Cacko3k Feedback

[Da_Blitz]

only thing i would really complain about is the lack of wpa (all of my networks use this) and modules,

i understand the modules are a tetsu thing, but i have a 4gig drive: space is no longer an issue so i think it might be a good idea to include these seperatly as an ipkg mabey? or perhaps in the distro itself as half my usb stuff requires hunting for drivers and the modules package that was posted recently has been removed from the guys site (and probely out of date considering the release cycle that tetsu has been keeping up with)

[iamasmith]

I don't think the kernel is patched. I was talking to iamasmith about it, and he said the kernel patches were the next thing to work on.

Speaking of which, do we have a status update of how things are going, and what needs to be done next? It's been a bit since the beta release, but things seem to be pretty quiet right now.
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Yes, the kernel at the moment is lifted straight from tetsu. Maslovsky is doing some extra work now with getting an official Cacko patch set.. I'm assuming this will include wireless extensions necessary for WPA and stuff necessary for packet capture, although it would be daft of me to promise anything because that's down to Maslovsky at the moment.

Sorry that I haven't been as responsive lately, that's a reflection that things are returning to a normal level of activity at work and I don't have quite the same amount of time to put into this. I will keep on it, however, some of the stuff may end up getting fixed as part of the 3K to 1K conversion.

- Andy

[ThC]

I just tested it (with 18a kernel) and it ROCKS ! new battery applet rocks, and now I can play movies (dunno if it come from the new kernel or so but since I've been using tetsu's kernels with sharp rom I was unable to use mplayer anymore and now it just works \o/ )...
Thank you soooo much for giving my c3000 some other purposes than playing mp3

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

[slackwaresupport]

im showing that im missing some libs..  used the feed to install the packages.  missing:

libcrypto.so.0.9.7 for qtrdesktop
and i think ssl.
i installed the ssl-devel

[Boris]

After playing with beta1 for sometime I have security related questions/suggestions:

It is possible to notify user that after installation of Cacko, his machine is open to the rest of the world via samba (config file lists all interfaces) and ssh ? May be even prompt for initial passwords right after first boot.

Its is possible to have smbpasswd added to the already rich and perfect set of utilities ?

And another, general question: how hard it would be to teach "Network" applet to configure network connections over USB ?

[ThC]

Just made a few tests with the overclocking applet while playing movies for a "long time" (more than 15seconds but less than 5 minutes) ... 624 Mhz frequencies given here all leads to video and/or system crash (mostly video crashes) and then finally found some settings by myself which seems more stable :

1,Overclocked (617/247/61 Mhz),2000293,e (for those with flickering problems)
1,Overclocked (617/247/123 Mhz),a000293,e (for those without any flickering problems)

I did not have any flickering problem with any of the settings given

Btw, my zaurus hangs anytime when I try to get directly from the standard clocks to any 600+ Mhz overclocking without making a step @520Mhz ... any idea ? am I the only one ?

[sriley]

With Tetsu's 18a kernel these values work for me (no long duration tests, though) with no lockups:

0,Turbo,1e2,0
0,Overclocked,162,0
0,Default (PXA255),161,0
0,Normal,242,0
0,Default (PXA250),241,0
0,Power Saving,121,0
1,Turbo (624/208/104 MHz),2000310,e
1,Overclocked (520/260/130 MHz),a000214,c
1,Standard (416/208/104 MHz),2000210,a
1,Power Saving (208/104/104 MHz),0000110,9

I'm most comfortable with the display at 104MHz because a ) no lockups, so far, and b ) I didn't bother trying to determine whether the lockups were the whole system or just the display.

Btw, my zaurus hangs anytime when I try to get directly from the standard clocks to any 600+ Mhz overclocking without making a step @520Mhz ...

But I didn't think to try that.

