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5x00 General discussions / 5500 Error - Will No Longer Calibrate?

« on: October 19, 2006, 01:08:03 pm »

heya,

I just dug my Z-5500 out of storage after a long hiatus, and flashed it with Qtopia 2.1.2.

Upon starting up, I tapped the screen once to start the setup, then went through the calibration procedure. However, no matter how many times I performed calibration, it simply repeated all over again.

Thinking it was a problem with the ROM, I flashed it again with OZ 3.5.4 as well, with the same result (calibration kept on looping).

This is a very strange error, but hopefully the machine is usable somehow - any suggestions?

Thanks,
Victor

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom R11 For Sl-5500

« on: November 12, 2005, 11:58:00 pm »

heya,

Second that, any word? Waiting with anticipation for this .

Thanks,
Victor

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom For 5500?

« on: June 17, 2005, 12:27:31 am »

Any further word at all?

I'd have to concur with andrewwoods, I personally would be more than happy to test out alpha code, anything at all.

Even the code you guys said you had in February, even that I'd be happy with it, even if it's totally alpha/buggy - just something to see how it's coming along.

Anyway, kudos for the great work so far, you guys have done fine things for the Z community. Hope sSach is back soon.

cya,
Victor

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom For 5500?

« on: May 14, 2005, 05:57:02 am »

hi,

Ohhh - we are very close to release - i have attached some screenshots :-)

Link (10 February, 2005

Anybody have any idea on the progress of pdaXrom for the 5500? According to Laze, they defineltey had working code in February, and were close to releasing - what became of that?

Well, keeping my fingers crossed for new .

cya,
Victor

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General Discussion / "couldnt Connect To Socket!"

« on: April 16, 2005, 11:22:25 pm »

Hi,

I'm trying to get opie remote to work on my recently flashed zaurus, and on startup, and every time you click a remote button, it comes up with:

"couldnt connect to socket!"

I'm using OZ 3.5.3 (Opie), and I've installed the following packages on top of the vanilla opie rom:

lirc 0.7
lirc-modules 0.7
opie-help-en 1.2.0
opie-help-en-locale 1.2.0
opie-remote 1.2.0
opie-remote-help-en 1.2.0

Also, once I've managed to get opie-remote to work, how exactly do I go about using it? (sorry, I'm new to all this ) I need a lirc.conf for my remote, right? (I know www.lirc.org has some - other sources?).

Also, what if I want to control multiple devices (eg dvd/vcr/tv etc.) - can I merge the different lirc.conf's together? Finally, how do I go about creating a lirc.conf for my own devices - is there a learning mode in lirc/opie-remote?

Thanks,
Victor

PS: Somebody mentioned a similar  issue on handheld.org ML here, but there doesn't seem to have been a reply.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 3.5.3 Gpe-image

« on: April 15, 2005, 06:33:46 am »

Hi,

GPE 3.5.3 looks pretty sweet. I for one thought it was worth the wait  Just a few minor niggles.

1. Clicking the Control Panel icon under Settings seems to do absolutely nothing, except flash at you. Is this intentional?

2. For some reason, after an hour of usage, the rotate screen button on the panel no longer works - as in, if you click it absolutely nothing occurs, no feedback or any reaction at all. Also, attempting to change the screen rotation via the Screen Setup capplet under Settings also does absolutely nothing (as in, literally absolutely nothing at all occurs). I realise that this isn't a very good description - is there some way of getting debug/verbose output from this, so I can pass it on to you guys to help figure it out?

Also, is anybody else experiencing the same issue?

3. Likewise, for some strange reason, the Rosetta input seems broken now. Before, I got the cool full-screen input, and I had a funny icon next to the input selector and arrow that you click to enable/disable it. Now, that icon is gone (nor is it on the Add to applet menu), and when I click the Input selector, the old-style handwriting panel pops up (Lowercase, Uppercase, Symbol), and I can't seem to find a way to re-enable full-screen input. What's up with that? Once again, any way to get debug output for this?

4. The networking setup is also kinda weird. I'm trying to follow the instructions here, and here, but once again, absolutely nothing happens (the God of Nothing must have a thing today...lol). As in, no log messages are printed, no modules are loaded.

The Network Setup capplet also seeks rather screwed....

How exactly are you meant to configure the usbd0 interface? It's wasn't listed at the top, so I thought, that's fine, I'll make a new one. But when you attempt to create a new interface called "usbd0", it complains about "This interface definition already exists!". But since there doesn't appear to be any way to access this supposedly already created definition, how are you meant to customize it?

Thanks,
Victor

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom For 5500?

