New Hentges Release Candidate

[CoreDump]

Hi all  

I've uploaded RC1 of the new Hentges ROM, featuring Openzaurus 3.5.4RC and Opie 1.2.1

Supported devices are: Collie & Akita
Poodle should follow in a few days.

If you have never used a Hentges ROM before, you should read the CardFS Feature List and the CardFS HowTo

Both Openzaurus 3.5.4RC, and Opie 1.2.1 appear to very stable so I do not expect many
RC's

Please post any bugs you may find.

Happy flashing  

[cal]

Thanks!  I've busted our my old 5500.  Maybe I'll try that newton emulator as well.  I'll load up my C1000 later.  Coredump, you must have the same two toys I have

[sylpil]

Hello,

For is Zaurus SL-C3100 (Borzoi) it for when?

Thank you

[CoreDump]

Hello,

For is Zaurus SL-C3100 (Borzoi) it for when?

Thank you
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The SL-C3x00 would require quite a bit of work to "port" to Hentges due to the different filesystem layout.
As I do not own such a device, this is likely not going to happen, sorry.

Please do not confuse this ROM with the OZ snapshots. It is not the same.

[miloo]

It seems to be fine ! Suspends seems to work ... The only missing app is a media-player :-( .... No way to have a video player on this ?
I tried to add manually mplayer, kino2 from cacko, and zplayer, but it complains about libsl.so.1 not present, or an undefined symbol (I found a thread here about this and the answer was to install sharp-compat-lib, but sharp-compat-libs are installed (but there is no libsl.so in /opt/QtPalmTop/lib).

[Quickfry]

Bugs so far:
Wireless card (planex gw-cf11x, picked up as Sandisk Connect Plus), shows up in Network settings only as a wired card, yet iwconfig shows wlan0 having wireless extensions. This is hentges specific, OZ 3.5.4RC does not have this problem.
Update: This bug is consistent after removing old settings, and now the card causes the Z to be so slow that Network settings gives the "appears to be hung" message.

Suspend does not appear to work. I still have settings left from OZ install, I will remove and check to see if bugs still exist.
Update: Removing old settings fixed this problem.

It is extremely slow when wireless card is in (sitting in console, letters being typed are seconds behind normal)

Also, Fn+brightness+/- and size+/- don't seem to work (never have worked on OZ or Hentges, only work on beta1 of pdaxrom and sharp rom)

[CoreDump]

Bugs so far:
Wireless card (planex gw-cf11x, picked up as Sandisk Connect Plus), shows up in Network settings only as a wired card, yet iwconfig shows wlan0 having wireless extensions. This is hentges specific, OZ 3.5.4RC does not have this problem.
Update: This bug is consistent after removing old settings, and now the card causes the Z to be so slow that Network settings gives the "appears to be hung" message.

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It is extremely slow when wireless card is in (sitting in console, letters being typed are seconds behind normal)

Please eject the CF card and reboot the device. After Opie is fully booted, insert the NIC, dump "dmesg" and send to oe (at) hentges (dot) net.

Also, Fn+brightness+/- and size+/- don't seem to work (never have worked on OZ or Hentges, only work on beta1 of pdaxrom and sharp rom)
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[Quickfry]

Reboot makes the card appear as 802.11b card, yet Network settings is unreliable, and still slow. I have sent you dmesg.

[Quickfry]

Also, the Belkin usb ethernet adapter I have doesn't work. The Zaurus switches to USB host mode, but lsusb doesn't show it.

[ricey]

Hi all,

New RC is fab, as was 3.5.3 but having 1 prob...might be that i'm still quite new at Z,  but am experienced at Linux....ish

All flashed and installed fine...networking works in konsole  
ping www.google.com.....succeeds

All other apps cannot see the network, only if using the IP address  eg. in konqueror:

http://www.google.com.....gives cannot connect to host
http://66.249.93.104..........works fine!

This to me looked like a DNS issue, but no, if ping can see it then DNS is ok, surely?

I'm a little stumped!     Help please,

Regards

[ricey]

Hi,

Don't know what I did, but I fixed it!   I updated my router firmware, and re-installed hentges also, everything is sweet  

One thing i've noticed so far is in GAIM, dunno if it's a GAIM or OZ or what prob, but on incoming messages the LED flashes nicely, but then doesn't stop.  The only way to stop it is to reboot!

Hope that helps someone  

cheers, keep up the great work

[StomaKC]

If you have never used a Hentges ROM before, you should read the CardFS Feature List and the CardFS HowTo

1) Flashed my collie. I'm getting stuck while adding some more apps : ipkg-link adds a few bytes per link, but it certainly fills root.
I'm interested in pivoting root on SD. I tried to use advanced options during altboot but option [8] complains of not finding media.

