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General Discussion / Determine File Format For Sd & Cf

« on: September 26, 2005, 05:29:34 am »

Is there any command issued from the console that will tell me the format of my SD and CF cards? I 'm wondering if my various cards are FAT, MS-DOS, or EXT2.
I was unable to find an answer to this question by searching the forums and google, so perhaps someone might enlighten me. Thanks!

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Software / Corsair - Rss/podcast Aggregator

« on: September 25, 2005, 11:57:23 pm »

Thanks to mistermix for making improvements to this program! It is really looking great.
However, a new problem has arisen in this version--it is unable to download. The podcasts that I downloaded with the previous version appear and play in Kino2 (Excellent!), but I cannot now download new podcasts. When I initiate a new download the progress bar appears and completes the download, but no file is present in /home/zaurus/Corsair/shows for the new download. I ran the program from the console, and it prints a long series of the following errors before concluding the download:

QFile::writeBlock: File not open
QFile::writeBlock: File not open
QFile::writeBlock: File not open
Download::complete(0)
downloadComplete(/home/zaurus/Corsair/shows/NBC News _ Meet the Press/pd_mtp-09-25-2005-074233.mp3)
~Download()    

Even though it reports the download complete, there is no new directory or file in /home/zaurus/Corsair/shows. Unlike the SL-C3000, I do not have an internal hard drive. Could it possible be a problem related to the file partition?
Finally, the new version has added a new icon at the top with options for File (Load & Exit), and View (Downloads and Preferences), and Help. Except for Help and Exit, none of these options appear to work. Any chance that the "cancel" key can quit the program instead of having to cycle through the menu to the Exit option?

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Software / Corsair - Rss/podcast Aggregator

« on: September 24, 2005, 09:36:30 am »

I welcome this program to the Zaurus scene. I've been using my SL-C760 with Sharp ROM 1.40JP to listen to podcasts for the last few months. I usually accomplished this by downloading them from iTunes and then manually copying them to my Zaurus. The best feature is that it can queue downloads of multiple podcasts.
Although the program is functional for downloading and tracking podcasts, the current state of the program has several significant problems.
1. The ability to play downloaded podcasts from within the program does not work. It appears to try to send a command to play the program in some application. My screen will fade to white while it appears to try to launch something in portrait mode.
2. The "info" button pic does not display. I noticed that the ipk does not include a pic file for this button.
3. I usually listen to podcasts with musicplayer, when I downloaded them with iTunes, it automatically appended tag information to the files. I miss not having this tag information in the file, particularly since I am unable to play the files from within Corsair.

Since this program was not written especially for the Zaurus, it would be nice if someone could re-complile and cleanup the code so it is optimized for the Zaurus. I think that would fix most of the problems noted above.

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X/Qt / Playstation Emulator On Zaurus X/qt

« on: August 22, 2005, 09:48:54 am »

A Japanese programmer has posted a Playstation 1 emulator for the Zaurus. You can download the file from here. Click on "ZAUUP". The file is called "PCSX for X/Qt". I have not tested this. In fact, I've never run X on my Zaurus, but I would be interested in hearing if others are able to get this to work and how fast it is. There doesn't appear to be much documentation.
P.S. I'm just the messenger, and not the programmer.

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Software / Question About Maslovsky's Memory Monitor Plugin

« on: July 30, 2005, 10:54:35 pm »

There are two versions of this program.
The first is the official version created by Maslovsky that is available at the Cacko website. The icons have been optimized for VGA display, and it allows swap files at the max of 32MB.

qtopia-memoryapplet_1.0.1arm.ipk

The second is a modified version by a Japanese developer based on version 1.0 of Maslovsky's applet. The fonts are not optimized for VGA display, but it allows for creation of swap files up to 64mb. It also states that it can create the swap file at /hdd2/swapfile on SL-C3000 models.

qtopia-memoryapplet_1.0.1a_arm.ipk

I use the former because I like the pretty icons  

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Software / Question About Maslovsky's Memory Monitor Plugin

« on: July 26, 2005, 10:51:51 pm »

Is there anyway to set the swap file location manually? The "SD Card" Swapfile location option automatically creates the swapfile at /mnt/card/swapfile. However, I would like to put the swapfile someplace other than the top of my SD directory, such as /mnt/card/QtPalmtop/swapfile.
I see that the program creates a conf file called "MemoryPlugin.conf". All it contains is "[Warning levels]". Is there a way to set the location of the swapfile within this conf file?

