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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Pdaxrom Development

« on: June 17, 2017, 06:22:00 am »

I'm considering spinning up this distro again as a side project. How many folks are still active in the Zaurus community?

Late

I am still around! I have a SL-C1000 with Cacko, and I would love to try something else. Alas, I cannot find pdaxrom anywhere! Any pointers are appreciated...

Pedro

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For Sale / Wanted / Anyone Want An Old Zaurus?

« on: March 10, 2010, 02:25:55 pm »

Well, I'm cleaning out the gadgetry and trying to get rid of some of the stuff that I just don't have time for anymore.

That being said, I've got one SL5500 and three SL5600 PDAs that need a new home. Of the SL5600s, there are two PXA255s and one PXA250. I picked these up from a bulk purchase, so they are all well used, but in working condition. They come with battery, but nothing else. I think I restored them to factory default a while back, but honestly I would recommend giving them a fresh start when you get them. Battery life is probably going to be weak, and it doesn't come with a stylus, but you can't beat free. All that I'm asking for is the cost of shipping. I would prefer to ship in the CONUS, but I don't mind shipping internationally if people are willing to pay for it.

I would be interested in one of the 5600's.

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Off Topic forum / What Program Do People Want To See Coded?

« on: September 28, 2009, 10:11:24 pm »

How about a Portabase port to GTK/Zubuntu?

Also agreed on the calendar with Google updating capability...

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Ubuntu / Unresolved Inheritance Operation

« on: September 18, 2009, 04:56:51 pm »

I guess this is not a must anymore, as the libxt6 has been updated.
I installed Zubuntu 1 a couple of days ago. and had tha same problem. I just did the apt-get update and then reinstalled libxt6, and that fixed the problem.

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu On A 4gb Transcend Sd Card

« on: September 18, 2009, 04:53:56 pm »

I had a similar problem with a 2GB sd card while installing Zubuntu 1. I created a 1GB partition formatted as ext3 and it would not be recognized at boot time.
I re formatted the partition to ext2, and voila, it was back in the boot menu.
Looks like we're stuck with ext2 here.

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1 Upgraded To Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Armel

« on: September 10, 2009, 08:58:01 pm »

I installed Zubuntu v1 but it is slow with LXDE, so I tried this filesystem. IceWM is great, very fast! Now I will play with it, gotta set up wifi.

Update:

OK, got wifi working.

Packages Working:
sqlite3 & sqlitebrowser
zim
xournal
file-roller
rgbpaint
wavemon
abiword
gnumeric
homebank
aqualung (could not get mplayer, this one works great)
system-info
zsafe
fbreader
evince
gnome-dictionary
gnome-terminal
gnome-log-viewer
gnome-games
zenity
dillo (midori was kinda slow)
units
imagemagick
joe
sc
weather-util

Problems
Kdepimpi: runs, but kapi complains about not finding the libraries (which I moved from /opt/kdepimpi to /usr/lib, following cortez's instructions), kopi could import ics file but kapi cannot import vcf file (complains about not having resource)
Several packages using python-gtk, complaining that they cannot import gtk, gobject modules or other... (gnome-sudoku, glchess, wifi radar, etc.)
Fltk-sudoku: cannot resize the window.

Zubuntu is great! It IS making me forget Cacko!

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Asus Eee PC / Any Eee Pc Owners Here?

« on: May 09, 2009, 11:25:54 pm »

I have a 4G surf, running Eeebuntu NBR 2.0, and it's a great little machine. Now it did not replace my Zaurus C1000, yet it has its own function in my computing needs. I am planning to replace the 4G with a 1000HA (10" screen, 1GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, Win XP [yuck, will install Ubuntu NBR on it])

Update:

Sold the EeePC 4G Surf. Got the EeePC 1000HA, and the 10 inch screen is great! Installed Ubuntu 9.04 on it, dual boot with Windoze (need it for some work related stuff)

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Ubuntu / Suspend Cacko With Zubuntu Dual Boot

« on: April 04, 2009, 10:05:19 pm »

I recently got mutlitboot to work with Cortez's filesystem (running off SD) and Cacko (NAND)!

Though this was a big accomplishment for me, I noticed that while running Cacko, I cannot fully suspend my Z.  Instead, the screen goes blank while the backlight remains on.  This only happens when running Cacko.  Suspend in Zubuntu works perfectly.  Is this one of the results of dualbooting, or it is possible to fix this?

Hi Mjiba

I also have Zubuntu in SD and Cacko in NAND. Everything works OK. Now, from time to time, not very often, whet I suspend my Akita through the menu, it freezes and does not suspend, so I have to reset it. It maybe happens once out of twenty times. So far it has not happened when I use the on/off button.
I have not found the reason yet.

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Ubuntu / Installing Cacko On Sd Partition

« on: March 13, 2009, 10:08:36 pm »

Can someone decipher this and give a step by step guide?  Exact terminal commands with example /dev/sdc2 etc would be help.

Anyone with info on the above?  Please help!  Many thanks!

Check this topic to see what I did to have Cacko 1.23 and Zubuntu dual booting.

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Spain / Aun Queda Vida

« on: February 28, 2009, 07:54:37 pm »

Aquí otro:

En mi caso con una Zaurus c760. Aunque últimamente no le he dado mucho uso.

Por cierto, tengo que ponerme al día con eso del Zubuntu, ahora mismo estoy con Cacko, pero no estaría de más probar.

Tengo Cacko Y Zubuntu en mi C1000, dual-boot! Lo mejor de dos mundos!

