Cacko ROM - What Works

[mikew]

Preparing to upgrade to the Cacko ROM, reformatted & copied all the files to a spare CF card, now backing up my C760, but having second thoughts. Can anyone confirm that the following will work with out any loss of functionality with the Cacko ROM.

Hancom Word
TextMaker beta
Hancom Sheet
StageOne
KO/Pi including sync with standard Sharp Calendar app.
KA/Pi
Portabase
QPDF
Zsafe
TKCzip
Shisensho
TkcVideo
TkcEditor
TkcExplorer
Kino2
Intellisync (Outlook to Zaurus Address Book, Calendar & E-mail)
Backup/Restore
Web Browsing & e-mail via Nokia mobile phone

Wish list for future versions would include SMS messaging, copy & paste between PC & Zaurus as well as printing, all of which I have been using for many years on my Psion. (TextMaker has a print option)

Thanks in advance

Mike

[totaln00b]

A definite yes, as far as I'm concerned to:
StageOne
QPdf
TkcEditor
Backup/Restore (with a windows pc)
Kino2

Portabase worked, but I went over to designing my own using mysql and php/apache

Ko/Pi works, but synching with outlook seems like a lot of hard work- synching with the sharp calendar seems OK. I'm not using the most recent version though so this might have changed

Don't know about the rest

I agree with you about wanting copying and pasting between the pc and the pda, that was always very useful with the psions!

Hope this helps

Jo

[dh]

Preparing to upgrade to the Cacko ROM, reformatted & copied all the files to a spare CF card, now backing up my C760, but having second thoughts. Can anyone confirm that the following will work with out any loss of functionality with the Cacko ROM.

Hancom Word YES
TextMaker beta YES
Hancom Sheet YES
StageOne YES
KO/Pi including sync with standard Sharp Calendar app. THINK SO
KA/Pi YES
Portabase ?
QPDF YES
Zsafe ?
TKCzip ?
Shisensho ?
TkcVideo ?
TkcEditor ?
TkcExplore ?r
Kino2 ?
Intellisync (Outlook to Zaurus Address Book, Calendar & E-mail) YES
Backup/Restore YES
Web Browsing & e-mail via Nokia mobile phone ?

Wish list for future versions would include SMS messaging, copy & paste between PC & Zaurus as well as printing, all of which I have been using for many years on my Psion. (TextMaker has a print option)

Thanks in advance

Mike

I've marked the ones that I use that I know work fine.

[mikew]

Loaded Cacko OK but it won't let me install most IPK packages, it won't even let me install Hotfix B, I get 1 of 2 messages:-

'The filename of this package includes characters this application can't handle. Please change the filename and retry install' it appears not to like the underline '_' character.

'Ipkg says something went wrong. Sorry'


Would appreciate any help

Mike

[sriley]

I wasn't able to install IPKs after installing Cacko 1.21 until I rebooted.  See if that helps.

[iamasmith]

Hey, that install sounds sick. When the installer asked you if you wanted to reformat the user partition you did say Yes didn't you ? - This could cause real problems if you didn't especially if you repartitioned to a different size.

I would be tempted to redo it to make sure, you don't want to start with a corrupt user partition.

[yzord]

Looks like you might not be downloading them correctly.
If you're downloading them w/ windows & IE , make sure that when you download the ipks that you select the filetype as "all" instead of any other filetype.

If not, make sure you download them as straight binary files. If _that_ doesnt work, and you have network access on your Z, try installing stuff directly of an internet feed (go to http://zaurus.spy.org/ for a bunch of feeds).

Yz

[mikew]

Tried rebooting, made no difference.

Tried a 4th download straight to CF card on Zaurus, no difference.

Can't find the instructions to get back to the Sharp ROM, so I am in real trouble!!

Only thing I can think of is to post in the Cacko ROM section & hope Maslovsky sees it & can suggest something.

Suspect the problem is linked to the ROM install error message ' Modprob can't find module devinfo'

Getting desparate, can't go forward or back.

Mike

[w14]

Suspect the problem is linked to the ROM install error message ' Modprob can't find module devinfo'

No, that message seems to be with the flash routines and appears every time a ROM is flashed.  I've seen it when flashing Cacko, OZ and pdaXrom. Never had any problems.

You didn't say whether you formatted the user partition after you flashed Cacko?

There are several versions of Sharp based ROMs available. What happens if you flash an earlier version of Cacko, or tkcROM? Why not try one of these to see if you have the same problem? tkcROM is maybe not a good choice to try if you don't have an SD card, though. It had a quirk with its package installer where the GUI didn't work unless there was a card in the slot.

I presume, by the way, you didn't change any of the package names when you downloaded them?

Mike.

[mikew]

I did reformat user partition each time & I am using the same files, that installed under Sharp ROM, so file names should be OK.

Some packages will install to SD card but not to flash memory!

Mike

[phillvs]

'The filename of this package includes characters this application can't handle. Please change the filename and retry install' it appears not to like the underline '_' character.

I think that I have had this message when I tried to install ipk in several ROMs that I have tried. If I remember rightly, I found that I was installing from ipk's which were stored in a directory on my SD card called something like:

"install files for the ZC860"

I changed this to:

"Install_files" or "install"

A more Linux friendly directory name was the problem. Let em know how you do.

Phill

[mikew]

Phill

Tried that, copied the files to Internal flash, so they were not in a directory, unfortunately it did not make any difference.

Mike