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Accessories / Samsung digimax battery pack

« on: February 12, 2004, 09:22:14 am »

You can get that cheaper by building it yourself:
- 4 x 1.2 V rechargeable batteries (AA, Baby or Mono, depending on which capacity/weight ratio you prefer)
- A case to hold the batteries
- a plug for 9V batteries (to be attached to the battery case)
- some cable
- a plug that goes into your Z.

Beware! Never replace the rechargeable batteries with 1.5 V batteries, as this would blow your Z (6 V vs the 5 you need).

Good luck

Peter

17

Sharp ROMs / which sharp rom

« on: February 12, 2004, 09:15:50 am »

Foxdie,

you can have the same with the TKROM, the footprint is even a bit smaller, it leaves 2.something MB in the 25 MB root partition, while cacko requires 27 MB.

regards

Peter

18

Software / Another Calendar/Todo Combined App

« on: February 12, 2004, 05:12:27 am »

And what is also very nice is that it also works on the C series 8o)

19

Sharp ROMs / which sharp rom

« on: February 12, 2004, 04:24:27 am »

I\'m currently doing some testing on my C760 and need to reflash quite often

I currently toggle between TheKompanyROM (TKR) and Cacko QT ROMs, both have their Pro\'s and Con\'s (This is truly not objective):
TKR:
+ The TKR is quite slim and IMHO has the best looking icons and themes
+ On TKR you can omit the Sharp apps you don\'t need, as they have been taken out and can be installed as package
- The keyhelper app. does not work (at least I didn\'t manage)
- The graphical installer does also not work, apps need to be installed via console and ipkg commands

Cacko:
+ Has some nice additions like Kino2 on board, which is a nice video player
+ Comes with different keyboard layouts that can even be toggled
- There seems to be no documentation about how to adapt the keyboard layouts to your needs in case you don\'t like the given sets
- Opera (my favourite browser) comes with icons you can see, whereas all other opera installations use the icons for the 5x00 series, which appear very small on our VGA screens

Cacko X11
Has all Pro\'s and con\'s of an X system: It is very powerful and adaptable to your needs (The only ROM on which I managed to get the keyboard layout I wanted) but not always very intuitive, so definitely not for the PDA/PIM user
+ comes with a tuning app: You can make your Z faster OR even slower to extend runtime with one battery, eg. if you only want to read something
+ Many different flavours of Window Managers (which might also be a Minus, which one is the best to choose?)
+ Can act as basis for Gentoo linux on your Sharp (experimental)
+ Hancom Office can easily be replaced with Abiword and gnumeric (even though they are much bigger), and even GIMP runs
+ X11 apps you want to run on your Z that nobody has compiled yet for Arm architecture could more or less easily be done by yourself provided the sources are available
- IMHO the Cacko X11 is still in Alpha mode, eg. setting date to the current date crashes the system, so I had always dates like beginning of January 2004

My personal favourite would be the Cacko X11 ROM if the date/time bug would be fixed. For the time being I stay with one of the two first mentioned, not having decided finally which one I like more.

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Need help with setting up zgcc on cacko/crow ROM

« on: February 10, 2004, 10:21:18 am »

Gargoyle,

to get the zgcc pack runing you have to mount it (create a mount point first), as it is an image of a compressed cramfs:

mount -t cramfs /mnt/card/zgcc-3.3.1.img /usr/local/lib/arm -o loop

There are sources that suggest using a hidden mount point (starting with a dot) as the file thingy would not search it then.

Then expand your .profile resp .bashrc with these entries:

export ZGCCPATH=/home/root/usr/local/lib/arm/3.3.1                  # you can omit the \"/home/root\" portion if you like
export GCC_EXEC_PREFIX=$ZGCCPATH/lib/gcc-lib/arm-linux/3.3.1/
export COMPILER_PATH=$ZGCCPATH/bin:$ZGCCPATH/lib/gcc-lib/arm-linux/3.3.1/
export CPATH=$ZGCCPATH/include/
export LIBRARY_PATH=$ZGCCPATH/lib/:$ZGCCPATH/lib/gcc-lib/arm-linux/3.3.1/:/lib/:/home/QtPalmtop/lib/
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$ZGCCPATH/include/g++-3/
export PATH=$ZGCCPATH/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ZGCCPATH/lib
ln -sf /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc.so
ln -sf /lib/libm.so.6 /usr/lib/libm.so
ln -sf $ZGCCPATH/bin/libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

I\'m not sure about the last three entries, though, as I currently don\'t have the script on my Z, and the backup is at home, o check if they apply at all.

