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1. mkdir p home zaurus Documents Install_Files debs cp deb home zaurus Documents Install_Files debs cd home zaurus Documents Install_Files dpkg scanpackages debs dev null gzip gt debs Packages gz now add the following as the first entry in etc apt sources list deb file home zaurus Documents Install_Files debs apt get should now look for files located under home zaurus Documents Install_Files debs when you try to install a package You can also comment out the other entries with a hash if you don t want apt get to connect to the internet Also whenever you add new files to home zaurus Documents Install_Files debs you will need to re run dpkg scanpackages As an alternative to running Debian under X Qt you can also use VNC to run Debian instead or even do a combination of X Qt and VNC The VNC and X Qt sessions will have different settings but if you want them to at least share some of the icevm settings do the following su cd hdd3 debroot ln s home zaurus icevm root icewm Make sure the DEBROOT in etc debroot conf is set to hdd3 debroot The chroot directory for the Debian installation DEBROOT hdd3 debroot To start the VNC server do the following su Vncserver Now just connect to it via a vnc client such as keypebble see VNC section OpenOffice 1 1 4 Yes OpenOffice works on the C3000 and C3100 However you will need to install PocketWorkstation first which also involves insta
2. my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 143 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Abiword has been configured to start in 640x480 or 480x640 mode depending on the model and display English even on Zauri with Japanese locales Abiword uses the system locale to determine what language to display menus in ie English menu with en locale Japanese with ja locale However since many clamshell models on Sharp ROM use the ja locale with the menus converted to English the same was required for AbiWord The file etc X11 app defaults Abiword strings contains the text for the menus and is a copy of en GB strings for English menus If you want your menus in another language then simply replace it with the language file of your choosing I also compiled aspell and included a dictionary so you also get an English spell checker Additionally I also compiled a few plugins for abiword mainly text converters so you can open additional document types such as OpenOffice MSWrite and PDF files I also got printing to a PDF file working partially Currently it only works with certain fonts so if the results looks like garbage try again with another font Firefox has been enhanced a bit It originally had a small problem with its own launch script but now it launches itself into a new tab if you launch firefox multiple times when it has already been started I have also compiled the gplflash plugin so flash animations can be viewed with
3. my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 223 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 http zaurus spy org lots of Z resources http www takei gr jp zaurus zbook html Zaurus Resources and Applications in Japanese http csx jp zaurus Zaurus Resources and Applications in Japanese http www areanine gr jp nyano Zaurus Resources and Applications in Japanese http tetsu homelinux org zaurus kernel Tetsu s enhanced kernels http noz ub32 org zaurus emu html emulators for Zaurus http www cartel securite fr pbiondi zaurus zethereal html Ethereal for Zaurus http www robfisher net zaurus freeciv html freeciv http undertow 2y net zaurus bin misc zaurus binaries http www skill engineering com zaurus screensaver and other useful tools http www zaurusthemes org Zaurus Themes and Wallpapers http home mchsi com cmisip zaurus htm zaurus resource page in English http www wbcd com computing zaurus Dictionary Resources http ebsnap lkj jp zaurus Dictionary Applications and Files http tbox jpn org linuzau keyhelper and other tools http pocketworkstation org Debian PocketWorkstation for the Zaurus http people debian org rene openoffice org test arm OpenOffice for the Zaurus http www tyrannozaurus com news about what is happening in the Zaurus world http www thesounddesign com zaurus beta3 htm info about latest stable ve
4. Paste X selection into active tab Ctrl Shift v Paste X selection into active tab my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 196 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Shift Up Scroll up one line Shift Down Scroll down one line Some of the sticky keys will also work outside of X as well sticky keys are enabled by default You can disable them by settings STICKY_KEYS to false in pdaxii13 conf and restarting X Screen Rotation Screen rotation works automatically on pdaXii13 Openbox will detect transformation between laptop mode landscape and PDA mode portrait and rotate the screen by calling rotate sh which will ensure it is done appropriately by checking the current orientation and calling the relevant commands accordingly You will end up with the taskbar at the correct location for the orientation you are in The currently running applications will also be resized to fit your orientation In order for this to happen the running applications will be maximized The rotate option on the menu will also call rotate sh and force a manual rotation Screen Capture A screenshot can be taken by running xwd display 0 gt screendump xwd A smarter script screencap has been written that mimics the capture behaviour on the Sharp distro ie the script is bound to the Ctrl Alt c key combo and activated when that key sequence is pressed A shutter sound click wav is then played before doing the screen
5. ext3 linux ID 83 hdd2 256MB swap linux swap ID 82 hdd3 1 5B data win95 fat ID c However for most users a larger data partition would probably be more useful and hence the newer pdaXii13 installer will create the following custom partition layout instead hdd1 1 4GB ext3 linux ID 83 hdd2 256MB swap linux swap ID 82 hdd3 2 4B data win95 fat ID c The pdaXii13 installer also allows you to create a single partition for the entire MicroDrive or use an improved version of fdisk which can create partitions properly unlike the default fdisk which comes with the Zaurus to manually create your own desired partition scheme There is also an option provided which allows you to restore your original factory set partition layout Before you flash to a new distro you will first need to prepare the flash medium For this you will need either a 512MB or 1GB SD CF card formatted as fat16 Place all the required installation binaries onto the root of the card The following files are required updater sh updater tools bin zImage 2 4 20 bin initrd bin hdimage full tgz see note below Note You can either use hdimage base tgz which gives you a vanilla pdaXrom install with minimal essential fixes only hdimage full tgz which is a fully customised and polished image with all the customisations as described below or hdimage custom tgz which is a snapshot backup of a custom system The installer will pick up any of these names hdimage base
6. hdd2 is where applications get installed to on the C3000 On the C3100 it is also an empty partition with a size of 9MB The third partition hdd3 is allocated the remainder of the MicroDrive and is a FAT formatted partition It can be used to store data on files of any type including relatively large files Alternatively hdd3 could potentially also be used for applications when hdd2 or home is full if you apply a few modifications However since the default hdd3 is using the FAT filesystem no symlinks can be created on it and file permissions and ownership are also not available Thus there are a few drawbacks with having hdd3 as a FAT partition You can either reformat the entire hdd3 to linux filesystem ext2 ext3 or repartition hdd3 into hdd3 and hdd4 This leaves a smaller FAT formatted hdd3 and additionally a hdd4 with a linux partition Before repartitioning hdd3 make sure you backup everything on it first The dictionary files dict1 and dict2 which are by default on hdd3 can be found on the first two CD ROMs that came with the Zaurus The C3100 has a third CD ROM which contains the files for the Contents_Files directory The contents of the sd_map directory C3100 only are located under a sub directory under the Applications directory on the first CD hdd3 is usally mounted from dev hda3 or dev hdc3 depending on how you booted If you booted with no CF card then it will be dev hda3 however if you had booted with
7. 198 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The config files for ROX are under usr apps and home root Choices ROXFiler In pdaXii13 the above change has been implemented in such a way that rox is used if it is installed but the default matchbox desktop is used instead if rox is not installed You can also specify whether to use matchbox desktop or rox pinboard in the pdaXii13 config file called pdaxii13 conf located under home root Choices The Look amp Feel tool in the Systems Tools can be used to change the default wallpaper as well as change many other aspects of how the GUI looks like The wallpaper can be any png image file but a resolution of 640x440 is ideal However if you changed your desktop to use rox filer instead of the matchbox desktop then you can right click Fn tap to activate the rox filer properties where you can drag and drop an image into the background section There is also a command line tool called rox bset which you can use to replace the background as well as enabling random backgrounds To change the theme use the OpenBox Config tool obconf which can configure other settings in OpenBox as well my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 199 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 To apply manual changes done by editing rc xml either restart X or run the following command openbox replace 2 gt dev null amp There is also an additional GTK Theme selector in pdaXii13 to allow you to
8. Finally source zgcc env and you are ready to compile mount o loop zgcc 344 cramfs mnt zgcc mnt zgcc zgcc setup mnt zgcc zgcc env To compile a little test application using the C compiler gcc create a file called hello c with the following content include lt stdio h gt int main my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 186 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 printf Hello World for C compiler n Then run the following command which will generate an executable called hello gcc o hello hello c To compile a little test application using the C compiler g create a file called hello cpp with the following content include lt iostream gt using namespace std int main cout lt lt Hello World for C compiler n Then run the following command which will generate an executable called hello g o hello hello cpp To compile source packages first download and extract the source tarball Then do the following for example grisbi bzip2 dc grisbi 0 5 9 tar bz2 tar xvf cd grisbi 0 5 9 configure make make install Java development A java compatible environment exists on the Zaurus via the use of jamvm and classpath as an alternate JVM and jikes as a compiler To install java so you can run and compile java applications do the following from a terminal ipkg install classpath ipkg nodeps install libffi3
9. L Load track to playlist Shift L Load folder Alt S Skin browser Ctrl P Preferences my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 195 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 xpdf has the following default key mappings o open file r reload f find next n next page p previous page zoom in zoom out z zoom page w zoom page width 0 zoom normal q quit Below are some of the keyboard shortcuts for mrxvt Ctrl Shift t Create a new tab Ctrl Shift n Create a new tab Ctrl Shift w Close active tab Ctrl Shift q Close all tabs and exit Ctrl Fn Up Activate left tab Shift Left Activate left tab Ctrl Shift h Activate left tab Ctrl Shift p Activate previous active tab Ctrl Tab Activate previous active tab Ctrl Fn Down Activate right tab Shift Right Activate right tab Ctrl Shift l Activate right tab Ctrl Shift Left Move active tab to left Ctrl Shift less_than Move active tab left Ctrl Shift Right Move active tab to right Ctrl Shift greater_than Move active tab right Ctrl equal Increase font size Ctrl minus Decrease font size Ctrl Shift plus Increase font size by 2 Ctrl Shift underscore Decrease font size by 2 Ctrl Shift r Toggle pseudo transparency Ctrl Shift i Hide show tabbar Ctrl Shift s Hide show scrollbar Ctrl Shift m Hide show menubar Ctrl Shift a Hide show tabbar buttons Ctrl Shift f Toggle full screen mode Shift Insert
10. Pressing Fn key m will also shutdown X Qt Holding down the Fn key while tapping with the stylus will get you the fluxbox control menu X Qt jumbo also contains multiple X window managers which you can switch between blackbox fluxbox evilwm twm To change the default window manager place the name of the window manager into etc X11 defaultwm For example to switch to blackbox do the following and then restart X Qt su echo blackbox gt etc X11 defaultwm This is how the custom fluxbox window manager looks like with desktop icons enabled However it takes some time to load and display all the icons and thus I decided not to load them by default They really are only eye candy so you need to manually enable them from the fluxbox menu if you want them You may find it quicker to start the X Qt application from the X Qt tab in the QTopia desktop or using the fluxbox menu You can also use xlauncher from the console or an exterm to start X applications Just run xlauncher with the application s executable as the argument and xlauncher will start the application you specified If X is already running the application will just appear inside X but if X has not been started yet it will start X first before starting the application xlauncher will also enable swap if a swapfile exists and is not enabled yet you really should create a swapfile for running X applications xlauncher can also be used to allow your X application to
11. and Cacko as well as pdaXrom uses the tar and gz format which basically is a gzipped tarball tgz or tar gz with a control structure and renamed to ipk If you extract this ipk file you will find 3 files inside it a text file called debian binaries which just contains the string 2 0 and two tar gz files called control and data The control tar gz file contains a text file called control which has informaton about the package such as the Maintainer s name dependencies version description etc There may also be some optional shell scripts for doing some pre and post configuration tasks during install and uninstall Finally the file data tar gz contains all the files and directory structure of the files for their destination location The other ipk format is used by OpenZaurus and PocketWorkstation Debian and requires the ar command to extract the files my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 220 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 To unpack an ipk file to see what is inside it do the following unpackipk somefile ipk To create your own ipk file do the following to create the ipk file structure newipk myproject Then once you add your files in the correct locations and also update the control file with the information about your application you can create your ipk file with the following command makeipk myproject If you want to convert a deb or OZ ipk file so you can unpack it wit
12. data feed To create your own custom local feed you can download the beta1 feed tar gz files for the generic and C3x00 specific one You can then merge the two feeds and any additional ones onto your internal MicroDrive or one of the external cards Just extract the files into a directory extract the 7x0 archive first and then the C3100 one on top of it to eliminate the duplicates Then use ipkg make index to generate a new Packages file for the feed my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 192 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You can also install individual packages without requiring a feed but you will need to manually install dependant packages yourself You can either use the GUI Package Manager or use the command line ipkg command Keyboard Shortcuts The pdaXii13 custom keyboard layout spitz xmodmap is fully functional with all keys mapped Below is a list of keyboard shortcuts and customisations that exists on pdaXii13 There are two types of changes to the keymappings The first one are the essential fixes to make the keymap work and the second ones are enhancements to make it more usable and similar to the keyhelper enhancements on the Sharp distro To customise the default keymap modify etc sysconfig keyboard kernel map and etc X11 kb spitz xmodmap and use loadkeys and xmodmap to reload the key mappings respectively Use xev within X to determine the keycode for the keys If you do
13. kde and enlightment You can also setup multiple window managers and switch between them as long as you have sufficient space The default openbox window manager uses matchbox panels and applets for the taskbar and desktop management kde KDE is also very popular however it is quite heavy and thus a bit slower The simplest way of getting kde 3 5 installed is to use the kde squashfs image Copy it to the internal harddrive and mount it as a loop device under usr lib kde kde kde3 5 Then setup the symbolic links by installing the kdesymlink package Now modify xinitrc and startx to run the selected default window manager My customised scripts allow you to run either window managers depending on the WM variable ie ob or kde You can also start kde by running startxkde icewm xfce enlightment my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 164 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Desktop and Menu Customisation The desktop files defining the applications are located under usr share applications and the icons are under usr share pixmaps As mentioned before the desktop is by default managed by matchbox desktop You can either access the application icons via the menu or the desktop panels However you can replace the matchbox desktop with rox filer to get an integrated file manager and desktop manager To do that modify home root xinitrc and replace the following eval matchbox desktop MBBG
14. my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 169 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Alternatively the USB network mode will allow you to connect the Zaurus via a virtual ethernet network and thus will allow you to share files via Samba if configured and also allow you to use any TCP IP dependant network services if enabled If for example the PC or Laptop you connect to via USB cable has internet sharing Windows ICS or iptables on Linux configured then the Zaurus can access the internet through that connection see the networking section of my customisation guide for Sharp ROM on how to do that I have also written a script usbnet which automatically configures the usbd0 interface to use the Windows ICS Internet Connection Sharing Samba You need to install the Samba package and configure etc samba smb conf to share the desired shares It is also a good idea to create a user such as zaurus and assign a password to that user using adduser H Then enable and create the zaurus user for samba using smbpasswd L a e options Then restart samba service using etc rc d init d samba stop and start as arguments You can manually start and stop the samba service by running the script etc rc d init d samba which gets run at bootup This script is very chatty and displays too many errors I have modified it to be less chatty and also added a restart option If you enable the USB network then you need to restart samba
15. option instead of async my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 154 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 IrDA seems to work on both distros but not much tested since it is not that useful these days Sound is flakey on both pdaXrom and OZ pdaXrom loses sound on suspend resume while OZ does not have proper volume control and autosensing when the headphone is plugged in Rotation between landscape and portrait style is supported by both distros ie it is detected but the resulting rotation is not so perfect depending on the window manager used it works correctly on pdaXrom with openbox but needs hack to work properly on OZ with matchbox Keyboard Mapping The main keys on the keyboard is mapped correctly on both distros but is not very well documented on how to customise the keymaps Some special keys are missing on both distros Sticky keys can be enabled on pdaXrom which does not seem to be the case in OZ Multi key does not seem to work on OZ Window Manager OZ uses the matchbox window manager which looks quite ugly Fluxbox is also available pdaXrom by default uses openbox with matchbox components as applets It looks very nice There are also a host of alternate window managers available for pdaXrom such as icewm xfce fluxbox and kde All those window managers can automatically resize the application window on load to fit the screen except for openbox which is the pdaXrom default window manager
16. updated battery applet with overclocking underclocking support qtopia memoryapplet_1 0 4_arm ipk updated memory applet with better swapfile management qtopia keyboardapplet_1 0 0_arm ipk keyboard layout mapper applet qtopia network usblan_1 0 0_arm ipk network config for usb lan adaptor qtopia network bluetooth_1 0 0_arm ipk network config for bluetooth adaptor qtopia usbapplet_1 0 3_arm ipk USB device control applet japanese support c3100jaen_1 23_arm zip add Japanese support to Cacko 1 23 pico_4 4_arm ipk console based file editor cpio_2 6_arm ipk archiving tool top_0 3 6_arm ipk system tool wget_1 10 2_arm ipk download tool qpPhoto_1 0 3_arm ipk graphics tool modified for C3x00 yasump_0 40_arm ipk MOD player modified for C3x00 ipktools_0 3 5_arm ipk various scripts for manipulating ipk files including conversion of debian packages into ipk files zgcc2 95 2 lite zip minimal Zaurus on board gcc development environment zgcc2 95 2 zip Zaurus on board gcc development environment zgcc 2 95 3 cramfs zgcc2 95 3 squashfs extended and updated Zaurus on board gcc development environment for X Qt I have also made a section dedicated to X Qt and Debian PocketWorkstation that is more generic and not just for the SL C3000 and SL C3100 models It contains the following X Qt Jumbo and Applications packages xqt gtk jumbo_4 3 0 7 1_arm ipk X Qt jumbo package firefox_0 9 3_arm ipk Mo
17. 0 so 0 600 2 manually pdaXii13 has this fix applied by default and most windows will fit onto the display rather than extend beyond the physical screen size Window Managers pdaXrom uses openbox as its default window manager because it is lightweight and loads pretty fast However it does not automatically resize applications that are oversized Suitable alternatives seem to be icewm and fluxbox which are also included in pdaXii13 full openbox default with matchbox desktop my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 202 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 openbox with rox pinboard icewm with rox pinboard fluxbox with rox pinboard The default window manager in pdaXii13 is openbox just like in pdaXrom However once you exit X you can use xselect to switch and make fluxbox or icewm your default window manager which will run when you start X again my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 203 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 File Managers There is no default GUI file manager in the default pdaXrom however rox filer is a good candidate for this function and has been included in pdaXii13 In addition emelFM2 is also a good file manager with two panels and has also been included in pdaXii13 Midnight Commander mc is a console based file manager that is by default installed in pdaXrom and has been updated in pdaXii13 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3
18. 15 17 you only need the last option for the USB network Restart Windows when the install has finished The USB network driver is now installed and Zaurus Manager should had started automatically If it has not start it manually by running C Program Files Common Files Sharp SL SSPCLINK2 ComSet exe You should also make a copy of C Program Files Sharp Zaurus 2 drivers best is to zip up the whole directory This is the Zaurus USB network driver You can use this driver to re install the USB network or install it to another machine without having to run through the whole setup process again Rather than carrying a floppy CD ROM or another USB stick around that contains the Zaurus NDIS USB driver you could put it on hdd3 Documents on the Zaurus itself When you connect your Zaurus to a computer which has not been setup with the Zaurus NDIS USB driver before it will detect the Zaurus as a plain USB storage device and allow you to copy the driver from the Zaurus Then once you installed the driver to the computer it will believe that it is connected to the Zaurus via a network instead of treating the Zaurus as a dumb USB disk provided the Zaurus is in advanced USB mode Now on to the Zaurus side of the configuration Run the PC Link tool from the Settings tab and select PC Link Setting then select Connection USB TCP IP advanced Now just connect the USB cable USB mini B into Zaurus USB A into Laptop or PC The Windows machine should d
19. 5cvs 1_arm ipk libsdl 1 2 5 libsdl_1 2 5 slzaurus20050410_arm ipk libvorbis libvorbis_1 1 0 1_arm ipk libvorbisdec libvorbisdec_1 2 0 1_arm ipk libxml libxml2_2 6 14 1_arm ipk libyahoo2 libyahoo2_cvs 20040713_arm ipk qpe libqtopia qpe libqtopia_1 6 0 13_arm ipk openssl openssl_0 9 7d_arm ipk opie mediaplayer codecs opie mediaplayer codecs_0 2 2_arm ipk sandisk plus sandisk plus_0 1_arm ipk tun module tun module_2 4 20 1_arm ipk vga presentation vga presentation_1 0 1_arm ipk wlan prism3 wlan prism3_1 0 0_arm ipk zlib zlib_1 2 2 1_arm ipk Games supertux supertux_0 1 2 3_arm ipk aliens aliens_1 0 0_arm ipk barrage barrage_1 0 2_arm ipk lgeneral lgeneral_1 2beta 2_arm ipk lmarbles lmarbles_1 0 7 2_arm ipk ltris ltris_1 0 10 2_arm ipk freeciv freeciv_zaurus_0_0_5_bin tar bz2 qfish2 qfish2_1 1 0 sl700_arm ipk tetrix opie tetrix_1 5 1_arm ipk billiardz billiardz_0 1 2_arm ipk backgammon backgammon_0 6 1_arm ipk Jahtzee jahtzee_0 9 1_all ipk gomoku_moro gomoku_moro_1 0 2_arm ipk qpe patience qpe patience_1 5_arm ipk cards cards_1 0 0_arm ipk shisensho shisensho_1 0 0_arm ipk ksokoban ksokoban_1 5 0 16_arm ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 12 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 mahjongg mahjongg_1 0 0_arm ipk spades spades_1 0_arm ipk zsolitaire zsolitaire_1 02_arm i
20. Games Icon Games png Additionally more icons were added some are listed below Menu Tabs AppsTab Icon mbfolder util png OfficeTab Icon mbfolder_office png MultimediaTab Icon mbfolder_multimedia png GamesTab Icon mbfolder_games png SettingsTab Icon mbfolder_system png GraphicsTab Icon mbfolder_graphics png JavaTab java png TaskBar Applets Suspend Icon tb_suspend png Clipboard Icon tb_clipboard png TaskList Icon tb_tasklist png Misc my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 35 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Run Icon exec png Aim Icon aim png Mirc Icon mirc png MSN Icon msn png Yahoo Icon yahoo png Apple Icon apple png BSD Icon bsdunix png Mac Icon mac png Microsoft Icon microsoft png Sun Icon sun png Book Icon book png Bunko Icon bunko2 png Controller Icon controller png Database Icon database2 png Download Icon download png FileServer Icon fileserver png Gens Icon gens png Hd Icon hd png InputConfig Icon inputconfig png Kino Icon kino png Konsole Icon konsole png LanConfig Icon lanconfig png Laptop Icon laptop png Microphone Icon microphone png mySQL Icon mysql png Paint Icon paint png Screen Icon screen png Server Icon server png Star Icon star png SMBController Icon smbcontroller png SMBMounter Icon smbmounter png Teleport Icon teleport png USB Icon usb png USBDrive Icon usbdrive
21. I can use almost any 2 4 20 kernel image for the C3000 by simply renaming the kernel image to zImage 2 4 20 bin and flashing it I have found that the C3000 beta2 kernel works best and is most my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 221 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 stable I have tried using the Tetsu special kernel image as well and it mostly works but since the C3000 beta2 kernel works great there is no point in using the Tetsu kernel initrd bin The initrd bin file from the pdaXrom C3000 beta2 was a rip from an old OZ distro that used the 2 4 20 kernel Hence the system contained in the initrd bin file required a specifically compiled kernel for OZ and also had to be compatible with pdaXrom All the mini system does is boot up and mount the microdrive and then pivot to it I ripped the emergency boot system to built the initrd bin To do that mount mtdblock1 and tar it up mount dev mtdblock1 mnt test cd mnt test tar cvf initrd tar cd umount mnt test Then extract the initrd tar file and modify it Most importantly is to place pivot_root and init into sbin directory Then use the mkfs jffs tool to generate a jffs2 image tar xvf C initrd mkfs jffs2 n e 16 o initrd jffs2 initrd Now the generated initrd jffs2 file needs to be prepended with the Sharp initrd header which you can extract from the original initrd file head c 16 initrd bin gt initrdheader cat in
22. The most stable versions are still beta1 and beta3 Anything after that ie beta4 or r121 are stil in the early stages of development and testing I decided to test pdaXrom on my SL C3000 because the C3000 beta2 release of pdaXrom 1 1 0 beta1 features a pivot boot feature that uses home on the MicroDrive instead of the tiny 4MB home on the flash This neatly fixes the problem of the tiny home running out of space since the flash on the C3000 is only 16MB and only 4MB of it is allocated to home However this also prevents the MicroDrive to spin down for power saving and thus battery time is reduced but it also responds faster due to no repeated spin up times just replace the MicroDrive with a Flash Card and it will be perfect Installation went flawlessly following the instructions on the OESF forum The C3000 installer repartitions and reformats the entire MicroDrive into a single 4GB partition during install Once installation is finished and you reboot you will end up at the command line login prompt Login as root without password and then use startx to get into the X GUI well it should boot right into the GUI since it is runlevel5 pdaXrom is a X windows environment that is by default pre configured to use openbox as its window manager and uses matchbox applets for its panels and taskbar features There is also a host of default applications pre installed with the base pdaXrom install most of which are quite useful However there are
23. a CF card inserted then it will be dev hdc3 The steps required for splitting hdd3 into two are unmount hdd3 run fdisk and delete hdd3 run fdisk and create hdd3 as FAT run fdisk and create hdd4 as EXT2 or EXT3 format hdd3 as FAT format hdd4 as EXT2 or EXT3 There is also a tool called parted which allows you to resize your existing partitions without having to remove them This is certainly very useful tool but remember to backup your hdd3 before resizing it if you have files on hdd3 that you want to keep Although parted can resize the partition without wiping your data it is not guaranteed There may be instances where resizing could corrupt the partition so its always wise to do a backup first Also run fsck after using parted to verify that the partition has been resized successfully without corruption my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 38 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Once that is done you need to remount as read write and create a mount point for hdd4 ie hdd4 Remember to remount to read only after you have created your mount point Also you will need to create a startup script to mount hdd4 during bootup But be careful since hdd4 can boot up as dev hda4 or dev hdc4 depending on whether a CF card is inserted during bootup or not My automounter package automounter c3000_0 5 0_arm ipk will automatically mount hdd4 if it detects it Alternatively if you don t need your Zaurus
24. and extract the OpenOffice cram file OpenOffice installed as a cram image with PocketWorkstation on a loopback filesystem and swapfile on the internal microdrive takes about 5 minutes to start OpenOffice extracted to an ext2 formatted CF card with swapfile located there too takes about 2 minutes to start my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 128 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You can download the Debian install files from the following locations my Zaurus mirror site http zaurus daemons gr menaie mirror jumbo debian Bam s site http www thegrinder ws Meanies_XQT deb Chuckster s site http www chuckster org zaurus Daniel s mirror http hplx mine nu daniel zaurus xqt Note You can add the optional components even after you have installed Debian Simply place the optional package in the same directory as xqt debian install sh and re run it again with the same parameters you had used in the previous install Fixes to the installation are provided with newer version of the install script You can check the version of the install script by doing the following grep version xqt debian install sh head 1 Updated debian install script can be found here version 0 3 8 Alternatively you can also use the xqt debian install sh script with zaurus debian big v0 18 tgz to install PocketWorkstation which will also work but you will need to install Firefox Thunderbird OpenOffice and Eterm
25. and or home root as xmodmaprc if your keys misbehave xmodmaprc does the following remapping so the keys are mapped similar to keyhelper Swapped and key Fn q Ctrl q Fn o Fn p The Menu key will activate the X Qt control my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 27 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Fn m will kill X Qt If your keys turn all CAPS then just hold down the Shift key for a few seconds and they will turn back to lower case File Associations The file association information is derived from two places The file opt QtPalmtop etc mime types stores the mime types that is used to derive the association information which is then combined with the desktop files stored under opt QtPalmtop apps The information inside mime types specifies what file extensions are associated with each file type The desktop file for each application then specifies which file type the application should handle If you have more than one application associated with a certain file type then only one of them will be associated however the logic that the Z uses to determine which one to use is unknown to me Therefore make sure that only one of them is associated to a file type and you will get the expected file association As an example to associate Opera to htm and html files you would have the following in mime types text html html htm And opera desktop would have the
26. applications can be separately installed from the apps feed using the default Sharp installer The pdaXQtrom compressed images can be installed to anywhere you like Basically put them where ever you have the space for it There are three different formats to choose from cram squash and tgz The cramfs compressed images will work for everyone In order to use the squashfs images you will need to install a squashfs kernel module first The advantage of squashfs over cramfs is that it has better compression and thus is smaller The last option is a compressed tarball If you don t want to use compressed loop back images but want to extract the files then you can use the tgz files However make sure the destination for the install is an ext2 or ext3 formatted filesystem if you use the tgz file For the cramfs squashfs images the filesystem type does not matter To install copy the files you want to install and the install script inside pdaXqtrom install zip to the destination location Make sure they are all in the same directory and then do the following su pdaXqtrom install sh The install script will mount the cramfs or squashfs file images and run the setup scripts of each image If you used the tgz file it will extract the files and then run the setup scripts Make sure you have sufficient space for the extracted files if you use the tgz files The setup script does not check for sufficient disk space and just assumes you have enoug
27. as well tar cf hdd1 gzip gt mnt usbdisk1 hdd1 backup tgz tar cf hdd2 gzip gt mnt usbdisk1 hdd2 backup tgz tar cf home gzip gt mnt usbdisk1 home backup tgz tar cf root gzip gt mnt usbdisk1 root backup tgz tar cf mnt gzip gt mnt usbdisk1 mnt backup tgz The Zaurus backup tool basically shuts down Qtopia so all open files are closed and then tars up hdd2 and home which become the backup image This is much safer than the above approach while Qtopia is still running You should however gzip the backup image to save some space There is no real need to my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 41 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 backup hdd1 each time since it is a read only partition and does not change unless you have changed something on it manually or applied an update via flashing I have written a script called hdbackup which will backup hdd3 by archiving and compressing each directory separately and datestamping them so regular backups can be made by simply running a single command Alternatively you can connect your Zaurus to your Windows PC through the USB link cable and use Windows backup software or anything else you like to backup the USB drive that the Zaurus is recognised as Since the USB PC connection is buggy you might be better of enabling Samba and then backup hdd3 over the network or USB cable Lastly don t forget about backi
28. change the GTK2 theme used by some applications The GTK2 theme also controls the font size for those applications The GTK Theme selector also allows you to just change the font without switching themes The QtConfig tool can be used to change the display settings for Qt applications my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 200 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Most applications in pdaXrom are GTK based but there are also a few QT applications Finally in pdaXii13 the order of the icons on the toolbar can be changed with the Panel Manager tool This tools is new to pdaXii13 and not in the default pdaXrom but can be added manually Window and Dialog Sizes There are quite a few applications which open up in a window that is way too big for the Zaurus This can usually be worked around by maximising the window in question press Home m or Super m Some application can be tailored to a specific window size by editing their config files Other applications have the size hardcoded I have recompiled a few such applications ie GQView and AbiWord my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 201 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The File Open Dialog is also quite big and this problem is across most GTK2 applications I have recompiled GTK2 and hacked the FileChooser to be more suitable for the Zaurus screen You can either install my updated GTK2 package or replace libgtk 2
29. compile drivers and applications for them if you manage to get the driver source code so they work on the C3x00 ie 2 4 20 kernel and glibc 2 2 2 Connecting to Mobile Phone SonyEriccson K750i The Sony Ericsson K750i is a mobile phone with many features It has a 2 mega pixel camera and a slot for a Memory Stick Pro Duo card I have upgraded mine to 1 GB It also has Infrared Bluetooth and comes with a USB interface which can be used for file transfer with the Zaurus The phone also has a GSM modem via a serial line as well Using the USB cable to access the Memory Stick The memory stick can be accessed as a mass storage device when the mobile is connected to the Zaurus via a USB cable However the Zaurus does not recognise the manufacturer id as a mass storage device by default To fix that you need the append the following to etc hotplug usb usermap usb storage 0x000f 0x0fce 0xd016 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x08 0x06 0x50 0x00000000 usb storage 0x0380 0x0fce 0xd016 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x08 0x06 0x50 0x00000000 This should make the Zaurus detect the K750i s Memory Stick as a Mass Storage device the next time it is plugged in However if it does not then try appending the above into lib modules 2 4 20 modules usbmap and or etc hotplug usb handmap Using Bluetooth to access Memory Stick Once you have either configured a USB Bluetooth dongle or a Bluetooth CF card you can transfer files between the mobile and the Za
30. consider the Japanese a bonus so no way am I going to get rid of it Ever tried to add Japanese support to an older Windows version Switching back to English quick and dirty Launch the terminal and change the home zaurus Settings locale conf file to use en instead of ja Language Language en Location Timezone Australia Sydney my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 20 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Reboot the Zaurus Localising to English but keeping Japanese English menus mixed Japanese and English titles The goal of this localisation is to keep all the Japanese funtionality but have English menu items and mixed Japanese and English display of tab entries Japanese input method fonts and dictionary will not be affected by this customisation and will still work afterwards su cd home QtPalmtop i18n ja mkdir hide mv qm hide mv hide libjpn cp home zaurus Documents custom movieplayer qmid chown root qpe movieplayer qmid chmod 640 movieplayer qmid cd home QtPalmtop i18n en cp home zaurus Documents custom movieplayer qmid cp home zaurus Documents custom libsl qmid chown root qpe qmid chmod 640 qmid cd home QtPalmtop bin mv word eucJP rc word eucJP rc hide cd home QtPalmtop tar cf apps orig tar apps gzip apps orig tar cp home zaurus Documents custom apps mod tar tar xf apps mod tar chown R root
31. cp INSTALL d debroot usr local bin usr local bin cp INSTALL d native bin usr local bin cp INSTALL d native debroot conf etc rm r INSTALL d You will also need sudo see above in sudo section Once sudo is installed add the following to the zaurus user s NOPASSWD list using visudo bin mount sbin chroot sbin swapon Install xqt debian scripts_0 5_arm ipk unless you installed the jumbo package and then click on the Debian icon on Qtdesktop Wait a bit for X and PocketDesktop to load You won t see the taskbar at first because it is hidden beneath your Qtopia taskbar Press your menu key to change to fullscreen mode If you want the icewm task bar to appear at the top instead of the bottom of the screen then edit home zaurus icewm settings and change the TaskBarAtTop entry TaskBarAtTop 1 0 1 If you don t want to use sudo then you can start PocketWorkstation as root You need to copy xinitrc from home zaurus to home root and then make sure you use su before you run xlauncher debian from a console terminal window You will also need to copy the icevm directory However the icons on the Qt Desktop cannot be launched as root You will have to configure sudo if you want to be able to launch using those icons su cp home zaurus xinitrc home root chown root root home root xinitrc cd hdd3 debroot home cp R zaurus icewm root cd hdd3 debroot su xlauncher debian The xqt debian scripts
32. dump The filenaming and sequencing has been made to mimic the Sharp snapshot tool See the screencap script If scrot is installed it will use scrot to capture a png image otherwise xwd is used instead and if ImageMagick is installed then it will be used to convert the xwd image into a png image my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 197 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 In pdaXii13 full an additional screencap icon is placed on the taskbar and once tapped will wait 10 seconds before taking a screenshot Alternatively you can also use gsnapshot which allows you to capture a specific area of the screen Desktop and Menu Customisation The desktop files defining the applications are located under usr share applications and the corresponding icons are located under usr share pixmaps The desktop is by default managed by matchbox desktop in pdaXrom pdaXii13 full defaults to rox pinboard instead You can either access the application icons via the menu or the desktop panels pinboard You can manually replace the matchbox desktop with rox filer to get an integrated file manager and desktop manager in pdaXrom To do that modify home root xinitrc and replace the following eval matchbox desktop MBBGND 2 gt dev null gt dev null amp with this eval rox pinboard MYPINBOARD amp and then restart X my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html
33. dz Chinese English zhen 0 9 0 dic dz English Chinese enzh 0 9 0 dic dz Japanese English jaen 0 9 0 dic dz Place the files under a directory such as hdd3 Documents dictionaries and do an autodetect in zbedic to locate them KanjiNirvana kani_1 2 0_arm ipk is a kanji dictionary and practice tool The following needs to be done after installation in order to update and add entries su chown R zaurus qpe home Qtopia kani my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 79 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 qpzidian qpzidian_0 1_arm ipk is a Chinese English English Chinese dictionary that allows you to look up words via Hanzi and Pinyin babbletower babbletower_0 9 3_arm ipk is another dictionary reader written in Java You need to install one of the J2ME implementations for Zaurus jeode or personal profile before you can use babbletower It is also recommended to install jlauncher jlauncher_0 1_arm ipk after you have installed one of the J2ME implementations so it helps babbletower launch the right J2ME runtime Speech Synthesis flite flite flite_arm_bin tar gz will read a text file with a male Scottish voice To install it simply gunzip and then untar the files to usr local bin zcat flite_arm_bin tar gz tar xvf C usr local bin I ve written a script saytime which gets the system time and passes it to flite_time Also I am planning to write a GUI interface using J2ME f
34. easily accessed through keypebble and or tightvnc tightvnc 1 2 9_javabin zip tightvnc is a java application and can be installed on any machine that runs java It can also be installed under a webserver such as Apache Simply make a directory such as vnc under the document root and copy index html and VncViewer jar into there mkdir p mnt ramfs www htdocs vnc cp index html mnt ramfs www htdocs vnc cp VncViewer jar mnt ramfs www htdocs vnc Then just point your browser at it http zaurus vnc Mounting Filesystems Mounting Samba shares Install the following packages libncurses libncurses_5 0_arm ipk smbmount smbmount_0 1_arm ipk smbmounter smbmounter_0 1 2_arm ipk To mount a drive type smbmount hostname share mnt smb o username user To unmount type umount mnt smb Or use the smbmounter GUI interface Make sure you give it root access see Run as root section The NETBIOS name needs to be an IP address or if you provide a hostname make sure in your etc hosts file on your Zaurus you have given the hostname an alias in all uppercase letters For example if you have a hostname mylaptop mapped to an IP of 192 168 1 10 then you will need the following entry my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 56 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 192 168 1 10 mylaptop MYLAPTOP Once you have created an entry with a valid share name and username password then you can mou
35. feeds http www tyrannozaurus com feed beta3 feed combined pdaXrom beta3 compatible feed http www tyrannozaurus com feed beta3 custom my custom updates feed http www hermocom com feeds pdaxrom1 1 0beta3 hmc feed http pdaxrom sourceforge jp feed Japanese support file feed for pdaXrom http www pdaxrom org feed pdaXrom feed old feed http www pdaxrom org unstable pdaXrom feed contribs http zaurus spy org feeds cacko pdaXrom 1 1 0 mirror and backup of all the official pdaXrom release feeds http z drun net packages custom packages http matrixmen free fr zaurus pdaxrom oesf feed new packages OpenZaurus 3 4 5 1 compatible http mirror hentges net www openzaurus org 3 5 4 1 feed Hentges feed DISCLAIMER The information contained in this book is provided AS IS No assurance is given to the accuracy of the information or instructions provided You may use this as a guide but do not blame me if anything bad happens to your system or your data Use anything described in this book at your own risk I shall not be made responsible for anything you do
36. firefox A java plugin is also available but it requires jamvm and classpath available on the java image and perl available on the zgcc image GQView xpdf grisbi putty and abiword have been recompiled to force them to stick to the 640x480 screen size and not go beyond Also most applications have been customised to start in full screen but not covering the bottom menu bar This has been done for both portrait as well as landscape based models and is managed by FluxBox I also hacked GTK2 to restrict the window size to 640x480 and 480x640 so hopefully all applications will fit onto the screen I have tested AbiWord and FireFox and all dialog boxes I could find were correctly sized However if there are any oversized windows then use Alt n to maximise the window or Alt arrow keys to move them around I purposely hacked GTK2 instead of the window manager fluxbox which is where it should be fixed However since X Qt can run in rootless mode without a window manager the window size needs to be controlled higher up in GTK2 A rotate feature which resizes the windows of running applications has also been added and is accessible from the FluxBox menu StarDict has not been configured with any default dictionaries You will need to install your own dictionaries into usr local share stardict dic Alternatively I have created a huge squashfs image with many stardict and qbedic dictionaries as well as the stardict sound files for pronouncing the w
