New: Hentges Rom Rc For Akita

[Snappy]

used the standard terminal icon, not the run as root one, so I guess not. How would I tell?

I have no idea how to check if opening pdf from the icon runs it as root or not.

Sorry being dense, but still new to this.

Is there a big giant manual for GPE somewhere?
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Is the terminal prompt a "#" or a "$" ... scratch that ... this only applies to Cacko/sharp and pdaXrom ... on OZ/GPE ... there are two separate icons for Terminal and Root Shell ...

Further, when the Root Shell appears ... the prompt is root@XYX:/home/ABC# so you should be in user mode ... hmmm ....

[lardman]

Further, when the Root Shell appears ... the prompt is root@XYX:/home/ABC# so you should be in user mode ... hmmm ....

What do you mean? The # indicates that you are running as root (as does the root@ bit)...


Si

[Snappy]

Further, when the Root Shell appears ... the prompt is root@XYX:/home/ABC# so you should be in user mode ... hmmm ....

What do you mean? The # indicates that you are running as root (as does the root@ bit)...


Si
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yes, you are right ... I also wanted to highlight that in gpe, the prompt itself is self-explainatory.

[omro]

I've attached two screenshots.

The first one, fails.png this is what happens if I tap on the icon for gpdf to open the application and then try and open a pdf from within gpdf. I don't know how to get error information for this.

The second one, works.png is what happens if I open gpdf from a terminal. The pdfs open successfully within gpdf, despite all the text that the terminal throws up.

[lardman]

Try opening from the icon, then go to system information > log display > session log and see if there's anything there. There's obviously some difference in the environment between launching from the GUI & the terminal.


Si

[zedkatuf2]

Will this ROM also work for the 3200 model?

[lardman]

I don't think there's a hentges version, but the standard OpenZaurus images are close, and I think these should be available.


Simon

[CoreDump]

I don't think there's a hentges version, but the standard OpenZaurus images are close, and I think these should be available.


Simon
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I'm in the process of prepping a spitz image (ie: SL-C3x00). As it is almost identical to Akita that should work out fine.

[zedkatuf2]

I'm in the process of prepping a spitz image (ie: SL-C3x00). As it is almost identical to Akita that should work out fine.
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Hi CoreDump - thanks for doing this!

Just out of interest, if I mounted both the gpe & opie images via a loopback device, and merged the files, then repackaged it all up via dd, would this be an easy way of getting both opie & gpe running at the same time?

I realise I'd need to run opie on a different VT to gpe, of course.

I did try doing a similar thing to this with the altboot ext2 images for the collie (ie merging the opie & gpe ext2 images), but I guess I'm not clever enough, because gpe wouldn't load up completely (I'd just get the X but no gpe welcome screen or login).

I know this is greedy having both opie & gpe, but there are some apps that run under opie which I still really like, especially ones which run with the compat libs

Cheers,

zedkatuf.

[CoreDump]

I'm in the process of prepping a spitz image (ie: SL-C3x00). As it is almost identical to Akita that should work out fine.
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Hi CoreDump - thanks for doing this!

Just out of interest, if I mounted both the gpe & opie images via a loopback device, and merged the files, then repackaged it all up via dd, would this be an easy way of getting both opie & gpe running at the same time?

I realise I'd need to run opie on a different VT to gpe, of course.

I did try doing a similar thing to this with the altboot ext2 images for the collie (ie merging the opie & gpe ext2 images), but I guess I'm not clever enough, because gpe wouldn't load up completely (I'd just get the X but no gpe welcome screen or login).

I know this is greedy having both opie & gpe, but there are some apps that run under opie which I still really like, especially ones which run with the compat libs

Cheers,

zedkatuf.
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In theory that should work, yes.

[zedkatuf2]

In theory that should work, yes.
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OK, I might give it a go once the spitz initrd's are up.

I might have to ask you how to do the mount command, unless I'm especially un-lazy & search for the command paramaters myself  

[zedkatuf2]

I might have to ask you how to do the mount command, unless I'm especially un-lazy & search for the command paramaters myself 
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NOTE to self (after CoreDump helped out on IRC  ):

How to mount a jffs2 image file:
 jffs2 muste be compiled into the kernel
 blkmtd must be compiled as module

cd to directory where initrd.bin exists &

AS ROOT:

 losetup /dev/loop2 initrd.bin
 modprobe blkmtd device=/dev/loop2
 mkdir /dev/mtdblock
 cd /dev/mtdblock
 mknod 0 b 31 0
 mkdir /mnt/iso_disk
 mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock/0 /mnt/iso_disk


..then copy the files in /mnt/iso_disk to a suitable directory (eg opie_files ), unmount it rmmod blkmtd & then start again with the new initrd.bin file corresponding to gpe & finally copy those files into a directory named gpe_files.

...I *was* going to re-create the initrd.bin combining both gpe & opie, but CoreDump reckons that this will be too big for the Zaurus to take.  So instead, I might merge the gpe files, copying over the differences, and manually hack some scripts.

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION (which may or may not work!):

 - just use the gpe image & then once it's all up & running, simply do:

ipkg install opie

(& some other opie stuff I guess - not sure what yet).

This latter approach might be much simpler in the long run - not sure yet

...this all for an sl-3200 (terrier) BTW, hence no need to install to sd

[Snappy]

rm -rf /home/* will take care of that
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When are you meant to do this? There isn't a point during the flashing where you're left with a prompt and when you're in GPE it's access denied and would probably overwrite some GPE things.
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This is with reference to cleaning up the home partition I think during flashing. It should be done before the flashing I think or by the update.sh script.

[CoreDump]

Here's a preview of what T2 is going to offer:

A native VNC server
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The Fluxbox window manager and toolbar.
[img]http://hentges.net/tmp/screenshots/Zaurus/Akita/GPE/fluxbox01.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]

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Fluxbox allows virtual desktops, and (finally!) easy access to minimized windows.

[Snappy]

hey CoreDump ... nice screen shots! VNC helper ... that's cool!

btw, any updates about Chinese inputs?