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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Quake2 And Mouse

« on: March 17, 2006, 05:55:10 pm »

quake1 is a bit faster.
you need to switch on mouselook in quake configuration (both for quake1 and quake2)
just open quake console and type +mlook
I noticed that when running quake1 the mouse is a bit laggy. When I decreased resolution a little (which improved framerate) the mouse behaved much better. It seems that when cpu is bogged down with rendering, either X server or kernel do not get enogh cycles to receive mouse events.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.1.0beta2 For Cxxxx

« on: March 16, 2006, 04:46:30 pm »

update:

Picked up a card reader at lunch.  Windows 2000 says...

the frickin' thing is not formatted  

but alas, I do not have the authority to format at work.  so I will try again when I get home since i can't mount it under pdaxrom to format it under linux
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Windows may say it is unformatted becuase it cannot read it either.
In linux first you format then mount.

try
dd if=/dev/mmcda of=firstblk.bin count=1 bs=512
it should read first sector from the device
if it fails it means that the driver or slot cannot read from the card

then
Try running fdisk /dev/mmcda and see if it works
Create a partition table. Create fat32 or ext2 partition.
Then format it (mke2fs, mkdosfs)

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Emelfm2 0.1.6 And Crosscompiling Questions

« on: March 16, 2006, 04:07:59 am »

Hi, after I compiling new libraries you can manually place the files under

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/opt/cross/arm/3.4.5-xscale-softvfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/
 or  giving the command:

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make DESTDIR=/opt/cross/arm/3.4.5-xscale-softvfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/ install
will do the trick

-umit

Excellent! Thank you!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Emelfm2 0.1.6 And Crosscompiling Questions

« on: March 16, 2006, 03:43:42 am »

Next step is to try some packages dependant on other libraries.
How do I compile multiple libraries and dependency chains? Should I install compiled libs and headers into /opt/cross/arm or somewhere and maintain a little tree there? Or do I need to use pdaxrom build system for that? Inquiring minds need to know!

I would like to know the same, I succesfully compiled a library (OpenAL) than an app (GemRB) needs I am trying to cross compile, but if I make install for the library I have no clue where it puts it and the configure of the app (GemRB) can not find that the library is installed.
I have some .so, .so.0, .so.0.0.0, .lai, .la and .a files (the .0 and .0.0.0 are symlinks of course) after I did a make, I saw /opt/cross/arm/3.4.5-xscale-softvfp/lib exists and a /opt/cross/arm/3.4.5-xscale-softvfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/lib/
also where do I need to put the includes? just in
/opt/cross/arm/3.4.5-xscale-softvfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/include/ and it should
work? The app depends on SDL, OpenAL, Python and zlib, of which I think zlib and SDL are in the SDK, not sure about python so I need to check but it does exist for the PdaXrom so if not in the SDK then I suppose there is a way to convert the ipk back to a set of libraries and includes and copy those in the proper places so that the configure of the app finds them.
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/opt/cross/arm/3.4.5-xscale-softvfp/lib/ seems to contain i386 libraries, for instance
file libglib-2.0.so.0.800.1
libglib-2.0.so.0.800.1: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

the other directory
/opt/cross/arm/3.4.5-xscale-softvfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/lib/

file libglib-2.0.so.0.800.1
libglib-2.0.so.0.800.1: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, version 1 (ARM), not stripped

So my bet is that you should put .so and .a files into
/opt/cross/arm/3.4.5-xscale-softvfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/lib/
and
include files into
/opt/cross/arm/3.4.5-xscale-softvfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/include

if the package used "configure" script
you can try
PREFIX=/opt/cross/arm/3.4.5-xscale-softvfp/armv5tel-cacko-linux/ make install
(examine makefile whether it uses PREFIX variable or something)

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Emelfm2 0.1.6 And Crosscompiling Questions

« on: March 16, 2006, 03:37:39 am »

Now I shall troll freshmeat to see what useful app should I compile next! 

I think there are quite a few outstanding requests for apps that people would like to see compiled. Maybe you should troll this forum first  

Personally, I would like to see a native compilation of OOo 2.x  

Failing that I would settle for Glom

-- cheers
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It seems to require a whole bunch of gnome libraries (probably each one with more dependencies).
Right now I dont know how to compile it.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Emelfm2 0.1.6 And Crosscompiling Questions

« on: March 16, 2006, 02:23:02 am »

Cross compiling is fun!
I wanted to learn how to cross compile stuff.
I downloaded cross sdk.
And this is my first try. emelFM2 - simple GTK file manager. It only requires GTK2. I installed it and it works! Yay!
If anyone is interested please try it. (attached)
Next step is to try some packages dependant on other libraries.
How do I compile multiple libraries and dependency chains? Should I install compiled libs and headers into /opt/cross/arm or somewhere and maintain a little tree there? Or do I need to use pdaxrom build system for that? Inquiring minds need to know!

Now I shall troll freshmeat to see what useful app should I compile next!  

