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Software / Kde-pim/pi 2.1.0 Available!

« on: May 07, 2005, 03:43:40 pm »

Okay there, Dr. ev1l, you wanted a better install script, here ya go...    

(see attachment)

This is not yet tested extensively, so use at your own risk.  (I just installed 2.1.4 with it a couple of times and it was fine.)  Also, note that the text & menus may not work so well on a non-clamshell (ie. portrait display).

Here are the usage notes from the script:

Usage: ./kdepim-installer.sh <kdepim-zip-file>

Instructions:

 1. BACKUP YOUR DATA!!
 2. BACKUP YOUR DATA!! (bears repeating
 3. Disable fastload on all kdepim apps (if applicable).
 4. Copy the ZIPped kdepim suite distribution file to your Zaurus.
 5. Do not extract the contents of the ZIP file.
 6. Copy this script to your Zaurus.
 7. Run this script in the console, passing the name of the
    kdepim ZIP file on the command line.
 8. Follow the prompts.

Notes:

 - This script requires the 'unzip' package to be installed.
 - This script is written for the Sharp ROM and may not work
   as intended on other ROMs.
 - This script does not support installs to CF or SD cards.
 - The script will detect all IPKs in the ZIP file and determine
   which are installed on your system and what the default
   disposition should be for each package.  If no kdepim packages
   are already installed, the default disposition will be to
   install all packages.  If any are installed already, the
   default disposition will be to install/update the ones that
   are already installed and to *not* install the ones that
   aren't.  The script allows you to edit the disposition of all
   packages before proceeding.
 - This script does not utilize the package version numbers,
   allowing you re-install the current version or revert to
   earlier versions.

Enjoy!!    

~ray

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Software / Kde-pim/pi 2.1.0 Available!

« on: May 05, 2005, 06:12:53 pm »

Don't take my comments wrong, k? Talking's easy, you're doing the actual work.

Comments taken as constructive.  

I should clarify though, that what I posted was a set of scripts I wrote for myself only, designed to serve my needs specifically.  It was not intended as a general purpose solution for anyone to use.  It was intended as something that others could build on to develop their solution, and/or as a demonstration as to how it was done.  Additionally, I can't even take full credit for it because it was derived from a script someone else posted on the forum (sorry, but I forget whom).

Anywho... I will respond to your comments anyway, by way of explanation:

uninst:

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ipkg remove kaddressbook
ipkg remove kmicrokdelibs
ipkg remove kopiemail
ipkg remove korganizer
ipkg remove korganizer-alarm
ipkg remove ksharpPIM-DTMaccess
ipkg remove pwmanager

You should check whether they're installed (ipkg status, and grep the output) before issuing an uninstall command. It'd be nice to integrate an unzip commad that expands the distribution zip as well.

Since this was designed specifcally for my known configuration, I had no need to check; I knew what I normally install.  Note certain omissions from the full suite.

inst:

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ipkg -force-depends install *.ipk
qcop QPE/System "restart()"

Arg. it'd be better to enumerate all the packages you want (like in the first script). If there are other packages in the execution directory, they'll get shoved in as well.

I keep my kdepim installations in a dedicated directory on an sd card.  I use tkcZip to manually extract the IPKs that I want (after deleting the old ones) and then I run the script.  So no danger of that in my set-up.

Note also that you must manually activate/deactive fast load (however, automatically activating it can be done pretty easily with a sed-based script to change the .desktop files).

Since you're restarting anyway, fastload doesn't really matter. It's only important if you want to reload the updated binaries instead of using the ones already loaded in memory before you next reboot.

As a habit, I always deactivate fastload before updating any software, just to make sure that all data is synched to disk (and I think that this is advisable for anyone).  That means, therefore, that I have to re-activate it after the update.  I could re-activate it automatically in the script (as I suggested in my note) but I prefer not to.  I like to run the programs without fastload first to make sure they are working correctly (i.e. not shredding my data, etc.; something of that nature *has* happened to me in the past).

Lastly, all of your suggestions are excellent for a more general purpose tool/installer.  The one piece that is not obvious to me (in creating a full general purpose updater) is how to select the apps from the zip file that you want to install/update (without actually writing an app to do it).

~ray

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Software / Kde-pim/pi 2.1.0 Available!

« on: May 01, 2005, 01:36:47 pm »

Okay, here's mine...  

