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Off Topic forum / I'm Back

« on: January 18, 2011, 10:33:02 pm »

Welcome back.

I still use my Z and my ZaurusFeed is still up.  263+ packages and more, many of which cannot be found anywhere else online.

http://quickening.zapto.org/ZaurusFeed/

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Texas / Is there really a Texas ZUG?

« on: July 09, 2008, 08:19:33 pm »

Hi Stupkid.   I thought I was the only Zaurus user in DFW!  

Still using my SL5500 regularly after 6 years.

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 15, 2007, 04:57:01 pm »

I restored from my back up and the restore worked fine but my calibration is still messed up.
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That's the puzzler - I would expect the hardware to stay constant and your pointercal values not to change.  However, I looked at my last 3 pointercal's:

21596 0 173612 0 14745 978165 65536
20830 0 674620 0 14951 919510 65536
21541 0 328964 0 15182 766702 65536

I just ran re-calibrate and got this:
21596 0 346380 0 14857 926090 65536

and you can see some of the numbers change quite a lot.  There are some clues here about what they represent:

[a href=\"http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm/2005-May/009880.html]http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/li...May/009880.html[/url]

Appears to be very sensitive and will keep prompting you to reenter if result is inconsistent.

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 14, 2007, 05:34:29 pm »

quickening

Your suggestion of a bad ram spot makes sense.
I am not very good at linux can you tell me step by step how I would create a file as you suggest.
I can now get into the linux console just need to know the speciifc commands to do what you are suggesting.

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from the console,

cd /etc
ls -l pointercal

If it's not there, do
echo "21596 0 173612 0 14745 978165 65536" > pointercal

If the filesystem is read-only , you will get an error message.

do "ls -l pointercal" again, to verify it updated.  exit from console, and it should start up.

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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: February 14, 2007, 01:50:21 pm »

I have 3.10 too.   Pointer calibration is a test qtopia runs when it first comes up.  It should be creating a file /etc/pointercal.  Mine looks like this:

21596 0 173612 0 14745 978165 65536

You can log what qtopia is doing by uncommenting the line in /opt/QtPalmtop/qpe.sh

It's my guess that filesystem errors (bad ram) are forcing root mount into read-only.  Try creating a file.

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General Discussion / New Web Site For My Zaurus Sl5500 Adventures

« on: May 23, 2005, 08:50:58 pm »

Awsome job. I like you website a bunch and I just got my Zaurus.
 Just one question... how do you use VOIP on the Zaurus?
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Thanks!  That's a big question.  There are several protocols and varying levels of functionality.   I tried zmeeting, ZIPPhone (in my ZaurusFeed), and [a href=\"http://www.thekompany.com/embedded/tkcphone/]tkcPhone[/url].  tkcPhone can be frustrating when it won't connect to the server, but it sounds good.  The free ones work but don't  sound very good.   You might have better luck with Linphone or KPhone.  Skype supports Linux, Qt, and Pocket PC - but not the Zaurus?!  Maybe if you ask them.

Good Luck, let me know what works for you.

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General Discussion / New Web Site For My Zaurus Sl5500 Adventures

« on: May 23, 2005, 08:33:49 pm »

Awsome job. I like you website a bunch and I just got my Zaurus.
 Just one question... how do you use VOIP on the Zaurus?
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The link to  Palantir  client - [a href=\"http://www.calextech.com/zpalantir/index.html]http://www.calextech.com/zpalantir/index.html[/url] - seems dead. Do you have a copy?
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so it is.  it's available still on the [a href=\"http://web.archive.org]Wayback Machine[/url].   It's also in my Zaurus Feed.  

an alternative is vlc (videolan client/server).  I haven't tried it but I can say I had no problem watching my webcam fed over an 802.11b wireless connection by Palantir.  You can of course feed anything you want into the video server, and watch a dvd or tv over your wireless connection.  Your server has to be fast enough to convert and compress it to 320x240. (my SL5500 res.)

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General Discussion / New Web Site For My Zaurus Sl5500 Adventures

« on: May 22, 2005, 04:35:04 pm »

I have very belatedly put up a website for my SL-5500.   I hope someone might find an interesting nugget or two.
Zaurus Tricks

I was going over all my old zaurus links, and noticed zauruszone.com was gone.  What has replaced it?