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Mac Issues / Still Any Mac&zaurus Users/developers There?

« on: May 12, 2007, 01:47:37 pm »

I admit, most of the time my Zaurus is not doing much. But basically this is because I have not found a good/reliabke way to sync (I would not care if it is complicated or would involve e.g. the commandline). A pitty ZmacSync is being dropped. But probably it is a chicken and egg problem.  

While I was using a Linux laptop I synced almost daily and I used my Zaurus a lot more. A pitty

Andrew

Hi,

it is two months since the last post in this forum so I wonder if there is still any Zaurus user out there who works with a Mac? Or Mac user who works with a Zaurus?

Or is your Zaurus collecting dust while you are waiting for the iPhone (to be opened to 3rd party applications)?

-- hns

Note on ZMacSync: we have moved further development to idle mode since it looked no more reasonable given the recently low interest and the (wrong?) announcement that the Zaurus goes out of production.
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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom.org Down?

« on: January 16, 2007, 10:48:13 am »

Is it just me or are others too having problems reaching www.pdaxrom.org??

I tried from various locations (work, home) and could not connect

Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Irda Not Working In Cacko 1.23

« on: February 24, 2006, 11:13:31 am »

Ok,

so I found the solution: I had installed the dummy-dev package, which (for the Cxxx) at least creates a dummy network so that NetFront does not ask you if you want to start a network connection. Looking at the package content, it installs a kernel module (which does not work, since the C3100 uses a 2.4.20 kernel) and somehow interferes with the IR interface. Once I deinstalled it, everything started working again.

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Sharp ROMs / Irda Not Working In Cacko 1.23

« on: February 23, 2006, 06:25:45 pm »

Hi,

I am having no success in trying to use IRDA on my C3100 under Cacko 1.23. With my "old" C760 with cacko 1.22b beaming files (addresses, meetings) works fine. Is anyone else having this problem?

Has anything changed concerning with IR from 1.22 to 1.23? Or perhaps since the hardware is different, a different /etc/irda.conf file is necessary?

Any hints welcome

Andrew

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General Discussion / Wlan And Battery Life

« on: November 14, 2005, 06:04:20 pm »

Most likely your battery is almost dead and you need a new replacement one. Get one at amazon for $25 while they are available...
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Unfortunately, Amazon will not ship electronics (and batteries) to Europe. Is there any kind soul that would be willing to buy a few (I am sure there would be more non-US residents interrested) and then ship them?

Still I would like to know. How much online time do you get out of a full battery?

Thanks,

Andrew

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General Discussion / Wlan And Battery Life

« on: November 14, 2005, 05:22:28 am »

So I have a Sl-760 and a Pretec wlan card (Cacko rom). The wlan works fine (even for my WPA enabled setup at home), but the time I get out of being online appears to be very short. At max I can get something like 30 min without the battery running out. Is there any way to improve this?

Do the wlan drivers support any energy saving mode. If so how is this enabled? Bandwidth is not normally the problem. I mainly want to read my mail and surf the web, which is sufficiently fast in most cases. But the battery life is so short being online, I hardly do it without having my power adapter with me, which is a bit odd  

So what do you do to improve the battery life while being online? Do you have similar experiences?


Any  clues welcome,

Andrew

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Linux Applications / Emacs And Clisp Packages

« on: October 05, 2005, 06:40:57 am »

Cool,

I was just going to compile clisp myself. when I discovered your posting. Thanks for the packages.

Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Uploaded Ed And Rlpr To Cacko Package Feed

« on: September 16, 2005, 10:40:02 am »

Hi,

I just uploaded two packages to the Cacko feed upload.

1. ed. ed is the classic Unix line editor. While proably nobody will use it as his/her main editor, it still is useful in scripts (Sources originally from www.gnu.org)

2. rlrp. Rlpr is an implementation of lpr the Unix line printer. It allows you to print to remote printers using the lpr protocol. In contrast to standard lpr you can print directly to a printer queue wihtout having to setup an /etc/printcap file. Thus you can do things like

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rlpr -Pqueue@remote.printer.com myfile.txt.

Of course your printer has to understand the file format you are sending, as rlpr does not convert anything. Unfortunately, printing is not a strong point of the Z, but I just learnt that TextMaker, the wordprocessor, allows printing via lpr. So now with rlpr and TextMaker, you should be able to print out your documents.

If you want  to try them now, you can download them from my web page at www.andrew.maier.name/zaurus/



Andrew

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Sharp Large Battery - $24.88 At Amazon.com

« on: September 15, 2005, 08:43:14 am »

"Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S."

Aaaaarrrggghhhh....
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[a href=\"http://www.laptopsforless.com/]Laptops for Less[/url] seem to have them for 29$ and they do ship outside the US. I just ordered 2, but shipping is outrageous at 41$ to Switzerland.

Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Z As A Japanese Learning Aid

« on: September 15, 2005, 08:28:00 am »

Hi there

thanks for all the help. I managed to make my Z able to do Japanese characters. I installed the Japanese Cacko rom on top of my Cacko lite installation and then prceeded following the recipes given in the Japanese Howto.

Since I am not a fan of the lcfont, I looked for a replacement and converted the cyberbit font which has a complete unicode carachter set. Unfortunately this makes is rather large (8,10,12,14,16,20,22 and 24pt gives some 120Mb (ouch)), but that is what I am using as my main font now.

Some apps do not seem to respond to the changing the input method e.g. TextMaker does not respond at all when trying to input kana. It also seems to use other fonts. Anyone got any experience with TextMaker in this respect?

Also theKompany's Editor app does not allow to type any kana

Finally, the terminal app now seems to react to some control sequences (e.g. CTRL-C CTRL-H CTRL-D)  but vim does not seem to react to CTRL-V (which I frequently use) which is a shame. Anyone know any reason for this? The terminal (and thus vi also belong to the set of apps that do not allow any kana/kanji) And since vi is my main editor, I'd love to get it working



Thanks Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Z As A Japanese Learning Aid

« on: September 13, 2005, 04:40:30 am »

If you are comfortable using the Z with Japanese menus (great learning aid ) then you don't really need the Cacko J Rom, otherwise I'd recommend it. You can edit the keyhelper file to give you a Ctrl key as well as having the Kanji key work (the kana/hiragana key isn't rally needed and can be used as the ctrl key)

Well I don't I am ready to see my Z in Japanese, so I probably will flash the Japanese Kernel.

But for for the keyhelper file, do you have more specific instructions?? If I remember, it involves hacking some xml file, but the details seem to be somewhat obscure. Do you have a specific example?

Good studying

Stu
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Thanks,

Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Z As A Japanese Learning Aid

« on: September 12, 2005, 11:30:51 am »

Hi,

this evening I will start toto take Japanese lessons, and I was wondering if and how to use my Sl-760 for this. Does anyone have recommendations on what to install.  In addition I have a few questions, before I dig any deeper:

1) Does it make sense to install the Cacko Japanese ROM? Specifically I read that the ctrl alt mapping is turned off for the Japanese rom, Does that mean I won't have any ctrl keys. I heavily rely on the ctrl key in the terminal app.

2.) I read in the excellent Cacko Japanese Howto (http://my-zaurus.narod.ru/cacko-jp-howto.html) that I can install several different input methods. Are these inputmethods self explanatory, or is there some knowledge necessary and if so where  can I find some docs?

3) What Kana and Kanji training tools are there around. Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Andrew

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Sharp ROMs / Custom Kernel Howto?

« on: May 19, 2005, 05:07:55 pm »

Hi,

I am starting to get adventurous and I have compile a custom kernel, using the cacko 1.22 config file and basically turning on the ipv6 support.

Now I would like to install this Kernel (and its modules) on my Sl-760. How do I do this? I assume it is possible to only install a kernel +modules without having to recreate a new ROM

I googled around a bit and searched this forum, but I did not get any clear answers.


Any help welcome.


Andrew

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Linux Applications / Extending Dev_img With Additional Headers And Libs

« on: March 10, 2005, 04:58:52 am »

Hi,

I am using the dev_img for compiling and packageing some software for my Z. I am very happy with it, since my attempts to crosscompile have never really been very successfull.

Yet I am now facing the problem, that naturally the dev_img cannot contain rverything I need for compiling certain software packages. E.g. openssl and Berkeley DB are missing.

So how do I extend the dev_img in an intelligent way, that is not to unpack the thing and repack it again with my extensions? Or can I simply mount the image rw and add the stuff I want? CRAMfs does not allow you to do this. Is squashfs different?

For the Berkeley DB I simply made a dev ipk and installed it, but this will get annoying over time, so I am sure there should be solution which is more intelligent.

How do other people solve this?


Andrew,
who is close to having a full chain of an imap-based mail solution, using mutt, ssmtp for mail, rlpr and a2ps for printing

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Qt/Qtopia / Stat64 Missing In Dev_img-1.6

« on: February 28, 2005, 05:06:36 am »

Hi,

I feel like I am such an idiot. This morning, after a good nights sleep I (without even having to read your reply) completely understood what was going on. I was obsessed by the fact, that I somehow would have to concatenate a shared and a nonshared library, which seemed to be very bizarre for me.

What I did not know, and what I have leared is that a library can consist of a linker script.

Thank you for you kind explanation.

Andrew

BTW, everything works fine now, I can link and compile software like gnu cpio, gforth, etc