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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Small Useful Informations
« on: April 22, 2010, 06:03:17 pm »
Another small utility I made:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
 tmp2=$tmp
 fmp2=$fmp
 smp2=$smp
 
 tmp=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/total_trans`
 fmp=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state|grep 800000|cut -d " " -f 2`
 smp=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state|grep 160000|cut -d " " -f 2`
# echo "---$smp-"
 ((tmp3= $tmp - $tmp2))
 ((fmp3= $fmp - $fmp2))
 ((smp3= $smp - $smp2))
 echo "$tmp3 $fmp3 $smp3"
 sleep 5
 done


this script prints how many times cpu was switched between low (160 MHz) to high (800MHz) clock and how long int was working in both modes.
Output looks like this:
34 162 353
26 74 438
20 61 452
0 512 0
10 387 133
9 61 452

First column is number of  switches next is time in high clock and last is time in low clock.
It is useful to see which activity uses more power as high clock is more power consuming.

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Ubuntu / Akita Multiboot "how To" Help
« on: April 22, 2010, 12:35:15 pm »
hmmm...
is the dev directory look normal under mc?
I think tar has some special option to treat dev files differently.
I dont remember how I did it but I almost always use mc to deal with archives so try to look at tar archive with mc and confirm that dev files are extracted as normal files.

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Small Useful Informations
« on: April 22, 2010, 12:28:03 pm »
Scripts triggered by power/suspend changes are located in /etc/pm
They are triggered twice per change first time with "true" or "false" argument when power change is triggered and second time with "suspend suspend" or "suspend resume" when that change is finishing. That means when you do a full cycle suspend-resume they got triggered four times.
Simply put your script in /etc/pm and link in apropriate directory there  and note what is happening.

Its useful to pause and resume mpd or when you dont want to use thick power agent (ie in text mode) to make suspend/resume or backlight change when button is pressed or lid closed/open.

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Sharp Netwalker Pc-t1
« on: April 20, 2010, 09:03:21 am »
Second thought:
That means even Zaurus with zubuntu can profit from additional software from new sharp line of devices...

Well, maybe flash plugin from netwalker would work under zaurus?

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Sharp Netwalker Pc-t1
« on: April 19, 2010, 04:58:08 pm »
Personally I prefer to have keyboard but there is a positive thing: New device uses similar hardware. So it makes me calm about better support for netwalker pc-z1 hardware.

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Ubuntu / Akita Multiboot "how To" Help
« on: April 18, 2010, 06:44:18 am »
I confirm what duo describes. I did my c1000 according to this recipe and got dual boot cacko+zubuntu.
Actually i have spare 1 gig sd so i can try another distro. But not now, too much work.
Additionally I made two partitions on sd card to have cacko and zubuntu on one card.
And about instaling under cacko.
I have quite polished installation with loads of goodies and did backup (the one from settings tab).
After multibooting I did restore and all works fine (not tested all but have no problems so far).

52
Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Usb Ethernet Dongle - New Version
« on: April 14, 2010, 07:09:07 pm »
I have one usb-ethernet dongle. Its based on pegasus chip.
Working flawlessly under cacko, zubuntu, ubuntu and off course most of windooze.

But recently i got new batch of these and suprise! New ones are based on different chip.
They look similar but have two chips (supereal sr9600 and sr8200) instead of one pegasus II (adm8511) chip.

And ubuntu does not recognize them.

On CD shipped with those dongles are some source code for linux.
Can any one tell if those have chance to work under standard netwalker installation?
Directory with files is zipped and attached to this post.

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Finally Some Forum About Netwalker
« on: April 14, 2010, 06:56:27 pm »
I cant belive You did not know about oesf.
I thought that oesf is known by all wicked people
Nice to see someone who can vitalize netwalker at very low level.

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Recipe to make video playback acceptable:

Put debian-multimedia.org in /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://debian-multimedia.org stable main

Change jaunty to karmic in the same file for ports.ubuntu.org

Install mplayer and kmplayer (to have gui) from aptitude (or any other method is
acceptable)

Run kmplayer, load movie and watch

Performance:
playing in window in native movie resolution (720x300something) is smooth even
in fast scenes. Playing in full screen is smooth but a bit chopping can be
noticed (i would say 15-20fps).
Video shutters when changing to another application and it takes a few seconds
to back to smoth play after focusing kmplayer.

During playback cpu is all time in fast mode.

I did not tried to solve sound problems with totem-player. But I will try...

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Reset Button In Netwalker?
« on: April 11, 2010, 01:01:50 pm »
But even a laptop can be disconnected from battery or just have poweroff by 4 second press of the power button.

Anyway. Netwalker works very nicely. I would like na BT onboard and second usb port in big socket but it is very decent zaurus replacement

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Reset Button In Netwalker?
« on: April 11, 2010, 07:08:01 am »
Well, I'm not that old but cant see anything what might be a reset button.
I did not pulled that rubber plugs from the bottom of the unit.

Is there a way to do a hard reset? Where is the reset button?

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As I discovered netwalker is quite powerful device and can play full screen video smoothly.
Details are here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpne...ker/message/117

In short. After dumping pulseaudio totem player and vlc player started to play video smoothly. But there is a problem:
Video is played too fast.
I dod not have enough time to find out why and how to fix this.
Maybe it has something in common with cpu governor and constant switching between 160MHz and 800MHz?
I have written a nifty script to wisualize how cpu is switched and it shows that in normal conditions cpu can be switched 2-5 times per second between 160 and 800MHz and stays in higher clock for 5-20% of time. Maybe players got confused by this?
I will check this soon...

Any way. It is nice to be here again

58
OESF Announcements / Recent Site Outage
« on: April 10, 2010, 08:51:16 pm »
Thank You for Your efforts to make oesf forums back to life!
Infortunately I could not find any info about what happened and sent a query to Cortez and ibiblio staff. I hope that did not made too much stirr.
Anyway I hope that forum members will comeback to find forums alive.

Once again: Thank You!

59
General Discussion / Sharp Is01: The Zaurus Is Back, Sort Of...
« on: April 10, 2010, 08:43:37 pm »
Quote from: fpp
A surprise move from Sharp: the long-awaited (by some) successor to the Zaurus, a new clamshell "MID" running Android, with a beautiful 5" 960x480 screen, a Snapdragon CPU and plenty of goodies:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/s...au-to-android/

Engadget goes "meh", which is a pretty good omen in my book :-)

Also there will be a "developer-friendly" version dubbed DK01 where the OS is replaceable. Maybe we will see Maemo, Mer and/or Meego on it ?
The link is broken. I think You mean that:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/sharp-i...-au-to-android/
It looks nice but news does not mention about size of the ram. And that is crucial to linux.

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Re: Can Not Access Buttons On Setup Windows!
« on: March 18, 2010, 12:27:36 pm »
As ArchiMark suggests. Alt acts as "handle" modifier. Its safe to drag windows by its background. When dragging by control (edit field, widget) it can act strangely. Some times this "Alt Modifier" can be reconfigured through window manager configuration. Im sure it is done in wmaker by wmakerconf.

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