Want to try OZ 3.5?

[yesac]

Thanks to Mickeyl for providing the link in this post,
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...?showtopic=5497

Download these two files and rename them initrd.bin and zImage then flash.

zImage
http://handhelds.org/~pb/oe/collie-zImage_...pxa3-embedix-r0

initrd.bin
http://handhelds.org/~pb/oe/images/collie/...32.rootfs.jffs2

It seems to work well on my 5500 but don't blame me if it doesn't work. This is an unsupported and unofficial release so try it at your own risk.
casey

[Teletubbie]

It is GPE and I still have resume problems after suspend with GPE.
Cheers,
Sam

[yesac]

You're right on both counts, it's GPE not OZ and it does have issues when you suspend it. Most everything else seems to work. I have my Dlink dcf-660w working along with Minimo and some other apps so it's not useless. Just don't suspend it
Casey

[lardman]

I know I should be making my own, but I thought I'd give this image a quick try.

I couldn't find a way to suspend other than to issue 'apm --suspend' from the command line (which can only be recovered from with the hard reset button - though the battery charging light works while suspended so it's obviously not dead, just unwilling to turn back on.

The sleep config app refuses to run as ~/ipaqsleep.conf doesn't exist. Does anyone have one of these, would it work anyway?

Any other suggestions as to how to suspend (I might try the old snooze binary which mallum provided if I can find it somewhere). I note that there are no scripts/binaries with names like: ipaqsleep* or sleep*.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,


Si

[lardman]

Right mallum's file does work. Can I attach it somehow??

edit: I'll see whether it's still on the web somewhere, otherwise I'll stick it up myself tomorrow.

It does something to /proc/sys/pm/suspend (iirc), just make sure you don't try 'more /proc/sys/pm/suspend' otherwise you'll be able to switch on for about 0.5sec then it'll suspend again - not ideal. BTW you need to run snooze as root.


Si

[macwiz]

Yes, please do.

[lardman]

http://handhelds.org/~mallum/snooze


Si

P.S. I also note that if you login as root, more of the the programs will work - for example the PIM stuff. I'm sure it's easily explained and fixed for other users (wrong permissions on the directories, etc.), but thought you'd like to know.

P.P.S. Can someone remember how to add a custom icon to the toolbar/start menu, then I can add snooze rather than having to run a terminal (hmm, will need to install sudo to make this work for non-super users).

P.P.P.S. How do you lot do file transfer? It doesn't run an sftp server, I ended up having to boot into Linux and scp (sftp wouldn't work) from the Z to the desktop to get snooze across - bit of a pain, but all part of the fun ;-)

[lardman]

hmm, I note I only have 32MB of RAM. Strange, is there a RAM-disk taking up the other 32MB or is this kernel for the 5000D?

More digging to be done.... ;-)


Si

[Mickeyl]

Minor nitpicking, please don't mix up software layers.

OZ is the base distribution.
Opie is a GUI environment,
GPE is a GUI environment.

The images on that site are OZ/GPE in the sense that it's an OpenZaurus base distribution with the GPE packages installed. (Note that it doesn't matter if it says OpenZaurus or familiar linux since these two are the same at the moment). You could remove all GPE packages and install Opie on it. You can even install Opie and GPE both and they may even run without stepping on each other's toes.

To my knowledge, no one ever tried that yet though

Oh, and it should also be possible to install and run pdaXrom applications on that ROM - untested either though.

[robirrgang]

Re: GPE vs Opie--

I think I'm in love. GPE feels disturbingly comfortable, and looks hottt. Extremely intuitive, and fast, effectively killing my X11 concerns on a 5500.

Where would one find a Minimo ipkg... and possibly, something GUI-like to sniff wifi?

[lardman]

Assuming you don't develop with OE (otherwise I'd recommend you just oemake what you want), then you might be able to pick something out of the GPE feeds on handhelds.org: http://gpe.handhelds.org/download.phtml

YMMV as these files are for familiar and some of them weren't too happy when I last tried (a long time ago).

You may also be able to use stuff built for pdaXrom (assuming the apps in question don't use arm5 instructions - and most will I'd guess).

GPE feels disturbingly comfortable, and looks hottt.

I've got to agree with you on that.

and fast

Not so fast on a 750, the screen redrawing is rather slow actually (larger screen??), not as good as that on pdaXrom for example (which can feel a bit slow too). But this is a mute point as it's still being developed and I can't complain as I've not contributed.


Simon

[Mickeyl]

FYI: This has just been posted onto the Opie and OpenZaurus lists.

Hi Opie-lovers,

There are three Opie/QtE related ShowStoppers
(http://openembedded.org/oe_wiki/index.php/OzTODO3.5.1) holding back the
release of OpenZaurus 3.5.1 w/ Opie.

It would be nice if someone of you could spend some time looking into these.
Since the rest of the distribution is in pretty good shape and we
really need some public testing now, a release will otherwise only
include GPE.

If you want to adopt one of those task, please reply on either the
openzaurus-devel or opie list.

Don't reply via private mail - I'm not able to give you a step-by-step
receipe on how to fix the issues. If I knew one, I would've done it myself

Best regards,

[coolass]

I'm still having the same problem I've had for a long time ,,,I can't flash oz 3.3.6-pre1. No matter what I do It won't flash. I wanted to try 3.5 but no-go. Any suggestions?

[coolass]

It seems the card I was using wasn't really FAT16 although it read as if it was. All is well.

[panyo]

Flashed just fine and looks nice on my SL5500.
But where do I configure my keymap settings?
I spent a long time getting dvorak layout to work on my
built in keyboard with Opie. .Xmodmap does not work.