Kde 3.5

[doppiaemme]

Probably there are at least two issues to resolve:
1. Capability to mount squashfs in 6000 (dunno if pgas' Squashfs Modules And Utils For 1000/3100 will do here)
2. Screen rotation problem: as Putherguy reports in #83, xrandr has strange output: 320 x 240 for orientation 1 (portrait).  Have taken a briet look at xrandr, rotate and the related scripts but cannot figure out how to change that.  Hope some experts here can enlighten us. 
[Edited: In Screen Resize & Rotate (KRandRTray), there are also only options for 640 x 480 and 320 x 240. ]
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uhm... and what about memory request?  6000's 64 MB flash memory???

[ZDevil]

uhm... and what about memory request?  6000's 64 MB flash memory???
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Oh, I was just thinking 6000 has got 128MB flash.  Then probably the only way to do this is to mount the squashfs on card and make symlinks to the paths there, or just use Laze's packages of kdebase and kdelibs.  Not sure about the difference in performance between these two setups.
Also I don't know if 6000 runs a 2.4.18 or 2.4.20 kernel.  If it's 2.4.18 then use the squashfs module mentioned by ShioriKuma on the first page of this post; if it's 2.4.20 then pgas' may do.

[TheWalt]

uhm... and what about memory request?  6000's 64 MB flash memory???
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Oh, I was just thinking 6000 has got 128MB flash.  Then probably the only way to do this is to mount the squashfs on card and make symlinks to the paths there, or just use Laze's packages of kdebase and kdelibs.  Not sure about the difference in performance between these two setups.
Also I don't know if 6000 runs a 2.4.18 or 2.4.20 kernel.  If it's 2.4.18 then use the squashfs module mentioned by ShioriKuma on the first page of this post; if it's 2.4.20 then pgas' may do.
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Here is what I did, which should work fine on a 6000 also asuming there is squashfs support.

KDE lite 3.5.0 Installation procedure for non-flash install
#1 Install the symlinks package to the main memory
#2 Copy kde_lite_3.5.0.squashfs to storage media (SD, CF, HDD)
#3 ln -s /mnt/card/kde_lite_3.5.0.squashfs /usr/lib/kde/ (asuming file on SD card)
#4 ln -s /usr/lib/kde/bin/startkde ~/.xinitrc (Use mv ~./.xinitrc ~./.xinitrc.old to restore matchbox if necessary)
#5 startx

Probably doesn't run as fast as from flash, but it works great and seems much faster then the standard IPK install.  Now to start looking into getting a build of Koffice

[ZDevil]

Oops!  Disabling the Introduction page in Konqueror (and start with no page loaded) and now get ...

Normal: 15 seconds!    
Preloaded:  10 seconds!        

Now I begin to get hooked on KDE 3.5 ...  

[omro]

Hi All

I think I'm doing something seriously wrong.

I'm copying the squashfs file to /usr/lib/kde but there doesn't seem to be enough room, it seems to copy about 9mb of it and then run out of space.

I've cleanly flashed my C1000 and I'm no linux whiz so I'm probably making a very basic mistake.

Any help would be gratefully received!

After a new flash this is what I get:

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#df
filesystem             1k-blocks      Used   Available  Use%   Mounted on
/dev/root                   59392    47712       11680    80%   /
none                        11288          16      12272      0%   /dev
/dev/mtdblock3              Â 64512      3852      60660      6%   /home
/dev/mtdblock3               64512      3852      60660      6%   /mnt/usr

[TheWalt]

Hi All

I think I'm doing something seriously wrong.

I'm copying the squashfs file to /usr/lib/kde but there doesn't seem to be enough room, it seems to copy about 9mb of it and then run out of space.

I've cleanly flashed my C1000 and I'm no linux whiz so I'm probably making a very basic mistake.

Any help would be gratefully received!

After a new flash this is what I get:

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#df
filesystem             1k-blocks      Used   Available  Use%   Mounted on
/dev/root                   59392    47712       11680    80%   /
none                        11288          16      12272      0%   /dev
/dev/mtdblock3               64512      3852      60660      6%   /home
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The instructions asume you are copying the squashfs to root, which requires 43mb free... and you only have 11mb free.

You can either repartition the nand to a bigger root, or copy the squishfs file to /home and link it to /usr/lib/kde.  In theory since they both reside in flash shouldn't effect speed at all.

[omro]

Hi All

I think I'm doing something seriously wrong.

