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Ubuntu / Post Install Tweeks

« on: September 11, 2009, 04:18:06 am »

Another batch of tweaks:

Do not use LXDE, it has a bug (not sure which component) causing high cpu usage after resume (probably something with changing date/time too rapidly) and it doesnt have fill-all-space behaviour.

Install aosd_cat as osd functionality.
in .xbindkeysrc put similar configuration to display-backlight for volume controls (amixer sput PCM ...)
and for checking battery.
Add some osd to those scripts to have nice OSD while changing volume, brightness and similar. It is independent from WM-s.
Aosd_cat is very early version but it works quite nicely (lacks bar and multi line functionality)

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1 Upgraded To Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Armel

« on: September 11, 2009, 03:37:47 am »

I am confirming that.
LXDE is not much slow but it has nasty bug and after resume takes a lot of cpu. The longer suspend the longer wake-up cpu-fill-up.

After changing to matchbox problem ends.

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 2.0 Released

« on: September 02, 2009, 09:55:52 am »

Cortez, is there a another version of kdrive than 1:1.3.0.0-r21?
I am using your first release of zubuntu and "font bug" is really annoying.

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Ubuntu / Netbooks And Ubuntu Making Me Lazy! :p

« on: August 20, 2009, 12:19:32 pm »

Oh no, cacko again?

I just escaped from that soft hole. Old versions, packages are not always easy to find if even possible.
Cacko is great but soooo old.

Zubuntu with kdrive has some drawbacks but selection of available software fulfills those to the level of cacko and maybe even better.

My unsolved problems so far with zubuntu:
-jumping cursor through touchscreen
-problem with not rotated mouse
-strangely working tskeys (space under it is considered as visible, or at least it behaves so)
-lxterminal is not maximized properly at start
-high cpu usage after resume

Other zaurus specific problems are gone. Yesterday I've spent 3 hours playing stella. Zstella for cacko never worked in my c1000 under cacko.
Even suspend works quite nice.
Now my Z has got new life.

But I agree that netbooks are superior to Z.

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Ubuntu / High Cpu Usage After Resume

« on: August 14, 2009, 04:05:37 pm »

Zubuntu works almost flawless.
For now I have only one problem: After resume for couple seconds there is very high cpu usage. Zaurus is unusable. Cursor is moving, windows in X switch very slowly. I tried to trace which process is eating cpu but with no success.

Only thing I noticed is that the longer Z sleeps the longer high cpu usage takes.

Is this an issue with suspend/resume in kernel or processlike?

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Ubuntu / Post Install Tweeks

« on: August 06, 2009, 01:30:11 am »

To make irda work:
Ensure that modules irda, ircomm_tty, ircomm, pxaficp_ir are loaded.
install irda-utils (so irattach is available)
cat /proc/net/irda/discovery will tell you if any device is found by irda.
irattach irda0 -s will make irda working.

Then:
irxfer or ircp -r will make beaming to zaurus working
To beam files from zaurus use irobex_palm3 ircp doezt work with for example nokia e61.

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Ubuntu / Post Install Tweeks

« on: July 30, 2009, 12:00:10 pm »

Another chunk of post install tweaks.

Put

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#middle mouse click
"xte 'mouseclick 2'"
    Shift + b:1in /root/.xbindkeysrc to have middle click with shift key (right click with Control is already there). Finally it is possible to use xfig  without mouse.

put

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xhost + in .xinitrc to have screen flipping working (xrandr from zaurus-hinge script cant connect to X and thus not working).

Edit /etc/zaurusd/zaurus-hinge and put there display-brightness.sh off just after #echo "sleeping"
and display-brightness.sh on after #echo "lanscape".
Change /bin/display-brightness.sh script

put

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elif [ "$1" = "off" ]; then
    if [ $BRIGHTNESS -ne 0 ];then
    echo "$BRIGHTNESS" >/tmp/backlight
    echo 0 > $BRIGHTNESS_FILE
    fi
elif [ "$1" = "on" ]; then
    cat /tmp/backlight > $BRIGHTNESS_FILE
    rm /tmp/backlightjust after "fi" in "down" section.

This will give you turned off screen when lid is closed (but screen will be lit while in portrait mode)

change

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STEP=5
MAX_BRIGHTNESS=47
MIN_BRIGHTNESS=0 in this script according to /sys/class/backlight/$DRIVER/max_brightness
or just uncomment

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#MAX_BRIGHTNESS=`cat /sys/class/backlight/$DRIVER/max_brightness` line (I suppose someone put there a artificial limit to save batteries  or it is a legacy from other zaurus model) In c1000 max is 47.

put

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/root/repeatoff in /root/.xinitrc and put there a repeat-rate-workaround:

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#!/bin/sh
xset r on
for k in 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 20 59 60 70
do
xset -r "$k"
done It is a bit modified version of solution provided by gojira here https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25165. I added escape key to non repeated keys (useful in mc)

All files modified are attached.

