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Software / Zaurus Kdepimpi And N810 - The Poor And Rich?
« on: February 12, 2010, 02:53:43 pm »
As an owner of three zauri (SL-C1000, SlC3200_Microdrive, SLC3200_CFCARD) and a Nokia N810 ive tested the kdepimpi application with the focus on speed.

The conditions:

- mycalendar.ics (with over 1.700! entries which were ported earlier from a palm)
- no virtual memory, noswap at all
- Sharp SL-C1000 with the latest cacko and kdepipmpi
- Sharp SL-C3200 with the latest yonggun debian eabi and kdepimpi
- Sharp SL-C3200 with pdaxii13 and kdepimpi
- Nokia N810 with os2008 and the beta version of kdepimpi


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So, here are my surprising results:

Loading time for the korganizer application and the 1.700 entries:

- Cacko 140 seconds
- Debian eabi 110 seconds
- Pdaxii13 0 seconds - crash -
- OS2008 31 seconds


So, all machines own a 400 MHz processor and the display is almost the same!

i am absolutely no friend of nokia (see: closing company in germany) but there must be a difference!!!

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Debian / Another Mplayer Question
« on: October 23, 2009, 05:04:06 am »
In the past i was happy seeing the old cacko distro beeing able to play little movies with sound in fullscreen very fast. So, the only thing i had to do was to convert each movie to a

320x240 Pixel Xvid 150 KBit/s and a 20 fps.

In debian, is there a possibility to use theses movies and play them as fast as in cacko? I tried mplayer with some additional options like framedrop, but with no luck.
Any success-strory about playing those movies in debian?

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Debian / Debian Screws Apt, What Am I Doing Wrong?
« on: September 10, 2009, 08:52:28 am »
Quote from: arzgi
My personal experience, using stable debian is, that there never has been any dependency problem. And actually
these dependency problems were just result of local installation errors. As I said, running post init script manually
did not cause any error.

Yes, you are a lucky man (if you donĀ“t need those wicd, aircrack-ng, ettercap-ng, ifconfig, hostapd, xmms1, yelp, iceweasel, kexec)
 

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Debian / Debian Screws Apt, What Am I Doing Wrong?
« on: September 08, 2009, 04:14:53 pm »
Quote from: arzgi
I tried Zdevil's debian-rootfs (eabi) first. Installed fine to my SL-C3100,
but soon after installing a few debs from official mirror, dependency
problems made apt so broken that I could not install anything more.
First time ever I used sid, I've been running stable Debians on my
desktop pc's for years. I thought, it was just unstable sid.

So tried titchy, then oabi kernels, but they all led to the same
result. Errors that apt gives all usually something like "chown:changing
ownership of file n\465\235 [or any arbitary x\nnn\nnn]: No such file
or directory". Funny thing is, when I execute post-install script of
problematic .deb line by line, works then like it should.

Thought microdrive was dying, changed to cf-card. Did not help.
Next thought, Z's "hd-driver-chip" is corrupted, Bought another
used SL-C3100, but I'm still where I started.

I really cant get it, what causes this? Any hint appreciated.

My personal experience in using the actual debian repositories is, that they update their debs too often without controlling the dependencies. Another problem ist, that they daywise kick out the security holes and simply delete applications.
I may be wrong but my solution for avoiding any dependency and installing problems is not to use the actual mirror than better to use only one of the timefixed debian snapshot repository. Mine is dated to April 2008.

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Debian / Suddenly Dualboot Not Work.
« on: September 02, 2009, 05:39:00 am »
Quote from: AltairTK
I have a Zaurus C1000 with Andromeda/Debian Filesystem (kernel 2.6.24.4-yonggun) in a SD Card 2 Gb and Cacko 1.23 on NAND. Bootloader: Sharp.
I have updated Andromeda by aptitude procedure 2 days ago.
After update kexec (kexec-tools version 2.0.0 armel) not load kernel image of cacko; Error message: "Unsupported machine type: armv5tel".
But until 3 days ago all works perfectly...
I have tried to download manually the packet "http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kexec-tools/kexec-tools_2.0.0-1_armel.deb" and --force-overwrite the (same) version installed with dpkg, but not work too.....
What i can see to resolv?