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs: Zaurus 3200

« on: February 03, 2009, 09:33:14 pm »

200 USD + shipping OBO. I need this gone asap.

Hi

Is it still for sale? Email ppyo at yahoo dot com

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Ubuntu / Running Zubuntu From Internal Memory

« on: January 26, 2009, 12:54:45 am »

ppyo, you are the only one who reported successfully booting Cacko (or Sharp) using cortez's mutliboot kernel (internal flash or SD card) and it's not clear what's the magic. I was asking about the Katastrophe kernel to find out whether it was relevant for the successful boot.

I don't really know if the Katastrophos kernel is vital. I did not try with Cacko's original kernel, as  I was going to use it  as last resort...)
I don't know if it is relevant, but my SD card is a 2GB SD card (not SDHC), and all three partitions are ext2.
I did all the flashing from CF.
Hmpf... what else, what else?...
I can't think of anything else...
Sorry guys. But I'll try to answer all your questions to the best of my (very limited) ability.
Cheers!

Hi ppyo,

your configuration is very near to my preferred setup i wish to have for my first trial of zubuntu.
I would like to have a save boot option if SD fails, so optimum is cacko totally bootable without SD.
Why - in the past SD card have failed in my zaurus - if they would again the Z would be useless until i have a new SD containing the needed partitions.
I don't understand why you still need a SD partition for cacko - you write you are booting cacko from internal flash?

Is the safe SD less boot still possible with your setup?

George

I am booting Cacko from SD because that's the only way to have multiboot (Zubuntu, Cacko, other?). I am booting the Cacko kernel from SD card but the filesystem is in internal flash. I also use the SD card for extra storage.
SD cards will eventually fail. I am backing mine up about once a week. The safe way would be to have a backup SD card.

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Ubuntu / Running Zubuntu From Internal Memory

« on: January 24, 2009, 03:15:37 pm »

ppyo, you are the only one who reported successfully booting Cacko (or Sharp) using cortez's mutliboot kernel (internal flash or SD card) and it's not clear what's the magic. I was asking about the Katastrophe kernel to find out whether it was relevant for the successful boot.

I don't really know if the Katastrophos kernel is vital. I did not try with Cacko's original kernel, as  I was going to use it  as last resort...)
I don't know if it is relevant, but my SD card is a 2GB SD card (not SDHC), and all three partitions are ext2.
I did all the flashing from CF.
Hmpf... what else, what else?...
I can't think of anything else...
Sorry guys. But I'll try to answer all your questions to the best of my (very limited) ability.
Cheers!

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Ubuntu / Running Zubuntu From Internal Memory

« on: January 24, 2009, 01:41:34 pm »

@ppyo: So it is hereby confirmed that the Akita bootkernel shows a kernel image in NAND, am I correct?
@Jon_J: On my SL-C3100 the kernel image in NAND also shows up in the bootmenu. Since you report that in your case cacko (in NAND) isn't shown, I wonder if your using the latest kernel (MD5: 7bf1d0f9c119892cb4cfd4526a880f5e). Could you check that?

If someone could confirm this for C7x0 also, this would be great. I just want to make sure that the different kernels are now all working fine. I tend to lose track sometimes  

Cheers,
cortez

Hi all

Finally got some time to work on my Z again.
I can happily report that as of today I have Zubuntu and Cacko running in my C1000! Cacko is running from internal flash!
I had to do a completely fresh reinstall of Cacko:
First, flash Cacko 1.23 original
Then flash Katastrophos kernel with sd modules (>1GB)
Finally, flash Cortez' kernel.
Ta daaaa!!!  
*dances happily*

I might have to copy the whole thing to a 4GB sd card. 2GB is a little tight with 1 GB for Zubuntu, 450MB for Cacko (plus internal flash), and 420MB for a future distro (pdaXrom?). Or I might just turn the latter into a common /home partition.

On the Zubuntu side I am trying to deal with a few minor issues (lxlauncher is not stable, installed Ka/Pi, but will not sound alarms, etc...)
Again many, many thanks to Cortez for such an uber-cool achievement!!!

Gotta change signature to add Zubuntu!!!  

ppyo,  could you give a few more details as to how you were successful?  Which Katastrophos kernal did you use?  What Zimage is in your Cacko partition.  I just tried this on my C1000 and ended up with a kernal panic when trying to boot cacko.

Ok, here we go, besides what I posted above:

Katastrophos kernel: http://katastrophos.net/zaurus/kernels/current
I used the one for Akita, of course. I like it because it has a nice sound driver. You may get good results with Tetsu's kernel too, but I have not tried Tetsu's. This is the zImage I used.

In your Cacko partition in the SD card you MUST have a boot directory containing the kernel file (ZImage), an Image.nfo text file (short distro description that will be used by the boot menu), and a kernel-cmdline text file.
My kernel-cmdline file looks like this:

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']console=ttyS0 root=/dev/mtdblock2 mtdparts=sharpsl-nand:7168k@0k(smf),32768k@7168k(root),-(home) jffs2_orphaned_inodes=delete EQUIPMENT=0 LOGOLANG=1 DEFYEAR=2006 LOGO=1 LAUNCH=q[/div]

After Cacko booted successfully for the first time I installed the modules that enable Cacko to work with SD cards greater than 1GB.
You must change fstab so Cacko will mount the correct SD partition as /mnt/card. Unchanged, it mounted the Zubuntu partition as it is the first one on my SD card.

I hope this covers all that you need. Good luck!

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Ubuntu / Running Zubuntu From Internal Memory

« on: January 24, 2009, 10:30:09 am »

What is the use of  the Katastrophos kernel if Cacko is running from internal flash? If all it adds is SD support, shouldn't Cacko boot without it?

I use the Katastrophos kernel because it has a nicer sound driver, you don't HAVE to use it. What matters is that the kernel you're using has to have support for SD cards bigger than 1GB. 1GB is simply way too small if you want to have two or more distros available in your Z.
Cheers!