Hentges Rom For Spitz

[Lurker]

Coredump,
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I should do another round of testing, anyways. I may have done something wrong before, as my Linux knowledge is just enough for me to be dangerous (to myself)   
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Indeed, this was the case. The akita tslib.sh now works as it should on my spitz. Perhaps the earlier failure resulted from using Links to transfer the tslib.sh from the repository to a FAT-formated SD card, then to etc/profile.d/ ? This time I learned to use gFTP and transfered the tslib.sh straight from the repository to etc/profile.d/

[jerrybme]

CoreDump:
First, thanks for your work customizing the OZ/GPE for the Zaurus  

Couple of issues, I've run into so far in my testing on my Spitz.

Not sure if this was intentional or not but the feeds in ipkg.conf have a leading "." before 3.5.4.1 in all of the default OZ feeds, so ipkg update fails on all but your feed.

I flashed your "ROM" with the newer OZ kernel and disabled /etc/init.d/checkversion per your advice. On first boot I got a strange dbus error (see screenshot) however didn't notice any problem. On reboot, no error message.

The matchbox panel behaves a bit wierd on rotation (see 2nd schreenshot). Anyway to have it return to normal thickness?

I did a ipkg upgrade after fixing the ipkg.conf error and afterwards, screen rotation didn't work.

And lastly mplayer complains about

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QSocket::writeblock: Socket is not open
QSocket::writeblock: Socket is not open
QSocket::writeblock: Socket is not open
QSocket::writeblock: Socket is not open
No Qt/Embedded server appears to be running.
If you want to run mplayer as a server,
add the "-qws" command-line option.
Again thanks for all of your efforts!

[Hrw]

feed/.3.5.4.1/ is leftover from times when I had OZ feeds built but images was not yet tested.

mplayer output shows that you have wrong libsdl installed - remove libsdl-1.2-0 (or how it was called) and install one from x11/ feed.

[CoreDump]

CoreDump:
First, thanks for your work customizing the OZ/GPE for the Zaurus 

You're welcome  

Couple of issues, I've run into so far in my testing on my Spitz.

Not sure if this was intentional or not but the feeds in ipkg.conf have a leading "." before 3.5.4.1 in all of the default OZ feeds, so ipkg update fails on all but your feed.

As hrw already said, this was a left-over from the pre 3.5.4.1 days.

I flashed your "ROM" with the newer OZ kernel and disabled /etc/init.d/checkversion per your advice. On first boot I got a strange dbus error (see screenshot) however didn't notice any problem. On reboot, no error message.

The matchbox panel behaves a bit wierd on rotation (see 2nd schreenshot). Anyway to have it return to normal thickness?

Actually that's a fluxbox bug with its NET_WM implementation. It should send "_NET_WORKAREA" to all windows on a work-area resize (ie: in this case a rotation from 640x480 to 480x640).

Since it doesn't do that, matchbox-desktop and matchbox-panel to not update their positions according to the new screen dimensions.

I did a ipkg upgrade after fixing the ipkg.conf error and afterwards, screen rotation didn't work.

"didn't work" is not a valid problem description  
Please be more specific (what did you try, were there any error messages etc)

And lastly mplayer complains about

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QSocket::writeblock: Socket is not open
QSocket::writeblock: Socket is not open
QSocket::writeblock: Socket is not open
QSocket::writeblock: Socket is not open
No Qt/Embedded server appears to be running.
If you want to run mplayer as a server,
add the "-qws" command-line option.
Again thanks for all of your efforts!
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Yep, wrong libsdl on your end. Might be a problem with the uploaded image.

[jerrybme]

Actually that's a fluxbox bug with its NET_WM implementation. It should send "_NET_WORKAREA" to all windows on a work-area resize (ie: in this case a rotation from 640x480 to 480x640).

Since it doesn't do that, matchbox-desktop and matchbox-panel to not update their positions according to the new screen dimensions.

Hmm, anyway to work around this bug, or manually update the new positions?

I did a ipkg upgrade after fixing the ipkg.conf error and afterwards, screen rotation didn't work.

"didn't work" is not a valid problem description  
Please be more specific (what did you try, were there any error messages etc)

Sorry, when the screen is rotated to portrait, the auto rotation didn't work. Also the rotation applet didn't manually rotate the screen.  The upgrade only produced one error and that was a fluxbox conflict error message, but I didn't save it so I can't be more specific. I reflashed back to your default image and am currently testing without upgrading any packages.

Cheers,
Jerry

[CoreDump]

Hmm, anyway to work around this bug, or manually update the new positions?

None, I'm afraid. Killing off matchbox-desktop and matchbox-panel (and restarting them as the correct user) would fix the positioning but is way ugly.

