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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Status Of Pdaxrom-wiki?
« on: December 28, 2004, 06:18:54 pm »
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I have just tested installation of mediawiki on my notebook and if you have lamp running it takes you only a few minutes for installation and for setting up permissions (with default theme) to give only certain users edit rights (it has a good documentation). 
Please keep in mind that the main principle of any public wiki is that ALL users should initally have rights to edit, even the anonymous ones. When you allow only certain people to post, you lose much more than you gain. For instance, almost ALL my edits in several wikis were anonymous, and in case it would have not been allowed, there would be no edits from my side, because I'm too lazy to register just to fix a couple of sentences. And so on. The main idea of wiki is that people generally mean good, not harm, so the less obstacles they get, the better.

It is easier to repair vandalized posts than to vandalize them, and if nobody cares about repairing, the wiki is of no interest to anybody anyway.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rc8 On Sl-6000 Installation Problem...
« on: December 27, 2004, 08:20:27 pm »
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Sorry that the instruction required me to be able to access the diag menu, which i can't....the power button + d button + m button doesn't work for me now...

I thought I already posted a link to the instruction that seemed working for you. Then you said you were looking for the files, and I posted a link to the files you needed, quoting your appropriate request. But somehow you failed to see the files you needed, only another instruction. I surely can't care more than you do. Goodbye.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rc8 On Sl-6000 Installation Problem...
« on: December 27, 2004, 01:56:57 pm »
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However I don't have a working "NOR" backup,  so....next step is to find one...
Here is what you're seeking for. Next time, please learn to use Google yourself ;)

http://www.externe.net/zaurus/flash/

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Mp3 Decoder
« on: December 27, 2004, 07:17:00 am »
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Hum with this environment I don't even need the MAD plugin, FP are like 3 times faster... *sigh* 
Don't forget that MAD is still much more efficient, so it's much better for the battery life.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rc8 On Sl-6000 Installation Problem...
« on: December 27, 2004, 07:09:11 am »
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My case is...my Z won't even statup, no matter what method I used... (e.g. hard reset, reset + d + p, remove the battery for more than 2 mins then place it back...)
Normally, it is possible to just use D-M menu to do NAND restore. The problem is, these service menus code also reside in NAND, so when your NAND is screwed too badly, you'll fail to get there. For this case, there is a key combo to bootstrap NAND from scratch.

I don't have much info about 6000 series, but as for 7xx/8xx, the instructions and files are here:

http://pocketworkstation.org/files/recover/

These won't work for 6000, of course. So you'll have to find something similar, but for 6000. Googling and searching/asking in the sibling forums can help. Just remember that recovery is possible.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kathrin RC8 Is Out..
« on: December 26, 2004, 03:55:38 pm »
I also got problems with my wireless CF. Somehow, the profile from the 'Lan & WiFi' utility was not written to /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, so, when I inserted the card, 'iwconfig' was showing no ESSID or WEP key configured at all. I had to put all this manually into /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts -- only then it worked. At the same time, same stuff worked nice with RC5. My configuration involves setting ESSID, WEP key and auth type = Restricted. Everything else is set to be automatic, and the type of profile is 'Wireless', of course.

Other problem: I tried to change jog wheel behaviour from 'left-right' to 'up-down', but without any luck -- each time I restarted X, the jog wheel behaviour was still 'left-right', with the Input GUI showing the same 'left-right' option, as if I never changed it at all. So I had to modify /etc/X11/kb/userdefined.xmodmap manually.

And the last thing I stumbled upon so far: while the multi-select capability in the package manager is obviously useful, it is very easy to accidentially select some more packages than needed. I once ended up installing apache2, along with some wanted packages, without any need of it. I would suggest asking for a confirmation with a list of the packages to be installed.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Stardict For Pdaxrom Rc8
« on: December 26, 2004, 08:01:11 am »
Anybody who would like to package Stardict should note that there is a Gtk2-only version available (that is, without Gnome dependencies). It is a subproject of SDCV project (http://sdcv.sourceforge.net).

Download:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...lease_id=288941

Release notes:

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.p...lease_id=288941

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Mp3 Decoder
« on: December 24, 2004, 07:30:18 am »
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It seems I don't have the same version of the SDK, I don't have this library included   
As for MPEG4IP, the developer just finished integrating MAD, I have to build and test it now

If you don't have it, then you're using an old 1.0.5 SDK. It is only for pdaXrom < 1.1.0 RC5, which are almost obsolete now.

