IRC log for #zaurus on 20080108

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00:20.14scottlfaAny news Frostschutz?
00:20.32Varthallhi
00:25.01frostschutzscottlfa: no, it'll have to wait till the weekend, don't have time for experiments before that :)
00:25.09frostschutzbut I bookmarked the link you gave me, thanks
00:37.45scottlfanod
01:58.28nox-gn8
03:21.48totall_6_7Well i ran into my first ooops in my pdaXii13 adventure
03:22.29totall_6_7after partitioning and you reboot you HAVE to remove the CF card
03:30.49scottlfa3200 or 3100?
03:35.10GreckoAnyone have a good mencoder one liner for encoding for the Z 3100?
03:42.14scottlfanopa
04:13.41totall_6_7Well this is no fun
04:14.34totall_6_7RO File system Flashing.....
04:14.36totall_6_775%
04:14.38totall_6_7Ooops!!
04:14.40totall_6_7RO File system: Error While Flashing.
04:14.42totall_6_7Press the [ENTER] key for reboot
04:36.56totall_6_7:/
05:00.46totall_6_7Well at least i backed things up
05:02.03totall_6_7trying something  
05:07.12totall_6_7well
05:07.15totall_6_7hmmmmm
05:08.20totall_6_7it is talking to me !!!
05:09.48totall_6_7now this is an interesting twist
05:13.09totall_6_7ok i am not exactly sure what i did
05:14.02totall_6_7but i basicly tried everything including downloading the install files, then switched to Allice install files and extracted the hdimage and rebooted
05:14.05totall_6_7and it worked
05:14.13totall_6_7i have no clue what made it work
05:14.16totall_6_7but i have
05:14.18totall_6_7X!!!!
05:16.21totall_6_7[20:14:00] <totall_6_7> Well this is no fun
05:16.23totall_6_7[20:14:53] <totall_6_7> RO File system Flashing.....
05:16.25totall_6_7[20:14:55] <totall_6_7> 75%
05:16.35totall_6_7sorry wrong window
05:16.36totall_6_7grrrr
05:17.05totall_6_7man am i glad for KVirc's stop paste!!!
05:29.25totall_6_7Man this is SOOOOOOOO cool!!!!!!!!!!
05:29.51totall_6_7Blue89: thanks for the tips, i still have no clue how it got installed but it did
05:30.18Blue89you're not out of the woods just yet
05:30.27Blue89normally you would be, but that flash failed
05:30.35Blue89so there may be important things missing
05:30.45totall_6_7actually
05:31.15Blue89do a "df -h" in the terminal and see how big the root partition is
05:31.30Blue89I would not be surprised if it is using your NAND instead of the harddrivenow
05:31.37Blue89it happens
05:31.43totall_6_7i downloaded and used the allice installer and files to go with it and used that to reflash it
05:32.14totall_6_7and i got no errors
05:32.16totall_6_7with that
05:32.18Blue89anyone else who is familiar with Alicfe should take over from here
05:32.26Blue89Alice*
05:32.37totall_6_7i will do your requested command
05:32.38totall_6_7one sec
05:33.07Blue89"df -h /"
05:33.43totall_6_7df -h /
05:33.44totall_6_7?
05:34.21Blue89that's saying " check the disk space on my root partition, and use units like megabytes and gigabytes that are easier for humans to understand
05:35.02Blue89if oyu do it without the slash it will quote the size on all mounted partitions
05:37.40totall_6_7Results: /dev/hda1 Size: 2.0G Used: 551.4M Available 1.4G
05:40.20totall_6_7Blue89: did that give the info you desired?
06:56.03totall_6_7Blue89: what window manager do you use?
06:57.18totall_6_7i have to go afk for a while bbiab
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16:57.08Blue89totall_6_7, I use E17.
16:57.33totall_6_7ahhh
16:57.44totall_6_7i ended up using openbox
16:58.46Blue89E17 has more eye candy. :-P
16:58.59totall_6_7lo
16:59.01totall_6_7lol
17:01.38Blue89totall_6_7, http://polishlinux.org/reviews/e17/e17_2.png
17:02.00Tomoee16 > *
17:02.16Blue89"The screenshot is static for obvious reasons, but when you run it yourself you are going to see the nicely animated menu with light effects"
17:03.19Tomoego away, you sinner!
17:03.33Blue89?
17:03.41Tomoethe weakness of the flesh has made you take
17:03.42Tomoe!
17:03.43Tomoee17!
17:05.05Tomoenigga got sideballed
17:05.06Tomoe=D
17:05.12TomoeBlue89: just kidding
17:05.13Blue89(but I suspect Tomoe is bipolar)
17:05.16Blue89lol
17:05.46TomoeI suspect Blue89 is bisexual
17:05.53Blue89?
17:06.03Tomoetrisexual, even!
17:06.05Blue89I suspect Tomoe is in a bad mood
17:06.09Blue89lol
17:06.15Tomoelol
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19:43.06totall_6_7I LOVE pdaXii13!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
19:43.26totall_6_7thanks Blue89 for all your help and support!!!
19:49.58totall_6_7I cant believe how fast it runs
19:50.22totall_6_7i thought for sure it would slow down to a snails pace
19:50.35totall_6_7but its no slower than the sharp os
19:50.44totall_6_7and in some respects its faster
19:52.06totall_6_7tho now i do have to change my alias :D
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19:53.29nox-moin
19:53.56totall_6_7hello and good morning nox-
19:54.05nox-moin totall_6_7
19:54.18totall_6_7i am sort of jazzed at the moment so you will pardon me if i seem hyper
19:55.10totall_6_7my xpdaii13 install is WONDERFULL!!!