I'm copying the squashfs file to /usr/lib/kde but there doesn't seem to be enough room, it seems to copy about 9mb of it and then run out of space.

I've cleanly flashed my C1000 and I'm no linux whiz so I'm probably making a very basic mistake.

Any help would be gratefully received!

After a new flash this is what I get:

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#df
filesystem             1k-blocks      Used   Available  Use%   Mounted on
/dev/root                   59392    47712       11680    80%   /
none                        11288          16      12272      0%   /dev
/dev/mtdblock3               64512      3852      60660      6%   /home
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The instructions asume you are copying the squashfs to root, which requires 43mb free... and you only have 11mb free.

You can either repartition the nand to a bigger root, or copy the squishfs file to /home and link it to /usr/lib/kde.  In theory since they both reside in flash shouldn't effect speed at all.
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I'm afraid I've no idea how to accomplish either of those :-( Sorry

[ZDevil]

Or you may want to reflash pdaXrom with a bigger root partition.  In the installation menu of pdaXrom, before flashing, you can go to the NAND Flash utils and then choose "Fix loader 64MB limit".  After that you can set a large enough root partition (I always go for the max. 121MB).  Then flash as usual.

[omro]

Or you may want to reflash pdaXrom with a bigger root partition.  In the installation menu of pdaXrom, before flashing, you can go to the NAND Flash utils and then choose "Fix loader 64MB limit".  After that you can set a large enough root partition (I always go for the max. 121MB).  Then flash as usual.
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Ok, I did the nand thing and then choce fix loader
Then it said it would need to reboot and then flash again
I rebooted and started the flash
should I not have said yes to "do you want to flash the user flash" or what ever that message is?

What step did I miss? cause it's still no different in layout. :-(

[ZDevil]

Ok, I did the nand thing and then choce fix loader
Then it said it would need to reboot and then flash again
I rebooted and started the flash
should I not have said yes to "do you want to flash the user flash" or what ever that message is?

What step did I miss? cause it's still no different in layout. :-(
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After fix loader you need to go back to the Nand Flash Utils again.  
This time you choose "Resize root partition".  
Then you'll be prompted to fill in the size of the root partition.  
Say you go for the max (121MB).
Then reboot again and enter the pdaXrom installation screen once again (the last time).  
Finally you can go ahead with real flashing, choose "1 Install new ROM".  

Hope this helps.  
(Actually what I say all comes from pdaXrom's original documentation)

Good luck and hope things will go well.

[omro]

Ok, I did the nand thing and then choce fix loader
Then it said it would need to reboot and then flash again
I rebooted and started the flash
should I not have said yes to "do you want to flash the user flash" or what ever that message is?

What step did I miss? cause it's still no different in layout. :-(
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After fix loader you need to go back to the Nand Flash Utils again.  
This time you choose "Resize root partition".  
Then you'll be prompted to fill in the size of the root partition.  
Say you go for the max (121MB).
Then reboot again and enter the pdaXrom installation screen once again (the last time).  
Finally you can go ahead with real flashing, choose "1 Install new ROM".  

Hope this helps.  
(Actually what I say all comes from pdaXrom's original documentation)

Good luck and hope things will go well.
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I really don't remember this documentation, I guess it's somewhere exceedingly obvious, lol

[omro]

ok, some progress

the xinitrc step took me in to a weird xscreen with odd windows open and nothing happened

running startkde direct gave me a lot of kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server

[ZDevil]

ok, some progress
the xinitrc step took me in to a weird xscreen with odd windows open and nothing happened
running startkde direct gave me a lot of kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server
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Do you mean twm (the ancient window manager 'hidden' in pdaXrom)?  
Don't use startkde directly.  Instead try:

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rm -f ~/.xinitrc
ln -s /usr/lib/kde/bin/startkde ~/.xinitrc
startxSee if this helps.  Cheers.  

[ZDevil]

Surprise again.  Using a 64MB swap on SD, I'm very surprised to see about 20MB free RAM in KDE!   Amazing ...  

Would it be just an illusion??

[TheWalt]

Surprise again.  Using a 64MB swap on SD, I'm very surprised to see about 20MB free RAM in KDE!   Amazing ... 

Would it be just an illusion??
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Wow, thats a lot of free ram.  At the most I have about 6mb and thats with a 128mb swap.  Crazy... gonna spend some time this weekend tweaking though, will see what trouble I can get into.