'm using the susp-resume package, so would like to construct a susp script which would bring the Qkonsole to the foreground and/or also make the Qtopia menu bar visible (since I usually run X/Qt in fullscreen, and it seems that when the bar is not visible, it also has an effect).

What is the easiest way to achieve these tasks in the script? Make the Qtopia bar visible in X/Qt if not and then switch to Qkonsole? qcop command? Could anyone write the syntax?

Thanks a lot.

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General Discussion / Used + Available 1k Blocks Don't Equal Total

« on: July 16, 2007, 03:15:27 pm »

I've just noticed this. When I run df, the number of Used and Available 1k blocks doesn't equal the Total number reported for ext3 formatted CF cards. For vfat cards it matches exactly. For ext3 cards the difference exceeds 400 meg for an 8 gig card - huge difference.

I've split the card into three partitions, one ext3, one swap, and one non-mkfs-ed. Does this have any effect?

And why the difference? Is this normal?

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Hardware Mods / Can't See Cf Card

« on: July 13, 2007, 10:18:18 am »

So I bought this 16gb Sandis card, swapped it for the 3200's internal microdrive. Used it for a day, no prob. Then something happened don't know what, and the card wouldn't work, the Z was locked.

So took it out again, and now I can't mount it / see it, on any computer that I've tried.

This is what dmesg says:

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Jul 13 16:01:36 debian kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
Jul 13 16:01:36 debian kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
Jul 13 16:01:37 debian kernel: pcmcia: request for exclusive IRQ could not be fulfilled.
Jul 13 16:01:37 debian kernel: pcmcia: the driver needs updating to supported shared IRQ lines.
Jul 13 16:01:37 debian kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
Jul 13 16:02:07 debian kernel: hde: no response (status = 0xd0)
Jul 13 16:02:42 debian kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
Jul 13 16:02:42 debian kernel: ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Jul 13 16:03:18 debian kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
Jul 13 16:03:18 debian kernel: ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Jul 13 16:03:47 debian kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...and so on...

How can I fdisk the card if the need, assuming I can't fix what's wrong? I'm really at odds end here, have got this 16gb card and no way that I can think of how to use it.

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General Discussion / How To Redial Automatically When Pppd Drops Line

« on: June 03, 2007, 10:10:23 am »

This is not a Z specific question, but a desktop linux thing too...

I often let stuff download overnight on a slow connection, inevitably to find out that pppd dropped the carrier after an hour let's say and the rest of the night has been wasted...

How can check that the line hasn't been dropped, via ping or so, and if it has been, then have the script automatically redial via pon?

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General Discussion / Potrable Harddrive With The Z

« on: May 16, 2007, 07:48:17 am »

Does anyone use a portable harddrive with the Z that doesn't require external power, when used with the Z.

It's been discussed before, the consensus being basically, that the Z delivers just enough power for smaller devices, but usually not enough for a harddisk, though there could be ones which work.

So far however no one's identified such a drive explicitly, if I'm not wrong.

Is there a harddisk like that? I'd like to purchase it, but from the ones I've used so far, none would power on with just the current from the Z.

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Using A Utf-8 Locale In Ångström

« on: April 16, 2007, 08:57:18 am »

I've tried posting this to the Ångström devel mailing list, but seems it's not going through.

Maybe somebody here would have an idea:

Hi:

I would like to use a UTF-8 locale in Ångström because one of the apps I want
to use needs it.

I've installed locale-base-ja-jp binutils-locale-ja bison-locale-ja
coreutils-locale-ja diffutils-locale-ja galculator-locale-ja gawk-locale-ja
gcalctool-locale-ja gcc-locale-ja gconf-dbus-locale-ja gdb-locale-ja
gettext-locale-ja gftp-locale-ja glibc-locale-ja gpdf-locale-ja grep-locale-ja
gtk+-locale-ja libatk-1.0-locale-ja libglib-2.0-locale-ja make-locale-ja
mc-locale-ja sed-locale-ja tar-locale-ja wget-locale-ja glibc-gconv-euc-jp
glibc-gconv-euc-jp-ms glibc-gconv-iso-2022-jp glibc-gconv-unicode
glibc-charmap-euc-jp-ms glibc-utils locale-base-ja-jp-euc-jp util-linux-locale-ja

which were exactly the packages I had installed under OZ 3.4.5.1 in order for
everything to work perfectly.

However now, if I set LANG=ja_JP.utf-8 and for instance just run gpe-conf time
the app comes up only as a white box and then gets stuck, doesn't run. However
there is no complaints at the command prompt.

So I'm guessing it reads the localedata and then it gets stuck somehow.

Do I need to regenerate the locale on the Z natively, and would this fix it?

Or what could be the problem?

Thank you.

ShiroiKuma

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Building Openoffice.org 2.0.3 Natively

« on: April 11, 2007, 11:24:36 am »

I'm referring to Koen's guide on building OpenOffice.org 2.0.3.

Got as fas as when he mentions unbreaking the set_soenv, where the make fails with "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation..."

I don't know how to unbreak it. Has anyone compiled OpenOffice 2.0.3 successfully on the Zaurus? How do I unbreak it and proceed?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Bluetooth Works On Ångström

« on: April 08, 2007, 01:01:38 pm »

I've spent many days trying to get bluetooth to work under Ångström with an Anycom card that worked under OZ. Figured it out finally.

Bluetooth works under Ångström

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Gcc -o4 Flag

« on: March 27, 2007, 02:04:42 pm »

I'm playing around with optimizing compiled packages to run fine on Ångström, but the question isn't really Ångström-specific.

I've seen on Meanie's blog on building Firefox natively that he used the -O4 option in CFLAGS.

I've looked but not found anything substantive on this flag. One Finnish page on the web states that if -On has n higher than 3, then the flag is automatically interpreted as -O3. Is this so? Or is there a difference between these?

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Native Gcc-4.1.2 For 3.5.4.1

« on: March 21, 2007, 08:58:44 am »

Some time ago I incquired about gcc-4.1.1 for native development. There were no responses, though in some other thread Koen mentioned that he has native gcc-4.1.xxx or something compiled.

I'd like to use gcc-4.1.2 natively on the Z (spitz on 3.5.4.1) but can't for heaven's sake get it built in Openembedded. Has someone built it? If so, I'd appreciate if I could have it. Thanks a lot in advance.