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« Reply #45 on: January 04, 2005, 10:48:25 am »
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1. screen calibration doesn't work. The pdaxrom calibration utility doesn't work with c3000 frame buffer driver anymore...
I believe the 3000 uses a different video chip, Intel PXA270' instead of the ATI. I think that may add some complexity to porting the pdaxrom to the 3000...
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« Reply #46 on: January 05, 2005, 07:19:55 pm »
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1. screen calibration doesn't work. The pdaxrom calibration utility doesn't work with c3000 frame buffer driver anymore...
I believe the 3000 uses a different video chip, Intel PXA270' instead of the ATI. I think that may add some complexity to porting the pdaxrom to the 3000...
It's not about a different video chip. It seems to me there is no dedicated graphics chip (Intel 2700G) in the Zaurus. I just tried to compile the Zaurus C3000 Linux kernel with a patched frame buffer driver but there seems to be a lot of bugs and it's in question if to try to fix them or to wait until LAZE and MASLOVSKI fix them for us :-) That's why I dindn't produced any temporary pdaxrom for c3000 yet. My work will be obsolete when they decide to support the c3000...

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« Reply #47 on: January 06, 2005, 08:21:12 am »
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I just tried to compile the Zaurus C3000 Linux kernel with a patched frame buffer driver but there seems to be a lot of bugs and it's in question if to try to fix them or to wait until LAZE and MASLOVSKI fix them for us :-) That's why I dindn't produced any temporary pdaxrom for c3000 yet. My work will be obsolete when they decide to support the c3000...
why don't you try helping them to fix it/support the c3000 then ?   I think any work wich could help creating new roms for the c3000 won't get "obsolete" as it's opensource and anything you've done may help them to make an even better ROM
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« Reply #48 on: January 06, 2005, 09:48:58 am »
great idea, ThC!

Yes, why don't you contact laze about your work on pdaXrom and C3000!

Couldn't hurt!....  

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« Reply #49 on: January 06, 2005, 07:38:25 pm »
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Hi,
- the on/off button does not work. Pressing it does not suspend the device, but rrunning zsuspend does (and after that, the on/off switch *does* unsuspend!)

Fbvnc needs to be run as root to be able to run zsuspend. (Welll, there is maybe another solution, but this is easier). If it is allready, see if there are any messages in the console when you exit Fbvnc with Fn+Shift+Q.

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Lastly, does anyone have any mplayer tips/tricks for this setup? (I must admit that I haven't even istalled mplayer yet - can I expect problems with the vnc setup? Will mplayer bypass vnc and use the framebuffer directly?)

I have compiled a mplayer with framebuffer support and it works rather fine. However, I still don't manage to change resolution to 320x240 with should avoid some software scaling.

I'm also trying to compile an X server directly for the framebuffer.
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« Reply #50 on: January 06, 2005, 09:19:11 pm »
I put Debian on my 3000.  The only major issue I have with it is that the area of the touch screen it reads while in fbvnc is a small corner of the full screen.  Did no one else have that problem?  It's unusabe like that.

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EDIT:  I stumbled upon the solution.  If anyone else has the problem, remove /home/etc/fbvnc-calibration.conf and start fbvnc. It'll have you calibrate the touch screen.
« Last Edit: January 09, 2005, 11:46:01 am by TronDD »
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« Reply #51 on: January 09, 2005, 08:06:23 pm »
how do I install bluetooth and wifi cf cards on the 3000 running debian?  I am totally new to linux.
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« Reply #52 on: January 14, 2005, 05:24:57 am »
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In fact it it's not so difficult to get pdaxrom running on c3000. I have it on my c3000 after a great time of hacking/tweaking. You have to get C3000's hard drive initialized. It's not like a PC PCI HD, it's connected as a PCMCIA device so you have to get up and running the whole PCMCIA susbsystem prior the booting from the HD. The rest is pretty straightforward, I would say even easier than with cx00 series, because you can forget about different flash rom sizes etc.
Could you provide more details what you had to do to get pdaxrom to work? How did you get the pcmcia subsystem started?

I'm considering doing some hacking myself, but any headstart you can give me would be nice

What will happen if I just install pdaxrom on my c3000? Restoring shouldn't be a problem, right?
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« Reply #53 on: January 14, 2005, 05:30:44 am »
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In fact it it's not so difficult to get pdaxrom running on c3000.
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The only problems I found so far are:

1. screen calibration doesn't work. The pdaxrom calibration utility doesn't work with c3000 frame buffer driver anymore...




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You could work around this using the fbvncserver setup (server+client) used by pocketworkstation. At least it will give you a working X setup
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« Reply #54 on: January 14, 2005, 10:26:51 pm »
Why are you guys using fbvnc?

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« Reply #55 on: January 15, 2005, 06:17:02 am »
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Why are you guys using fbvnc?

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Because, as epxlained, calibration does not work with the standard X server
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« Reply #56 on: January 15, 2005, 11:18:19 am »
So, if you didn't use it, then you wouldn't be able to tap items on the screen?

And you're connecting to fbvnc as local loopback?

Sorry, I'm very new to this.
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« Reply #57 on: January 15, 2005, 01:06:55 pm »
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So, if you didn't use it, then you wouldn't be able to tap items on the screen?

And you're connecting to fbvnc as local loopback?
Correct, You'd have no mouse, basically (which tends to be usefull with X apps
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« Reply #58 on: January 15, 2005, 06:30:16 pm »
Gotcha. Thanks.

I don't recall FBVNC being part of the HOWTO. Did I miss something?
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« Reply #59 on: January 16, 2005, 06:50:38 am »
I can't understand why fbvnc can work well with the c3000 and not X11 ... ok the x11 version hacked by pdaXrom's team is too much ATI W100 accelerated but can't we have an "older" version wich would'nt be that much optimised and would run just fine ? I think having a framebuffer enabled X11 instead of having to run a vnc server and then a vnc client would run better even if not really optimised ... Just my 2 cent
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