Hi
I have an SL-5500. I much prefer OZ and Opie to the sharp rom, but I have some major problems which must be solved soon or I will be forced to go back to the sharp rom (and I really want to avoid that). I have been using OZ for a few weeks now, first version 3.2, but now I am running 3.3.5.
1. Currently have only one cf card- a maxell 64mb storage card formatted as fat16. As it is my only cf card I leave it in all the time, but it keeps doing very stupid things.
It makes suspend and/or resume take ages. Under OZ 3.2, it initially took ages on resume (i think this may have been partly related to the docs tab), but then it changed it's mind and took ages to suspend, usually ejecting and then reinserting the card (the point of which is...?). With 3.3.5, it doesn't eject and reinsert the card every time (and it seems to be generally faster, although it still takes longer with the card than without), but every so often (usually at the most annoying times), it ejects the card and fails to redetect it the cardmon icon disappears from the bar and never returns. It then takes no notice of me physically removing/inserting it (or the 256mb kingston card borrowed from a friend), cardctl commands never complete, and mount says that /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device (probably because cardctl hasn't picked up the card). An SD card still worked fine when it did this, although I cannot verify whether sd cards will start the problem or not. The only way I can find to get cf cards working again is to reboot completely.
I use my zaurus mostly as an organiser, so this is incredibly annoying.
2. It sometimes freezes on resume. This means i have to do a full reboot. This may well be related to the cf card problem, but so far it has only happened with the cf card present (bear in mind that it is in almost all of the time). I am testing this now.
3. USB Storage. I absolutely MUST have this. Many of the pcs i use cannot have drivers installed on them, so the usb networking mode won't work. I downloaded a usbstorage driver ported from one of the c series zs, but this will not install correctly (and when I try it leaves its attempted install on my Z, whilst aqpkg thinks it isn't installed so I can't uninstall it). The last attempt at this one made Linux on my laptop pick up a usb mass storage device, but it could not be mounted. A bit more messing and the Z would not start opie any more- reflash time- again. I then found an OZ version, but this would not work either.
4. The documents tab is a mess. Whilst it might be more convenient than adding things to a manual tab, it slows everything down, especially if you use cf or sd storage cards. I have turned it off, but is there some way of getting rid of it completely- it's cluttering up my desktop.
5. What does it mean when aqpkg says 'invalid magic'?
6. Can I remap the hardware keyboard? (i use dvorak)
Has anyone else expericenced similar problems?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thankyou in advance
Simon
