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Sharp ROMs / Help On Sharprom Dependencies...

« on: August 19, 2005, 03:17:52 pm »

Two days ago, I have posted a thread here saying that I can't run opie-camera properly on Cacko 1.22a.

I mailed Michael already and very sorry to hear that he has stopped the work on sharproms...

I am wondering can any linux genius help to deal with the dependencies of opie-camera on sharproms?

I really appreciate, thanks!  

P.S. the opie packages can be found here:

1.0.1-r0
1.2.0-r0

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Software / Opie-camera Dependencies

« on: August 17, 2005, 12:35:30 pm »

I have installed opie-camera to my Z with Cacko 1.22a on it. But when I try to start this app, nothing appears on the screen, it seems that there are some problem with dependencies so that the app cannot be launched.

Is there anyone have successfully installed and use opie-camera on Sharp roms?

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For Sale / Wanted / Wht Sl6000l Screen

« on: July 07, 2005, 11:39:56 am »

I also need a spare screen for my c760...may i know the pricing including the shipping charges to Hong Kong?

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Sharp ROMs / Help To Get Me Back Something

« on: June 03, 2005, 04:54:35 pm »

I accidentally lost this file:

/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/security

Can anyone make a copy and post it here? I am using CACKO 1.22a.

Thanks in advance!  

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User Request for Applications / Can Anyone Do A Port Of Billiardz For Cxx0

« on: June 02, 2005, 03:08:12 pm »

It is really a good game but the screen is too small for my C760...

can anyone do a port for us?  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dualboot Idiot Guide

« on: April 27, 2005, 12:33:47 am »

And one more problem. I found out that the battery will be used up very soon even after it was suspended.

I have been installed pdaxrom on the ROM few months ago. It does not have these problems:

- no cursor offset
- suspend without using up the battery life

Do you think there are ways to solve?
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Yes, that's a problem. Many problems needed to be solved...  

I am now waiting the latest tarball of pdaXrom from Laze to see if the same issues exist.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dualboot Idiot Guide

« on: April 25, 2005, 10:31:10 am »

Rather than the mouse pointer offset issue pointed out by numeric, there are still some problems to be fixed, one is that when booted to Cacko, extra mount points appear, it's better to illustrate with the aid of these screenshots:

1. Mount table before setting up dualboot
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2. Mount table after setting up dualboot
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3. Extra "Temporary Storage" in Files tab
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4. "Internal Flash" goes to "/home"
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5. "Temporary Storage" goes to "/home/zaurus/Documents"
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I tried looking at the dualboot init script, and found that this problem may due to the unsuccess in unmounting some mount points.

I am suspecting line 30 and 31 of the init script:

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umount /dev >/dev/null 2>&1
umount /proc >/dev/null 2>&1
numeric, have you got the same problem?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dualboot Idiot Guide

« on: April 25, 2005, 04:47:19 am »

I run pdaxrom on SD now, however the mouse pointer is offset about 20 pixels when it is on the right side of the screen.

I've tried to recalibrate :

1. run ts_calibrate

or

2. del /etc/pointercal and reboot

but doen't fix the problem.

Please advise how to fix it.
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Yes, this is one of the problems that we need to overcome.

It seems the apps bar on the right of the screen is taken into account. I've no idea yet  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dualboot Idiot Guide

« on: April 23, 2005, 03:02:42 am »

well, it's load time...
I don't mind load time.

let firefox load -- it takes forever... leave it up, etc.
suspend is your friend.

Scott
ps: with that said, I haven't tried this dualboot :->
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Since I got my pdaXrom installed on my high-speed panasonic SD   , the bootup time is pretty short, much shorter than booting Cacko up. Another reason for that speed may be...I haven't installed any apps on it.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dualboot Idiot Guide

« on: April 22, 2005, 04:16:18 am »

Sorry I linked the wrong file and have updated. Please see the attachment in post #1 again.  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dualboot Idiot Guide

« on: April 21, 2005, 04:56:33 pm »

For those who want to stick with Cacko 1.22 but also want to have a taste on pdaXrom without touching NAND or whatsoever (It's me   ), here are some sharings on how I dualboot my Zaurus C760.

