Pdaxrom For C3000 (based On Beta1/beta3)

[Meanie]

the version is now build 5.2

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Hi Meanie,

Would you know by heart what has changed since build 5.2 alpha? The reason is that I've already started to heavily use and customize 5.2 alpha and I don't want to re-setup everything if 5.2 final only contains small fixes.

TIA!
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I will have to check my notes, but roughly, take the last 5 items from the 5.2 release notes

[Meanie]

I've just installed 5.2 final on my c3000

To answer my own questions from before

USB Keyboards work properly now! (this was the biggie for me- good!)

Cancel key still does nothing under xmms

No mime-editor installed as standard

matchbox volume slider seems to be working fine right now...

Good work Meenee!
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For the Cancel button to work, uncomment keycode 92 and keycode 102 in spitz.xmodmap (dunno how they got commented out)

the volume slider never changed. dunno what you did to mess it up before...

[kahm]

The two URLs for pdaXii13 show different revisions for the updater/build utility:
http://www.tyrannozaurus.com/feed/pdaXii13/tmp/ 0.25, and build 15
http://www.tyrannozaurus.com/feed/pdaXii13/tmp/ 0.23 and buld 14

I suppose that 5.2 final means that I have to stop beta testing on my friend's 3000 and actually give it back to him now

Thanks, Meanie. Downloading 5.2 now...

[Meanie]

The two URLs for pdaXii13 show different revisions for the updater/build utility:
http://www.tyrannozaurus.com/feed/pdaXii13/tmp/ 0.25, and build 15
http://www.tyrannozaurus.com/feed/pdaXii13/tmp/ 0.23 and buld 14

I suppose that 5.2 final means that I have to stop beta testing on my friend's 3000 and actually give it back to him now

Thanks, Meanie. Downloading 5.2 now...
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The difference between these updaters is small.

updater.sh 0.23 creates old partition scheme, ie larger hdd1, smaller hdd3
updater.sh 0.25 creates new partition scheme, ie smaller hdd1, larger hdd3

so unless you want to repartition your C3000, it doesn't matter which one you use.

updater-tools.bin build 14 and build 15 are almost the same, except build 15 has an updated init script for C3100/C3200.

for C3000, this does not matter since that init script is not used.

[maystorm]

I will have to check my notes, but roughly, take the last 5 items from the 5.2 release notes
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Okay fine, I can live with that.

Thanks a lot for all your work!

[danboid]

I've just installed 5.2 final on my c3000

To answer my own questions from before

USB Keyboards work properly now! (this was the biggie for me- good!)

Cancel key still does nothing under xmms

No mime-editor installed as standard

matchbox volume slider seems to be working fine right now...

Good work Meenee!
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For the Cancel button to work, uncomment keycode 92 and keycode 102 in spitz.xmodmap (dunno how they got commented out)

the volume slider never changed. dunno what you did to mess it up before...
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That's fixed it- thanks Meanie!

Setting

keycode 92 = Return
keycode 102 = c

in /etc/X11/kb/spitz.xmodmap makes the OK button play and the cancel key pause, which is the way I would've liked it OOTB in pdaXii13. If you're not doing another release then please update the zbook section on xmms to explain how to set the keys up like this.

Thanks!

[danboid]

Oh Woe is me!  

I can't believe I never tried Google Mail under pdaXii13 until 5.2 final got released! I'm sad to report that gmail crashes Firefox Deer Park under pdaXii13

Is the web browser not a central app in a distro? I think so! gmail is up there with google, ebay and hotmail as one of the most important, frequently visited sites on the net so I say this is my best argument yet to try and squeeze another release out of the Meanstah!  

Deer Park should be replaced by either Firefox 2 or Swiftfox ( http://getswiftfox.com/ )

Another thing that I'd like to see get fixed (but nowhere near as important as an updated Firefox) is the inability to scroll up and down the search results under amule. You can do it one at a time with the cursor keys but it would be nice to have a small scroll bar.

Whaddya think Meanie? Lets see how many bugs we can trawl up in the next few weeks and maybe you'll have a change of heart. Otherwise I'll have no option but to start danbOS or whatever...  

[kahm]

Oh Woe is me!   

I can't believe I never tried Google Mail under pdaXii13 until 5.2 final got released! I'm sad to report that gmail crashes Firefox Deer Park under pdaXii13

Working fine here. How big is your swapfile, and what else do you have running? Firefox has a nasty tendency to up and quit at the first sign of a memory crunch.

Try closing down everything else, rebooting, and or restarting deer park. I was using it the other day for google reader, and after an hour or so I had to reboot because it kept crashing. It was fine up till that point, though.

Is the web browser not a central app in a distro? I think so! gmail is up there with google, ebay and hotmail as one of the most important, frequently visited sites on the net so I say this is my best argument yet to try and squeeze another release out of the Meanstah! 

