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mmhere123456

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« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2005, 06:46:09 pm »
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as a newb, could someone post a link to the install instructions for bringing OpenZaurus up on my SL-C3100?  I'd like to load it today, test, and report results.
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Nevermind!  I used the instructions for SL-C3100 (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c1000/) and now I'm running Opie.
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One question though -- given the extremely high resolution of this 640x480 3.7" screen (and my old eyes) -- the Opie interface is very difficult to see.

The Zaurus's zoom functions don't seem to do anything at the desktop level.  Is there a way to get the zoom keys (Fn-1, Fn-2) to work?

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« Reply #16 on: August 27, 2005, 06:48:00 pm »
I did use the Appearance applet to up the font size from 10 to 14, so that's a little better.

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« Reply #17 on: August 27, 2005, 07:46:07 pm »
Most user interface elements should be reasonable sized (except some spin box buttons) when you removed your old settings in $HOME (as advised).
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« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2005, 10:41:17 pm »
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Most user interface elements should be reasonable sized (except some spin box buttons) when you removed your old settings in $HOME (as advised).
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I did move the $HOME/Settings/*.conf files aside before putting OZ on.

My SL-C3100 booted into OZ just fine, but I came across a few issues that made me go back to the Sharp ROM (the one from here:  [a href=\"http://www.trisoft.de/en_c3100howto.htm)]http://www.trisoft.de/en_c3100howto.htm)[/url].  List of issues:

(1) The console app's fonts are still pretty messed up.  You can pick a larger size than the default (which improves readability), but there didn't seem to be a fixed-width font available;  so it was very difficult to read the text in the window.  E.g., output of ls and ifconfig were all non-columnar and therefore very difficult to read.

(2) If I used the Qtopia menu to switch to "Terminal 1," I got the text login screen and never could figure out how to switch back to the Qtopia GUI -- each time I had to reboot.

(3) The Kbrowser and network would not work reliably with my Linksys WCF12 WiFi CF card -- web pages sometimes loaded, but only about 10% of the time.  Most times the browser failed to load the page and simply timed out.  I could ping my access point just fine from the console window, so basic connectivity seemed to be working.  Note that when I put the Sharp ROM [trisoft.de version] back on, NetFront 3.1 loaded/rendered web pages flawlessly.  In both cases, I was sitting about 2 meters from my WiFi access point, so the only difference was in the software being run.

(4) I didn't see how to turn the desktop background/wallpaper off;  I wanted to set it to a plain blue, because the default Opie background image is smaller than the 640x480 screen, and gets tiled in a fairly distracting manner.  I probly just did not search thru the settings sufficiently.
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Let me know what else I can do to test / provide feedback for OZ on the SL-C3100.  I'm very interested in exploring OZ/Opie further, as it seems better than the Sharp ROM in some areas (e.g., I've had trouble installing Wellenreiter II on Sharp ROMs, but having it pre-installed in OZ was a great help;  also, the net config tool does let you scan for visible/local networks -- the Sharp ROM network applet doesn't do scanning like that, which is a real pain in an urban environment where there are a dozen AP's nearby...).

Brent
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P.S.:  I used the trisoft.de NAND-Flash image mentioned above instead of my own NAND-Flash image of the Sharp ROM originally shipped to me by Dynamism:  the trisoft.de image seems to be a slightly newer build of Qtopia, and they also pre-install useful stuff like KA/Pi, KO/Pi, OM/Pi.

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« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2005, 11:16:52 pm »
Well, I've installed the version you've uploaded, and it's loking pretty good.    These are the issues I am seeing now:

1) Playing MP3 files, sound is choppy, reason unknown
2) Default font size is a bit small -- workaround is go through Appearance and boost to 14point
3) The microdrive seems to "dissapear" after a while .. it goes to sleep and never comes back.
4) The /etc/fstab refers to /dev/hda1 as SD, when in fact /dev/hda is the microdrive

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« Reply #20 on: August 28, 2005, 10:15:30 am »
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1) Playing MP3 files, sound is choppy, reason unknown

What software? Presuming it's xine based, have you set it to softsync (which is required with the faster processor equiped machines).

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4) The /etc/fstab refers to /dev/hda1 as SD, when in fact /dev/hda is the microdrive

Does that mean it's mounted as /media/card then? Something to add to the bugtracker or tell Mickeyl about.


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« Reply #21 on: August 30, 2005, 04:10:21 am »
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They were on the CDs??? Bummer, then people should've uploaded them months ago.
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Well, they weren't on any of the three CD's shipped with my C3100. Strange that it differs. Good that someone got 'em, that's all that's needed.
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« Reply #22 on: November 11, 2005, 07:12:46 am »
Today I flashed my SLC-3100 following the instructions at http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c3000/.

It starts, but not the GPE gui!!!

I looked at the fact that the file gpe-image-borzoi-20051022114722.rootfs.img is not a TGZ as for the other Zaurus models, so it didn’t flashed anithing.

I need to rename the above file to hdimage1.bin instead of hdimage1.tgz?

Please help me as soon as possibile.

Thank you very much!

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« Reply #24 on: November 14, 2005, 03:32:17 am »
I installed the 3.5.4RC1 because the 3.5.6 with kernel 2.6 i s very unstable.

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« Reply #25 on: November 14, 2005, 05:35:42 am »
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because the 3.5.6 with kernel 2.6 i s very unstable.

Can you give some examples? Please add this kernel related stuff to the bug-tracker.

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« Reply #26 on: November 14, 2005, 05:45:03 am »
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because the 3.5.6 with kernel 2.6 i s very unstable.

Can you give some examples? Please add this kernel related stuff to the bug-tracker.

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I found these problems:

 - it's very slow
 - sometimes the boot process hangs up
 - audio does not work
 - usb port does not work

At this moment I cannot remember other problems, sorry!

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« Reply #27 on: November 14, 2005, 07:18:20 am »
So basically what it says here:

http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/

The boot process hanging sounds like a possible instability, however the other things just sound like the port's not finished yet (which is the case).

I am interested in the running slowly thing though - you sure this is kernel related?


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Serial GPS, WCF-12, Socket Ethernet & BT, Ratoc USB
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