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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Upgrading Beta1/beta3 To Pdaxii13

« on: July 06, 2007, 02:23:47 pm »

Okay, how about beta3 for the 860?  Image and Feed are here.

Already had that one too, tried with same results.

In the 7x0/860 feed is this.
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I don't know if it gives greater than 1GB support though.
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I tried the one from the [a href=\"http://www.tyrannozaurus.com/feed/beta3/feed/sdcard_2.4.20_armv5tel.ipk]TY feed[/url], no change. it seems there's no difference from which of the 3 beta's you start, cards no longer mount after the upgrade. At least for me that's the case, although we haven't heard back from macwiz yet.

Looks like I'm going back to Cacko until I have time to reinstall r197.
Thanks for the all help, Holovector.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Upgrading Beta1/beta3 To Pdaxii13

« on: July 06, 2007, 12:32:06 pm »

I'm pretty sure both of these were pre-upgrade, but I'll reflash & double check.

Confirmed. pre-upgrade beta1 = 2.4.18, beta2 (& presumably beta3) = 2.4.20. Which is what I expected, since AFAIK pdaxii13 doesn't touch the kernel itself.

And if by the 3200 sd driver you mean the one included in the pdaxii13 upgrade tarball, then no, it seems to cause problems. I'll double check that too & report back.[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164442\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Well that is potentially good and bad news.  Yes, I was referring to the one included in the tarball.  Meanie repackaged the 3200 enhanced sd driver that shipped with the SharpROM so that it could be used under pdaX.  I'm surprised that it didn't work.  I hope it isn't due to hardware differences between the xx0 and xx00.[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164449\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

No good news I'm afraid. After upgrade & reboot, NO cards are mounting properly, sd or cf. Using a 1GB sd & a 512MB cf for testing. Neither /dev/mm* nor /dev/hd* exist. Lots of errors from dmesg, most notably for sd:

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pxa_sd_wait_id_response: responce time out (cmd=01 MMC_STAT=0x2142)and for hd:

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hda: LEXAR ATA FLASH, ATA DISK drive
hda: ERROR, PORTS ALREADY IN USE
And now one of the best things from beta2 (over beta1) is gone; the fn-brigthness & fn-zoom keys are broken (sigh).

The main reason I was trying to get pdaxii13 working is that I'm wanting to try other rom's, but there currently isn't an easy restore back to R197/8 like the NAND utilities provide. I also tried Angstrom again, but no joy there yet (yes, I did send a help message to the mailing list). From this state, I'm willing/forced to play around a bit .

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Upgrading Beta1/beta3 To Pdaxii13

« on: July 06, 2007, 10:01:57 am »

sashz ported the 2.4.20 kernel to the c7x0 series!?  Is this uname from before or after doing a pdaXii13 patching?  If it really is running 2.4.20 then maybe the enhanced SD driver from the 3200 will work.[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164399\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

I'm pretty sure both of these were pre-upgrade, but I'll reflash & double check. And if by the 3200 sd driver you mean the one included in the pdaxii13 upgrade tarball, then no, it seems to cause problems. I'll double check that too & report back.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Upgrading Beta1/beta3 To Pdaxii13

« on: July 05, 2007, 03:10:30 pm »

Hi. I got the upgrade to pdaxii13 working on my 860 model from a clean install of beta1. I am having trouble with it not recognizing any SD card after the upgrade. Any ideas?

Also if I quit X, the cli is scrambled and rotated. I have no problem with X being rotated though.[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=158720\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Sort of solved my first query. I had tried mounting from the command line, but clearly I was doing that wrong. Then I installed rox, which took a while because of a missing library, and then from rox filer just clicking on the card icon when in the /mnt folder did the trick.[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=158742\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Hi macwiz. I've just applied the pdaxii13 upgrade to my beta2 install, and I'm experiencing the same two problems as you. Cards won't mount (neither sd nor cf) and I get the funky sideways screen when I quit X. I know you said the former problem was solved by installing rox, but any idea of what the 'behind the scenes' issue was? According to my earlier findings, pdax1113's updated modules weren't compatible with the C860's kernel, but see below.

And did you ever get the screen rotation fixed? thks

[regarding failed tests of the 2.4.18 sd module]
that's too bad then. no big SD support in that case...[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=155309\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Hi again, Meanie. I've tried grappling with pdaxii13 again & I stumbled on something interesting. Previously my testing was from a beta1 base install. This time I tried it from my last beta2 working image (which was the last beta that really worked well on the C860). It was with my flipping back & forth that I noticed that the two use different kernels!  

beta1:

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# uname -a
Linux zaurus 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix #1 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:35:45 +0000 armv5tel unknownbeta2:

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root@zaurus# uname -a
Linux zaurus 2.4.20 #1 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:09:26 +0000 armv5tel unknownDoes this mean that there might be hope for me yet? i.e. is there another module for the 2.4.20 kernel I can try?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: June 23, 2007, 12:50:14 pm »

- screen not refreshing after exiting X

Ah, right. I'm used to suspending & resuming right after exiting X. A pain though, I agree.

does running

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clearor

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resetfix it?[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=163223\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Not for me.
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can you provide the output of fbset just after exiting X

and after you suspend/resume[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=163477\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Here's the output of fbset; there's no difference before and  after suspend.