Deer Park should be replaced by either Firefox 2 or Swiftfox ( http://getswiftfox.com/ )

A browser is a central app in any distro, but trying to compile firefox is a herculean undertaking in the best of circumstances. I don't know who managed to make deer park, but it probably wasn't anyone in the Z community, and the chances of seeing FF 2 or any other branch thereof are next to nil.

There are no good browsers for the Z. Opera is outdated, Netfront is a toy, dillo barely functions, and Firefox is trying to kill a mosquito with a bazooka, except we've tried to stuff that bazooka into a matchbox. Don't even get me started on flash

THis is why I want Vulcan to hurry up and release their Flipstart pc so I can replace my Zaurus

Given that Apple's webkit is behind a new symbian browser, I'd think that it would be a good candidate for a port, but I don't know of anyone who's attempted it.

[danboid]

 

Well, if you'd not provided a screenshot I might not have believed you but I can't pull off the the same trick no matter what. I've tried it on both the c3000 and c3100, each time with no other programs running (other than openbox, matchbox and X of course) and the furthest I have got is to the inbox screen but I've never got as far as viewing an email before Firefox crashes. It normally crashes after logging in, before the inbox comes up whilst it says 'Loading...' in the top right. I have tried resetting and then going straight into FF but it made no difference.

Both my Z's have 250MB swap partitions- how much do I need to check my e-mail?  

What we're really waiting for is someone to port Nokia's latest OSS browser or an updated gpe-minibrowser to pdaX

[tanjian2]

Well, if you'd not provided a screenshot I might not have believed you but I can't pull off the the same trick no matter what. I've tried it on both the c3000 and c3100, each time with no other programs running (other than openbox, matchbox and X of course) and the furthest I have got is to the inbox screen but I've never got as far as viewing an email before Firefox crashes. It normally crashes after logging in, before the inbox comes up whilst it says 'Loading...' in the top right. I have tried resetting and then going straight into FF but it made no difference.

Both my Z's have 250MB swap partitions- how much do I need to check my e-mail?   

What we're really waiting for is someone to port Nokia's latest OSS browser or an updated gpe-minibrowser to pdaX
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Strange - I have the beta2 running on my C3000 has been running for months (various fixes and hacks from meanie etc..). I was able to view Google Mail for all that time. Until this week - now every time I try to access my mail account Firefox crashes. I had recently installed GbookMarks but even when I uninstalled it the problem persists. So the question is - has Google mail changed?   Doh!! It was me - I also had installed gplflash this week (vain hope to get flash sites working) but guess what - when I remove it Google mail does'nt crash.

Regarding Firefox 2 - there has been some talk on the ([a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=21898&pid=151551&st=97]forum[/url]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=21898&pid=151551&st=97) about getting it complied - heres hoping.


tanj

[TheWalt]

I also have issues with Gmail.  Once it never came up and Firefox crashed.  Then, the next try gmail login worked, but crashed during inbox listing.  Thirdly Firefox crashed during the login screen load.

This is right after a standard install.

I wonder if the issue is gmail, as I want to say previous access took me to a html only page where I didn't see any redirect this time.  Might be wrong.  

[danboid]

Thanks for the tip Ian- I'll try uninstalling gplflash when I've got a full pdaXii13 install up again. I want to see if I can get pdaXii13 Akita running properly with the full hdimage.

According to his tyrannozaurus blog, Meanie has been trying to get FF2 to compile but has had problems. I was happy to hear there will be another pdaXii13 release sometime in the future.

[tanjian2]

I also have issues with Gmail.  Once it never came up and Firefox crashed.  Then, the next try gmail login worked, but crashed during inbox listing.  Thirdly Firefox crashed during the login screen load.

This is right after a standard install.

I wonder if the issue is gmail, as I want to say previous access took me to a html only page where I didn't see any redirect this time.  Might be wrong.   
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I would suggest you try "ipkg remove gplflash" and then try gmail again. Been rock solid for all day since I did just that.

[danboid]

Meanie:

autoconf seems to be incorrectly configured in zgcc 5.2. When I run autoconf I get the error:

autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /opt/native/i686/3.4.5-2.2.5/bin/m4

This is on c3000/5.2 - my c3100 is in stasis awaiting further install instructions!  

[danboid]

Hi Meanie!

Just in time for pdaXii13 build 5.3 I finally present the fixed USB UK keyboard driver which adds the bar, grave, hash (numbersign) and tilde keys which were omitted before. No Euro sign though but for true Englishmen this is definitely a feature

Please, please include this file and any other USB keyboard maps that anyone sends in 5.3- the keyboard is such a fundamental part of the computer that it seems ridiculous having to install a driver separately, especially when its only 2kb in size!

Did you fix the autoconf problem with zgcc? I'm looking forward to 5.3!

dan