What would you like to see in Cacko 1.22 ROM?

[zog]

Thanks, guys, for your feedback!

Oh, and a home page for the ROM. The forum works quite well but with the home page gone I keep having to tell people that 'no I don't think Cacko Qtopia is dead even though the site bounces to pdaxrom.org

Yes, I know   I wish I could find a person willing to maintain the site at his/her spare time. I just can't cach up with yet another peice of work... Any valonteer?

 

Why not set up Cacko as a sourceforge project? That way you will get volunteers for the home page and for development too.

FWIW, I also think a major feature of the next release would be CVS access to the development tree. This is another feature that SF offers.

There is a huge amount of experience out there with using SF (they are nearing a million registered users) so I would guess that quite a few on this forum could help out with getting the project set up.

[omega]

Zuber - i've only found japenese appearing when i have a crash of libsdl and the screen goes into portrait. Have you seen it any other time?

maslovsky> I thank you for your work. It has annoyed me in the past to see people being overtly critical (not constructively) of something that people have worked hard to provide for free!

I would like to see full file associations... so perhaps you could select from a list of applications (that are registered) to open a file with. Or have a shift-tap to select a new application manually that would be remembered.

How about a full system viewable file manager (without the symlink that causes things like opera to go in circles). Maybe have it as an option in the menu so that by default it doesn't affect newbies.

Bluetooth keyboards you say? ;-)

[maslovsky]

I would like to see full file associations... so perhaps you could select from a list of applications (that are registered) to open a file with. Or have a shift-tap to select a new application manually that would be remembered.

How about a full system viewable file manager (without the symlink that causes things like opera to go in circles). Maybe have it as an option in the menu so that by default it doesn't affect newbies

This is very unfortunate that we don't have access to the sources of Qtopia  version used in Sharp ROM. There is a lot that could be easily improved, but only having the source code.

Bluetooth keyboards you say? ;-)

This one is actualy easer - new bluez drivers already support HID profile. But I don't have one to try yet

[maslovsky]

Why not set up Cacko as a sourceforge project? That way you will get volunteers for the home page and for development too.

FWIW, I also think a major feature of the next release would be CVS access to the development tree. This is another feature that SF offers.

There is a huge amount of experience out there with using SF (they are nearing a million registered users) so I would guess that quite a few on this forum could help out with getting the project set up

Hosting is not realy a big issue, but having time and resources to maintain the site itself is. Also I'm not sure this project may fill into any of the licenses used by sourceforge. Cacko ROM is not an open source project - there is a lot of propriatory code from the Sharp ROM. Sharp's Developers site could have been a good place for such a project but it lacks a lot, including a home page and CVS. Als also, who would dare to trust it these days?

Anyway that's a good idea to try the SF and see if it works for the project.

[mikew]

My suggestions for next next version of Cacko would include.

Irda that works with irda mobile phones to surf & get e-mail, Sharp is poor, Cacko 2.21b worse, perhaps with a facility to import/export profiles so we can all share a range of profiles for mobile phones, BT & rLAN devices.

Irda printing now that some Zaurus applications are starting to appear with printing options (TextMaker & Kaddressbook).

More memory for running programs & fast load more applications.

Less fussy IPK install.

Copy & paste between Zaurus & desktop.

Mike

[totaln00b]

I think this "wish" has already been partially answered, but I would love to see a version of the rom that didn't include the sharp pim programmes as the kde ones are so much better. At the moment I tend to use the sharp programmes simply because they are there and I can't get rid of them and don't like having duplicate software on my system.

Other than that, I think it's great, Maslovsky, and it's really good to see that you are continuing to develop it!

Jo

[iamasmith]

maybe defaults in sdcontrol for noatime on non fat formatted SD cards ?

I think it already does that...

have you tried XFS filesystem on SD Cards ? - don't know if this is viable, the journal may be too big. I hear that reiserfs is a min 32Mb but don't know about XFS.

Any particular reason for having on-typical filesystems on memory cards?
 

To get my ext3 SD card to mount with noatime I had to add the option into sdcontrol on the mount line inside the if [ "$MOUNT_RES" == ]... block. There's probably a better way but the procedure on 1.21b seems to ignore options in the /etc/fstab.