37. forward between running Applications Alt Shift Tab Switch backward between running Applications Alt 0 MaximizeFull Alt 5 UnmaximizeFull Alt 9 Iconify Alt 8 Resize Alt 7 Move Alt 4 Close Menu Activate Launch Menu my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 160 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Shift Home suspend Mail sylpheed I have assigned the Calendar and Address keys as follows Calendar aterm Address xmms Unfortunately the following mapped keys did not work Fn 1 VGA mode 320x240 Fn 2 SVGA mode 640x480 Fn 3 Decrease Brightness Fn 4 Increase Brightness Alt F12 ToggleShade Hence I changed the mapping so that the Super key can be used instead of the Fn key I also remapped Alt F12 to Alt 6 To reduce finger movements I also added extra mappings so that instead of pressing Fn Ctrl Alt you can also use the Home key instead and instead of Ctrl Alt you can use the Super key right kanji key I also associated most Alt key combos to be also activated by Home key as well In addition I have added the following shortcuts Calendar aterm Shift Calendar xterm Fn Calendar network config Ctrl Calendar usb config Alt Calendar ppp config Super Calendar installer Home Calendar dialer Address xmms Shift Address keyboard Fn Address mixer Ctrl Address calculator Alt Address image viewer Super Address pdf viewer Home Address gim
38. has been configured not to respawn which prevents it from locking up the keys on resume It is also advisable to add esdctl off into the apm suspend script and have esdctl on in the corresponding resume script to automatically suspend and resume the sound daemon This is already done in pdaXii13 and allows the Zaurus to be suspended while XMMS is actively playing without locking out the sound device On resume XMMS is able to continue playing In the extreme case when the sound device does get locked you can run the fixdsp command to rectify the problem or reboot the Zaurus The blanker applet has also been fixed and can now really enable and disable the DPMS suspend feature It also calls the xset wrapper script which can be used to customise the toggle for suspend screensaver behaviour Reboot pdaXii13 has a reboot option in the menu This is added by creating a reboot desktop under usr share applications with the corresponding reboot png under usr share pixmaps as well as the Reboot binary under usr bin my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 207 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 When you select the reboot option from the menu you will get prompted to confirm just like when you select exit to quit X fsck fsck is run automatically each time you reboot However if your filesystem is too messed up you will need to run fsck manually In most cases you will be thrown to a terminal shell prompt duri
39. has the same effect as adding the following towards the end of etc rc d rc but before the line that reads exit 0 if runlevel eq 5 then export HOME home root usr X11R6 bin startx fi Configuring Feeds and Installing Packages The default pre configured feed for the package manager is very out of date and needs to be replaced There are two feeds for the C3000 a generic feed which is common to most Zauri models and a C3x00 specific one http mail pdaxrom org download 1 1 0beta1 Zaurus C1000 C3100 feed http mail pdaxrom org download 1 1 0beta1 Zaurus 7x0 860 feed Alternatively you can also just download both of the feed tar gz files and extract the content to a card or the internal disk Then point the package manager at the directory containing the feed contents eg file home root Documents installs C3000 feeds my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 158 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You can also install individual packages without requiring a feed but you will need to manually install dependant packages yourself You can either use the GUI Package Manager or use the command line ipkg command For local installs you can also merge the two feeds and any additional ones onto your local disk Just extract the files into a directory extract the 7x0 archive first and then the C3100 one on top of it to eliminate the duplicates Then use ipkg make index to generate a new Packa
40. have also tested this with a tiny WIDCOMM compatible USB Bluetooth dongle In order to enable and use Bluetooth you need to install a bluetooth stack such as bluez which includes the required kernel modules as well as needed command line tools You can also add some plugins to the graphical Network config tool to enhance it to handle bluetooth connection types There are currently two such plugins available one for PAN Personal Area Network and one for DUN dial up bluetooth Once they are installed you will see additional options in your Network config tool Here are the files you need bluez zaurus_2 12_2 4 20_alpha4_arm ipk bluepin_0 0 1 1_arm ipk susp_resume_bluez_0 9 3_arm ipk qtopia bluetoothnetworkapplet_1 0 1_arm ipk qtopia pannetworkapplet_1 0 1_arm ipk The bluez package is essential while the others are optioanl If you find newer updated versions of those then use them instead Once you have installed the above packages you can begin to setup and configure your bluetooth stack I have also created a single package bluetooth support_1 23_arm ipk which contains the above as well as additional obex packages There is also a bluetooth lite package which only contains the GUI scripts The qshdlg package needs to be installed to use the bluetooth GUI The first thing you need to do is check your config and make sure your bluetooth stack has initialised successfully su etc rc d init d bluetooth restart hciconfig You
41. ipk libpopt_1 0 0_armv5tel ipk orbit2_2 9 2 1_armv5tel ipk Alternatively I have build a gnumeric package gnumeric_1 2 2 1_arm ipk which includes the above packages Once installed you can launch gnumeric as follows xlauncher gnumeric my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 123 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Installing Xmms The xmms package from pdaXrom works with X Qt You will need to install the following packages for xmms libmad_0 15 1b 1_arm ipk mad_0 14 2b_arm ipk xmms mad_0 6 1_arm ipk xmms tremor_1 0_armv5tel ipk xmms_1 2 10j 20040415 1_arm ipk xmmsmplayer_0 4_armv5tel ipk Alternatively I have build a xmms package xmms_1 2 10 1_arm ipk which includes the above packages Once installed you can launch xmms as follows xlauncher xmms Installing X Qt applications on cramfs or squashfs my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 124 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 I have also created a xqt apps and a xqt mozilla compressed image in cramfs and squashfs formats which contains the above applications and some extra ones Installation is the same as for the xqt gtk jumbo image Simply mount the cramfs or squashfs image and then run xqtapps setup to configure the applications Currently the xqt apps image contains the following applications abiword 2 0 bluefish 0 13 bochs 2 1 1 dia 0 92 dillo 0 8 dv 0 0 1 ethereal 0 10 2 feh
42. let the Zaurus know about the new device see SonyEricsson section for an example The automounter script only automatically mounts the first mountable partition If you have multiple partitions then you will need to manually mount the remaining partitions or modify the automounter script to also mount the remaining partitions The C3000 and C3100 can also read NTFS formatted USB disks You will need to copy ntfs o to lib modules 2 4 20 kernel fs ntfsfs or install ntfs zaurus_2 4 20_arm ipk A useful applet that I wrote qtopia usbapplet_1 0 3_arm ipk can be used to unmount the USB disks prior to unplugging them without needing to go to the command line Mounting SD and CF cards The SD and CF cards are automatically mounted when they are inserted In addition to mounting and unmounting them additional hooks and controls can be added to the scripts such as invoking etc rc d init d mntloop automounter to check for the presence of a swapfile and enabling it when the card is mounted and disabling it when the card is unmounted The SD card is auto mounted by the etc sdcard sd_mem_ctrl script and this is where the control hooks need to be added The CF card is auto mounted by etc pcmcia ide Furthermore by default the SD card script only attempts to mount the first partition If you have multiple partitions then you need to enhance the above mentioned script to automatically mount additional partitions on the CF or SD cards Remounti
43. many more applications available for pdaXrom from its feeds The X86 version which can be installed on a PC or Laptop has all the available applications pre installed by default The C3000 and C3100 as well as the C1000 and C3200 share a common feed In addition there is also a generic feed marked as C7x0 feed which is also required To install more applications use the Package Manager and configure the feed locations The default feed URL pre configured in the Package Manager is out of date and should be replaced with the generic C7x0 and C3x00 specific feeds You can also configure local feeds Just download the feed tar gz files and extract the content to a card or the internal disk Then point the package manager at the directory containing the feed contents eg file home root Documents installs C3000 feeds my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 150 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The following applications were already pre installed SciTE AbiWord xpdf dillo licq sylpheed xchat xmms GQview xdemineu aterm galculator xclock xircp xterm This is quite a good start but to be really useful there are a few extra applications and utilities needed I have added quite a few packages to make it as functional as a full laptop See the pdaXrom customisation section for more details So far pdaXrom seems quite fast It looks very nice also and seems to be more responsive than Qtopia I am ver
44. modules Proxies conf which net will automatically update depending on the config being loaded su cp home zaurus Documents custom rtl8150 1 o lib modules 2 4 20 kernel drivers usb net cp home zaurus Documents custom net usr bin cp home zaurus Documents custom net etc hotplug mkdir etc sysconfig netconf cp home zaurus Documents custom conf etc sysconfig netconf for example net dhcp loads the config file dhcp conf net gui starts with opie shell in QTopia desktop net refresh tells NetFront that its connected already net resume manually force network to resume Here is a sample config file for a private network my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 45 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 DHCPC no IP 192 168 1 2 NETMASK 255 255 255 0 DOMAIN GATEWAY 192 168 1 1 PROXY 0 PROXYHOST PROXYPORT DNS1 192 168 1 1 DNS2 net also has a GUI front end using opie sh but in order to use the GUI sudo needs to be configured to allow zaurus user to change the network settings ie ifconfig and dhcpcd I also created a netswitch package netswitch_0 4_arm ipk which will do the above steps when installed Some application such as NetFront insist on doing their own connection and disconnection to the network and ignore the fact that your USB network is already connected As a workaround net has a refresh option to reset the network status whenever those programs mess wi
45. move files to hdd3 zaurushome instead On the C3100 however the situation is slightly different The internal flash memory on the C3100 is 128MB in size compared to the tiny 16MB on the C3000 Now you would think that the C3100 won t run out of space so easily Unfortunately that is not the case The rootfs is now allocated 32MB instead of 4MB which was what it was on the C3000 and remember there is also the emergency rootfs smf So my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 37 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 after allocating some of the space for the other stuff there is still 89MB of space left on home This isn t so bad after all you think but wait there is another surprise On the C3000 the internal MicroDrive was partitioned into hdd1 hdd2 and hdd3 The default binaries and settings were stored on hdd1 which was a read only filesystem All the applications were installed to hdd2 and the remaining hdd3 was used for data On the C3100 the content of hdd1 has moved to the rootfs and hdd2 has moved to home Those two partitions hdd1 and hdd2 are now about 9MB in size each on the C3100 and are more or less empty and not in use This makes hdd3 much bigger on the C3100 compared to the C3000 However this in effect makes home on C3100 equivalent to hdd2 and home on the C3000 There was around 400MB allocated to hdd2 on the C3000 for installing applications We only have 89MB on the C3
46. mplayer mplayer bvdd_1 1 5 1_arm ipk and mencoder mencoder_1 1 0 1_arm ipk A straight file copy won t work To copy the VCD video file dat file do the following mencoder vcd 2 oac lavc ovc lavc o filename avi To extract the vob files from a DVD do the following mencoder dvd ovc lavc lavcopts vcodec msmpeg4 vpass 1 oac mp3lame lameopts vbr 3 o movie avi mencoder dvd ovc lavc lavcopts vcodec msmpeg4 vpass 2 oac mp3lame lameopts vbr 3 o movie avi See Video Conversion section on how to re encode and compress the videos for optimal viewing on the Zaurus Enabling Microphone You can plug any 3 5mm microphone into the Zaurus Since there is only one input connector you will need to use a splitter if you want to plug in both a microphone and earphones at the same time or use a combined headset with microphone such as the one for mobile phones and use a 2 5mm to 3 5mm adaptor There is nothing special you need to do in order to enable the microphone except install some recording software There is an application called qpe voicerec qpe voicerec_1 5 0 7_arm ipk that comes on the CD ROM accompanying the Zaurus You can use that to record some voice my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 69 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Alternatively you can also use a console application called spxrec spxrec_0 0 1_arm ipk to record lengthy voice sessions and then use shine
47. myPDA before extracting the files If you want to install it to a different location you need to have an ext2 ext3 formatted disk either natively or as a loopback filesystem You will need at least 20MB of disk space for QuantumStep If you create a loopback filesystem make it at least 32MB To manually install it you will need the following files QuantumSTEP ZED DR7 mypkg quantumstep setup my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 103 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You will first need to extract QuantumSTEP ZED DR7 mypkg to an ext2 ext3 formatted disk eg su dd if dev zero of hdd3 quantumstep ext3 echo y mke2fs j hdd3 quantumstep ext3 mkdir p mnt quantumstep echo hdd3 quantumstep ext3 mnt quantumstep ext3 loop rw noatime 0 0 gt gt etc fstab mount o loop hdd3 quantumstep ext3 mnt quantumstep zcat QuantumSTEP ZED DR7 mypkg tar xvf C mnt quantumstep cp quantumstep setup mnt quantumstep chmod 755 mnt quantumstep echo echo QuantumStep DR7 0 gt mnt quantumstep version chmod 755 mnt quantumstep version cd mnt quantumstep quantumstep setup This is how it looks like once installed You might want to move the quantum step icon from the Application tab to the X Qt tab and you can delete the quantumstep icon from the Settings tab Installing Wellenreiter You need to install the following packages libcopie1 libopie1_1 1 0 20031220
48. myproject If you want to convert a deb or OZ ipk file so you can unpack it with unpackipk then convert it using the deb2ipk perl script first or ue the ar tool instead Zaurus Backup You should always backup your system since that is the only way to recover if something goes wrong The easiest way to backup is to archive everything using tar and then use gzip to compress the archive I have also created a script which does that OpenZaurus customisation OpenZaurus 3 5 4 1 is an alternate Linux distribution for the outdated and proprietary bundle of Qtopia that is shipped with the Sharp Zaurus OpenZaurus is based on open source code and enables the Zaurus to run most of the current non proprietary and open source Linux applications It is based on newer versions of Qt Embedded Qtopia and also supports X11 OZ also brings an up to date 2 6 kernel to the Zaurus world instead of the old 2 4 20 kernel that Sharp shipped with the C3x00 series However OZ comes in several differently packaged distributions or flavours OZ OPIE is the Qtopia based distribution wheras OZ GPE is the X11 based distro There is even an OZ bootstrap with a bare minimum base system without GUI In general OZ is faster than the legacy Sharp ROM or its derivatives such as Cacko However OZ lacks an artistic touch The default theme in GPE is rather ugly in particular the icons are very plain and the font sizes are badly picked The default OPIE theme on the other h
49. nortc cache 1024 autosync 100 Installing Opera Although this is an older package it will still work with the C3000 and C3100 You need to install the following packages opera_sl 5x00 7 30 9965_arm ipk opera cseries fix_7 30_arm ipk Once you installed the packages you still need to do the following su ln s opt QtPalmtop opera usr share opera chown R zaurus home zaurus opera chown R zaurus home zaurus operasave optionally rm r home QtPalmtop opera voice rm r home QtPalmtop opera start my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 109 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Alternatively some newer packages have been build for the C3000 and C3100 You can try one of these instead opera_7 25_c3k_1_arm ipk opera_7 55 6079 SLC3000_arm ipk Installing Doom To install Doom you need to install the following packages libsdl libsdl_1 2 5 slzaurus20050731_arm ipk libsdl mixer libsdl mixer_1 2 5cvs 1_arm ipk libsdl net libsdl net_1 2 5cvs 1_arm ipk doomdemo doomdemo_1 8 1_arm ipk prboom prboom_2 2 3 2_arm ipk Once installed copy prboom cfg to home zaurus prboom this file stores the doom key mappings which need to be fixed for the Zaurus and you can specify additional wad files too The wad files should go into home QtPalmtop shared games doom You may want to copy doom wad and doom2 wad and any other wad files you might have into that direct
50. of Qt E than Cacko and Sharp ROM and can run quite a few of those applications using compat libraries However some Sharp Cacko applications depend on proprietary non opensource libraries which cannot be run on OPIE Opera for example can be run on OPIE Some pdaXrom packages can also be run on GPE since both are based on X11 and GTK However pdaXrom also has many applications that use other display widgets such as QT or fltk which GPE does not have by default Also pdaXrom packages before beta4 depend on a separate iconv library which is not part of glibc Packages compiled after beta4 no longer have this dependency just like OZ packages and also use a similar kernel as well and thus should be even more compatible Nevertheless I have tried a few pdaXrom beta1 packages on OZ and they work fine So instead of trying to build useful packages that don t exist in OZ I just installed the pdaXrom package on OZ instead The following are some of the packages that just work pdaXrom packages multi aterm putty jikes Similarly debian arm packages PocketWorkstation can also be installed on OZ The deb file can be easily converted to ipk files In fact the OZ ipk format is almost identical to the deb format USB Networking via client cable The virtual USB network interface via the USB client cable does not currently work with Windows It does however work with Linux This is just standard ifconfig and route stuff once you have loaded t
51. or install xpdf_3 01 2_armv5tel ipk instead When you plug in a USB keyboard you can automatically remap the keys so that the keys on the my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 162 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 external keyboard are mapped correctly but it will result in the Zaurus keyboard being mismapped When the external keyboard is unplugged the keymapping for the zaurus keyboard is restored This can be done by creating a script in the etc hotplug directory and catching the USB event to detect the insertion and removal of a USB keyboard and running xmodmap to load the appropriate keyboard map file Screen Resolution The screen resolution can be switched between 640x480 and 320x240 using xrandr command It can also be used to rotate the screen The Home 1 and Super 1 key combos should switch the screen to 320x240 if my custom keymapping is applied Similarly Home 2 and Super 2 will switch to 640x480 mode Screen Rotation Screen rotation works on pdaXrom Openbox will detect transformation between laptop mode landscape and PDA mode portrait and rotate the screen appropriately You will end up with the taskbar at the correct location for the orientation you are in However the currently running applications are unaware of the rotation and their window size remain unchanged I have written a script rotateall which rotates all the application windows to adjust them to the new
52. other one will be used for application development for the Z and trying out other ROMs distros Ultimately I will need a better alternate distro for my SL C3000 since the default Sharp ROM or Cacko are too limiting for its small 4MB home partition My SL C3100 on the other hand is functioning perfectly with a customised Sharp ROM and X Qt see pdaXqtrom for details on running a host of X applications on the default Sharp distro Cacko The Cacko distro is an improved Sharp distro which basically fixes a lot of the shortcomings of the Sharp distro Also Sharp distro is by default completely in Japanese The Cacko distro is essentially Sharp distro completely translated into English with updated driver support The Cacko 1 23 release was mainly aimed at the SL C1000 with the SL C3100 being treated just like a SL C1000 with an internal CF Nothing is put on the internal MicroDrive so it remains untouched by the Cacko installation Cacko 1 23 is released in two editions the full edition and a lite edition The lite edition is a barebone distro where most the pre installed applications and modules have been removed to give you the maximum of available space on the flash All the left out applications and modules can be installed from the Cacko feed They all have a lite in their package names for easy identification The full Cacko 1 23 distro is very similar to the Sharp distro It enhances the kernel with patches similar to the Tetsu special ker
53. script joyenabler_1 3_arm ipk and plug in your joypad If you are lucky it will work and you can use jstest to check whether it works correctly Now you just need to find some games that support joypad controls You may need an additional joypad driver for your particular joypad if it does not work Enabling WebCam You can use some USB webcams You will need Video4Linux support for the kernel videodev o and an appropriate video driver for the webcam I currently have compiled drivers that work with four of my six my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 68 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 webcams You will also need some framegrabber software to capture video frames I am currently working on some Enabling CD ROM USB CD ROM drives are also supported similarly to USB harddisks You will need to install some applications to rip and burn CD ROMs cdrtools 2 01 tar gz A USB Mini CD drive or a slim combo CDRW DVD drive would be a great companion for the Zaurus The CD ROM will be detected as dev scd0 and can be mounted as follows su mkdir p mnt cdrom mount dev scd0 mnt cdrom In addition the following will be useful su mknod dev pg0 b 11 0 mknod dev sg0 b 11 0 ln dev scd0 dev cdrom ln dev scd0 dev vcd ln dev scd0 dev dvd echo dev cdrom mnt cdrom auto ro 0 0 gt gt etc fstab In order to copy VCDs or DVDs from the CD to your disk you need to install
54. script to change to pin number Once the devices are paired with your Zaurus and you have determined what capabilities they have you can setup and configure your Zaurus to use them The bluetooth qshdlg GUI or the network config tools plugins can be used to configure the following my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 64 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Setting up a bluetooth PAN Personal Area Network A PAN allows you to access services on the other bluetooth enabled devices like on a small network with TCP IP connectivity This requires that the other devices usually bluetooth enabled computers provide services such as Samba FTP HTTP Telnet SSH SCP etc On your Zaurus do the following su modprobe bnep pand role PANU service NAP connect xx xx xx xx xx xx nodetach where xx xx xx xx xx xx is the mac address of your Desktop PC or Laptop This will give your Zaurus an additional network interface called bnep0 if a successful connection was established ifconfig a You can then configure your PAN network like this ifconfig bnep0 192 168 12 201 route add default gw 192 168 12 10 To check the connection ping your desktop or laptop ping 192 168 12 10 This assumes that you have a 192 168 12 0 private network and your PC or Laptop is 192 168 12 10 To terminate the connection just type pand K Alternatively you could also use the PAN applet in t
55. shine_0 01_arm ipk to encode to resulting sound file Connecting to VGA Monitor via USB It is possible to connect the Zaurus to a VGA monitor or projector using a USB VGA dongle The Kairen VGA adaptor is a USB VGA 2 0 adaptor that allows you to do slide show presentations using your Zaurus You will need to use a USB hub to provide power as well as a USB host cable The Kairen USB2VGA dongle is detected as a sisusb vga device USB2VGA dongle It is allocated 8 output buffers with 8MB SDR SDRAM with a bus width of 32 by the driver The package vga presentation_1 0 1_arm ipk provides the driver and application for the USB dongle I have only tested this specific model but any USB dongle with the same SiS chipset SiS 315E should work also The VGA presentation application allows you to use the dongle for presentation The application is limited to doing slideshows only It slowly streams the data to the USB device which then buffers it and displays it to the monitor I could even switch applications on the Zaurus while the presentation application continued to send data to the USB device and it renders it to the monitor However the VGA application crashes after a while so it needs a bit more work to iron out the bugs and fix the instability The image on the monitor remains even when rebooting the Zaurus so I guess the last image displayed is buffered by the USB dongle and the monitor is getting the cached data from it This proves tha
56. so it can pickup and listen on the new interface You can also automate that by modifying etc hotplug usbd func and force samba to restart after the USB networking module is loaded Enabling Chinese and Japanese Chinese and Japanese menus can be enabled on pdaXrom by installing a Chinese or Japanese locale and installing Chinese and Japanese fonts TTF fonts go into usr X11 lib X11 fonts TTF and pcf fonts go into usr X11 lib X11 fonts misc You also need to install an input method engine for entering Chinese and Japanese characters I installed scim scim pinyin and scim tables for that Once scim is installed you can configure it by running scim setup my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 170 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Once scim is configured you can run scim d to start the scim engine and frontend as a daemon Now for applications that scim can hook into you can activate and switch input methods by pressing Ctrl space AbiWord for example can be used with scim my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 171 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Remember to start scim each time you start X or load scim from xinitrc to start scim automatically Dictionaries There are several dictionary packages available for pdaXrom QBEdic is a popular dictionary between different languages that is also available for the Sharp ROM called ZBEDict so the same dictionary f
57. something simple like zaurus or even something fancy with different colours If you don t have a bashrc file you can just copy profile for starters and then modify it Zaurus Home Directory The zaurus user s home directory home zaurus is located on the home partition dev mtdblock3 On the C3000 it is only 4MB in size It is physically located on the internal flash memory which is only 16MB in total on the C3000 This partition cannot be made bigger since the rest of the flash memory is used for the main rootfs dev mtdblock2 the emergency rootfs dev mtdblock1 The home partition is also used to store kernel modules home root modules system configuration home zaurus Settings and home etc and other things In addition some applications also store their configuration and data into the zaurus home directory this is what linux apps are supposed to do but it is not so ideal on the C3000 Thus the home partition quite quickly fills up It it advised to not store large files there in fact try avoiding saving anything there to preserve the precious space available on home If you do run out of space you can move some files and directories to hdd2 or hdd3 and symlink the files directories To simplify this I have created a script zhomefix which will move all files and directories in home zaurus starting with to hdd2 zaurushome and symlink them back If you are low on space on hdd2 as well you can modify zhomefix to
58. speed While in Thailand I went to the Pantip IT Mall in Bangkok and found a few extra goodies The most useful item I believe was the Sony MDR 138 Super Bass Headphones I don t think Sony really made it but who cares This set of headphones has a retractable spindle for the cable and a clip for attaching it convenniently while it is retracted It costs me only 280 Baht which is less than AUD 10 and of much better quality than the usual retractable headphones that are now swamping the computer stores here locally I also got a few other headphones some with built in microphones similar to mobile phone headsets but with two earpieces and 3 5mm connectors and some of them are also retractable I also bought a slim USB combo CDRW DVD drive for only 3500 Baht which is around AUD 110 They also had battery powered USB harddisk enclosures for 1600 Baht which can be used to self power 2 5 USB harddisks without the need for an AC adaptor or powered hub Another bargain I picked up was the Kingston 4 GB Compact Flash memory card which cost me only 9500 Baht around AUD 300 In addition I picked up a spare battery for my Z quite cheaply too Also found some retractable USB mini B cables for only 100 Baht each around AUD 3 so I could not resist and bought a few extra spare ones Unfortunately they did not have retractable USB mini A cables Software Included Software my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZ
59. support qtopia memoryapplet_1 0 3_arm ipk updated memory applet with better swapfile management there is a more updated version which supports larger swap files qtopia keyboardapplet_1 0 0_arm ipk keyboard layout mapper applet qtopia network usblan_1 0 0_arm ipk network config for usb lan adaptor qtopia network bluetooth_1 0 0_arm ipk network config for bluetooth adaptor vga console font_1 0 1_arm ipk vga console font qtopia sysinfo_1 23 2_arm ipk is an even more enhanced sysinfo tool based on the Cacko one and displays more detailed disk info my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 113 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 qtopia memoryapplet_1 0 4_arm ipk is a modified version of the memory applet for the C3x00 series that can create a swapfile on hdd3 and larger swapfile size up to 512MB Building your own Packages You can also build your own packages ipk files if you have written some useful scripts or written some applications that you want to distribute and let others install easily with the standard package manager I have build a package ipktools ipktools_0 3 5_arm ipk which has a set of tools for manipulating ipk files newipk creates a package template structure for you to add files to for packaging makeipk package up a directory that contains files in an ipk structure into an ipk file unpackipk extracts the contents of an ipk file into a directory structure for repackaging d
60. the applications installed by the default pdaXrom beta3 These applications are not all pre installed on pdaXii13 base engines and runtimes atd scheduler samba file sharing aspell spelling engine scim chinese and japanese support x11vnc vnc server python interpretor perl interpretor java classpath and jamvm gsnapshot screen capture xscreensaver screen saver wallpaper random background images gnome bluetooth obex gui gnome phone manager gnokii frontend festival mbrola text to speech useful command line utilities vim replacement for vi nano text editor scrot screen capture lame mp3 encoder feh image viewer mplayer video player gplflash flash player flite speech synthesizer bzip2 compression utility unrar uncompression utility unzip uncompression utility diffutils file comparison utility ipktools ipk building tools xdialog dialog tools applications abiword word processor gnumeric spreadsheet xournal note taking medit text editor textedit text editor sylpheed email firefox browser dillo browser links browser gftp ftp client amule p2p gaim IM client wifi radar wifi detector kismet network sniffer my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 191 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 tightvnc vnc client putty net client mrxvt tabbed terminal emulator multi aterm tabbed terminal emulator rox f
61. written for the C3000 and C3100 and uses the optimised bvdd drivers Most video formats work ie mov mpg avi asf You need to install the following packages for the stock Sharp ROM libffmpeg libffmpeg_0 4 6_20030304_arm ipk libiconv libiconv_1 8 2_arm ipk kino2 kino2_0 4 3c_arm ipk bvdd bvdd_0 4 0 1_arm ipk mplayer bvdd mplayer bvdd_1 1 5 1_arm ipk zplayer zplayer_0 1 0_arm ipk The intel wireless media extension iwmmxt is a feature of the Xscale CPUs which improves performance dramatically It is utilised by the special iwmmxt edition of mplayer It is faster than the regular version without iwmmxt but you will need Tetsu s kernel installed to take advantage of it since it needs some extra patches which the default Sharp kernel is missing but is included in Tetsu s special kernel kino2 and zplayer are graphical frontends for the console based mplayer You don t need them but they make things easier You can use either of them with mplayer or none at all if you prefer to run mplayer from command line If you want to resize the default video aspect or compress them have a look further down in the Video Conversion section In order to play videos fullscreen in kino2 you need to have the following settings set and enabled Video Use PXA27X bvdd overlay tick This will let you play videos with 320x240 resolution in full screen However if you have files encoded with the standard PAL resolution of 352x2
62. yourself and you will also only get the default icewm menu and themes Running Debian packages without PocketWorkstation Debian PocketWorkstation requires a lot of space because it is a complete Debian system You might not want the whole system but instead you just want to install a few of the Debian packages deb files This is certainly achievable but not as easy as using apt get to install new Debian packages The deb2ipk tool which is a Perl script that comes with the ipktools package ipktools_0 3 5_arm ipk converts Debian packages into IPK packages that can be installed onto the Sharp ROM Most of these Debian packages require X and use a newer standard C library than the sharp ROM You will need to install X Qt the full xqt jumbo package xqt gtk jumbo_4 3 0 7_arm ipk or later or the xqt gtk jumbo cramfs and also an updated C library This can be achieved with flashing the Zaurus with a zImage that contains libc6 with glib 2 3 2 libraries Once that is done it will enable your Sharp ROM to be able to run converted Debian packages without the need for running PocketWorkstation The binaries contained in the converted Debian packages should work on the Sharp ROM with the updated C libraries and X Qt However the control scripts might need some fixing before the package can install and run successfully The unpackipk tool can be used to extract ipk package so that the scripts can be manually fixed Once that is done the makeipk tool
63. 00 in all its glory surrounded with gadgets for it Additionally I had to get the following from Tokyo since I could not get them locally in Australia Thanks again to Sachiko for going shopping for me The iRiver USB cable works with the Zaurus This cable is quite small and has a USB mini A connector on one end and a USB A Female on the other It will be a handy addition to supplement my GoldX cable It is currently also the cheapest USB mini A host controller cable available that I could find my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 7 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 I also found a small USB power cable the Diatec P Cord P to Go This little gem allows me to leave the bulky power adaptor at home It can power the C3000 C3100 whilst plugged into a USB port of a PC or a Sun Ray or even my spare USB hub As a bonus this cable is also retractable It is perfect for stuffing into a small pocket In addition this cable also has a little cousin which also includes a USB mini b adaptor for synching as well so you can use it to charge and sync at the same time The screen on the Zaurus attracts quite a lot of dust The OverLay Brilliant screen protector should protect my little Z s touchscreen It will hopefully ensure my Z s screen will not be damaged and also reduces the glare when under direct sunlight so now I can see what s on the screen even outside when the sun is shining on my Z It can also be eas
64. 00 boots up it automatically mounts hdd3 as before but it won t erase hdd3 on a factory reset and it also mounts hdd2 as ext3 if it exists Additionally it also enables the 256MB swap partition formerly hdd1 and mounts tmpfs as 2MB instead of 1MB MicroDrive Performance The C3000 and the C3100 both have a 4 GB CF MicroDrive internally which is used as its harddisk to store data Since a CF Flash card is generally faster than a MicroDrive it would make the Zaurus faster if the CF MicroDrive is replaced with a CF Flash card This makes sense for the C3000 where the applications and binaries are stored on the MicroDrive and there is a slight delay for the MicroDrive to spin up when it has gone into powersaving mode after some time of disk inactivity However for the C3100 it would not make such a big impact on application performance since they actually are on the flash memory instead of the MicroDrive Still if the application is also stored on the MicroDrive ie hdd3 is used for installing additional applications such as PocketWorkstation and a large swapfile then it would make sense too To do this you would need a CF Flash card to replace the MicroDrive with Make sure the Flash card you are using has a similar capacity to the MicroDrive 4GB would be good 2 GB is managable and bigger ones should be better However make sure the Flash card you are using is faster than the current MicroDrive inside the Zaurus the Z has a 4GB Hitachi M
65. 007 15 17 from FATOPTS o noatime umask 000 iocharset utf8 OPTS o noatime to the following FATOPTS o noatime umask 000 iocharset utf8 sync OPTS o noatime sync To increase the wait delay during the SD unmount modify etc sdcontrol and change the following from sleep 1 to the following sleep 3 Enabling IrDa The Zaurus has an IrDa port build in but for security and power saving it is disabled by default You can temporarily enable it to receive files Use the IR Receive tool under the Settings tab and enable it to receive files You should disable it once you finished receiving files You can also send files via IrDa For that select the file you want to beam from the Files Tab and hold the stylus on it for a few seconds and select Send by beam I have tested this feature and it works fine to send and receive files to my Laptop Toshiba Libretto 50CT and Mobile phone Sony Ericsson K750i my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 62 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Enabling Bluetooth The stock Sharp ROM does not come with bluetooth enabled You can add bluetooth capability to the Zaurus by either using a CF Bluetooth card or a USB Bluetooth dongle I ve tested this using a Socket Bluetooth CF card which I think is great because it is exactly the same size as a CF memory card It has a CF I form factor and no bits sticking out when inserted into the CF slot on the Zaurus I
66. 07 15 17 To launch an application in this mode use the following command argument and syntax xlauncher embed appname Here are some of the X applications in embedded mode PocketWorkstation can also be run under pdaXqtrom just like with the X Qt jumbo package if the add on deblauncher package is installed There are also some additional tools in the tools directory on the base image mkqticon Use this script to generate a QT desktop icon for an X application if it does not have one It will generate a launch script and desktop files under the XQt tab mkfakepkg If you want to install applications directly from a pdaXrom feed you need to update your package list and have all the packages that come with pdaXqtrom base listed there This script will generate the required info and populate the package list with it monolingual This script can be used to enable or disable scim Smart Common Input Method which allows you to input other languages such as Chinese and Japanese With scim disabled ie monolingual enabled X Qt will startup faster It is recommended if you only want to use English to enable monolingual mode However in order to input other languages in applications that support it scim needs to be enabled This can be done by disabling monolingual before starting X Qt xembed This script can be used to toggle the default behaviour of the Qt desktop icons You can use it to enable or disable the xembed mode When xe
67. 1 3 4 flfm 0 3 fltdj 0 7 gimp 1 2 5 gqview 1 4 2 gnumeric 1 2 2 grisbi 0 5 minimo 1 6 nedit 5 4 sylpheed 0 9 99 vncviewer 4 0 xchat 2 0 5 xmms 1 2 10 xpdf 2 03 And the xqt mozilla image contains firefox 0 9 thunderbird 0 6 There is also a xqt openoffice image which runs under X Qt without requiring PocketWorkstation You can also use xqt install sh just like for xqt gtk jumbo It will also mount the cramfs and or squashfs file and run xqtapps setup for you Just place all the cramfs squashfs files you want to use into a directory of your choosing and put the xqt install sh script in the same location and do the following su xqt install sh Note you can put both xqt gtk jumbo and xqt apps plus any additional ones in the same directory as xqt install sh and just run it once however you can only have one format for each file either cramfs or squashfs but not both It will setup and configure all the cramfs or squashfs images Also remember that you will need to remount the cramfs squashfs images after a reboot and or re insert of SD CF card The internal MicroDrive would be a great place to put your cramfs squashfs images if your Zaurus has one of those since it doesn t need to be ejected If you install automounter automounter c3000_0 4 7_arm ipk then the cramfs squashfs images will be automatically remounted for you on a reboot and mounted unmounted upon SD CF card ejection insertion The automounter package has only bee
68. 100 Luckily this 89MB is located on a jffs2 filesystem which has built in compression so we could be able to install around 200 300MB of applications and stuff if we are lucky Still we will run out of space eventually If that happens we could uninstall some applications such as the additional applications that came with the C3100 but weren t present on the C3000 or we could move some files to hdd3 but be careful hdd3 is by default a FAT filesystem and does not support symbolic links which some applications might require See the Filesystem section on discussion on using cramfs or ext2 loopback filesystem on hdd3 to extend the amount of installable space Alternatively you can install to SD or CF card but some applications require to be installed to non FAT partitions so you might need to reformat them HDD3 Considerations Both the C3000 and C3100 contain an internal 4GB MicroDrive which is partitioned into hdd1 hdd2 and hdd3 By default hdd3 is formatted as a FAT filesystem so it can be shared as a USB drive when the Zaurus is connected to a computer as a USB slave and accessed from Windows The first partition hdd1 is a read only partition containing the OS images and binaries required to run and restore the Z to factory default on the C3000 On the C3100 it is an almost empty partition with a size of 9MB It contains a file called hdimage2 tgz that has the directory structure and sample template files for hdd3 The second partition
69. 100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 204 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Additionally pcmanfm which is a fast and efficient file manager is also included And lastly xfe which is much like windows explorer has also been included in pdaXii13 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 205 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Terminals mrxvt is the default terminal in pdaXii13 because it looks nice and has pseudo transparent background support To enable transparency copy Xdefaults to home root as Xdefaults if mrxvt does not have transparency enabled by default The Xdefault file enables transparency for mrxvt rxvt aterm and multi aterm aterm and multi aterm as well as rxvt are also available as alternative terminals and installed on pdaXii13 by default xterm which is a bit broken in pdaXrom has been fixed in pdaXii13 and displays the fonts without the extra boxes Zaurus Backup You should always backup your system since that is the only way to recover if something goes wrong The easiest way to backup is to archive everything using tar and then use gzip to compress the archive I have created a script called zbackup which backs up the system and its configurations so you can use the backup image generated by it to restore your system The generated tgz file can be used to restore pdaXii13 by simply renaming it to hdimage custom tgz and flashing it my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 htt
70. 11 exe onto a Windows machine you got one of those right and run it to extract the files it s a self extracting zip file Then copy all the extracted files to a SD or CF card if your windows box has no card reader then put the memory card into your Zaurus and connect it via USB cable and switch it to share your card instead of your hdd so you can transfer the files directly to the card Make sure you put the files into the card s root directory ie don t put them into any folder and don t copy the folder they were in The following files should be on the root of your memory card initrd bin about 4 337KB zImage bin about 1 264KB mversion bin about 16KB updater sh about 7KB hdimage1 tgz about 19 734KB Turn off your Zaurus and disconnect the power cable and any other cables Unlock the battery compartment and press the little reset button with your stylus Put the lid back on and make sure to lock it again Now make sure your Zaurus is plugged in to the AC power You don t want to be on battery power and have your Zaurus run out of juice in the middle of the update process you can kiss your Zaurus goodbye if that happens Also make sure your card with the update files is inserted The charge indicator should be orange now Hold the OK key on the keyboard or the back of the Zaurus and turn on the device with the On Off button You should see the maintenance menu and select option 4 to update flash the ROM On the next screen select
71. 12 debian tarball DEBTARBALL zaurus debian jumbo v18 b01 tar gz debian documentation tarball DOCTARBALL zaurus debian doc v18 tar gz openoffice tarball OOTARBALL zaurus debian openoffice114 tar gz default settings section end You can increase the swap and pocketworkstation file sizes before you run the install script but it is not advised to decrease them too much From a command line console do the following su xqt debian install sh hdd3 debroot Once installed you can start Debian by tapping on the Debian icon on the Qt desktop or use the command line xlauncher debian my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 127 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You will need to install sudo refer to customisation section if you want to run Debian as the zaurus user or launch it via the Qt desktop icon The mouse function is emulated as follows Tapping on screen Left Click Fn Shift Tapping Center Click Fn Tapping Right Click If you also extracted the openoffice image file then OpenOffice will be available in Debian You can start OpenOffice as follows or launch it from the icewm menu soffice amp If you have space you replace the openoffice cram file with its extracted version by extracting its content and then removing it OpenOffice will load faster this way For best performance install PocketWorkstation and the swapfile to an ext2 or ext3 formatted CF card