If you have enough space you could alos mount it to a different directory and copy its contents to /usr/local/lib/arm (if I remember correctly it continues then with 3.3.1/)

Some environments ae set up for this path. I was able to compile lout with this setup on a Cacko Qtopia ROM, and of course it also works with his X11 ROM.

Hope that helps.

Peter

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General Discussion / What do you use your Zaurus for?

« on: February 07, 2004, 07:17:53 pm »

Yeah, all the above plus learning MySQL currently while commuting to work (people smile over that guy that sits there each morning with a 3 pound book on his lap and a little computer-like gadget of about 220 gramms)  

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Software / The best console app so far

« on: February 06, 2004, 11:25:55 am »

Thanks, will try when my Z awakes from the coma I sent him too this morning :cry:

Peter

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Software / The best console app so far

« on: February 06, 2004, 09:44:08 am »

I installed the freely available v0.9.2 yesterday on my C760, but it started just like an 5x00 app in portrait mode with all icons in the task bar in low res. And there was no way to rotate back. Did I do something wrong? Or will I just have to wait until 0.9.3 becomes available to the public?

Regards

Peter

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Software / Mysql on c760

« on: February 05, 2004, 09:10:24 am »

@jp40

It\'s always good to scan the postings now and then. I\'m currently preparing to compile MySQL 4 and PostgreSQL native on my 760, because, as already mentioned, the only available ipk is pre 3.23.

I\'m currently looking for a useable glibc, but would also be interested in helping you with your port, if you like. Just let me know.

Other projects at the horizon will be:
- GhostScript/GSView
- lout

@jurwit:

It shouldn\'t matter which ROM, as MySQL has no GUI\'s (yet). he available 3.22 ipk installs and runs under every C[78]x0 ROM. Can\'t tell for the 5x00 though.

Peter

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Key Mapping

« on: February 02, 2004, 03:54:26 pm »

@pgas:

Thanks a lot! I will try that one.

Regards

Peter

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Key Mapping

« on: February 02, 2004, 11:44:13 am »

@Foxdie:

Jason, thanks for the work on the two modifier files, there were a few key strokes which I took over into my config (not all, as I need the German Umlauts and the EURO sign from time 2 time).

The only feature I still miss, which is available in the keyhelper application is to set Shift and Fn into a sticky mode, so that I can type Shift and Z with my left thumb one after the other and still get a capital Z (or Fn + Z) respectively.

Did you come across anything like this when you were investigating the key mappings?

Thanks

Peter

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rotating the screen

« on: January 31, 2004, 05:40:37 pm »

Enki wrote in a former post:
\"The key to rotation in x is the /usr/X11R6/bin/xrandr command ...

$ xrandr -o left
the above command will rotate the screen into \"portrait\" mode, ie default for 5500 serioes

$ xrandr -o normal
this one will put it back in \"landscape\" mode, ie default for 7x0 series\"

Good luck!  

Peter

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General Discussion / which extra gui in addition to X11 to implement?

« on: January 30, 2004, 05:47:08 pm »

I would also vote for Qtopia, better look and feel. A also agree that this would be a major achievement. Unfortunately I\'m \"just\" a user, not a developer, so I can\'t halp developing, but may offer me and my 760 as beta testers ;-)

Peter

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General Discussion / What ROMS are you using?

« on: January 30, 2004, 02:49:29 pm »

I wouldn\'t want to call the apps Sharp delivers as \"PIM\", IMHO they are hardly useable at all.

I want to use the Z as Linux box on the road, I currently use itto learn MySQL, which works quite well.

Truly, there are points that need to be improved with this ROM, just to name the date/time feature.

And also true, they are limited to the C series. I find it unfortunate that both, the low res Z\'s and the VGA Z\'s have the same name. It is often hard to find Z GUI apps, that can be used with the C series.

Regards

Peter

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Germany / minimal system (linux)

« on: January 30, 2004, 11:07:36 am »

Bist du sicher dass hier der richtige Ort für eine solche Frage ist? Die meisten hier haben Sharp Zaurus, da ist von vorneherein Linux oder was ähnliches drauf. Aber probier doch mal http://www.openzaurus.org, dort bekommst du auch was für Ipaq\'s

Gruß
Peter