QPSword Questions

[wmadan]

I've emailed olivetree, and they've said they will consider the zaurus / qtopia platform. 

They are great people over there at Olivetree. I own a couple of their Bibles and what I like about them is they let you use them on different platforms, unlike Laridian, which makes you buy the reader software and bibles for each PDA platform you have.

I understand the copyright issues involved, but geez, it just makes sense to me if I bought an electronic version of my favorite Bible and I no longer own a Pocket PC, I should be able to use it on a Palm if that's my only device.  So, I like Olivetree for their realistic licensing policy.

Anyway, I have requested that they produce a Symbian Series 60 reader for my Nokia smartphone and offered to beta test it when they developed it. It took a couple of months, but  they have done it. I am beta testing the release now. So, from first hand experience I can vouch that Olivetree does listen to their customers.

I'll email them and ask them for a Zaurus version.

Bill

[chal]

Thanks, but I found v0.5.2 on the feed here, and figured out how to get different books installed including the lexicons and webster's dic.

I moved /usr/share/sword to /mnt/card/usr/share/sword 
Then simlinked it back using ln -s /mnt/card/usr/share/sword /usr/share/sword

Then all you have to do is download the "raw" zip files and extract them as they stand into the /mnt/card/usr/share/sword dir.
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Thanks for that info. It gave me more than half of my internal storage back. Now I'm geting more modules.

BTW, I had to reverse the order of
"ln -s /mnt/card/usr/share/sword /usr/share/sword,"
so that it was "ln -s /usr/share/sword /mnt/card/usr/share/sword


SL5500
tKc Rom
Lexar 40x 1 GB CF
Sandisk 512 SD

[Muziket]

Hi I installed qsword into my internal flash memory and was trying to move the /usr/share/sword to /mnt/cf/usr/share/sword.

I think I had linked the files in the following manner
ln -s /mnt/card/usr/share/sword /usr/share/sword.
Linking the reverse way granted me a Operation not permitted reply though.

After which, I installed the rsv ipk and was trying to install into my cf memory but it rejects saying that it required usage of main memory.  I even changed the DataPath in etc/sword.conf to that of .mnt/cf/usr/share/sword but to no avail.

With manual commang ipkg install sword_rsv.ipk -d /mnt/cf/usr/share/sword yielded error in not able to find package /usr/lib/ipkg/lists

I suspect my ln is not executed properly.  Has anyone install both qsword and the books modules into the cf memory instead of the internal flash memory?  Btw, is there a workable version of BibleTime on zaurus.  Am using C860.

Any help is appreciated.

[mars]

ln -s /mnt/card/usr/share/sword /usr/share/sword.

. . . After which, I installed the rsv ipk and was trying to install into my cf memory but it rejects saying that it required usage of main memory.

Try installing into root.  The installer will put it into /usr/share/sword which is really /mnt/card/usr/share/sword since you did the link.

/mnt/card is your SDCard

With respect to BibleTime, it depends on KDE. If you install debian/X-QT you can see if gnome-sword works okay. The openzaurus rom has a bible program "dagger" which uses the sword libraries, but I couldn't get search to work last time I tried it. Someone also compiled a bible program for pdaXrom which uses wxwidgets.

- mars

[chal]

Hi I installed qsword into my internal flash memory and was trying to move the /usr/share/sword to /mnt/cf/usr/share/sword.

I think I had linked the files in the following manner
ln -s /mnt/card/usr/share/sword /usr/share/sword.
Linking the reverse way granted me a Operation not permitted reply though.

After which, I installed the rsv ipk and was trying to install into my cf memory but it rejects saying that it required usage of main memory.  I even changed the DataPath in etc/sword.conf to that of .mnt/cf/usr/share/sword but to no avail.

With manual commang ipkg install sword_rsv.ipk -d /mnt/cf/usr/share/sword yielded error in not able to find package /usr/lib/ipkg/lists

I suspect my ln is not executed properly.  Has anyone install both qsword and the books modules into the cf memory instead of the internal flash memory?  Btw, is there a workable version of BibleTime on zaurus.  Am using C860.

Any help is appreciated.
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Alternately, once you have moved your /usr/share/sword to sd card, you can just download the raw fiiles of all of the modules you want and copy them there.

[poterville]

1. Has anyone been able to get the personal commentary module working on a Z (I have a C860)?
2. Is there anyway to set a font size?

TIA,

Bill
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To change font size, there's a workaround:
Make a symbolic link to the font you like, let say, helvetica_260_50_t10.qpf.
(If you already have unifont_160_50_t10.qpf, pls rename it so it won't be overwritten.)
ln -s helvetica_260_50_t10.qpf unifont_160_50_t10.qpf

Stephen

[aaronlow]

Hello All,
I hate to jump in here, but I have an issue with qpsword v 0.5.1.  I cannot get the program to run on my familiar 0.8.2 ipaq 3850.  I have installed http://www.crosswire.org/feeds/arm/ipk/qpe...r_0.5.1_arm.ipk and http://www.crosswire.org/feeds/arm/ipk/swo..._1.4_noarch.ipk through the command prompt (ie.  ipkg install http://...) for each file.

I very briefly see the bible logo at the bottom of the screen before it goes away and nothing happens on my ipaq.

Does anyone here have any suggestions?  I have already reinstalled familiar linux 0.8.2 several times.  There is a pkg called "sword" in the ipkg package manager, should I install that instead of qpsword?

Thanks
Aaron Low

[Greg2]

I have already reinstalled familiar linux 0.8.2 several times.  There is a pkg called "sword" in the ipkg package manager, should I install that instead of qpsword?

You need to install sword and opie-dagger from the 8.2 feeds.  

Greg

[phisch]

Hi I installed qsword into my internal flash memory and was trying to move the /usr/share/sword to /mnt/cf/usr/share/sword.

I think I had linked the files in the following manner
ln -s /mnt/card/usr/share/sword /usr/share/sword.
Linking the reverse way granted me a Operation not permitted reply though.

After which, I installed the rsv ipk and was trying to install into my cf memory but it rejects saying that it required usage of main memory.  I even changed the DataPath in etc/sword.conf to that of .mnt/cf/usr/share/sword but to no avail.

With manual commang ipkg install sword_rsv.ipk -d /mnt/cf/usr/share/sword yielded error in not able to find package /usr/lib/ipkg/lists

I suspect my ln is not executed properly.  Has anyone install both qsword and the books modules into the cf memory instead of the internal flash memory?  Btw, is there a workable version of BibleTime on zaurus.  Am using C860.

Any help is appreciated.
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Alternately, once you have moved your /usr/share/sword to sd card, you can just download the raw fiiles of all of the modules you want and copy them there.
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Here's what I did after a fresh install of qpsword into internal flash:

mkdir /usr/mnt/card/sword
mkdir /usr/mnt/card/sword/mods.d
mv /usr/share/sword/mods.d/globals.conf /usr/mnt/card/sword/mods.d
rmdir /usr/share/sword/mods.d
rmdir /usr/share/sword
cd /usr/share
ln -s /usr/mnt/card/sword

Now if I want to install a module in .ipkg form I tell the installer to go ahead an use internal flash memory.  The installer follows the symbolic link and the modules actually get installed on the SD card!  Seems to work, but may not work with all modules.  I had a problem with sword-strongs-greek_1.3_noarch.ipk.  I'm using an SL-5600 with Watapon ROM.

Regards,
-Phil