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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kphone working for PC to phone calls

« on: March 29, 2007, 11:33:26 am »

I installed the package from http://z.drun.net/packages/kphone_4.2_armv5tel.ipk.

The system didn't complain during install but running Kphone from the commandline it complains to not find libSM.so.6 although that library is on my box.



It also complains not to find libqt-mt.so.3.

Where does kphone expect to find the library so I can make a symlink

I'm using Cacko 1.23 on an sl-c1000.

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Sharp ROMs / Installing Software On 4gb Sd Card

« on: March 27, 2007, 06:02:07 pm »

Maybe I need to install the xipk pkg and that'll "fix" my issue.    Sometimes also even thought I ipkg-link the newly installed ipk, installing something that depends on the new ipk complains that the dependency isn't installed.

If I reboot, normally it corrects that.

It's a pain, but I've learned to live with it since I'm too lazy to do anything about it

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / C3200 Wont Stay On

« on: March 23, 2007, 02:54:23 pm »

That happend to me plenty of times.  I hate it.  Took me a LONG time to figure out as well.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Battery Dead ?

« on: March 20, 2007, 10:17:05 am »

May not be that bad, but it certainly can't be good

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Sharp ROMs / Installing Software On 4gb Sd Card

« on: March 19, 2007, 04:17:16 pm »

I also had the exact same problem in Cacko and I couldn't figure out why my 4GB card (formatted as ANYTHING) was reported as "full" when using the GUI package manager.

I did end up using ipkg from the command line and ipkg-link'ing the packages later.

Couldn't figger it out.

I've got me a 4GB Transcend 150x (I know it's not really xfer'ing at 150x hehehe) card.

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Florida / Miami-Dade? SHow of hands, please?

« on: November 03, 2006, 06:33:42 pm »

Any other Miami-Dade denizens lurking out there? C'mon; 'fess up, y'all.

Name -      Bob Weeks
Age -        *Way* too many mango seasons!
Day Job -   Not so mild mannered forensic toxicologist for the MD-C ME's
Packing -    Hot C860; decrepit but defiant old HP200LX

Other details provided on demand <G>.


Bob W
Miami FL
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I lived in Miami for 20 yrs, West Kendall Miami baby!  
name : raj
age : 50 mango seasons (my tree bears fruit twice a year)
day job : Electrical Systems Engineer - Boeing (I'm leaving in Seattle now)
packing : Sl-C1000

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Instant Messanger Or Aim

« on: October 23, 2006, 12:43:47 pm »

i just was wondering if there is one for cacko
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I don't see why naim wouldn't work either.  Although I haven't tried it.

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General Discussion / Movies

« on: September 26, 2006, 11:20:01 am »

There's already an article on mencoder:
https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Mencoder_Encoding

Here's my own .bat scripts for outputting the best playback quality/encoding speed for my Zaurus SL-C3000 on WindowsXP:

To encode an existing file using the syntax : enc movie.avi
This will create Zmovie.avi, the compressed movie file.

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mencoder %1 -ffourcc DX50 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=500 -vf crop=640:480:0:0 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=64 -o Z%1 %2
To encode a movie directly from a DVD source (that you own due to legal stuff) :

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mencoder dvd://1 -ffourcc DX50 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=500 -vf crop=640:480:40:0 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=64 -o Zdvd.avi %2
Those settings are pretty much the fastest I got to encode movies and the fastest playback on the zaurus using mplayer. You can tweak the bitrate to get better quality or remove the crop and use

Code: [Select]

-vf scale=640:480 to simply scale the full frames (slower encoding)

Note that mplayer playback of a movie with a bitrate beyond 500 was resulting in frame drops. I guess 500 is the best you can get for 640x480.
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Using your suggested mencoder encoding command above I find the audio is way out of sync with the video.  Have you experienced this?  I have not yet tried to see if I get more in sync audio & video by encoding files from the harddrive as opposed to straight off the DVD.

Also, have you encoded any movies using mencoder with subtitles?  What are the correct flags to use.  I tried using -vosubout and such but I couldn't get it to display them.

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Sharp ROMs / List Of Cacko Package Feeds

« on: September 20, 2006, 02:55:45 pm »

Try Meanie's site. At the bottom of the page is a list of many feeds for Cacko
http://www.users.on.net/%7Ehluc/myZaurus/
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Very good!  Thanks.

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Sharp ROMs / List Of Cacko Package Feeds

« on: September 20, 2006, 01:58:09 pm »

So who's going to help out the newbies (like myself) and post a list of Cacko app package feeds that I can stick in my ipkg.conf?

