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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Make Cancel On Home Select Last Used Window?

« on: November 29, 2004, 11:07:28 am »

Is it possible to make it so that pressing the cancel button on the home screen brings up the last used window (like it did on the sharp rom), instead of doing nothing?

Thanks
Simon

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Control infrared by script

« on: November 15, 2004, 03:53:36 pm »

I just played around a bit and found that I can turn discovery on/off by doing "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery". This updates the icon on the taskbar (and I can get discovery to be on without the irda being on). I have had a look around, but I can't find any way of turning the irda itself on/off, or enabling receiving of files.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks
Simon

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Differences between SA and PXA

« on: November 12, 2004, 11:17:57 am »

I finally got round to making a nicer script and packing it all into an ipk.
What is the difference between the SA and PXA models in relation to usb-storage?
Do I need to make separate ipks for each (bearing in mind there is just a script and the two modules at present)?
I would have got this info off lardman's site, but it seems to have disappeared.

Thanks
Simon

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / libsl.so

« on: November 08, 2004, 04:15:53 pm »

I am sure there are many people who have reflashed the sharp rom to get this and then flashed back, so rather than having to find a sharp rom and reflash my z too, could someone who has got libsl.so please make it available to me somehow (I can do email if less than 1mb, although other means are preffered).

Thanks
Simon

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Vi config

« on: November 04, 2004, 03:22:49 pm »

Firstly, vi doesn't seem to recognise backspace- it just produces "^?" (in insert mode).

Secondly, whenever I run vi, the status bar at the bottom is wider than the screen and causes it to wrap. Since vi takes up the whole screen, this wrapping adds another line, shifting everything up one line. Since moving around updates the status bar, this shifts everything up again and again until I end up with a real mess. Turning off line wrapping fixes this, but with the small screen I need line wrapping when not using vi. Is there either:
a) a way of telling vi not to bother with the rest of the status bar (preffered method)?
or
 a way of having line wrap turn off automatically when vi starts and on again when it exits?

I am running OZ 3.5.1 Opie on SL-5500 (if that makes any difference).

Thanks
Simon

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Post your OZ 3.5.1 dmesg here

« on: November 04, 2004, 03:14:20 pm »

Seing as I am having so many annoying problems, could a few people running OZ 3.5.1 (prefferrably Opie) post their dmesg output here. I don't know how much if at all this will help, but it's worth a shot.
Thanks
Simon

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Off Topic forum / Where to get balloon-style penguins?

« on: October 18, 2004, 01:03:32 am »

this is a bit random, but does anyone know of anywhere I can get more graphics of balloon style penguins (like those at the top of this site or the one in my current avatar)?

Thanks
Simon

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / CF card, freezing, and other problems

« on: September 27, 2004, 10:58:49 am »

Hi
I have an SL-5500. I much prefer OZ and Opie to the sharp rom, but I have some major problems which must be solved soon or I will be forced to go back to the sharp rom (and I really want to avoid that). I have been using OZ for a few weeks now, first version 3.2, but now I am running 3.3.5.

1. Currently have only one cf card- a maxell 64mb storage card formatted as fat16. As it is my only cf card I leave it in all the time, but it keeps doing very stupid things.
It makes suspend and/or resume take ages. Under OZ 3.2, it initially took ages on resume (i think this may have been partly related to the docs tab), but then it changed it's mind and took ages to suspend, usually ejecting and then reinserting the card (the point of which is...?). With 3.3.5, it doesn't eject and reinsert the card every time (and it seems to be generally faster, although it still takes longer with the card than without), but every so often (usually at the most annoying times), it ejects the card and fails to redetect it the cardmon icon disappears from the bar and never returns. It then takes no notice of me physically removing/inserting it (or the 256mb kingston card borrowed from a friend), cardctl commands never complete, and mount says that /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device (probably because cardctl hasn't picked up the card). An SD card still worked fine when it did this, although I cannot verify whether sd cards will start the problem or not. The only way I can find to get cf cards working again is to reboot completely.
I use my zaurus mostly as an organiser, so this is incredibly annoying.

2. It sometimes freezes on resume. This means i have to do a full reboot. This may well be related to the cf card problem, but so far it has only happened with the cf card present (bear in mind that it is in almost all of the time). I am testing this now.

3. USB Storage. I absolutely MUST have this. Many of the pcs i use cannot have drivers installed on them, so the usb networking mode won't work. I downloaded a usbstorage driver ported from one of the c series zs, but this will not install correctly (and when I try it leaves its attempted install on my Z, whilst aqpkg thinks it isn't installed so I can't uninstall it). The last attempt at this one made Linux on my laptop pick up a usb mass storage device, but it could not be mounted. A bit more messing and the Z would not start opie any more- reflash time- again. I then found an OZ version, but this would not work either.

4. The documents tab is a mess. Whilst it might be more convenient than adding things to a manual tab, it slows everything down, especially if you use cf or sd storage cards. I have turned it off, but is there some way of getting rid of it completely- it's cluttering up my desktop.

5. What does it mean when aqpkg says 'invalid magic'?
6. Can I remap the hardware keyboard? (i use dvorak)

Has anyone else expericenced similar problems?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thankyou in advance
Simon