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Hardware Mods / 8gb Lacie Orange

« on: March 14, 2006, 07:58:42 pm »

The new Lacie Orange 8GB is quite cheap and contains a 8 GB hitachi microdrive. Does anyone know whether it is crippled to work in ide mode only or does it still work in cf mode and can be dissassembled to be placed inside a Zaurus?
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I know for sure that 8GB Memorex USB drive has crippled Seagate microdrive inside.
It kinda shows up in cardctl ident but it is impossible to read/write.
Oh well, I have 8GB usb drive now.
It seems that since this big 4GB MuVo craze all new players and USB driver use crippled microdrives that only have IDE/ATA mode, no CF mode.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Matchbox Update

« on: March 14, 2006, 04:37:30 pm »

Once again the window manager we use is not Matchbox - Matchbox WM is 100% intended for single fullscreen windows - PDA style.
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But doesnt new matchbox package include new panel and applets? Which pdaxrom uses?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom How To Support The Mouse Scrollwheel

« on: March 14, 2006, 04:34:22 pm »

I third!  
Seriously, please compile it in next pdaxrom version!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Usb Mouse Question

« on: March 14, 2006, 05:45:07 am »

I have just soldered (or rather my buddy did) mini B host cable and plugged in little transparent acrylic usb mouse I bought at weirstuff. It works just fine. I didnt have to change anything in configuration. It just works, except for scrollwheel.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Endless Games With Amiga Emulator?

« on: March 13, 2006, 09:15:17 pm »

that mans got geek SKILLS!!!

Yes- I am jelous. Can anyone here top that?

DEADBEEF- you really need to buy a top of the line SHARP X68K machine and a Neo-Geo to rule one and all. You've even got a perfectly geeky age
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I know a guy who has Origin 2000 supercomputer running Linux in his garage.
So I don't really feel special.  ;-)

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Endless Games With Amiga Emulator?

« on: March 13, 2006, 06:10:45 pm »

Timex 2048 (ZX Spectrum clone) I still have one running. Laser Squad FTW!
Atari 800XL (Now I have 1200XL with 1050 drive with Happy Warp).
I never had Amiga but now I have A1200 with Blizzard PPC and BVision at my dad's. He has to put it together and send it to me (and it is taking him like 3 years now).
I have 3 SGI Indys R5K (2 running Gentoo, one Irix) and boatload of parts, one SGI O2 R5K, one Sun Ultra 60 dual 360MHz (Gentoo/Sparc), one DEC Alpha Multia (waiting for Debian install)
And of course Zaurus C3100
And Fossil Wrist PDA running PalmOS 4 ;-)
And I am 32

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.1.0beta2 For Cxxxx

« on: March 09, 2006, 04:25:27 pm »

This is a behavior I also saw about 3-4 years ago when I worked on my diploma thesis using an early version of the hostap driver (on a desktop though, not a Zaurus).

Have you tried another driver?

daniel
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I have great faith in hostap driver. I used different versions on my notebook and my firewall/accesspoint in AP mode and I find it the best ever wireless driver for any card in linux.

Interesting thing. With RC12 (hostap 0.3.9+wpa_supplicant) 802.11x at office worked just fine with supplicant loaded before the driver. in Beta2 I had to modify script files so the supplicant is loaded after the driver. Otherwise it just cannot associate when loaded before and waiting for the interface to show up.

Now another problem. Everytime I reboot my time gets reset to like a year ago. Isnt there some RTC in the cpu (or on the board) that keeps current time?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.1.0beta2 For Cxxxx

« on: March 08, 2006, 04:20:03 pm »

I just installed it on my c3100 and here is what i noticed.

- suspend/resume sucks. after suspend, pressing hw button to wake the pda up sometimes flashes the desktop and thats it. it helped when i copied timezone file from my desktop. i think it would be great if collection of basic timezones was included and /etc/localtime already existed. but still it seems that now the clock goes to sleep when pda goes to sleep.

- wifi behaves erratically (i am using hostap driver and wpa_supplicant). once in a while when copying a big file it stalls, the card seems to lose connection and reacquire it. also it seems that it slows down (almost freezes) whole. i tried it with two wifi cards (linksys wcf12 and ambicom)

it seems that /var/log is on a flash partition. i am little afraid it may burn out the flash. is anyone else concerned about it? is it possible to move it to tmpfs somehow ? like tmp and /var/run. really i would prefer that c3100 system had root fs on microdrive and never used flash. is that possible? it seems c3000 operates this way.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Weird Keyboard Problem

« on: January 11, 2006, 03:25:55 pm »

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keycode 65 = Tab
    alt     keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
    shift   keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
    control keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
keycode 27 = Shift
keycode 89 = Alt
keycode 88 = Control
keycode 112 = Shift

I replaced my kernel.map with this map, rebooted and keyboard works fine now.
Thank you!

Now we have to figure out what breaks the keyboard map.