« on: April 13, 2005, 09:01:24 am »

Hi,

Mickeyl: I'd be more than happy to join up and help the pdaXrom project. I assume you're associated with the project, right? If so, please contact me (PM or email is fine - victorhooi (at) yahoo (dot) com), and tell me what areas I can help out with. I'm definitely not a brilliant programmer - bit of C/C++, some Java etc - but I wouldn't mind doc-writing, testing betas, bug-quashing etc.

technojunkie: I don't think it's some kind of inherent limitation of either the GTK+ toolkit, or or X that somehow makes the Zaurus "laggy". X runs fine on a 100Mhz processor with 16Mb of ram (my secondary system), so I don't see why it has to be laggy on a Zaurus (100Mhz on x86 doesn't convert into 100Mhz on ARM, obviously, but you get the idea).

The recent reductions in the memory footprint of Matchbox are a good example. I doubt we've reached the end of the road to optimising all the stuff in GPE (note: I'm not a programmer) - hopefully, we'll be able to push it further, and bring it up to par with say, the Qtopia releases. Speaking of which - does anybody know why the (very spartan) unofficial pdaXrom QTopia 2.1 releases were so damn fast? I mean seriously seriously fast. I'd be willing to put up with quite a drop in functionality if I could get something like that kind of speed = .

bye,
Victor

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom For 5500?

« on: April 12, 2005, 04:48:05 am »

Hi,

Still no word on anything, huh?  Well, fingers crossed, but I've heard absolutely nothing on any new developments...

To the poster above, who asked why I might want to run pdaXrom, it's for the X server...lol. And I've tried GPE 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 (pre-release), but they're both a bit unpolished and laggy (at least for me).

cya,
Victor

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General Discussion / Use Ps/2 Keyboard On Zaurus 5500

« on: April 05, 2005, 07:40:43 am »

Hi,

Does anybody know if it's possible to make some kind of adapter to let you use a normal full-size PS/2 keyboard via the serila port on the bottom of the Zaurus 5500?

If anybody could provide info on making one, that'd be great? Or even better, make one and I'll buy it off you .

thanks,
Victor

PS: Is serial port the proper name for that port on the bottom? Mine just says Sharp I/O Port.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Openzaurus 3.5.3 Pre-release

« on: April 02, 2005, 02:43:32 am »

Hi,

Yeah, I'm getting the same error as Storm, except it happens all the time . After flashing with 3.5.3, it doesn't turn on. And when using GPE 3.5.2, once you suspend, it won't turn back on.

None of these problems occur with Opie 3.5.3, or with the officials.

Storm: Could you check if get the "won't turn on" error with different roms? (eg official Sharp) Maybe we could narrow it down, to see if it's an OE problem?

thanks,
Victor

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Openzaurus 3.5.3 Pre-release

« on: April 01, 2005, 01:09:20 am »

Hi,

Can't wait for it   ?

Personally, I think GPE is prettier than OPIE (maybe I'm weird ) but for some reason, on GPE-3.5.2, once I logout or whatever, my Zaurus-5550 won't turn on again....

I have to reflash it all over again to get it to even start up again. Very strange.

I tried the 3.5.3 Opie Pre-Release, but for some reason the device won't even turn on after flashing....

Well, hopefully I'll be luckier with this new one *excited grin*

cya,
Victor

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General Discussion / Using Zaurus 5500 As A Universal Remote Control

« on: March 21, 2005, 05:05:28 am »

Hi,

I'm wondering if it's possible to use my Zaurus 5500 as a universal remote control, ie to control televisions, dvd-players, or anything else with an IR interface?

I've taken a look at Opie Remote, and was wondering if anybody had any experience with this program. How effective is it, and do you have any hints/tips/erratta/notes?

Also, is the range of the Zaurus too short to be useful? Exactly how much range have you guys managed to get out of it? If the range is too short to be useful, are there any cheap solutions to inreasing it? (eg IR repeaters/extenders - price?)

Alternatively, do you think I would be better off going for some programmable IR remote with a touch screen, and which can be connected to my computer - anybody know of any such products/suggestions?

thanks,
Victor

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom For 5500?

« on: March 15, 2005, 05:03:33 am »

Hi,

thanks, but yeah I've tried that  (actually, I'm trying the 3.5.3 pre-release right now...*fingers crossed*)

but no, I'm looking specifically for pdaxrom...with quake *gasp* hehe

any word from developers or anybody in the know?

bye,
Victor

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom For 5500?

« on: March 08, 2005, 11:13:38 pm »

Hi,

I was just wondering if anybody had any word on progress on pdaXrom for the Zaurus 5500? Is there any chance of a RC/beta release, or something similar?

thanks,
Victor

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General Discussion / Eyecandy From Rasterman...

« on: February 24, 2005, 06:25:03 pm »

Hi,

By now, I'm guessing most people here have read the whole /. and osnews angle on Raster's blog post - I'll start off by saying I've been a fan of his work since RH 5-ish. Anyway, what do you guys think of this?

EEM Video
Live on iPaq

I'm hoping the above won't go down - it's already survived a couple days of slashdotting  , but I've got local copies and will mirror if needed.  Anyway, hopefully he'll be nice and release something that we can try out easily...

cya,
Victor