19:55.44nox-hehe
19:55.46nox-enjoy :)
19:55.59totall_6_7it works better than the sharp os did
19:56.12nox-whats the difference?
19:57.28totall_6_7Sharp tried to mix a pda with a laptop and ended up with neither of them being really good. pdaXii13 changes it to a mini laptop so it works better
19:57.45nox-i c
19:57.54totall_6_7if you use linux you will see that it is like a desktop that you would use at home
19:58.24nox-doesnt the small screen get in the way somewhat?
19:59.23totall_6_7i am use to small screens, i have had a pocket pc (pda) since about 2002 and the pocket pc has a smaller screen than the Z does
20:11.34scottlfa-grin-
20:17.13totall_6_7now the fun part is compileing Sword to work on the unit
20:26.32totall_6_7hmmmmm i wonder if deb packages work with pdaXii13
20:26.58nox-its based on debian?
20:27.12totall_6_7yes
20:28.01nox-well in that case i guess all you need to do is get it online and apt-get install ...
20:28.34totall_6_7actually i have the file.deb to install it
20:29.06nox-is it for the same debian release?
20:30.04totall_6_7I dont think it matters when its a deb what release the debian is, but i dunno
20:30.17nox-sure it matters
20:30.32nox-shlibs may be different, etc
20:33.34totall_6_7hmmmm well the worst that happens is the deb package does not work and i have to compile it myself
20:36.49nox-i guess so
20:37.03nox-or just apt-get it
20:37.12nox-if its in debian...
20:37.19totall_6_7I do not have internet with the Z
20:37.29nox-not even the usb network?
20:37.34totall_6_7apt-get is not really an option
20:37.39totall_6_7nope
20:38.06nox-whats the problem with the usb network?
20:38.32totall_6_7there is no problem i just do not have a usb network card
20:38.55nox-no i mean with the cable that comes with the z
20:39.19totall_6_7I did not get the host cable just the slave cable
20:39.31nox-slave cable is enough
20:39.48nox-hmm or is your z too old?
20:40.16nox-maybe the old ones couldnt do that, dunno
20:40.31totall_6_7if i plug the usb cable into this box, this box sees it as a mass storage device
20:40.40totall_6_7and opens it up as such
20:40.50nox-you need to tell the z to use it for network
20:41.23totall_6_7hmmmm now that i will do some research on, and to answer your question i have the3200
20:41.31nox-same here
20:41.52nox-i dont have pdaXii13 tho, but id be surprised if they left out the network...
20:42.29totall_6_7there is more networking apps installed than there is on this box (or at least so it seems)
20:43.11nox-i use it with freebsd, driver is cdce(4) here -- USB Communication Device Class Ethernet driver
20:43.14totall_6_7but this box is hard wired to a hub and connection is nothing more than plugging the cable into the hub
20:43.28scottlfaipkg in pdaxrom and pdaxii13
20:43.38scottlfaipkg install <package>
20:43.45nox-ah no debian
20:43.48scottlfain debian its apt-get
20:43.54nox-yeah
20:44.16totall_6_7scottlfa: can you tell apt-get the file name?
20:44.28totall_6_7apt-get file.deb
20:44.36scottlfaIn most Z distro's its ipkg though (Angstrom, Cacko, Sharp, PdaXrom, PdaXii13, OpenZaurus and Pokey)
20:44.42scottlfain debian yes
20:44.48scottlfaponder
20:44.50scottlfano
20:44.54nox-in debian that would be dpkg -i
20:45.02scottlfafor local file installs use dpkg -i
20:45.17nox-but you have to be careful not mixing debs for other releases
20:45.34scottlfaindeed
20:45.55totall_6_7well this deb for Sword is an ARM release
20:46.04scottlfasharp based distro's like Cacko and Sharp do not mix well at all with PdaXrom and its kin.
20:46.45nox-whats Sword, a game?
20:46.54scottlfaAngstrom does not mix well with any of them.  Etc.  Debian packages have to be noarch to work in other distro's.
20:47.01scottlfaBible reader.
20:47.03nox-debian releases not archs
20:47.07nox-o_O
20:48.11nox-like, debs for sarge usually wont work on etch or lenny
20:48.16scottlfawithin debian release, the architecture can complicate any forced install.  noarch deb's do not depend on the architecture of the host debian system.
20:48.44scottlfayeah but i386 isn't friendly too ARM, or ARM to ARMel for example :)
20:48.54nox-well if its a native executable it has to be arm too ofc
20:49.33totall_6_7http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gnomesword
20:49.37totall_6_7there
20:49.47nox-thats sid too
20:49.50scottlfaI thought so too, but a basic arm app does bad things running on an armel host.  its in the compilation of the files I am sure and the libraries that are slightly different.
20:49.59totall_6_7logic tells me that arm is the choice to make
20:49.59scottlfaunstable - sid
20:50.06scottlfaarmel
20:50.33nox-yeah little endian
20:51.29scottlfacool thing about the Z is it can run either ARM Debian or ARMel Debian.  I have been happy with ARMel Debian.
20:56.39scottlfaanyhows ... have fun man, glad you got it running on there :)
20:57.09totall_6_7It rocks!!!!
20:57.53totall_6_7i just wonder how to get the screen back whithout having to reset after you use the screen blank applet
20:58.15totall_6_7maybe when Blue89 comes back he will have an answer for that question
21:00.40scottlfafn + 1
21:00.48scottlfafn + 2
21:01.37totall_6_7fn+1 blanks and fn+2 restores?
21:02.08scottlfafn+1 decreases the brightness and fn+2 increases it (effectively taking it out of blank)
21:03.45scottlfabrb
21:03.46totall_6_7nope not under pdaXii13
21:03.57totall_6_7those combo of keys do nothing
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22:42.49scottlfasorry :(
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