Messages

31

C1000/3x00 General discussions / Sl-c3200?

« on: March 07, 2006, 11:24:23 am »

I just checked the HTC specs again.  It's a bit longer, but not as deep.  Has BT, WiFi, 640x480, 520Mhz proc.  I have seen Opie and GPE screen shots.  It also has 1.3mp camera and its a phone.  Keyboard, rotating screen.  

It is lacking CF.  I cannot use my 4GB Microdrives for movies, but it does have SD.  4GB SD cards < $200.

IMHO, the HTC Universal is what the Zaurus should have been given its 3 year head start.

I waited a year for the next Z.  What a letdown.

I'll stick with my c860, and watch the Linux progress of the HTC.  I can dump my phone with this device.  Given the phone is GSM/WCDMA + BT/WiFi this may represent the anti-Zaurus.  i.e. a device that will work everywhere but Japan (and perhaps Korea).

32

Zaurus - pdaXrom / Video Encoder Settings

« on: March 02, 2006, 11:27:48 pm »

My bad.  I C&P the command wrong.  Switch -ofps 30000/1001 with the vcodec=... line.

Command should be:

Code: [Select]

c:\progra~1\mplayer\mencoder %1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128:mode=0 -vf pp=lb,scale=320:240,rotate=1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts  vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:v4mv:vbitrate=512:vpass=2 -ofps 30000/1001 -oac copy -sws 2 -o %2

33

Zaurus - pdaXrom / Video Encoder Settings

« on: February 26, 2006, 11:11:42 am »

I no longer have problems with 320x240, 512bit, 30 frames/sec and Kino/Cacko 1.23 on my c860 using:

Code: [Select]

mencoder $1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128:mode=0 -vf pp=lb,scale=320x240,rotate=1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts -ofps 30000/1001 vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:v4mv:vbitrate=512:vpass=1 -oac copy -sws 2 -o output.avi

mencoder $1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128:mode=0 -vf pp=lb,scale=320x240,rotate=1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts -ofps 30000/1001 vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:v4mv:vbitrate=512:vpass=2 -oac copy -sws 2 -o output.aviI have not had the time to find the best options for highest quality output, but the above did fix all my audio sync problems with TiVo content.  It's spot on and looks great.  A similar setup also worked for my kids video iPod, i.e. no audio sync issues.

For DVDs an -ofps of 24000/1001 may solve the problem.  I have not tried DVDs yet.  Other settings for -ofps, using -noskip, and 3 pass encoding (don't ask me to recall all combinations) created the audio sync issues.

I don't know about newer units (c1000, c3xxx), but the c860 performs much better with prerotation.

On playback I did have to add to Kino General/Advanced options/Options for mplayer '-fs' to get full screen.  Under Video, uncheck all tabs, except Drop frames and Disable aspect ratio correction.  And, overclock on playback.

The actual playback options are:

Code: [Select]

-slave -nortc -quict -ac -mp3 -noaspect -vo w100 -nodouble -dr -framedrop -nocache -fs file...I hope this helps.  I have been fighting audio sync problems for months.

Lastly I read that 640x480 is possible with good performance with c[13] models.  I plan to upgrade when the next releases.  Does any know if you have to prerotate to get good performance with c[13] models?

34

Sharp ROMs / Cacko Rom Bluetooth With Tmobile

« on: February 23, 2006, 06:32:02 pm »

Hi,

Does anyone know how to connect a Zaurus with the Tmobile GPRS internet?

I have my C1000 pair up with my phone

but I don't know what to set on the bluetooth PPP screen,

do I need username, password? and what about the phone field?

any ideas would be appreciated, thanks
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=115884\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Phone number is: *99***CID# where CID is defined on your phone.  When you create a data account on your phone look at the CID field.

You will also have to setup in your phone a data account with the following:

APN: internetX.voicestream.com, where X = 2 for IP/NAT (default), or 3 for OpenIP/NAT (call Tmobile and ask for this, but your Z will be on the Net!).  Leave the rest blank or use the defaults.

Userid/password is blank on the phone and the Z.

Init string is: ATZ

Speed: 115200

Check HW flow, auto-detect routing, auto-detect name servers, obtain TCP/IP information, uncheck Windows PPP script.

This is what I use for my c860 + Cacko 1.23 + T610 (phone).  Works well.

35

General Discussion / Scripting

« on: February 23, 2006, 05:59:40 pm »

perfecto! I must spend more time with scripting...
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Start here:

[a href=\"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/shellsrptg/index.html]http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/shellsrptg/index.html[/url]

36

General Discussion / Scripting

« on: February 23, 2006, 10:56:14 am »

I have the output of hcitool scan, now I want to 'cut' out each line with linefeed delimiters, I have tried actually 'embedding" the lf(return) chr in the script, this does not return what I am looking for and if I use "tab" which is what separates the output from the 2nd line down, again doesnt return what I expect, Anyone have an idea how I just return the mac address with the name? BTW I am dumping this into a select box using opie-sh. Perhaps searching a wildcard pattern with grep is a better approach? if so how?  Any ideas greatly appreciated.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=115838\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

It would be helpful if you could provide the output and the output you want to generate.

Assuming you get:

Code: [Select]

$ hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:00:00:01:02:03       PC
        00:00:00:aa:bb:cc       PHONEAssuming you want:

Code: [Select]

$ hcitool scan | grep : | awk '{print $1 " " $2}'
00:00:00:01:02:03 PC
00:00:00:aa:bb:cc PHONE

37

Zaurus - pdaXrom / X48 Ipk For Pdaxrom 1.10beta1

« on: February 09, 2006, 07:15:39 pm »

Unrelated, but I have also fixed cgoban for 640x480 screens if you want to create a pdaxrom version.  http://sense.net/zc/go/.