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Firstly, for sure, you need to have Cacko 1.22 with hotfix installed: Get Cacko here

Secondly, get an ext2 or ext3 formatted SD card. To obtain, simply follow this guide: Step-by-step CF/SD fdisk/formatting for newbies. Remember to unplug and plug the SD again to remount.

Then, download the scripts required: Dual_C760.zip. Unzip and place them on the machine, for instance, I place all the extracted files at /home/zaurus/Documents

Download the pdaXrom tarball: either pdaX-SD.tar.gz or pdaX-1.0.5-SD.tar.gz. I am not sure whether the latter is the real 1.0.5. Let's pick this one.

Transfer and extract the tarball to the root of SD card. To do this, you need to have gtar installed in order to let the system understand the "p" flag to preserve permissions, the gtar package is included in Dual_C760.zip:

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$ su
# ipkg install /home/zaurus/gtar_1.13.25-1_arm.ipk
# cd /mnt/card/
# gtar -zxvpf pdaX-1.0.5-SD.tar.gz
Next, follow these steps:

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# mount -o rw,remount /
# mkdir /sbin/sys
# cp /sbin/init /sbin/sys/init
# rm /sbin/init
# cp /home/zaurus/init /sbin/init
# cp /home/zaurus/pivot_root /sbin/pivot_root
# chmod +x /sbin/init
# chmod +x /sbin/pivot_root
Since there are changes on the filesystem in Cacko 1.22, line 12 in the /sbin/init script needs to be altered:

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mount -n -r -t cramfs /boot/usr.bin /usr -o loop
to

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mount -n -r -t squashfs /boot/usr.bin /usr -o loop
I also attached the modified /sbin/init script, for the sake of convenience.

It's nearly the end, remount / as read-only and reboot:

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# mount -o ro,remount /
# reboot
Your Zaurus should now boot into pdaXrom with SD plugged in, and boot into Cacko otherwise. When booted into pdaXrom, login as root and issue startx.
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Although this guide may looks idiot, like me, I did put a hard effort on dualbooting my Z (Stu should know, Many thanks  ). I hope someone can benefit from it. Corrections and suggestions are welcome.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dual Booting Help

« on: April 14, 2005, 04:34:00 am »

Forgot to mention, I am using CACKO 1.22a and try to dual boot with pdaXrom 1.0.5.

When I completed those steps, and I tried to remount / as read-only, an error message prompts me:

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mount: Mounting /dev/mtdblock2 on / failed: Device or resource busy
it seems it cannot be remounted as read-only so that it can't reboot normally...somebody can advise me?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dual Booting Help

« on: April 12, 2005, 10:53:39 am »

I follow the script to dual boot the system, upon bootup with SD card, the following message appears:

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mount: Mounting /boot/usr.bin on /usr failed: Invalid argument
mount: Mounting /dev/mmcda1 on /usr/mnt.rom/card failed: No such file or directory

Chainloading rom init
exec: /sbin/sys/init: symbolic link loop
After that the system stops loading. I followed exactly the steps provided in this thread: https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8233

except that in step 5, when I tried to copy init script to /sbin/, console prompt me that it is busy, so I remove /sbin/init and copy the init script to /sbin/ instead.

I finished all steps and attempt rebooting the system, it waits and waits and just can't have the system reboot, so I then perform a reset by removing the battery and plugging in again to restart the system.

Am I doing something wrong in this way?

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Sharp ROMs / Help Z Just Can't Boot Up

« on: April 11, 2005, 09:15:58 am »

I found that qtopia-irdaapplet from Maslovsky crashed with CACKO 1.22.

I tried installing this applet once again after I have fixed my Z 860, same thing happened...

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Sharp ROMs / Help Z Just Can't Boot Up

« on: April 08, 2005, 02:23:09 pm »

After I installed the irda applet onto my Z and perform a reboot, it locks up at "Please wait...starting linux and qtopia" screen and doesn't allow me into the system.

I have got something important inside the user partitions in the RAM, how could I have it backed up in advance? And could it be fixed without newly install the ROM?

My Z is now using CACKO 1.22a. Many thanks to guys here  

I tried the "backup user partition" function of the CACKO installer, but it keeps the blue screen here and a cursor blinking at the bottom after I entered the backup name, and a blinking email LED...

Do I have to wait or do something else? I really dun know if it is working now...