Cacko Zaurus Qtopia ROM 1.21 is available!

[maslovsky]

maslovsky, I did reboot it by removing the battery ... anyway I finished by reinstalling the rom but i\'d still like to know if there\'s a file where is stored the state of the screen (lightened up or shuted off) ?

Sorry, but I don\'t know. Somewhere in Qtopia.

[omega]

Hi mcamou, i have a c860 with cacko 1.21. I found this problem as well. Here\'s my solution which seems to work. It seems to happen after i reboot (only have it two days yet btw!). The solution is, plug in the usb cable, set the option to tcp/ip and click okay. Then go back in and select the sd/cf card and click okay. My Z comes up with a dialog saying usb alert. now plug out the cable click okay and plug the cable in. it should work now. will work as long as you don\'t reboot. if it doesn\'t work, i\'ll check it further.

[gizard]

Calendar:

Has anyone noticed that in the Week view the letter describing the days of the week are not in English IE: Sunday the 16th of May reads: 16n .
In any other view (Day, month and year) they are in English - is there anyway to fix this.

Thanks in advance.

G.

[mcamou]

Hi omega,

Well, the thing about the TCP/IP link not responding cleared itself up automagically, I\'m not sure what I did but TCP/IP is now working. I did the song-and-dance you mentioned in your post and that also worked, so I\'m back in business! Thank you!

[nathanwms]

I have a Win2K box that recognizes the Z when I plug it in to USB; however, when I attempt to access the \"Removable Disk\" I get a \"Disk not formatted\" error.  I am using a 4GB microdrive, is it necessary to reformat it over USB to get the mass storage to work.  The drive is already formatted FAT32.

[Stubear]

I haven\'t had the time to do the full backup-flash-test-restore song and dance, but I got a new data point from a bit of reverse engineering. I changed the profile to Network, went into the Settings directory and did an ls -lt. The files with the latest timestamp were route.conf and usbdstorage.conf. route.conf contained the string \"Network\". Then I switched back to USB Storage, checked the files again and route.conf STILL had the string \"Network\".

So, is this where the ROM stores the current PC Link config? If so, then for some reason it isn\'t being updated. What is the value it should hold for USB Storage? Otherwise, where does the ROM store this info?

You probably have permission problems in the /etc/hotplug directory.  Make sure that usbdstorage.conf and usbd.ftype have write perms for root at least - I made write for root and group qpe.

usbdstorage.conf holds the path that the usb storage will mount (/dev/hda1 for CF and /dev/mmcda1 for SD), while usbd.ftype is the controlling file for choosing between usb storage and usb network (it can have the values \"storage\" or \"net\").

Stu

[maslovsky]

Calendar:

Has anyone noticed that in the Week view the letter describing the days of the week are not in English IE: Sunday the 16th of May reads: 16n .
In any other view (Day, month and year) they are in English - is there anyway to fix this.

Thanks in advance.

G.

Nice catch!  Yes, this can be fixed by installing calendar application from 5600 or 6000 device.  
I will include this update with the next Cacko ROM hotfix

[stupkid]

I fumbled while adjusting the brightness on my Zaurus (via the brightness applet) and disabled the display.  Now after every reboot the screen is disabled.  I found this Japanese site:

http://digit.que.ne.jp/visit/index.cgi?Lin...%A5%E2%2FQtopia

With the following translated tip:

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   *  Back light



QPE/System \'setBacklight (int) \'



Argument 1



1 # back light which turns off 0 # back lights

the light �� �� (minimum) -1 # back light the light �� �� (config

value) -2 the # back light toggle -3 # back light forcing illumination

(config value) brightness appointment of 1< # back light. In

regard to utility 30, 100, 200, 300 and the like. Max of A300 is

255, but machine dependent?

I think that they are speaking about the Qtopia API and not about where the configuration is stored.  So, it does not serve much use to me.  

Does the above point anyone else to where the brightness of the display is kept in Qtopia or how to re-enable my display?

Thanks!

[maslovsky]

You can try to connect to your Zaurus via SSH client and ther issue from console:

qcop QPE/System \"setBacklight (int)\" 1

[stupkid]

Thanks for the suggestion maslovsky.  Although qcop accepted the arguments the display is still disabled.  I guess I\'ll have to try reinstalling the ROM.  

Thanks for your help.

[mcamou]

stupkid, have you tried using the keyboard to brighten up the display? That usually works for me... (Fn+4)

Stubear, that did it! Turns out /etc/hotplug/usbdstorage.conf was 644 instead of 664 (the group was already set to qpe). Maslovsky, could you fix this in the next rev?

[stupkid]

I feel like a moron.   That worked.

Thanks mcamou!

[maslovsky]

Stubear, that did it! Turns out /etc/hotplug/usbdstorage.conf was 644 instead of 664 (the group was already set to qpe). Maslovsky, could you fix this in the next rev?

Sure I will!

[maslovsky]

I feel like a moron.   That worked.

Thanks mcamou!

Cool

[stupkid]

What key or key combination is the backtick character:

`

bound to?

Thanks!