Thanks !!!

dpkg -i kexec_tools_20080227_1_armel.deb

Had the same problem after an apt-get upgrade - using the original kexec from the zdevils post then worked for me.

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Debian / Auto Suspend
« on: August 19, 2009, 08:53:09 am »
Quote from: Capn_Fish
I think xset has a setting for that.

Thank you capn. it works!

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Debian / Auto Suspend
« on: August 18, 2009, 07:46:07 am »
Quote from: gojira
depends what's doing the auto-suspend.  if it's sleepd (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25223) you can use sleepctl

No sleepd, no gnome-power-manager. Zaurusd, ipaq-sleep removed. Now i am hesitating to uninstall apm/apmd.

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Debian / Touchscreen Click Sound?
« on: August 18, 2009, 07:20:15 am »
Is there has a solution for a touchscreen clicksound within debian eabi?

Thank you.

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Debian / Auto Suspend
« on: August 18, 2009, 05:43:33 am »
I realised, that some packages will stop working after the zaurus suspends. Especially those, who use the usb-port.

Does anyone know how to temporarily disable / enable  the auto-suspend function on debian eabi?

Thank you.

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Debian / Sound Input And Output And Debian Eabi
« on: February 26, 2009, 01:08:33 pm »
Quote from: radiochickenwax
Found a 2.5mm -> 3.5mm plug laying around tonight.  Recording worked okay by default, but I made the mistake of trying to "make it better", and broke the recording functionality with alsamixer.  

Took me about an hour or so to get it back, and this page was one of the first to show up in my google search.  For the record, as of now, I couldn't really find anything helpful on google, so I thought I'd post my settings below.

I'm using sox/rec/play  for recording through a cell-phone microphone/headset.  By default debian's precompiled "sox" won't record direct to mp3 I don't think... so I've started to rebuild that.  ./configure shows that it can't find the "lame mp3 writer"... oh well, that's off-topic.


The alsamixer-controls:

Headphone  100  (just headphone volume, doesn't matter)
Headphone Playback ZC (00)
Bass0 <--------> 100 (doesn't matter)
Bass Boost (Adaptive Boost)
Bass Filter (200Hz)
Treble 100
Treble Cut-off (4kHz)
PCM 100
Mic Boost 100
Mono 100
Mono Mixer Left (0ff)
Mono Mixer Left Bypass (Off)
Mono Mixer Right Bypass (Off)
Mono Mixer Right Playback Switch (Off)
Mono Playback ZC (Off)
Playback 6dB Attenuate (Off)
Playback De-emphasis (44,1kHz)
Playback Invert (off)
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Capture 100 [[ NEEDS TO BE ENABLED WITH SPACE BAR TO RECORD ]]
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Capture 6dB Attenuate (Off)
Capture Polarity (Normal)
Capture ZC (Off)
3D 100
3D Lower Cut-off (200Hz)
3D Mode (Capture, Playback)
3D Upper Cut-off (1,5kHz, 2,2kHz)
ALC Capture Attack Time 60
ALC Capture Decay Time 60
ALC Capture Function (Off)
ALC Capture Hold Time 100
ALC Capture MAX 100
ALC Capture NG (on)
ALC Capture NG Threshold 90
ALC Capture NG Type (2,2kHz)
ALC Capture Target 100
ALC Capture ZC (On)
Bypass Left 100
Bypass Mono 100
Bypass Right 100
Differential Mux (Line1)
===================
Jack Function (Headset)    [[ line/mic don't work for cell-phone headset ]]
===================
Left ADC 100
Left ADC Mux (Stereo)
Left Line Mux (Line 1)
Left Mixer (on)
Left Mixer Left Bypass (off)
Left Mixer Right Bypass (off)
Left Mixer Right Playback Switch (off)
Left PGA Mux (Line 1)
Out3 Mux (ROUT1)
Right ADC 90
Right ADC Mux (Stereo)
Right Line Mux (Line 1)
Right Mixer (on)
Right Mixer Left Bypass (Off)
Right Mixer Left Playback Switch (off)
Right Mixer Right Bypass (off)
Right PGA Mux (Line 1)
Right Speaker Playback invert (off)
Speaker   100
Speaker Function (Off)  [ doesn't need to be ]
Speaker Playback ZC (on)
ZC Timeout (on)


I'm using "rec -r 24k -c 1 filename.aiff"  to record an aiff sampled at 24kHz.  The default of 8kHz is really poor quality haven't tried higher sample rates, 'cause I don't really need them yet.