72. 2 home QtPalmtop lib libpcap so 1 Now modify usr local etc kismet conf to update the following entries suiduser zaurus my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 105 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 source wlanng wlan0 wireless sound true speech true festival usr local bin flite flite true logtemplate home zaurus Documents n d i l Once that is done create a network profile as follows Account Name kismet Config Non Spec ESS ID ANY unticked ESS ID any Network Type 802 11 Ad Hoc WEP Key Type Disabled PPoE Use PPoE Authentication unticked WEB Auth Use WEB Authentication unticked TCP IP Obtain TCP IP information Automatically unticked IP Address 10 1 0 2 Subnet Mask 255 0 0 0 Gateway 10 1 0 1 DNS Auto detect name servers unticked Primary DNS 10 1 0 1 Secondary DNS Default domain leave empty Proxy No proxy Note you will need to install flite for the speech and sudo if you want to launch kismet from the GUI Installing Yahoo Messenger clone Qazoo This works quite nicely although I hate the default icon You need to install the following packages libyahoo2 libyahoo2_cvs 20040713_arm ipk qazoo qazoo_0 8 1_arm ipk qazoosounds qazoosounds_0 8_arm ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 106 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Installing mplayer and kino2 or zplayer This version is specifically
73. 2007 15 17 laptop computers You will need a J2ME flavour of Java to run most of the Java applications available for the other Zauri and PDAs and a J2SE if you want to try running Java applications that run on PCs The following is a small list of available Java runtimes Insignia s Jeode J2ME that comes with earlier Zauri on the Zaurus CD jeode_1 10 7_arm ipk downloadable from Sharp website 5500v31c zip Sun s J2ME preview personal profile for zaurus_arm ipk pp4zaurus 1_0 ea4a linux arm OptimizedJIT_nosym zip java_slc3000_arm ipk Blackdown Java Linux J2SE port for Linux java1 3_1 01 oxy2_arm ipk j2re 1 3 1 RC1 linux arm tar bz2 blackdown jdk_1 3 1_arm ipk J2ME Just install one of the J2ME implementation listed above and you should be fine for most Java apps for the Zaurus It is technically also possible to run Swing applications with the J2ME distributions using the SwingZ library that you can add to Jeode or the Personal Profile Simply include the swingz jar into the classpath However this swing library is implementing swing 1 1 only Most swing applications therefore won t run I have also created jlauncher jlauncher_0 1_arm ipk which is a wrapper for evm jeode and cvm personal profile so that applications specifically packaged for either of those J2ME runtimes can be seemlessly run no matter which of the two J2ME bundles you have installed For example a java package bundled for jeode won t ru
74. 27 php 4 2 3_0 1_arm ipk When apache is installed you need to do the following su ln s usr local apache bin usr local apache src you can also fix apachectl to look at the right place instead of creating a link You can now start apache with the following command su cd usr local apache bin apachectl start You can stop apache with the following command su cd usr local apache bin apachectl stop I have also created a opie sh script apachegui_0 1_arm ipk which allows you to stop and start apache from the GUI You will be required to configure sudo and add usr bin apache to the allowed list for zaurus user see sudo Alternatively you can also install boa boa_0 94 12_arm ipk which is a light weight http daemon if you just want simple web server Browsers There are several browsers available such as NetFront Opera Konqueror Firefox Minimo Dillo Links Installing VNC VNC client keypepple opie keypebble_1 0 0 1_arm ipk can be used as a vnc client to other machines or even the local one my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 54 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 VNC server fbvnc server for Qtopia You can run a vncserver on your Zaurus to enable remote access to its desktop However since the available fbvnc server packages were build for other models it does not work reliably on the C3000 and C3100 I have build my own version of f
75. 3000 anymore due to it being implemented differently on the C3000 This guide is intended specifically for the SL C3000 model also sometimes referred to as Spitz but a lot of the info can also be applied to similar models Most of the information will also apply to the SL C3100 also known as Borzoi since the two models are very similar In some areas however there are significant differences between these two models and those will be highlighted Some of the customisations require additional files which should be downloaded first Create a folder called custom on a CF SD card or via the USB connection to home zaurus Documents and copy these customisation files into that folder Most the instructions below assume that the files have been transferred to home zaurus Documents custom The first thing you probably need to do is to install a terminal console application and backup your Zaurus These instructions are primarily for the Sharp distro ROM although most of it can be used for Cacko as well Essential Packages The following are applications and utilities that I consider absolutely essential and must have packages qkonsole a terminal console with multiple tabs sessions scrollbars colour selection history and fonts keyhelper allows you to customise and reassign keys c3000 custom jaen add English text to the menus and tabs opie sh and or qshdlg shell enhancement for dialog and input boxes required by some apps sudo enhanc
76. 88 then you need to have the following options as well Video Enable smart crop tick Disable aspect ratio correction untick my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 107 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You might also want to enable some of the other settings which may give you better performance See the Video Conversion section to see how you can re encode your videos to make them smaller but still give you reasonable playback quality zplayer can play videos in window mode or fullscreen if they are encoded with 320x200 resolution without adding extra parameters However in order to play 352x288 encoded PAL videos in fullscreen mode you will need to provide the following mplayer options under Tools gt Configuration vo bvdd vm x 320 y 200 The following mplayer command line will allow you to watch fullscreen video mplayer vo bvdd afm libmad vm vf crop 320 240 file The following mplayer options will give you better and smoother video playback my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 108 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 mplayer nortc noaspect double framedrop cache 2048 dr vo bvdd afm libmad af lavcresample 44100 vf crop 320 240 file And here is a list of the most useful mplayer options vm vf add scale 16 9 vf crop 320 240 rotate 1 af lavcresample 44100 0 0 afm libmad hr mp3 seek dr double framedrop noaspect
77. 99 telstra internet could had been specified as well to choose a specific profile during dialing Then do the following su pppd file etc ppp peers yourconfig Alternatively you could also use the Bluetooth DUN applet in the network config tool to do the same thing Setting up beaming with bluetooth via OBEX You can use OBEX to push and receive files similar to IrDa but with bluetooth instead To transfer files towards the device you have to install the package obexftp obextftp_0 10 7_arm ipk To transfer a file simply execute obexftp b 00 00 00 00 00 00 p file ext The parameter b instructs the program to use Bluetooth If you omit the MAC address obexftp will scan for surrounding Bluetooth devices and select the transfer partner automatically provided your device is visible and paired Alternatively you can also use obextool obextool push file ext xx xx xx xx xx xx 6 The bluetooth GUI allows you to convenniently select files to be beamed over my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 66 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 To receive a file on your Zaurus via the Bluetooth interface an OBEX server obexserver_1 0_arm ipk has to be installed and running The service OBEX PUSH also has to be registered to the SDP daemon usr sbin opd mode OBEX BIP channel 4 sdp daemonize path home zaurus Documents Obex_Inbox Securing Bluetooth You can add some rudi
78. Abiword is sized correctly I also compiled some text import export plugins so now I can open and edit StarOffice OpenOffice documents my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 173 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Installing aspell will enable spell checking in abiword OpenOffice The Debian arm port of OpenOffice 1 1 4 works on the Zaurus However it is compiled against an experimental version of glibc 2 3 whereas most the Zaurus distros use a stable 2 2 x version of glibc The usual way around this is to install PocketWorkstation Debian arm in chroot mode and install OpenOffice under PocketWorkstation This certainly is inconvennient and quite a waste of space if you only want to run OpenOffice and none of the other Debian apps that come with PocketWorkstation since you would need at least 512MB of space for the two As an alternative I have created a pre installed image of OpenOffice on a cramfs as well as squashfs compressed image file which contains a bundled minimalistic version of Debian minideb and a pre installed image of OpenOffice 1 1 4 binaries that can be run off the compressed image To install it copy the cramfs or squashfs file to the internal harddisk or SD CF card and mount the cramfs squashfs file as a loop device Then run the zopenoffice setup script contained in the mounted image I have also included a tgz file so if you have an ext2 ext3 formatted disk you can extract the fi
79. C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 147 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 something goes wrong You do not need to resize the root partition for the SL C3100 because 32MB is the default root partition on the SL C3100 unles you have changed it to something else previously The SL C1000 has a default root partition of 64MB so repartitioning it on the SL C1000 will free up extra space for your user partition to install applications and to store user data Thus for the SL C3100 just flash the ROM without repartitioning root ie use the Install new ROM option straight away and say yes to format user partition If you say no just your root partition will be reflashed and you get the Cacko kernel and config but all your application binaries will remain unchanged Select Reboot when the flashing has finished and you are done There is a Cacko 1 23 beta available for the SL C3000 Since the SL C3000 has a very small flash partition installing another distro will wipe your entire MicroDrive You won t be able to simply make a Nand backup and restore your system if you want to revert back You would need to rebuild your SL C3000 from scratch However the C3000 beta release of Cacko leaves your partition table layout as is and just reformats your partitions Be aware that the C3000 beta is quite different from the normal 1 23 release of Cacko it does not upgrade the kernel nor does it provide all the extra modules since they won t fit onto the t
80. GB or 2GB upper limit for FAT16 partitions and maximum filesize on FAT16 hardcoded as the upper limit and thus will miscalculate the amount of free space on the larger SD card Also this driver is not loaded during emergency boot or the NAND loader so you cannot use the larger SD card to flash your Zaurus or do NAND backup restore Also for 4GB SD cards be very careful when ejecting the card If you eject it while it is still mounted or while it is being written to then you might corrupt the integrity of the device and might not be able to use it anymore Since it is larger it needs more time to flush the buffers and thus this problem occurs less on smaller SD cards If this occurs however even a fdisk or reformatting of the SD card won t work the smaller SD cards can be reformatted in some digital cameras but not many cameras can recognise the larger SD cards either so you cannot use them to reformat a broken SD card To prevent this from happening in which case you need to claim a warranty replacement so make sure you got proper warranty when you purchase large SD cards you can change the SD mount options to mount the SD card with the sync option and also increase the wait delay from 1 second to 3 or 5 seconds during the SD unmount process To make the SD card mount with the sync option modify etc sdcard sd_mem_ctrl change the following my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 61 of 224 20 03 2
81. L C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 75 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 But really emulated Win98 runs way too slow but running DOS inside bochs for playing DOS games is possible dosbox dosbox allows you to run DOS applications and games The advantage over bochs is that it is dedicated and preconfigured to run DOS applications chyang has built a version of dosbox that runs on the C3000 and C3100 I have packaged it as dosbox_0 6 3 3_arm ipk Once installed you can edit usr local dosbox dosbox conf and add entries after autoexec to automatically launch any DOS application you wish For example autoexec mount c mnt card dosfiles c cd tetris tetris The screen flickers a bit when you launch dosbox Just press the Cancel key a few times When you have finished using dosbox press Shift Ctrl Cancel to exit You might also need to install libstdc6_1 2 2_arm ipk if you don t already have the standard C libraries installed my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 76 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Alternatively you can also install dosbox under X Qt or the newer pdaXqtrom package dosbox x11_0 6 3 3_arm ipk dosbox has a known bug that keys on non US keyboards are mismatched and some keys are missing in particular the key This has been hacked by me for the Zaurus version so that Fn is and Fn Ctrl is qpose Emulating the Palm on the Z is poss
82. Memory Cards but the Zaurus has a slot for them as well I also got myself a few additional SD and CF cards in particular the 4GB Kingston CF card and the 4GB pqi SD card Now I got several SD and CF memory cards to swap in and out and I also got a Kodak PCMCIA adaptor so I can use the CF cards in my Laptop too The Zaurus made my All in One USB card reader redundant however I also bought a 4 in 1 CF adaptor which allows me to use additional memory cards in my Zaurus such as my 2GB memory stick duo I also got the new 2GB SanDisk Ultra II plus USB which is a mini SD card with a USB adaptor stuck on it so you can use it as a normal SD as well as a USB stick Finding a Leather Carrying Case that fit the C3000 C3100 was another challenge The normal PDA cases were not made for the C3000 C3100 but I eventually found a leather carrying bag for cameras that was perfect It even had a little pouch on the front for my CF cards and could be attached to a belt or hung around the neck The Tamrac Digital Camera Bag is made of ballistic nylon and genuine leather It costs AUD 45 I also bought a Joytech PSP power extender and since it has the same plug and power requirements as the Zaurus I can use it with either my Zaurus or PSP to extend the battery power on a long haul flight In addition I bought an AC to USB adaptor which has several uses ie charging my Zaurus my Mobile phone or powering my USB hardisk via a USB y cable And here is my Zaurus C30
83. Menu Language Switcher en tool under the Settings tab if you have langswitch installed to move the qm file and it will be in English Once you have used Plasterer to generate hImage png and vImage png you can use bgswitch bgswitch_0 1_arm ipk to switch between your available backgrounds provided they are located in home zaurus Documents Image_Files wallpaper ScreenSaver Customisation The default screensaver on the C3000 and C3100 is rather ugly You can replace it with something much better To do that install the following LUSScreenSaver LUSScreenSaver_1 4 6 1_arm ipk LUSScreenSaverUtil LUSScreenSaverUtil_1 3 5 1_arm ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 32 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 In addition also install at least one of the following LUSSSFish LUSSSFish_1 0 0 1_arm ipk LUSSSMessage LUSSSMessage_1 0 0 1_arm ipk LUSSSPicture LUSSSPicture_1 1 1 1_arm ipk LUSSSUniverse LUSSSUniverse_1 0 0 1_arm ipk You will notice that this application is in Japanese Use the Menu Language Switcher en tool under the Settings tab if you have langswitch installed to move the qm file and it will be in English Menu and Tab Customisation You can re organise tabs and applications using the TabConf TabSetting tool Alternatively you can also move files around under home QtPalmtop apps but those changes will not apply until you restart Qtopia reboot the Z or run TabS
84. MoveRelativeHorz Fn Ctrl Alt Right MoveRelativeHorz Alt Tab Switch forward between running Applications Alt Shift Tab Switch backward between running Applications Alt 0 MaximizeFull Alt 5 UnmaximizeFull Alt 9 Iconify Alt 8 Resize Alt 7 Move Alt 4 Close Alt 6 ToggleShade Menu Activate Launch Menu Home Mode Mail rox Address xmms Calendar mrxvt Shift Calendar aterm Ctrl Alt c screencap Shift Ctrl c screencap Some function keys have been remapped as follows Super 1 Switch VGA mode 320x240 Super 2 Switch SVGA mode 640x480 Super 3 Decrease Brightness Super 4 Increase Brightness Super 5 Refresh The silkscreen keys are mapped as follows by default Home dilllo Mail sylpheed Address xmms Calendar rox Dictionary stardict To reduce finger movements I also added extra mappings so that instead of pressing Fn Ctrl Alt you can also use the Home key instead and instead of Ctrl Alt you can use the Super key right kanji key I also associated most Alt key combos to be also activated by Home key as well The above changes can be done by modifying rc xml which is by default located under etc xdg openbox but may also be located under home root config openbox In pdaXii13 those two locations are symbolically linked The silkscreen and shortcut keys at the bottom of the keyboard can also be changed using the Input Setup tool SCIM input language switching can be activated by
85. ND 2 gt dev null gt dev null amp with this eval rox pinboard MYPINBOARD amp and then restart X To change the theme you need to edit rc xml and modify the theme section The themes are located under usr share themes Each directory under there contains a theme Place the name of the theme in the theme section inside the name tag To apply the change either restart X or run the following command my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 165 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 openbox replace 2 gt dev null amp Window and Dialog Sizes There are quite a few applications which open up in a window that is way too big for the Zaurus This can usually be worked around by maximising the window in question press Home m or Super m Some application can be tailored to a specific window size by editing their config files Other applications have the size hardcoded I have recompiled a few such applications ie GQView and AbiWord The File Open Dialog is also quite big and this problem is across most GTK2 applications I have recompiled GTK2 and hacked the FileChooser to be more suitable for the Zaurus screen You can either install my updated GTK2 package or replace libgtk 2 0 so 0 600 2 manually File Managers There is no default file manager in pdaXrom however rox filer is a good candidate for this function It has a similar interface to the konqueror for file management my Zaur
86. TaskBar and Applets The pdaXrom taskbar looks exceptionally pretty while OZ taskbar is rather dull None of them have a docking view for minimised applications A taskbar applet is available for both distros as well as a set of other useful applets such as clock applets and battery cpu status applets However OZ does not have a working applet for ejecting removable cards None of them have a swap management applet Themes The default theme on pdaXrom is quite pretty and can be customised through the theme config applet but switching themes requires manual editing of the config file The OZ theme on the other hand can easily be switched and customised through its config applet however switching the theme on OZ results in some applications namely abiword to crash Config Tools The config tools in both pdaXrom and OZ are a bit flakey and don t always work properly The date time tool is very hard to invoke from the taskbar in pdaXrom although it works when invoked from the menu The date time tool for OZ does not work You cannot use it to change the date or time There is no applet in OZ to configure sound The pdaXrom sound applet has no effect while applications that use sound are active Suspend Resume Suspend and resume is a bit flakey on pdaXrom When it works it works fine but at times it does not work reliably Suspend works fine in OZ however resume sometimes behaves flakey Screen Capture Screen capturing is an easy ta
87. You can further tweak the settings for further compression at the loss of some quality File Managers The default File Manager the Files tab on the Zaurus is rather limited in functionality There are however some better packages out there Tree Explorer QT treeexplorer_1 7 0 2_arm ipk and treeexplorer p_1 7 0 2_arm ipk This is a nice application similar to Windows Explorer in tree mode with OpenWith and SendTo functionality however you only get the full functionality if you pay for the pro edition The lite version is only good for moving files around but you cannot launch any files You also get an additional file editor with the pro edition Explorer explorer_1 0_arm ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 82 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 This application is for moving and copying files around only The good thing about it is that it contains two tabs which represent two different directory locations between which files can be easily moved It also has a FTP client so you can also move files between your local disk and an FTP server However it hangs if you copy or move large files AdvancedFM qtopia advancedfm_1 0_arm ipk This application is almost like the Explorer application mentioned above but it does not have the FTP functionality It has however a handy bookmark feature for quickly accessing frequently used directories and can open files as text files and ru
88. _arm ipk libcopie2 libopie2_1 8 2 20031220_arm ipk libpcap libpcap0_0 7 2 20031220_arm ipk opie wellenreiter opie wellenreiter_1 0 2 1 20031220_arm ipk Once Wellenreiter is installed create a network profile for it as follows Account Name wellenreiter Config Non Spec ESS ID ANY unticked ESS ID test Network Type 802 11 Ad Hoc WEP Key Type Disabled PPoE Use PPoE Authentication unticked my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 104 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 WEB Auth Use WEB Authentication unticked TCP IP Obtain TCP IP information Automatically unticked IP Address 1 1 1 1 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway 1 1 1 0 DNS Auto detect name servers ticked Default domain leave empty Proxy No proxy Connect to this network and then start wellenreiter Installing Kismet You need to install the following packages libstdc6 libstdc6_1 2 2_arm ipk libpcap libpcap0_0 7 2 20031220_arm ipk kismet kismet_2005 08 R1_arm ipk contained in kismet 2005 08 R1 arm tar gz kismet qt kismet qt_2 0 0_arm ipk kismet misc kismet misc_0 3_arm ipk netctl netctl_0 3 0 1_arm ipk Once you have installed the packages you need to do the following first if you have a C3000 su mkdir p home root usr ln s opt QtPalmtop lib home root usr lib Then you need to symlink libpcap so 1 as follows su ln s home root usr lib libpcap so 0 6
89. a factory reset and the Zaurus will revert to its initial Japanese ROM state Restore From Backup If you have a backup you can restore your previous settings contained in your backup files If you had to factory reset then a restore can quickly get you to where you were before Command Line Recovery This is by far the most advanced option Use this to recover files that might not have been backed up yet before doing a restore and or factory reset Please refer to Trisoft s C3000 manual on how to do the above It would be a waste of my time to provide step by step instructions since they have it pretty much covered and they even have emergency backup images for you to use in case you dont t have a system backup If you have booted into the console for recovery then you are using the dev mtdblock1 partition This is the emergency partition that you usually don t see You will need to manually mount the usual partitions if you want to access them home is dev mtdblock3 and dev mtdblock2 is your root partition Don t forget to unmount the partitions after you have finished your changes or they will be rolled back and all the files remain unchanged my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 42 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Zaurus ROM Update For the C3000 you should update your Sharp ROM to 1 11JP if you are still on 1 01JP There is no updated Sharp ROM for the C3100 yet Put card_update_30001
90. aXqtrom pdf tools pdffonts pdfimages pdfinfo pdftohtml pdftoppm pdftops pdftotext video tools swfplayer mplayer2 sound tools esdloop esdplay esdrec internet tools links gftp text plink psftp pterm puttygen puttytel graphics tool animate composite convert identify import mogrify montage pdaXQtrom Games packages The following games are available on the games image and or on the extra games feed my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 145 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 GNU go 1 9 12 xlauncher cgoban GNU chess 5 07 xlauncher chess gsoko 0 4 2 xlauncher gsoko gtkatlantic 0 4 0 xlauncher gtkatlantic xbomb 2 1a xlauncher xbomb xdemineur 2 1 1 xlauncher xdemineur xkobo 1 11 xlauncher xkobo xpuyopuyo 0 9 8 xlauncher xpuyopuyo xshogi 1 3 xlauncher xshogi xsokoban 3 3 xlauncher xsokoban my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 146 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Alternate Distros ROMs Beside the Qtopia 1 5 based Sharp distro which is often wrongly referred to as Sharp ROM there are several other distros available for the various Zaurus models However at the moment the Sharp distro is the only really stable distro available for the SL C3000 There is currently work underway to convert the various ROMs into a distro that runs on the SL C3000 but realistically it will be a while until stable v
91. able ROM image with the full OS and applications on it Those are stored on the MicroDrive harddisk instead on the C3000 It really is a Zaurus Linux distro packaged by Sharp There are several other distros other than the Sharp one available for the Zaurus in various stages of development I have created a dedicated section on alternate distros ROMs for the SL C3000 and SL C3100 The customisaton section that follows is primarily for the stock Sharp distro but may also be applicable to Cacko since Cacko is an improved version of Sharp distro with various customisations and enhancements already applied I have also created sub pages dedicated to customising pdaXrom and customising OpenZaurus for the SL C3000 and SL C3100 In addition you can also run Debian packages if you install Pocket Workstation OpenOffice for example works under Pocket Workstation See the X Qt section for more details There are also lots of emulators available for the Zaurus with which you can run applications and games for Nintendo GameBoy AppleII Palm and even DOS You can even run Java applications and games from your mobile phone on the Zaurus with a MIDP enabled J2ME implementation I also build a few ipk packages to make it easier to customise the Zaurus Here is a quick summary of them and what they do The customisation section has further details The packages are zipped not for compression but to prevent them from getting corrupted so you will have to unzip them
92. acko Enhancements and fixes discussed in my pdaXrom customisation section have also been rolled into pdaXii13 release as the default Once you have installed pdaXii13 you will have the applications listed further below installed and customised for the Zaurus The customisations that have been applied to pdaXii13 differs from the default pdaXrom beta3 release There are quite a lot of enhancements made in pdaXii13 full install The pdaXii13 base install is pretty much like a bug fixed beta3 for SL C3100 and SL C1000 without much customisations nor additional packages installed Unless explicitly mentioned everything that follows is about pdaXii13 full which is heavily customised with many additionally pre installed applications my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 188 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Installation To flash pdaXii13 Spitz Alice you will first need to repartition your internal MicroDrive The original partitioning provided by Sharp is quite adequate for the base install however if you had installed the previous C3000 betas then you probably had your entire MicroDrive partitioned into a single 4GB filesystem This is OK too The first partition should be at least 512MB if you install the full pdaXii13 but pdaXii13 base should fit into the default Sharp partition layout My personal preferred partitioning is as follows since I do a lot of native compilations on the Zaurus hdd1 2 2GB
93. acko already includes a memoryapplet for creating swap files I have packaged an improved version qtopia memoryapplet_1 0 4_arm ipk which allows C3x00 models to create the swapfile onto the internal MicroDrive on hdd3 and also the creation of swapfiles up to 512MB The pdaXqtrom base image is available as a mountable cramfs and or squashfs image as well as a gzipped tarball which can be extracted to an ext2 ext3 filesystem The default window manager for pdaXqtrom is fluxbox Alternate window managers can be used also such as icewm The file etc X11 defaultwm specifies which window manager is loaded when X Qt is started X Qt running fluxbox with custom BluePDA theme my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 130 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 X Qt running icewm with customised SilverXP theme The X Qt menu tab under Qtopia to launch X apps directly my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 131 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 A second image pdaXqtrom apps is also provided as an add on with the applications listed below pre installed and configured The pdaXqtrom base and application images are available from the following location pdaXqtrom images In addition there also are a few special feeds for all the tested applications The base and apps images are build from these feeds The base image can be used with the pre configured application image or individual
94. age or the X Qt jumbo cramfs image Once that is done you can just install Firefox and Thunderbird To install firefox you need either the original firefox_0 9gtk_armv5tel ipk or the modified firefox0 9 3_arm ipk If you are using the original package you need to do the following su chown R zaurus qpe usr lib firefox If you have a C3000 space on home is quite scarce so it is better to move the firefox profiles to somewhere with more space su mkdir p hdd3 zaurushome mv home zaurus mozilla hdd3 zaurushome ln s hdd3 zaurushome mozilla home zaurus mozilla You can also create an icon on the Qt desktop for Firefox unless you are using the modified version which already includes it Create a firefox desktop file in the appropriate location eg home QtPalmtop apps Applications that looks like this Desktop Entry Name Firefox Exec runfirefox Comment Mozilla Firefox Icon mozicon50 Type Applications Display 640x480 144dpi 480x640 144dpi Now create a file home QtPalmtop bin runfirefox that looks like this bin sh xlauncher firefox Make runfirefox executable This causes firefox to be launched and X is only loaded if it is not loaded yet my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 101 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Thunderbird also requires X Qt and works nicely as well if you have the X render update xqt libXrender_1 2 2_arm ipk Make sure you i
95. age which can be installed anywhere you like since you simply need to mount it and run xqt setup to configure it If you later decide to move it somewhere else all you need to do is re run xqt setup and you are back in business again This should make installation much simpler and quicker I have also created xqt install sh which will mount the cramfs or squashfs file and run xqt setup for you Just place the xqt gtk jumbo cramfs or xqt jumbo gtk jumbo squashfs file where you want and put the xqt install sh script in the same location and do the following su xqt install sh If you had installed X Qt components before and they did not uninstall cleanly then you can run xqt cleanup before running xqt install sh or xqt setup Note you will need to remount the cramfs image after a reboot and or re insert of SD CF card If you install my automounter package automounter c3000_0 4 7_arm ipk then this is automatically taken care of by the script automounter has only been thoroughly tested for the C3000 and C3100 on the Sharp ROM Your milage may vary with other variations You can download the xqt gtk jumbo image from the following locations my Zaurus mirror site http zaurus daemons gr menaie mirror jumbo images Bam s site http www thegrinder ws Meanies_XQT cram The xqt gtk jumbo is reported to work for the C3x00 C1000 C8x0 C7x0 6000 and 5x00 You will need a xmodmaprc keyboard map listed above for your model X applic
96. aining a ready made gcc bundle similar to the pdaXrom native gcc image The native gcc packages for OpenZaurus are based on gcc 3 4 4 and glibc 2 3 I have created an image zgcc 344 cramfs which was build using the armv5te packages from the 3 5 4 1 feed The following packages are a minimum set that is required to compile C C code and build simple packages cpp_3 4 4 r5_armv5te ipk cpp symlinks_3 4 4 r5_armv5te ipk binutils dev_2 15 94 0 1 r1_arm ipk binutils symlinks_2 15 94 0 1 r1_arm ipk binutils_2 15 94 0 1 r1_arm ipk diffutils_2 8 1 r0_arm ipk g symlinks_3 4 4 r5_arm ipk g _3 4 4 r5_arm ipk gcc symlinks_3 4 4 r5_armv5te ipk gcc_3 4 4 r5_armv5te ipk libc6 dev_2 3 5 cvs20050627 r3_armv5te ipk libstdc dev_3 4 4 r5_arm ipk make_3 80 r0_arm ipk pkgconfig_0 15 0 r3_arm ipk With this mimimal set of packages I can compile simple C C programs I have build a cramfs image zgcc 344 cramfs which includes many more development packages and tools for easy compilation of X11 applications similar to what the pdaXrom zgcc image offers See packages txt for a list of packages included in this cramfs image In addition to installing the packages I also had to add a few symbolic links as well as apply some changes in the directory structure as well as some configuration changes All the required changes have been captured in mkzgcc sh To use the cramfs image mount it under mnt zgcc and run the zgcc setup script to create the necessary links
97. ame time allows you to use all of the applications available to OZ The following section covers how to best use the available packages in OpenZaurus It also shows how to run both OPIE and GPE applications together to get the best of both the Qt Embedded and X11 world Some of the customisations require additional files which should be downloaded first and placed on a SD or CF card for easy transfer to the Zaurus Configuring feeds By default the feeds are already configured to access the main feed server for installations The Package Manager is either pre configured for either OPIE or GPE depending on which you installed but if you want to run both concurrently then you need to update the feed configuration to include all the feeds You can also change the feeds to point to one of the alternate mirror sites or if you have mirrored the feeds to a CF or SD card then you can also change the feed to download from your local file source as well which is quite handy if you are offline a lot The above sample shows a configuration with the OZ feeds mirrored to a CF card OPIE Package Manager uses etc ipkg conf to configure all its feeds whereas GPE Package Manager has individual files for each feed located under etc ipkg You should add all the additional feeds as well for a bigger choice of available applications for installation OZ 3 5 4 1 can use packages from both the 3 5 4 and 3 5 4 1 feeds There are quite a few application package
98. and looks much more polished with nicer icons and crystal clear fonts However though the icons for the OPIE desktop are nice the same can not be said for the applications The tiny icons designed for the 200x320 screen resolution look very rugged and out of place in the otherwise good looking OPIE desktop Hopefully someone with graphical skills will come up with a nicer set of icons for OZ my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 179 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Featurewise OZ has most of what Sharp ROM offers in terms of device support Screen rotation screen capture and resume suspend works almost perfectly with only a few hickups Softwarewise OPIE has most of the software available on the Sharp ROM except for the proprietary software bundles Unfortunately those are quite important applications in particular NetFront GPE has most of the applications available for pdaXrom and PocketWorkstation so a combo of OPIE GPE can be comparable to a dual boot Cacko pdaXrom or Cacko PocketWorkstation type system Hentges is another OZ based distribution which is tailored to be more user friendly and has the most commonly used applications pre installed Hentges is also pre configured to allow you to have both OPIE and GPE running at the same time not yet released so you don t need to choose between the two and end up being limited to the applications the choosen flavour provides Running OPIE and GPE at the s
99. any jpg file There is also a GTK theme selector to switch GTK GTK2 themes and styles I have added a few themes and they are located under opt QtPalmtop share themes You can copy additional themes to that location You can customise FluxBox its menu and shortcut keys using the FluxBox config tools my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 140 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The menu items can be customised with the FluxBox menu editor The shortcut keys can be customised using the FluxBox key utility A transparent terminal aterm is also available which you can also use in opaque mode if you prefer Additionally a tabbed multi aterm is also available and can be used in both opaque and transparent mode You can also use the putty terminal as well Desktop icons are provided by idesk You can manually create additional desktop icons or use the my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 141 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 genicons script which is also available from the FluxBox config menu to generate the icons This script will try to duplicate all the Qtopia desktop icons under the X Qt tab You can enable and disable the display of these icons from the FluxBox config menu as well The idesk icon definitions are located under home zaurus idesktop Alternatively you can also use rox pinboard to create desktop icons This is also available from the FluxBo
100. ard into the Zaurus afterwards and install the ipk file from the card instead of using the USB cable which sometimes can be problematic A much better terminal qkonsole_0 9 3 20040205_arm ipk can be download and installed instead of the one provided on the CD ROM Most of the customisation work requires a terminal so you really should install one All the instructions inside a white box assume its done from within a terminal window and most entries in gray boxes are illustrations of configuration file fragments Also I assume you know how to use vi Personally I love Vim vi improved and use it all the time for most things However if you are really struggling to use vi then you can use pico instead which is like the DOS edit see pico section on how to install Then whenever you see the instructions tell you to use vi to edit or create a file use pico instead The esc key in vi is mapped to the cancel key on the Zaurus Localising Converting to English The C3000 and C3100 come in Japanese only by default The irony of this is that Qtopia and most of Linux were developed in English and Sharp had to change it all to Japanese and we have to change it all back again This makes changing the Zaurus back into English rather simple except for a few new applications that were written in Japanese natively There are several approaches to switch back into English only mode and there are even some scripts out there that automate the whole process I
101. arm ipk nls modules 2 4 20_1 23 lite 1_arm ipk ntfs modules 2 4 20_1 23 lite 1_arm ipk udf modules 2 4 20_1 23 lite 1_arm ipk usb camera modules 2 4 20_1 23 lite 1_arm ipk usb network modules 2 4 20_1 23 lite 1_arm ipk usb storage modules 2 4 20_1 23 lite 1_arm ipk iptables base 1 2 11 lite 1_arm ipk iptables extras 1 2 11 lite 1_arm ipk iptables modules 2 4 20_1 23 lite 2_arm ipk If you don t want to flash Cacko but want the additional and updated functionality that Cacko provides then you can install the Tetsu kernel and modules followed by additional Cacko lite modules 2 4 20 This should give you a kernel similar to Cacko Then you can install the Cacko lite applications from the Cacko feed and the extracted packages mentioned above This would get you very close to the functionality and features of Cacko 1 23 When customising Cacko with the customisation guide for Sharp distro some packages and instructions can be skipped eg in the essential section Tetsu kernel keyhelper sudo and qkonsole are mentioned but Cacko already contains them so it is not required to install them again However the keyhelper and automounter config in Cacko is very minimal and installing the custom config for those will enhance the capabilities for them You can also add Japanese support back into Cacko by installing the japanese support c3100jaen_1 23_arm ipk package and copying the dictionary back from the CD ROM as well as installing the zdict and tran
102. ary imposter presentation my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 159 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Some of the packages require further customisation and configuration before they can be used Later sections of this guide show how those need to be configured Fixing the keymap There are two types of changes to the keymappings The first one are the essential fixes to make the keymap work and the second ones are enhancements to make it more usable and similar to the keyhelper enhancements on the Sharp distro To customise or fix the default keymap modify etc sysconfig keyboard kernel map and etc X11 kb akita xmodmap and use loadkeys and xmodmap to reload the key mappings respectively Use xev within X to determine the keycode for the keys You can also use the Input setup tool from the Systems Tools to remap the shortcut keys at the bottom of the keyboard However this seems to mess up the default keymapping in particular you will lose the key so make sure you make a copy of kernel map before you use the Input setup tool and then use loadkeys to reload kernel map To enable sticky keys you need to modify usr X11 bin startx and replace kb with kb accessx under the defaultserverargs variable Also modify etc X11 kb akita xmodmap and uncomment the block of code around keycode 73 except the last line This will disable Tab to toggle Caps Lock Now restart X and press the Shift key 5 times
103. ashfs images Simply place xqt openoffice image into the same directory as xqt gtk jumbo image and run xqt install sh make sure to use the latest version of xqt install sh Once the openoffice cramfs squashfs image is mounted you can launch it from the openoffice icon on the X Qt tab The openoffice icon with the X Qt overlayed across it is the icon for the xqt openoffice version You can also launch it from the command line as follows debrtd x opt OpenOffice soffice debrtd is the minideb launcher The x option tells it to start X if its not already running and the last argument is the full path to the openoffice launcher on the cramfs since soffice is not in the path pdaXQtrom 0 8 2 The new X QT super jumbo package is the next generation of X Qt and is based on existing base X Qt packages thanks Takuya Murakami and the specially compiled X Qt packages from pdaXrom 1 1 0 beta1 thanks Sashz The goal of this image is to extend Sharp ROM with a mini pdaXrom system running under X Qt It has a complete X Qt runtime that is compatible with packages from the special pdaXrom feed It also uses the same glib2 and gtk library versions as pdaXrom while maintaining compatability with Sharp s older glibc 2 2 2 version This means that most applications available for pdaXrom will be able to be recompiled and run on pdaXqtrom A native on board compiler based on gcc 2 95 3 is also available as a companion tool to compile your own X Qt applic
104. atest_arm ipk smbmount smbmount_0 1_arm ipk smbmounter smbmounter_0 1 2_arm ipk smbpasswd smbpasswd_0 1 1_arm ipk snes9x_sdl snes9x_sdl 1_arm ipk sun personal profile j2me personal profile for zaurus_arm ipk tasklist applet tasklist applet_1 0 5_arm ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 11 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 vpnc vpnc_0 3 2 1_arm ipk zbasilisk zbasiliskii_0 3_arm ipk zbochs zbochs tar gz zemufe zemufe_0 1 1 3ex_arm ipk zgnuboy zgnuboy_1 0 3 3_arm ipk znester znester_7 1 1_arm ipk Libraries and Drivers bvdd bvdd_0 4 0 1_arm ipk ipsec module ipsec module_2 4 20 1_arm ipk kern mod squashfs kern mod squashfs_c3000 2 1 2_arm ipk kmicrokdelibs kmicrokdelibs_2 1 2_arm ipk libffmpeg libffmpeg_0 4 6_20030304_arm ipk libgc libgc_6 3alpha4 1_arm ipk libglade libglade_2 0 1 1_armv5tel ipk libfloat libfloat_1 0_arm ipk libiconv libiconv_1 8 2_arm ipk libmad libmad_0 14 2b 1_arm ipk libncurses libncurses_5 0_arm ipk libogg libogg_1 1 2 1_arm ipk libopie1 libopie1_1 1 0 20031220_arm ipk libopie2 libopie2_1 8 2 20031220_arm ipk libcap0 libpcap0_0 7 2 20031220_arm ipk libpcap0_0 7 2_arm ipk libperl libperl_5 6 1_arm ipk libpng3 libpng3_1 2 4 1_arm ipk libsdl image libsdl image_1 2 5cvs 1_arm ipk libsdl mixer libsdl mixer_1 2 5cvs 1_arm ipk libsdl net libsdl net_1 2
105. ationKey tool under the Settings tab will allow you to assign different applications to those keys The following is my mapping Dictionary Dictionary Calendar Qkonsole Address MusicPlayer my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 26 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Mail NetFront Home Home Menu Menu And here are some useful keyboard shortcuts for Qkonsole Fn s will switch between terminals consoles Fn n will create a new terminal console Fn 5 will toggle fullscreen terminal console Shift Up will scroll up Shift Down will scroll down If you get 0 1 2 3 when you hit the function keys at the bottom of your keyboard while in qkonsole copy my modified linux keytab and vt100 keytab to opt QtPalmtop etc keytabs and it won t happen anymore su cd opt QtPalmtop etc keytabs cp home zaurus Documents custom linux keytab cp home zaurus Documents custom vt100 keytab Here are some useful keyboard shortcuts for NetFront Fn h home Fn r refresh Fn s save Fn u view previous link Fn i view next link Fn d add bookmark Fn f find Fn k toggle search bar Fn m new tab Fn b close tab The esc key in vi is mapped to the cancel key on the Zaurus The function keys F1 F10 in midnight commander are mapped to Fn 1 to 10 respectively X Qt and also Debian PocketWorkstation which uses X Qt has its own keymapping Get xmodmaprc c3000 and place it under home zaurus
106. ations There are several X Qt applications that you can install and use once you have X Qt There are some on the X Qt feeds and some pdaXrom applications such as Firefox will also work There is a xqt branch of pdaXrom 1 1 compiled for xqt Also the source packages for pdaXrom are also available so someone with time on their hands can always compile additional X Qt applications In addition you can also install Debian Pocketworkstation with X Qt Below are tested applications that can be installed for X Qt Also the following applications have icons preconfigured for them on the X Qt tab You can also create your own launch icons for X Qt applications To do that do the following Get Icon Qt Desktop Icons are usually png files You can create your own or download them off the net If you are lucky the X app might even have installed one under usr share pixmap Copy the icon file to opt QtPalmtop pics144 Create launch script Create an executable script that looks like this and place it under opt QtPalmtop bin my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 118 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 bin sh APPNAME myapp if which APPNAME then xlauncher APPNAME else qcop QPE TaskBar message QString APPNAME not installed fi Call it runmyapp or something like that Create desktop file Create a file such as myapp desktop that looks like the following and place it under opt QtPa