For pdaXrom 1.1.0 RC5 and higher, this one should be used:

http://mirror1.pdaxrom.org/rc5/pdaxromsdk-...ftfloat.tar.bz2

Nice to hear about MAD integration, it is a Good Thing

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Mp3 Decoder
« on: December 21, 2004, 07:25:15 am »
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The second is, does someone have any recommendations about integrating another decoder, if ever I have to do it? Or someone who is willing to help?
Well, there is a MAD decoder out there, obviously. It's a fully fixed-point MP3 decoder, available under the GPL license. Actually, this decoder is the only feasible way for the open source software to efficiently play mp3s on PDAs and other low-end devices without an FPU.

Furthermore, the current pdaXrom SDK already includes it. Look into /opt/arm/3.3.2-vfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/include/mad.h for the interface. The corresponding library to link with (libmad) is also present, of course.

The decoder's home page is here:

http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/

How to integrate it into your application is another question, though. You'll have to find it out yourself, I guess. Alternatively, you can try contacting the original developers about the problem and possible clues.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / pdf viewer for pdaxrom?
« on: December 15, 2004, 10:05:45 am »
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The xpdf crashing on pdaXrom is a memory access processor issue. This is related to the ARM processor design. Those kind or bugs are hard to find in source code, even hardder when the source code is not yours, even harder when there are a lot of memory pointer for document handling.
Yep, these problems seem likely to be caused by the unaligned memory accesses, which are not handled correctly by the ARM processor. There is a handy gcc's option to hunt down memory alignment problems such as these:

Code: [Select]
      -Wcast-align
           Warn whenever a pointer is cast such that the required alignment of
           the target is increased.  For example, warn if a "char *" is cast
           to an "int *" on machines where integers can only be accessed at
           two- or four-byte boundaries.

It creates much false positives, but it still is easier than just reading all the code

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Status Update..
« on: December 14, 2004, 06:18:57 pm »
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Things we have fixed recently:
- "power on" keys should not launch programs when pressed to power on Zaurus
Laze, are you sure that was a bug? I thought that the whole idea of "power on" keys was to instantly launch a needed application right from the suspended state -- that's why they were made "power on" on the first place. Well, at least as I understand it.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Status Update..
« on: December 06, 2004, 09:44:12 am »
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We will try to improve the feedback from us to the endusers - but the problem is everytime we post something we are bombarded with problems/questions etc. which again take time away from the project.. Basically we queitly watch the forums and look for good ideas..
If you wish to raise the quality of your readers, you can choose to run a mailing list -- basically, when people have to subscribe, they pass kind of a stupidity test :) Besides, mailing lists feel much more productive to me.

Silently watching for ideas is not the best way in that people 1) don't know if they are just talking in vacuum and hence have no incentive to post 2) they can't provide further corrections/suggestions in case you are interested 3) they just don't know the current development problems/issues/ideas to suggest about, since you don't talk about them much :)

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Status Update..
« on: December 05, 2004, 09:21:16 pm »
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As much as I love joking with the guys and posting notes about them torturing us... I think you need a reality check.

These guys are doing all of this work as volunteers.  They had high hopes of releasing it this weekend, but don't want to release crap and bugs, so they've decided to wait for a solid release.

How can your feelings get hurt from this?  I actually appreciate it when they give 'estimates' for a release date. 

If you were actually paying sash for his full time work on the pdaxrom project, then that would be another story...
I second this wholeheartedly. I would actually appreciate even more feedback from pdaXrom team -- what's going on, what to expect, early hopes, interim speculations and late revelations -- it's all much more interesting than just a plain silence  As long as it is marked accordingly, everybody would be comfortable with that.

People who are uncomfortable with that should really get a grip on reality. Nobody's hurting them, other than the fact they are hurting themselves.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How To Repair Root Partition?
« on: November 26, 2004, 08:38:53 pm »
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Oh. I just found a thread which said this is not a problem at all.

https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...=7722&hl=cramfs
That's right -- the jffs2 filesystem is genereally self-checking and self-reparable, so you have no need to intervene. These messages are more for debugging and are normally suppressed, but they are enabled in pdaXrom kernel, just to be sure I guess.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Making a drive image
« on: November 10, 2004, 08:18:57 am »
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AFAIK , after searching on internet, the only rw compressed file system is jffs2 on flash, which can be used only with internal flash of the Z not on sd or cf.
Actually, it can be used on a regular block device, such as CF or SD, via the blkmtd driver, which provides an emulated MTD device over a regular block device. I haven't tried this on Zaurus, though.

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