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mode "640x480-813802"
        geometry 640 480 640 480 16
        timings 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
        accel false
        rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0
endmode

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: June 20, 2007, 12:57:35 pm »

Have you tried turning the speaker and/or headphones on using alsamixer?[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=163456\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

What do your alsamixer settings look like?  Correct alsamixer settings appear enabled by default (at least for me), although I could be wrong..[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=163459\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Well right now the relevant settings (AFAIK) are: Playback [95%], Jack Function [Headset] & Speaker Function [Off], 'cause I just listen to music via headphones. The speaker does work as long as I set Speaker Function [On]. HTH

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: June 20, 2007, 11:01:51 am »

I've applied SP7 to 197 on a SL-C750 but the audio isn't working.  I'm not hearing _anything_ from the internal speaker or external headphones.  Tried both mplayer and xmms.  I mainly use my Zaurus for playing music, so it would be nice to have this fixed...  Any ideas? =)

The sound works in Cacko and also if I do a sound test in the Fn+D+M panel, so it's not a hardware issue. 

(Thanks for all your hard work Meanie!!)[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=163431\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Have you tried turning the speaker and/or headphones on using alsamixer?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: June 15, 2007, 06:20:55 am »

- screen not refreshing after exiting X

Ah, right. I'm used to suspending & resuming right after exiting X. A pain though, I agree.

does running

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clearor

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resetfix it?[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=163223\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Not for me.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: June 13, 2007, 08:28:39 am »

The next release of pdaXrom will have a GUI installer with system backup and restore feature to replace the nand backup/restore feature. I may also implement zbackup on pdaXrom (if time permits) so you can create system snapshots that you can use to flash back your system.[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=163076\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Exciting additions. The flash-restore is slated to work for all models? That would be really good news.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: June 12, 2007, 01:22:12 pm »

- shutting off randomly for no reason
- apm issues

I haven't experienced these on my 860.

- screen not refreshing after exiting X

Ah, right. I'm used to suspending & resuming right after exiting X. A pain though, I agree.

- audio doesn't shut off when headphones are plugged-in

True. It's a another pain having to run alsamixer all the time. Then again, at least for me, it's not a biggy 'cause I don't use the speaker very often.

- screen fading doesn't work with Fn+3 and 4 keys

It's been so long I had forgotten about that. And the Fn+1 & Fn+2 to shrink & enlarge the terminal fonts was a kewl thing I remember from Cacko too .

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: June 12, 2007, 01:15:47 pm »

any comment about r197 stability/usability after this patch?[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=163041\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

IMHO these sp's are baby steps towards the next 'official' release (right Meanie?). Now whether that release will be labelled as stable, I can't say.

But to answer the question direclty, no, I still wouldn't consider this release + sp6 is stable, I have a few issues that I haven't reported, mainly 'cause I haven't had the time to really troubleshoot them myself yet. The ext2 partition on my sd card seems to need a frequent fsck'ing (which I've automated on reboot) & my hostap drivers seem to go south once in a while requiring a reboot. It would be nice to have it more dependable so I can store my contacts & calendar on it & have it automatically wake up for alarms & such, but that hasn't been a high enough priority for me (yet) to drive me away . Oh, and the loss of the NAND flash & restore is a loss that also prevents me from depepnding on my Z. It's too hard to get it back to my working state.

Otherwise, I'm quite happy . But for me my Z is a luxury not a requirement.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: June 12, 2007, 01:03:08 pm »

[...snip...] and also sudo. you can now create new users and run everything as that user instead of root.[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=163023\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

I notice that you implemented that by specifying the allowable programs. I just use NOPASSWD:ALL. Other than security (not a big issue on the Z, especially since most of us run as root anyway), do you see a need to be specific?

Is there plan to have sudo specified in the exec line of the desktop files, so this would be seamless in the gui, or is there some other method you had in mind?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: June 08, 2007, 11:05:16 am »

grog -- could you tell me/us a little about the latest (198+sp4?) on 860?

I still can't see a clear message if it's still too early to change to this or if
it's stable... etc.[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=162816\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Well, AFAIK the only thing that it currently breaks is the xpdf binary, which I've made Meanie aware of. Just reinstall xpdf after. On the upside, updates to wifi-radar are nice to have (i.e. it actually works now). But I don't use all of the applications that are touched, so your mileage may vary.

Bottom line is, I'd recommend going for it, but don't kill the messenger if something does break . We're still using a beta product, after all  
HTH

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: June 06, 2007, 01:05:42 pm »

Oh, and Meanie. Could I ask a favour & get you to correct the permissions of the directories in the package, specifically /etc, /etc/rc.d, /etc/rc.d/init.d & /etc/X11 (just the ones I can remember off the top of my head). 99% of my work on the Z is in a terminal as a non-root user using sudo & I keep having to reset these dirs back from 700 to 755 after I install the sp. thks
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done. file permissions fixed. also added sltime...
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Not quite. The directories need execute permissions as well. Currently:

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drwxr--r-- root/root         0 2007-05-24 16:34:42 ./etc/hotplug/
drwxr--r-- root/root         0 2007-05-28 07:26:37 ./etc/rc.d/
drwxr--r-- root/root         0 2007-05-24 16:34:42 ./etc/X11/
drwxr--r-- root/root         0 2007-05-24 20:36:33 ./etc/X11/kb/
drwxr--r-- root/root         0 2007-05-25 14:26:46 ./etc/X11/kb/Akita/As well, 'fraid I have to report a problem with the sp's for corgi's. The xpdf binary isn't compatible, crashing with an 'Illegal instruction' error. It took me a while to notice this 'cause I don't use it that often. I checked out most of the other binary's that are included in the sp & haven't found any issues with any of those.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Gpe Pim For R121/r198

« on: June 02, 2007, 12:49:11 pm »

FYI the kdepimpi package seems to install everything needed for kopi & kapi (at least from what my few tests have found so far). It's a good set of apps, although not being currently maintained AFAIK.