New Hentges Rom Release Candidate

[Snappy]

has anyone noticed a small problem with gaim on this release...  gaim launches fine and everything, it's when I try to /msg nickerv or /join  channel I get an error each time:

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NickServ: (notice) This nickname is owned by someone else
NickServ: (notice) If this is your nickname, type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY

offroadgeek: /join #zaurus
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/join]
offroadgeek: /msg nickserv identify
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/msg][div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=91700\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

well ... asaik, I have not managed to get gaim to work on any protocol at all ...  ... and found no answers so far.

[koen]

has anyone noticed a small problem with gaim on this release...  gaim launches fine and everything, it's when I try to /msg nickerv or /join  channel I get an error each time:

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NickServ: (notice) This nickname is owned by someone else
NickServ: (notice) If this is your nickname, type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY

offroadgeek: /join #zaurus
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/join]
offroadgeek: /msg nickserv identify
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/msg][div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=91700\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

well ... asaik, I have not managed to get gaim to work on any protocol at all ...  ... and found no answers so far.
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Have you installed the correct protocol handlers? I'm happily using irc and jabber with gaim. The only difference might be that I'm regular gaim, not the qtopia thingie

[Snappy]

has anyone noticed a small problem with gaim on this release...  gaim launches fine and everything, it's when I try to /msg nickerv or /join  channel I get an error each time:

Code: [Select]

NickServ: (notice) This nickname is owned by someone else
NickServ: (notice) If this is your nickname, type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY

offroadgeek: /join #zaurus
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/join]
offroadgeek: /msg nickserv identify
NickServ: (notice) Unknown command [/msg][div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=91700\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

well ... asaik, I have not managed to get gaim to work on any protocol at all ...  ... and found no answers so far.
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Have you installed the correct protocol handlers? I'm happily using irc and jabber with gaim. The only difference might be that I'm regular gaim, not the qtopia thingie
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koen, you gave me faith to retry my attempts at gaim!   ... I am using the default installed from cardfs in the latest hentges rom with oz3.5.3 under opie.

I'll uninstall and reinstall from the feed and retry.

[niv]

Thanks Snappy,
I've updated the wiki to reflect that.
Niv

[Hydro]

I re-Dl'd twicw and formatted 3 times so far and all with the same results

What is the size of your CF-card? Some users have problems with large cards and some CF-cards just won’t flash properly… can you try another card?

CF/SD fdisk/formatting just in case you need it:
https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-b...ing_for_newbies

The md5sum of the initrd.bin is in the T3.tar.gz (please check that)

Greg
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well same thing, I can use the older versions just fine but not this one,  not sure at this point but I as much as I hate to say it microsoft and PPC has been better than any of this.
  thanks for your help. I'm done for tonight but might try again later in the week.
            Hydro
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I wanted to update my progress and hopefully save people from the same hassles, what was happening is Izarc was not extracting the initrd correctly. Got it all working this morning and its great. Thanks for the help and the great software. Now I will hide in a corner somewhere and beat the stupidity out of myself.

                      Hydro

[Greg2]

I wanted to update my progress and hopefully save people from the same hassles, what was happening is Izarc was not extracting the initrd correctly. Got it all working this morning and its great. Thanks for the help and the great software. Now I will hide in a corner somewhere and beat the stupidity out of myself.

I'm happy you've  made it work. Don't beat yourself up too bad... Windoze with it's many archiving tools can screw things up.  

Greg

[Snappy]

Thanks Snappy,
I've updated the wiki to reflect that.
Niv
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Gee Niv, which entry are you referring to?  ... in any case, you are welcome!  hehe

[SteveConley]

CoreDump or anyone else that might know,

I loaded up the latest Hentges Poodle version and it seems to work nicely - I especially like the expansion of the task bar with all the other apps running.  Good job.

But before going farther, the configuration that I want is:

1. boot-image on SD (losetup, etc).
2. home in the boot-image OR load cardfs to /

I successfully got the Hentges image into the boot-image with no trouble, but in trying to load cardfs, I got the option of:  cf, card or /home/.  The problem with home of course is that it is back on the internal flash.

Is it practical to move home onto the SD ext image?

I haven't seen anyone post that they were doing this directly - i.e. without making the SD card itself formated as ext and putting it there which is obviously easy.

(The reason for this is to have multiple boot images on my 1GB card which I can back up easily also simply by copying the whole file.  BTW - for what it is worth, I have had no issues with SD problems of the file system etc. And the standard OZ 3.5.3 distribution works "ok" - except for the suspend/restore issue and wifi issues).