107. ations from your Zaurus without needing a separate machine or setting up a cross tool chain A java runtime and development environment is also available as an optional add on as well However since pdaXqtrom extends Sharp ROM and many of its libraries are compiled for compatability rather than speed it is rather slow in comparison to pdaXrom which is optimised for speed pdaXqtrom is also limited to the constraints of the old version of Qtopia that Sharp ROM is based on as well as the X Qt libraries which were not compiled with xscale optimisations This means that you will be lucky just to get half the speed of pdaXrom since pdaXrom is quite optimised for each class of models so if speed is what you want then consider using pdaXrom instead pdaXqtrom can be optimized a bit more but will never be as fast as pdaXrom since pdaXrom uses the faster soft float instead of the slower hard float which Sharp ROM is using pdaXqtrom should also work on Cacko since it is a derivative of Sharp ROM It should work on all clamshell models as well as Tosa 5x00 models would struggle because of the limited memory and smaller screen size but should work too in a limited fashion the previous X Qt jumbo package would be a better choice for 5x00 models since it requires less resources It is recommended to use a swap file of at least 64MB with pdaXqtrom You can either manually create and enable a swap file partition yourself or use the qtopia memoryapplet to do it C
108. ault already installed on the Zaurus and most Linux machines that have IrDA enabled However you would need to install a driver for Windows On Windows 2000 for example you will need to disable Image Transfer and install an IrCOMM driver IrCOM2k The following site describes how to setup IrCOMM on Windows2000 http www stud uni hannover de kiszka IrCOMM2k English manual html Once you have installed the IrCOMM driver you can setup a new network connection Direct Connection using IrDA as the device and setting up Windows as the client with no password prompt On the Zaurus you will need to do the following to make it start IrDA as the host su etc rc d init d irda start pppd dev ircomm 9600 10 10 10 21 10 10 10 20 local noauth nodetach my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 48 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 On the IrDA client if you are running Linux and IrCOMM is already setup you can simply do the following su etc rc d init d irda start pppd dev ircomm 9600 nodetach If you are running Windows and you have setup the direct connection using IrDA as client you can simply double click on the Direct Connection icon to connect Once they are paired successfully you can ping the other box from the Zaurus as 10 10 10 20 The Zaurus would be 10 10 10 21 in this example To stop IrCOMM simply press Fn c and then run etc rc d init d irda stop IrNet You will need t
109. aurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 115 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 aterm aterm_0 4 2_armv5tel ipk blackbox blackbox_0 65 0 2_arm ipk xqt debian scripts xqt debian scripts_0 6 1_arm ipk In general you do not need to re install the complete xqt gtk jumbo package to upgrade it It takes way too long but you can do it if you really want to It is easier and faster to upgrade xqt gtk jumbopack by installing a newer version of xqt debian scripts or use the xqt jumbo upgrade depending on which X Qt jumbo version is currently installed X Qt jumbopack comes with 0 6 x of xqt debian scripts so only install newer versions of xqt debian scripts The main reason to install newer versions of xqt debian scripts is to update xlauncher and xinitrc as well as getting additional X Qt desktop icons and updated menus The X Qt jumbo package pre configures all the contained packages so that once it is installed it is ready to use on the C3x00 and C1000 Other models require the keys to be remapped first You can either use xev to determine the key assigments and create your own xmodmaprc file or get a pre made one and place it into home zaurus and home root or just symlink them To generate the xmodmaprc file do the following xmodmap pke gt home zaurus xmodmaprc All you need to do now is use xev to determine the keycodes and update xmodmaprc to correct the mappings The following might get y
110. aurus zbook html 8 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 are LINUX based PDAs They come bundled with the following software HancomWord for doc HancomSheet for xls TextEditor for txt ImageViewer for jpg bmp gif MoviePlayer for mpg MusicPlayer for mp3 NetFront Browser E Mail Client ToDo List Calendar AddressBook Calculator WorldTime Dictionary Translator Terminal Window need to be installed from CD ROM Telnet and FTP client command line English and Japanese handwriting recognition and keyboard input methods The C3100 also has the following software pre installed by default which the C3000 does not have These applications are only really useful if you are in Japan or know Japanese BunkoViewer KiokuDojo Memory Trainer MobileMap Norikae Transfer Guide Database The C3000 requires that you update add the following software wheras the C3100 already comes with the updated versions of these musicplayer2 musicplayer C3000_2 0 0_arm ipk netfront3 1 netfront3 1 C3000_1 5 2_arm ipk photostorage photostorage_1 0 1_arm ipk You should patch the SL C3000 with the newer 1 11 ROM card_update_3000111 exe if it came with the older 1 01 ROM Also there are some new drivers and patches that you might need at http support ezaurus com sl c3000 update The SL C3100 should come with a 1 02 ROM New drivers and patches for the SL C3100 are located at http su
111. be launched from your Qt desktop Also you should install sudo if you don t have it installed already Cacko has it installed by default whereas the default Sharp ROM does not xlauncher can be run as root if sudo is not available but it is probably worth it to get sudo installed and configured Once sudo is properly configured xlauncher will be able to take advantage of it and be able to enable the swapfile automatically for you You can download the xqt gtk jumbo package from the following locations my Zaurus mirror site http zaurus daemons gr menaie mirror jumbo xqtipk Bam s site http www thegrinder ws Meanies_XQT ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 117 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Chuckster s site http www chuckster org zaurus Daniel s mirror http hplx mine nu daniel zaurus xqt Updated versions of xqt debian scripts can be found at http www users on net hluc myZaurus stuff The X Qt jumbo package needs to be installed to main memory If installing to SD or CF ipkg link needs to be run to relink the files and directories but since ipkg link does not exist on the standard C3100 C3000 and C1000 I have made a xipk link script part of my ipktools package which can relink the X Qt files and directories so that they can run from SD or CF card Installing X Qt compressed image I have also created a xqt gtk jumbo cramfs and xqt gtk jumbo squashfs compressed im
112. before you can install them c3000 custom jaen_0 2_arm ipk add English to the menus zicons wmtux_0 2_arm icon package for replacing system icons and extra app icons keyhelper c3000map_0 4_arm ipk enhanced keyboard mapping for C3000 and C3100 usbkbd en_2 4 20_arm ipk switch USB keyboard map when keyboard is plugged in or unplugged dualkbd_2 4 20_arm ipk allow shift num pad on USB keyboard to function like shift numeric keys langswitch_0 2_arm ipk switch between English and Japanese menus bgswitch_0 1_arm ipk switch between several wallpapers netswitch_0 4_arm ipk control for USB network with drivers netswitch lite_0 4_arm ipk control for USB network no drivers usblan rtl8150_2 4 20_arm ipk USB network driver rtl8150 usblan pegasus_2 4 20_arm ipk USB network driver pegasus irnet_2 4 20_arm ipk irnet driver and config for IrDA networking bluetooth support_1 23 1_arm ipk bluetooth drivers and tools bluetooth gui lite_1 23 1_arm ipk bluetooth tools without drivers ntfs zaurus_2 4 20_arm ipk NTFS driver for Zaurus my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 13 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 zmouse_0 1_arm ipk enable mouse for the Zaurus unicodefonts verdana_1 5 0 3_arm ipk rotatable unicode font verdana libstdc6_1 2 2_arm ipk standard C library supplement for Sharp ROM libstdc5 compat sharp_0 5_arm ipk pdaXrom C library supplement compatib
113. build pkg testapp data install cd data build pkg makeipk testapp This example uses ipk tools to create a package See the ipkg section below for further info You can use gcc 3 4 6 to compile both console and X based applications however you cannot use it to compile the kernel or glibc You will need gcc 2 95 2 instead Furthermore I also added QT designer assistant and linguists and I recompiled qtconfig so it won t startup oversized Building your own Packages You can also build your own packages ipk files if you have written some useful scripts or written some applications that you want to distribute and let others install easily with the standard package manager I have build a package ipktools ipktools_0 2_armv5tel ipk which has a set of tools for manipulating ipk files on pdaXrom newipk creates a package template structure for you to add files to for packaging makeipk package up a directory that contains files in an ipk structure into an ipk file unpackipk extracts the contents of an ipk file into a directory structure for repackaging deb2ipk converts a deb file into an ipk file format needs perl zipipk zip up an ipk file and remove ipk file afterwards ipkg make index creates the Packages file for a feed There currently are two ipk file formats One uses the tar and gz format wheras the other one uses a different binary format that is the same as the Debian deb format The Zaurus with default Sharp ROM
114. bvncserver fbvncserver c3000_0 9 4 0 3_arm ipk which allows me to view the Zaurus desktop remotely using a vnc client such as tightvnc or using a web browser to connect to port 5800 on the Zaurus I also managed to get the mouse pointer working through the vnc server as well as the keyboard However some keys are still wrongly mapped If you just want a read only vnc server without remote mouse and keyboard entry then do the following to disable them su rm etc rc d init d fbvncinput reboot Alternatively you could also just restart Qtopia instead of rebooting the Zaurus To do that instead do the following su usr local bin fbvncinput stop killall qpe If you want to re enable the keyboard and mouse then just recreate the the symbolic link to fbvncinput and reboot your Zaurus su ln s usr local bin fbvncinput etc rc d init d fbvncinput reboot Alternatively you could also just restart Qtopia instead of rebooting the Zaurus To do that instead do the following su usr local bin fbvncinput start my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 55 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 killall qpe Vncserver for Debian Vncserver is part of the Debian PocketWorkstation bundle and is intended as a loopback service to connect to the Debian instance locally However there is nothing preventing it from being accessed remotely as well Vncserver listens on port 5901 and can be
115. c myZaurus zbook html 151 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The bad thing about pdaXrom is that after beta3 things go downhill For each bug fixed a new one is introduced The beta4 and its successor r121 are really new versions because of their drastic change with the introduction of a new boot mechanism and replacement of the stable 2 4 20 kernel with the faster but buggier 2 6 x kernel As a result of this most configuration tools are broken and many of the applications need to be recompiled If you want to put up with a buggy distro for testing then you might as well move to OpenZaurus instead because it actually fully supports all C3x00 models OpenZaurus OpenZaurus or OZ as its commonly known as is yet another popular Linux distro for the Zaurus OpenZaurus comes in two main flavours which you can choose from There is OPIE and GPE The OPIE flavour of OZ is an opensource implementation of a newer version of Qtopia and a likely candidate as a replacement for Sharp ROM Cacko OZ GPE is the X11 flavour of OpenZaurus and similar to pdaXrom There is also an experimental Enlightment version too which is another powerful X11 window manager Finally there is also OZ bootstrap which is just the bare minimum bootable image of OZ You can also install Opie and GPE on different virtual terminals and thus have both running at the same time and switch between the terminals This can be done with a bit of hacking but should ideally be the default for the clam
116. can be used to repackage the ipk file see Building your own Packages section for more details If the Debian package has dependencies on other packages then those also need to be converted and installed as well I have already converted and repackaged the following packages from deb files into ipk files and tested them to work successfully on the Sharp ROM without PocketWorkstation xqt icewm_1 2 20 1_arm ipk replaces blackbox with icewm using winxp theme mozilla firefox_1 0 4 2_arm ipk newer version of firefox More to come OpenOffice can also be installed directly onto the Sharp ROM using the following with the above mentioned packages installed zaurus debian openoffice114 tar gz xqt openoffice install sh archived as a zip file However getting the above setup is still a bit tricky and risky since you can brick your Zaurus in the process my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 129 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 OpenOffice as a cramfs or squashfs image As an alternative you can run OpenOffice from a cramfs or squashfs image similar to the X Qt application images I have bundled OpenOffice with a shrunk down version of Debian minideb to allow you to run OpenOffice just like the other X Qt applications without using PocketWorkstation but utilising minideb as the underlying engine instead Installation of xqt openoffice is similar to the installation of the other xqt cramfs squ
117. cko 1 23 is not available for the SL C3000 except for the beta version which does not update the kernel and add additional drivers anyway I have extracted the features that I really like in Cacko and created packages that can be installed on the SL C3000 Sharp distro so that my SL C3000 can also benefit from some of the useful Cacko features and updates that is available for the SL C3100 without having to install the beta which is just missing too many features provided by the proper Cacko 1 23 to make it worthwhile Here is a list of packages extracted from Cacko with short descriptions qtopia sysinfo_1 23_arm ipk enhanced sysinfo tool with process and mount controls qtopia addressbook_1 23_arm ipk addressbook with alphanumeric sorting support qtopia combbatteryapplet_1 0 6_arm ipk updated battery applet with overclocking underclocking support qtopia memoryapplet_1 0 3_arm ipk updated memory applet with better swapfile management qtopia keyboardapplet_1 0 0_arm ipk keyboard layout mapper applet qtopia network usblan_1 0 0_arm ipk network config for usb lan adaptor qtopia network bluetooth_1 0 0_arm ipk network config for bluetooth adaptor The following are some of the driver packages available from the Cacko feed to add the same driver and networking support as Cacko vga console font_1 0 1_arm ipk vga console font input modules 2 4 20_1 23 lite 1_arm ipk isofs modules 2 4 20_1 23 lite 1_arm ipk hfs modules 2 4 20_1 23 lite 1_
118. consecutively and sticky keys are enabled The keys are mapped as displayed on the keyboard except for some additional keys which have also been mapped but are not marked on the keyboard Also some keys have been remapped as follows Fn q Scandinavian A with loop Fn o Danish O crossed out Fn p British Pound sign Fn a AE character Fn s Euro symbol Fn m Backtick accent grave LeftKanji Alt RightKanji Backtick same as Fn m Calendar Control Address Alt I rewrote akita xmodmap to mirror the Spitz Borzoi keyboard according to the values returned by xev The result is that each key on the keyboard is now clearly mapped and reflected in the new file that I called spitz xmodmap I also removed the duplicate mapping for Alt and Control from the Calendar and Address keys so that they can be reassigned and also swapped Fn m and Fn q around The right kanji key has also been remapped as a modifier key Super L By defeault there are also several predefined key combos which do the following Ctrl Alt BS Shutdown X Ctrl Alt Left Switch to previous Virtual Desktop Ctrl Alt Right Switch to next Virtual Desktop Shift Alt Left Send to previous Desktop Shift Alt Right Send to next Desktop Ctrl Alt d Toggle Show Desktop Ctrl Alt m Toggle Maximize Restore Window Fn Ctrl Alt Down MoveRelativeVert Fn Ctrl Alt Up MoveRelativeVert Fn Ctrl Alt Left MoveRelativeHorz Fn Ctrl Alt Right MoveRelativeHorz Alt Tab Switch
119. customs However the local Post Office fucked up as usual and it took 2 more days to arrive The Zaurus is an astounding technology gadget dreamt up by the Japanese and is the only PDA that really suits my needs For instance it runs Linux Also the SL C3000 was the first PDA with an internal HDD and currently the SL C3000 and SL C3100 are one of the very few PDAs with an internal HDD The 4 GB micro drive offers sufficient storage for a PDA and opens up many possibilities such as using the Zaurus as a portable video and audio player The Zaurus HDD is also recognized by Windows as a plug n play USB storage device but sometimes it is a pain to detect properly The display of the Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 is 3 7 in size and the VGA 640x480 screen is truly awesome It s bright and razor sharp And there s a built in zoom function that allows you to zoom the screen The screen s orientation automatically adjusts when swivelled The swivelling screen transforms the shape of the Zaurus from PDA style to laptop style Once in laptop style you can utilize the QWERTY keyboard with its great tactile feedback The Zaurus features an advanced character recognision for Japanese kanji hiragana and katakana and English which is entered directly onto the touchscreen via a stylus pen It also has a fully featured bi directional Japanese English dictionary and translation software The Zaurus measures 124x87x25mm and weighs 298g And here is my Zaurus n
120. d AbiWord 2 4 0 Gnumeric 1 6 0 Firefox 1 5 dillo xft 0 8 5 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 133 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Thunderbird 1 0 7 Sylpheed 2 0 2 Gimp 2 3 4 GQView 2 1 1 SciTE 1 62 nedit 5 4 gftp 2 0 18 axyftp 0 5 1 xchat 2 6 gaim 2 0 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 134 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 gyach 0 9 4 gtkyahoo 0 18 2 Dia 0 92 BlueFish 0 13 StarDict 2 4 3 Galculator 1 2 5 planner 0 13 fltdj 0 7 flfm 0 3 rox 2 2 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 135 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 ethereal 0 10 9 tightvnc 1 2 9 epdfview 0 2 1 xpdf 3 01 minimo 0 12 links 2 1 free42 x48 leafpad 0 7 9 grisbi 0 5 8 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 136 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 ImageMagick 6 2 5 denemo 0 5 3 xmms 1 2 10 putty 0 58 Xarchiver 0 3 1 mc 4 6 1 gpsdrive 2 10pre3 smsessy 0 1 1 wip gpaint2 0 2 3 gpe gallery 0 97 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 137 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 gmplayer 1 1pre8 dosbox 0 63 homebank 3 2 knowde 1 8 0 Many more untested packages are available from the pdaXrom X Qt feed as well as the pdaXrom 1 0 5 feeds on the main pdaXrom site The pdaXqtrom images are installed as mountable file
121. d find the contents of sd_map under X Applications MobileMapData sd_map The MobileMapData part is in katakana There is also the Contents_Files directory containing many Japanese books and reading material on the C3100 If you don t know Japanese you probably want to hide the Contents tab This can be done though the Appearance tool under the Settings tab You probably also want to remove the hdd3 Documents Contents_Files directory afterwards as well If you ever want it back you can simply copy it from the third CD Lastly hdd3 gets wiped when you do a factory reset but you can disable that behaviour To do that you need to first remount as rw and then modify root etc rc d rc rofilesys and comment out the following section if HDDCLEAR YES then dd if dev zero of dev IDE1 3 gt dev null 2 gt dev nulls fi mkfs vfat F 32 dev IDE1 3 2 gt dev null gt dev null Of course after you do a factory reset you will need to fix rc rofilesys again so the next time you do a reset it won t wipe your hdd3 Alternatively you could also update home_default tar and replace the rc rofilesys in there with the hacked version and not worry about it anymore On the C3100 hdd1 and hdd2 doesn t contain anything important and are a waste of space because those partitions are not really used except for factory reset to wipe hdd3 which sux anyway Thus you can hack rc rofilesys to not even mount them or you could resize the partitio
122. d mount the internal MicroDrive as rootfs OZ does that very well however pdaXrom does not officially support the C3000 so it needs to be hacked to do that Also the perfect distro needs to fully support the SL C3000 hardware and its many powerful features I will compare the two most relatively stable version GPE based on OZ 3 5 4 1 2 6 kernel and pdaXrom 1 1 0 beta1 2 4 20 kernel rather than the most bleeding edge and experimental versions such as Angstrom GPE 2 6 kernel and pdaXrom r121 or later 2 6 kernel Hardware Support The SL C3000 has great hardware which more or less is supported by both distros Here is a quick summary of hardware and their level of support XScale CPU both OZ and pdaXrom are optimised for XScale CPU scaling and Power consumption this is poorly supported on either distro touch screen both distro support touch screen 4 GB internal hard drive supported by OZ by default ie OZ runs off the harddrive pdaXrom requires hack to use harddrive but works just the same with hack USB host capability OZ has support for USB host but common device drivers are not automatically loaded better supported by pdaXrom USB storage is supported by both however usb mouse and keyboard is better supported by pdaXrom CF pcmcia service works on both OZ and pdaXrom however the CF card is not automatically mounted after reboot SD card service works on both but by default is significantly slower on OZ since it uses the sync
123. e Zaurus from suspend if an event triggers occurs and sounds an alarm KA Pi addressbook kaddressbook_2 1 2_arm ipk PwM Pi password manager pwmanager_2 1 2_arm ipk ksharpPIM DTMaccess ksharpPIM DTMaccess_2 1 2_arm ipk This is used to sync KA Pi and KO Pi with the Sharp PIM applications on the Zaurus which use the new Sharp DMT Pim format kmobilephoneaccess mobilephoneaccess_2 1 2_arm ipk Command line tool for accessing mobile phones It is used from Kx Pi to sync with export to mobile phones I don t use PIM stuff much and I don t sync either My Zaurus is my laptop All my important stuff is on my Z so I only tried the email calendar and address book without the rest of the sync stuff Firefox Thunderbird and Open Office is what I use mainly Java Java seems to have been discontinued for the Zaurus The SL C3000 as well as any later models such as the SL C3100 do not get shipped with any JVM JRE Java Runtime anymore Also there has not been any newer versions of the JVM for Zauri since the 1 3 1 release Java currently is at 1 5 x April 2005 There are several Java flavours available for the Zaurus Most of them are J2ME distributions J2ME is the micro edition of Java which was designed for small portable devices There is a J2SE package available as well J2SE is the normal Java that runs on most desktop and my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 85 of 224 20 03
124. e and extract the three jar files and copy them to the jre lib ext directory If you want to write Java applications on the Zaurus as well in addition to just running them then you need a Java compiler The following compilers are available IBM s Jikes zaurus_jikes tar gz Kopi Compiler Kopi 1 5 zip Sun s javac tools jar from a 1 3 1 JDK I have created ipk files for the following Java applications that I ve written HdPad 1 0 Java Text Editor hdpad_1 0_arm ipk works with J2ME but needs rt jar from blackdown works with J2SE in X QT HdProxy 1 1 Java Proxy Server hdproxy_1 1_arm ipk works with J2SE in X Qt HdCrawler 2 5 Java Download tool for Yahoo and MSN groups hdcrawler_2 5_arm ipk works with J2SE and JSSE added in X Qt my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 88 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 More info about these Java apps can be found at the HdLSoft site I have also created a cramfs image with the jre and tools pre installed and configured All you need to do to use it is to mount the cramfs image and create some links to the executables by running java setup su mkdir p mnt java mount o loop hdd3 java cramfs mnt java echo hdd3 java cramfs mnt java cramfs loop 0 0 gt gt etc fstab mnt java java setup See the X Qt jumbo section for more details You will need X Qt if you want to run awt or swing Note You should install automo
125. e currently are two ipk file formats One uses the tar and gz format wheras the other one uses a different binary format that is the same as the Debian deb format The Zaurus with default Sharp ROM and Cacko as well as pdaXrom uses the tar and gz format which basically is a gzipped tarball tgz or tar gz with a control structure and renamed to ipk If you extract this ipk file you will find 3 files inside it a text file called debian binaries which just contains the string 2 0 and two tar gz files called control and data The control tar gz file contains a text file called control which has informaton about the package such as the Maintainer s name dependencies version description etc There may also be some optional shell scripts for doing some pre and post configuration tasks during install and uninstall Finally the file data tar gz contains all the files and directory structure of the files for their destination location The other ipk format is used by OpenZaurus and PocketWorkstation Debian and requires the ar command to extract the files To unpack an ipk file to see what is inside it do the following unpackipk somefile ipk To create your own ipk file do the following to create the ipk file structure newipk myproject Then once you add your files in the correct locations and also update the control file with the information about your application you can create your ipk file with the following command makeipk
126. e latest version of mplayer 1 0pre8 with gmplayer enabled Java Java is available through the jamvm and classpath packages Using these packages a JRE 1 4 x compatible environment can be achieved however due to copyright and licensing restrictions jamvm cannot be called Java nor does it guarantee full compatability although it can run most Java applications Using jamvm and classpath I was able to run jedit on my Zaurus In addition I managed to build a Java Plugin for Firefox which uses jamvm and classpath Just install gcjwebplugin 0 3 2_armv5tel ipk and Firefox 1 5 will be java enabled It will be able to run most applets however not all applets will work The plugin uses the classpath libraries so watch out for updates of the classpath package which should allow more applets to work my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 176 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The jamvm and classpath packages gives you a Java compatable runtime however in order to develop Java applications you will need a Java compiler and other tools like jar javah javap and javadoc Jikes can be used as a replacement Java compiler and there is also a classpath tools package which has some of the Java tools you need If you want to be very sneaky then you can copy the tools jar file from a 1 4 x JDK and use it instead gcc There is an on board gcc 3 4 5 compiler to allow native development on the Zaurus Furthermore th
127. e root usr lib samba ln s usr lib samba smb conf smb conf Once you install SambaController you can use it to start and stop samba as well as modify smb conf from the Configure tab my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 51 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You should also install smbpasswd smbpasswd_0 1 1_arm ipk which will allow you to set the samba password Once you installed smbpasswd you will need to do the following to get it working su ln s usr local samba lib codepages usr lib samba codepages rm usr local samba lib smb conf ln s usr local samba lib smb conf usr lib samba smb conf ln s usr local samba private smbpasswd etc smbpasswd Note you might need to hack the Windows registry to enable plain text password to make Windows compatible with Samba depends on the version of Windows you are running This configuration forces the samba user to be the zaurus When giving access to the samba shares all the access rights and file permission is that of the zaurus user This will work fine on all FAT filesystems however if you change some of your partitions to ext2 then you might get some permission denied errors when trying to acces create modify move or delete files If that happens make sure the file or directory in question has sufficient access rights for the zaurus user In addition if you change hdd3 to another filesystem other than fat then samba will s
128. e the following command to launch the mobile phone java game assuming all the jar files are in the current directory and we have a game Xyanide_141 jar evm classpath me4se jar midpx jar Xyanide_141 jar org me4se MIDletRunner GameMIDlet If you want to play another game then just specify the jar file of that game instead The last parameter is the classname for the game This value can be extracted from the jad file or the manifest file inside the jar file and is the last argument of the MIDlet 1 variable after the icon name I have also created midp launcher midp launcher_0 2_arm ipk which is a qshdlg script providing a GUI game selector to launch game files located under home zaurus Documents games j2me It also includes a modified version of me4se jar that uses the larger 640x480 screen instead of the default mobile screen size It also includes other necessary files such as midpx jar midp launcher also has a command line interface which you can use to launch midp jar files midp mnt card opera mini1 2 2960 basic us jar my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 87 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 J2SE Installing the J2SE version from Blackdown is a bit trickier If you install the ipk version then you need to do the following hacks to get it working after the install su ln s usr lib jdk1 3 usr lib jre ln s usr lib jdk1 3 bin armv4l usr lib jdk1 3 bin armv5tel ln s us
129. e was not such an easy task since Australia is quite behind Asia in terms of the technology market Most computer shops did not even know what a wireless CF card was and those who knew had to order it in 3 4 days since there was no demand for them and hence none of them had any in stock The Zaurus supports 802 11b wireless compact flash and generally in Australia this means the Netgear MA701 or the D LINK DCF 660W Air I got myself the Netgear MA701 which costs around AUD 100 because none of the shops had a D Link in stock I recently also found a SanDisk Connect Plus 128M for only AUD 79 I also found a USB mini A host adaptor cable to enable the USB host capability of the Zaurus Harris Technology has them GoldX 5 in 1 for around AUD 40 and Office Works has them Comsol 5 in 1 for only AUD 30 The cable comes with a little leather pouch which contains five different interchangable USB connectors USB Male A USB A Female USB B Male Mini USB A and Mini USB B I also found some cheaper cables made by Avico The Avico USB Digital Camera Cord comes in several models The CC1542 is a USB A to USB mini A cable and the CC1522 is a USB mini A to USB mini B cable and costs AUD 9 95 each I also wanted to connect my Zaurus to different LANs via ethernet networks and got myself a tiny USB LAN adaptor This cost me AUD 30 In addition to that I have a small retractable CAT5 network cable made by Aidata bought from Japan on my last trip there fo
130. eb2ipk converts a deb file into an ipk file format zipipk zip up an ipk file and remove ipk file afterwards compatipk attempts to make an ipk packaged for another distro to be more compatible with the Sharp system in terms of filesystem structure xipk installs ipk to alternate location other than main memory xipk link links files and directory installed to alternate locations used by xipk xipk build used to build cramfs squashfs images installs the package to the image without registering it into the package repository ipkg link links files and directory installed by ipkg ipkg make index generates the Packages file needed for a feed pkgsize reports the installed size of the files making up the package ar extract the deb ipk packages mkcramfs create cramfs image mksquashfs create squashfs image There currently are two ipk file formats One uses the tar and gz format wheras the other uses a different format that is similar or the same as the format used for deb files The Zaurus with default Sharp ROM uses the tar and gz format which basically is a gzipped tarball tgz or tar gz with a control structure and renamed to ipk If you extract this ipk file you will find 3 files inside it a text file called debian binaries which just contains the string 2 0 and two tar gz files called control and data The control tar gz file contains a text file called control which has informaton about the package such as the Maintainer
131. ed Debian su mount o bind mnt card hdd3 debroot mnt card The following unmounts the SD card so it is unmounted from the chrooted Debian but still mounted for Qtopia uLinux environment su umount hdd3 debroot mnt card Note There are only 2 loop devices by default You might need to create more See filesystem section for more details Since there are regular new builds of Debian available this Debian image will probably be slightly out of date You can update your Debian installation by running the following commands assuming you are connected to the net This step is not really necessary unless you want the latest and greatest and have sufficient space for whatever gets thrown at you source root profile apt get update apt get upgrade apt get clean You can now use apt get to install new applications apt get by default connects to the internet to get the required packages for you If you already have the required files downloaded or don t want to connect to the internet for installations then you can also make apt get install your deb files from a local directory You would need to install the dpkg dev package first my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 97 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Once that is done make a directory such as home zaurus Documents Install_Files debs and place all your deb files in there Then generate a package summary file Packages gz
132. eft option Wait for fsck to finish Restart Zaurus using the reset key inside the battery compartment The fsck from the Maintenance Menu checks all three partitions on the MicroDrive ie hdd1 hdd2 and hdd3 It does not fsck home or root which is located on Flash In fact there is currently no known way of fscking a jffs2 filesystem which home and root are formatted as You should also regularly fsck your SD and CF card Please unmount them before fscking them Here is how you would fsck a FAT formatted SD card su umount mnt card fsck vfat dev mmcda1 mount mnt card Zaurus Networking Configuring a Wireless CF adaptor Enabling the wireless network was amazingly easy and straightforward Just plug in the Wireless CF card and the Zaurus automatically detects it Then run the Network config applet and enter the network info and press connect Voila That s it Way too easy This was the case using a Netgear MA701 CF Wifi card Not all CF Wifi cards are supported so your milage may vary depending on your card my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 44 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 However you can also manually configure the network without using the Network config applet The config files it generates are located under home zaurus Applications Network modules and are called WLANx conf You will also need to edit the corresponding entry in etc pcmcia wlan ng opts If for any rea
133. either 1 CF or 2 SD depending on where your update files are Now confirm to proceed with the update by selecting Y Wait about 5 minutes after which your Zaurus should reboot You re done You should have 1 11 JP ROM now Warning Only flash your Zaurus with a ROM intended for your specific model and make sure you downloaded the complete files Never ever flash your Zaurus with a ROM for another model It will cause you many sleepless nights trying to restore it to a working condition Zaurus Kernel Replacement There are several replacement kernels for the C3000 and C3100 which enhance the stock kernel that ships with Sharp s ROM You can even build your own if you want and know how to The kernel source is available on Sharp s developer website However there are some smart people who already build and tested their own enhanced kernels One of those is Tetsu s special kernel which has been build for optimised speed and also includes iptables and bluetooth modules It also makes the battery status more accurate and it has a few bug fixes too Warning The kernel is an important part of the Linux OS A bad kernel can corrupt your Zaurus so don t play around with it unless you know what you are doing and install the correct kernel for your model Download and place the files onto a CF or SD card Turn off your Zaurus suspend it Unlock the battery compartment and push the little reset button Put the lid back on and lock it again Plug yo
134. eloper TinyClassDeveloper_arm 1_arm ipk tinyviewer tinyviewer_0 3 1_arm ipk treeexplorer treeexplorer_1 7 0 2_arm ipk visualq visualq_0 5 6E_arm ipk yedit yedit_0 1 0_arm ipk zbedict zbedic_0 9 4 0_arm ipk zeditor zeditor_3 3 2english_arm ipk ziciz irc ziciz_0 88_arm ipk zmeeting zmeeting_1 1_arm ipk zplayer zplayer_0 0 5_arm ipk zuc zuc_640x480 1_arm ipk for Qtopia Console aircrack aircrack_2 1 1_arm ipk gawk gawk_3 1 5_arm ipk bitchx irc bitchx_1 1 final_armv5tel ipk bzip2 bzip2_1 0 2 1_arm ipk cpio cpio_2 6_arm ipk dos2unix dos2unix_1 0 1_arm ipk fdisk fdisk_2 11g 4_2_arm ipk file file_3 39 2_arm ipk flite flite_arm_bin tar gz my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 10 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 hping2 hping2_2 0 0 rc3 3_arm ipk imgresiz imgresiz_1 0_arm ipk lftp lftp_2 6 7 1_arm ipk links links_2 1pre17 1_arm ipk lsof lsof_4 57 1_arm ipk madplay madplay_0 15 2b_arm ipk mc mc_4 6 0_arm ipk memcoder_1 1 0 1_arm ipk mplayer bvdd mplayer bvdd iwmmxt_1 1 5 1_arm ipk ncftp ncftp_3 1 5 1_arm ipk netctl netctl_0 3 0 1_arm ipk nmap nmap_3 70 3_arm ipk openssh client openssh client_3 6 1p1_arm ipk qarg qarg_0 1 0 1_arm ipk qcop2 qcop2_0 1 0 1_arm ipk qshdlg qshdlg_0 6 2 1_arm ipk qttkdlg qtkdlg_0 4 1 1_arm ipk shine shine_0 01_arm ipk smbmou
135. em Sharp ROM with Qtopia You will need to install X Qt first see above or run it via VNC You could also install Debian using my pre build debian image see the X Qt jumbo and PocketWorkstation section otherwise follow the instructions below to install Debian manually my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 94 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Debian needs to be installed on an ext2 filesystem with at least 195MB of free space Unfortunately hdd3 is vfat You could reformat hdd3 as an ext2 filesystem but that is troublesome or install Debian to an ext2 formatted CF or SD Alternatively you can create a loopback filesystem on hdd3 and format it as ext2 Since there is space on hdd3 creating a loopback filesystem for Debian would be the best unless you have already filled up hdd3 in which case you can install Debian to a SD or CF card You can either follow the instructions below or use the jumbo package instead If not using the jumbo package here is how you create the loopback filesystem with 256MB on hdd3 if you want to install OpenOffice make it at least 512MB su cd hdd3 mkdir debroot mknod dev loop2 b 7 2 dd if dev zero of hdd3 pocketworkstation bs 1M count 256 echo y sbin mke2fs pocketworkstation mount o loop t ext2 hdd3 pocketworkstation hdd3 debroot Here is how you format your SD card to be ext2 insert an empty SD card otherwise you will lose ever
136. en enhanced to do it if it can find fsck which you can copy to the initial root partition as follows cd media realroot lib cp lib libblkid so 1 0 ln s libblkid so 1 0 libblkid so 1 cp lib libuuid so 1 2 ln s libuuid so 1 2 libuuid so 1 cp lib libext2fs so 2 4 ln s libext2fs so 2 4 libext2fs so 2 cp lib libcom_err so 2 1 ln s libcom_err so 2 1 libcom_err so 2 cd media realroot sbin cp sbin fsck cp sbin e2fsck ln s e2fsck fsck ext2 ln s e2fsck fsck ext3 And finally there are some minor fixes to eliminate and hide some annoying bootup error messages Hiding the cardservices cannot find modules message my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 157 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 mkdir p media realroot lib modules 2 4 20 Start X GUI automatically Usually runlevel 3 means booting into the console and runlevel 5 is for GUI mode Since pdaXrom boots into runlevel 5 it should start X windows The following fix will start X windows automatically during boot head wc l etc rc d rc awk print 1 1 etc rc d rc gt etc rc d rc new echo if runlevel eq 5 then gt gt etc rc d rc new echo export HOME home root gt gt etc rc d rc new echo usr X11R6 bin startx gt gt etc rc d rc new echo fi gt gt etc rc d rc new echo exit 0 gt gt etc rc d rc new mv etc rc d rc new etc rc d rc The above
137. enoffice hdd3 OpenOffice org1 1 4 mount o loop t ext2 hdd3 pocketworkstation hdd3 debroot mkdir p hdd3 debroot home zaurus OpenOffice org1 1 4 mount o bind hdd3 OpenOffice org1 1 4 hdd3 debroot home zaurus OpenOffice org1 1 4 For preparing for the installation I have extracted the OpenOffice installation binary onto my SD card which can be easily shared between the Qtopia and chrooted Debian system If you are installing to the SD card make sure you have sufficient additional space for the extracted files or complement the space with a CF card and vice versa zcat OOo_SRX645_linuxarm_install tar gz tar xvf C mnt card Documents Now start the PocketWorkstation instance and open a terminal window from inside it cd mnt card Documents instsetoo unxlngr pro 01 normal setup Wait until the installer launches and install it chosing your desired options Make sure you install to home zaurus OpenOffice org1 1 4 which is the default or you would need to change a few things manually to reflect the difference Once installed you can start OpenOffice as follows cd home zaurus OpenOffice1 1 4 soffice amp my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 99 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 If you see messages complaining about locale then do the following cd home root echo export LC_ALL C gt gt profile source profile You can add OpenOffice to the icevm menu by add
138. equire a firmware to be uploaded to the device to initialise it In addition Wifi Radar is also pre installed and configured for most devices and can be used to detect wireless networks Chinese and Japanese support Chinese and Japanese input can be enabled in pdaXii13 by invoking SCIM You can configure SCIM by running scim setup my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 212 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You can activate and switch input methods by pressing Ctrl space for those applications that support it AbiWord for example can be used with scim my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 213 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 After installing the scim packages you will also need to set the XMODIFIERS environment variable as follows export XMODIFIERS im SCIM export GTK_IM_MODULE scim export QT_IM_MODULE scim Place the above into etc profile or xinitrc pdaXii13 has been preconfigured with scim anthy and scim pinyin to support Japanese and Chinese input Dictionaries There are several dictionary packages available for pdaXrom QBEdic is a popular dictionary between different languages that is also available for the Sharp ROM called ZBEDict so the same dictionary files can be used There is also a complete wikipedia that can be installed into QBEDic for reference QBEDic dictionary files can be placed into any directory but by default they are loca
139. er to communicate through their mailing list which is very development centric and offer support on IRC for users They also announce things through their website and through posts on OESF Documentation was almost non existant or scattered until recently The new OZ wiki is a start for documenting a few things but bug reporting is still quite confusing and tedious since there are several bug reporting systems and repositories pdaXrom has a much smaller development team than OZ but has a bigger user community OZ has more users but no cohesive user community Support for pdaXrom is pretty much community driven The pdaXrom users help each other and collect workarounds for common problems until they are fixed Bug reporting is much easier and simpler in pdaXrom but the versioning scheme of pdaXrom is quite confusing since it does not adhere to a standard Custom C3000 distro Since neither pdaXrom nor OpenZaurus have sufficient features that would make them the distro of choice on a C3000 I have come to the conclusion that I would need to build my own custom distro for my C3000 This custom distro would be based on either pdaXrom or OpenZaurus pdaXrom development has stopped for the relatively stable and functional 2 4 kernel based beta1 and beta3 All current development is on the 2 6 kernel based beta4 and r121 OpenZaurus is divided into OPIE and GPE OPIE seems abandoned and does not offer much more than Cacko Sharp in terms of functionalit
140. ere are two different gcc images one that generate soft float binaries pdaXrom native and one that generates hard float binaries cross compile apps for Sharp Cacko To use the gcc compiler you first need to install the following packages that it requires pcre xml parser perl Next put zgcc 3 4 5 img under home root This will make it being automatically mounted on boot You can also mount it manually as follows mount o loop home root zgcc 3 4 5 img opt native arm 3 4 5 xscale softvfp To compile a little test application create a file called hello c with the following content include lt stdio h gt int main printf Hello World n Then run the following command which will generate an executable called hello gcc o hello hello c To compile source packages first download and extract the source tarball Then do the following my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 177 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 configure make You can also use strip to strip the binary to make it smaller once it is built Usually there is a DESTDIR variable defined in the Makefile which can help you turn the compiled binaries into a package cd data build pkg newipk testapp cd data build src testapp make DESTDIR data build pkg testapp data install cd data build pkg makeipk testapp This example uses ipk tools to create a package See the ipkg section below for f
141. erminal Emulator nedit_5 4_armv5tel ipk Text Editor planner_0 13 1_armv5tel ipk Project Management putty_0 58_arm ipk SSH Client scite_1 62_arm ipk Text Editor smessy_0 1 1_arm ipk SMS Messenger stardict_2 4 3_arm ipk Dictionary sylpheed gtk2_2 0 2_arm ipk Email Client thunderbird_1 0 7_arm ipk Email Client tightvnc_1 2 9 1_arm ipk VNC Client xarchiver_0 3 1_arm ipk Archive Tool xchat_2 6 0_arm ipk IRC Client my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 15 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 xmms_1 2 10 4_arm ipk Media Player xpad_2 11_arm ipk Sticky Pad xpdf_3 01 4_arm ipk PDF Viewer xpdf tools_3 01 4_arm ipk PDF Extraction Tools xournal_0 3 1_arm ipk Journal App pdaXQtrom Games packages cgoban_1 9 12_arm ipk gnu go gnuchess_5 07_arm ipk chess gsoko_0 4 2_arm ipk sokoban gtkatlantic_0 4 0_arm ipk monopoly client xbomb_2 1a_arm ipk minesweeper xdemineur_2 1 1_arm ipk minesweeper xkobo_1 11 w01_arm ipk space game xpuyopuyo_0 9 8_arm ipk puzzle xshogi_1 3_arm ipk gnu shogi xsokoban_3 3c_arm ipk sokoban Getting Started Before embarking on customisation and hacking your Zaurus you need to know how to handle it There is a very good manual written by TRIsoft on this topic Please refer to TRIsoft s C3000 manual which they provide for free http trisoft de pdf c3000qs pdf the original TRIsoft quick
