3.5.2 - Problems, Fixes, Questions

[JohnKiniston]

I've run into a couple small oddities when using the new rom provided by Coredump.

Mplayer cant play audio, all I get are clicks and pops.

Also Suspend/Resume is a bit funky, If my Z goes to sleep  I have to reset it with the reset button in the battery compartment to get it to turn back on.

Does anyone else using this rom see these things?

[CoreDump]

Absolutely brilliant!

Small thing, typo on the how-to.  It says cardfs_installer.sh when it's actually cardfs_install.sh.  

I'm a bit fuzzy about all of this, but if I installed a browser (say, links for example) wanted to create a cardfs image, I'd just tar and gzip the dirs on my sd card and name it cardfs-??.bin?


Harry

Yes, it's that simple

[EdbO]

I've downloaded the newest cardfs and opie, but xmms still don't working   . I removed it and did a new install of xmms-embedded from the feed to root and it works again    All other programs seems to be working nicely.

I don't have any trouble with suspend etc. Only my bluetoothcard won't work  

[CoreDump]

If you have problems with resuming from suspend, remove opie-wirelessapplet (which isn't installed by default)

[it0]

Dunno about xmms or omp2, I don't use them.
Remove opie-wirelessapplet if it is installed and see if it helps
with your resume problems

Works perfectly now,  I am amazed how much faster is then your S2 release.

I'm missing an app like resumeguard though or did I miss something?
Are there any feeds besides the ones it comes installed with that I should try? Or will I encounter (dependency) problems

[CoreDump]

I'm missing an app like resumeguard though or did I miss something?
Are there any feeds besides the ones it comes installed with that I should try? Or will I encounter (dependency) problems

Hmm what's resumegard good for? Never used it.
The configured feeds are the original 3.5.2 feeds.
oz.hentges.net is an official mirror  

[CoreDump]

Absolutely brilliant!

Small thing, typo on the how-to.  It says cardfs_installer.sh when it's actually cardfs_install.sh. 

Fixed, thanks!

[deegy]

Yep I also get clicks and pops on audio with mplayer and mp3s or mp3 in avi's

my current guess is there is a lib missing or one of those mplayer confs

additionally the video speed is about half of mplayer on 3.5.1

ill have a look at it on monday ......
ta

David

[Fray]

I'm having a little trouble with knights -- it seg faults.  The only way I could install it was by forcing dependencies; otherwise it would complain that it needed libqte2.so >= 2.3.7.  That's strange, because libqte2.so v2.3.7 is already installed with the openzaurus ROM.

When I run from the command line, it seems to be loading a bunch of picture files (successfully), then displays the following few lines:

Match constructor 1
Match constructor 2
Match constructor 3
Match constructor end
core::initEngines
Segmentation Fault

"initEngines" makes it sound like maybe it's crashing when it tries to find phalanx.  I'll continue to look into this and post if I figure out a solution.  It's worth noting that phalanx is installed, and I can run it standalone with no problems.

[Shdwdrgn]

I wanted to note that I finally got opie-mail working.  For some reason, I think libqte2 was fubar'ed, and unfortunately the ipkg is not available in the 3.5.2 feed.

Libqte2_2.3.7-r16 was available in the 3.5.1 feed, however getting it to install was a bit tricky.  When I removed the original install, Opie died.  Since I was doing my update from an SSH session (and I recommend anyome following this to do the same), I was able to wget the file and install it.  You need to --force-depends (it requests tslib, but seems to work fine with what's already on my system).  

If you want to gain a whole lot of ROM space, install libqte to sd/cf.  You will gain about 2MB of free space, and the system is booting fine this way.  Don't forget to issue "ipkg-link add libqte2" after installing.  You should then be able to issue "/etc/init.d/opie start" and get your screen back up again.

Unfortunately, even after getting a working copy of libqte2 installed, opiemail still did not work for me.  Uninstalled/reinstalled to sd, still no luck.  So I uninstalled it again, then taking advantage of my newfound rom space, I installed opiemail to root.  And it worked!?!?  Manually copied the desktop links, pics, and libs back to sd, made the symlinks, and it's still working fine.  This has got me scratching my head, however the program is working correctly now, I can pull my mailboxes, and the applet is also running.

So I still have no clue why most people are able to load this program with no problems, but I'm back up and running again with no apparent problems from the slight downgrade of libqte2.  Hope this helps out for anyone else having a similar problem.

[deegy]

The version of mplayer mentioned here:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...7770&hl=mplayer

ie.
"I used the following packages from xmms-embedded.sourceforge.net/feed/oz32

mplayer_20030614-10_armv4l-strongarm.ipk"

works fine from the command line.

However it doesnt integrate with xmms

more work needed

ta

Dg

[Starseed6]

Hey coredump ...

The image looks like a great idea .... but I notice that all the kernels are for collie, and I have poodle.  I suspect using the wrong kernel would be bad    

Any advice?

[CoreDump]

Hey coredump ...

The image looks like a great idea .... but I notice that all the kernels are for collie, and I have poodle.  I suspect using the wrong kernel would be bad    

Any advice?

In therory it works with all machines.

Problem is: You'd need to rebuild all machine-specific stuff and
compile a ROM for each machine.

That's a little bit to much work, I'm sorry  

[CoreDump]

I've uploaded RC9 of the cardfs ROM to the usual place.

NOTE: You need a newer kernel from the "kernel" directory for this release.
Older kernels will suffer from dependency problems.

This release fixes the following bugs from ealier versions:

- Icon texts in -EN ROMs should now be in english
- mount /mnt/card (ie: a manual mount) now works for non-VFAT cards
- The timezones package is included, fixing PIM and
  opie-citytime problems users were seeing
- openssh-sftp is now included and ready to use

Whats new:
This ROM now features an ext2 formatter since some people were trying to
install cardfs to an VFAT card (which - of course - doesn't work).

If you boot this ROM with a VFAT formatted SD card right after flashing,
it will allow you to format the SD card. Fear not, it asks two times (well actually 3)
before it does anything  

Formatting your card will destroy any files on it

It is now also possible to make a backup of your network settings once you have configured it.
Run the command

Code: [Select]

mhbackup.sh backupfrom the console. It will copy the backup to /mnt/card/.backup.

This backup will be restored after re-flashing the ROM. Just make sure you keep the
".backup" directoy on your SD card.

Happy flashing  

[Starseed6]

Well .... I tried it anyhow.  No dice.  After flashing all I get is a black screen with a flacking battery light.  *sigh*  well back the Opie and the crappy constantly-crashing package manager and dependency problems ....

Thanks for trying anyhow