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General Discussion / 1gb sd help

« on: October 26, 2004, 02:44:47 pm »

I've used mediaplayer before but I was wondering if it was because the file was so big ,593.5MB, or if I should do something with the sd card ?

Mediaplayer doesn't seem to play movies at 640x480 very quickly if you enable fullscreen scaling.  I figure it makes more sense to feed it a 320x240 movie and run Mediaplayer in the lower resolution mode by turning magnification on.  It sounds like it's already on, because you're already seeing a "Please wait..." message as it changes video modes.

I'd try playing small movies from your card.  If that works, maybe it is due to filesize (is it scanning the file to compute time?  is the movie encoded with an index for searching?).  If possible, try encoding the movie differently and see if that helps.  If that doesn't work, try playing small movies from internal flash.

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General Discussion / Current State of 6000L Support

« on: October 18, 2004, 11:44:04 am »

Afaik that one has no WiFi. The 6000W has. If no wireless anyway, I'd better pick the clamshell one. The 6000 is 15 cm long  

The 6000L (from Amazon) has WiFi but no Bluetooth.  The 6000W has WiFi and Bluetooth (only available in Japan).  The 6000N has neither.

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General Discussion / Complete Zaurus Noob

« on: October 17, 2004, 09:55:46 pm »

Are there any applications for syncing pop mail to thunderbird (mbox format )?  If not, I'll write one as I would definitly need that as well.

If you run Thunderbird on the Zaurus, I don't know why you'd need to sync it.  Just pop your mail off your server normally.  If you want to just synchronize a mailbox without regard to the mail client, you can use something like fetchmail to retrieve the mail from a POP server and store it to an mbox which Thunderbird or any other MUA (mail user-agent) can read.

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6000 - Tosa / Flashing 6000L onto a 6000W

« on: October 16, 2004, 11:07:29 pm »

Thanks.  I agree that it doesn't look like there are L/W/N specific ROMs.  Bluetooth doesn't work out-of-the-box under the English ROM, but maybe the English ROM is missing the drivers but does have Bluetooth-aware applications.  In that case, if I slap in the Bluetooth drivers, it could "just work".

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General Discussion / Rio Carbon MP3 (5 GB Seagate)

« on: October 16, 2004, 10:28:21 pm »

I bought a pair of Seagate 5gb CF microdrives on eBay for $250/each and they work fine in my 6000s.

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General Discussion / Current State of 6000L Support

« on: October 16, 2004, 09:42:59 pm »

I have a 6000L and a 6000W and am in the same boat when it comes to support.  I don't see a whole lot available right now, but I expect the ROMs to start working within the next couple months.  I will probably get involved in ROM development and application porting once I get a chance to build a development environment.  In short, don't worry about it; especially since the 6000's are now available cheap, more folks will start picking them up and hacking.

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6000 - Tosa / Flashing 6000L onto a 6000W

« on: October 13, 2004, 10:37:55 pm »

I had to edit the updater.pro file and change the top-most comment of 'SL-6L' to 'SL-6W' so that the updater launched from a reset+D+P would not complain.  Other than that, it was painless.

If anyone has the flash files for a 6000W, I'd appreciate a link.  I'd like to have the option of flashing back to the Japanese 6000W for testing my Bluetooth periodically to make sure it works while I try to get it going under an English ROM.

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Software / PDF viewer recommendations?

« on: October 04, 2004, 09:36:07 pm »

Phenomenal post, thank you for the contribution!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.5.1 - Mount / on sd card?

« on: October 02, 2004, 08:07:31 pm »

awaldram: can you detail up, step by step how you create new /proc and link it to the /mnt/root/proc ?

Since /proc is a virtual filesystem, you can just

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mount -t proc proc /some/mount/point
Another way to do this is to make a binding between the filesystem and the new mount point:

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mount -t proc -o bind /proc /some/mount/point
Either one of these is better than using a symbolic link.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / irda dial-up (any oz release)

« on: September 30, 2004, 11:44:27 pm »

Anyone have any ideas on how I can create files within /proc/sys/net/irda/ ?

Proc is a virtual filesystem designed to expose kernel data and functions to processes via a filesystem protocol.  You generally can't create files in /proc because the subdirectories there represent features of the kernel; individual drivers in the kernel create representational directories and/or files which serve to provide information to the user (eg. /proc/cpuinfo) or allow the user to change runtime variables in kernelspace, (eg.  your min_tx_turn_time tweak).  Thus, creating a new file or directory in a virtual filesystem is impossible because (again) the files and directories there represent the runtime environment of the kernel and you shouldn't expect to be able to add kernel features (eg. an IrDA driver) by simply making changes to a filesystem (eg. mkdir /proc/sys/net/irda).

Hope this helps; it can be a difficult concept to get used to.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / ssh password

« on: September 26, 2004, 09:09:32 pm »

If you Google 'OpenSSH Windows' you'll find a port of openssh for Windows that will solve some of these problems and provide ssh and scp commands that function identically to their Unix counterparts.

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6000 - Tosa / Who has a 6000?

« on: September 23, 2004, 03:06:13 pm »

I have a 6000L from Amazon and am waiting for a 6000W from Japan.  I'm a developer attracted to the 6000 by the screen and the promise of having a USB host as well as WiFi/Bluetooth on-board.  I hope to contribute significant experience with Linux and code; it does look like the 6000-series is getting a bit overlooked in the software arena.