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SIMpad forum / New Stable Angstrom Simpad Images Available (including Opie)

« on: October 09, 2008, 01:55:04 pm »

Yes, it is now

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing

« on: October 09, 2008, 01:54:16 pm »

It is good to see the feed making progress. The success of any distro has to be related to the functionallity that it delivers - i.e. the apps that are available. With relatively little new QT stuff being written it seems a shame not to port the old ones.

It's all a matter of someone spending the time to test packages, fix issues that come up and perform the necessary tasks to get the packages into the official feeds. Finally all the work has been done for quite a few packages including some of those that you requested:

konqueror-embedded*
qpe-nmap
ubahnnav
opie-rdesktop
wellenreiter
freenote

Enjoy!

Regarding Xqt, unfortunately there seems to be some issue that causes it to crash on startup on my spitz. I haven't had time to debug this fully yet.

* - For konqueror-embedded to work properly you will need to ipkg update && ipkg upgrade - make sure the new libopie2 and libqpe-opie get installed.

I did not ask for zethereal, I was asking for znesssus http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=480 Together with tbe nessusd server running under pocketworkstation it takes the Z in to a whole new world as a pen test tool!

Actually you did ask for zethereal a few posts above  I haven't had a chance to look into znessus yet.

I would strongly urge you to report any remaining base system issues / missing packages via the appropriate channels (mailing list / bug tracker).

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SIMpad forum / Konqueror Embedded Testing

« on: October 09, 2008, 01:41:22 pm »

FYI this is now in the Angstrom stable feed.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing

« on: September 21, 2008, 03:55:48 pm »

1) I cant load libwww-perl. It is there in the feed browser so I checked my /etc/ipkg.conf file to make sure I had 'base' listed but I found nothing at all listed ! - yet it seems to update OK? Has ipkg.conf  been moved?

libwww-perl is in the 2008.6 feed, not 2007.12. 2008.x hasn't been released yet. It's confusing that it even shows up in the feed browser and I've requested that it be fixed. FYI though the ipkg setup in Angstrom has the feed files in /etc/ipkg/ in separate files rather than all in /etc/ipkg.conf.

2) Anyway, I then tried to install the ipk by specifying the URL. It downloaded but would not install because of lack of liburl-perl. Can we have that in the feed please?

I think you mean liburi-perl - that is in the same feed (according to the feed browser) so you can install this manually. Installing packages from other versions like this won't be officially supported though. If you want to request that liburi-perl and libwww-perl be officially backported to 2007.12 then I would suggest emailing the Angstrom users mailing list (angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org).

3) I got CPAN working and attempted to compile a module. CPAN failed because gzip had an incorrect parameter. I remember this fault on OZ which I fixed by installing gzip from the feed. Can we have gzip in the Angstrom feed please and hopefully this will resolve my problem.

I have made a request for gzip. However, if you want to request further non-Opie packages can I ask that you do it by emailing the list above? Thanks.

Web Browser (Konqueror)
qtrdesktop

qtrdesktop isn't in OE at the moment, would opie-rdesktop work? That should be on its way to the feed once I can confirm it is working. Konqueror-embedded is working and in the queue. Regarding some of your other requests, some updates:

• qpenmapfe - original website is gone so it isn't building at the moment. I have contacted the author of qpe-nmap which is more functional than qpenmapfe, and I have managed to modify it to work nicely on large screen devices. Once we work out where to host it I can put it into OE.
• XQt - being worked on
• ubahnnav - runs but can't find data files due to some path-related issue, probably not too hard to fix but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet.
• wellenreiter - working, in queue for feed
• freenote - working, in queue for feed
• zethereal - it's in the nonworking section of the OE tree which means it's probably quite broken, although I haven't been able to check. In any case wouldn't it be quite out of date by now?
• others - not sure, I'm afraid you'll need to request them via the mailing list as mentioned above

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing

« on: September 17, 2008, 05:02:22 pm »

R18 build?- for information, my spitz is a 3100. The image I linked definitely has a duff key mapping on the arrow keys.

Ah, so your "spitz" is actually a borzoi  Still, more or less the same machine.

You're right, I somehow missed that this problem was not fixed. The issue has a workaround in the mean time, see this message I posted today:
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angst...ber/002199.html

I looked through your list of packages. I'm certainly in a position to get all of the Opie/QPE packages you mentioned in the feeds (and plan to do so if at all possible), as for anything else, if it needs X it'll be predicated on getting Xqt working. It builds OK, but I didn't have much luck using it; then again I have never used it before.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing

« on: September 16, 2008, 06:47:43 pm »

By the way, is it possible to run OZ OPIE packages on Angstrom? There are several oldies such as U-Bahn, driftnet, dsniff and wellenreiter that are not yet in the Angstrom feed that I would like to still use.