142. ersions of those will be available OpenZaurus 3 5 4 1 is the only other Linux distribution that officially supports the SL C3000 Support for the SL C3100 version of those other ROMs already exist even though the SL C3100 is newer than the SL C3000 This is because of the larger flash the SL C3100 has which allows it to be flashed with a ROM image similar to all the other Zauri models that run off the internal flash In fact the SL C3100 is treated like a SL C1000 with an extra internal MicroDrive and hence support for the extra MicroDrive is miniscure The SL C3000 is the only model that was designed to run off the internal MicroDrive harddisk instead of flash Therefore extreme care should be taken when putting an alternate distro onto the SL C3000 since it cannot be easily backed up with a NAND backup like the other models Only do it if you know what you are doing and make sure you know how to recover if something goes wrong Restoring a SL C3000 is not as easy as restoring the other models either Stick to the Sharp distro if you are a newbie Advanced users still should be very careful when they try out the other beta distros Keep in mind that putting another distro onto the SL C3000 will wipe everything on it so make sure you make appropriate backups before doing so Since I have two Zauri both the SL C3000 and the SL C3100 I can make one of them my stable working mini laptop with all my customised settings applications and data while the
143. es security if used correctly needed by some apps unicodefonts verdana extra font with extended character set and rotatable automounter c3000 enables automatic mounting of loop and USB devices Tetsu s special kernel an enhanced kernel for Sharp ROM distro that fixes some annoying bugs and improves performance as well The following are very useful applications that I would also always install applets that appear in the taskbar clipboard applet allows you to cut and paste between application qpe suspendapplet allows you to enable and disable suspend temporarily tasklistapplet allows you to select running applications from a list memoryapplet allows you to manage swap files and view memory usage combbattery applet allows you to manage and monitor power settings as well as overclock and underclock These libraries are often needed by several applications and should be installed to satisfy most generic dependencies libraries kmicrokdelibs kmicrokdelibs_2 1 2_arm ipk libfloat libfloat_1 0_arm ipk libiconv libiconv_1 8 2_arm ipk libncurses libncurses_5 0_arm ipk libpng3 libpng3_1 2 4 1_arm ipk libsdl libsdl_1 2 5 slzaurus20050731_arm ipk qpe libqtopia qpe libqtopia_1 6 0 13_arm ipk openssl openssl_0 9 7d_arm ipk zlib zlib_1 2 2 1_arm ipk These are very useful runtimes and often other useful services or applications depend on having these runtimes runtimes samba allows sharing of
144. esktop You might also need to press the Cancel key as well Here are the key shortcuts for FluxBox Alt Tab Next Window Alt Shift Tab Previous Window Alt c Close Window Alt m Minimise Window Alt n Maximise Window Alt h Maximise Window Horizontally Alt v Maximise Window Vertically Alt s Shade Window Alt t Toggle Decor Alt r Raise Window Alt l Lower Window Alt Up Move Window Upwards Alt Down Move Window Downwards Alt Left Move Window to the Left Alt Right Move Window to the right Alt space FluxBox Menu Alt 1 Virtual Window 1 Alt 2 Virtual Window 2 Alt 3 Virtual Window 3 Alt 4 Virtual Window 4 Alt x Launch Terminal multi aterm has the following key shortcuts Ctrl Alt n New Tab Shift Left Previous Tab Shift Right Next Tab You can also customise the theme and styles FluxBox comes with a set of styles located under opt QtPalmtop share fluxbox styles I have created one called BluePDA which is used by default You switch styles easily from the FluxBox menu under the FluxBox Config options To customise a style copy it to home zaurus fluxbox styles and edit away The background image is part of the style so in order to change the wallpaper you will need to edit the style unless you are using the default BluePDA style Its wallpaper is a symbolic link to opt QtPalmtop share backgrounds wallpaper jpg and you can just replace it with
145. etect a new device at this point a SL series Ver3 NDIS 5 network adaptor and you should be able to configure it By default the Zaurus would be assigned an IP address of 192 168 129 201 Assign an IP address in the same range to this new network adaptor eg 192 168 129 101 You should now be able to ping both ways unless you have a firewall blocking it or DDE service is not enabled If you want the Zaurus to be able to access the my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 47 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 internet as well you could enable internet sharing on your Windows PC assuming it has internet connectivity and you trust Microsoft security If you do that Windows will reset the IP address of your Zaurus NDIS driver to 192 168 0 1 but you can change it back to whatever value you had given it before ie 192 168 129 101 On the Zaurus side you need to run the following commands to setup a route to your windows box su route add host 192 168 129 101 usbd0 route delete net 192 168 129 0 24 usbd0 route add default gw 192 168 129 101 Now that the route is configured you should be able to ping servers by their IP addresses In order to resolve the hostnames you need to configure etc resolv conf on your Zaurus with the DNS that is used on your Windows box Assuming your DNS is 192 168 10 1 do the following echo nameserver 192 168 10 1 gt etc resolv conf You can also automate the ab
146. etting and apply the settings by saving them There are also two hidden files in each sub directory called order and directory which can be manually changed as well In addition you can customise the icons that are displayed for each application on the menu and also the icons displayed for the applications according to their mime associations my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 33 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The icons for the menu and the tabs are located under opt QtPalmtop pics144 Qtopia will always search this location for the icons first If no icon is found with the specified name then it will also search under opt QtPalmtop pics as well If an icon exists with the same name in each location then the icon in opt QtPalmtop pics144 is used The default icons that come with the default Sharp ROM on the C3000 are located under hdd1 usr QtPalmtop rom pics144 and hdd1 usr QtPalmtop rom pics and are symbolically linked to opt QtPalmtop pics144 and opt QtPalmtop pics144 respectively Similarly on the C3100 they are located under usr QtPalmtop rom pics144 and usr QtPalmtop rom pics and are symbolically linked to opt QtPalmtop pics144 and opt QtPalmtop pics144 respectively The icons for file association are by default searched under opt QtPalmtop pics When installing applications they add their icons to opt QtPalmtop pics144 and or opt QtPalmtop pics Usually icons under opt QtPa
147. ettings tab Use this application to backup your Zaurus It allows you to backup your system flash applications and configurations to either SD CF or hdd3 Basically everything except hdd3 hdd1 root and mnt will be backed up and can be restored which means you will need to backup hdd3 by other means Before you backup make sure you unmount any loop devices that are mounted unless they are mounted under mnt otherwise they will be backed up as well which you think might be great but you won t be able to restore the backup image because the additionally backed up files on the loop device s will make the backup image bigger than the backed up partitions If you have automounter installed you can unmount all the loop devices by running the following su automounter stop Once you have backed up all the files on your Zaurus you can remount all the loop devices by running the following su automounter start Since hdd3 is quite large you either need to get a big CF card or mount a Samba or USB drive that has enough space to hold your data A USB drive would be the best cheaper than CF drive and faster than Samba since its connected directly and not over a network unless you have got a fast network Assuming you have your USB disk mounted as mnt usbdisk1 you could do the following to backup hdd3 tar cf hdd3 gzip gt mnt usbdisk1 hdd3 backup tgz If you are paranoid you can backup hdd1 hdd2 and home
148. expansion mount o loop t ext2 hdd3 expansion ext2 home expansion echo hdd3 expansion ext2 home expansion ext2 loop rw noatime 0 0 gt gt etc fstab Alternatively if you rather create an ext3 filesystem instead of an ext2 do the following su dd if dev zero of hdd3 expansion ext3 bs 1MB count 128 echo y sbin mke2fs j hdd3 expansion ext3 mkdir p home expansion mount o loop t ext3 hdd3 expansion ext3 home expansion echo hdd3 expansion ext3 home expansion ext3 loop rw noatime 0 0 gt gt etc fstab Now you could move all the files from usr local to the newly mounted loopback filesystem and then relink usr local to the loopback filesystem This way we moved some files off to hdd3 and extended the my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 60 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 usr local directory to have a higher limit of 128MB Similarly you could do something similar with opt QtPalmtop share and many other directories as well However doing this will impact on performance a little bit The overhead caused by the loopback filesystem and the speed of the MicroDrive are factors to consider and thus choose files and directory that are not frequently used to be moved to the loopback filesystem On C3000 mkdir p home expansion usr local cd usr local tar cvf tar xvf C home expansion usr local mv hdd2 usr local hdd2 usr local bak ln s home e
149. ext to my new PC It s tiny in comparison my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 3 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Specs Features Intel XScale PXA270 CPU at 416MHz 640x480 transreflective touch screen 3 7 diagonal backlit 4 GB internal hard drive 64 MB memory SDRAM 16 MB Internal Flash for SL C3000 128 MB Internal Flash for SL C3100 USB host capability USB OTG implementation Weight 298g Size 128x87x24 mm 1800 mA Lithium Battery up to 7 hours White Colour SL C3000 Black Colour SL C3100 Compact Flash CF II and Secure Digital SD expansion slots Infra Red port 3 5mm stereo audio out microphone in plus small built in speaker Landscape Clamshell or portrait style hot switchable Full QWERTY keyboard with bonus Japanese characters Operating System Linux kernel 2 4 20 from Lineo Graphical User Interface GUI Qtopia 1 5 4 from Trolltech Suite of Personal Information Management PIM applications Hancom Mobile Office Broad compatibility with established Sharp Zaurus software base USB OTG The SL C3000 and SL C3100 use the new USB OTG On The Go connector which allows both mini A and mini B plugs to be plugged in When a mini B is plugged in the Zaurus will act as a USB client ie the Zaurus becomes a USB storage device to the connected host PC or Laptop When the mini A is plugged in the Zaurus will act as a USB host and you can attach USB devices such as keyboards mouse dis
150. ey Action a p1 L s p2 X d p3 A Key Action z k1 R x k2 Y c k3 B Key Action y u i g h j b n m You might also need to disable the key repeater while playing the games to avoid stuttering with the sound effects If you have keyhelper installed then you can run the following to temporarily disable the key repeater khctl norepeat Once you have finished playing the games you can re enable the key repeat by running the following command khctl repeat psx You can even emulate Sony Playstation on the Zaurus with the psx4zaurus emulator It requires the BVDD enabled SDL library The bundle contains binaries for pdaXrom and Cacko which means you will either need Cacko or Sharp ROM with Tetsu s special kernel as well as the latest BVDD kernel module bvdd_0 4 0 1_arm ipk and libSDL bvdd libsdl_1 2 5 bvdd 07 2_arm ipk installed Extract the psx4zaurus zip file and copy scph1001 bin to the same directory where you extracted the psx4all_cacko binary Then place the ROM files into the games_psx directory Use the up and down arrow keys to move between options and the x key to select an option zbochs I tried running Win98 on zbochs zbochs tgz gz It works but it is extremely slow Too slow to be much use anyway However if you are bend on trying then get the Linux or Windows version of bochs and use that to create a disk image with at least 250MB Win98 will fail to instal
151. files over network jeode java runtime perl perl interpreter my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 17 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 bvdd enhanced video driver mplayer media player supporting many video formats xqt gtk jumbo X windows system for Qtopia debian pocketworkstation embedded fully functional Debian environment These command line tools are very important They provide funtionality that one would expect from any OS nowadays command line tools vim or pico console text editors file tells you the file type according to mime settings dos2unix fixes return characters between DOS and UNIX systems unzip allows you to unzip files zip allows you to create zip files bzip2 uses the newer and highly more compressable bzip2 format wget command line http client openssh client secure terminal client applications qpdf2 freetype pdf reader yedit text editor visualq graphics editor qazoo yahoo messenger clone zicic irc client kino2 mplayer frontend firefox mozilla browser thunderbird mozilla email client openoffice open source office application Some tweaking of the look and feel is also required The default Qtopia theme shipped by Sharp is not very pretty depends on taste Changing the theme to something like Crystal Blue will make it look much better There are several themes to choose from out of the box but many more themes can be downloaded a
152. following MimeType text html MimeTypeIcons opera You can also associate an icon to the file association as well which is shown in the above sample Multiple associates can be delimited with a semi colon Screen Orientation The C3000 and C3100 have a larger screen resolution 640x480 than the older models Older applications designed for those models by default start in portrait mode because that is their default mode The C3000 and C3100 support both portrait and landscape mode The clam shell design detects when the screen is rotated and automatically re adjusts the orientation However it also detects that these older applications were build for portrait mode and also automatically switches to portrait mode my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 28 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 when those applications are run To change this behaviour tab on the application icon and hold the stylus there for a few seconds and a properties screen will appear Untick the option Display with magnified screen This needs to be done for each application Alternatively you can add the following line to the appropriate desktop file located under opt QtPalmtop apps Display 640x480 144dpi 480x640 144dpi Only applications that do not have Display 640x480 144dpi 480x640 144dpi in their desktop file will show the Display with magnified screen option however if EnableForcedVGA in home zaurus Settings Lau
153. fonts help a bit in this aspect However many fonts do not have all the unicode characters which results in little square boxes being displayed It is essential to have a font which has all the unicode characters fully and correctly mapped however such a font will use over 1MB of memory for each font size The following fonts get very close to that however the unifont only has size 16 unismall_1 0 0_arm ipk unifont_1 0 1_arm ipk Having fonts that contain as many character sets as possible is a good start however it also depends on the application whether it uses unicode and can extract the right character out of the fonts and display them Some fonts are also missing details for screen rotation and thus will look garbled when the screen is rotated Make sure you install the rotated font also if you find the font garbled on rotation I have added the following extra fonts unicodefonts verdana_1 5 0 3_arm ipk mico unicodefonts georgia_1 5 0 2_arm ipk mico unicodefonts utopia_1 5 0 1_arm ipk vga console font_1 0 1_arm ipk fonts bitstream vera sans mono 50_1 1_arm ipk fonts bitstream vera sans mono 75_1 1_arm ipk FreeSerifFont_20031008_all ipk FreeSansFont_20031008_all ipk FreeMonoFont_20031008_all ipk misaki8_0 04_arm ipk naga10_0 02_arm ipk shnm12_0 03_arm ipk shnm14_0 03_arm ipk shnm16_0 05_arm ipk ayu18_0 02_arm ipk Note The unicodefonts verdana_1 5 0 3_arm ipk is a repackaged version of mico unicodefonts verdana_1 5 0 2_arm i
154. ges file for the feed I have included a copy of ipkg make index in my ipktools package ipktools_0 2_armv5tel ipk Additional Packages There are many more packages beside the ones on the official feeds Many user contributed packages exist and can also be installed Below is a summary of additional packages that I installed from both the feeds and some were installed manually as stand alone packages required libraries libstdcxx5 compat needed for older applications useful command line utilities vim replace vi with vim because vi locks up all the time lynx great text based browser aumix volume controller mplayer video player flite speech synthesizer bzip2 compression utility unrar uncompression utility unzip uncompression utility diffutils text comparison utility aspell spelling engine imagemagic image conversion kismet wifi detector engines and runtimes samba file sharing perl interpretor dosbox DOS emulator x11vnc vnc server java classpath and jamvm games doom2 prboom doom engine quake2 quake2 engine supertux applications gtkterm2 tabbed terminal emulator bluefish HTML editor tuxpaint graphics inkscape graphics xmmsplayer video player plugin for xmms gaim IM client tightvnc vnc client rox file manager emelfm2 file manager xarchiver file compressor decompressor GUI gthumb image viewer gftp ftp client qbedic dictionary stardict diction
155. going to change or add any files there You will need either cramfs 1 1_arm bin tar gz or mkcramfs tar gz or install gcc which also includes it Here is an example for compressing and mounting the jre directory su mkcramfs usr lib jdk1 3 hdd3 jre13 cramfs rm r usr lib jdk1 3 mount t cramfs o loop hdd3 jre13 cramfs usr lib jdk1 3 So far I have crammed the following usr lib jdk1 3 usr lib firefox0 9gtk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 59 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 usr lib thunderbird 0 6 Note that mkcramfs stores the whole image in memory before writing it to disk so make sure you have a sufficiently sized swap file enabled before running mkcramfs Also there are only 2 loop devices by default on the C3000 and C3100 but you can create more loop devices You will need to recreate them each time you reboot so it would be better to automate it in a start script which you can use to automatically mount the cram archives as well Here is how you create dev loop2 to dev loop6 for i in 2 3 4 5 6 gt do gt mknod dev loop i b 7 i gt done You might also want to add an entry into fstab so the cramfs archives can be automatically mounted Copy mntloop to etc rc d init d and link it to rc5 d and rc6 d su cp home zaurus Documents custom mntloop etc rc d init d ln s etc rc d init d mntloop etc rc d rc5 d S50mnt ln s etc rc d init d mntloo
156. h javap and javadoc Jikes can be used as a replacement Java compiler and there is also a classpath tools package which has some of the Java tools you need You can copy the tools jar file from a 1 4 x JDK and use it instead gcc There is an on board gcc 3 4 6 compiler to allow native development on the Zaurus The older 3 4 5 version is also compatible You need to put one of the zgcc images such as zgcc 3 4 6 squashfs or zgcc 3 4 5 4 squashfs under home root or data This will make it being automatically mounted on boot You can also mount it manually as follows mount o loop data zgcc 3 4 6 squashfs opt native arm 3 4 6 xscale softvfp To compile a little test application create a file called hello c with the following content include lt stdio h gt int main printf Hello World n Then run the following command which will generate an executable called hello gcc o hello hello c To compile source packages first download and extract the source tarball Then do the following configure make You can also use strip to strip the binary to make it smaller once it is built Usually there is a DESTDIR variable defined in the Makefile which can help you turn the compiled binaries into a package my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 219 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 cd data build pkg newipk testapp cd data build src testapp make DESTDIR data
157. h free disk space You need to install at least the pdaXqtrom base image You can install the pdaXqtrom apps image as well or install individual application packages manually The zgcc image is an optional native C C compiler if you want to compile your own applications on your Zaurus It can build applications for QT E 1 5 Sharp Cacko ROM as well as X11 applications for pdaXqtrom X Qt A minimal Perl is also included on this image The java image contains blackdown 1 3 1 as well as jamvm 1 4 2 and classpath 0 20 for running java applications Several java compilers and tools such as jikes and jar are also included jEdit 4 2 has been configured to use blackdown jvm HdPad simple text editor and HdCrawler dynamic file downloader are also included which use blackdown as well The classpath samples can be tested by using the jamtest script jamvm and classpath can be used to run applications compiled for java 1 4 x or later which blackdown cannot since it is only JRE 1 3 1 classpath is also used by the firefox java plugin gcjwebplugin You will need both the zgcc and java images if you want to use the firefox java plugin Java is very memory hungry and very slow on the Zaurus and not all java applets will work properly either If you had installed X Qt components before and they did not uninstall cleanly then you can run my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 132 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 xqtc
158. h unpackipk then convert it using the deb2ipk perl script first or ue the ar tool instead Building your own pdaXii13 image You can also build your own customised pdaXii13 image The simplest way is to just backup your customised pdaXii13 system with zbackup and rename the backup tgz file to hdimage custom tgz and use it to flash your Zaurus with in combination with the other install files The harder way is to rip the default initrd file for the C1000 C3100 and customise that image The following describes how the pdaXii13 binaries are built if you want to build it yourself from scratch updater sh Grab an updater sh file I used the one from pdaXrom C3000 beta2 and use the endecsh utility to decode it into a normal shell script and customise the script endecsh d updater sh updater txt Then use endecsh to encode the updater sh script endecsh e updater txt updater sh You can compile endecsh yourself or extract it from the updater tools bin file updater tools bin The updater tools bin file is a tar file It contains utilities from the pdaXrom tools tar file tar xvf tools tar I removed the kernel images and nand patches from the extracted tar file and added the pivot_root binary and init script as well as other tools to the bin directory and re archived it tar cvf updater tools bin tools zImage bin This is a kernel image I just renamed the kernel from the C3000 beta2 to zImage 2 4 20 bin This way
159. he IrNet module on the Zaurus and your other Linux box However it is already installed on Windows 2000 so all you need to do on Windows is to create a new Direct Connection using IrDA interface To install and enable IrNet on the Zaurus you will need to copy irnet o to lib modules 2 4 20 kernel net irda irnet su mkdir p lib modules 2 4 20 kernel net irda irnet cp irnet o lib modules 2 4 20 kernel net irda irnet mknod dev irnet c 10 187 chown root root dev irnet chmod 644 dev irnet insmod irnet etc rc d init d irda start pppd dev irnet 9600 10 10 10 21 10 10 10 20 local noauth nodetach On the IrDA client if you are running Linux and IrNet is already setup you can simply do the following su etc rc d init d irda start pppd dev irnet 9600 nodetach If you are running Windows and you have setup the direct connection using IrDA as client you can simply double click on the Direct Connection icon to connect Once they are paired successfully you can ping the other box from the Zaurus as 10 10 10 20 The Zaurus would be 10 10 10 21 in this example You can also just simply install irnet_2 4 20_arm ipk which installs and configures irnet so that it will be available even after a reboot It also provides an opie shell script to allow you to start and stop it from the Qtopia GUI or simply run irnet start to start it from the command line and irnet stop to stop it Using Bluetooth for networking If
160. he US http www pulster de Another place in Europe for purchasing a Zaurus http pricejapan com Cheapest place for a Zaurus if support is not important to you http www wolf ne jp syuhen zaurus html Zaurus accessories http www zaurusworld ne jp Sharp SpaceTown http software ezaurus com Zaurus Software Japanese http www zaurususergroup org Zaurus user group and software repository http www oesf org forums Zaurus help forum in English http www linuxontour de modules newbb Zaurus forum in German http forum zaurusfr org Zaurus forum in French http externe net zaurus forum index php Zaurus resource page in English and French http ssh idv tw bbs viewforum php f 30 Zaurus forum in Chinese ROC http www pumb org forumdisplay php fid 15 Zaurus forum in Chinese HK http forum zaurus cn Zaurus forum in Chinese China http www sluser org slwiki Zaurus resource wiki in Japanese http www ayati com kobako c3000 htm Zaurus info page in Japanese http www killefiz de zaurus software repository http www elsix org software repository http www pdaxrom org alternate distro and software repository http www openzaurus org alternate distro and software repository http www zaurusoft com software repository http zsi2 stonekeep com software repository http atty skr jp mplayer and emulators http www gnurou org software zaurus games
161. he gadget module You will need to load it manually after plugging in the USB cable Don t expect it to be loaded automatically like in Sharp Cacko or pdaXrom Setting up WiFi Just plug the CF WiFi card in and provided it is supported the appropriate drivers will be loaded for it and you can configure your network using the network applet This is straightforward stuff if you know how to setup a network Setting up Bluetooth Just plug the CF Bluetooth card in and provided it is supported the appropriate drivers will be loaded for my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 184 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 it and you can setup PAN or GPRS with the applet Make sure you don t forget to set your PIN Setting up Ethernet network Using a USB Ethernet adaptor you can connect to an ethernet network Usually those adaptors use a rtl8150 or pegasus chip so installing the appropriate kernel module will enable the adaptor as eth0 once plugged in The rest is standard ifconfig and route stuff Configuring Samba and SSH You can share the files on your Zaurus via Samba Just install the samba packages and configure smb conf Furthermore you can also get a remote terminal into the Zaurus via ssh and transfer files via scp OZ by default uses dropbear instead of the more common sshd Configuring VNC server and client Configuring VNC allows you to remotely control other machines or allow other machines contr
162. he network config tool to do the same thing or use my bluetooth gui script Setting up a bluetooth Dialup connection my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 65 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You can also use bluetooth to behave like a serial communication device You can connect to other devices such as computers via a serial line similar to an IrDA connection but with a wider range and greater speed or connect to a modem on a computer or mobile phone to dialup internet services Using the serial communication feature you can emulate PPP and or use OBEX for file transfer the IrDA beaming feature To setup bluetooth dialup service for example you can do the following to dial a GPRS on a mobile phone First create a config file under etc ppp peers as follows dev rfcomm0 115200 connect usr sbin chat s v t 60 ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT NO DIALTONE ABORT BUSY ATZ OK ATDP 99 CONNECT crtscts noipdefault modem usepeerdns defaultroute connect delay 5000 remotename DUN1138428518 Make sure the remotename matches the id in home zaurus Applications Network modules Bluetooth conf For the Telstra GPRS no username and password was required and the network settings were DHCP The only thing needed to be provided was the GPRS profile name which was telstra The default dial string of atz was sufficient with 99 as the number which tells the phone to use its local profile Additionally
163. hen I need to type a lot Almost any standard USB keyboard should work with the Zaurus The keymapping needs some adjustments since the Zaurus keymapping layout is Japanese and not English by default but this can be easily changed since it is mainly QWERTY based I also got a pack of spare stylus so I can leave one at the office In addition I bought the Belkin 4 in 1 stylus for around AUD 39 It is the size of a normal pen so it feels quite natural to use When you use it you get the feeling that the stylus tip is very soft and won t damage your screen The tip can also be retracted like most pen by a simple twist and it even has a pen built in that can be used to write On my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 6 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 the other end there is a light and a laser pointer The laser pointer is quite handy since I do quite a lot of presentations and the light is pretty cool and helps in the dark An exact copy of the Belkin 4 in 1 can also be found at Jaycar for half the price and for an even cheaper copy try Vietnam where you can get it for around AUD 10 only The copies also come in a wooden pen box with extra spare batteries as well Photos from my digital camera can be easily transferred to the Zaurus either via USB connection using the Avico or GoldX cables or by directly inserting the SD Memory Card from the camera into the Zaurus SD slot Some of my other cameras use CF
164. hing that is powerful enough to emulate it There are several cross compile toolchains which allow you to compile applications for the Zaurus One of the easiest to setup and getting started with is the kopsis toolchain http kopsisengineering com kopsis SharpZaurusSdkDsl which uses the DSL Damn Small Linux Live CD technology allowing you to boot the CD and have a ready development environment or use the CD image from a x86 emulator such as qemu bochs or vmware There is a great vmware image of DSL made by speculatrix You can download is from http www zaurus org uk downloads html There are several on board development images as well but none had everything I needed so I built my own on board development environment based on the zgcc 2 95 2 cramfs image zgcc2Bin cramfs which is derived from the Debian arm distribution My zgcc development image zgcc2 95 2 lite comes in a single cramfs image and includes necessary headers and libraries to compile and build console based applications Qtopia applications QT E 1 5 as well as kernel modules for the 2 4 20 kernel This image is as small as it gets and does not include documentation I also made a bigger image zgcc2 95 2 which is compressed as a squashfs image instead to save space This larger image includes X11 headers and libraries and supports compiling X Qt applications especially pdaXqtrom in fact pdaXqtrom was build using it It can build many of the opensource applications both co
165. html 34 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Backup Restore Icon BackupRestore png SystemInfo Icon SystemInfo png Migration DataMoving png ReceiveData DataMovingSL png PC Link Samba Icon qtsamba png IR Receive Icon Infrared png Applications TextEditor Icon TextEditor png Calendar Icon DateBook png AddressBook Icon AddressBook png TodoList Icon TodoList png Email Icon EMail png MoviePlayer Icon MPEGPlayer png pics only HancomSheet Icon hancomsheet png HancomWord Icon hancomword png ImagePad Icon zimager zimager png Dictionary Icon Zten png pics only Translator Icon translator png pics only Calculator Icon Calculator png CityTime Icon CityTime png Clock Icon Clock png HelpBrowser Icon HelpBrowser png MusicPlayer Icon MusicPlayer png NetFront Icon nf_logo png pics only PhotoStorage Icon photostorage png pics only Menu and File Manager Start Button go png pics144 only Volume Button volume png pics144 only Wait Button wait png pics144 only ZoomIn Icon zoomin png pics144 only ZoomOut zoomout png pics144 only Rotation Icon transform png pics144 only Restart Icon Restart png Shutdown Icon Shutdown png Zaurus Home Icon myzaurus png Main Icon MainDevice png Main Icon small MainDeviceS png Folder Icon slfolder png Folder Icon large slfolder_l png Docs Icons DocsIcon png pics144 only Settings Icon SettingsIcon png Apps Icon AppsIcon png
166. ia as well as GTK libraries The X Qt jumbo package is compatible with the Sharp ROM as well as Cacko which is a derivative of the Sharp ROM The X Qt jumbo package has been tested on the SL C3100 SL C3000 SL C1000 and SL C860 Other models might work as well but have not been explicitly tested The X Qt jumbo package is composed of the following packages xqt fonts misc xqt fonts misc_4 3 0 3_all ipk xqt fonts 100dpi xqt fonts 100dpi iso8859 1_4 3 0 3_all ipk xqt fonts 75dpi xqt fonts 75dpi iso8859 1_4 3 0 3_all ipk xqt server xqt server_1 9 0_arm ipk xbase etc xbase etc_4 3 0 3_all ipk zlib zlib_1 2 2 1_arm ipk xlibs xlibs_4 3 0 3_arm ipk xbase client xbase clients_4 3 0 3_arm ipk gdk pixbuf gdk pixbuf_0 22 0 2_arm ipk glib glib_1 2 10 0vl3_arm ipk glib additional glib additional_1 2 10 2_arm ipk glibc locale ja eucjp glibc locale ja eucjp_2 2 2 1_arm ipk glibc locale ja utf8 glibc locale ja utf8_2 2 2 1_arm ipk glibc gconv ja glibc gconv ja_2 2 2 1_arm ipk glib2 glib2_2 4 7_arm ipk libgcc1 libgcc1 zaurus_3 2 2 0_arm ipk freetype freetype_2 1 5 1_arm ipk fontconfig fontconfig_2 2 1 1_arm ipk fontconfig etc fontconfig etc_2 2 1 1_all ipk xqt fonts encodings xqt fonts encodings_4 3 0 3_all ipk atk atk_1 6 1_arm ipk gtk gtk_1 2 10 1_arm ipk gtk2 gtk2_2 4 13_arm ipk libtiff libtiff3 6 1 1_arm ipk pango pango_1 4 1_arm ipk xqtclip xqtclip_0 0 2_arm ipk rxvt rxvt_2 6 4 1_arm ipk my Z
167. ia such as an inserted CF or SD card or mount an ext2 loop back filesystem from either CF or SD card as well I have enhanced the altboot config and menu to also allow you to boot off ext2 loop back images from the internal MicroDrive located on hdd3 partition In order to do that place the loop back images under media hdd boot images and add 30 bootHDD to etc altboot menu and update altboot conf and my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 185 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 altboot func If you want to disable the altboot menu from being shown several times then disable altboot on the ext2 loop image This prevents altboot to be run a second time during bootup once you have selected which image to boot C C development A native on board gcc compiler can be used to develop and compile applications directly on the Zaurus Although this is not as fast as developing on a PC it is quite useful when you are using your Zaurus as a laptop replacement and want to build your own apps without access to a PC running Linux To install gcc so you can develop X applications do the following from a terminal ipkg nodeps install make diffutils pkgconfig ipkg install gcc symlinks g symlinks binutils symlinks libc6 dev gtk dev ncurses dev libpng dev libjpeg dev libungif dev libx11 dev libxpm dev libxft dev libxrender dev libxt dev xproto dev libz dev Alternatively I have also created a cramfs image cont
168. ibiconv_1 8 2_arm ipk libxml2 libxml2_2 6 14 1_arm ipk libglade libglade_2 0 1 1_armv5tel ipk abiword abiword_2 0 0_armv5tel ipk Alternatively I have build an abiword package abiword_2 0 0 2_arm ipk which includes the above packages You can start abiword by tapping on the abiword icon or launching it from the command line as follows xlauncher abiword my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 120 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Installing FlFm The fl file manager package from pdaXrom works with X Qt You will need to install the following packages for flfm flfm_0 3 0_armv5tel ipk xutf8_0 1 1_armv5tel ipk libxd640_0 3 0_armv5tel ipk Alternatively I have build a flfm package flfm_0 3 0 1_arm ipk which includes the above packages Once installed you can launch flfm as follows xlauncher flfm Installing Fltdj The fltdj PIM package from pdaXrom works with X Qt You will need to install the following packages for fltdj my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 121 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 cal_3 5_armv5tel ipk libfltk_1 1 4_armv5tel ipk libfltk utf8_1 1 4_armv5tel ipk fltdj_0 7_armv5tel ipk fltdj utf8_0 7_armv5tel ipk Alternatively I have build a fltdj pim package fltdj_0 7 1_arm ipk which includes the above packages Once installed you can launch fltdj as follows xlauncher fltdj Installing Gimp The G
169. ible provided you have a Palm ROM file Install the following and once done use the Files tab to locate the ROM file and tap on it The ROM will then be launched by QPose qpose data qpose data_3 5 0 2 2_arm ipk qpose bin qpose bin_3 5 0 2 1_arm ipk zbasilisk basilisk zbasiliskii_0 3_arm ipk also works on the Z Since I already have BasiliskII running on my PC I simply copied the whole MacOS7 hfv file and the ROM image to the Z and then loaded zbasilisk It launches X Qt and runs from within it zbasilisk emulates the Mac just like basilisk does on the PC although slower and without sound my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 77 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 If you want to emulate the Mac on the Zaurus install BasiliskII on your PC and download the free MacOS7 binaries Then create a hfv disk image with HFVExplorer 200MB should be enough and copy the MacOS7 5 3 installer binaries onto the disk image Then create a MacOS boot disk and start basilisk booting from the floppy Once booted install MacOS7 5 3 You might then want to upgrade to MacOS 7 5 5 Dictionaries The Zaurus already comes with a Japanese English dictionary which is great however it only does Japanese English and English Japanese I need more languages such as German French and Chinese Zdict is the dictionary that comes with the Zaurus It seems to be almost the same with Zten which is mentioned a lot on the inter
170. icroDrive inside otherwise you won t be gaining anything What you want to do is mirror the 4GB MicroDrive to the Flash card You can d o this by inserting the Flash into the CF slot on the Zaurus and partition it ex actly like the MicroDrive using fdisk Then use the dd command to copy each partition ie hdd1 hdd2 and hdd3 Unmount hdd2 and hdd3 before you copy them or remount them to read only The other partitions are located in the internal flash memory also called Nand Alternatively you can also use parted to copy the entire partition from one disk to another Once this is done you can open up your Z and swap the two drives This will void your warranty so make sure you understand and know what you are doing It is your own responsibility if you break your Zaurus or any parts of it Finding replacement parts will be extremely difficult unless you live in Japan so be careful and consider the consequences of your actions or modifications Let me say it again If you open your Zaurus up to replace parts you void your warranty If you break something during the process then you are on your own since you just voided your warranty Zaurus Backup You should always backup your system since that is the only way to recover if something goes wrong my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 40 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The C3000 and C3100 come with a backup and restore tool which is located under the S
171. ile manager xfe file manager pcmanfm file manager emelfm2 file manager LinNeighborhood samba client frontend xmmsplayer video player plugin for xmms gmplayer mplayer with GUI smplayer GUI for mplayer vlc streaming media streamtuner streamripper xarchiver file compressor decompressor GUI gqview image viewer gthumb image viewer scribble simple drawing qbedic dictionary stardict dictionary epdfview pdf viewer evince pdf viewer fbreader ebook viewer justreader ebook viewer opie reader ebook viewer qcomicbook comic viewer kchmviewer chm viewer dia flow diagrams gimp graphics khdrecord sound recording gpe calendar calendar gpe announce alarms gpe contacts addressbook games xdemineur mines tetrix tetris tictac tictactoe xpat2 solitaire xinvaders space invaders xkobo There are many more packages beside the ones on the official feeds Many user contributed packages exist and can also be installed beta1 beta3 packages are compatible with pdaXii13 Some packages for pdaXrom beta4 and r121 will also work on pdaXii13 Configuring Feeds and Installing Packages The Package Manager has been pre configured to point to a special beta3 feed http www tyrannozaurus com feed beta3 feed which is a merger of several beta3 compatible feeds including the official beta3 and beta1 feeds as well as some custom feeds It also points to local feeds on mnt card feed mnt cf feed and
172. iles can be used There is also a complete wikipedia that can be installed into QBEDic for reference QBEDic dictionary files can be placed into any directory but by default they are located under usr share bedic You can configure QBEDic to look in specific directories for dictionary files Another popular dictionary package for pdaXrom is stardict which also runs on Windows There are many dictionary files available for stardict and there is also a sound package for stardict to pronounce the words in English Stardict expects its dictionary files to be located under usr share stardict dic The sound files have to go under usr share my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 172 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 I have created a squashfs image containing several qbedic and stardict dictionaries as well as the sound files Since the dictionary files are quite huge placing them into a squashfs image can save quite a lot of space I have also created a script called linkdics sh which created the necessary links for stardict so that the files on the squashfs image can be located by stardict AbiWord Abiword is a nice word processor but it defaults to a 800x600 screen resolution which is not very usable for a Zaurus For the C3000 it should be changed to 640x480 This can be done by editing home root AbiSuite AbiWord Profile I have compiled Abiword 2 4 4 and fixed all the window sizes so now every window in
173. ill be covered by the boot screen image Wallpaper Customisation The C3000 and C3100 allow you to use a wallpaper which can be a png or jpg file By default if you use the Appearance application under the Settings tab your selected image will be tiled unless you pick an image that exactly fits the screen 640x420 or 480x620 minus the Qtbar depending on which your preferred orientation is However if you rotate the screen then the image will be out of proportion and will be tiled There is a way around this if you install Plasterer plasterer_2 1 0 1_arm ipk which allows you to choose an image that you can center or tile It will then generate two images for you vImage png and my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 31 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 hImage png which will be used as your wallpaper depending on which orientation you are in You can replace those two files with your preferred images which can be two completely different images I have created the following background images with their horizontal and vertical pairs so they look decent on the Zaurus in either orientation linuxgirl 11linux mypda thinklinux tuxback unix2000 tuxdrinkxp thinkshell Note Most of the above images were taken from Cresho s zaurusthemes org site There are plenty more pretty background images over there These are just my favourite ones You will notice that this application is in Japanese Use the
174. ily washed in warm water so cleaning is a breeze but re attaching it afterwards is a bit tricky The inner side easily catches little dust particles which are very hard to remove and they cause bubbles on the screen However most importantly it prevents scratches on the Z s screen Well I already have a few spare styli but one can never have enough spares so I got the Pilot Pentopia stylus This stylish replacement stylus looks and feels much better than Sharp s greyish plastic stylus that comes with the C3000 or the black stylus that comes with the C3100 The Pentopia stylus comes in a cool metallic colour with black ends and a red tip And it is also extensible by a few centimeters to give it the length of a pencil The extra metal weight also makes it feel like something with substance It also has a pen under the black cap on the other end I have found a USB to VGA adaptor which can be used with the Zaurus It is made by Kairen and contains a SiS 315E graphics chip and there is a custom driver for it ported to the Zaurus With the driver and special application installed you can use this adaptor to connect your Zaurus to a VGA monitor or projector However you will need a USB host cable mini A and a powered hub You cannot plug this adaptor straight into the Zaurus It requires additional power from the USB hub The USB VGA adaptor was designed for USB high speed 480Mbps in mind and runs very slow on the Zaurus which does not support this
175. image for creating the pdaXii13 flash install files as well as the initrd bin image This build image can be used to build pdaXii13 from the Z directly It works if you have Sharp Cacko pdaXrom installed on your Zaurus pdaXii13 custom tgz contains all the customisation files that were used to customise the initrd image from beta3 to create hdimage base tgz In theory this has not been tested one could use pdaXrom builder to build a custom image for the C3100 but instead of generating an initrd bin file you could tar up the generated image instead and use the files from the pdaXii13 custom tgz tarball to customise the image for the C3000 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 222 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The shell script install fixes beta3 sh contained in pdaXii13 custom tgz will apply all the basic customisations and could also be used to update a C1000 C3100 C3200 beta3 install with fixes similar to pdaXii13 base A readme file is included in the tarball which describes each file in the bundle The build files for pdaXii13 can all be found at tyrannozaurus pdaXii13 build section Resources http ezaurus com lineup sl index html Zaurus product page http support ezaurus com sl 3000 qa Zaurus SL C3000 FAQ in Japanese http trisoft de zaurus htm One of the better places for buying a Zaurus they have an English manual too http www streamlinecpus com TRIsoft s partner in t
176. imp and related packages from pdaXrom also work under X Qt However you will need to install several packages to get Gimp working The following packages are required libgimp libgimp_1 2 5 2_armv5tel ipk xqt gimp xqt gimp_1 2 5 2_armv5tel ipk xqt gimp plugins xqt gimp plugins_1 2 5 1_armv5tel ipk libgimp might give some errors but just ignore them Once you have installed gimp you can start it by tapping on the Gimp icon or issuing the following command xlauncher gimp I have also created a single gimp package xqt gimp_1 2 5 3_arm ipk for easier installation which combines all the above listed packages my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 122 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Installing Gnumeric The gnumeric and related packages from pdaXrom also work under X Qt However you will need to install several packages to get gnumeric working The following packages are required bzip2_1 0 2 1_armv5tel ipk expat_1 95 7 1_armv5tel ipk gconf_2 4 0 1 1_armv5tel ipk gnome base libs_2 4 0 1_armv5tel ipk gnome vfs_2 5 3 1_armv5tel ipk gnumeric_1 2 2 1_armv5tel ipk libart lgpl_2 3 16 1_armv5tel ipk libbonobo_2 4 2 1_armv5tel ipk libbonoboui_2 4 2 1_armv5tel ipk libglade_2 0 1 1_armv5tel ipk libgnome_2 4 0 1_armv5tel ipk libgnomecanvas_2 5 1 1_armv5tel ipk libgnomeprint_2 4 2 1_armv5tel ipk libgnomeprintui_2 4 2 1_armv5tel ipk libgnomeui_2 4 0 1 1_armv5tel ipk libgsf_1 8 2 1_armv5tel
177. include more useful applications and actually test their packages before they put them on their feeds They also need to get off their high horse and not just say that OZ is the best and everything else is crap There are a lot of great functionality the other distros have that the OZ people could learn from and adopt to make it better It is quite ironic that a distro that so heavily depends on package dependencies does not have a working GUI Package Manager Both the GPE and OPIE package managers crash when installing large packages or attempt to handle package dependencies The OZ flash utility installer is also a joke as it is not even able to re partition the install target disk which the other inferior distros can do The keyboard mapping in OZ is less functional than Sharp Cacko because it has much cleaner code and is not hacked together However I like these hacks ie keyhelper because they are actually very useful and make the Zaurus a pleasure to use OpenBSD Apart from Linux distros there is also OpenBSD for the Zaurus Not sure whether I am going to try it though Learning Linux is already keeping me quite busy Boot Loader There are also alternate boot loaders for the Zaurus other than the default one provided by Sharp With the introduction of the 2 6 kernel into the Zaurus world several variants of boot loaders have been developed pdaXrom has a new boot loader starting with beta4 called uboot OZ has simplified the pivot boot pr
