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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Quivering Mouse Pointer/stylus

« on: October 01, 2006, 03:17:36 pm »

Hello All,

When I hold my stylus down on my screen the mouse "quivers" a bit ever so slightly.  This usually isn't a problem except now I am using fluxbox and it is _extremely_ difficult for me to switch "tabs" in fluxbox because since it is quivering it is thinking I am clicking and dragging.

Is there any way to dampen the mouse or create a deadzone like on old joysticks.  I have tried acceleration and threshold settings using xset.

Thanks,
Frank

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Qpkg Only Showing About 1300 Mb Of My 6gb Microdri

« on: September 30, 2006, 09:57:27 am »

using a vfat partition to install apps is a bad idea anyway.
Format to ext2 or 3

Chero
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Why is that?  I read something about sym links not working but I havent had any problems installing apps to it as long as I let ipkg-link run...

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Qpkg Only Showing About 1300 Mb Of My 6gb Microdri

« on: September 29, 2006, 03:38:00 pm »

Yes it is...only one parition tho...the entire disk...

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Qpkg Only Showing About 1300 Mb Of My 6gb Microdri

« on: September 27, 2006, 05:31:35 pm »

So qpkg only shows about 1300 mb of my 6000~mb partition on my 3200's microdrive.  I saw somewhere else that somebody had this problem too.  

du -hsc /mnt/ide

gives me 429mb...

Any ideas on why qpkg isn't showing my whole hd ?

Thanks,
Frank

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Icewm, Power Management - Screen Still Shuts Off

« on: September 25, 2006, 09:59:02 pm »

Works beautifully :-)

That's it.

Thanks karlto!
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Don't thank me - pelrun came up with the correct answer!

Maybe the lightnpower.py applet should manage the screensaver too...?
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haha whoops. THANKS PELRUN! thanks for the zip too!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Icewm, Power Management - Screen Still Shuts Off

« on: September 25, 2006, 01:50:51 pm »

Works beautifully :-)

That's it.

Thanks karlto!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Icewm, Power Management - Screen Still Shuts Off

« on: September 25, 2006, 11:08:36 am »

There's also the X screensaver timer, which is independent of the dpms stuff lightnpower.py manages. (geez!)

The default .xinitrc (linked to /usr/bin/mbsession) turns it off:

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/usr/X11R6/bin/xset s 0
but that might be missing with your setup. Considering the dpms stuff needs to be explicitly disabled (instead of turning itself off when set to 0 like it's SUPPOSED TO *grumble*) it might be useful to also add:

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Hmmmm, this is verrrry interesting. I'm going to try throwing those in my .xinitrc

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Icewm, Power Management - Screen Still Shuts Off

« on: September 20, 2006, 05:28:01 pm »

Hmm everything looks normal.  However when running top I did see the following three processes that seemed interesting.  I can't find anything else about them on the system, or even google for that matter (other than that they appear in some source code).

Anyone have any idea what these are?

battchrgon

battchrgoff

sharpsl_bat

Thanks,
Frank

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.1.0r121 Is Out!

« on: September 19, 2006, 08:36:13 pm »

still no word on if this is something stable enough to replace beta3?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Icewm, Power Management - Screen Still Shuts Off

« on: September 19, 2006, 05:02:53 pm »

Hi Karlto,

I am running lightandpower.py at startup with the A/C plugged in but even then the screen goes off after a few minutes.   In lightandpower.py I have the settings set for it to stay on indefinitely.

I'm thinking about using atd to constantly call lightandpower.py -loadandexit but that seems like overkill....

Again, I'm NOT running the IceWM apm applet or mb-applet-battery (or xscreensaver for that matter).  To me nothing should be turning the screen off...

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Frank

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.1.0r121 Is Out!

« on: September 19, 2006, 12:03:43 pm »

Lol and I JUST got beta3 working pretty much how I like it.

Like somebody asked previously...is this for "extreme testers" or is it a somewhat-stable release?

Thanks,
Frank

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Icewm, Power Management - Screen Still Shuts Off

« on: September 19, 2006, 10:25:13 am »

Well,  I thought to myself: "Why don't I just try all the flags"

It turns out none of them do anything like keeping the screen on.

Anyone have any ideas?

TIA,
Frank

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Icewm, Power Management - Screen Still Shuts Off

« on: September 19, 2006, 10:21:22 am »

Hello All,

Well after trying XFCE (+/- Fbpanel) I almost settled on IceWM+FBpanel or Matchbox+FBpanel.
 
However in the end I went with a straight up IceWM installation.

Why you ask?  Didn't I lost all my powermanagement?

The answer is yes and no.

As of right now I have the hinge key mapped in IceWM to the /etc/systemconfig/clamshell/closed.sh script which shuts off the screen when closing the lid.  This was a big thing for me as I didn't want to burn the screen out and often leave my zaurus on with the lid closed (3200) and on a/c power.

Without running the IceWM apm applet the zaurus does not switch screen brightness when unplugged or plugged in, which is the way I like it (Rarely use it for more than a few minutes not plugged in).  With the applet loaded it works almost like matchbox.

I am not running the IceWM battery applet or the mb-applet-battery.  I found the mb-applet-battery in fbpanel didnt make the screen blank on closing of the lid and that was my biggest gripe.  I can manually suspend the Z by pressing the power button if I wanted.  This is all I really asked.  

Anyway, IceWM is very fast, the task bar is working wonderfully but my main problem is that the screen STILL shuts off after 5 minutes on A/C power.  It does not do this with mb-applet-battery running in fbpanel (it respects my settings in lightandpower.py).

I was looking at the apm command and found apm -i on the net which ignores any power management when the unit is plugged in but however THIS version of apm (and apm.x) does not have this flag.  I have no idea where to find documentation on the flags that it DOES offer though:

usage: apm [-VvmMsSd] [--verbose] [--minutes] [--monitor] [--suspend] [--standby]

Anyone have any idea about these commands or why else the screen might be blanking still?


Thanks,
Frank

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How To Use Ipkg Install Xxxx To Install Onto Hd

« on: September 16, 2006, 05:14:13 pm »

Nevermind.  I found the wiki page! I had seen it a while ago but for the life of me today I couldn't find it hah. Sorry.

Thanks,
Frank

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How To Use Ipkg Install Xxxx To Install Onto Hd

« on: September 16, 2006, 04:56:37 pm »

Hello All,

I was wondering if somebody could please tell me how to use the command line ipkg program to install packages from the feed onto the microdrive.  The idea would be to install a package by typing "ipkg install package name from feed" but have it install like how it would if I selected /mnt/ide on the gui package manager.

Thanks,
Frank