[ThC]

I'm using 18a kernel and using this value

1,Turbo (624/208/104 MHz),2000310,e

while playing a video
will cause the video to crash after about 1 minute. I've now used the values I've found for approx half an hour playing video without any problem (btw I got back to default clock speed because the bottom of my c3k became quite hot after this time)...
So here are my settings :

0,Turbo,1e2,0
0,Overclocked,162,0
0,Default (PXA255),161,0
0,Normal,242,0
0,Default (PXA250),241,0
0,Power Saving,121,0
1,Turbo (624/208/104 MHz),2000310,e
1,Overclocked (617/247/123 Mhz),a000293,e
1,Overclocked (520/260/130 MHz),a000214,c
1,Standard (416/208/104 MHz),2000210,a
1,Power Saving (208/104/104 MHz),0000110,9
1,High Power Saving (143/143/71 MHz),0200010b,8

I've kept the "Turbo" setting as it may work well for any other thing than playing video (untested yet)
None of the other settings are causing any crash, even using them for a long time ... and the best thing is that the "High Power Saving" setting let me play my old simpsons divx encoded @320x240 @80Kbps full screen

[maslovsky]

For all those playing with overclocking settings - remember that overclocking capabilities are very specific to each particular processor.  This means that whatever  options you find sutable for your own Zaurus may very likely not apply to another one! For example, all original overclocking options posted here by Andy worked for me (in fact I've sent them to Andy after testing on my Zaurus). But they don;t work for many other users here.

[euroclie]

A (very minor) bug report for Cacko 3k Beta 1: in the Settings tab, the "Receive Data" application's icon legend is spelled "Recieve Data"... Not a big deal, but something that is easily fixed, so I thought I'd let you know!

Otherwise, I'm pleased to report that the Qtopia development environment "dev_img-1.6" works great on the Cacko3kb1. I've been playing with it for a few hours, and everything works well (at least as good as with the Sharp stock ROM).

I still haven't been able to make Kismet actually work with my Planex WiFi card (though the card works perfectly to connect to my home network, or various WiFi networks I could (blindly) find... Certainly something to do with finding the appropriate drivers config in Kismet, I'll try to spend some more time on this later...

One last thing: I'm still playing every now and then with my GSM/GPRS EagleTec CompactFlash card, and with tetsu's V18a kernel and modules it still shows the same problem: inserting it will cause the microdrive (socket 1) to go to suspend mode along with socket 0. The card is correctly detected as "Serial or modem", though, and the crash can be avoided by typing "cardctl resume 1" before doing anything else upon card insertion... Are there any significant changes between the Sharp ROM and the Cacko ROM when it comes to CF slot handling? I don't have the /etc/pcmcia/* files from the Sharp ROM at hand to compare with what I have on the Cacko ROM right now.

[ArchiMark]

Actually, I think it's been misspelled on all the C7XX/C8XX/C3K series I've seen....
Bugs me every time I notice it...but never thought much could be done about it....

Meanwhile, still haven't been able to get my Ambicom WiFi card working....  

Otherwise, all's well with Cacko3K b1/Tetsu 18a.....  

Mark

A (very minor) bug report for Cacko 3k Beta 1: in the Settings tab, the "Receive Data" application's icon legend is spelled "Recieve Data"... Not a big deal, but something that is easily fixed, so I thought I'd let you know!

[euroclie]

Actually, I think it's been misspelled on all the C7XX/C8XX/C3K series I've seen....
Bugs me every time I notice it...but never thought much could be done about it....

Well, editing the /home/QtPalmtop/apps/Settings/zaureceive.desktop file and replacing the "Name=Recieve Data" line by "Name=Receive Data" works like a charm on my 3000!

[ArchiMark]

WOW, you made my day, euroclie!!

Now if you can just get my Ambicom WiFi card working....

 

Mark

[Well, editing the /home/QtPalmtop/apps/Settings/zaureceive.desktop file and replacing the "Name=Recieve Data" line by "Name=Receive Data" works like a charm on my 3000!

[russell]

I'm still having problems with my AmbicomWL1100C-CF, version 2.2, it just won't connect now I've installed the Cacko ROM.

I can't try and manually set the configuration from a bash terminal either as iwconfig reports 'SET failed on device wlan0 : Operation not permitted.'

I can't su to resolve this issue either as the root user has a password which I don't know!!! I was told in a previous post that there isn't one on the Cacko ROM, but that's not the case on my install!

The Ambicom card is a great wireless card and works fine in my other devices and did in the SL-C3000 before installing the Cacko ROM, it would be a shame to render the card worthless now.

Russell

[russell]

ok, after reflashing the root password has disappeared, not sure where it came from in the first place though!

But the Ambicom still doesn't connect to a Managed AP; now iwconfig replies:
 'SET failed on device wlan0 : Function not implemented'

What am I missing!!!

Russell