Oz 3.5.2, Aqpkg Manager, & Games. Issues

[Cybernoid]

Okay, my Zaurus is finally stable, but not without several problems.  I am running OZ 3.5.2 and have all the apps I would like running again, including Doom with Timidity.

Anyway, I ran across a few strange things while installing packages:

(1) I dumped Package Manager as it locked up almost every time. (I think that this may have something do to with the fact that I installed the 32Mb/32Mb image and it just did not have enough leftover memory... even after installing everything to RAM or to SD.  One time after a lockup, all of the /etc/rc* directories were missing... had to re-flash.

(2) I installed AQPgk.  It seems to have a problem with symlinking dependency packages.  For example, I installed XMMS to RAM from the net, and AQPkg downloaded and installed XMMS and all libraries and plugins.  However, AQPKg only symlinked the XMMS package.  So I had to run ipkg-link manually and everything is fine.

(3) I still only install one package at a time using AQPkg.  It sometimes locks up if I try to install more than one... maybe it only deletes temp files at the end and, thus, runs out of memory... dunno...

(4) For some reason,  any package that requires libqte2 (>=2.3.7) I must do a -force-depends.  ipkg, Package Manager and AQPkg, for some reason, do not see that I have this package.  If I do a ipkg status libqte2 it comes back with 2.3.7-r0 or -r1.. definitely greater than 2.3.7...

(5) symlinking of filenames with spaces fails.

And, games.  I have a few questions.  These are the ones I cannot get to work:

(1) qpe-vexed: has some filenames in /opt/QtPalmtop/etc/qpe-vexed with spaces which causes ipkg-link to fail.  However, it still doesn't work if I manually link these.  Running from the command line gives no output.
(2) Powermana: shows a 16:9 letterbox black window and locks up the Zaurus.
(3) Hextatrolic: I think the screen is wrapped incorrectly from what I remember.
(4) GemdropX: Receives seg fault while in SDL startup.
(5) Freedroid: Says, "ERROR: Couldn't set 640 x 480 video mode."

Does anyone else have these working on OZ 3.5.2?


Just some of my experiences...

Thanks,
Chris

[MrSquishy]

Command line 'ipkg install' is more reliable than either package manager.

libqte2 is a known issue, just -force-depends it

Either quote your symlinks, or use '\' in front of spaces to let it be known that the filename contains a space (eg. 'ln -s /mnt/card/usr/link\ with\ space /usr')

Freedroid has to be run with '-r .5' to set it to QVGA.

You might try symlinking the entire qpe-vexed directory to /opt/QtPalmtop/etc/, rather than individual files.

[Cybernoid]

Either quote your symlinks, or use '\' in front of spaces to let it be known that the filename contains a space (eg. 'ln -s /mnt/card/usr/link\ with\ space /usr')

Yeah, this is what I did.  I was just relating on the ipkg-link fails for these files, so I think that it cannot handle files with spaces... hmm... taking a look at the ipkg-link script shows that it should handle spaces okay.  Maybe qpe-vexed fails on ipkg-link because of the etc/qpe-vexed directory did not get created.  dunno.

Freedroid has to be run with '-r .5' to set it to QVGA.

Yup, that worked.  Thanks!  Now it just locks up at the "Loading data" section. hmmm.

You might try symlinking the entire qpe-vexed directory to /opt/QtPalmtop/etc/, rather than individual files.

Yeah, if I was more clear minded, that would make more sense...  

Thanks for the help...

[MrSquishy]

Do this for qpe-vexed:

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mkdir /opt/QtPalmtop/etc
ln -s /mnt/card/opt/QtPalmtop/etc/qpe-vexed /opt/QtPalmtop/etc
This makes a link to the directory instead of files.

[Cybernoid]

Yup.  That is what I did.  However, qpe-vexed still does not start.  In fact it just does nothing with no output, even from the command line on my 5500...