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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Colorgraphic Voyager Vga

« on: September 27, 2006, 04:32:14 pm »

While looking for a way to port to IOData XGA-CF card to OpenBSD, I came across the Colorgraphic Voyager VGA. It seems like a real VGA output for the Zaurus...

So I checked if someone did some work for this on OpenBSD... Lo and behold! This is what I found... in the man pages!

CFXGA Man Page


Anyone has one of those cards and/or more information ?

Using this with a wearable display, and a Twiddler2, and a Socket Mobile Power (which I own and adds approx. 9-10h of usage on my SL-C3000 with a WiFi card plugged-in) would make a nice wearable computer...

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OpenBSD / Upgrading To Faster Cf Card

« on: September 03, 2006, 04:31:36 pm »

Just an additional note, when I opened my Zaurus (SL-C3000), it had the copper foil strap, but it was already unsoldered and disconnected (and no, it was not my fault)! And since the only soldering iron I had when I swaped the card was a ColdHeat Pro ( I was at work, and this iron, excuse my language, sucks balls... ), so I didn't even bother to resolder it.

Right now, it's been running non-stop @ 520 MHz, mounted with noatime and softdep, building ports for over 40 hours, and everything is still running fine...

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OpenBSD / Gps Applications

« on: August 31, 2006, 09:48:39 pm »

If you want to use the gps to map wifi locations found by kistmet then use gpsmap.

Thank you for pointing this out, but IIRC, gpsmap can't show a map in real-time, it only creates the maps after having read the net and gps data from kismet.

My primary use of GPSDrive would be for GPS navigation... having APs automatically add to the map is only for the "show off" factor.

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OpenBSD / Gps Applications

« on: August 31, 2006, 02:02:35 pm »

I've just tested my USB Pharos GPS ( the one that comes with Microsoft Street and Maps, which I had for free... free Microsoft products ?  ) and it works great in OpenBSD... it is a USB to Serial device that gets mapped to /dev/ttyU0. cgps gives me my longitude/latitude/etc., but I did not find a mapping application in the ports. GPSDrive looks promising, and I was wondering if anyone compiled it on their Zaurus ?


It would be fun to do this...

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OpenBSD / Upgrading To Faster Cf Card

« on: August 31, 2006, 01:46:44 pm »

I just ordered a Transcend CF 8GB 120x (they are incredibly cheap), and I intend to replace my MicroDrive with this. I'll post results as soon as I get the card...


EDIT:
I just received the card! And it's already in the Zaurus! Had trouble with the internal CF plastic cover screws, had to disconnect all ribbon cables to be able to apply pressure, and they are hell to reconnect ( at least with my big hands  ).

I am installing OpenBSD 4.0-current on it right now... probably should have copied the OS from the MicroDrive, but a friend asked me how hard it was to install OpenBSD, perfect timing

Everything seems to work right now, and it seems like the same speed. The biggest noticable difference right now (apart from the 4 additional GB of storage space) is that you don't hear/feel the HD turning...

I will do some more tests this weekend...

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OpenBSD / Vga Output

« on: August 31, 2006, 01:43:42 pm »

While looking for a way to port to IOData XGA-CF card to OpenBSD, I came across the Colorgraphic Voyager VGA. It seems like a real VGA output for the Zaurus...

So I checked if someone did some work for this on OpenBSD... Lo and behold! This is what I found... in the man pages!

CFXGA Man Page


Anyone has one of those cards and/or more information ?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Web Browser Screen Shots

« on: August 28, 2006, 02:35:59 pm »

These have to be the worst screenshots ever... I run OpenBSD 4.0-current on a SL-C3000. I'm having some problems right now with konqueror-embedded, I will post better screenshots later! For now, I present you Links+!

Note that after the initial startup which can take as much as 5-6 seconds in a fullscreen remote X session, this browser is extremely fast, displays most webpages without horizontal scrolling, and supports the mouse wheel, if you have a mouse attached. But, it's not the cutest web browser out there...

Links+ - Graphical Mode, Running in a remote X session @ 640x480

Links+ - Graphical Mode, Running in a remote X session @ fullscreen on my widescreen laptop (i.e. without the Windows XP task bar, 1280x770)

Links+ - Text Mode, Running over SSH in PuTTY @ fullscreen on my widescreen laptop

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / My Gpe-image Won't Boot

« on: August 11, 2006, 02:57:30 pm »

Well, I was quite occupied this week, so I just checked this out today, and it doesn't happen in the lastest snapshot...

