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Deals and Great Z Buys / Cf Gps From Ebuyer For £25

« on: September 03, 2009, 05:31:32 am »

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/89715


Ok, not cutting edge tech but quite cheap, includes external patch antenna

Actually the description says:

In The Box

    * SUGPS-R720 (Ultra) Compact Flash Card GPS receiver (1)
    * Extenal Patch Antenna (1)
   * Manual and Driver CD (1)
    * Warranty card (1)

So I'm not sure who is correct .... lol

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Help

« on: March 24, 2009, 05:35:39 am »

i seem to have zubuntu booting up to the point were it ask for the login which it says on omegemoon to put root and not to put a password, then it says to type startx ,but when i do it comes up with,,,,,,,,,   -bash: startx: command not found .Can anybody help??

Regards


whykick

Given your previous errors from tar I would suspect an incomplete installation. Download the tarballs again - and check their md5 sums - using:
 md5sum filename (on your Ubuntu PC)
the values should match those cortez lists on his blog beside the files (you could check the md5sum for the files you have already). If they don't match exactly then the tarballs are either corrupt or incomplete.

best of luck

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PocketPenguin / Pandora

« on: March 20, 2009, 07:25:51 pm »

This forum was abandoned a long time ago.What a shame they had such good ideas.I don't know if you guys heard of PANDORA but its the most amazing thing.If anybody stills visits this forum please go check it out.  

http://openpandora.org/

Hardly abandoned - we have Ubuntu 9.04 running on the Zaurus - thats razor sharp cutting edge !
Plenty of people and life left lurking here.

Thanks for reminding us about pandora - I'm sure there are plenty of us who have been watching that one for a LONNNNNGGG time ;-)

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Ubuntu / Compiling For Zubuntu

« on: March 10, 2009, 09:54:46 am »

Compilation works albeit slowly on the Zaurus. I have compiled emacs (latest cvs version) - not what I would call a trivial application - in about 2-3 hours from scratch. As Cortez says make sure you have a swap partition or even just a swapfile. Overclocking is currently not compiled into the version of the kernel - but heres hoping someone gets it working again.

Thanks for advice. Well, I have to check how did I install the Zaurus when I come home ;-). Sorry for a dumb question: in the case there's no swap partition, how can I install a swap file?

Google for Linux swapfile or let me do it for you swapfile  

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Ubuntu / Compiling For Zubuntu

« on: March 09, 2009, 06:43:58 am »

Always make sure you have a swap partition. You could also try to use distcc, but I prefer using Qemu for doing "native" compilation.

Thanks a lot. The Qemu option is seems promising.

And thanks for Zubuntu, cortez. This is definitely one of the best pieces I could play with in the last years. Any news from the Ubuntu people?

Compilation works albeit slowly on the Zaurus. I have compiled emacs (latest cvs version) - not what I would call a trivial application - in about 2-3 hours from scratch. As Cortez says make sure you have a swap partition or even just a swapfile. Overclocking is currently not compiled into the version of the kernel - but heres hoping someone gets it working again.

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1 Upgraded To Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Armel

« on: February 19, 2009, 06:38:05 pm »

Try MPlayer (the Angstrom version or the pdaXrom iwmmxt one will be the fastest).

How's the speed in Fennec? I've only tried Arora and Midori (Arora is faster, BTW).

I am keen to compile mplayer - but I can't seem to find suitable source - Angstrom is particularily hard to find the source - I can see the git tree but not sure how to get the source.... Currently trying to compile atty's version for pdaxrom.


The standard mplayer failed miserably to compile.

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Ubuntu / Installing On A 3200 Microdrive?

« on: February 18, 2009, 04:44:58 pm »

I've gotten zubuntu working following the instructions to run via the sd card... but
I was wondering what would be needed to get this running via the internal microdrive on my 3200?

I'd like to just have it running from 1 partition on the microdrive.  (I've currently got a swap, / , and a data partition defined)

thanks,
Christopher.

Mount the microdrive, repartition it, format as ext2 then install rootfs&kernel onto the microdrive - reboot and voila?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Recent Browser?

« on: February 18, 2009, 04:43:20 pm »

That it would.

You'd have to manually specify everything, then (/usr /bin /var /lib ...).

cp -rp /[a-l]* /mountpoint
cp -rp /n-z]* /mountpoint

should be quick enough - not sure whats missing under m except media? and mnt

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Ubuntu / No Menu Applications Line At Top After Install On C860

« on: February 18, 2009, 04:41:24 pm »

Got Zubuntu installed on my C860 using a Sandisk Extreme 2GB SD card to hold the file system. Boots up to give option to load Zubuntu: only strange thing is that fsck finds errors which it then corrects. Select Zubuntu and after much terminal stuff it returns to option to load Zubuntu. I select that and after terminal stuff it offers a login. I supply root (for user), it complains about alsa files and I enter command startx. It then shows desktop but without menu applications line (at top of screen). So I can't do anything. Help please!