I did it in three pieces:

uninst:

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ipkg remove kaddressbook
ipkg remove kmicrokdelibs
ipkg remove kopiemail
ipkg remove korganizer
ipkg remove korganizer-alarm
ipkg remove ksharpPIM-DTMaccess
ipkg remove pwmanagerinst:

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ipkg -force-depends install *.ipk
qcop QPE/System "restart()"
This final one just does a complete update by calling the other two...

update:

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. uninst
. inst
You'll need to modify it slightly to support the exact components that you use.

uninst can be run from anywhere.  inst must be run from a directory containing the ipk's that you want to install (and, therefore, so must update).

Note that this doesn't work with installation to sd or cf (but could be modified easily to do so).

Note also that you must manually activate/deactive fast load (however, automatically activating it can be done pretty easily with a sed-based script to change the .desktop files).

~ray

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Software / A Couple Of New Game Ports

« on: April 19, 2005, 12:08:59 pm »

Try changing the layout again to see if it fixes the problem. If it does then the theme can be fixed instead of the game.

Good idea (for diagnostic reasons, at least).  Unfortunately, it didn't work.  I tried different themes, different font settings, etc., can't seem to find a combination that works.

~ray

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Software / A Couple Of New Game Ports

« on: April 18, 2005, 10:45:08 am »

Did you change your user interface or did it come like that? It's purple 
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=75552\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

That's a theme that I installed.  It's probably the reason that the scroll bars came up (some component must be larger than the default) but I haven't seen this problem with any other program.

~ray

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Software / A Couple Of New Game Ports

« on: April 16, 2005, 12:04:40 pm »

Yes - you have installed a wrong SDL. Use the search function in this forum and search for "W100 SDL".

The search only found your own reference. :|  But scheck.r's post set me straight (thanks!).  LTris is very nice!  (Thank you!)  I haven't figured out how to lay LMarbles yet; I'll have to look for the docs.

One other thing: Backgammon seems to have a minor problem: the game board is not all visible; scroll bars appear and I must scroll to see the whole board.  That's not intentional, is it?

Thats strange - I have no scrollbars. Could you send me some screenies?

Okay, attached.  I'm guessing it's a fonts issue.

Thanks again,

~ray

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Software / A Couple Of New Game Ports

« on: April 14, 2005, 11:14:38 pm »

Hi Silvio,

Thanks for porting these apps.  They're quite nice.

I'm having a problem with LTris and LMarbles though.  I installed the latest SDL stuff from ELSI (libSDL 1.2.6cvs-1 and libSDL-mixer 1.2.5cvs-1).  The apps run but the display consists only of a narrow strip of garbage pixels on the left side of the screen.  If I hit Cancel the app quits cleanly (and the garbage on the display goes away).  Running them from the command line doesn't reveal any errors (except for the usual QImage::color Index out of range messages) and the following: "QApplication: There should be max one application object".

LMarbles additionally shows this info about "Video hardware capabilities":

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Hardware Surfaces: No
HW_Blit (CC, A): No (No, No)
SW_Blit (CC, A): No (No, No)
HW_Fill: No
Video Memory: 0(I don't know the SDL API but that info doesn't look good to me.)

Any idea what's wrong here?  Do I have the wrong SDL?  A bad SDL install?

BTW, I have a C860 running the tkcROM (Sharp-based, excellent compatibility).

One other thing: Backgammon seems to have a minor problem: the game board is not all visible; scroll bars appear and I must scroll to see the whole board.  That's not intentional, is it?

Thanks again!

~ray

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Software / Kde-pim/pi 2.0.16 Release

« on: April 05, 2005, 11:31:40 am »

I've noticed a bug in ko/pi 23.  When you bring up the "Event Viewer" dialog **with a double-tap** it does not get the focus and the buttons on the bottom (Agenda, Edit, and Close) to not react to taps.

On some screens the tap gets handled by the window under the dialog.  So, for example, bring it up over the month view, click Edit, and the month view screen creates a new event and brings up the Event Editor dialog to edit it (very confusing in this particluar case because you were expecting to edit the event being shown in the Event Viewer but the details are missing).

A work-around is to tap in the text area of the Event View dialog to give it the focus before tapping a button.

~ray

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / New Zaurus Announced: Sl-c1000

« on: March 17, 2005, 05:31:10 pm »

If you mean the - *2) text in the block beside the Compact Flash card (Type 2) section this is a bullet point. Further down *2) is refined as Must be 3.3v.

Oops.  Yeah, I guess you're right.  I misread it.  Sorry for the distraction...

