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C1000/3x00 General discussions / C3100 Xmms Playback

« on: August 31, 2005, 10:48:05 am »

xfaethorx,
I gave xmms a try on PocketWorkstation and ran into the same problems you are having. I was trying to stream it over wireless. I'm not sure if the problem is too much CPU required or not enough buffering going on. I am currently just using the MusicPlayer that comes with the Z. I set the buffering to 5MB and it works great over wireless. So in answer to your questions:
1. Mine can't
2. Got it running but not using it
3. Just used apt-get install xmms in PocketWorkstation
4. Tried to up the buffer time in oss settings but didn't seem to help.
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yep looks like exactly the same problem . Ah well that can go into the "F**ked if i can be bothered" section and I'll just the MusicPlayer instead. I would have prefered to have an X based Mp3 player for when I'm in X but no bother as long as I can hear tuneage its not all bad .

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Headaches Getting Thunderbird Working

« on: August 31, 2005, 06:53:30 am »

I had mistakenly believed that the C3100 Home was on the HDD.

Getting Thunderbird to run from Q/QT is what I want also but I don’t have any Linux or programming experience. In time I am sure things will evolve and the install will become idiot proof.

In the meantime I have to be content that users such as you are able to get it working and the feedback on your experiences is very welcome.

Your tip on moving /home installed apps to sd is a good one and maybe enough space can be freed up to allow Thunderbird to install.
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you could try moving everything under /home to the SD card and symlinking to it all from there. I'd back everything up before I did that mind incase it causes you major grief as theres a lot of stuff under /home, it might be wise to only move parts of it like the root and zaurus diretories.

you'll end up freeing some space at least . Also from the command line.

use df -h to show what mounted devices have what space left on them.

and use du -h in a directory to find out what in that directory and its subsequent sub diretories is takin up space. I found that when i'd tried to install / uninstall a version of thunderbird that it'd left a lot of crap behind on my system and exhausted /home. Worth a shot in making sure theres nothing on that mount poin tthat you dont need!

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / C3100 Xmms Playback

« on: August 31, 2005, 05:10:33 am »

Hi,

I installed XMMS on my Zaurus SL-C3100 yesterday, I tried to play an MP3 through it but unfortunately it played about 1 second if that and then the audio cut out and you couldn't hear anything but the odd click. To me it sounds like its trying to play the file but isn't making it.

My questions are

1. can the Zaurus handle XMMS?
2. If so does anyone have it running?
3. If you do what version are you using and where did you get it from/
4. did you have to change anything for it to work?

I'm trying to get as much stuff as I can into X/QT if I can't do it then its not a problem I'd just like to have XMMS working .

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Headaches Getting Thunderbird Working

« on: August 31, 2005, 04:15:43 am »

That was very useful, thank you.  I had assumed that it would be necessary to give the install destination path.

As you say the command line method permits explanation as to what is going wrong. In my case it is “No space left on device”.

What we need is a way of installing these apps to SD card. Failing which I should be kicking myself for buying the C1000 and instead of the C3100.
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good thing to do is if anything installs to /home  copy the dir to say card or hdd and symlink to it from there for that user! I've moved thunderbird and firefox directories to hdd3 in my case.

The C3100 runs out of home space far too quickly its lay out is badly thought out and would have been better to have the home directory mounted on the HDD I may in time just move the entire thing onto the HDD or 2 gig sd card but I want  to get more comfortable with the zaurus as this is my first sharp device.

so far though i've successfully got

ethereal, abiword, thunderbird, firefox and debian installed on my device..although all of them have involved me trawling around for other missing libraries and editing lots of scripts / making symlinks even pissing about with ldconfig.

When it comes down to it you need a good grounding with administrating a linux box to get some of this stuff installed but once it works it works. At the minute my plan is to get everything i need working under X/QT without using debian as its a hog and tbh it doesn't provide me with much that I need. You can edit all the menus and stuff for debian though, I turned of the CPU monitor straight away as that takes up processor time so why bother . X/QT is quicker to launch your applications from and you can configure blackbox for your user from the .blackboxrc file.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Headaches Getting Thunderbird Working

« on: August 30, 2005, 10:49:12 am »

Well done on the success, I shall try that.

What did you type at the command line to install Thunderbird, please?
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make sure your powersettings don't go into suspend or screensaver within say 1hr (best to install big packages whilst your plugged into the mains!).

ok cd into the directory where you have you .ipk located.

then do this..

su
ipkg install FILENAME.ipk

(obviously filename is the ipk you want to install.

what this will do is run the installer from the command line if something goes wrong, i,e your out of space on a device or your misisng a part of the install you'll see it this way where as you wont with the gui installer .

hope that helps .

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Headaches Getting Thunderbird Working

« on: August 29, 2005, 08:23:48 am »

well i've finally got it working here! What I had to do was install the v5tel.ipk version on the command line first, for some reason it installs with no problems for me that way (and its not because of power saving) . Once I tried that I got the pango errors that are mentioned in this thread.

The reason you get that is pango is installed under /etc/pango and thunderbird will look for it under /home/QtPalmtop/etc so I just symlinked that and the gtk-2.0 directory. If you look at meanies site and check his custom page it shows how to set the pango stuff up.

Once i'd linked two the two /etc directories via /home/QtPalmtop/etc/ thunderbird started no problem!

(FINALLY!).

I need to move the thunderbird directory to /hdd3 though as /home runs out of space so fucking fast its untrue!!!!

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Jumbo Xqt Package

« on: August 28, 2005, 03:06:04 pm »

yep me three i've tried 3 different ipks on my C3100 and not one has worked . However that one is built into the debian jumbo and does work (under debian which isn't what i want ). Anyroad anyone know where to get it form! ?
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Do you mean this?