I had an fsck with errors - it basically can corrupt file - best to reinstall the rootfs over the SD card again - worked for me.

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1 Upgraded To Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Armel

« on: February 15, 2009, 07:23:35 pm »

Any performance difference between Hardy and Jaunty?
Notice you have pdaxrom in your sig - have you got it dual booting with Zubuntu by any chance?

I installed fvwm/icewm/openbox/matchbox on Zubuntu - they all run fine - just cant decide which is the lightest....

Does Jaunty have thunderbird working? What version is Firefox at?

Sorry for some many questions......
thanks

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Performance?

« on: February 14, 2009, 07:42:11 pm »

Done all of the above - am busy compiling some apps and thought overclocking was in PDAXrom why not Zubuntu - you get nearly 50% more cpu which is great for compiling. (Never mind the optimisations). I must admit I have swap on the MD and starting emacs is faster in Zubuntu than pdaxrom.

You can just copy the pdaX overclocking script over to Zubuntu, AFAIK. All it does is edit values in /sys, I believe.

It doesn't work. The places it reads and writes don't appear to exist in the ubuntu kernel. I found a different version hacked by yonggun for debian but it reads the cpu correctly but requires a utility called dvfm to write to /dev/ipmc neither of which I can find.

Any zaurus kernel hackers care to point me in the right direction?

Thanks

The kernel 2.26.26 does not have the cpufreq module compiled and so the cpufreq-utils can't be used. Too bad....
Got to wait and see how cortez gets on with the latest kernel.

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Performance?

« on: February 09, 2009, 05:41:23 am »

Done all of the above - am busy compiling some apps and thought overclocking was in PDAXrom why not Zubuntu - you get nearly 50% more cpu which is great for compiling. (Never mind the optimisations). I must admit I have swap on the MD and starting emacs is faster in Zubuntu than pdaxrom.

You can just copy the pdaX overclocking script over to Zubuntu, AFAIK. All it does is edit values in /sys, I believe.

It doesn't work. The places it reads and writes don't appear to exist in the ubuntu kernel. I found a different version hacked by yonggun for debian but it reads the cpu correctly but requires a utility called dvfm to write to /dev/ipmc neither of which I can find.

Any zaurus kernel hackers care to point me in the right direction?

Thanks

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Performance?

« on: February 06, 2009, 11:49:58 am »

Still NO sound - do you have sound working?

Have you run alsamixer and unmuted everything?

I believe I have - I found alsamixer very confusing. Does [OO] mean that both channels are unmuted (as opposed to [MM])?

Thanks

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Performance?

« on: February 06, 2009, 09:45:51 am »

Thanks for the @ - weird that its shift though I guess there is nothing else on the key for shift for.

I solved the usb lan thing - my SD was corrupted by a power fail - had to fsck it and guess the usb lan module got trashed.
So I simply re-installed the spitz additional tarnall from Cortez and that fixed it. Still NO sound - do you have sound working?

PS I have changed from lxde to icewm and feel even happier with zubuntu! More tweaking this weekend.

Thanks again

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Performance?

« on: February 05, 2009, 06:59:38 pm »

I think if you are not getting the performance you are expecting please try stopping the tskeys process.

this is mentioned in the RC1 thread but if you did not read the whole thread it is easy to miss.


You can stop it before starting the windows manager with "killall tskeys"

taken from here:

https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=&...st&p=181101


or you can comment out the tskeys from starting documented here:

https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=&...st&p=181116


I also, since I am using a C3100, put my swap area on a partition on the MD  not sure if this is faster or slower


Thanks to the folks who found this information and posted it.  Just though if this was discussed here in the performance thread it would help.

It was also mentioned that a speedy SD card helps.  I expect to try that as soon as it arrives but I saw a significant improvement once the tskeys process was stopped.




Baz

Done all of the above - am busy compiling some apps and thought overclocking was in PDAXrom why not Zubuntu - you get nearly 50% more cpu which is great for compiling. (Never mind the optimisations). I must admit I have swap on the MD and starting emacs is faster in Zubuntu than pdaxrom.

Anyone try building any apps? I mostly have the latest EMACS of the cvs head working - some lisp files don't get made but I don't use them.
Tried mplayer - since audacious doesn't work for me. Fails - goes round and round saying configuration changed re-run ./configure - go figure indeed.....

Went back to pdaxrom today briefly - and realised just how good it was. Zubuntu has th epotential to be better but for me it is still not there (no sound/video, can't get wireless and wpa going on my ambicom, my noname usb lan stopped working (both ambicom and usb-lan work fine in pdaxrom).
Can't get a @ symbol and the key repeat starts too soon for my chubby fingers!

Thanks
tanj