178. ing the following into etc X11 icewm programs menu OpenOffice folder prog Writer sh c home zaurus OpenOffice org1 1 4 program swriter prog Impress sh c home zaurus OpenOffice org1 1 4 program simpress prog Draw sh c home zaurus OpenOffice org1 1 4 program sdraw prog Math sh c home zaurus OpenOffice org1 1 4 program smath prog Calc sh c home zaurus OpenOffice org1 1 4 program scalc Make sure you are using the latest version of xqt debian scripts xqt debian scripts_0 6_arm ipk which has additional support for mounting the extra OpenOffice loopback if it exists If you have installed OpenOffice onto an additional loopback filesystem you will also need to create etc openoffice conf with the location of OpenOffice stored in it echo home zaurus OpenOffice org1 1 4 gt etc openoffice conf In addition you will need to modify startd to look as follows bin sh startup commands export DISPLAY 0 0 usr bin icewm session shutdown commands if f etc openoffice conf then umount cat etc openoffice conf 2 gt dev null fi umount mnt card 2 gt dev null umount mnt cf 2 gt dev null umount proc my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 100 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Installing Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird on X Qt Make sure you install X Qt first either manually using X Qt jumbo pack
179. installed however there are much nicer ftp clients such as ncftp ncftp_3 1 5 1_arm ipk and lftp lftp_2 6 7 1_arm ipk Alternatively there are also GUI based ftp clients such as opie ftp opieftp_0 9 1 20020702_arm ipk and jftp jftp_0 23 1_arm ipk ftp server If you want to serve as a ftp server then you need to install utftp utftpd_0 2 4_arm ipk or troll ftpd troll ftpd_1 28 cg2_arm ipk Alternatively you can ftp to port 4242 on the Zaurus which is a very basic ftp service Alternatively you can also enable the ftp daemon within inetd To do that uncomment the ftp entry in etc inetd conf and restart inetd su vi etc inetd conf ftp stream tcp nowait root usr sbin tcpd in ftpd l a etc rc d init d inet restart Make sure you use tcp wrapper as it is slightly more secure Then enable tcp wrapper security by creating hosts allow and hosts deny as follows my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 53 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 su echo ALL ALL gt etc hosts deny echo in ftpd 192 168 129 192 168 1 gt gt etc hosts allow Add any IP range you want to give access to in addition to the above Installing Web Server Apache There is a few things that need to be done before you can install Apache su mkdir p hdd2 ramfs www ln sf hdd2 ramfs mnt ramfs ln s hdd2 ramfs www usr local apache Now we are ready to install apache apache 1 3
180. iny flash where modules normally are located I only tried the full Cacko 1 23 on my SL C3100 and noticed quite a few annoying error messages when booting up Cacko on it more than the usual ones you get for Sharp with the Tetsu special kernel installed but it does boot up and it works I have hacked the startup script rc rofilesys to eliminate some of the errors since they are a thorn in my eyes and I have also applied the same hack that I applied to the default rc rofilesys for the Sharp distro The hacked script allows you to boot the SL C3100 without needing hdd1 and hdd2 but it will attempt to mount hdd1 as swap and hdd2 as ext3 if they exist Customising Cacko is similar to customising the Sharp distro but a bit less customisation is required since a lot is already pre customised For example LUSScreensaver mplayer and kino2 ko pi opera mc ssh and sudo are already pre installed if you install the full Cacko edition just to name a few However there are also a few differences introduced by Cacko The startup image in Cacko is bz2 compressed to save space It gets extracted to tmp which is 10MB in size compared to the 1MB on Sharp during startup and loaded from there Once loaded the extracted image is deleted A bigger tmpfs allows you to open larger files but since tmpfs uses physical RAM less physical memory is available so instead of having 63MB you end up with 54MB This is a reasonable trade off Cacko also include
181. is a good idea to install the tasks applet and add it to the taskbar at the bottom of the screen It is also a good idea to install the cards applet as well so you get to control the SD and CF cards matchbox also supports screen rotation however it is misconfigured in GPE In order to fix it add no flip to the matchbox panel command in the matchbox session file matchbox panel orientation south no flip amp OPIE fixes OPIE is similar to the Sharp distro Cacko and a lot of the customisations for those can also be applied to OPIE since it is also based on Qtopia but is a newer version version 2 3 vs version 1 5 and open source Unfortunately the cardmon applet in OPIE is broken It allows you to unmount the internal MicroDrive my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 182 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 and does not show the SD card To fix this uninstall or disable the pcmcia applet and install the cardmon applet from the 3 5 4 feed instead of the 3 5 4 1 feed You also need to install volumeapplet in order to be able to turn on off keyboard clicks just like in Sharp Cacko Additional Packages OpenZaurus has a lot of packages in its official feed however it does not have everything pre installed so many packages need to be manually installed once OZ has been installed The following are the recommended ones that I added straight away Command Line tools and runtimes kernel modu
182. ister models of the SL C3000 namely the SL C3100 SL C3200 and SL C1000 Both versions pdaXii13 Spitz Alice and pdaXii13 Akita Sally are collectively known as simply pdaXii13 while pdaXii13 Spitz comes in a base and full edition and pdaXii13 Akita only comes as a base edition The SL C3000 was the first Zaurus with an internal MicroDrive released by Sharp It came with only 16MB of NAND which is a major shortcoming The later models in this series do not have this problem anymore and all have 128MB of NAND instead Because of that the pdaXrom version for the SL C3000 runs completely off the internal MicroDrive using a feature called pivot root which was originally developed for OpenZaurus The pdaXii13 Spitz Allice edition of pdaXii13 does exactly that ie runs completely off the internal MicroDrive The pdaXii13 Akita Sally edition of pdaXii13 runs off the internal flash memory NAND the same way that pdaXrom beta3 does Enhancements pdaXii13 is based on the pdaXrom C3000 beta2 release which was originally based on pdaXrom beta1 but was never updated after pdaXrom beta3 was released to address issues in beta1 This distro aims to update the pdaXrom beta1 based C3000 beta2 release to the pdaXrom beta3 release Additionally pdaXii13 also includes the new SD card module to support SD cards larger than 2GB It also allow the SL C3000 to be detected as a USB storage device and share the third partition on the MicroDrive just like in Sharp C
183. itrdheader initrd jffs2 gt initrd bin You can extract head and mkfs jffs2 from updater tools bin and make sure you use the head utility from the extracted updater tools bin directory rather than the default head command Later I found that the initrd bin from the C3000 beta2 was sufficient so I ripped that one instead and customised it hdimage tgz The hdimage tgz is simply a gzipped tarball from the pdaXrom beta3 initrd bin file You can customise the content of this file ie add and remove applications to and from it and also customise the pre configured settings The easiest way is to flash pdaXii13 then customise the running system to your liking and then use zbackup to generate a tgz image of your current system Rename the backup tgz image to hdimage custom tgz and the installer will use it to flash your C3000 instead of the default hdimage tgz or hdimage base tgz hdimage base tgz contains the files from the ripped C1000 C3100 initrd bin with minimal customisations hdimage full tgz contains an image of a more heavily customised version of the ripped initrd bin file with many more pre installed applications Note that the file structure between hdimage base and hdimage full differs slightly to the structure in hdimage custom Both hdimage base and hdimage full have all the files and directory structures located under hdd1 wheras hdimage custom contains no parent hdd1 directory pdaXii13 build pdaXii13 build tgz is a complete build
184. jamvm jikes pdaXii13 for C3000 pdaXii13 is a bug fixed and customised version of pdaXrom beta3 which uses the 2 4 20 kernel pdaXii13 stands for pdaX integrated and improved beta1 merged with beta3 pdaXii13 was originally designed and build for the SL C3000 but can now also be installed on similar Zaurii like the SL C3100 SL C3200 and SL C1000 The SL C3000 specific version is called pdaXii13 Spitz Alice while there also is pdaXii13 Akita Sally for the other models The installation instructions on this page is focused on the SL C3000 but there are other sections that describe installation for other models as well Most of the customisations my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 187 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 done for pdaXii13 can also be applied to all the other clamshell Zaurii models since they are quite similar in many aspects but there are also differences in some areas which is covered later pdaXii13 is based on pdaXrom which is a complete X windows environment for the Zaurus It makes the SL C3000 a true mini laptop However pdaXrom never officially supported the SL C3000 due to its small flash size pdaXrom beta3 was the last relatively stable release of pdaXrom based on the 2 4 20 kernel however it was never finished The original pdaXii13 was the SL C3000 specific version of pdaXrom beta3 with some extra finishing touches Newer versions of pdaXii13 now also supports the NAND based s
185. ks etc to it Here is how USB mini A and USB mini B look like side by side my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 4 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The standards for USB are defined by the USB IF USB Implementers Forum The OTG 1 0 is a new extension to the USB 2 0 specifications USB 2 0 defines the following speeds USB 2 0 High Speed 480Mbps USB 2 0 Full Speed 12Mbps same as USB 1 1 speed USB 2 0 Low Speed 1 5Mbps In order to be USB 2 0 compliant one or more of the above speeds has to be implemented The Zaurus implements the USB 2 0 Full Speed data rate for file transfers and the USB 2 0 Low Speed data rate for peripherals such as mice and keyboards It does not implement the USB 2 0 High Speed data rate C3000 vs C3100 The most noticable difference between the C3000 and the C3100 is their colour The C3000 has a smooth white cover whereas the C3100 is mainly black with dark silver frame for the screen The C3100 case also feels like it is made of granite while the C3000 feels more metallic and smooth Internally the difference is the amount of flash memory The C3000 only has 16MB whereas the C3100 has 128MB This difference in flash memory does give the C3100 a small boost in speed over the C3000 no spin up time when loading applications The software works the same in both models but there is some differences in management and maintenance when going down to the details
186. l with less than that even though my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 74 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Microsoft website says it needs less Then get your Win98 CD ROM to install Win98 into bochs which will take about 4 hours on a 1 GHz Pentium with 512MB Once you ve done that copy your disk image file BIOS BIOS bochs latest and VGA BIOS VGABIOS elpin 2 40 to your Zaurus Also don t forget to copy bochsrc as well and remove the CD ROM config Here is a sample bochsrc romimage file BIOS bochs latest address 0xf0000 vgaromimage VGABIOS elpin 2 40 megs 16 ips 500000 ata0 enabled 1 ioaddr1 0x1f0 ioaddr2 0x3f0 irq 14 ata1 enabled 0 ioaddr1 0x170 ioaddr2 0x370 irq 15 ata2 enabled 0 ioaddr1 0x1e8 ioaddr2 0x3e8 irq 11 ata3 enabled 0 ioaddr1 0x168 ioaddr2 0x368 irq 9 ata0 master type disk path c img cylinders 507 heads 16 spt 63 floppy_bootsig_check disabled 1 mouse enabled 1 vga_update_interval 300000 keyboard_serial_delay 250 keyboard_paste_delay 100000 keyboard_mapping enabled 0 map boot disk log bochsout txt panic action ask error action report info action report debug action ignore private_colormap enabled 0 I also tried xqt bochs_2 1 1 1_arm ipk which appears to be a bit faster than zbochs Here is Win98 starting up within xqt bochs Eventually after a long time of waiting you get this once Win98 has finally loaded my Zaurus SL C3000 and S
187. l1 2debian oss_1 2 7 1 2 8cvs20041007 4 1_arm deb libsdl1 2debian_1 2 7 1 2 8cvs20041007 4 1_arm deb quake2 data_13_all deb quake2_1 3a0 3 1 1_arm deb It also downloads the demo version of quake2 from Id s site and extracts the pak file Once installed you can add to or replace the pak files which are located at usr share games quake2 baseq2 The quake2 executable is usr lib games quake2 quake2 real if you prefer to run it directly from the command line instead of launching it from the icewm menu Installing Heretic To install Heretic you need to install the following packages libsdl libsdl_1 2 5 slzaurus20050731_arm ipk libsdl mixer libsdl mixer_1 2 5cvs 1_arm ipk libsdl net libsdl net_1 2 5cvs 1_arm ipk heretic demo heretic demo_1 2 3_arm ipk heretic engine heretic engine_1 0 4 2_arm ipk Once installed leave the option Display with magnified screen ticked It will automatically go full screen and have the right landscape orientation Installing ltris and other lgames This applies to the following games barrage barrage_1 0 2_arm ipk lgeneral lgeneral_1 2beta 2_arm ipk lmarbles lmarbles_1 0 7 2_arm ipk ltris ltris_1 0 10 2_arm ipk If you cannot save your results or start the game do the following su chown R zaurus home zaurus lgames Installing Supertux Once you have installed supertux you need to change home QtPalmtop bin supertux sh this assumes you already have sudo c
188. le and my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 174 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 run zopenoffice setup from the location you extracted the files to In addition I also created openoffice cn squashfs which is preconfigured for usage on Chinese Zauri and includes Chinese fonts Lastly you need to modify usr X11R6 bin startx and remove nolisten tcp from the defaultserverargs and restart X You should see a new OpenOffice icon in the menu Alternatively you can also start it from the command line by issuing runoo in a terminal Quake and Quake2 Quake as well as QuakeII plays pretty well and smoothly on the Z with pdaXrom but don t change the resolution or display settings from within Quake QuakeII or you will get a white screen and nothing else will happen anymore If you own Quake2 then you can copy the entire baseq2 directory to home root quake2 mplayer The pdaXrom feed for C3x00 contains a mplayer package which you can install and it works quite well Some people claim that the mplayer package from Cacko which was compiled by AGAWA Koji atty is much faster because it is optimised to use bvdd and iwmmx mplayer bvdd iwmmxt_1 1 5 1_arm ipk However analysing the mplayer package on the C3x00 feed mplayer_1 0pre7try2_armv5tel ipk it is in fact a slightly newer package based on atty s latest code and compiled with the same options ie bvdd and iwmmx I have repackaged mplayer bvdd iwm
189. le rtl8150 kernel module squashfs kernel module usbkbd opie confedit 1 2 1 opie embeddedkonsole 1 2 1 opie keypebble 1 2 1 opie volumeapplet 1 2 1 opie cardmon 1 2 1 from 3 5 4 feed sudo 1 6 8 file 4 13 diffutils 2 8 1 gzip 1 3 5 inetutils 1 4 2 lsof 4 75 x11vnc 0 7 1 bitchx 1 1 dosbox 0 65 flite 1 2 links 2 1 mplayer 1 0pre8 mencoder 1 0pre8 unzip 5 52 zip 2 32 jamvm 1 4 2 classpath 0 20 jikes 1 21 Applications mc 4 6 1 mrxvt 0 4 1 abiword 2 4 5 abiword plugins eml hancom jpeg mswrite opendocument openwriter pdf sdw wml xhtml firefox 1 0 6 sylpheed 2 2 4 gftp 2 0 18 gputty 0 9 8 epdfview 0 1 2 qpdf 2 10 gphoto2 2 1 6 gqview 2 1 1 gxine 0 4 1 prboom 2 2 6 The following are applications that I really need to get working These either don t exist in OpenZaurus yet or are out of date and or need fixing OpenOffice fbvnc for Spitz tightvnc my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 183 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 firefox 1 5 with plugins java flash mplayer putty emelfm2 xarchiver qbedic stardict gthumb imagemagick gimp festival xmms with Zaurus friendly keys quake2 dukenukem3d Using Packages from other distros OpenZaurus can also run some packages from other distros This depends on the dependencies of those packages For example OPIE can run some of the Sharp Cacko binaries because they are also based on Qt E OPIE is based on a newer version
190. le with Sharp ROM xqt debian scripts_0 6 1_arm ipk custom X start script xqt libXrender_1 2 2_arm ipk updated X render library apachegui_0 1_arm ipk apache control GUI zflite gui_0 2_arm ipk flite GUI filelaunch en_0 4 5_arm ipk not fully translated yet but usable opera en helper_0 0 2b_arm ipk opera config GUI translated from Japanese automounter c3000_0 5 0_arm ipk auto mounter for USB drives and loop filesystems sdmmc module_2 4 20_arm ipk updated SD driver to support larger SD cards usb modules_2 4 20_arm ipk additional USB device drivers iptables base_2 4 20_arm ipk minimum iptables iptables additional_2 4 20_arm ipk additional iptables shorewall c3000_1 4 5 1_arm ipk packet filter firewall kismet misc_0 3_arm ipk kismet script for GUI launch and sound files j2me zaurus_1 1 8_arm ipk personal profile for zaurus j2me with swing and compiler jlauncher_0 1_arm ipk java launch wrapper for j2me midp launcher_0 2_arm ipk enables MIDP games to run with Jeode babbletower_0 9 3_arm ipk babbletower dictionary reader requires j2me dosbox_0 6 3 3_arm ipk dos emulator fbvncserver c3000_0 9 4 0 2_arm ipk hacked fbvncserver for C3000 C3100 qtopia sysinfo_1 23 3_arm ipk enhanced sysinfo tool with process and mount controls as well as more detailed disk info qtopia addressbook_1 23_arm ipk addressbook with alphanumeric sorting support qtopia combbatteryapplet_1 0 6_arm ipk
191. leanup which is located under the tools directory of the pdaXqtrom base image to remove them all before installing pdaXqtrom again The xqtcleanup script only cleans up for the pdaXqtrom base image You should also uninstall libfreetype before installing pdaXqtrom if you have an older version already installed so that the pdaXqtrom installer can install a newer version of libfreetype Simply uninstall the package with the Package Manager Installer tool You might need to uninstall libpng as well Alternatively you can just upgrade libfreetype and libpng from the pdaXqtrom base feed after you have installed pdaXqtrom Note You will need to remount the cramfs squashfs images after each reboot If you installed to SD CF card then you also need to unmount and or mount them when ejecting inserting the SD CF card However if you install my latest automounter package then this is automatically taken care of by the scripts automounter c3000 has only been thoroughly tested for the C3000 and C3100 on the Sharp ROM automounter lite is a stripped down version of automounter and should work for all models It only creates and mounts loop devices during bootup so it will automatically mount the images only if your card is inserted during bootup automounter lite is not as feature rich as automounter c3000 but chances that it might break something or not work is much smaller The following applications are available on the pdaXqtrom apps image and or on the fee
192. led you can specify your network interface to be firewalled by modifying etc shorewall interfaces The default is to protect the wireless cf wlan0 network using dhcp my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 72 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Once you have established a network connection you can enable the firewall by issuing the following command su shorewall start Once you disconnect you can stop the firewall by issuing the following command su shorewall stop To check the status of the firewall issue the following command shorewall status The iptables additional package contains extra libraries that will allow you to use all of shorewall s features VPN Setting up a VPN connection with the Z is possible You will need to install the following packages iproute iproute_z2 2 4 now ss991023 1_arm ipk or iproute_20010824 1_arm ipk ipsec ipsec module_2 4 20 1_arm ipk tun tun module_2 4 20 1_arm ipk vpnc vpnc_0 3 2 1_arm ipk Once installed you can establish a VPN connection by issuing the following command from a console and providing the required settings su vpnc connect To terminate the VPN session issue the following command su vpnc disconnect sudo Don t do this on Cacko This is for SHARP ROM only install sudo sudo_1 6 3p7 2_arm ipk Once sudo is installed you will need to configure it by using the visudo command It wi
193. level There is also more software provided with the C3100 but the additional software is all in pure Japanese only The C3000 comes with 2 CD ROMs whereas the C3100 comes with 3 CD ROMs the additional CD contains data for the extra software The other difference is that the C3000 came with a tiny power adaptor which only worked with 100V input Japan only The C3100 comes with a slightly bigger power adaptor which works with 100 240V input Accessories Although the Zaurus SL C3000 and Zaurus SL C3100 are great little devices there are a few essential things missing which I had to add in order to make them perfect Since I live in Australia the power adaptor was a little problem with the SL C3000 since it only came with a 100V power adaptor and I needed to find a compatible adaptor Both Dicksmith and Tandy have a relatively small adaptor made by Digitor which has the required 5V input at 1A for around AUD 40 Jaycar even has one for AUD 30 another brand and my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 5 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 slightly bigger The SL C3100 comes with a 100 240V power adaptor 5V input at 2A so all that was needed was a cheap Australian plug adaptor In addition I wanted to have wireless networking so I can surf the net use Yahoo Messenger and IRC as well as share files with my other computers over my home network This requires a wireless CF adaptor card but getting on
194. libatk1 0 0_1 8 0 4_arm deb libexpat1_1 95 8 3_arm deb libfontconfig1_2 3 1 2_arm deb libgcc1_1 3a3 4 3 12_arm deb libglib2 0 0_2 6 4 1_arm deb libgtk2 0 0_2 6 4 1_arm deb libgtk2 0 bin_2 6 4 1_arm deb my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 102 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 libgtk2 0 common_2 6 4 1_all deb libidl0_0 8 5 1_arm deb libkrb53_1 3 6 2_arm deb libpango1 0 0_1 8 1 1_arm deb libpango1 0 common_1 8 1 1_arm deb libpng12 0_1 2 8rel 1_arm deb libstdc 5_1 3a3 3 5 12_arm deb libtiff4_3 7 2 2_arm deb libxcursor1_1 1 3 1_arm deb mozilla firefox_1 0 3 2_arm deb mozilla thunderbird_1 0 2 2_arm deb Installing X Qt applications In order to use any of the following X Qt applications X Qt needs to be installed first See the X Qt and or X Qt jumbo sections on how to do that Once you have X Qt installed and configured you can install any of the following applications abiword Word Processor flfm File Manager fltdj Personal Information Manager gimp Graphics gnumeric Spreadsheet xmms Multimedia Player Installing QuantumStep QuantumStep is a MacOSX environment for the Zaurus running under X Qt It comes with its own X Qt binaries which is good for you if you haven t got X Qt installed yet but messes up your existing X Qt setup slightly By default the QuantumStep installer extracts the files to home myPDA which is the flash on the C3100 For the C3000 it relinks it to hdd2
195. ll allow you to update etc sudoers For example visudo root ALL ALL ALL zaurus ALL ALL NOPASSWD sbin ifconfig sbin dhcpcd usr bin apache sbin chroot bin mount bin umount sbin swapon sbin swapoff This uses the security conscious approach of only allowing sudo for the commands you want If security is not such a concern for you and you just want to be able to sudo any commands as zaurus user without my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 73 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 typing a password then make it look like this instead root ALL ALL ALL zaurus ALL ALL NOPASSWD ALL Emulators Game Console Emulators There are a few emulators for the popular game consoles for the Z In order to use them you will need to install SDL libraries libsdl_1 2 5 slzaurus20050731_arm ipk if you have not installed them yet There is also a nice front end to select and launch the game ROMs Install the common emulator frontend zemufe_0 1 1 3ex_arm ipk It also has several addons which allows it to handle additional ROM types and emulators zemufeex smc_1 0_arm ipk zemufeex sms_1 0_arm ipk zemufeex wsc_1 1_arm ipk Then install the emulators GameBoy zgnuboy_1 0 3 3_arm ipk Nintendo NES znester_7 1 1_arm ipk SuperNintendo SNES snes9x_sdl 1_arm ipk The following is the key mapping for the emulator Key Action Enter START Space SELECT Cancel QUIT K
196. ll instruct RFComm to connect to the phone without any user action needed You can monitor the process with the rfcomm utility rfcomm Once a process opens the device file dev rfcomm0 the RFComm daemon contacts the phone See the bluetooth section for more details Security Hardening assign passwords to root and zaurus su passwd passwd zaurus tighten down the number of terminals in etc securetty console tty0 tty1 ttyUSB0 disable all non essential listening ports disable telnet port 23 if running shutdown ftp server if not used port 21 shutdown Samba server and portmap port 111 when not in use shutdown web server when not in use tighten down access for sshd port 22 disable Qtopia sync with opie security package port 4242 disable port 4992 and 4244 with inetd conf Firewall Install iptables modules and configure them as a packet filtering firewall You can also install shorewall which is a framework that simplifies the management of iptable rules and configuration To enable IP filtering firewall install the following iproute iproute_z2 2 4 now ss991023 1_arm ipk or iproute_20010824 1_arm ipk iptables base iptables base_2 4 20_arm ipk iptables additional iptables additional_2 4 20_arm ipk optional shorewall shorewall c3000_1 4 5 1_arm ipk This version has been customised specifically for the C3000 and C3100 primarily as a firewall while connected to a wireless network Once instal
197. lling X Qt see other sections Alternatively you can also run OpenOffice as a cramfs image with the X Qt jumbo package without installing PocketWorkstation see X Qt jumbo section for further details The following section describes installing OpenOffice under PocketWorkstation You will also need 200MB of free disk space on your PocketWorkstation disk to store the installed OpenOffice files In addition you also need 78MB of space for the extracted installation binaries The compressed OpenOffice installation binary OOo_SRX645_linuxarm_install tar gz is 71MB in size If you have sufficient space you will be able to install OpenOffice If you installed Debian on a 512 MB or greater SD or CF or on a 512 MB loopback filesystem on hdd3 and have more than 200 MB of free space left on those devices then you are ready to install OpenOffice However if you installed Debian on a 256 MB loopback system or don t have enough free disk space left on your loopback filesystem but still have plenty of disk space left on hdd3 then you can create and mount an additional loopback filesystem To create an additional loopback filesystem do the following su my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 98 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 cd hdd3 mkdir OpenOffice org1 1 4 mknod dev loop3 b 7 3 dd if dev zero of hdd3 openoffice bs 1M count 256 echo y sbin mke2fs openoffice mount o loop t ext2 hdd3 op
198. lmtop apps XQt Desktop Entry Name MyApp Icon myapp png Exec runmyapp Comment My X application Type Application HidePrivilege 1 Display 640x480 144dpi 480x640 144dpi Installing Mozilla Firefox The Mozilla Firefox package from pdaXrom firefox_0 9gtk_armv5tel ipk works with X Qt on the C3x00 However other models might have problems running it so I have build a firefox package firefox_0 9 3_arm ipk which hopefully is more compatible and can be run on other models as well as the C3x00 You can start firefox by either tapping on the Firefox icon on the Qt desktop or launching it from the command line as follows xlauncher firefox my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 119 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Installing Mozilla Thunderbird The Mozilla Thunderbird package from pdaXrom thunderbird_0 6_armv5tel ipk works with X Qt on the C3x00 if you also install libstdc5 compat sharp libstdc5 compat sharp_0 5_arm ipk I have build a thunderbird package thunderbird_0 6 3_arm ipk which includes libstdc5 compat sharp and it should also be more compatible with other models as well as the C3x00 You can start thunderbird by tapping on the thunderbird icon or launching it from the command line as follows xlauncher thunderbird Installing AbiWord The AbiWord package from pdaXrom works with X Qt You will need to install the following packages for AbiWord libiconv l
199. lmtop pics144 are 64x64 in size and icons under opt QtPalmtop pics are 32x32 in size However some special smaller icons of size 28x28 are also located in opt QtPalmtop pics144 and size 14x14 under opt QtPalmtop pics The icons can be customised by replacing the icons used by the applications or copying additional icons to those locations and using the TabConf utility to change the icons used for the applications Alternatively each desktop file under opt QtPalmtop apps can also be manually modified If you replace an icon by copying over another icon file with the same name then you will not see the new icon until you reboot because Qtopia still has the old icon in cache customised start menu The following is a list of the names of the icons that need to be replaced in order to change the look and feel of the default Qtopia desktop Since some of these icons are symbolic links the symlinks need to be deleted first before a new icon can be copied to replace them I have replaced and added the following default icons Settings Installer Icon qinstall_icn png TabSetting Icon tabconf png Light Icon Light png Sound Icon ssoundconf png Appearance Icon Appearance png Network Icon PPPConnect png Security Icon Security png Calibrate Icon Calibrate png ApplicationKeys Icon CustomizeKeys2 png SystemTime DateTime png UserDic Icon userdic png my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook
200. m ipk kani kani_1 2 0_arm ipk kino2 kino2_0 4 3c_arm ipk kismet qt kismet qt_2 0 0 3_arm ipk konqueror browser konqueror_snapshot_20020311_arm ipk kopiemail kopiemail_2 1 2_arm ipk korganizer korganizer_2 1 2_arm ipk minide minide_1 2_arm ipk mioreaderlite mioreaderlite_0_08_arm ipk mooview mooview_0 2_arm ipk neocal neocal_1 7 7 2_arm ipk opera7 3 browser opera_sl 5x00 7 30 9965_arm ipk opie embeddedkonsole opie embeddedkonsole_1 5 9 2_arm ipk opie irc opie irc_0 9 1 20020923_arm ipk opie keypebble opie keypebble_1 0 0 1_arm ipk opie reader opie reader_0 7h_arm ipk opie security opie security_1 5 0 20020319_arm ipk opie wellenreiter opie wellenreiter_1 0 2 1 20031220_arm ipk opieftp opieftp_0 9 1 20020702_arm ipk opie reader opie reader_0 7m_arm ipk petitepeinture petitepeinture_1 4a 1_arm ipk poqetp poqetp_0 0 6_arm ipk qazoo yahoo messenger clone qazoo_0 8 1_arm ipk qflashplayer qflashplayer_0 1 0 1_arm ipk qkonsole qkonsole_0 9 3 20040205_arm ipk qpPhoto qpPhoto_1 0 3_arm ipk qpaint qpaint_1 0 0_arm ipk qpdf2 qpdf2_freetype 2 2 1 20040217_arm ipk qpe terminal qpe terminal ja_1 5 0 3_arm ipk qpe voicerec qpe voicerec_1 5 0 7_arm ipk qpzidian qpzidian_0 1_arm ipk qtopia advancedfm qtopia advancedfm_1 0_arm ipk shellcommander shellcommander_0 6 2 1_arm ipk SimpleEdit simple edit_1 0 3_arm ipk TinyClassDev
201. mbed is enabled all the desktop icons under the X Qt tab will launch the applications in embedded rootless mode which means they run in a lightweight mode under X Qt without utilising all the features of X and the application appears to be running inside Qtopia If you disable xembed then the desktop icons will automatically start the full X Qt environment and run from within the full X Qt environment zhomefixC3000 This script is for SL C3000 users only Since X applications place their config files under the user s home directory ie home zaurus and the SL C3000 only has 4MB on home it will get filled up pretty quickly Run the zhomefixC3000 after you run each X application for the first time The script will attempt to move the config files to hdd2 zaurushome and symlink it back xqtcleanup This script usually is not required and should not be run It is a brute force approach to remove existing X Qt files Only use this script if you had a broken X Qt installation previously that you could not cleanly uninstall or you get other errors cackofix This script may be needed to be run by Cacko users if they get glib errors If everything works then don t run this script my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 139 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 X Qt has its own set of basic key controls The menu key is hardcoded to activate the X Qt control which allows you to activate fullscreen mode or shutdow
202. mbo_4 3 0 7_arm ipk or later xqt debian jumbo lite_0 4 3 0 1_arm ipk xqt gtk jumbo cramfs To install Debian using the image file unzip xqt debian install zip and place it into the same directory as the other files The following files are available xqt debian install zip required zaurus debian jumbo v18 b01 tar gz required zaurus debian doc v18 tar gz optional zaurus debian openoffice114 tar gz optional The default install location which has been extensively tested is hdd3 debroot You can specify a different location for the debian root The install script will by default create a swapfile and pocketworkstation loop image under the same location as your debroot but you can change the location by editing the install script and changing the default locations If you already have a swapfile located somewhere else simply comment out the SWAPFILE definition before you install to prevent it from creating an additional swapfile The script can detect the filesystem type that Debian is being installed to If the destination filesystem is FAT it will create an ext2 loopback filesystem for you but if it is already formatted as ext2 or ext3 then it will simply install there without creating the loopback filesystem default settings section start swap filename SWAPFILE DEBBASE swapfile swap size in MB 64 128 SWAPSIZE 64 debian diskimage file DEBIMG DEBBASE pocketworkstation debian size in MB 300 or larger DEBSIZE 5
203. mentary security to bluetooth by editing etc bluetooth hcid conf Turn on encryption remove the in front of encrypt enable Hide your Zaurus so it cannot be discovered change iscan enable to iscan disable Disable connection to your Zaurus change pscan enable to pscan disable You need to restart the bluetooth stack in order for the changes to take effect su etc rc d init d bluetooth restart Enabling Mouse Yes you can plug your USB mouse into the Zaurus but it won t work until you do the following su cd home QtPalmtop plugins applets cp home zaurus Documents custom libusbmouseapplet so 1 0 ln s libusbmouseapplet so 1 0 libusbmouseapplet so 1 0 0 ln s libusbmouseapplet so 1 0 libusbmouseapplet so 1 ln s libusbmouseapplet so 1 0 libusbmouseapplet so This custom driver package zmouse_0 1_arm ipk should do the same thing my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 67 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Restart the Zaurus or just restart Qtopia Alternatively you can also install inputhelper inputhelper_1 0 1 1_arm ipk which will give you mouse support as well as macro recording for your keyboard Enabling USB Keyboard Yes you can plug your USB keyboard into the Zaurus and it will work but some of the keys will be mis matched unless you are using a Japanese keyboard because the Zaurus default keyboard layout is the Japanese keyboard You need to
204. mes you have no CF card inserted Otherwise use hdc instead of hda Once your second partition is initialised it will be automatically enabled as swap when you reboot Similarly your third partition will be automatically mounted as data after a reboot Installation files for pdaXii13 Spitz Alice can be downloaded from pdaXii13 files area on tyrannozaurus which contains a stable release version Alternatively there are also alpha beta test binaries available for downloaded from the bleeding edge testing area pdaXii13 Spitz was build for the SL C3000 and has only been tested on a SL C3000 It may work on SL C3100 SL C3200 if they have pdaXrom beta3 or pdaXii13 Akita base installed prior to installing pdaXii13 Spitz but may also break those models It is not guaranteed to work and even if you managed to get it installed there still may be some things that won t work pdaXii13 Spitz is for the SL C3000 and runs entirely from the internal MicroDrive It is available as pdaXii13 base and pdaXii13 full pdaXii13 Spitz is also the main release of pdaXii13 pdaXii13 Akita is for SL C1000 SL C3100 and SL C3200 and runs off the 128MB internal flash NAND It is primarily available as pdaXii13 base only but can be upgraded to pdaXii13 full on SL C3100 and SL C3200 but not on the SL C1000 due to it not having an internal MicroDrive Installation instructions and installation files for pdaXii13 Akita Sally can be found at tyrannozaurus in the aki
205. mxt_1 1 5 1_arm ipk as mplayer bvdd iwmmxt_1 1 5 1_armv5tel ipk and changed the file structure to reflect the pdaXrom file structure and moved things to usr share instead of opt QtPalmtop and I also renamed the mplayer binary to mplayer2 so you can install both versions and compare speed The following mplayer command line will allow you to watch video mplayer vo bvdd ac mad ao ss framedrop really quiet file To force fullscreen playback add the vm option mplayer vo bvdd ac mad ao ss framedrop really quiet vm file The xmmsmplayer addon to xmms can be used as a frontend for mplayer my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 175 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 It uses the vo x11 option by default to play the video in a gtk window You can make it use the bvdd driver instead and play fullscreen also The config file used by the plugin is usr share mplayer mplayer conf and contains the following config framedrop yes cache 1024 dr yes af resample 44100 Add the following to make mplayer use the bvdd driver and play fullscreen vo bvdd vm yes There is a bug with mplayer that it does not refresh the screen properly once it exits from fullscreen mode As a workaround you can run xrandr o normal to refresh the screen Alternatively if you are using my customised rc xml file for openbox then you can simply press Home 5 to refresh the screen I have also compiled th
206. my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 1 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 Sharp Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 2 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Copyright 2006 Hd Luc hdluc yahoo com I got the Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 These impressive little devices are almost perfect They are made by Sharp however Sharp decided to only sell these models to the Japanese market Being in Australia this was a big disappointment I tried to order one from Conics but got no response from them for several weeks which I think is unacceptable so I asked a friend of mine who lives in Tokyo to send me one It s so nice to have friends all over the world I want to thank Sachiko for getting me my first Zaurus Thank You very much Sachiko You are the best The Zaurus is my replacement for my mini Laptop the Toshiba Libretto 50 CT which is now hosting this website running Redhat Linux The Sharp Zaurus SL C3000 is the first step of my dream laptop becoming reality I was sick of carrying a bulky and heavy laptop around and the other PDAs on the market did not appeal to me except for Sony s little Clie but that is another story After the SL C3000 died I bought my second Zaurus the SL C3100 from PriceJapan I ordered it Friday afternoon and it took 3 days to arrive in Sydney from Tokyo and clear
207. n internal MicroDrive or mnt card otherwise If you want to change the location to something else then do the following su echo mnt card xqt gt etc xipk conf Substitute mnt card xqt with your desired install location Then install your chosen ipk package as follows su xipk build somexqtpackage ipk Your package is now installed You can install additional packages if you want to Once you are finished with the installs you can compress it as a cramfs image as follows assuming you installed to mnt card xqt and have installed mkcramfs su cd mnt card cp which xipk link mnt card xqt xqt setup echo echo myXqt apps version 1 0 gt mnt card xqt version chmod 755 mnt card xqt version mkcramfs xqt mypackage cramfs Once the cramfs image is created you can remove your loopback file you used to build the cramfs image and then mount your new cramfs image as a loopback filesystem and install it using xqt setup as follows su mkdir p mnt myxqtapps mount o loop mypackage cramfs mnt myxqtapps mnt myxqtapps xqt setup To create a squashfs image instead use mksquashfs instead of mkcramfs Installing Debian PocketWorkstation Debian runs with X Qt so if you already have X Qt installed then you are ready to install Debian However if you have not got X Qt installed yet then you need to do so before installing Debian If you just want to run Debian and applications that are part of Debian b
208. n tested on the Sharp ROM for C3x00 and C1000 and might not work on other models You can download the xqt apps and xqt mozilla images from the following location my Zaurus mirror site http zaurus daemons gr menaie mirror jumbo images Bam s site http www the grinder ws Meanies_XQT cram Additionally I have created a java compressed image which contains the full Blackdown JRE 1 3 1 plus a full set of compiler tools making it a JDK in essence see Java section It also contains some of my Java applications Hd Pad and Hd Crawler Similarly I have also created a compressed image for an on board gcc compiler see gcc section so you can create your own apps on the Zaurus directly You can also create your own custom cramfs or squashfs images with only the applications that you like to have This involves firstly installing all your desired applications to an ext2 or ext3 formatted partition or disk You could also install to a fat partition as well but it will fail for some applications so it is safer to my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 125 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 just use an ext2 or ext3 partition For that you could reformat your card or create a loopback ext2 or ext3 filesystem Once you got your install location prepared you can use xipk build found in my ipktools package to install ipk packages to alternate locations xipkg by default installs to hdd3 programs if you have a
209. n X Qt Fn m shuts down X Qt immediately Also Fn tap is equivalent to right mouse click whereas a single tap with the stylus is a left mouse click Sometimes when switching between X Qt and QTopia the caps lock is turned on under X Qt Just hit Shift several times to disable it The rest of the keys is controlled by the keymapping file located under etc X11 kb xmodmaprc This file is loaded each time X Qt starts up During installation an appropriate mapping file has been copied there depending on your Zaurus model If you want to customise it then copy it to home zaurus xmodmaprc and edit that copy in your home directory You can use the xev command to determine the keycode for each key If you have a Cxx00 model ie one with 2 4 20 kernel and you are using my custom keyhelper xml then you might also want to use my custom xmodmaprc file as well instead of the standard xmodmaprc To use my custom xmodmaprc copy mnt pdaxqtrom base config settings xmodmap xmodmaprc custom to home zaurus xmodmaprc In addition FluxBox also has some extra key shortcuts defined in home zaurus fluxbox keys Most of those shortcuts are defined to use the Mod4 assigned to Super_L and Mod1 assigned to Alt_L modifier keys which I mapped to the Home and Alt left kanji key respectively FluxBox menu is activated by holding the Fn key and tapping on the desktop To release cancel from the menu tap anywhere on the desktop but not on any window application on the d
210. n if you only have personal profile installed unless you manually change the script for the application to use personal profile and vice versa jlauncher will automatically handle it for you MIDP If you also want to run Java applications that run on your mobile phone ie MIDP flavour of J2ME then you need to install me4se and the midp game and media classes which you can extract from the midp 2 0 developer kit The following are required evm jeode_1 10 7_arm ipk me4se jar midp 2_0 src linux i686 zip Extract at a minimum the following files from midp 2_0 src linux i686 zip and put them into a zip file retaining the directory structure javax microedition lcdui game GameCanvas class javax microedition lcdui game GameDeviceCaps class javax microedition lcdui game Layer class javax microedition lcdui game LayerManager class javax microedition lcdui game Sprite class javax microedition lcdui game TiledLayer class javax microedition media Control class javax microedition media Controllable class javax microedition media Manager class javax microedition media MediaException class javax microedition media Player class javax microedition media PlayerListener class javax microedition media control ToneControl class javax microedition media control VolumeControl class my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 86 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Rename the zip file to something like midpx jar and then us
211. n t like my custom keymap then use the original akita xmodmap instead Sticky keys are automatically enabled and can be controlled with the ax command which controls all the AccessX functionality With sticky keys you can hit the control modifier keys ie Fn Shift Ctrl and Alt once and then hit the second key without needing to keep the control modifier key pressed For example to produce A simply press Shift followed by a This is very nifty for one handed typing Most keys are mapped as displayed on the keyboard except for some additional keys which have also been mapped but are not marked on the keyboard Also some additional keys have been remapped as follows Fn m Scandinavian A with loop Fn o Danish O crossed out Fn p British Pound sign Fn a AE character Fn s Euro symbol Fn q Backtick accent grave LeftKanji Alt Alt_L RightKanji Super Super_L By defeault there are also several predefined key combos which do the following Ctrl Alt BS Shutdown X Ctrl Alt Left Switch to previous Virtual Desktop Ctrl Alt Right Switch to next Virtual Desktop Shift Alt Left Send to previous Desktop Shift Alt Right Send to next Desktop my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 193 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Ctrl Alt d Toggle Show Desktop Ctrl Alt m Toggle Maximize Restore Window Fn Ctrl Alt Down MoveRelativeVert Fn Ctrl Alt Up MoveRelativeVert Fn Ctrl Alt Left
212. n them if they have appropriate file associations FileLaunch filelaunch_0 4 5_arm ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 83 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 This application is great and heavily customisable You can have a single explorer panel or split the screen into two panels either horizontally or vertically It has a full set of file management features and even has options to run each command in sudo mode There is also a build in menu system which can be customised to have all your favourite apps in one handy location It also lets you add your own shell commands in any combinations you want and has already got a set of useful shells for compressing and uncompressing files as well as search and convert There is also a handy preview feature to view images as well as text and html files FileLaunch is originally written in Japanese I am in the process of translating all the menus and messages to English The repackaged version filelaunch en_0 4 5_arm ipk will be available once I finish the translation FileLaunch is based on TinyViewer and qshdlg TinyViewer tinyviewer_0 3 1_arm ipk is a small and simple file browser that allows you to preview files such as images and simple text tvtools tvtools_0 0 2_arm ipk is an addon to tinyviewer to allow you to view archive files such as zip files MidnightCommander mc_4 6 0_arm ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on