[Greg2]

But before going farther, the configuration that I want is:

1. boot-image on SD (losetup, etc).
2. home in the boot-image OR load cardfs to /

There's not enough space to load the cardfs to /

I successfully got the Hentges image into the boot-image with no trouble, but in trying to load cardfs, I got the option of:  cf, card or /home/.  The problem with home of course is that it is back on the internal flash.

Why is that a problem? With the poodle set up this way you can boot anything you want off the SD-card... or remove it and still have a system that works. With the ability to do this you can change one or all of the multiple boot images on your SD-card you want... imho it's a nice feature for testing other images.

Greg

[SteveConley]

But before going farther, the configuration that I want is:

1. boot-image on SD (losetup, etc).
2. home in the boot-image OR load cardfs to /

There's not enough space to load the cardfs to /

I successfully got the Hentges image into the boot-image with no trouble, but in trying to load cardfs, I got the option of:  cf, card or /home/.  The problem with home of course is that it is back on the internal flash.

Why is that a problem? With the poodle set up this way you can boot anything you want off the SD-card... or remove it and still have a system that works. With the ability to do this you can change one or all of the multiple boot images on your SD-card you want... imho it's a nice feature for testing other images.

Greg
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I guess I didn't mention that / would be on the image too - like standard "root on SD"

Yes Greg - swapping out images without the cardfs is a very legitmate way to use it of course - but I am looking to swap "entire" images - and even more importantly back them up.

An even more optimal situation, in some cases, would be to mount the "/home/" and/or "/" in another "ext image" file. This would allow easy swapout of any of the three in testing.

I am not really concerned about that though - unless it would make upgrading from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4, for example, easier.

If I am still not making myself clear, the desire after booting (with altboot) is to be running entirely off the image(s) on the SD card except for tempfs, etc and real RAM, of course. This would allow me on a daily basis, for example, to pop out the SD card, back up the image to a CD/DVD RW, and put it back in. So I have EVERYTHING backed up - like I would do with Acronis on my laptop. So if my SD card did fry, just copy the backup image onto a new one, plop it in and proceed. I have saved myself on my laptop(s) twice this way when hard drives died.

If I am missing something here - please correct me.

[Greg2]

Is it practical to move home onto the SD ext image?

I see what you want... and I believe it's possible. You will have to take a look at the script and try to modify it accordingly.

Let us know how it works out.  

Greg

[Snappy]

CoreDump,

Can I verify if lirc and lirc-modules are installed and configured by default for hentges rom oz3.5.3? I installed the hentges rom with kernel 64-0 and has not succeeded in getting irk installed as it fails on dependency due to lirc and lirc-modules.

Attempts to install lirc and lirc-modules fail with status 1 and I am stuck.

Other users seem to have both lirc and lirc-modules installed by default and I would be happy to reflash my Z5500 (for the 8th time) with the rom that comes with it installed.

Thanks for your time and any advise / suggestions.

[CoreDump]

CoreDump,

Can I verify if lirc and lirc-modules are installed and configured by default for hentges rom oz3.5.3? I installed the hentges rom with kernel 64-0 and has not succeeded in getting irk installed as it fails on dependency due to lirc and lirc-modules.

Attempts to install lirc and lirc-modules fail with status 1 and I am stuck.

Other users seem to have both lirc and lirc-modules installed by default and I would be happy to reflash my Z5500 (for the 8th time) with the rom that comes with it installed.

Thanks for your time and any advise / suggestions.
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Hmm I don't remember including lirc stuff, I'll have a look.

[Snappy]

CoreDump,

Can I verify if lirc and lirc-modules are installed and configured by default for hentges rom oz3.5.3? I installed the hentges rom with kernel 64-0 and has not succeeded in getting irk installed as it fails on dependency due to lirc and lirc-modules.

Attempts to install lirc and lirc-modules fail with status 1 and I am stuck.

Other users seem to have both lirc and lirc-modules installed by default and I would be happy to reflash my Z5500 (for the 8th time) with the rom that comes with it installed.

Thanks for your time and any advise / suggestions.
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Hmm I don't remember including lirc stuff, I'll have a look.
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Thanks CoreDump, look forward to your findings.  ... also, if its not included by default, can you advise me on how they can be installed? A lirc config file and a /lirc node or something seem to be missing and the lirc, lirc-modules ipks just refuse to install as a result ...

Thanks!

[SteveConley]

I forgot to mention an apparent curiousity - wondering if anyone else saw it. I have been trying out different scripts for moving all to the SD and noticed that when flashing the ROM initially, as it is doing the first configuration, just after the configure local "de" it  gets a "memory exhausted" error. Then it carries on with the next locale - and apparently works. I didn't even notice it for a while because it is rather difficult to read the boot screen at my age.

Has anyone else seen this?
Is it a problem?

(Note that this is just flashing the Hentges Poodle image before I have made any changes later).