I can only sympathize with you Daniel. I have had some really bad problems with my C3000. I think the small ram size really makes this machine a unstable. As soon as I get my machine up and running I am going to sell it, and get either the c1000, or the C31000. But the C3000 (which I love the white body), just is not stable.
If the 16mb RAM was able to be overcome, like just use the harddrive to boot up from, then it would be a much more stabler machine. IMHO, I am still a linux newbie, and I know you are an excellent hacker! I will be curious how you fix the problems.
Here is a good listing of places I have found that have helped other people (Unfortunatly not me)
http://www.xlfag.com/zaurus/
http://www.trisoft.de/en_c3000howto.htm
http://forum.zaurusfr.org/viewtopic.php?p=...ed8a589d7ad01df
Lareya
P.s.
I purchased your serial light for the Hp200lx a long time ago. I still have them and they work
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Aha, funny :-) I still have a list of all people having bought that light from me. But who are you?
I'll probably solve my problem restoring a backup of hdd2 manually via the B+D boot console.
I have already restored hdd1 from my backup Zaurus (identical machine, duplicated setup from some months ago).
hdd1 is read-only, so nothing should have changed since then.
Unfortunately, that was not the solution.
Now the next step will be a copy of hdd2 of the backup machine.
But hdd2 holds the applications, so I'll lose all applications installed after I lastly duplicated the setup onto the other Zaurus.
I'm also considering a new clean install of Cacko and all applications. WIll probably do so soon, but first will try to use this hdd2 restore method.
Firstly to learn about the system, secondly to save some time now, so I can work with the Zaurus tomorrow.
Having one operable Zaurus with all my current user data, I can then use the other one to make a fresh install.
A fresh install is probably the best solution anyway, because during all the attempts to install various things (Bluetooth, X/QT, a lot of applications I never need etc.) a lot of crap must have been collected on my file systems.
I'm especially curious if my bluetooth cards and dongles will finally work on a clean Cacko install :-]
Having learned a lot with my previous install (which is now almost a year old) I'll be able to kepp the new one quite clean and optimize everything from scratch.
And I have learner that I'll try new drivers etc FIRSTLY on the duplicated backup machine, then, if they work, also install them on the main machine!!
Fortunately, I have lost no user data, because I keep almost all user data on an SD card, and even the data on hdd3 is still intact (the B+D system just copies it over to another SD card, just in case the new installation will destroy some data, or I accidentally type "dd if=/mnt/card/hdd2_image of=/dev/hda3" to restore the hdd2 image form the backup machine :-))
I'm also considering switching to a C1000 (much room for wireless hardware inside :-) or a C3100 (advantage: much more room for applications on hdd2 than in a C1000!)
During my backup / restoring activities in the last few hours I saw that I have about 280MB of application data on hdd2, much too much for a C1000. ANd installing programs on card does not work well sometimes, I was told.
Well, time will tell.
take care!
daniel