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Qt/Qtopia / Storage /dev/hda1

« on: July 24, 2005, 08:59:58 am »

Thanks Melee! I fixed the problem. My fstab file was fine. Coping the icon files from /usr/QtPalmtop.rom/pics to /home/QtPalmtop/pics seems to have repaired the problem. I appreciate your reminding me to try these steps. I had somehow conviced myself that the problem was not related to just the icon files.

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Qt/Qtopia / Storage /dev/hda1

« on: July 23, 2005, 08:48:42 am »

remove your CF, reboot your Z, put it back in and see what displays
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Thanks Meanie for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it did not correct the problem. Any other suggestions?

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Qt/Qtopia / Storage /dev/hda1

« on: July 22, 2005, 08:52:13 am »

I have a  JP Sharp ROM Zaurus SL-C760. In the file manager tab of Qtopia, which displays "My Zaurus", it lists the main memory, SD card, and CF card (all are displayed in Japanese since I am using the original ROM).
My problem is that in instead of displaying "CF Card" is now displays "Storage /dev/hda1". In addition, the pretty CF card icon has been replaced with the standard yellow folder icon. Everything works fine in terms of the files, but I want to fix the CF card name display and icon. Does anyone know where Qtopia stores this information? Any suggestions on how to fix this minor problem will be appreciated.

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Mac Issues / Prevent .ds_store File Creation On Zaurus

« on: July 13, 2005, 10:42:07 pm »

The following KnowledgeBase article from Apple explains how to tweak the Preferences in OS X from creating new .DS_Store files when opening folders on remote volumes mounted using SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV.
If you have not been bothered by .DS_Store files littered all over your Zaurus, then you need not bother with this fix.

CLICK HERE

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General Discussion / stalled file uploads

« on: June 23, 2005, 11:36:22 pm »

I am experiencing similiar problems. I was wondering if anyone of the previous posters was able to resolve this problem?

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Software / Makeqpf

« on: June 13, 2005, 03:07:58 am »

I second this request. This is an important tool for the Zaurus. It needs to made publically available. Perhaps someone could add this file to ELSI.

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Software / Sftp Gui For Sharp Rom?

« on: June 08, 2005, 09:06:02 pm »

I've not seen an SFTP client for the Zaurus, but would certainly welcome one.
Is it possible that J-FTP could be compiled to run on the Zaurus?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/j-ftp/

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Software / Sharp Musicplayer 2.0

« on: June 07, 2005, 08:27:00 am »

In order to display the cover art, the program creates a "snq" directory in each directory containing music files. The program then creates a small file for each song with a reference to the location of the cover art image file.
I found that by manually creating the snq folder (not the files), I had more luck in gettin g it to accept the image effects (to create the individual music references files).
If you are unable to create an image effect for a particular album, first try creating the empty snq directory manually in Qtopia.

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Cxx0 Hardware / Sharp Rom 1.40jp On Sl-c760?

« on: June 05, 2005, 11:26:27 pm »

I got the Sharp ROM 1.40JP working now on my SL-C760. I used the updater.sh file for the 760 from the page for Testu's kernel updates.
Everything appears to work great. I did notice that qtmail 2.42 produces a number of error messages when run from the console. Otherwise, it is functional. The errors appear to be related to SDL, such as QPaintDevice and QPixmap. From time to time, it has problems displaying the pencil (compose) icon. I checked the pic files, so I think it is more a problem with rendering.
Many thanks!