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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Root Partition Size

« on: January 28, 2007, 10:21:39 am »

Someone needs to look at the work the pdaX people did to allow a single partition and implement this for OZ (flasher and some kernel changes iirc).


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poky Image Please !

« on: January 26, 2007, 05:14:20 am »

Do you want to post the error message?


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Bounty For Collie Sd Driver

« on: January 26, 2007, 05:13:32 am »

Unstable or just hard to access - I think this is an issue with its being hosted on berlios.


Si

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Sharp ROMs / Less than 64M RAM available?

« on: January 26, 2007, 05:12:52 am »

Is the missing memory allocated as a ram-disk in the same way the original Sharp images worked?

what does 'cat /proc/meminfo' show?

I'd expect a small amount of memory to be missing in an OZ image to mount things like /tmp, /var in a tmpfs (though I don't know whether Cacko does this), but certainly not 17Mb straight after boot (I assume that's where you are). If you've actually been doing things, and do have a tmpfs, then (on OZ at least) it's allowed to grow up to half the available memory, so you might want to check this too.


Si

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Change Nokia N770 Forum

« on: January 25, 2007, 08:44:42 am »

I can't do that I'm afraid.

Have to wait for one of the higher powers to look


Si

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / What Are The Useful Cflags?

« on: January 23, 2007, 07:28:13 am »

3) Does all this matter at all, given the not exceptionally fast processors in Zaurus?

Even more so in that case!

2) What is the common and easy way to test the performance of the build, as Meanie suggests?

I'd test whatever it is you want to optimise - mplayer for example. On the other hand you could try some benchmarking programs (though these just test single things - floating point, integer operations, etc.).

See this thread for some results from a long time back: https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3451&hl=

and here for some Nokia binaries (not that useful of course) plus download URLs and compilation command lines: http://people.bath.ac.uk/enpsgp/benchmarks...ling_things.txt

Opie has an applet which provides some benchmarks for various things: This can be found here: http://handhelds.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/op...ttings/sysinfo/ (benchmarkinfo*)

And those files say they were inspired by zbench, the original URL for which is gone, but some source is here: http://linuxtogo.org/~mickeyl/mirror/zbench-2.0.tar.bz2


Si

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Change Nokia N770 Forum

« on: January 23, 2007, 06:56:47 am »

Seems fair to me, there's not much traffic there so it shouldn't get confusing.


Si

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Dumb Question About New 3200...

« on: January 22, 2007, 06:02:34 pm »

I may be very wrong about this as I've not used a Sharp-derived image for a long long time....

You might try using/modifying (it's only a script) ipkg-link as used by OpenZaurus. This allows you to install anywhere, then create symlinks as if the package were installed to /, something similar is used in PdaXrom.

Also take a look in /etc/ipkg.conf (assuming this is the same file that the Sharp-based images use to decide on the installation locations).


Si

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / R For Pdaxrom?

« on: January 22, 2007, 05:58:39 pm »

Building with f2c always used to fail for me, eventually I had to find/build a cross toolchain with f77/g77.

With that said, I've not got round to doing anything more on it (there is/was a segfault in the f77/g77 compiler iirc).

I must have another go now that I have broadband  (late starter  )


Si

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Linux Applications / Mplayer Development And Optimization For Arm

« on: January 22, 2007, 05:55:49 pm »

Serge,

I'll build your comparison benchmarks for the PXA255 (and SA1110 if it's of interest) once I've got over some minor (I hope) OE build issues.

Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Kernel Install

« on: January 19, 2007, 06:43:29 pm »

The kernel can only be updated by flashing a new zimage.bin (no need to flash the initrd.bin too).


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 6000l Tosa Second Cf Slot

« on: January 19, 2007, 07:13:34 am »

Yes, mailing list and perhaps a bug report too on the OE bugtracker.


Simon

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Kernel Install

« on: January 19, 2007, 07:12:29 am »

As your machine works, you're probably alright (your modules match your kernel - look at the name of the subdir of /lib/modules/ for the kernel version that your modules are for). Compare this with the output of "uname -r" to give the current kernel.

The warning script is located in /etc/init.d/ and was put in place because people used to have troubles renaming the zImage.bin file and therefore ended up flashing a new rootfs and keeping the old kernel.

Assuming you're okay, and you know you've updated your kernel & modules, you can remove/rename this script (sorry I don't have my Z with me atm so I can't tell you the name).


Si

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / One More Time: External Usb Keymappings For Oz?

« on: January 19, 2007, 04:12:48 am »

We need people like you guys, with these peripherals, to test and pass along the settings so that they can be made to 'just work'.


Si

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Cxx0 General discussions / Installing Oz On A C700

« on: January 16, 2007, 07:58:11 am »

For want of a better suggestion, try installing this: http://people.bath.ac.uk/enpsgp/Zaurus/bl/...-r0_armv5te.ipk

and then call it from the command line (or over ssh).

I have a feeling that your problem is not backlight brightness, but contrast, and bl won't alter this I'm afraid (though it ought to be possible to do so somehow).


Si