Author Topic: new ROM = new forum (Read 5835 times)

offroadgeek · « **on:** November 19, 2003, 11:08:11 pm »

So I figured that we should keep up with the times and create a new forum for Sash\'s up and coming X11 ROM for the C7x0 series....

I know the ROM hasn\'t been officially released, but apparently people are already loading beta (or alpha?) versions... I\'ve loaded it on my 760, and it\'s just cool so far...

I sent Sash an email asking permission to mirror the files here on the ZUG....

offroadgeek

jerrybme · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2003, 12:00:14 am »

I pretty sure it an alpha. Lot\'s of stuff doesn\'t work. The wireless config, etc. But it\'s fun to play with and shows great potential. The ROX desktop is well suited for a PDA device, but I haven\'t been able to figure out to do the equavalent of a right mouse click to access a lot of the features of the system. I was able to install vnc a server with the hope I could use my PC to right mouse click to configure the desktop, but no go. Couldn\'t get a simple left mouse click to work as a screen tap.

lardman · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2003, 07:14:55 am »

It\'s probably different as you\'ve got large screens, but when I had an X11 ROM running on my Z (GPE on my 5500) although it looked cool, there weren\'t many apps around.

I know I can cross-compile stuff (and have done), but in terms of PIM apps I was a little lost (the GPE stuff wasn\'t able to sync).

What are you guys planning on using?

Si

ScottYelich · « **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2003, 11:33:16 am »

http://www.spy.org/zaurus/screenshots
or, by ip:
http://69.13.149.159/zaurus/screenshots/

on the left is sharp/cacko/OZ(?) ... on the right is zdebian.

both running at the same time (ya, 64mb ram)... you can run
a tinyx or something under qtopia -- not sure if you can go
the other way or would want to... but, I guess if there\'s an
X11 (only?) rom, then it would seem to cut out all those
qtopia apps.

I would run the X11 rom only to see what it had to offer.
It seems to me that there is enough going on with qtopia
that it wouldn\'t be worthwhile to lose the ability to run qtopia
apps.

If the X11 roms also (somehow) allows for qtopia stuff to be
run, then I\'d probably prefer this.

qtopia (opie?) just doesn\'t do it for me. maybe I just don\'t
know the benefits behinds the scenes yet.

Scott

sriley · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2003, 01:15:12 pm »

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It seems to me that there is enough going on with qtopia
that it wouldn\'t be worthwhile to lose the ability to run qtopia
apps.

If the X11 roms also (somehow) allows for qtopia stuff to be
run, then I\'d probably prefer this.

I agree. My main gripe with qtopia is that I can\'t easily scale applications down from fullscreen and have two or more running apps visible at the same time. X11 doesn\'t help much if the apps (or their eqiuvalents) aren\'t there.

offroadgeek · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2003, 02:13:20 pm »

You\'re absolutely right... without the apps, the ROM probably won\'t cut it, for me at least. Though I have to say that I love seeing it run on my 760. I will be flashing back tonight... I need my pim apps and connectivity back...

I have high hopes for it!

jchung · « **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2003, 11:16:11 am »

cool,

I think I\'ll flash to this over the weekend to play around with it

jchung · « **Reply #7 on:** November 23, 2003, 09:18:08 am »

so, I flashed it last night and I have to say like offroadgeek, I just love seeing x11 run on my c700!

I know that is still in it\'s alpha/beta testing phase but I think it\'s going good! I can connect wirelessly to the internet and so far I\'ve only had the chance to install one app. (xmahjongg)

so far so good!

enki · « **Reply #8 on:** November 23, 2003, 01:15:44 pm »

hmmm weird... i went and installed the initrd.bin and zImage.bin for the cacko-x11 760 zip ... but i just get to the terminal and there\'s no x or anything like that... not even ipkg??

help lost and/or confused ....

enki · « **Reply #9 on:** November 23, 2003, 01:31:27 pm »

as it turns out, i needed to erase the user flash space ... my bad!

sigmaX · « **Reply #10 on:** August 16, 2004, 05:33:09 pm »

Its all nice and good to see all you installing it and taking a peek into it ... but then it is already avail to anyone ? is it in bittorrent ? Any link avail to get RC 1 ?

ScottYelich · « **Reply #11 on:** August 16, 2004, 05:45:21 pm »

rc2 is almost there...

hopefully, that will be available to all.

Scott

Zumi · « **Reply #12 on:** August 16, 2004, 06:31:01 pm »

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Its all nice and good to see all you installing it and taking a peek into it ... but then it is already avail to anyone ? is it in bittorrent ? Any link avail to get RC 1 ?

Have you noticed that this is a 3/4 year old thread?

enki Posted on Nov 23 2003, 07:31 PM
sigmaX Posted on Aug 16 2004, 10:33 PM

The 1.1.0 RC1 is still not public.

Zumi

b2bpro · « **Reply #13 on:** August 16, 2004, 10:42:16 pm »

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Have you noticed that this is a 3/4 year old thread?

enki Posted on Nov 23 2003, 07:31 PM
sigmaX Posted on Aug 16 2004, 10:33 PM

don't ya just love software that presumes everyones got their clock set right rather than using the system clock. "Gee, I'm writing a program. What time do I want to use? My own system time, or just some random time that some post says it was sent at. "

Laze · « **Reply #14 on:** August 17, 2004, 02:52:45 am »

The RC2 is almost done and it will be released for public - we would prefer as many people use Bittorrent as possible, of course there will also be 2-3 ftp/http mirrors available :-)

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Author Topic: new ROM = new forum (Read 5835 times)