Kathrin Rc9 Out..

[JedTheHead]

I had the same busybox and pango issues yesterday after doing an ipkg update / upgrade and was able to come up with the same solutions as the previous post.  All is well now except:

The tab key in a shell or in a gui app (such as aterm and abiword) acts as the caps lock key - very frustrating when attempting tab completion in the shell.  

Also, the FN+ click in the gui doesn't produce a right click as it has in the past.

Are other people seeing these issues?

I have not done a reflash - trying to avoid it for right now...

Thanks for all the hard work!

Jed

[Zumi]

Hi it works fine and more fast than RC8 on a SL-C700.

Some things about:

Finally I have flashed all again but:
First I had put root partition to the maximal 47Mb. When all instalation procces finalice, a kernel panic appear (something with a sector, I dont remember well).
Then I had resize root partition to 46Mb (max-1Mb) and all goes normally.
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I, too, have a C700 and had a kernel panic at 47Mb, and I think I had a kernel panic once at 46Mb.  The big problem, however, was "out of space" errors at 45Mb.  It apperars that the ROM will flash without errors, and will boot, but doing almost anything leads to "out of space" errors the next time you boot.  
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Has anyone else got RC9 running on a C700?
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45MB root partition seemed to be the magic number for me with RC8. Nothing more, nothing less. I have a C700 and I haven't tried it with RC9, but I had the same problem with rc5 and 8. Hope that helped a bit. (maybe not, if the pack got bigger than 45   )

Zumi

[g33k]

So, when you say "Ratoc USB not implemented yet :-) - ipk update soon" - what's going on with that? There's been talk for a long, long time but it continues not to work. I've messed with it, had my Linux-guru friend mess with it, and even corresponded with the author of the driver... I can't get it working. You guys owe me nothing, obviously, but the Ratoc USB Host is the #1 thing holding me back from using my Zaurus like I planned to, and making me look wistfully at other ROMs. Please, I beg you, fix this!

[Zumi]

Latest builder sources and patches for rc9 - only for developers:
Sooonn!!!!

I know the source is 63 terabyte and only Sash has it but he only got a 0,01kb/sec internet and it's not ready yet and it will wreck my Z and burn my house, but it would be really nice if the dev. team would finally put the sources up on some website...

Thanks,
Zumi

[jerrybme]

I just tried flashing from Cacko to pdaXrom and found on my 750 that the old Cacko kernel was still in place & of course couldn't boot.

Looking into the tools.tar I found that the C700 & C750 kernel directories are empty. So I extracted the 760 kernel moved it to the root of my CF , removed the initrd.bin and used an old updater.sh from OZ that only does a kernel & initrd.bin flash, no fancy GUI like Sashz built. It flashed the kernel and now it booted into pdaXrom.

Playing with it now & everything ok so far.

Upgrading from from RC8 shouldn't be a problem as it looks like the kernel is same so it wouldn't matter if it failed to load a kernel. Wierd thing is that I got no error from Sashz's flash GUI.

Cheers,
Jerry

[Laze]

Jerrybme - thanks for this update.. Might be the reason for many problems and other stuff - the corrected version will be online ASAP.

Zumi: Downloading the sources after the rom, speed is at 300 B/s now :-(

[cs_jacky]

Hi,

Anyone notice that the cursor on some gtk text field (like the gaim message input field) will align right. If I input numeric character, the inputs and the cursor will keep align right. If I input letters, the inputs will align to the left. Any solutions to fix it?  Thanks.

Jacky

[Laze]

Latest builder is available at: http://www.pdaxrom.org/index.php?showid=40&menuid=11

[jerrybme]

Laze:
Any chance the next release could support Matchbox themeing?  
Thanks,
Jerry

[Laze]

The window manager we use is not the Matchbox window manager so its not possible..

[JedTheHead]

I had the same busybox and pango issues yesterday after doing an ipkg update / upgrade and was able to come up with the same solutions as the previous post.  All is well now except:

The tab key in a shell or in a gui app (such as aterm and abiword) acts as the caps lock key - very frustrating when attempting tab completion in the shell. 

Also, the FN+ click in the gui doesn't produce a right click as it has in the past.

Are other people seeing these issues?

I have not done a reflash - trying to avoid it for right now...

Thanks for all the hard work!

Jed
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I can't say why the ipkg update / upgrade didn't do the trick, but re-flashing with the latest RC9 solved my problems.  Thanks guys!

Now if someone better than me can just get reliable pdf viewing, I'll be in z heaven!

[LadyBug]

Am I the only one with Package manager problems in RC9? Namely, the new package manager GUI sucks now big time!

The old version showed the package version number on the same line as the package name, so I could easily tell the version number of installed and available packages. Now I have to do a double click,  and what is most annoying,  the double click does not work in the "available" tab.

For example, I'm trying to update kdepim from 1.9.5 to 2.0.1, which is in unstable. I uninstall 1.9.5, but when I go to the available tab in the GUI I have no way to check which of the listed two kdepim entries is version 1.9.5 and which is 2.0.1. And whichever I choose from the GUI, it installs the old 1.9.5.

The feed databases are OK (i.e. feed0 has 1.9.5 and feed1 has 2.0.1), I manually checked that. The only way I could get the 2.0.1 was to remove feed0, so it sees only the feed with the newer package.

EDIT: OK, now I got it. I also needed to do ipkg update & upgrade on top of the fresh RC9 flash to get the package manager that works. Still, I like the "all the info at a glance" GUI better.

[jerrybme]

The window manager we use is not the Matchbox window manager so its not possible..
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How confusing  

I saw openbox themes but all of the calls to matchbox related stuff in mbsession threw me off the track: setting the background, orientation & other stuff.

So... is it openbox that is the window manager?

Cheers,
Jerry

[rgrep]

So... is it openbox that is the window manager?

Yes, pdaXrom uses the openbox window manager and the matchbox apps such as the desktop and panel.  That might sound crazy, but the reason is quite simple - the matchbox window manager displays all windows maximised since it is built for embedded devices.  While the Zaurus is an embedded device, I'm sure you'll all agree that pdaXrom turns it into more of a mini-laptop and so the traditional embedded interface really isn't appropriate.

Matt

[pgas]

So... is it openbox that is the window manager?

Hey! I didn't put much (hopefully this will get better) on the wiki page, but this info was
the first thing I put see: pdaxrom environment

That's why I think having a wiki page is important, you could have found this on these forums also  but with some documentation pages it's just better.