Let's just hope someone is going to fix fluxbox :\

On the bright-side I've just talked to _law_ on #gpe. He reworked gpe-login to allow for multiple windowmanagers

Sorry, when the screen is rotated to portrait, the auto rotation didn't work. Also the rotation applet didn't manually rotate the screen.  The upgrade only produced one error and that was a fluxbox conflict error message, but I didn't save it so I can't be more specific. I reflashed back to your default image and am currently testing without upgrading any packages.

Cheers,
Jerry
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If you ever encounter this situation again, please try "export DISPLAY=:0; xrandr -o left" in a console.

[jerrybme]

On the bright-side I've just talked to _law_ on #gpe. He reworked gpe-login to allow for multiple windowmanagers
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SWEET!  

When will it be available in the OZ feeds?

[Hrw]

probably sooner or later - depends when it will get added into OE - probably in next gpe-login release

[koen]

On the bright-side I've just talked to _law_ on #gpe. He reworked gpe-login to allow for multiple windowmanagers
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Technically speaking those are 'sessions', not 'window managers' to choose from, but that's just changing one string in the patch

[jerrybme]

Sorry, when the screen is rotated to portrait, the auto rotation didn't work. Also the rotation applet didn't manually rotate the screen.  The upgrade only produced one error and that was a fluxbox conflict error message, but I didn't save it so I can't be more specific. I reflashed back to your default image and am currently testing without upgrading any packages.

Cheers,
Jerry
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If you ever encounter this situation again, please try "export DISPLAY=:0; xrandr -o left" in a console.
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OK, did an ipkg upgrade & now rotation works fine (except of course the fluxbox bug). So no idea why I had the problem before. User error most likely  

I found that I wasn't using the Fluxbox features that much so I restored matchbox as the window manager and rotation works fine when the screen is spun.

Thanks

[dkm]

Hey all,
some people have been asking for "Hentges" style Spitz images. Since Spitz is mostly identical to Akita I thought I'd give it a try.

http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/spitz/

Hi CoreDump,

When I click the link to get the spitz image, I get a 404 error.  In looking through this thread, I didn't see any announcement that the image was being pulled.  Is this a web site accident (he says hoping), a temporary move, or something longer term?

[adf]

Something like this was discussed elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.

Is it possible to put a hentges opie image on the fash on a 3100 in the same way that itis done on a 1000?  I thought it might be fun to have a simple opie pda setup on flash and a more desktoppish thing on the hd, or sd.  especially if one could keep /home on the hd and altboot to the sd or boot direct from the flash.

or has this been done and turned out less exciting than it sounds?

[koen]

Something like this was discussed elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.

Is it possible to put a hentges opie image on the fash on a 3100 in the same way that itis done on a 1000?  I thought it might be fun to have a simple opie pda setup on flash and a more desktoppish thing on the hd, or sd.  especially if one could keep /home on the hd and altboot to the sd or boot direct from the flash.

or has this been done and turned out less exciting than it sounds?
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You could do that, but flash is a lot slower as the microdrive.

[adf]

Something like this was discussed elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.

Is it possible to put a hentges opie image on the fash on a 3100 in the same way that itis done on a 1000?  I thought it might be fun to have a simple opie pda setup on flash and a more desktoppish thing on the hd, or sd.  especially if one could keep /home on the hd and altboot to the sd or boot direct from the flash.

or has this been done and turned out less exciting than it sounds?
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You could do that, but flash is a lot slower as the microdrive.
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ah... but one might have 3 flavors on tap at once:)  flash & altboot to sd & altboot to hd (though this might complicate the home thing)

I've heard the speed thing argued both ways.  My experience shows little difference in daily use. what about power consumption?  might there be savings using flash?

[Meanie]

Something like this was discussed elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.

Is it possible to put a hentges opie image on the fash on a 3100 in the same way that itis done on a 1000?  I thought it might be fun to have a simple opie pda setup on flash and a more desktoppish thing on the hd, or sd.  especially if one could keep /home on the hd and altboot to the sd or boot direct from the flash.

or has this been done and turned out less exciting than it sounds?
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You could do that, but flash is a lot slower as the microdrive.
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ah... but one might have 3 flavors on tap at once:)  flash & altboot to sd & altboot to hd (though this might complicate the home thing)

I've heard the speed thing argued both ways.  My experience shows little difference in daily use. what about power consumption?  might there be savings using flash?
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you can create the loop filesystems on the microdrive and boot off those. i tried bootstrap to boot oz, then altboot to select between hentges-opie-rootfs, hentges-gpe-rootfs and pdaxrom-rootfs all located on the third partition of the microdrive (first partition being the default rootfs for bootstrap, second partition being /home and third partition being /media/hdd. just needs a little mod to the altboot scripts to pick up the third partition on the microdrive.