213. n type etc rc d init d samba restart or simply samba restart I also created a simple GUI to control samba my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 210 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 samba runs as the zaurus user and inherits the rights and file permissions of that user The Zaurus also has a samba client so it can mount other machines that have samba enabled even Windows machines Additionally the LinNeighborhood interface allow you to mount samba windows shares from a GUI Bluetooth The bluetooth sub system included with pdaXii13 uses gnome bluetooth as the GUI interface for file transfers via the OBEX protocol my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 211 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Files can be send to a mobile phone from rox s SendTo interface which invokes the gnome bluetooth interface to give you a graphical tool to select the bluetooth destination device followed with a graphical progress dialog for showing the progress of the file transfer If the gnome bluetooth receiving interface is enabled then upon a request for receiving a file a GUI is displayed to either allow or deny the file Additionally a bluetooth phone manager GUI is also available which uses gnokii underneath to communicate with the mobile WiFi Wireless networking is also supported in pdaXii13 Some extra firmware is included in pdaXii13 to support wifi devices that r
214. nce between pdaXrom and OZ OZ uses a build system called OE OpenEmbedded which is used to build everything in OZ OE only runs on Linux and can target various platforms of which the Zaurus is one but you will need a PC to build OZ packages and compile code The native compiler which can compile code directly on the Zaurus itself is not very well supported on OZ pdaXrom in contrast is more geared towards the Zaurus It has a pre made and configured development image that can be placed onto the Zaurus which allows you to immediately begin building and compiling There are also bootable ISO images and VMWare images of pdaXrom for the PC so you can easily run pdaXrom on your PC as well or use the ready build image to cross compile applications for the Zaurus OZ developers are also concentrating more on developing PDA specific applications that works on other devices besides the Zaurus ie they target devices with smaller screens and less storage pdaXrom on the other hand is more about getting as many PC linux apps working on the Zaurus as possible and exploiting and utilising every possible feature that the Zaurus has In essence pdaXrom is about turning the Zaurus into a mini linux PC whereas OZ is more about providing a bleeding edge and alternate open source operating system as well as lightweight applications for PDAs Support and Community The OZ community is divided into two distinct groups the developers and the end users OZ developer pref
215. ncher conf is set to 0 then this option will not be available The value of 3 in home zaurus Settings display conf also means that the application will run in 640x480 mode Run as root By default applications run as the zaurus user however some applications need to be run with root priviledges my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 29 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 To do that tab on the application icon and hold the stylus there for a few seconds and a properties screen will appear Tick the option Execute with root priviledge Application Preloading Some applications are preloaded on startup This means when the Zaurus starts up they are automatically loaded into memory This makes them load very fast when you run them because they are already loaded However because of that they also use up memory You can prevent them from preloading and conserve memory by disabling the preloading flag for each of the preloaded applications To do that tab on the application icon and hold the stylus there for a few seconds and a properties screen will appear Untick the option Fast load consumes memory Startup Screen Customisation Customising the startup screen is possible The startup image is a 90 degrees rotated bmp file 480x640 with a 24bit colour depth called Startup_screen bmp You simply need to copy it to the correct location so it will be picked up at boot time my Zaurus SL C3000 a
216. nd SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 30 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 su cp home zaurus Documents custom Startup_screen bmp opt QtPalmtop pics144 It will look like this If you want to get rid of the Sharp screen right at the beginning of the boot process then you will need to recompile the kernel with the sharp logo option disabled Tetsu s kernel does that as well The file root etc rc d rc sysinit controls what is started at bootup It runs all the scripts under the rc d directory depending on which runlevel is invoked and then runs rc rofilesys However rc local which normally is the last script it runs is commented out and won t be run You can make it run rc local by uncommenting that section cd etc rc d if f rc local then if x rc local then echo Running rc local rc local fi fi Alternatively you could also modify home QtPalmtop qpe sh and make it run etc rc d rc local sdisp home QtPalmtop pics144 Startup_screen bmp amp etc rc d rc d rc local cd if f etc restorefile then export LD_LIBRARY_PATH usr QtPalmtop rom lib else export LD_LIBRARY_PATH QTDIR lib fi qectrl c The difference between running rc local from rc sysinit and qpe sh is that the output of the scripts executed from rc local will be displayed during the boot process if its run from rc sysinit if using tetsu s kernel while nothing will be displayed when running it from qpe sh because it w
217. nd installed In addition the default icons and background can be changed also Install some icon packages and get some nice backgrounds zicons wmtux contains my favourite icons There are also plenty of nice backgrounds Plasterer can be used to ensure that the background looks consistent even when the screen is rotated Finally replace the ugly default screensaver with LUSScreensaver More details on how to do all this is described in details later Installing Packages Packages can be installed and uninstalled via the Package Installer tool qinstall under the Settings tab By default the Zaurus installs applications to main memory which is the hdd2 partition on a C3000 and the home partition on a C3100 You can also install applications to your SD or CF card as well if the application allows it Some applications can only be installed to main memory wheras others allow you to either install to SD or CF as well if they are formatted as ext2 or ext3 There are also applications that can be installed to SD or CF cards that have a FAT filesystem my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 18 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 In addition with a console you can use the ipkg command to install and uninstall applications as well eg ipkg install ipkfile ipkg remove ipkfile The advantage of the ipkg tool that it can be used to script a batch of applications such as all your favourite fonts or all
218. nel and also adds additional filesystem support such as squashfs hfs iso joliet ntfs and fuse The main difference between the Cacko ROM and the Sharp one is that it is completely in English and all the Japanese components including the dictionaries have been removed Also a lot of work has been put into networking and bluetooth support thus a lot of the network and bluetooth adaptors both CF based ones as well as USB dongles are automatically recognised and just work with Cacko without the need of installing and configuring drivers for them Some of the default applications that come with the Sharp distro have also been replaced with better alternatives in particular the ones that were Japanese only applications In addition a number of essential Linux tools and Qtopia based applications have also been added and are available on Cacko pre installed See the Cacko release notes for a detailed list of added features To install Cacko you would have to flash your SL C3100 with the Cacko ROM This will wipe your entire flash so make sure you do a Nand backup so you can restore your Zaurus to the previous state in case you want to revert back but also make a backup of your data if it is stored on the flash since it gets wiped The hdd3 partition on your internal MicroDrive won t be wiped by flashing the Cacko ROM so it is not essential to back it up prior to flashing Cacko but it would be a good idea anyway just in case my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL
219. net Personally I think Zdict is easier to use than Zten Zdict comes with the epwing genius and kojien dictionary packages but there are some further epwing dictionaries that can be added to either zdict or zten The following are the ones I have chosen to add foldoc foldoc fpw1 0 1 zip computer terms dictionary jarg jarg fpw1 2a zip jargon dictionary fumeikai Fumeikai 1 0 zip abbreviations dictionary in English and Japanese my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 78 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 wordnet wordnet 1 6 fpw1 1 3 zip English dictionary kanjidic kanjidic_en fpw tar gz kanji dictionary wadoku wadoku fpw1 1 tar gz Japanese German dictionary edict edict_en fpw tar gz English Japanese dictionary To install these dictionaries simply extract them to either hdd3 dict1 or hdd3 dict2 and select the book from inside the zdict config menu ZBedict zbedic_0 9 4 0_arm ipk is another dictionary package that has a large amount of dictionaries in various languages It also has a huge wikipedia en wikipedia dic dz The following are dictionaries I installed for it English English en 0 9 0 dic dz German English deen 0 9 0 dic dz English German ende 0 9 0 dic dz French English fren 0 9 0 dic dz English French enfr 0 9 0 dic dz Spanish English esen 0 9 0 dic dz English Spanish enes 0 9 0 dic dz Italian English iten 0 9 0 dic dz English Italian enit 0 9 0 dic
220. net hluc myZaurus zbook html 84 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 This is a nice console application like Norton Commander It has all the file management features that one would need and also works with FTP However it uses the extended character set to draw the borders which does not get properly mapped with the Japanese locale unless you use the unismall font which makes the display too tiny PIM The default calendar and addressbook applications aren t that good so it is better to add something more useful such as kdepim kdepim_2 1 2_for_SharpRom ipk zip or later which has a whole suit of PIM applications PIM software seems to be the most popular and get updated quite frequently so make sure to get the latest version Download and extract kdepim_2 1 2_for_SharpRom ipk zip and then install kmicrokdelibs kmicrokdelibs_2 1 2_arm ipk and pimTABicon pimTABicon_2 1 2_arm ipk first Following this do the following mkdir hdd3 zaurushome kdepim cd home zaurus ln s hdd3 zaurushome kdepim kdepim Now install whichever of the following packages you want OM Pi email kopiemail_2 1 2_arm ipk You will need to install lib openssl openssl_0 9 7d_arm ipk and download sr character conversion_SharpROM_arm ipk zip for character conversion from the sourceforge project site as well KO Pi calendar korganizer_2 1 2_arm ipk You might also want to add korganizer alarm_2 1 2_arm ipk which provides an alarm applet that will wake th
221. ng Filesystem as Read Write or Read Only Some partitions file systems such as cannot be unmounted Some are also mounted as read only In order to modify the files on those file systems you need to remount them as read write and then remount them back to read only after you have done what you wanted To remount as read write mount o rw remount To remount as read only mount o ro remount Enabling Swap The following demonstrates how to configure a 128MB swap file on the C3000 s harddisk Normally a swap file is not required unless you are running many X Qt applications and doing onboard development Most users with X Qt will probably only require 32MB 64MB swapfile su dd if dev zero of hdd3 swapfile bs 1048576 count 128 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 58 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 mkswap hdd3 swapfile swapon hdd3 swapfile echo hdd3 swapfile swap defaults 0 0 gt gt etc fstab To enable swap su swapon hdd3 swapfile To disable swap su swapoff hdd3 swapfile To check swap status cat proc swaps In addition you can install qtopia memoryapplet_1 0 4_arm ipk which allows you to monitor both your physical memory as well as your swap It even can manage the swapfile creation for you This version can create a swapfile with a max of 512MB It also gives you the option to create the swap on the internal HDD hdd3 CF ca
222. ng boot if a manual fsck is required Run the following command when this happens e2fsck y dev hda1 The above assumes you have not CF card inserted Once fsck has finished running reset your Zaurus by pressing the reset button inside the battery compartment It is recommended to reboot the Zaurus regularly so fsck is run to check for inode corruptions This is required because the Zaurus implements a kind of lazy inode journalising If you install or de install lots of packages it is also recommended to reboot afterwards pdaXii13 can be booted into Maintenance Mode ie this is a special stage before the MicroDrive is mounted so you can run fsck on it The pdaXii13 Config tool will allow you to do enable Maintenance Mode You can also manually fsck your MicroDrive by booting into the emergency partition using D B key sequence and running fsck from there Alternatively you could start the pdaXii13 installer and use option 5 to go to a console and run fsck from there You could also use the fsck feature in the Maintenance Menu so after you press On Off while pressing the OK button select Option 2 data check and then select Option 2 run fsck again pdaXii13 config The file home root Choices pdaxii13 conf defines some rudimentary startup configurations for pdaXii13 such as whether to start X when booting up whether to play the welcome sound whether to load SCIM automatically whether to load ROX or the default matchbox deskto
223. ng up your SD and CF card also They can get corrupted or fail without warning as well so make sure you back them up to In addition there is also a NAND backup feature in the Zaurus Diagnostic Menu which allows you to backup the entire NAND Since the C3000 only has 16MB of NAND flash and everything actually sits on the hdd3 doing a NAND backup won t buy you much On the C3100 however everything is on the NAND except for the data on hdd3 thus making a NAND backup for the C3100 gives you a reliable system image which you can use to restore your C3100 if you really mess it up The same is not the case with the C3000 so be very careful with what you flash your C3000 with To do a Nand Backup you need a CF or SD card which can hold the entire Nand A 256MB card should be sufficient To do a Nand Backup or Restore do the following Turn off or suspend the Z Unplug the Z and take out the battery Press and hold the D and M keys simultaneously Plug in the power The Maintenance Menu should appear in a few seconds Go to the third page in the menu Select either Nand Backup or Restore When finished turn off the Z Put battery back in and start Z Zaurus Restoration Recovery If you manage to corrupt your Zaurus configuration so badly that you cannot boot it anymore or things just don t work any more then you have several options to fix it Factory Reset If you really messed up and just start over again without retaining anything then just do
224. ns so that hdd1 is a swap partition hdd2 is a linux filesystem instead of hdd4 and hdd3 becomes a smaller fat partition Here is the default partition table Disk dev hda 4095 MB 4095737856 bytes 16 heads 63 sectors track 7936 cylinders Units cylinders of 1008 512 516096 bytes Device Start End Blocks ID System dev hda1 1 20 10048 83 Linux dev hda2 21 40 10080 83 Linux dev hda3 41 7936 3979584 c Win95 FAT32 LBA Here is my custom partition table which has hdd1 as a 256MB swap partition a 1 2GB ext3 partition on hdd2 and a 2 5GB on hdd3 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 39 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Disk dev hda 4095 MB 4095737856 bytes 16 heads 63 sectors track 7936 cylinders Units cylinders of 1008 512 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System dev hda1 1 256 128992 82 Linux swap dev hda2 257 2790 1277136 83 Linux dev hda3 2791 7935 2593080 c Win95 FAT32 LBA In order to do this you need to replace root etc rc d rc rofilesys after you have remounted as rw You also need to remove the NotAvailable file from the unmounted hdd1 and hdd2 I have successfully used parted to shrink hdd3 dynamically without destroying my existing files but backing up the files is still recommended just in case Then I used fdisk to recreate hdd1 and hdd2 with their new sizes and formatted them using mkswap and mk2fs j respectively Now when the C31
225. nsole and X based ones while also retaining the ability to build Qt E 1 5 applications In addition I also build a newer and even bigger image based on gcc 2 95 3 and a host of updated tools including binutils 2 16 autoconf 2 59 automake 1 9 2 coreutils 5 0 diffutils 2 8 1 gawk 3 1 5 grep 2 5 sed 4 0 9 tar 1 15 texinfo 4 8 A patched glibc 2 2 2 is also bundled and used to link against so applications requiring fesetenv fegetenv can be successfully compiled with this image Additionally this image also contains additional headers and libraries as well as tools to build QT 3 3 6 applications under X11 The zgcc image that I build is very simple to setup All you need to do is mount the cramfs or squashfs image and run zgcc config Here is an example for a squashfs image my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 90 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 su mkdir p mnt zgcc mount o loop hdd3 zgcc2 95 2 squashfs mnt zgcc echo hdd3 zgcc2 95 2 squashfs mnt zgcc squashfs loop 0 0 gt gt etc fstab mnt zgcc zgcc config source mnt zgcc zgcc env Note You should install automounter automounter c3000_0 5 0_arm ipk which automates the creation of additional loop devices and mounting of the cramfs squashfs images Your zgcc is now ready and should get automatically mounted after each reboot provided you installed automounter otherwise you will need to mount it manually and the environmen
226. nstall it if you manually installed X Qt If you have installed one of the xqt jumpbopacks then there is no need to install it again since they alread include it To install thunderbird you need either the original thunderbird_0 6_armv5tel ipk or the modified thunderbird_0 6 3_arm ipk If you are using the original package you need to also install the pdaXrom compatible libraries libstdc5 compat sharp_0 5_arm ipk and libiconv_1 8 2_arm ipk On a C3000 space on home is quite scarce so it is better to move the thunderbird profiles to somewhere else with more space as well su mkdir p hdd3 zaurushome mv home zaurus thunderbird hdd3 zaurushome ln s hdd3 zaurushome thunderbird home zaurus thunderbird Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird on Debian As an alternative the Debian build of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird can also be installed and they work perfectly You will first need to install PocketWorkstation Once that is done installing Firefox and Thunderbird is quite easy From within a terminal in Debian source root profile apt get update apt get install mozilla firefox apt get install mozilla thunderbird apt get clean This assumes you are connected to the net apt get will download all the required packages and then install the mozilla app you selected The following is a list of files it downloads and installs cpp 3 3_1 3a3 3 5 12_arm deb expat_1 95 8 3_arm deb gcc 3 3 base_1 3a3 3 5 12_arm deb
227. nt smbmount_0 1_arm ipk spxrec spxrec_0 0 1_arm ipk sudo sudo_1 6 3p7 2_arm ipk top top_0 3 6_arm ipk unrar unrar_3 5 4 lite 1_arm ipk unzip unzip_5 24_arm ipk vim vim_6 1_arm ipk wget wget_1 10 2_arm ipk zip zip_2 3_arm ipk Services and Runtimes apache apache 1 3 27 php 4 2 3_0 1_arm ipk clipboard applet clipboard applet_1 0 0 1_arm ipk cool icons cool icons_0 0 1_arm ipk dosbox dosbox_0 6 3_arm ipk dummydev dummydev_0 01 1_arm ipk iproute iproute_z2 2 4 now ss991023 1_arm ipk java 1 3 java1 3_1 01 oxy2_arm ipk jeode jeode_1 10 7_arm ipk joyenabler joyenabler_1 3_arm ipk keyhelper keyhelper_1 2 2 1_arm ipk keyhelperconf keyhelperconf_0 3 0 1_arm ipk kismet kismet 2005 08 R1 arm ipk LUSScreenSaver LUSScreenSaver_1 4 6 1_arm ipk LUSScreenSaverUtil LUSScreenSaverUtil_1 3 5 1_arm ipk LUSSSFish LUSSSFish_1 0 0 1_arm ipk LUSSSMessage LUSSSMessage_1 0 0 1_arm ipk LUSSSPicture LUSSSPicture_1 1 1 1_arm ipk LUSSSUniverse LUSSSUniverse_1 0 0 1_arm ipk nethelper nethelper_0 3 0 1_arm ipk opie sh opie sh_0 5 1 20020527_arm ipk Plasterer plasterer_2 1 0 1_arm ipk perl perl_5 6 1_arm ipk qcoptest qcoptest_0 1 1_arm ipk qpe suspendapplet qpe suspendapplet_1 5 0 3_arm ipk qpose bin qpose bin_3 5 0 2 1_arm ipk qpose data qpose data_3 5 0 2 2_arm ipk sambacontroller sambacontroller_0 1 0_arm ipk shell shell_l
228. nt and unmount the share by clicking on the appropriate buttons If the share is valid and your username password is correct then the smb share will be mounted under hdd3 Documents NetworkFolders hostname sharename Mounting USB drives To mount a drive type mount dev sda1 mnt usbstorage To unmount type umount mnt usbstorage You can also create the following simple script to automatically mount USB drives or use the more advanced usb storage that I ve written Here is the simple version su vi etc hotplug usb usb storage bin sh etc hotplug hotplug functions if L var run usb proc bus usb then mesg Try to Mount mount mnt usbstorage if 0 then ln s mnt usbstorage home samba USB_Storage ln s etc hotplug usb usb storage off REMOVER mesg make REMOVER in REMOVER fi fi chmod 755 etc hotplug usb usb storage vi etc hotplug usb usb storage off bin sh etc hotplug hotplug functions mesg Removing mnt usbstorage rm home samba USB_Storage umount mnt usbstorage chmod 755 etc hotplug usb usb storage off echo dev sda1 mnt usbstorage vfat noauto umask 000 noatime iocharset utf8 codepage 932 0 0 gt gt etc fstab Hint Once a USB disk is mounted it will appear in the Files tab as well In addition creating a link to the mounted drive from home samba will allow it to be shared as well through Samba In general most devices such as memory sticks cameras m
229. nversion The Movie Player that comes with the Zaurus is nice for playing MPEG files I can just copy a dat file from a VCD and rename it to mpg and Movie Player can play them in a window and full screen However since space is limited on the Zaurus yep 4GB is nothing if you put a few vids on it compressing the vids is a good idea Unfortunately Movie Player only plays MPG files No worries mplayer will do the job mplayer can play almost any format and there are also some nice GUI interface for mplayer such as kino2 and zplayer Here is what I do using VirtualDub to compress videos there is a mod of virtualdub that can open mpg files as well VirtualDub MPEG2 1 5 10 From the Virtual Dub Menu select Video Filters add resize New width 320 New height 240 Filter mode Nearest Neighbour Color Depth Decompression format 16 bit HiColor 32K Output format to compressor display 16 bit HiColor 32K Compression Microsoft MPEG 4 Video Codec V3 Configure Control 30 Data Rate 150 select Audio Full processing mode Compression MPEG Layer 3 24 kBits s 12000Hz Stereo Then Save as AVI my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 81 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Alternatively you can also use PocketDivXEncoder which is a derivative of mencoder to compress movies for the Zaurus The default settings with 2 pass encoding does a pretty good job on the compression and quality
230. ocess with altboot and once kexec is integrated it could be used to boot other distros as well There is also a special boot loader specifically for the C3000 featured on piro s website http www piro hopto org piro zaurus bootloader my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 153 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Using one of these bootloaders might be a way to boot and pivot the rootfs on the C3000 to overcome the tiny 16M flash problem OpenZaurus vs pdaXrom a distro for the SL C3000 I am quite happy with Sharp ROM with a bit of tweaking on my SL C3100 since it behaves the way I like and does everything I want it to do However the SL C3000 is a bit different since it got a tiny flash Hence I am looking for an alternate distro for the SL C3000 which can run completely off the internal MicroDrive The choice for a distro for my SL C3000 is quite hard since none of the currently available distros are quite ready yet Since my SL C3100 is already running a Qtopia based distro I really want a X11 based distro for the SL C3000 There are two possible candidates OZ GPE and pdaXrom However neither of the two has gotten to a point yet where it is stable enough to use and includes sufficient useful applications and utilities Both still have a lot of shortcomings Below is a discussion about why these two distros have potential and also where they fall short Firstly the OS needs to be able to boot an
231. ol your Zaurus USB Keyboard and Mouse You can plug in external USB keyboard and USB mouse if you have a USB host cable Using a USB hub you can have multiple USB devices connected concurrently The USB keyboard should be correctly mapped and just work The USB mouse might be a bit more problematic since it might fight for control with the stylus Chinese Japanese support Support for displaying and inputting Chinese and Japanese is possible You will need to install unicode fonts with the extended character set that supports the extra Chinese and Japanese characters Additionally an input server such as SCIM and inputmethod plugins also need to be compiled and installed Backup Backups are always important for recovery in case something goes wrong or accidental deletions However doing a NAND backup on any of the C3x00 series models in OZ 3 5 4 1 is useless since it does not even use the NAND flash area The backup application provided by OZ only backs up the PIM data which is a good thing but not sufficient A gzipped tarball of everything seems to be the only solution at the moment Multi Booting OZ is able to facilitate booting of different media through the use of altboot With the addition of kexec to altboot it is even able to boot another kernel Using these features you can boot different versions of OZ or even other distros from SD or CF cards Altboot allows you to boot straight off an ext2 filesystem from a physical med
232. onfigured to allow you to mount and unmount see sudo section bin sh e BASE grep QtPalmtop usr lib ipkg info supertux list tail n 1 sudo mount BASE share supertux cramfs BASE share supertux o ro loop sudo mount BASE share supertux cramfs BASE data o ro loop supertux sudo umount BASE share supertux sudo umount BASE data Installing FreeCiv You need the following packages files stdsounds2 tar gz my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 111 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 freeciv_zaurus_0_0_5_bin tar bz2 To install freeciv do the following su mkdir p home QtPalmtop share freeciv bzip2 dc freeciv_zaurus_0_0_5_bin tar bz2 tar xvf C home QtPalmtop share freeciv mv home QtPalmtop share freeciv civclient png home QtPalmtop pics zcat stdsounds3 tar gz tar xvf C home QtPalmtop share freeciv ln s home QtPalmtop share freeciv data stdsounds soundspec home QtPalmtop share freeciv data stdsounds spec vi home QtPalmtop bin runciv bin sh CIVHOME opt QtPalmtop share freeciv CIVHOME civserver amp bg CIVHOME civclient kill 9 ps ef grep civ grep v grep awk print 2 sleep 5 kill 9 ps ef grep civ grep v grep awk print 2 chmod 755 home QtPalmtop bin runciv Create freeciv desktop in opt QtPalmtop apps Games as follows Desktop Entry Comment Freeciv Exec runciv Icon civclient Type Application Name FreeCi
233. or flite zflite gui_0 3_arm ipk which lets you select a text file and my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 80 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 then it will call flite with the text file as an argument or lets you type in some text and passes it to flite In the meantime I have used opie sh to do something similar zflite gui_0 1_arm ipk although not as sophisticated and zflite gui_0 2_arm ipk which uses qshdlg Some flite options sets join_type simple_join use simple concatenation of diphones without prosodic modification setf duration_stretch 1 5 make it speak slower setf int_f0_target_mean 145 make it speak with higher pitch t some text f filename mbrola mbrola mbr301h zip is another voice synthesis application It is an engine that converts diphones pho files to voice wav files and has exchangable libraries for different voices and languages However it needs additional software that converts text to pho files FreeTTS is such an application however it is written for Java 1 4 which does not exist for the Sharp distro only Java 1 3 is available for Zaurus Unfortunately this means that mbrola is pretty useless until FreeTTS has been backported to Java 1 3 which is not an easy task because FreeTTS uses a lot of the 1 4 features not available in 1 3 or until jamvm which is a jre 1 4 capable java runtime replacement can be made to run on the Sharp distro Video Co
234. ords in English You can use that image dictionaries squashfs as well but you will need more than 300MB of space for it xmms has been hacked to allow it to use more Zauri friendly keys You can now use the OK and Cancel keys as Play and Stop Also Up and Down have been reassigned to change tracks and N and M are now used for volume control The goal was to be able to use the sidekeys on the back of the Zaurus to control xmms just like the MusicPlayer when the display is closed or you are using it in PDA mode portrait without access to the keyboard xmms can play wav mp3 and mod files and I have also compiled mplayer 1 1pre8 with X11 support so xmms can launch mplayer inside a little gtk window for watching short clips my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 144 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 I have also compiled the mplayer GUI gmplayer Note that this version of mplayer runs via X Qt which runs via a frame buffer through QT E so it will never be as fast as mplayer running via bvdd or ati However mplayer is compiled with XScale CPU optimisation so it does perform reasonably for small clips and it supports more codecs than the older version A hacked version of DOSBox is also included The key has been hacked to work in this version Fn will give the key Fn Ctrl will give the key To exit dosbox just type exit In addition the following tools are available via the command line in pd
235. orientation To automatically invoke the script when the Zaurus is rotated modify rc xml etc xdg openbox rc xml and replace chkhinge with rotateall For best results run the applications in full screen mode ie maximised I have written the script in such a way that if you run rotateall from a console without the screen actually rotated it will rotate the screen to the right instead of to the left Running the script again will restore the previous orientation Screen Capture A screenshot can be taken by running xwd display 0 gt screendump xwd A smarter script can be written that mimics the capture behaviour on the Sharp distro ie bind the script to a key combo eg Ctrl Alt c and play a shutter sound before doing the screen dump Also the filenaming and sequencing can also be made to mimic the Sharp snapshot tool See the screencap script The screencap script I have written also calls a wav file click wav to make a sound before taking the snapshots If you install ImageMagick as well then it will be able to convert the xwd image into png automatically Window Managers pdaXrom uses openbox as its default window manager because it is lightweight and loads pretty fast my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 163 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 However there are many other alternate window managers wm that can be installed and used as well such as xfce blackbox fluxbox matchbox icewm
236. ory Doom runs quite nicely and you can use either doom1 or doom2 wad files Installing Quake To install Quake install the following packages libsdl libsdl_1 2 5 slzaurus20050731_arm ipk libsdl mixer libsdl mixer_1 2 5cvs 1_arm ipk libsdl net libsdl net_1 2 5cvs 1_arm ipk quake qpe quake_1 5 0 2_arm ipk quake data qpe quake data_1 5 0 1_arm ipk Change home QtPalmtop bin run_quake and update the line which looks like this quake nosound width 150 height 135 basedir opt QtPalmtop quake data to quake fullscreen width 320 height 240 basedir opt QtPalmtop quake data Quake is awfully slow in fullscreen mode but even if you reduce the window size it is still quite slow You can also try QuakeII under Debian This assumes you already have a working PocketWorkstation To install quake2 you first need to make sure apt get is able to find it To do that edit etc apt sources list and add the following deb http ftp debian org debian sarge contrib Then do the following source root profile apt get update apt get install quake2 apt get clean This assumes you are connected to the net apt get will download all the required packages and then install quake2 The following is a list of files it downloads and installs my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 110 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 libao2_0 8 6 1_arm deb libasound2_1 0 8 3_arm deb libsd
237. otloader to flash your C3000 with a new kernel and boot loader image If you have a C3100 or C3200 this option will update your existing system which has to be pdaXrom beta3 to boot into the MicroDrive but will not update the kernel nor the rest of the system Once the installation has finished you will need to extract the hdimage tgz or one of its variants onto the MicroDrive Choose Option 4 for that and wait a while until it formats your first partition as ext3 and extracts the content of the tgz file onto the first partition of your MicroDrive Then choose Option 6 to reboot and pdaXii13 should be installed and boot into X windows OpenBox will be the default X window manager just like in the default pdaXrom beta3 During your first boot your SSL private and public keys will be generated which will take a while If you have used the recommended partition scheme or used your own custom partition layout then you need to format those remaining partitions During the initial boot you will also be given a choice to format your second and third partition if you have them The second partition will be formatted as swap while the third partition will be formatted as FAT Alternatively you can do it manually as well Start a terminal console and format the remaining partitions depending on what type of partitions you have created For example mkswap dev hda2 swapon dev hda2 mkfs vfat dev hda3 mount dev hda3 data The above assu
238. ou started xmodmaprc c3000 for SL C3x00 and SL C1000 xmodmaprc c860 for SL C8x0 and SL C7x0 xmodmaprc 6000 for SL 6000 and SL 5x00 Once X Qt is installed you will get a new X Qt tab and also additional icons on your desktop however on some models you will need to restart Qtopia or reboot your Zaurus in order for them to show up Use the StartX icon to start X windows Do not use the X Qt Server icon but do not remove it either It is required to display the X Qt icon on your Qt taskbar when X is running The other icons are only placeholders and do not do anything until you actually install those applications Once you install those applications the icons will be able to launch them You can also start X from the command line using the xlauncher command The latest X Qt jumbo pack would be xqt gtk jumbo_4 3 0 7 4_arm ipk however it has not been build as an ipk yet The xqt gtk jumbo cramfs or squashfs image is the equivalent of it The default window manager for X Qt jumbo is now fluxbox which is an enhanced version of blackbox my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 116 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The taskbar is at the top of the screen so it is not hidden behind the Qt taskbar anymore You can use X control to change X to fullscreen if you don t want to see the Qt taskbar X control can be activated by pressing the menu button which allows you to switch to fullscreen X and or shutdown X
239. ove on the Zaurus by modifying etc hotplug usbd func and adding the following to the end of the usbd_net_if_up function if DHCPC no then GATEWAY 192 168 129 101 DNS 192 168 10 1 route add host GATEWAY usbd0 route delete net echo GATEWAY cut d f1 2 3 0 24 usbd0 route delete default route add default gw GATEWAY echo nameserver DNS gt etc resolv conf fi Using IrDa for networking Since the Zaurus has an infra red port IrDA you can use it for networking as well provided you also have an IrDA port on your PC or laptop that you can configure to use PPP over IrDA IrCOMM or IrNet This method of networking your Zaurus would give you the slowest network speed and you usually would not use it if the other options were available to you But if your CF slot and USB port are tied up with other things then using IrDA for networking might be something viable For this to work you would need to first choose whether to use IrCOMM or IrNet drivers Then you would need to make sure the chosen driver is enabled on both your Zaurus and your PC or Laptop For IrDA connectivity one machine has to be the host and the other the client I will describe how to make Zaurus the host and the other PC or Laptop the client The roles can also be easily reversed I also did not bother with security since both machines would have to be physically in close range to each other in order for this to work IrCOMM The IrCOMM driver is by def
240. ovements to the 2 4 20 kernel based system Most of these customisations should be generic for pdaXrom running on any Zaurus model However there are also a few C3000 specific customisations that should not be applied to the C3100 or any other models even though these two models are very similar hardware wise The major difference between the C3000 version of pdaXrom to other versions is that pdaXrom does not reside on the flash but rather is entirely located on the internal MicroDrive using a pivot boot feature Some of the customisations require additional files which should be downloaded first and placed on a SD or CF card for easy transfer to the Zaurus Fixing the boot process There are several things during the boot process that can be fixed The first and most important one is the pivot boot feature that comes with the C3000 beta2 release of pdaXrom 1 1 0 beta1 The improved fix allows the C3000 to boot even if an external CF is inserted during the boot process and allows both the external and internal CFs to be mounted properly cp init media realroot sbin init chmod 755 media realroot sbin init cp halt etc rc d init d halt chmod 755 etc rc d init d halt cp ide opts etc pcmcia ide opts It probably also is a good idea to run fsck before mounting the disk just in case The suspend feature also seems to be happier on a clean disk Often failure to suspend is corrected after the disk is fscked cleanly The init script has be
241. owing source mnt zgcc qt3 qt3 env Note QT 3 3 6 support is experimental Not everything might work or compile Perl You do not need to install Perl separately if you have installed the zgcc image but if only want Perl without the gcc compiler then do the following su ln s usr local home root usr Then install the following packages libperl libperl_5 6 1_arm ipk perl base perl base_5 6 1_arm ipk perl5 perl_5 6 1_arm ipk Once the packages have been installed add the following to the profile file my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 91 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 export LANGUAGE C export LC_ALL C You might also want to do the following su ln s usr local bin perl usr bin perl Optionally you might also install a XML parser xml parser_2 31 1_arm ipk module for perl Installing X Qt This can be a quite simple and straightforward task or a messy and frustrating experience If you are lucky everything just installs and you got X Qt up and running in no time at all However if you are unlucky then troubleshooting a broken installation can be a challenging and frustrating process I ve sucessfully installed the latest version of X QT but I have noticed that some X Qt packages do not uninstall cleanly and will confuse reinstalls or other packages that have dependancies on them Not all the packages that I installed are required for basic X to
242. p www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 206 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 It is recommended to exit X before doing a backup By default the backup file will be placed under data opt data and mnt will not be backed up as well as any other additional directories that you create on zbackup has been designed to only work on the SL C3000 zaurus user pdaXii13 has a zaurus user to run certain services such as samba xscreensaver and amule where security is important but for most other things the root user is used This is a slight security concern but better than pdaXrom where everything is run by root Future releases might fix this up to make everything run by the zaurus user instead just like in Sharp Cacko Resume and Suspend suspend works when invoked from the start menu or when the On Off button on the front side is pressed resume also works just like in Sharp ROM where you need to press the On Off button when the Z is suspended It also appears that the Z does not like to resume unless you had closed the lid and reopened it You can cheat by pressing the little nodge at the base of the swivel with your stylus You may need to wait ten seconds before the Zaurus resumes The hdd led is no longer left on when suspending except when the MicroDrive s filesystem is really badly corrupted and in need of a manual fsck which happens occasionally if you have not rebooted the Zaurus for a long time In pdaXii13 the sound daemon esd
243. p Mail sylpheed Shift Mail firefox Fn Mail thunderbird Ctrl Mail dillo Alt Mail xchat Super Mail gnumeric Home Mail abiword Ctrl Alt c screencap Home 5 Refresh Screen The above changes can be done by modifying rc xml which is by default located under etc xdg openbox however it may also be under home root config openbox For XMMS the following keys can be used to control it X Play C Pause V Stop Up Increase Volume Down Decrease Volume Left Skip Backward Right Skip Forward Z Prev Song B Next Song However those keys aren t very convennient especially if you use the Zaurus in portrait mode and are using the buttons and scrollwheel at the back Because of that I modified xmms to be more Zaurus friendly so that you can use OK to play Cancel to stop and Up and Down to switch between tracks I have reassigned N and M to be the volume keys my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 161 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You can either replace the xmms binary with my hacked version if you have already installed xmms or install xmms_1 2 10 2_armv5tel ipk instead xpdf has the following key mappings o open file r reload f find next n next page p previous page zoom in zoom out z zoom page w zoom page width 0 zoom normal q quit You can either replace the xpdf binary with my hacked version if you have already installed xpdf
244. p and which mplayer to invoke from ROX filer as well as whether to load torsmo or activate sticky keys my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 208 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The special Maintenance Mode can also be enabled from this config tool When Maintenance Mode is enabled the next time you reboot your Zaurus it drops into a special shell before the MicroDrive is mounted so you can manually fsck it Once you are done you need to reset your Zaurus by pressing the little reset button inside the battery compartment auto mounting Automatic mounting via etc fstab works in pdaXii13 It does not work in the pdaXrom default config but I integrated the features from my automount scripts into the default rc scripts It creates up to 8 loop devices instead of the default 2 loop devices Furthermore loop images are also automatically mounted at bootup USB disks are also mounted automatically once they are plugged in Up to four USB disks can be mounted automatically if you have a hub You can also manually mount and unmount the SD card CF card and one USB storage device The card applet has been enhanced to allow this my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 209 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 USB network storage The USB module works in two modes similar to the Sharp distro It can either allow the Zaurus to be used as a USB disk or used as a virtual net
245. p etc rc d rc6 d K50mnt echo hdd3 jre13 cramfs usr lib jdk1 3 cramfs loop ro 0 0 gt gt etc fstab mntloop will create new loop devices and check etc fstab at bootup time and mount any valid entry for cramfs it finds The Linux boot process will mount entries in etc fstab by default but it can only mount 2 loop partitions because there are only that many default loop devices so any additional entries in etc fstab will fail to mount mntloop will mount any additional entries it finds after creating the extra loop devices At system shutdown or reboot it will cleanup and unmount anything mounted as a loop device The automounter package automounter c3000_0 5 0_arm ipk will install mntloop and also install the usb automounter Similar to the cram filesystem is the squash filesystem which is appendable ie you can add files to it In order to use the squash filesystem you will need to install the squashfs module kern mod squashfs_c3000 2 1 2_arm ipk Alternatively if you don t need a compressed filesystem but want a read and write access instead then you can create an ext2 or ext3 formatted loopback filesystem You would need to pre allocate a chunk of space for it and the files won t be compressed at all For example to create a 128MB loopback filesystem on hdd3 called expansion ext2 do the following su dd if dev zero of hdd3 expansion ext2 bs 1MB count 128 echo y sbin mke2fs hdd3 expansion ext2 mkdir p home
246. p3 players and usb harddrives have their disk partitioned as my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 57 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 a primary partition and can be found at dev sda1 However if you have partitioned your disk as an extended partition then it most likely would be dev sda5 Do a fdisk l dev sda as root to check and change the above accordingly In addition if you are using a USB Hub then you will be able to attach and mount multiple devices usually up to four disks In such a case the devices will be dev sda dev sdb dev sdc and dev sdd I have created a more advanced script which can automatically mount up to four usb disks and also automount disks partitioned as primary or extended partitions Place this usb storage into etc hotplug usb and remove usb storage off if there already is one it will generate a new one The script will also create mount points under mnt and update etc fstab as required Alternatively you can simply install automounter c3000_0 5 0_arm ipk In addition to external harddisk enclosures with USB interfaces and memory sticks most MP3 players cameras and some mobile phones also have an internal storage that can be mounted on the Zaurus if they have a USB interface Most of those devices will be recognised by the Zaurus as a Mass Storage device by default however some newer devices are not on the Zaurus device list and you will need to update it to
247. package is an enhanced replacement for xqt startup scripts Your X will work just as before so you will now have a X server icon and a Debian icon Your existing X apps will launch into normal X if there is no other X server running but if Debian is running they will just launch into the Debian X session and assume the look and feel of icewm They will look the same as your Debian applications however since the applications were launched outside the chroot environment they retain their access to the normal environment but just appear inside the same X window session The xqt jumbo package includes the xqt debian scripts package so if have installed the xqt jumbo package then don t install the xqt debian package since it is already included my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 96 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Use the xlauncher command to start X applications from the command line or use it as the launcher for a Qt desktop icon see Firefox section for an example The mouse function is emulated as follows Tapping on screen Left Click Fn Shift Tapping Center Click Fn Tapping Right Click The xlauncher also automatically mounts and binds your SD and CF cards if they are inserted before Debian is started so that they will be acessible from within Debian You can also manually mount and unmount them Here is an example on how to mount your SD card so it can also be used from the chroot
