Probably Fried The Charging Circuit

I've used my Zaurus 3100 as a gps device on long bicycle trips.

The gps-card I have (Billionton) sucks battery quite soon empty, so
decided to do a travel charger. My bike's hub dynamo gives 6 V / 2,4 W,
and thus 0,4 amperes, as I learned at school many years ago.

Added a diodebridge to smoothen voltage to dc, and a 5 V regulator
to ensure voltage won't get too high.

Then rode a test trip voltage meter mounted on handle bar. Voltage
newer rised over 4,7 volts even I pedaled 50 km/h (31 mph). I almost
never exceed that speed.

I thought it was safe to use the system to charge zaurus.

Soon on first trip I almost fell, fastening strap twisted connector
quite strongly. After that I could not charge even using the regular
plug charger, led wont lit up, bottom gets hot under power connector.
Took Zaurus to be repaired, has been there almost 10 weeks, not
very promising. First they said it can be fixed, last time a called
they were still waiting for spare parts.

After that secured the fastening belts, triple checked polarity.
Did a test drive at very low speed, but seems I've burn't also
my second Z's charging circuit. Sometimes yellow led lits, usually
just blinks when charging with plug charger.

Does not hamper my usual usage, I have an external charger.

Seems it's time to forget dynamo-charger, but I wonder what wen't
wrong. The plug charger gives 5 V and 1 A (readings on sticker, I also
measured 5 volts).

I newer measured the amperes of my bike charger.
I've seen graphs of hub-dynamo's speed vs. voltage curve, and it is quite
even. So thought it would never exeed 1 A.

Can someone who has deeper knowledge of electronics tell what was wrong?

Debian Touch Screen Issue

Installed kernel 2.6.26 and debian squeeze armel to SL-C3100. ts_calibrate works like it should, but in X (openbox) cursor follows mouse,
but I can't click (by tapping stylus) like in ts_calibrate.

libts installed. What is missing?

Solved:touch Screen Too Sensitive

Installed debian-eabi followin 2or0's hints, just changed kernel to newer (2.6.26). Works, but touch screen calibration is so .....

ts_calibrate opens, but the screen is so sensitive, that it is impossbile to do five separate clicks. Usually a stylus tap is interpreted as two or three.
My best effort after more than hour trying was 4 out of 5, frustrating. And as at least two taps are on sameposition, ts_calibrate announces determinant
is too small.

My hands ore not so bad I have not ever before had any issues completing screen calibration.

Is there a way to configure touch screen sensitivity?

Andromeda Debian, How To Recalibrate?

Yongguns Andromeda Debian works fine, but I don't know how to recalibrate touch screen.

ts_calibrate only gives: ts_open: No such file or directory.

Debian Screws Apt, What Am I Doing Wrong?

I tried Zdevil's debian-rootfs (eabi) first. Installed fine to my SL-C3100,
but soon after installing a few debs from official mirror, dependency
problems made apt so broken that I could not install anything more.
First time ever I used sid, I've been running stable Debians on my
desktop pc's for years. I thought, it was just unstable sid.

So tried titchy, then oabi kernels, but they all led to the same
result. Errors that apt gives all usually something like "chown:changing
ownership of file n\465\235 [or any arbitary x\nnn\nnn]: No such file
or directory". Funny thing is, when I execute post-install script of
problematic .deb line by line, works then like it should.

Thought microdrive was dying, changed to cf-card. Did not help.
Next thought, Z's "hd-driver-chip" is corrupted, Bought another
used SL-C3100, but I'm still where I started.

I really cant get it, what causes this? Any hint appreciated.