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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1

« on: March 22, 2009, 04:37:14 pm »

cat hostap_cs >> /etc/modules to force module load at startup

echo hostap_cs >> /etc/modules to beprecise, not cat.

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Working - Mostly - Except Pidgin

« on: February 28, 2009, 06:01:24 am »

bumpin this, any word? also, as I side note, what's a good lightweight message client that will do google talk?

pidgin runs on jaunty (9.x) but not on hardy (8.10).

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1 Upgraded To Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Armel

« on: February 22, 2009, 12:06:21 pm »

MPlayer normally just returns. There's no GUI. Did you try running "mplayer somevideo.mpg" or just "mplayer"?

Of course I did both plus mplayer --help, mplayer -h, etc.
Same result.

I also found out that most players in Jaunty segfault or end up with an illegal instruction, including audacious, totem-xine, etc.

Btw, the upgrading way (apt-get update, apt-get upgrade/distupgrade) did not work as it left me with lots of unresolved dependencies and a cyclic dependency in libc6. So I did a fresh install. To make lxde work as before I had to replace icewm by lxde and uninstall the gdm login manager- which did not let me login as root and there had not been created a user account before.

Another issue: adduser leaves me with a user account which is not allowed to do networking as ping, nslookup, etc. all return with an error.
The new user has to be moved in a certain user group which I am actually not aware of.

Besides this jaunty looks to be a bit faster than hardy and being able to test drive fennec is worth the installation effort.

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1 Upgraded To Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Armel

« on: February 21, 2009, 11:42:49 am »

Try that one before doing TOO much work (mplayer-bvdd-iwmmxt).

Does not work here as it immediatey returns without further comment.

Oliver

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General Discussion / Forget Android, Here Comes Azingo!

« on: February 10, 2009, 01:04:23 am »

http://www.pda-247.com/wordpress/2009/02/a...ther-mobile-os/
Azingo Web Runtime is a WebKit based technology

Well, this is JAMP- just another mobile platform. Of which plenty are floating around nowadays. And, last but not least, are all incompatible in terms of application building unless one installs the whole bunch of toolkit libraries- Azingo here, Qt/Qtopia there, Openmoko, etc.

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu On A 4gb Transcend Sd Card

« on: February 02, 2009, 12:49:16 pm »

Perhaps an obvious question, but does the SD card contain a partition?

Of course it does
I once had two partitions on it but reduced to one to eliminate this as a potential source.

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu On A 4gb Transcend Sd Card

« on: February 02, 2009, 08:04:20 am »

Until today I used a Sandisk ExtremeIII SD card with 2.0 GB to run zubuntu via kexecboot kernel which worked like a chrm.

Today I formatted a 4GB Transcend card with ext3 and installed zubuntu on it. The result is somehow demotivating- themultiboot kernel starts, probes mmcblk0p1 and then returns with "no bootable device found". The boot flag is set on the partition.

I tried several things to solve the issue- shrink the partition to 1 GB, copied the root filesystem from the 2GB card- same result.

Interesting: Starting with the 2GB card until the multiboot display appears and then exchanging the SD cards works. So it is not the card itself, propably.

Any clues or similar experience?

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Compiling Qt Programs For Angstrom With Opie

« on: January 27, 2009, 03:48:54 pm »

The error is here:

ERROR: log data follows (/data/develop/oe/angstrom-2007.1/oetmp/work/x86_64-linux/shasum-native-1.0-r1/temp/log.do_compile.16666)
| collect2: cannot find 'ld'

It is looking for the native linker which lets me believe that your native machine does not have a compiler/linker package installed.

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Compiling Qt Programs For Angstrom With Opie

« on: January 23, 2009, 03:47:41 pm »

ok;  but then: How can I build the binaries for an application for OPIE?

From the other messages in this thread I read that Portabase should run under OPIE -- if I only could compile it.

Bernd, the build process is completety described in the Angstrom and OE wiki and Getting Started sections.
Once you have set up OE it is as simple as calling "bitbake portabase"
However be aware that nobody has build portabase for a while- as it requires several dependencies they might have broken in the meantime and are then not compatible any more with the current Angstrom version. In that case some hacking is required.

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Compiling Qt Programs For Angstrom With Opie

« on: January 22, 2009, 04:04:13 pm »

And if you want to build angstrom packages, why don't you hop over to http://www.openembedded.org and read the "Getting Started" instructions ?

Already been there - but I did not find the infos I want. I do not want to write new programs for Opie or create a new image - just compile the existing Portabase for Opie on my Zaurus.

In that case you missed the point. OE is a complete build system for automatically building the software be it the whole Angstrom distribution or only packages. In any case it fetches the required dependencies and sets up the cross compiling system. If you want to build a package for Angstrom there is no good way around setting up OE.

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Compiling Qt Programs For Angstrom With Opie

« on: January 22, 2009, 05:31:53 am »

Hi,

which packages do I need to compile Qt3 programs for Angstrom/Opie ? And where can I get them?

(I want to compile portabase for Angstrom with Opie)

Given the fact that opie completely relies on qte 2.3.x you need a very good programmer who ports the missing qt3 functionality to qt2.
Though last time I checked portabase was based on qt2, not qt3.

And if you want to build angstrom packages, why don't you hop over to http://www.openembedded.org and read the "Getting Started" instructions ?

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Working - Mostly - Except Pidgin

« on: January 14, 2009, 05:15:55 am »

I managed to get zubuntu working - mostly on my SL-C860 with some tweaks, edits and manual IP address.
Pidgin unfortunately segfaults whenever it is run - I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck.
Not sure about that one but otherwise it looks great!

Same here, I am afraid. Though I can live without, the repositories are full of messaging tools

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Notecase And Portabase For Angstrom With Opie 2007.12

« on: January 10, 2009, 05:49:33 am »

regarding Notecase:
Any clue how much effort it is to port it to Opie?

The same effort it would take to port a native Windows application to GNOME/KDE or GNOME to KDE.

The GUI concepts between Opie and GPE both are totally different so it would not make much sense to do a port.

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Notecase And Portabase For Angstrom With Opie 2007.12

« on: January 09, 2009, 03:39:49 pm »

Hi

do there already exist binaries or packages from Notecase and Portabase for Angstrom with Opie 2007.12?

I could not find these apps via google until now

As Notecase is a GTK application it will not run under Opie.
Portabase is a bit tricky to build so I believe nobody did it include in Angstrom yet. However the recipes are there.

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Packages

« on: January 07, 2009, 03:36:01 am »

Quasar repackaged for Zubuntu

Thanks, this is great- unfortunately the required mplayer package is not in the arm5 repositories so quasar (and all other mplayer based apps) will not work.

Oliver