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Ubuntu / Running Zubuntu From Internal Memory

« on: January 06, 2009, 04:28:19 pm »

What exactly does updater.sh and zImage.bin replace on the C3000? Is it the boot loader? How does the new one detect what distros/devices are bootable?

updater.sh is the script which normally flashes kernel and root image into NAND memory.

The zImage.bin provided by cortez is a special kernel image which pretends to be a kernel but instead shows the boot screen with all partitions found which either have a kernel-cmd-line file or a *.nfo file in the /boot directory.
After the user selected a partition it loads the kernel file from the /boot directory (usually labelled zImage) and boots the corresponding distribution as usual.

The only difference to the normal boot process is the kernel location (/boot/zImage instead of a NAND image).

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Package Descriptions - Where Are They?

« on: January 04, 2009, 02:39:34 pm »

Where do I find the descriptions of available packages in the zubuntu repositories?
In "most" other Zaurus distros, all one needs to do is download the "Packages" file and open it in a text editor.
There you can read the description for each of the packages in the feed. Also shown are the dependencies, and other useful information.

BTW, I did try to search for this on the Ubuntu forums, but came up with no answer.

run aptitude to search the repository (offline)

Or "apt-get install synaptic" and run it

Oliver

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1

« on: January 04, 2009, 02:36:33 pm »

-Orinoco/hermes is modprobed by default (I think there's something that can be done with making a list of card IDs or something similar)

Blacklist the orinoco modules in /etc/modprobe.d/

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Keymap Issue?

« on: January 04, 2009, 02:21:27 pm »

Also, whatever tskeys is totally dogging the machine and I have to kill it when ASAP after booting. Are there any suggestions for fixing that?

Nobody debugged it yet. Killing it is the only work-around.

Note that it also applies to zubuntu distros- same problem. It is not distro specific.

Oliver

35

Ubuntu / Akita Install Report

« on: January 02, 2009, 11:16:05 am »

[quote name='nontrivial
I also forgot to mention that the clock resets on every reboot. Hopefully that will be fixed in the next version.
[/quote]

Set the time once from a console by applying "date -u MMDDhhmmYY" with MMDDhhmm be month, day,hour,minute and year.

Afterwards a simple "hwclock --systohc" stores the date in the realtime clock of the Z so it can survive reboots.
 
Needless to say that it does not ssurvive a battery failure for a longer time...

Oliver

36

Ubuntu / Multiboot Issue

« on: January 01, 2009, 03:58:06 am »

So what am I missing? Does anybody have any ideas or can report success? Should I maybe try specifying ext2 instead of ext3?

I bet you have formatted the Angstrom as ext3...
However ext3 is not built in the kernel so it is not available at boot time.

Format the partitions as ext2 and give it a go.

Oliver

37

Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1

« on: December 28, 2008, 06:43:19 am »

Here my observations....

Installation went smoothly and besides the already lnown issues with the CF slot I noticed the following issues on my Akita device(C1000):

- tskeys is swallowing 80% of the CPU load after booting. Have to kill it manually, but then the brightness keys do not work any longer.
- CF cards always load the orinoco driver additionally to the hostap for my D-Link WLAN card. This is not the best option as the orinoco driver does not support WPA encryption=> fixed by blacklisting the modules
- firefox needs swap space to work. It takes 3-5 minutes on a standard installation to load it and is unusable due to heap shortages =? repaced firefox by midori
- The WICD network manager (announced on the blog) could not be found in the installation
- sylpheed is not in the start menu, lacks a desktop entry
- no ssh daemon is running so remote access is prohibited=> installed dropbear
- there should be a package manager available => fixed by installing synaptic
- rotation does not work in the standard installation
-  Pidgin segfaults while starting

Oliver

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Software / Quasar Media Player Released For Sharprom And Pdaxrom

« on: December 11, 2008, 03:57:59 pm »

screenshot

Great, looks like you made it.

Oliver

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Software / Quasar Media Player Released For Sharprom And Pdaxrom

« on: December 11, 2008, 03:39:01 pm »

And "skin.ini"
I think this looks like the file that needs edited.
There are three sections for font sizes in "skin.ini".
[bigmode]
[normalmode]
[smallmode]

Is there a way to just initiate [smallmode] ?

Yes, the skin.ini file is the one to edit, sorry.
You can enable small mode from the menu, but on the 3100 it will not bring much of a benefit as the fonts are still too large.

Edit all sections with fonts and reduce the font sizes to about 50% or less depending on your likeage.
Eg. change

Code: [Select]

playlist_font = helvetica,25,#FFFFFF to

Code: [Select]

playlist_font = helvetica,12,#FFFFFF
Oliver

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Software / Quasar Media Player Released For Sharprom And Pdaxrom

« on: December 11, 2008, 01:55:19 pm »

I just installed quasar media player to Angstrom. It is in the official feed and it pulled all the dependencies.
Is there a way to make the window fit on the Zaurus screen (C3100)
I'm running Angstrom X11 version.
Below is a pic of the screen.

I made the bitbake recipe files for quasar which are now integrated in the Angstrom build.

You have to go to the skins directory and change the font sizes of the default skin in one of the xml files (can't remember which).

That will make it a lot more readable.

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Dillo 2.0 Compatable With Latest Angstrom/libs?

« on: December 11, 2008, 01:51:33 pm »

Can one install older OZ application packages onto the current Angstrom version?

Almost certainly not unless there is a compatibility package available which I am not aware of.

Oliver

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Konqueror Needs Qt/embedded Server

« on: December 06, 2008, 01:50:55 pm »

I suspect it's going to need Opie to run

This is correct.

(I THINK that Opie is QT/E, though I don't know for sure).

Indeed it is.

I don't know if Opie is available for the "stable" distribution or not.

The news section on http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ will answer this

Oliver

43

Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Angstrom Upgrade Questions

« on: November 07, 2008, 06:10:51 am »

Never do an ipkg upgrade from the 2008 feed over a 2007 image.
This will lead almost certainly to an unusable system and if you think you have suceeded to 97% you are rather lucky or have not yet encountered all consequences.

Upgrading from 2007 to 2008 requires reflashing with a new 2008 image, otherwise no support can be given and questions arising from such procedures are good candidates to be ignored.

Reflashing is the (only) official way as communicated by the Angstrom project.

Oliver

44

OpenMoko / Fdom

« on: September 20, 2008, 12:11:49 pm »

Oh my gosh, this is becoming too stupid. Why yet ANOTHER distribution? Wouldn't their "skills" be a better help if they were to actually contribute to the current distro?

Though I am completely with you here I believe it is more fun to quickly throw in the common buzzword which is always thrown in that case beforesomebody else does it: Freedom of choice. Which is more a "Fragmentation of choice" but, well, this is how the game works. *g*

Oliver

45

SIMpad forum / Can Somebody Please Update The Minimo Package?

« on: July 19, 2008, 07:10:46 am »

We are still stuck with minimo_0.02+cvs20070626-r0_arm-oabi.ipk on the SIMpad, whereas development went on, and I've just seen an update to the latest version 1.8.1.16 for OpenBSD.

Sources are to be found here.

That would astonish me a lot because the official version is still 0.2 according to http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/

Oliver