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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Frozen bubble updated

« on: June 12, 2004, 10:37:15 pm »

I\'ve updated frozen-bubble in the unstable feed.

If you want to save your high scores, do this before installing:
mv /home/root/.fb* /home

and then after install:
mv /home/.fb* /home/root

Changes:

The \'p\' button now pauses the game.  I know that not having a pause button had to annoy somebody out there.

I converted all of the png images fro 24-bit to 8-bit and reduced the coloring from 256 colors to 64 colors.  This cuts the file sizes of the images in more than half and improves game speed and loading time.  You shouldn\'t even notice the difference on the tiny screen

Got rid of the \'falling bubble\' animation that slowed down gameplay in the 2 graphic level (the default graphics level).

I\'m probably going to do 1 more update, its just going to be a couple of weeks before I have the time.  I want to compress the wav files a little to save space and find some more ways to improve speed even more.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Unstable feed

« on: June 11, 2004, 07:24:41 am »

PMF as uploaded a TON of apps to the unstable feed.  There are now almost 200 ipks between the 2 feeds.  Wow...

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / installing ipkgs without network

« on: June 10, 2004, 05:47:34 pm »

It may be a dependency issue.  Try installing something that doesn\'t depend on any other uninstalled things, like mb-volume-applet.

If that works, you will need to try to install your programs in a certain order to please those dependencies.  You can find out what each ipk depends on by looking up the ipk in the Packages file in the feed directory. http://www.pdaxrom.org/feed/Packages

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Accessories / PDA Holder for zaurus in car - Is this any good?

« on: June 10, 2004, 05:31:30 pm »

my 5600 fits perfectly in the cup holder of both my car and truck.

mjalkut, can you post a link to exactly what you have for your 5600?  I did a search, but wasn\'t really sure what I was looking for.

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Accessories / PDA Holder for zaurus in car - Is this any good?

« on: June 09, 2004, 10:50:21 pm »

it should fit!

That is great timing.  I installed a new stereo system in my truck today and one of the first things I did was hook my zaurus up to the aux input.  Maybe I\'m just a geek... but I swear mp3s sound cleaner when played on the zaurus than when played on my CD/MP3 deck.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / What do you prefer...

« on: June 09, 2004, 06:53:17 pm »

Laze:  I know you didn\'t say anything about switching the window managers, but maybe you should look into pekwm.  It uses less memory than openbox (4.4mb compared to 5.4, not a ton but every little bit saved adds up after a while), and it has a startup script that can open programs *after* itself and rox has completely loaded (I couldn\'t find a way to do this with openbox, adding the .xinitrc attempts to open the programs while the wm is running).  You can also resize/move windows using the keypad.  Pmf alread has it available in his feed.

There are also allot of apps in /usr/X11R6/bin that probably could be removed to save space. For example, who here plays texteroids?  Many people wouldn\'t even know that it was preinstalled into pdaX, and those that do know that it doesn\'t work

I\'m happy with the matchbox setup you have now... it\'s very fast, but I do not use it.  The option to uninstall it sounds very good.

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Simpletech Pro-X 256MB SD $54 shipped (no MIR)

« on: June 09, 2004, 05:14:32 pm »

Cool deal Zazz.. I was needing one of these, was only waiting to hear a fellow zuarii owner comment on them.

Any idea if it is possible to use the coupon twice?  I may give it a shot, after my first order has been shipped. (I really need 2 of these before my sandisk dies)

This has been on some of the popular deal forums for a couple weeks now and they still haven\'t sold out, simpletech must be loaded with these things.

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General Discussion / Its back sharps devnet

« on: June 08, 2004, 05:55:23 am »

Maybe they are rebuilding the site, again

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Cross compiling according to instructions didn\'t work

« on: June 07, 2004, 10:27:09 pm »

Try to copy/paste this instead of the ./configure command on the tutorial:

CC=armv5tel-cacko-linux-gcc LDFLAGS=\"-Wl,-rpath-link,$X11LIB\" ./configure --host=armv5tel-cacko-linux --build=i686-linux --x-includes=$X11INC --x-libraries=$X11LIB

Nothing is wrong with the tutorial, other than some missing spaces in the ./configure command.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Bluefish for pdaX

« on: June 07, 2004, 09:49:54 pm »

http://www.pdaxrom.org/ipk_feed.php?showfeed=unstable

A powerful web development tool.  More info here:  http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index2.html

requires PCRE from the unstable feed

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Any web developers who use pdaX?

« on: June 07, 2004, 09:45:09 pm »

I figure when I finally get my Zaurus(SL-6000L) I will first get pdax working then I think I will make Nvu work, because I like its dreamweaver like interface.  Though more likely I will uses vim for almost everything either on the Z or sshed to one of my servers and working on my php code or templates.

Nvu looks very nice!  I\'d compile it but it requires a mozilla build, and I never figured out how to cross compile it (what a pain).  I\'ll have to compile it natively over nfs after I get a new SD card (low on my priority list) to hold the 128mb swapfile that a mozilla build requires.  A native compile of mozilla also takes well over 24 hours, making it hard to troubleshoot if something goes wrong.

I actually have 2 different builds of mozilla on my list of things to do once I get a new card.  One for nvu, and a build of mozilla 1.0 so I can build skipstone (a lightweight mozilla browser that I\'m sure would run smoothly on pdaX)

Check out bluefish for now, many of you experienced web developers should find it useful.

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5x00 General discussions / Why can\'t I create a swapfile

« on: June 07, 2004, 06:17:15 am »

Thanks tumnus... any idea how I can fix that?  Can I format /dev/mtdblock3 without seriously messing something up?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Any web developers who use pdaX?

« on: June 06, 2004, 11:26:24 pm »

whit, I\'ve uploaded joe to the pdaxrom unstable feed

I\'ll upload bluefish tomorrow.. it\'s getting late.

keep the suggestions coming...

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5x00 General discussions / Why can\'t I create a swapfile

« on: June 06, 2004, 10:44:30 pm »

I\'m having a problem using a swapfile on my 5600... I swear I have done this a hundred times before.  The memory applet will not even create the swapfile for me.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/root/swapfile bs=1024 count=8192
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
# mkswap -v1 /home/root/swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 8384512 bytes
# /sbin/swapon /home/root/swapfile
swapon: swapon: Invalid argument

I am using a fresh install of zynergy.  I was running tkcrom before and was having the same problem (this was the reason I switched roms, thinking it was tkcrom\'s fault)

here is what mount shows:

# mount
/dev/root on / type jffs2 (ro)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/ram1 on /dev type minix (rw)
/dev/mtdblock3 on /home type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)

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5x00 General discussions / streaming audio?

« on: June 06, 2004, 08:41:40 pm »

cmisip:  Do you have xmms installed without OZ?  Care to share how you did it?  My wife would love that on her 5600, but I\'m not willing to put an unstable OZ on it.