I've seen a feed listed here and there but no nice comprehensive listing.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / 2gb And Up Sd Cards Supported

« on: September 18, 2006, 11:53:48 am »

fat16 works better on the z especially if you want to be doing nand restore from your sd card

if you are going to stick with fat32, use fat32(LBA).  But for restore purpouses, use fat16(LBA).

hmm.. come to think of it, I think that's the reason why my 4gb failed.  Probably not supported.  Anyway, stick with fat32 but if you ever need to do a nand backup or restore, just for your information, it will only work on a card with fat16 (LBA).  I use a 2gb at the moment.
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I tried the Fat32 first but then noticed that my Windows box and my Linux box didn't recognize the card when used with a card reader.  So I then used fat32 LBA but still got the same thing.  Since I could use the 1000 as a card reader I'm thinking of repartitioning to ext2 so I could use the seperate card reader for the linux box and connect thru the Z for windows pc's.  I'll let you know what happens.
 
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Or you can format it ext2 and install this ext2 driver on your windows xp box.

[a href=\"http://www.fs-driver.org/]http://www.fs-driver.org/[/url]

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Zaurus Battery

« on: September 17, 2006, 06:17:38 pm »

So, do you suggest to use my Zaurus (I've already it) also for listening mp3 in train (it's an example) or is it better in you opinion an USB key or similar for this purpose? Many thanks.

Personally I would use the Z's battery for something else like browsing the web or something and leave the music playing to a dedicated mp3 player.

Playing MP3s with the LCD off and "downclocked" to 143Mhz will last ~24 hrs according to the following benchmarks :

Not sure how practical that is. At that speed even if it can play properly you probably won't be able to do anything else. In my tests on a C3100 (running IceWM):

- at 104MHz (lowest speed) the music doesn't play in real time
- at 208MHz it plays OK, but when you do anything else (like switching windows or even switching tabs on mrxvt) the music will stutter
- at 312MHz the cpu has enough power to play the music and multitask (albeit slowly), but for some reason, at this particular speed the screen sometimes flickers (doesn't flicker at lower speeds)
NB this is using mplayer. XMMS doesn't play without stutter at lower than normal speed (416MHz).


Obviously YMMV if you use a different WM and if you don't use X even.

But like I said at the beginning, it's a shame to relegate the Z to a dumb single tasking music player when it could be doing some better  
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I assume'd if one is in the train, you're not wifi'ing or doing much else than jamming to some MP3s.  Even at 416Mhz, I would guess the Z can take both mp3 playing and some other "general" tasks for ~4 hrs or so.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Zaurus Battery

« on: September 16, 2006, 07:58:58 pm »

So, do you suggest to use my Zaurus (I've already it) also for listening mp3 in train (it's an example) or is it better in you opinion an USB key or similar for this purpose? Many thanks.
Nic
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Playing MP3s with the LCD off and "downclocked" to 143Mhz will last ~24 hrs according to the following benchmarks :

[a href=\"http://ldrolez.free.fr/software/zaurus/#Benchmarks_]http://ldrolez.free.fr/software/zaurus/#Benchmarks_[/url]

My personal experience is sitting on a 6 hr 40 mins flight from Miami, Fl to Seattle, Wa with the LCD on but on low brightness, playing mp3s from both a mounted CF and SD card. The mp3s kept playing from the time I entered the airport in Miami, leaving the airport in Seattle, coming home and still having available battery left.  So it's a good while before you'd have to recharge.  (This test was with a fully charged battery to begin with).

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / 2gb And Up Sd Cards Supported

« on: September 16, 2006, 07:52:37 pm »

Thanks Cresho! I haven't tried it yet, but I'm excited to.. Finally I can get 4GB for my C1000. You just added a lot of value to my Z!! Big props!
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Yea, I have a 4GB Transcend 150x SD card.  I first had it formatted FAT16, then reformatted it ext2 so I can keep files on there and not have the system complain about symlinks on a FAT formatted card.

Also, if you havent' read my other posts in this thread, beware that the default graphical Package Manager shipped with Cacko (maybe some others out there too) complain about the 4GB single partition.  Seems they don't want to play well with partitions that size.  Size down to 2GB or 1GB if you want to use the graphical installer.

Ipkg command line will install to the 4GB partition no problem.

That was one of the "Gotcha!"'s that I noticed when I first got the card.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / 2gb And Up Sd Cards Supported

« on: August 31, 2006, 01:14:33 am »

I seem to be having the same problem as SNi.  When I try to use Cacko's Add/Remove Software app (maybe this is not specific to Cacko) I also have the same not enough storage memory for installation message.  This happens when the card (w/single 4GB partition) is formatted fat, vfat, or ext2.

Packages install to internal flash no problem and also install to my 512MB card no problem.

I'll try ipkg via command line.

Update: Yep, ipkg via command line seems to install to the card.    Is there some other ipkg front end type program that overcomes this high memory limitation?

Works fine - Transcend 4 GB SD (TS4GSD150) in SL-C3000 w/ stock ROM..
SNi
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thanks for this valuable piece of information.  added it to the list of supported sd cards.
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OK, a clarification. It's only been a couple of days so I don't know about "stability". Seems good so far. One weird thing - if I try to install a new ipk to SD using the Add/Remove Software app I get the error message "Not enough storage memory for installation" However, can still install to SD from command line..
SNi
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