38

Zaurus - pdaXrom / X48 Ipk For Pdaxrom 1.10beta1

« on: February 09, 2006, 07:08:35 pm »

A tip I should have mentioned.  x48 can be controlled from the keyboard, but you need left and right shift keys mapped to get to all the keys.  X/qt only has both shift mapped as left (or right, I cannot call).  I could not find a way with X/qt to have the left shift mapped as left, right as right, so I mapped another key.

39

Zaurus - pdaXrom / X48 Ipk For Pdaxrom 1.10beta1

« on: February 09, 2006, 07:04:23 pm »

The patch I created for the screen layout also has a few other minor fixes for the clock and performance.  I think the performance/clock patch may be have been omitted.  If the x48 recompile for pdaxrom using my patch does not perform at the same speed as a real hp48gx and/or has DST issues let me know (ask for timer.c and actions.c).

As for the readline issue, the version on http://sense.net/zc/x48/ does not require it.  You can probably rebuild x48 without readline by editing the Makefile.  It is used for debugging, something that you probably do not care about.

Lastly, portrait mode.  x48 without the patch is in portrait, but is too tall for the screen (326x733).  You need to shave off about 100 pixels.  Shouldn't be too hard, but to get it to switch dynamically may be a pain.  Since the hp48 retains state between power on/off (x84 close/open), I'd suggest that if someone wants to do this that closing and opening may be easier.

The 49g+ uses a 75MHz ARM9 processor, that I'd like to see on the Z.

40

Zaurus - pdaXrom / X48 Ipk For Pdaxrom 1.10beta1

« on: February 09, 2006, 06:41:30 pm »

This great anunakin! I installed the ipk succesfully, now if someone could please tell me where the .hp48 directory should go...

Also, it seems I am missing a library, libreadline. Where can i get this?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=114309\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Create .hp48 in your home directory.  Put the ROM image in there as 'rom'.  That's it.

41

Software / Gnuplot Question

« on: January 26, 2006, 07:49:14 pm »

Thanks for the really fast answers.

I didn't know that one too. But this doesn't solve the whole problem.

The text file is the output of a program, and so there are new entries all the time. I would like to watch them in gnuplot.

Now i am using gnuplot4. Here it is possible to refresh the data with the keys "A" or "E". That ok but it either has a fixed view, or it resizes the whole view to see the whole graph.

I need too see the last entries only. Like "moving" the graph "to the right" without changing the "zoom".

Michael
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

I do this with a combination of expect and gnuplot.  You need to write an expect script that will:

1.  Startup gnuplot
2.  tail -50 data >data.50
3.  send gnuplot: plot 'data.50'
4.  tail -50 data >data.50
5.  send gnuplot: replot
6.  sleep
7.  goto 4.

Examples:

data.expect:

#!/usr/bin/expect

system tail -50 data >data.50
spawn gnuplot data.gnuplot -

while {1} {
  sleep 1
  system tail -50 data >data.50
  expect ">"
  send "replot\r" #replot will keep the geometry but adjust the plot axis to match data unless you use set range commands.
}

data.gnuplot:

plot "data.50" with linespoints

For more advanced functions like interaction (A and E keys) use the expect "interact" statements.  Get the book "Exploring Expect".  You can get expect/tcl here (you need tcl for expect):

[a href=\"http://sense.net/zc/files/]http://sense.net/zc/files/[/url]

An an X/QT version of gnuplot 4 I built here:

http://sense.net/zc/gnuplot/

42

General Discussion / C860 Vs C3100

« on: January 18, 2006, 11:31:29 am »

The Zaurus series have been in threes

that is, if you omit the 5000D(ok for developer), sl-c7500 (ok for china)
and the sl-c700
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=111397\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Completely forgot the 700.  Fours it is.  Hmmm, perhaps I will pick up the 3100.

43

General Discussion / C860 Vs C3100

« on: January 17, 2006, 09:29:47 pm »

Perhaps not the answer you are looking for, but I am waiting for the next model.  

The Zaurus series have been in threes:

5500,5600,6000
750,760,860
3000,1000,3100

So, I am betting on a new form factor.  (800x480, faster, WiFi/BT would be nice).

I have had a c860 for 2 years.  It has been a great performer, I cannot begin to count the logged hours.

If I lose my bet, then 3100s will be cheap.

44

Software / New Hp48gx Emulator Port

« on: January 09, 2006, 01:35:15 pm »

Hello I have cacko 1.23 with X/Qt but it doesn't work.

error Message : x48-0.4.3 : can't open display.   

Do you know why?

Thank's
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=110154\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

From an xterm type echo $DISPLAY, should be :0, also type xhost + and try again.

45

Qt/Qtopia / Perl

« on: December 26, 2005, 12:24:12 pm »

I need to learn perl for work, so I thought I would install it on Gimlet.
What (and where can i get) is the latest package and are there any gotcha's to installing?

THANKS
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

I also use 5.6.1 (5.8 looked a bit large).  I have posted the version I use here:

[a href=\"http://sense.net/zc/perl/]http://sense.net/zc/perl/[/url]

with addtional modules that I require for my application development.  Also included is Perl/Tk support for GUI development if you have X installed.