The XFS query was based upon some observations (can't remember the artical) where XFS came out as the highest performance file system for IO, however, this may be down to a number of techniques aimed at reducing read latency based on rotational stuff for disks... not really sure if there's a compelling reason to do it for XFS.. I may try the SGI patches against the current Cacko Kernel to see if it works and if I get a boost.

Actually there is one more thing. That's a creaky old version of fdisk (2.11g) that's on the original ROM, check out my thread on the Linux Discussion regarding using 2.12a. I still need to nail down the compiler issue that's causing the code to display an extra partition but this version actually seems to get the geometry right for larger storage cards.

[omega]

I got another one for you. Resolve the instability in the usb tcp/ip. I have been using it on several computers for the last few days and it keeping collapsing. Especially if i am playing mp3s on the Z, or using VNC or esp VNC and copying files.    The prcoessor is clocked at 400mhz during these problems. The Z apart from that is perfectly stable. A reboot also doesn't seem to help matters much.

When it happens i can't ping the Z, or PC and i need to plug in/out the cable to get it to work again. I feel that it works great in storage mode, but this often doesn't suit me.  

This issue has been presented before, so if this could be made stable it would be my no.1 wish.  Also, more speed across tcp/ip file transfers?

[maslovsky]

I got another one for you. Resolve the instability in the usb tcp/ip. I have been using it on several computers for the last few days and it keeping collapsing. Especially if i am playing mp3s on the Z, or using VNC or esp VNC and copying files.    The prcoessor is clocked at 400mhz during these problems. The Z apart from that is perfectly stable. A reboot also doesn't seem to help matters much.

When it happens i can't ping the Z, or PC and i need to plug in/out the cable to get it to work again. I feel that it works great in storage mode, but this often doesn't suit me.  

This issue has been presented before, so if this could be made stable it would be my no.1 wish.  Also, more speed across tcp/ip file transfers?

Are you talking about fixing Sharp's USB drivers for Windows without having the source code? I'm not THAT good

[maslovsky]

To get my ext3 SD card to mount with noatime I had to add the option into sdcontrol on the mount line inside the if [ "$MOUNT_RES" == ]... block. There's probably a better way but the procedure on 1.21b seems to ignore options in the /etc/fstab

I can see now - the script sets the options in a variable, but does not actualy include it to the mound command. I'll fix that, thats' easy.

The XFS query was based upon some observations (can't remember the artical) where XFS came out as the highest performance file system for IO, however, this may be down to a number of techniques aimed at reducing read latency based on rotational stuff for disks... not really sure if there's a compelling reason to do it for XFS.. I may try the SGI patches against the current Cacko Kernel to see if it works and if I get a boost.

You can try, but I doubt you'll get any better performance...

Actually there is one more thing. That's a creaky old version of fdisk (2.11g) that's on the original ROM, check out my thread on the Linux Discussion regarding using 2.12a. I still need to nail down the compiler issue that's causing the code to display an extra partition but this version actually seems to get the geometry right for larger storage cards

Thanks, I'll take a look.

[iamasmith]

Nailed the problem with fdisk 2.12a, still needs some testing but build instructions are now in the Linux Issues forum under the thread "Hmm, could this be the problem with SD cards".

[omega]

I believe in you maslovsky!  Okay, fair enough - is there anything that can be changed on the Z side regarding options?

[Harlequin]

I'd really like a login on boot, and maybe some sort of encryption for the filesystem on the SD card.  Difficulty with that though is what happens if something goes wrong and the zaurus wont boot?

Harry

[maslovsky]

I believe in you maslovsky!  Okay, fair enough - is there anything that can be changed on the Z side regarding options?

Frankly speaking - I don't know. I'm not that good in linux kernel drivers either

[iamasmith]

I got another one for you. Resolve the instability in the usb tcp/ip. I have been using it on several computers for the last few days and ....
....When it happens i can't ping the Z, or PC and i need to plug in/out the cable to get it to work again. I feel that it works great in storage mode, but this often doesn't suit me.

I get this if I use the USB port replicator that my case provides (essentially patches that take the USB to ports on the front of the unit).

I have similar problems with Firewire on that port replicator so I have given over using it.

When I plug straight into the USB ports that the MOBO provides then no problems.

Just checking that it's not the same thing....