~ray

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / New Zaurus Announced: Sl-c1000

« on: March 16, 2005, 10:58:21 am »

Just curious why C1000 has the same dimensions as C3000? Besides obvious cost saving with avoiding  case redesign, maybe that indicates that C1000 has a second CF slot connector inside?[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this but the features comparison table that has been mentioned does in fact say that the C1k has 2 CF slots.  It also shows the C860 as having 1 and the C3k as having 2.  Here's a link to the [a href=\"http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fezaurus.com%2Flineup%2Fsl%2Fcompare_spec.html&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools]google translation[/url].

Based on that it seems like a good possibility that there is an internal connector.

~ray

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Sl-c1000 Announced.

« on: March 11, 2005, 01:23:40 pm »

That seems like a bizarre release.  Just going for a lower price point model, I guess?

~ray

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General Discussion / Screen Reader Software

« on: March 08, 2005, 01:40:29 am »

Title says it all.  An online friend in the Rockbox forum asked me if such exists for the Z.  He likes one called Speakup, but it seems to require a hardware-based speech synthesizer.  I did find a software-based speech synthesizer for the Z but I'm not sure if Speakup would support it.  The other obvious problem is Qtopia (versus X), but there's always pdaXrom, I suppose.  Any thoughts?

Thanks,

~ray

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Software / Sharp's Photostorage

« on: March 04, 2005, 12:24:00 pm »

You're not implying that someone at Sharp might actually be listening to us, are you?  They never have before, why start now?  

~ray

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Cxx0 Hardware / sustained writes to SD (is there a solution?)

« on: March 01, 2005, 01:22:09 pm »

Boy, this problem sure sounds a lot like a similar problem I've been tracking for a while.  I refer to this other problem as the "stalled upload" problem.  The difference with "stalled upload" is that it is not limited to SD cards.  Could these problems be one and the same?

There have been many threads started about the "stalled upload" problem.  I tried to bring everything together in post #4 of this thread: <https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=5948>

I think we've narrowed it down to a problem in the Z's USB networking subsystem. Unfortunatey, no one seems to know any details about this or have any idea how to fix it. I believe the source code for this subsystem is still closed by Sharp. I've suggested trying an older version but I don't know if anyone has tried this. I further suspect that we might lose USB MSD functionality if we were to move to an older version.

Those of you with this "SD problem", please read the threads I referenced and let us know if this sounds like the same problem.

~ray

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / New Zaurus In March?

« on: February 25, 2005, 11:14:51 am »

Interesting...

On the same news page they also have a story about Sony killing off the Clie in Japan, which contains a mention of the Z and Buffalo, manufacturer of WiFi cards (their English translation):

Sony kills Clie, even in Japan!

Well, it seems that the rumours have become reality, and after throwing the towel in Europe and the States, the Japanese giant decided to stop the production of its last Clie models (VZ90 and TH55) in July 2005. Impress has the dirt on this story, and they say that the PSP will fill up the gap. Impress makes it clear at the end of their article that Sony will focus on the PSP and mobile phones… so will we have a PDAphone soon in Japan?

The PDA market becomes a lot more dull all of a sudden, as Sony had a nice share of the market. PDA’s powered by PocketPC are present on the market thanks to HP and Toshiba (which is the only brand present in the Japanese press concerning this), and there also is the Sharp Zaurus, but that has some problems too as Buffalo, the company that makes the WiFi Compact Flash cards for the Zaurus, has decided to call it quits too, and new owners of a Zaurus will not be able to get WiFi on their devices anymore.

If manufacturers like Nintendo start offering PDA functions on their devices, and if Sony offers a browser and basic PIM functionality on the PSP, there will no longer be any PDA’s in Japan very soon.

They also mention Hitachi's new 6GB microdrive.

And here's their English translation of the Z item:

Rumors: We may have a New Zaurus?

BE CAREFUL, THIS IS UNCONFIRMED INFORMATION: I talked to a retailer on the phone this morning, who told me that there COULD be a new Zaurus in March. Of course, no news from Sharp, so WAIT & SEE.

This new device could be a logical evolution of the line-up (Zaurus 3000 and 860), because there is not one Sharp PDA with Wireless LAN functionality and it’s no longer possible to get WiFi cards for these existing Zaurus models in Japan.

I find it interesting that they think users in Japan won't be able to get WiFi cards for the Z anymore in Japan because of Buffalo going belly-up.  There are plenty of other vendors of WiFi cards.  Surely the Japanese could at least import some?

I hope they're correct though about Sharp adding WiFi to the new Z because of this (or for any reason, for that matter!).

I would also guess that the new Z would use the new 6GB microdrive.

This would then be a compelling upgrade for many C860/760 users, I think: built-in WiFi; 6GB microdrive; and USB host.  I may have to get the checkbook out myself.  

~ray