It's late at night, so I could be wrong, but I think some of those switches will disable the recording; the bypasses can enable monitoring, but not sure if that works whilst recording.  I didn't get the latter to work.

This is pretty much the first time I've managed to record audio since I was using the sharp rom, and this works a lot better.

Thank you, radiochickenwax

i tested your settings and had no problems recording voices.
Somehow it seems, that there might be a frequency-shift in the recordings.

Anyway i also tested another amateur-radio software called "gmfsk" over a mircophone/headphone.
It looks like that debian-eabi has performance-problems decoding the alsa-sound.
In the monitoring window all processes appear delayed.

So it seems, that there might be a disharmony between the sound-hardware and the system or the graphic.
A 400Mhz processor should not have any problems decoding a simple 50 baud rtty signal!

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Updated 03-04-2009:

I also tested fldigi, hamfax, acfax, gmfsk:
This slow processor and the lack of ram is the reason for the problems decoding hamradio-sounds.

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Debian / Uboot Now A Submarine?
« on: February 26, 2009, 05:22:51 am »
I am looking for a solution to dualboot my

- debian eabi with the  2.6.23.9 kernel and
- Cacko 1.23


with the help of uboot!!

(Reason: had problems with the 2.6.24.4-kernel, so i went back to 2.6.23.9 and uboot procedure)

Any expert, or hopeless?

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Debian / Wireless Blacklisted In 2.6.24.4?
« on: December 10, 2008, 06:18:46 am »
Quote from: scottlfa
I found the new kernel with 2.6.24.4 modules seems to panic my system too, stepping back to the older 2.6.24-4 modules did just fine, no panics.  For me the issue was with the new injected features in the 2.6.24.4 kernel and modules.  Perhaps this is your issue too?
Hope this helps.

The old 2.6.24.4 modules work fine, but the main problem is, that i need the iptables-modules.
So, now i am using the 2.6.23.9 modules - which unfortuately need uboot (not-dualbooting).  

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Sharp ROMs / Crypting And Decrypting
« on: November 25, 2008, 10:56:25 am »
Quote from: aki
Quote from: maemorandum
Is there any application in cacko to password-encrypt and decrypt files?
Or - alternative -, to block others from starting special Programs?
The only applications i found are for text-encryption.

I would like to see a solution, which protects special documents without the need to protect the whole machine.

Anyone knows more?

Give ccrypt a try.  There's an ARM binary on the site, but it's an older version.  I compiled the latest version myself and it works well on the SL-6000 with Sharp ROM v1.12 (binary is attached below, just move it to a directory on your path as ccrypt (no .txt)).  Ccrypt works by encrypting files and directories, so it's not designed to transparently encrypted a disk volume.  A big plus for ccrypt is that it is available for lots of OSs/HW -- you can sync your files securely with whatever OS you like and decrypt them on the remote system.

Works, thank you, aki!
Unfortunately i use the files very often, so i always would have to use the qkonsole, which could be quite complicated and critical for mistyping.

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Sharp ROMs / Crypting And Decrypting
« on: November 23, 2008, 01:03:33 pm »
Is there any application in cacko to password-encrypt and decrypt files?
Or - alternative -, to block others from starting special Programs?
The only applications i found are for text-encryption.

I would like to see a solution, which protects special documents without the need to protect the whole machine.

Anyone knows more?

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Debian / Kexec From Debian To Sharprom, Really Working How-to!
« on: November 18, 2008, 08:12:29 am »
Quote from: xamindar
Did you recheck your step 3 after flashing cacko?  It might be different so you would need to recompile a new kernel.

Thank you, xamindar. I forgot to use the cacko-specific parameters. Now, finally, it works!

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