No, in order to get Opie into Angstrom files had to be moved around to conform with LSB standards, and unfortunately this means old packages won't work (AFAIK). I'm going to make sure we get more of the OZ packages back into Angstrom this week so it won't be a problem.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing

« on: September 16, 2008, 06:44:05 pm »

I've just flashed from this link, dated 14th Sept 2008 and I still get the dis-oriented arrow keys 8-(

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/relea...-installkit.tgz

Call me old-fashioned, but I get frustrated very quickly when the basics dont work.

Well that's just strange, because AFAIR when I last tried it it worked. I'll try it again tomorrow.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing

« on: September 15, 2008, 07:41:52 pm »

When can we expect to see a bugfix release of Angstrom OPIE for spitz? (sorry, but I dont like the GPE interface). I tested this build but it is too buggy to use but it is fast - congratulations to the devs!

Have you tried the latest -r18 image? If so, what do you mean specifically by buggy? I have a spitz here for testing and it worked pretty well for me, but I'm happy to look into any issues.  

For me, the killer feature would be PERL that supports the installation of CPAN updates. I can get CPAN to run under OZ but every attempt to install a module bombs out.

Not sure I can help you here, I'm not a perl person. Try asking on the angstrom-distro-users mailing list.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing

« on: April 03, 2008, 09:16:22 am »

root@spitz:~$ iwconfig wlan0 key 0x1234567890
Error for wireless request "Set encode" (882A) :
invalid argument "0x1234567890"

This looks like a base system issue rather than Opie, best to ask on the angstrom-distro-users mailing list.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing

« on: April 03, 2008, 09:11:55 am »

welcome! whereabouts?

Thanks! I'm in London staying with friends, will probably find somewhere of my own to live soon.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing

« on: March 08, 2008, 03:50:20 pm »

Development is a little slow at the moment seeing as I'm pretty much the only person working on Opie. I haven't done much on it lately either as I'm moving to the UK in a week's time, but I hope to get back into it soon. There aren't any packages for the browser (Konqueror Embedded) but it probably wouldn't require much more work to produce them.

The rotated directional keys issue is known - Opie and Qt/E are both trying to handle rotating the keys. I really have to sit down and come up with a patch to disable Qt/E's code for this so we can move forward.

Thanks for the feedback

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing

« on: January 13, 2008, 01:52:09 am »

Hi all,

I would like to announce that some testing images of the Angstrom Linux distribution containing the Opie user environment version 1.2.3 are now available. For most devices, this is the first time Opie 1.2.3 has been available in a distribution in any form, and once testing and debugging has finished we hope that this will give access to Opie to more users.

If you have one of the following listed devices, we would love to hear feedback on how well it works for you:

• Zaurus SL-5500
• Zaurus SL-5600
• Zaurus SL-C1000
• Zaurus SL-C3000
• Zaurus SL-C7x0
• Zaurus SL-6000
• iPAQ h2200 series
• iPAQ h3900 series
• iPAQ h4000 series
• iPAQ h5000 series
• iPAQ hx4700
• Motorola A780
• HTC Universal
• Siemens Simpad (see note [1])

The central point for information is the following wiki page:

  http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/AngstromOpieTesting

From there you can find information on how to download and run an image on your device as well as some known issues.

Opie is now on the path to becoming a supported choice of environment within Angstrom, and we expect the testing period to last for at least a month, during which time we will be collecting information and fixing serious bugs where they are found.

We welcome all feedback, so if you can, please try one of the images and send your reports to .

Thanks,
Paul

[1] There is an image available for the Siemens Simpad, but there is a bug preventing Opie from starting on this device - some help debugging this problem would be welcome (see http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3681 for details).

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Opie For Mips

« on: August 01, 2007, 09:18:13 pm »

I'm guessing that one of the applets that is being loaded is causing the crash. I would suggest deleting/moving the applet .so files out of the way until it starts to work.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opera7.55 For Oz/opie 3.5.4-rc

« on: August 01, 2007, 09:04:31 pm »

Sounds like Opie's future is bleak then, unless another browser can be developed for it.

FYI, this is being worked on. See here:

http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi...rorEmbedded2007
http://marex-hnd.blogspot.com/2007/07/toda...hacking_20.html

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / A Home For The Familiar People?

« on: March 25, 2005, 09:04:08 pm »

Is this still happening?