Pdaxrom For 5500?

[pgas]

1- runs off of SD

As it is the first release that is out for 5500, nobody exept sashz and laze know about this, the documentation is limited to what sashz as posted so far...

2- does the 5500 version support qtopia over X11

short answer: no.

I compiled qtopia with the patches from yopy (search this forum), so that it is possible to run qtopia over X11. But  I'm not really interested into this so it is not packaged, tested and probably won't let you run ipkg for  the sharp rom as is.

Moreover as it is compiled for xscale, it probably won't run at all on the 5500....

[miskinis]

Hi,

I installed this on an SL-5500 last night, but have not installed anything
on top of it yet, as I need to free up some disk space to create a local
feed.

I was able to use aterm to check out a few things, and experienced no
crashes or hangs so far!

_John_

[law]

little bug :-)

gaim needs libao, add this to the ipk deps :-)

it is realy fast :-)

[andrewwoods]

Hey this is great. Well done chaps.

I've installed it, but forgot to bring my spare sd card so can't do much else yet.

[Absolute Nirvana]

I know you have to install the system tools (sleep, button config) on your own, but which ipk(s) contain the system tools?

Is is this ipk: python-distutils_2.3.4_arm.ipk ?

[miskinis]

I've tried to check out this ROM a few times, but each time I
was unsure of what packages I needed to install.  Some instructions
as to what is needed, to achieve a WIFI connection (with WEP
preferred), and an ssh connection into the device would be
a great help.

Getting that far, would allow me to use a (full size) terminal to
experiment and install other packages as needed.

Many thanks in advance,

John

[miskinis]

I've tried to check out this ROM a few times...

Oh yeh, another really useful piece of information, would be
how to run the pdaXrom (optionally) from SD.  That would allow
experimentation, while still allowing the ability to boot back to
a more comfortable (understood from experience) OS.

I was hoping to get pdaXrom up, then persue a JAVA VM this
weekend,  but it looks like it will be quite a struggle without a
few hints on what packages are needed to configure and
get WIFI to work.

Help would be cool,

John

[miskinis]

I've tried to check out this ROM a few times...

Well, I spent many hours this weekend, and got very far with this ROM
on my SL-5500.  I turned off WEP and enabled ESID broadcast on my
WIFI router, and was able to get a WIFI connection.  It appears I have to
hunt down info on the "iwconfig" command, which I have never needed to use before.

Unfortunately, I was using a 128MB SD card, and although I was able
to get a lot of things running (openbox, etc.), and many X clients to
display remotely on the Z, I ran out of space while installing
"gcc_headers", so it looks like I must start all over.

In any case, I figured I'd post my results, in case others are trying to
use this, and are interested...

John

[miskinis]

I forgot to ask if anyone knows how to get the
screen to rotate to the portrait orientation.  The
rotate.sh script tries to invoke some "*clamshell*"
script that is not there.

Many thanks in advance for a solution,
John

[nauj27]

I forgot to ask if anyone knows how to get the
screen to rotate to the portrait orientation.  The
rotate.sh script tries to invoke some "*clamshell*"
script that is not there.

Many thanks in advance for a solution,
John
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Hi,

yep, i have change the rotate.sh script.
Change actions in case statement to use xrandr directly.

xrandr -o [normal | left | right | inverted]

Works for me.

[miskinis]

Hi,

Thanks!  It works perfectly.

[[ I deleted my "space on / issue" from this reply, until I scan the forum
to see if others know what can safely be moved to SD ]]

Again, this ROM is really nice, and thanks!

John

[mmoralls]

Ok...I'd like to settle on a ROM and think this is the one. I previously checked out and liked the feeds and screenshots of the interface but when I went to install it appears pretty plain without the bells and whistles of others. But I guess that's what was intended. I don't mind doing a little detective work to figure out how things work without bugging people for answers. But from time to time I'd like to think that I can call on them when I do. So with that...

What is the utilities package for the configuration of the GUI (i.e. Network, screen look, time, etc.) called so I can fetch it?

and

Can any ipk work on any of these ROM's?

Thanks for the help.

[miskinis]

After several iterations of re-flashing, and experimenting, I
have managed to get a somewhat decent configuration on the
SL-5500 with this ROM.  

I have the blackdown JAVA VM running, but it is painfully slow.
Is this expected?  For instance in the swing ColorChooser demo,
it takes over a minute to update the screen when selecting a radio
button that changes the mode (and destroys/creates new components).

I moved the /usr/ X11R6 directory to SD, to free up / space, so perhaps
this is contributing.

John

[miskinis]

A screenshot of a few X programs, and a JAVA swing application
on my SL-5500.  The 240x320 resolution is so darn limiting, but it works...

[miskinis]

Darn, I installed xmms, but it will not load files into the playlist.
The files are on SD, I hope that is supported!

Even if I specify the file on the command line, it brings up the
playlist (add) window.  
 
Perhaps the GUI errors below are related, but I doubt it.  

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# xmms a.mp3                                  

Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation


Gdk-WARNING **:     ISO8859-1


** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".
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