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General Discussion / Does the C860 have SDIO?

« on: May 04, 2004, 12:09:14 pm »

I definitively interested on this SDIO driver. Could please provide us with more details ?
Thanks in advance.

I spoke with the person in question again a couple weeks ago. The reason he never ended up releasing any of the work he did was due to possible legal concerns.

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General Discussion / kernel 2.6.X

« on: April 28, 2004, 04:14:39 pm »

There are indications that the  7x0 is using the onboard mmc/sd controller which does have some source released. Your best bet would be to start there and try merging it with the handhelds.org mmcsd driver.

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General Discussion / Battery life.

« on: April 26, 2004, 01:46:43 am »

Hi JP

Just got a text message from a friend in London with a wifi card on a C760 (which has the big battery), he reckons he get about 5 hours from it on medium brightness - on average with average use. Not sure what *that* means though!

Hope this helps a bit

;-)

Hmm. I\'d say I probably get around 4 hours on my c760 also.

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General Discussion / Any OZ Release Planned?

« on: April 24, 2004, 06:22:59 pm »

Nope. Not yet

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Sharp ROMs / kernel source for 6000

« on: April 22, 2004, 04:52:25 pm »

WiFi driver is a prism2_usb binary in root_fs tarball. There is no bluetooth driver though...

That brings more questions than answers... So they have a binary compiled, but no source code? Did they compile it out of the kernel tree?

Since it resides on usb bus, there must be a usb hub inside sl-6000?
-albertr

I think the marketing materials said that the 6000 was capable of being usb host. As far as Wireless goes, the driver looks to be the wlan-ng usb prism driver. The source code for it does exist, but there is no telling whether or not sharp has modified it for their device. The easiest way to find out is  to compile a new copy and see if it works.

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Sharp ROMs / kernel source for 6000

« on: April 22, 2004, 11:03:33 am »

As it was already mentioned on the other thread, Sharp has released it @ http://developer.ezaurus.com/sl_j/source/source_dl.htm

Interesting thing, unless I\'m completely blind, I can\'t find sources for either bluetooth module or wi-fi in 6000\'s kernel tree
-albertr

Look for CONFIG_BLUEETOOTH_SL  in the patch. There\'s some bluetooth there. Dunno about wireless

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / quake2 slow on 760

« on: April 22, 2004, 10:58:05 am »

The Wince port is something completly different. They dumped the floating point code and I believe wrote a new renderer. Quite different from just compiling quake2 against the the SDL back end

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?

« on: April 22, 2004, 12:10:57 am »

has anyone actually gotten the cross compiler working on gentoo?

I did a couple of builds on gentoo

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User Request for Applications / 640x480 VNC with Pixel Resampling (port of Ultr@VNC)

« on: April 21, 2004, 01:39:32 pm »

( http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ ).

Could we get a port of the UltraVNC VNCViewer to work in the 640x480 screen of Zaurus C7x0 and C8x0?  With the pixel resampling that UltraVNC does I could view a 1280x960 computer screen on my Zaurus (for those with good eyesite  :shock:    :wink:  ).

keypebble already does this.

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Cxx0 Hardware / c700 or c860/760

« on: April 20, 2004, 06:23:28 pm »

The C750 can also use the large battery from the 760 without any modifications. On the 700 you need to grind down the battery to make it fit

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / BEST X11 ROM

« on: April 20, 2004, 05:53:35 pm »

I don\'t understand the excitment about OE/familiar. The Zaurus version of what you want is called OpenZaurus, and it already exists. I agree that merging familiar and OpenZaurus is probably a good thing (to reduce replicated work) but not from a functionality point of view as the two do the same thing (but for different hardware).

Well OpenZaurus in the sense of OZ 3.2 or 3.3.5 is completely unmaintained. The future of the Project is based on OE, and really only exists within the OE project itself. A common misconception I see is that OZ and familiar are merging, and that is definitely not true. What is happening is there are talks of using the OE build system to build familiar, just like we are trying to convince Sash to use OE for his X11 images. The end products may not change at all, what would change is how the packages are compiled. Hopefully it would also involve less duplication of work on maintaining parts of the base system, but it\'s likely that all three would need to \"fork\" the packages for their own systems.

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User Request for Applications / iPod clone

« on: April 19, 2004, 05:06:29 pm »

Codswallop.

I\'m porting Linux to my desk lamp.
And then to a bog roll so I can wipe my a$$ on it.  

Pointless.

To do something \'just because you can\' is pointless, I\'m sure the Oligarch Bill Gates has better things to do with his greedy life than watch geeks porting Linux to machines which can only barely run it.

Not really. It\'s a valuable chance to learn something. On the iPod, it\'s a good chance to learn how to work with the hardware inside the iPod and learn how the Linux kernel is structured.  The end result isn\'t particularly useful, but the process is.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?

« on: April 18, 2004, 12:10:51 am »

Use Debian. It\'s the least likely to have problems with OpenEmbedded. Mandrake is probably also fairly reliable.

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6000 - Tosa / SL-6000 kernel source?

« on: April 17, 2004, 05:23:36 pm »

Absolutely. They must release the source and they will (as they did for all the previous models) - sooner or later. Pestering may let this happen sooner, so I\'m all for it

Legally, \"sooner or later\" doesn\'t cut it.  Someone at Sharp ought to read the GPL...

Well if you read the GPL they don\'t have to give it to you until you ask. So ask them.

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Software / Eon Games, what happened to them?

« on: April 16, 2004, 11:22:25 pm »

Snails most likely isnt going to be released. There shouldnt be any trouble buying the stuff already released though, it was all handled by scripts.