I tried then to follow some HowTo on OpenZaurus site. I managed to do it when I tried OZ 3.5.4RC1, but couldn't this time, even when adapting instructions from
a previous assistance you gave. Operation "mount -o move /dev /dev.tmp" fails as /dev is not a character device.

I guess I'm rather bad at this. Can you give me some more details than "the mount -o bind trick" I found in CardFS HowTo ?

2) While configuring SubApplet, I lost touchscreen and keyboard. Could ssh to the box, start and stop Opie but had no way to interact with it from Zaurus.
I haven't seen anything obvious in my Settings folder, but destroying everything and rebooting took me out of it.
I can't say for sure it's coming from subapplet, as my solution has been rather rude.


The point about pivoting root is the main one for me. I'm ready to experiment, and just need a direction to search. Thanks !

[CoreDump]

1) Flashed my collie. I'm getting stuck while adding some more apps : ipkg-link adds a few bytes per link, but it certainly fills root.

The Collie image leaves about 1.5Mb of free flash after ipkg-link. You shouldn't see any problems related to space during installation.

I'm interested in pivoting root on SD. I tried to use advanced options during altboot but option [8] complains of not finding media.

I tried then to follow some HowTo on OpenZaurus site. I managed to do it when I tried OZ 3.5.4RC1, but couldn't this time, even when adapting instructions from
a previous assistance you gave. Operation "mount -o move /dev /dev.tmp" fails as /dev is not a character device.

I guess I'm rather bad at this. Can you give me some more details than "the mount -o bind trick" I found in CardFS HowTo ?

The hole point of Altboot is to not having to bother with things like "mount -o bind". It's done automatically. The one thing you will have to do (for now) is to provide a bootable image or filesystem on SD / CF / NFS.

2) While configuring SubApplet, I lost touchscreen and keyboard. Could ssh to the box, start and stop Opie but had no way to interact with it from Zaurus.
I haven't seen anything obvious in my Settings folder, but destroying everything and rebooting took me out of it.
I can't say for sure it's coming from subapplet, as my solution has been rather rude.

Your installation is messed up for some reason. It normally works out-of-the-box:
- Flash
- Install CardFS
- Opie comes up and is ready to be used.

The point about pivoting root is the main one for me. I'm ready to experiment, and just need a direction to search. Thanks !
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While one can happily live without moving the rootfs off the flash (I personally never do it and install new apps to SD instead) I do understand the wish to have a large rootfs to play with. The process of creating a bootable Linux image to be used as new root is quite complicated. Users new to Linux will fail without help most of the time.

I'm considering uploading Hentges ROM's for Collie as bootable images in addition to the flashable ROM.
Should make things alot less frustrating for many people.

On the upside, Collie has the smallest image of the supported machines, just another 15Mb to upload  

So, now's your turn. Lets assume I will upload a bootable image for the next RC release in addition to the normal images, which rootfs size for the image do you prefer? The uncompressed size doesn't really matter to me at all. Empty space compresses neatly  

Make your choice:
-100Mb
-150Mb
-300Mb
-1Gb

[StomaKC]

I'm considering uploading Hentges ROM's for Collie as bootable images in addition to the flashable ROM.
Should make things alot less frustrating for many people.

On the upside, Collie has the smallest image of the supported machines, just another 15Mb to upload   

So, now's your turn. Lets assume I will upload a bootable image for the next RC release in addition to the normal images, which rootfs size for the image do you prefer? The uncompressed size doesn't really matter to me at all. Empty space compresses neatly  

Make your choice:
-100Mb
-150Mb
-300Mb
-1Gb
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Great !

I had several bad times with ipkg-link. As space is not a major issue using SD cards, having a large root filesystem sounds really attractive to me.

I tried 250 to 300MB with OZ 3.5.3 and it was large enought. Should be the same.

I experienced the most stability using your ROM. Having such large rootfs would add a tremendous ease of use. Thanks again, Coredump !

[obergix]

Hi all   

I've uploaded RC1 of the new Hentges ROM, featuring Openzaurus 3.5.4RC and Opie 1.2.1

Supported devices are: Collie & Akita
Poodle should follow in a few days.

If you have never used a Hentges ROM before, you should read the CardFS Feature List and the CardFS HowTo

Both Openzaurus 3.5.4RC, and Opie 1.2.1 appear to very stable so I do not expect many
RC's

Please post any bugs you may find.

Happy flashing 
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Sorry if this is a rather FAQ... is the only big difference with OpenZaurus regular ROMs about using SD as filesystem ?

Will there be any difference at all once 3.5.4 includes alboot ?

Sorry if I missed previous episodes