[a href=\"http://www.pdaxrom.org/feed/thunderbird_0.6_armv5tel.ipk]http://www.pdaxrom.org/feed/thunderbird_0.6_armv5tel.ipk[/url]
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already tried that one and it didn't work  the only way thunderbird works for me currently is under debian which means its slower than running under X/QT busybox.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Jumbo Xqt Package

« on: August 28, 2005, 01:53:10 pm »

yep me three i've tried 3 different ipks on my C3100 and not one has worked . However that one is built into the debian jumbo and does work (under debian which isn't what i want ). Anyroad anyone know where to get it form! ?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Headaches Getting Thunderbird Working

« on: August 25, 2005, 09:21:18 am »

I've been having some rough problems getting this to work on my SL-C3100 and I'm still a little stuck. I've tried installing 3 different versions of the thunderbird package 2 and all though the claim to be the same. I tired meanies package but it claims theres tar problems with it and generally wont install  so I gave up with that and used :  thunderbird_0.6_arm5tel.ipk installs ok from the console.


now (obviously I have X/QT jumbo installed) when I come to try and execute thunderbird heres what happens

su -
xlauncher thunderbird

/usr/thundrbird-0.6/thunderbird-bin : /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libgcc_so.so.1; version 'GCC_3.3' not found (required by /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libstdc++.so.5).

these are the ipks i have installed.

- libstdc5-compat-sharp_0.5_arm.ipk
- libiconv_1.8-2_arm.ipk
- thunderbird_0.6_armv5tel.ipk

what annoys the crap out of me is that under debian workstation i can launch thunderbird no problems but its dog slow just like firefox, but if you launch it firefox not inside debian it works quicker hence why im trying to get these tools working under X/QT.

all help appriciated here. I've only had my zaurus a week so im still a bit new to everything.
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Interesting... I don't have /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libgcc_so.so.1

see if you have /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1, if you do, tnen try renaming the above to something else and try running thunderbird again.
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I the files were different so i just replaced the bugger and that issue disappeared however i've got another problem now .

su -
xlauncher thunderbird

brings (sorry can't do all of the dump take to long).
{: out of space
[: out of space

gtk-critical **: file gtksignal.c: line 725 (gtk_signal_connect) asertion 'GTK_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed.
segmentation fault :S

anyone ?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Headaches Getting Thunderbird Working

« on: August 25, 2005, 05:57:17 am »

I've been having some rough problems getting this to work on my SL-C3100 and I'm still a little stuck. I've tried installing 3 different versions of the thunderbird package 2 and all though the claim to be the same. I tired meanies package but it claims theres tar problems with it and generally wont install  so I gave up with that and used :  thunderbird_0.6_arm5tel.ipk installs ok from the console.


now (obviously I have X/QT jumbo installed) when I come to try and execute thunderbird heres what happens

su -
xlauncher thunderbird

/usr/thundrbird-0.6/thunderbird-bin : /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libgcc_so.so.1; version 'GCC_3.3' not found (required by /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libstdc++.so.5).

these are the ipks i have installed.

- libstdc5-compat-sharp_0.5_arm.ipk
- libiconv_1.8-2_arm.ipk
- thunderbird_0.6_armv5tel.ipk

what annoys the crap out of me is that under debian workstation i can launch thunderbird no problems but its dog slow just like firefox, but if you launch it firefox not inside debian it works quicker hence why im trying to get these tools working under X/QT.

all help appriciated here. I've only had my zaurus a week so im still a bit new to everything.

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Software / Debian Install Help.

« on: August 23, 2005, 08:30:43 am »

hi

I'm trying to install debian workstation onto my sl-c3100 i've been looking at

http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/custom.html

but i've had a few problems, I'd like to query part of the install.

# zcat zaurus-debian-big-v0.17.tgz | tar xvf - -C /hdd3/debroot
#su

shouldn't I already be root as the tar seems to try to make lost of nodes and links etc?

i followed these instructions but couldn't get debian to work

I've also tried installing debian from the instructions on this part of the same site.

http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/jumbo/xqtjumbo.html

i downloaded all the relavant files and tried to install the debian package via its script. This too doesn't work, if I drop to the command line and try startd it claims that it can't find icewm-session which looks like a pathing issue during the install.

I'd really like to get all this working properly as it looks really good. Any help or pointers appriciated. I'm still really new to the zaurus but im not new to linux.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Newbie: And His Sl-c3100 + Questions!

« on: August 19, 2005, 02:45:57 pm »

right i bought a SL-C3100 on impulse as it looked sooooo damn good.

I've been a bit to busy with work to do a lot of the background reading so I'm starting a bit on the backfoot. So I have a few questions for hardcore Zaurus users. And I hope you can answer them

1. Is it worth installing a different O/S - OpenZaurus / OpenBSD , I've read one thread that suggests that OpenZaurus isn't stable enough to bother installing and as for the BSD port I'm unsure of its usefulness. So Advice etc welcome.

2. Wheres the best place to find english support, my PDA was converted to english for me but from what i've seen already theres not much support after that. So wheres the best place to find ROMS patches etc.

2. Whats the best GUI frontend for the Zaurus? I've seen 2 that work with OpenZaurus but can you change the default QT one as its a bit naff.

3. Wheres the best place to find compilers, network tools and the like? I'm hoping to find at least a C/C++ compiler , hopefully perl , not essential but java would be useful and any serious networking tools would be useful as well.

All help and pointers are greatly recieved.

Thanks in advance

xfx