Edit: did minor changes, attachments updated.

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Ubuntu / Very Quick Keyboard

« on: July 21, 2009, 08:42:16 am »

keyboard is very quick, when I type it gives something like appttitudee
How to change repeat rate and delay?

https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25165

Solution with script is most useful. Where do I find codes for each key/character/symbol?

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Ubuntu / Unresolved Inheritance Operation

« on: July 10, 2009, 03:37:04 pm »

this solution works also for xpdf. It segfaults on old version of this library but now it works fine on my Z.

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Ubuntu / Unresolved Inheritance Operation

« on: July 10, 2009, 03:12:07 am »

OK. As usual i have found solution

just fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/libx/lib...untu1_armel.deb
unpack libXt6 from there to /usr/lib (remove old one to safe place, just in case something goes wrong) do a ldconfig "i gotowe"
xfig, xpat2 xmpuzzles are working fine.

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Ubuntu / Very Quick Keyboard

« on: July 09, 2009, 02:24:05 pm »

c1000 and omegamoon package installed.

keyboard is very quick, when I type it gives something like appttitudee

kbdrate finishes with error about missing /dev/port.
How to change repeat rate and delay?

Where to change to get normal "/"? Now I have to press shift go get it.

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Ubuntu / Post Install Tweeks

« on: July 09, 2009, 01:58:31 pm »

at my c1000 its not nessesary to kill tskeys
its sufficient to edit /etc/zaurusd/mach-config-vars and put TSKEYS_DEVICE=/dev/input/event2 instead default value

another must do thing is:
alsamixer:
set headphone, pcm, speaker  to the top
unmute all left mixers (four of them) and right mixer (leave other right mixers muted)
finally enable speaker function (third control from end)

This gives clear sound through speaker and working headphones in stereo.

bass, treble, 3d set as you like. Play a bit with all of this deemphasis and filter thing if you have audiohile ear.

if your usb device does not work try dmesg and look if there is something like this:
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using pxa27x-ohci and address 6
usb 1-2: rejected 1 configuration due to insufficient available bus power
usb 1-2: no configuration chosen from 1 choice

if you encounter problems with usb power then here is solution: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showto...mp;hl=usb+power

tweak a bit zaurus leds:
echo mmc0 > /sys/class/leds/spitz\:green\:mail/trigger
echo ide-disk > /sys/class/leds/spitz\:amber\:charge/trigger

if you like put it in /etc/init.d/zaurusd right after echo "starting zaurusd"
this gives you blinking leds while accessing cards.

Make some swap, 64MB is quite enough for pda use, if you intend to use zaurus with zubuntu as a little laptop it may be neccessary to put some more swap.

install lynx, dillo, mpg321 (uses a lot less cpu), fbreader, consider installing mpd

after that zubuntu is very fine. I would even say it may be a new cacko.

Great job for its creators and maintainers! I dont miss cacko

In case you encounter "Unresolved Inheritance Operation" do as https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=26703 thread says.
xfig, xpat2, xmpuzles are affected.

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Ubuntu / Unresolved Inheritance Operation

« on: July 09, 2009, 01:35:15 pm »

hi.
I am currently polishing zubuntu installation on c1000.

xpaint, xpat2, xfig gives me unresolved inheritance operation error.

I have libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 on my Z and according to this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxt/+bug/343574 it should be fixed in this version.
Or maybe in this version in jaunty?

Any way, how to fix this?
Where do I find that library fixed?

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Poland / Ilu jest polskich uzytkownikow zaurusa - wpisujcie sie! ;-)

« on: June 03, 2008, 05:28:21 am »

No to i ja się dopisze.
Mam c1000 plus 2GB cf plus 256MB SD.
Do tego dokupilem sieciowke na usb (chip pegasus) i BT pentagrama.
Uzywam cacko rom bo przeleceniu po kilku "dystrybucjach" okazalo sie ze cacko jest najskuteczniejsze mimo ze ma tyle lat.

Pozdrawiam wszystkich!

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Software / Plucker, Zdoc Or Other Palm Format Converter For Zaurus?

« on: June 03, 2008, 05:17:08 am »

Is there any generator, compiler, converter which allows to create files readable on palmos devices?
I did not found any zdoc converter and i am trying run plucker distiller for Z but its so big .

Does anyone have similar tools for this purpose?

I just want to read books on my Tungsten W which has excellent display perfectly readable in direct sun.