Thank you all for your help.

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / My Gpe-image Won't Boot

« on: August 07, 2006, 07:01:36 pm »

I don't know much about the Spitz, but....

I'd guess at the hdimage not flashing correctly - could this be something to do with the partition sizes? If you go to the recovery console, are there any files on the HDD?


Si
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/sbin/getty is on /dev/hda1...

I forgot one really important note in my previous message, I am compiling the dev branch...

I'm stuck there... any idea to figure out what is going on will be appreciated.

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / My Gpe-image Won't Boot

« on: August 02, 2006, 01:20:53 pm »

Hi! I'm trying to get a working environment to build some applications on my loved spitz. I followed the instructions in OpenEmbedded | Getting Started, and started "bitbake gpe-image". After having solved three lil problems :

1. linux-openzaurus 2.6.17 doesn't compile due to syntax error
2. Freetype 2.2.1 link error (libz in wrong location)
3. gpe-mini-browser: fetch failed, server does not answer to "PASV". (I got the file elsewhere).

Everything then compiled without problems.

so I took the files in build/tmp/deploy/images and copied them to a CF card :

gnu-tar -> gnu-tar
updater.sh.spitz -> updater.sh
zImage-2.6.17-spitz-20060731163151.bin -> zImage.bin
gpe-image-spitz-20060801210605.rootfs.tar.gz -> hdimage1.tgz


It "flashed" OK. But on boot up, I get:

Code: [Select]

INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty"
... (last line repeated 7 or 8 times)
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty"
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty"
... (last line repeated 7 or 8 times)
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty"
INIT: Id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

I'm kinda stuck there. Any help will be appreciated.


JP

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Aboundi 802.11b Wificard Ext Antenna

« on: August 01, 2006, 03:30:30 pm »

Looks like the one with the external antenna is made to go into an access point or other internal only application.  The antenna itself is an exposed circuit board.  The cable it's attached to is extremely delicate, I wouldn't want it flopping around exposed like that.

Indeed. But if the card really is smaller, and if it works of course (hoping for a prism2 chipset), if would provide a nice base to attach a ridiculously big antenna like a table-mounted Pringles antenna. But I'm probably better off attaching an external antenna connector to a "known" device...

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Aboundi 802.11b Wificard Ext Antenna

« on: August 01, 2006, 02:31:45 pm »

I just found this. It looks like a 802.11b CF WiFi card with an external antenna.

I tried searching on google, newsgroups and this forum, but I can't find information on chipset / compatibility. And the company's website is quite uninformative...


Anyone has experience with this card ?


EDIT: I keep getting mixed information from the resellers, like support for 802.11g, but I found this datasheet which seems trustable, and states that there is Linux support for this card (and that it does not support 802.11g). The external antenna model is the ACF3000-200. From the picture, the external antenna model seems quite smaller than other CF cards, which could be a blessing for typing on the SL-C3X00 with a WiFi CF card inserted...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Updating Prism Firmware ...

« on: July 18, 2006, 04:14:43 pm »

I can confirm this. I installed OZ 3.5.4.1 on my SL-C3000 to get WPA support (which I could unfortunatly not get with OpenBSD). I'm having the same problems.

If someone could provide binaries, I (and obviously others) would be happy.


Thank you in advance,

JP

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OpenBSD / Startxfce4 Script With Xdm

« on: April 13, 2006, 03:51:05 pm »

This kinda indicates that you are logging in as root... I haven't tried xfce4 from xdm as root.

Of course, you were right. From a normal account it works flawlessly (well except the speed when I'm compiling abiword at the same time, but oh well... )

Thank you.

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OpenBSD / Startxfce4 Script With Xdm

« on: April 13, 2006, 01:04:39 pm »

Well, did not have time yesterday, but here is what I have done.

1. Deleted .xinitrc and .xsession
2. Created new .xsession with :

export TERMCMD=aterm
/usr/local/bin/startxfce4

3. Restarted xdm

Still has the same error.

Note that I use the full path in the .xsession because the PATH env isn't set because xdm doesn't parse my .profile, and calls no login shell. ( Anyone knows the "usual" location to set the PATH env when using xdm ? )

I'm still stuck. I'll look into it tonight, but again, any help is appreciated.