248. per xml khctl reload Installing keyhelper c3000map keyhelper c3000map_0 4_arm ipk will also do the above and it will also enable the keyhelper menus too as shown below my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 24 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 It will give you the following mappings Sticky Shift key press the Shift key and the next key you press will be shifted Sticky Fn key press the Fn key and the next key you press will be the blue one on the top of each key Sticky Ctrl key press the Ctrl key and the next key you press will be the combined with the Ctrl key Alt key the left Japanese key kana hira next to the Ctrl key Shift Mail will bring up the application quick menu for favourite apps Shift Address will bring up the documents menu for frequently accessed files Shift Calendar will bring up the settings menu for common tasks Home switch between Menu Tabs Shift Home will switch to the next application Menu key brings up the pulldown menu of the current application or launch the application from the quick menu when pressed with the shortcut key Shift Menu will bring up the task selector similar to alt tab on windows Ctrl Menu when Menu does not work will give Alt f bring up the file menu Swapped and key Fn o Fn p Ctrl t left double angle quotation Ctrl y right double angle quotation Ctrl w multiplication sign Ctrl r divi
249. pk zknights zknights_0 6 1 1_arm ipk Eliminator Eliminator_1 0_arm ipk javachess javachess_1 0_arm ipk javanoid javanoid_1 54 2_arm ipk laserchess laserchess_1 09_arm ipk coffeeChess coffeeChess_0 0 1_arm ipk javello Javello_0 0 1_arm ipk zudoku zudoku figlabs_1 1_arm ipk warp warp_1 0_arm ipk warpfleet warpfleet_0 1_arm ipk doom doomdemo and prboom doomdemo_1 8 1_arm ipk prboom_2 2 3 2_arm ipk quake qpe quake_1 5 0 2_arm ipk qpe quake data_1 5 0 1_arm ipk heretic heretic demo_1 2 3_arm ipk heretic engine_1 0 4 2_arm ipk ctux cyclone tux ctux_1 0 0_arm ipk dtux dancing tux dtux_1 0 0_arm ipk Well Tux isn t really a game but it is funny You will need to install qpe libqtopia_1 6 0 13_arm ipk for tux A lot of applications written for prior Z versions still work for the C3000 and C3100 however the screen is rotated to portrait by default for those applications which can be changed easily Most require no changes to work but some need some tweaking in order to work properly on the C3000 and C3100 Look in the customisation section for details for those Generally feeds for Cacko and pdaXrom are also good sources for finding applications written for the older Sharp models They will run on Qtopia and X Qt respectively The Sharp ROM on the C3000 is not really a ROM image It really is a misnomer carried on from previous models The SL C3000 doesn t really have a flash
250. pk with a rotatable font set These fonts are for the default Qtopia deskop and applications X Qt and Pocketworkstation use a different set of fonts The Qtopia fonts are stored in opt QtPalmtop lib fonts Zaurus fonts use the Trolltech s QT Prerendered Format QPF If you want to make your own additional fonts then you can convert fonts to Zaurus fonts by using a utility called makeqpf arm which is provided by Trolltech lcfont is the default system font used with the Japanese system ie when your locale is set to ja which is what your Zaurus is set to by default However Qtopia defaults to helvetica if it can t find the font it needs When generating fonts you will need to generate two versions one for portrait mode and one for landscape The qpf font for the rotated screen has t10 appended to the filename Here are some sample steps to convert the arial ttf font to a size 16 qpf in landscape and portrait mode Doing this may result your Zaurus being locked up and you definately have to reboot your Zaurus afterwards so make sure you save any open files before doing the following mkdir p hdd3 build lib fonts cp arial ttf hdd3 build lib fonts export QTDIR hdd3 build cd QTDIR lib fonts echo arial arial ttf FT n 50 160 s gt fontdir makeqpf arm display Transformed Rot0 A makeqpf arm display Transformed Rot270 A cd hdd3 build newipk arial my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZau
251. png The zicons wmtux package zicons wmtux_0 2_arm ipk will replace the above listed icons with a set of nicer looking ones and also adds a few extra icons for applications This package is based on the cool icons package from cacko biz and also the z oslinux theme from zaurusthemes org The Appearance tool under the Settings tab can be used to switch themes Crystal Blue is one of my favourites although a combination of SLStyle for the Style umicons for the Title Bar and Gray for the Colour Scheme does look very good too my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 36 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Configuring bash The Zaurus comes with bash 2 05 by default It also comes with ash and sh which is the default shell for the root and zaurus user accounts The zaurus user forks off and launches bash when you launch a console from within Qtopia When you connect to the zaurus via telnet for example or su to root you will get the default shell bin sh which is not bash If you want to make bash your default shell then edit etc passwd and change bin sh to bin bash root x 0 0 root home root bin bash zaurus x 500 500 Zaurus User home zaurus bin bash You can also customise the bash prompt by creating or editing a file called profile or bashrc which is in the user s home directory eg home zaurus profile or home root profile You can change the bash prompt by changing the PS1 variable definition to
252. pport ezaurus com sl c3100 update The SD card driver shipped with the SL C3000 and SL C3100 only supports SD cards of sizes up to 1GB The SL C3200 comes with an updated SD driver which supports larger SD cards This driver also works for the SL C3000 and SL C3100 however Sharp only released it pre installed on the SL C3200 It has been extracted and re packaged by the Zaurus user community Additional Software Even with all this software there is still a lot of extra functionality that can be obtained by installing additional packages The following is a list of applications and utilities that I have installed most of which can be found on the ZUG feed see Feeds section I have provided the full filename of the packages which will make locating them with your favourite search engine much simpler Also I have archived up all my installed packages here Applications and Utilities for Qtopia GUI explorer explorer_1 0_arm ipk filelaunch filelaunch_0 4 5_arm ipk FNViewer FNViewer_1 3_arm ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 9 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 FreeNote FreeNote_1 13 2pre_arm ipk guigrep guigrep_1 3_arm ipk htmleditor htmleditor_1 0 0_arm ipk iconedit iconedit_0 9 4_arm ipk jabp jabp_1 1 4_arm ipk java jed java jed_1 0_arm ipk java jportscan java jportscan_1 0_arm ipk jftp jftp_0 23 1_arm ipk kaddressbook kaddressbook_2 1 2_ar
253. pressing Ctrl space or Ctrl When you plug in a USB keyboard you can automatically remap the keys so that the keys on the external keyboard are mapped correctly but it will result in the Zaurus keyboard being mismapped When the external keyboard is unplugged the keymapping for the zaurus keyboard is restored This is handled by the hotplug subsystem my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 194 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 You can also manually switch the keyboard mapping for your USB keyboard by using the USB Keyboard Selector tool It allows you to switch between the default Zaurus keymapping spitz xmodmap and the default USB keyboard mapping usb xmodmap There are additional options for other keyboard mappings which you can add by placing keyboard maps for those mappings under etc X11 kb and naming your keyboard mapping file usb LANGUAGE xmodmap where LANGUAGE is the two letter abbreviation in lowercase The default XMMS keys have been changed to make it more Zaurus friendly especially when the Zaurus is in portrait mode and you want to use the buttons and the scrollwheel at the back of the Zaurus to control XMMS just like the MusicPlayer in Sharp ROM The following keys can be used to control XMMS X or OK Play C or Cancel Pause V Stop N Increase Volume M Decrease Volume Left Skip Backward Right Skip Forward Z or Up Prev Song B or Down Next Song R Repeat S Shuffle
254. qpe apps cd home QtPalmtop tar cf etc orig tar etc gzip etc orig tar cp home zaurus Documents custom etc mod tar tar xf etc mod tar chown R root qpe apps cd home zaurus tar cf Settings orig tar Settings gzip Settings orig tar cp home Zaurus Documents custom Settings mod tar tar xf Settings mod tar cd Settings chown zaurus qpe conf chmod 644 conf Reboot the Zaurus and this is what it will look like my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 21 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 This package c3000 custom jaen_0 2_arm ipk will do the above and is what I use to recover my localisation if I need to reset my Zaurus to factory setting and start again This package works for the C3100 and C1000 as well You can switch back to Japanese by simply uninstalling the package Some applications that you install after the localisation will still appear in Japanese but most of those can be easily localised as well by looking under the home QtPalmtop i18n ja directory and if there is an additional qm file named after the application you installed there simply move it into the hide directory However some applications are written natively in Japanese and cannot be easily localised I have created langswitch_0 2_arm ipk which will allow you to move the qm files back and fro from the GUI it requires opie sh The help files are still in Japanese If that bothers you and you wan
255. qt startup scripts xqt startup scripts_0 0 3_all ipk Once the packages are installed do the following cd opt QtPalmtop bin su my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 92 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 ln s Xqt X ln s rxvt xterm add the following to home zaurus xinitrc xmodmap e keycode 69 slash comma xmodmap e keycode 70 period question xmodmap e keycode 22 minus grave xmodmap e keycode 60 grave Hint you can use the command line program xev from within X to determine the keycode of different keys on the SL C3000 and SL C3100 keyboard and add the mapping with xmodmap like I did or alternatively you can create a xmodmaprc file to customize your keymaps instead xmodmap pke gt home zaurus xmodmaprc In addition I modified xinitrc and replaced the line rxvt amp with the following if f HOME xstart then XAPP cat HOME xstart XAPP amp rm HOME xstart else rxvt amp fi Then I replaced the content of home QtPalmtop bin startx wrapper with the following bin sh X ps ef grep X grep qt if X then if 1 qcop then echo 1 gt HOME xstart fi startx else export DISPLAY 0 0 1 amp fi Create a link my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 93 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 ln s home QtPalmtop bin startx wrapper home Q
256. r approximately AUD 20 Since a single USB connection is rather limiting I also got a Blue Eye powered mini USB Hub so I can connect up multiple USB devices at the same time I opted for a powered hub instead of a cheaper unpowered one which I had lying around With a powered hub I can connect my BlueEye 40 GB 2 5 USB HDDs to the Zaurus The 5V at 1A power required by the HDD had to come from the USB Hub But be careful most powered USB hubs only provide 5V at 500mA which is not sufficient for some harddisks The Blue Eye hub costs around AUD 40 and is one of the few that supplies the necessary 1A In fact its AC adaptor supplies 2A which means it can handle more than 1 harddisk Most 2 5 disks only need 500mA to run but 1A to power up 3 5 harddisk enclosures normally come with an AC power so those can be used with an unpowered hub and I was able to use my BlueEye 200 GB 3 5 USB HDD which was NTFS formatted with the Z I have also tried the BlueEye hub with four disks plugged in without problems While shopping around I have found another place which sells the Blue Eye Hub for only AUD 25 so I got myself another spare Also the USB hub powers my USB desklight which costs around AUD 20 BlueEye devices are made distributed by Noontech The hub also allowed me to simultaneously use my mini USB mouse and mini USB keyboard The mouse is particular useful when running X windows on the Z The keyboard I normally only use with my Zaurus w
257. r lib jdk1 3 lib armv4l usr lib jdk1 3 lib armv5tel ln s usr lib libstdc 3 libc6 1 2 2 10 0 so usr lib libstdc libc6 2 2 so 3 vi usr lib jdk1 3 bin java replace APPHOME dirname 0 with APPHOME dirname 0 lib replace prog APPHOME bin proc ttype progname with prog APPHOME jre bin proc ttype progname For the bz2 compressed version you should extract it to usr local and then do the following ln s usr local j2re1 3 1 bin java usr bin java ln s usr local j2re1 3 1 bin armv4l usr local j2re1 3 1 bin armv5tel ln s usr local j2re1 3 1 lib armv4l usr local j2re1 3 1 lib armv5tel ln s usr lib libstdc 3 libc6 1 2 2 10 0 so usr lib libstdc libc6 2 2 so 3 If you don t have the libstdc library then install this libstdc6_1 2 2_arm ipk package Remember that if you want to run Java J2SE in graphics mode ie awt and swing then you need to install X Qt see X Qt section and you might need additional libraries which may or may not have been bundled with the blackdown distribution you installed The following is a list of libraries you might need to add which are contained in additional ipaq stuff tar gz libBrokenLocale 2 2 2 so linked to libBrokenLocale so 1 libXm so 2 1 linked to libXm so 2 libXp so 6 2 linked to libXp so 6 You should also install JSSE which will add SSL support for Java 1 3 x Download the JSSE zip file jsse 1_0_3_03 gl zip from Sun s websit
258. rd and SD card The created swap file is also called swapfile rather than swapfile Increasing tmp By default tmp is mounted from dev shm as a 1MB tmpfs This 1MB is taken from the 64MB of RAM and for most applications 1MB of tmp is sufficient However some applications such as kismet or qpdf2 may require a bit more than just 1MB Opening some large pdf files for example might be very slow or does not work at all because there is insufficient space in tmp Some applications can utilise home root tmp instead but not all can You can increase the amount of memory allocated to tmp But remember that memory for tmp is taken from RAM so increasing tmp will decrease the amount of physical available RAM To do that you need to edit etc fstab and root etc rc d rc rofilesys and replace 1m with for example 2m to increase the size of tmp to 2MB Remember to remount to rw before editing rc rofilesys and remount it back to ro once done Finally you need to reboot the Zaurus in order for the change to take effect Using loopback filesystem You can use a loopback filesystem which is a mounted filesystem image to do various things such as compressing files or overlaying a filesystem with another format The cram filesystem is a read only compressed filesystem format The following demonstrates how to configure cramfs to preserve some space Only convert directories to cramfs if you are sure those directories are read only ie you are never
259. remap the keyboard so the keystrokes matches that of the USB keyboard but this of course will mess up the build in keyboard on the Zaurus You will need to switch between native keyboard and external keyboard mappings You cannot have both keyboards mapped correctly at the same time unless your USB keyboard has the same layout as the Japanese keyboard or you hack the usbkbd kernel module If you want to remap the keyboard so that it is correctly mapped for an external USB keyboard then you need to install usbkbd en usbkbd en_2 4 20_arm ipk which once installed will automatically switch your keyboard layout depending whether your USB keyboard is plugged in or not So with this replacement driver installed and its associated scripts if you plug in a USB keyboard your keymap will be automatically remapped for a US AU QWERTY keyboard When you unplug the keyboard then the keymap is reverted back to the previous keymap settings To manually control the keyboard remapping run the following to enable the USB keymap usbkey enable To disable the USB keymap and revert back to the original map type the following usbkey disable In addition you can also modify the keytable so that on a USB keyboard the numeric keys on the keypad behave just like you press Shift and a number key on the top row To get this behaviour you need to install dualkbd_2 4 20_arm ipk Enabling Joypad You may be able to use your USB Joypad Install the joyenabler
260. rsion of pdaXrom Feeds Cacko Sharp ROM compatible http www zaurususergroup org feed ZUG feed http zaurus spy org feeds docs zaurus com another zaurus feed http web mol ru zaurus feed another zaurus feed with Cacko and X Qt packages http bryandeluca com cacko feed Cacko feed http xqt sourceforge jp feed testing X Qt feed http xqt sourceforge jp feed X Qt feed http www pdaxrom org oldunstable pdaXrom feed old but works with X Qt http mail pdaxrom org downloads 1 1 0beta1 XQt feed pdaXrom 1 1 0beta1 feed compatible with X Qt http pdaxqtrom thegrinder ws files feed pdaXqtrom feed compatible with X Qt http opie handhelds org feed unsupported sharprom old opie feed http sharpromfeed home linuxtogo org feed new Sharp compatible feed build using OE my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 224 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 pdaXrom 1 1 beta1 beta3 compatible http distro ibiblio org pub linux distributions pdaxrom download 1 1 0beta3 Zaurus Cxx00 feed pdaXrom beta3 feed http distro ibiblio org pub linux distributions pdaxrom download 1 1 0beta1 Zaurus C1000 C3100 feed pdaXrom beta1 Cxx00 feed http distro ibiblio org pub linux distributions pdaxrom download 1 1 0beta1 Zaurus 7x0 860 feed pdaXrom beta1 Cxx0 feed http distro ibiblio org pub linux distributions pdaxrom download contrib various pdaXrom contrib
261. rus zbook html 23 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 cp hdd3 build lib fonts qpf hdd3 arial data opt QtPalmtop lib fonts makeipk arial su reboot The above assumes you have downloaded makeqpf arm from trolltech and extracted it to a location in the PATH ie usr local bin Also it is assumed you have ipktools installed And finally the Japanese display character for the symbol is It is incorrectly displayed but the correct character is being used so don t worry about it Key Mappings The Zaurus comes with a full QWERTY keyboard and like most notebooks some special characters and keys need to be accessed with a function key Fn combo Most of those combos are already clearly marked on the keyboard however some are not marked and some are missing All of the following key mappings work for most applications however some applications that have codepages directly compiled into them will not recognise the mappings and ignore them The Print Screen key sequence is Fn Shift c Navigation keys Fn up arrow Page Up Fn down arrow Page Down Fn left arrow Home Fn right arrow End Other useful and unmarked keys Shift There are other essential keys that need to be mapped For that install keyhelper keyhelper_1 2 2 1_arm ipk and put keyhelper xml into home zaurus Settings and then reload the key mappings from a console cd home zaurus Settings cp home zaurus Documents custom keyhel
262. s an updated battery and memory applet which allows you to generate and manage swapfiles of sizes up to 128MB the previous version was limited to 64MB only however there is a newer Japanese version which allows swapfile sizes up to 512MB and overclock as well as underclock the CPU Furthermore Cacko does not really use rc rofilesys to mount the internal MicroDrive partitions Instead it remounts everything using the sbin hddmount script which is called by home QtPalmtop qpe sh after all the rc scripts have run You might as well put the script to load the SD card service after hddmount and eliminate the S04sd links so you won t get flooded with MMC warnings during bootup if you have your SD card inserted First disable SD driver from being loaded by the rc scripts mv etc rc d rc3 d S04sd etc rc d rc3 d _S04sd mv etc rc d rc4 d S04sd etc rc d rc4 d _S04sd mv etc rc d rc5 d S04sd etc rc d rc5 d _S04sd Then modify home QtPalmtop qpe sh to load the SD driver instead sbin hddmount while true do if f home QtPalmtop pics144 Startup_screen bmp then sdisp home QtPalmtop pics144 Startup_screen bmp amp else bzcat usr QtPalmtop rom pics144 Startup_screen bmp bz2 gt tmp Startup_screen bmp rm f tmp Startup_screen bmp my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 148 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 fi etc rc d init d sd stop etc rc d init d sd start cd Since the latest Ca
263. s in the 3 5 4 feeds but not in the 3 5 4 1 feeds base machine upgrades opie x11 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 180 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 perl python contrib After changing the config files you will need to run ipkg update to refresh the configuration and package db ipkg update You will also find that you will get more success when using the command line ipkg command to install packages rather than the GUI Package Manager Installing OPIE with GPE You can install both OPIE and GPE on different virtual terminals and switch between those two VTs to switch between OPIE and GPE However running both environments like this concurrently also uses up more resources Alternatively you can also pick one of the two environments to be your main environment and run the other in a shrink down version so you can just run the applications Personally I believe OPIE is more mature than GPE as a windowing environment for the Zaurus and the configuration items in OPIE also appear to be more relevant for the Zaurus than they are in GPE Thus it makes more sense to add GPE functionality to OPIE rather than the other way around The following will assume that OPIE is installed as the main windowing environment Installing X Qt under OPIE Alternatively you can also use X Qt under OPIE to run X based applications without the need to switch virtual terminals This feature would be
264. s name dependencies version description etc There may also be some optional shell scripts for doing some pre and post configuration tasks during install and uninstall Finally the file data tar gz contains all the files and directory structure of the files for their destination location To unpack an ipk file to see what is inside it do the following my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 114 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 unpackipk somefile ipk To create your own ipk file do the following to create the ipk file structure newipk myprojectk Then once you add your files in the correct locations and also update the control file with the information about your application you can create your ipk file with the following command makeipk myprojectk X Qt Jumbo Installing X Qt ipk file Installing X Qt using the jumbo package is relatively simple It is installed just like any other package however due to its size make sure you have at least 40MB of free disk space on your destination for the install to install the xqt jumbo package Also temporarily disable suspend during the install since it takes a long time and you don t want your Zaurus to go to sleep in the middle of the install It is best to install the jumbo package from the command line rather than using the GUI package manager The X Qt jumbo package xqt gtk jumbo_4 3 0 7 1_arm ipk installs a complete X server for Qtop
265. s so now every window in Abiword is sized correctly I also compiled some text import export plugins so now I can open and edit StarOffice OpenOffice documents aspell is also installed to enable spell checking in abiword mplayer The mplayer binary compiled by Agawa Koji atty is the most optimised and best performing mplayer binary available for the C3000 and thus is the default in pdaXii13 The following mplayer command line will allow you to watch video mplayer vo bvdd ac mad ao ss framedrop really quiet file To force fullscreen playback add the vm option my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 216 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 mplayer vo bvdd ac mad ao ss framedrop really quiet vm file The xmmsmplayer addon to xmms can be used as a frontend for mplayer Unfortunately while mplayer is active and playing taking screenshots is not possible and thus the screenshot seen here has been modified and does not look so good It uses the vo x11 option by default to play the video in a gtk window You can make it use the bvdd driver instead and play fullscreen also The config file used by the plugin is usr share mplayer mplayer conf and contains the following config framedrop yes cache 1024 dr yes af resample 44100 Add the following to make mplayer use the bvdd driver and play fullscreen vo bvdd vm yes There is a bug with mplayer that it does not refresh
266. s something very hard to avoid for software projects unless you take Sharp s approach of not updating the environment and just patching it up when forced to OZ takes the opposite approach It is constantly being build and it integrates a lot of features from other Linux distros such as altboot and kexec At the moment TCP IP via USB client cable does not work when connecting to Windows This is the biggest problem I have with OZ since I like to plug it into my Windows PCs my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 152 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 OZ also takes advantage of the MicroDrive available on the C3x00 and thus installs itself to the MicroDrive instead of the flash This of course has its advantages and disadvantages On the C3000 this would be a great advantage however the same is also done for the C3100 and C3200 which may or may not be as advantageous The C3100 and C3200 are more or less treated like a C3000 on OZ since they are almost identical as opposed to what other distros do which treat the C3100 like a C1000 with an extra harddisk OpenZaurus also boasts to have around 6000 packages and that their package dependencies all work However this is not entirely true They naturally forgot to mention how many of those packages actually work Unfortunately a large percentage of those packages don t actually work or are just mostly useless cannon fodder Their large number also is a result that the
267. sers on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 50 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Find the following line interfaces usbd0 add your network interface after usbd0 separated by a space like this interface usbd0 wlan0 eth0 You might also want to add a new entry hosts allow 192 168 1 whatever the IP range of your network is from which you want to connect to your Zaurus multiple entries are separated with a space global workgroup HOME log file dev null hosts allow 192 168 1 192 168 129 encrypt passwords yes coding system utf8 client code page 932 force create mode 0755 strict sync yes sync always yes interfaces usbd0 eth0 wlan0 wins support yes bind interfaces only yes system comment System Folder path root samba read only no browseable no guest ok yes force user root home comment for User Data path home samba short preserve case no read only no guest ok yes force user zaurus And finally you need to know how to start the Samba service su etc rc d init d samba start To stop the Samba service su etc rc d init d samba stop Alternatively you can install sambacontroller sambacontroller_0 1 0_arm ipk which gives you a GUI interface to do it Remember to give it root access or else nothing will happen Also you need to do the following to enable it to configure smb conf only needed for the C3000 su mkdir p home root usr lib samba cd hom
268. shell models so you get the best mix of applications from both Qtopia and X11 environments since they have plenty of space for it However OZ appears to be very developer centric It is coupled with a build system OpenEmbedded and very much focused on building packaging and source control It is a system build from the ground up and focuses a lot on the kernel and clean builds The OZ team appears to be very organised and have a very structural approach Unfortunately this sometimes comes across as being inflexible and stubborn by some end users It also sometimes appear that usability is given less importance in favour of portability The gap for this is filled with the Hentges distro which is a more user friendly distro based on OZ Hentges is pretty much to OZ what Cacko is to the stock Sharp ROM Both are a more user friendly repackaging of a more rudimentary distro Hentges is currently available for Akita C1000 and Spitz C3x00 The latest version of OpenZaurus for the C3x00 is 3 5 4 1 which is build with the 2 6 16 kernel instead of the standard 2 4 20 kernel that the Zaurus was released with OpenZaurus being a bleeding edge distro with lots of active development has implemented many more advanced features than the Sharp distro however as with all bleeding edge technologies backward compatability and stability is not always guaranteed and thus certain new features might break existing features and or applications inadvertantly This i
269. similar to the X Qt functionality under Sharp Cacko Unfortunately unlike the X Qt packages that are for Sharp Cacko which has dedicated feeds that contain packages with basic default configurations the X Qt package under OPIE is a standalone package of the binary without any configuration scripts or whatsoever In order to make use of it quite a lot of manual customisation and tweaking is required under OPIE Installing GPE Although GPE is quite rudimentary you still might want to run a full X server comparable in features and usability to pdaXrom Using the Hentges GPE image would be a good start It is much more usable than the standard GPE install However there is still a need for a considerate amount of customisation effort to be put into it Essential Stuff There are several essential customisations in order to get OZ working properly Timezone The default OZ install only has a few timezones predefined If your timezone is not one of them then you need to first install a package for your timezone and then configure it My timezone package that I needed to add was timezones australia Once you installed the timezone package do the following according to your timezone ln s usr share zoneinfo Australia Sydney etc localtime The above is for the Australia Sydney timezone Substitute that part with the appropriate entry for you Additionally you also need to add export TZ Australia Sydney substitute with appropriate val
270. sion sign Ctrl plus minus sign Ctrl m little circle sign Ctrl q Fn q this one is redundant but I don t like the shift combo Ctrl a umlaut a Ctrl Shift a umlaut A Ctrl o umlaut o Ctrl Shift o umlaut O Ctrl u umlaut u Ctrl Shift u umlaut U Ctrl i circumflex i Ctrl Shift i circumflex I Ctrl e ae Ctrl Shift e AE Ctrl s eszett Ctrl Shift d D with eth Ctrl 1 e with grave Ctrl 2 E with grave Ctrl 3 e with acute Ctrl 4 E with acute my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 25 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Ctrl 5 e with circumflex Ctrl 6 E with circumflex Ctrl 7 e with diaeresis Ctrl 8 E with diaerisis Ctrl 9 c with cedilla Ctrl 0 C with cedilla Fn Shift will allow Alt key combinations from a z and 0 9 except for x c and v the Alt key does not work for some applications The file home zaurus Settings keyhelper conf contains the menu item definitions for what to display and what to execute If you want to customize your own key mappings you can install keyhelperconf which helps you determine the correct xml code required for the mappings You can also remap the application keys on the right hand side of the screen and at the bottom of the keyboard The Applic
271. sk in OZ however this feature is missing in the default pdaXrom install It can be added with contributed packages although it is not as integrated as in OZ Applications There are more useful applications in pdaXrom There may be more packages in OZ but the number of truely useful applications is greater on pdaXrom although some are oversized and don t fit on the Z s screen A lot of the dialog boxes in both OZ and pdaXrom are also oversized Some keys are incorrectly mapped in some of the applications Most applications depending on SDL libraries for example have wrongly mapped keys Firefox also has many missing keys on OZ Games pdaXrom is the king in games Not only can it support many games through emulators but there are also a lot of user contributed games of all sorts Even a playstation emulator has been ported and optimised for pdaXrom Language my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 155 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The default language of both pdaXrom and OZ is English Support for other languages is provided via way of unicode fonts and input method support for entering extended characters using a virtual keyboard OZ supports a host of European languages but lacks support for Asian languages such as CJK Chinese Japanese Korean pdaXrom has support for CJK although not all applications have been compiled with CJK support enabled Development Now this is the biggest differe
272. slater packages The japanese support c3100jaen package which I have created does not restore all the Japanese menus It gives you the Japanese inputmethod support without changing all the messages and the addressbook back into Japanese so the result is similar to what my custom jaen package does on the Japanese Sharp distro my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 149 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The above is a screenshot of Cacko after heavy customisation It looks just like my customised Sharp distro I also symlinked an Australian locale inputmethod and also added an Australian icon for the keyboard applet pdaXrom pdaXrom is another alternate distro for the Zaurus It is essentially a complete X windows environment Thus pdaXrom would make your Zaurus into a mini laptop with an X server and a lot of the X applications available on your desktop laptop Linux distro ported to the Zaurus There is also a pdaXrom X86 version that is for your desktop laptop so you can run the same applications on your Zaurus and your PC The latest pdaXrom release is currently 1 1 0 r121 and the SL C3100 is supported however it is not stable and full of bugs There is also a beta version for the SL C3000 based on the 1 1 0beta1 release pdaXrom 1 1 0 beta1 for C3000 beta2 which is much more stable There are still a few issues with the betas and hopefully once they are all resolved pdaXrom release version should be great
273. son the applet won t let you enter a value you want such as space in ssid then you can edit the mentioned config files yourself Enabling a USB LAN adaptor Now this one was a bit trickier My USB LAN adaptor came with a Linux driver a file called rtl8150 c and all that was required was to compile it on the Zaurus provided you got gcc to work Anyway I cheated and googled for rtl8150 1 o and found it Next I had to install this driver which was quite easy All that was required was to drop it into the following location lib modules 2 4 20 kernel drivers usb net and the hotplug mechanism in Linux would detect whenever the device was connected and enable eth0 Now came the slightly harder part ie the automatic configuration of the device The network applet seems to only work for the CF based cards so it completely ignored eth0 because it came from the USB interface After looking at how the usbdnet and wlan is configured by the hotplug mechanism I extended the net agent to check for eth0 as well and added net func and net conf to automatically configure the network once the cable was plugged in In addition I also wrote a script called net to change the stored network settings so I can easily switch between networks The configuration for net are stored under etc sysconfig netconf and net is invoked with the name of one of the config files as the parameter Proxy settings for the Zaurus are stored under home zaurus Applications Network
274. start manual in German http trisoft de pdf c3000qse pdf the translated TRIsoft quickstart manual in English The TRIsoft quickstart manual is a very good summary on all the important things you need to know in order to operate your Zaurus I personally prefer their original German version Their English translation is not perfect but it is much easier to read than the original Sharp manual which is in Japanese The TRIsoft manual concisely summarises just the important facts that you need User Manual Once you have learned how to handle your Zaurus and discovered some of its features you probably want to learn how to use the applications that come with the Zaurus This shouldn t be a problem for most savy users but nevertheless FigLabs have taken the time and written a complete user manual for the C3000 and they have made it available online http www figlabs com catalog ug php Customisations Most information about the SL C3000 found on the net is in Japanese and a lot of the instructions out there are for earlier models of the Zaurus Although a lot of that info is still valid because the C3000 is backward compatible with lots of the older models not everything works Since the C3000 is newer it has extra capabilities those guides do not mention Also sometimes things that worked in the older version my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 16 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 do not work on the C
275. systems cramfs squashfs A setup script inside each image will create the required symbolic links and copy files appropriately If you inadvertantly remove any of the links you can simply rerun the setup script to recreate them To uninstall simply use the Package Manager Installer tool and uninstall the pdaXqtrom package s then unmount the image s You can also install and or uninstall additional packages for pdaXqtrom using the Package Manager Installer tool The main interface command for pdaXqtrom is xlauncher It can be used to launch X application from Qtopia desktop scripts the command line and even from within a X terminal The general syntax is xlauncher appname You can also add a debug right after xlauncher when you are trying to troubleshoot why an application is not being launched The debug option makes xlauncher generate verbose output instead of hiding it xlauncher debug appname There is also an experimental feature to embed the X application into the Qtopia desktop without having a full X window session This feature is also known as rootless mode Although the advantage is that it loads a little faster and consumes less memory it also has drawbacks The X application is not managed by any window manager and thus will not not be able to be resized or moved nor are the corrective keyboard mappings available my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 138 of 224 20 03 20
276. t English help instead then you can install helpfiles_1 23 lite 1_arm ipk from the Cacko feed and once installed create a link from ja to en under the help directory su cd home QtPalmtop help mv ja ja orig ln s en ja The addressbook will display text and menus in English but entries are still sorted according to the Japanese kana If you rather have them sorted alphabetically and don t care about storing entries in Japanese then you can install qtopia addressbook_1 23_arm ipk If you want Netfront to be able to display German umlauts French accents and other special characters in addition to the standard English characters and Japanese characters change home zaurus Applications netfront3 prefs and find an entry FontFamilyJa Add or modify FontFamilyEn and set it to a font such as verdana that contains the extended character sets The following font package is recommended unicodefonts verdana_1 5 0 3_arm ipk FontFamilyEn verdana FontFamilyJa lcfont Fonts The Zaurus comes with the following fonts already pre installed lcfont fixed helvetica same as mico unicodefonts helvetica_1 5 0 1_arm ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 22 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 micro smallsmooth smoothtimes Unfortunately the Japanese character mapping has some overlaps and it is not always possible to correctly map some extended characters in the latin character maps Unicode
277. t it is technically possible to have VGA out for the Zaurus via USB however the current state of the driver and application is very limited and needs more work It is also very slow due to the slow USB bus speed implemented by the Zaurus I then plugged the USB dongle into one of my PCs and used it to mirror and split the display on a Win2000 system without any problems The speed was ok there because it was using USB 2 0 High Speed instead of USB 2 0 Full Speed that the Zaurus uses At this stage the USB dongle does not perform better than displaying via a VNC server on the Zaurus and a VNC client on a PC to display the Zaurus desktop on a larger monitor This works fine if you can my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 70 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 network your Zaurus and the PC but can t be done directly to a projector so this is where the USB dongle could be useful With a USB dongle you do not need a PC or a laptop to act as the bridge device since the Zaurus can be directly connected to a projector or monitor For more info visit the way nifty blog where the images for the USB to VGA dongle and Presenter screenshot have been borrowed from Similarly there are CF cards with VGA out capabilities similar to the USB dongle however none of those cards are manufactured anymore so you would need to get them second hand if you can find them But even if you find those CF cards you still need to
278. t should also be set for you automatically each time you start a new terminal session as the zaurus user Temporary files during compilation go to tmp by default which will give you problems with larger compiles since the Sharp distro has a size of 1MB for tmp The easiest way to fix this is to set the TMPDIR variable and point it to somewhere with more space such as hdd2 tmp mkdir p hdd2 tmp export TMPDIR hdd2 tmp The zgcc development image also comes with some simple samples There is a console helloworld application and a sample Makefile to compile it I also included a hello qt sample which demonstrates a simple Qtopia version of helloworld And last but not least I also included a sample driver module and Makefile to test building kernel modules tmake also works for generating Makefile for Qtopia applications You can even use configure to generate the Makefile for compiling source packages for various Linux ports and projects in particular X Qt and pdaXqtrom sources Perl and xml parser is also bundled with the larger images If you su to root user then the environment variable for gcc are not set automatically This was done on purpose If you want to enable gcc for the root user temporarily then do the following source mnt zgcc zgcc env If you have the 2 95 3 image then you can also compile Qt 3 3 6 applications However the default environment is configured for Qt E development To switch to QT 3 3 6 do the foll
279. tPalmtop bin xlauncher With this modification I can run X application such as firefox by issuing the command xlauncher firefox This causes firefox to be run and if X is already running it will just appear inside X but if X has not been started yet it will start X as well This is nice for adding X application icons on the Qt desktop X control can be activated by pressing the menu button which allows you to switch to fullscreen and shutdown X Note You can also install xqt debian scripts_0 5_arm ipk instead of xqt startup scripts xqt startup scripts_0 0 3_all ipk which will give you an even more enhanced xinitrc and startx wrapper and you don t need to do the above modifications manually It will also give you an addtional X Qt tab and some pretty icons for X applications such as firefox the gimp abiword and pocketworkstation which you can delete if you don t like them If you want to try installing Thunderbird or Minimo then do the following as well su pango querymodules gt etc pango pango modules mkdir p etc gtk 2 0 gdk pixbuf query loaders gt etc gtk 2 0 gdk pixbuf loaders You also need to install the following patch xqt libXrender xqt libXrender_1 2 2_arm ipk This will fix the fonts problem with Thunderbird Without this updated library the fonts in Thunderbird are not being displayed at all Debian PocketWorkstation You can run Debian in chroot mode so it can coexist with the existing syst
280. ta area The pdaXii13 Akita install process is similar to the pdaXrom beta3 install and the same that applies to pdaXrom beta1 beta3 also applies to pdaXii13 Akita installation It is also possible to apply all the pdaXii13 fixes to the C1000 C3100 C3200 without reflashing to pdaXii13 ie you can upgrade your existing pdaXrom beta1 beta3 setup to pdaXii13 without requiring to wipe your existing setup You can get the upgrade files pdaXii13 custom tgz from tyrannozaurus There is an install script contained in the tarball which will copy all the patched binaries and scripts to the appropriate locations when you run the script To upgrade to pdaXii13 extract the tarball preferrably to a CF card rather than a SD card and run the install script install fix beta3 sh from the console outside of X Make sure you make a NAND backup of your Zaurus before you apply the update in case something goes wrong then copy pdaXii13 custom tgz to a CF card mkdir p mnt cf upgrade my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 190 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 zcat pdaXii13 custom tgz tar xvf C mnt cf upgrade cd mnt cf upgrade custom etc rc d init d sd stop install fix beta3 sh upgrade This will give you something similar to pdaXii13 base Pre Installed Packages Below is a list of pre installed applications that are part of the pdaXii13 full installation The following packages are in addition to
281. ted under usr share bedic You can configure QBEDic to look in specific directories for dictionary files my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 214 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Another popular dictionary package for pdaXrom is stardict which also runs on Windows There are many dictionary files available for stardict and there is also a sound package for stardict to pronounce the words in English Stardict expects its dictionary files to be located under usr share stardict dic The sound files have to go under usr share I have created a squashfs image containing several qbedic and stardict dictionaries as well as the sound files Since the dictionary files are quite huge placing them into a squashfs image can save quite a lot of space I have also created a script called linkdics sh which created the necessary links for stardict so that the files on the squashfs image can be located by stardict Just place the squashfs image under data and it will be automatically mounted when you reboot AbiWord Abiword is a nice word processor but it defaults to a 800x600 screen resolution which is not very usable for a Zaurus For the C3000 it should be changed to 640x480 This can be done by editing home root AbiSuite AbiWord Profile my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 215 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 I have compiled Abiword 2 4 4 and fixed all the window size
282. tgz hdimage full tgz hdimage custom tgz so just copy the one you want to the card with the other files listed above In general user contributed custom images should be called hdimage custom tgz You need to do the following to get into the Maintenance Menu which is where you can update install pdaXii13 from Unplug everything from your Zaurus ie power cards etc Press the reset button unlock the battery cover and press the little reset button Put battery lid back on and lock the battery compartment Press and hold the OK key while pressing the On Off button at the front You are now in the Maintenance Menu To upgrade or flash your distro to pdaXii13 do the following from the Maintenance Menu to get into the pdaXii13 updater menu Insert CF or SD which ever has the install files Plug in the power Choose Option 4 Update from the Maintenance Menu Select your installation source choose CF or SD Confirm your selection choose option on the left In the pdaXii13 updater menu choose Option 2 to repartition your Zaurus if required depends on your current partition layout You will need to reboot your Zaurus once you have repartitioned it and then repeat the above steps to get into the Maintenance Menu again and then into the pdaXii13 updater my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 189 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 menu From the pdaXii13 updater menu choose Option 3 Install kernel and bo
283. th it Simply run the following after you have launched NetFront net refresh A lot of the USB network cards use either the rtl8150 chipset or are compatible with the pegasus driver Drivers for both are included with netswitch so installing the netswitch package should enable your USB LAN device in most cases However some network cards use other chipsets You should be able to compile your own driver if you can find the driver source See gcc section for further details Using the advanced USB sync The USB sync cable which allows you to access your Zaurus as a USB disk can also be used in TCP IP mode which means you could use that cable to network your Zaurus and your PC To do this you first need to install the USB NDIS drivers onto your PC or laptop The Zaurus Software for the PC Windows does not use UniCode and hence displays garbage when run on an English version of Windows even if you have installed the Japanese language pack and your browser can display Japanese websites without problems To fix this change the default Windows system locale to Japanese and restart Windows Then run X PCSOFT Setup exe from the Zaurus CD ROM and you will be able to read the Japanese Select next as appropriate and use the following as guide for the options Intellisync for Zaurus Backup Restore Zaurus Shot Zaurus Drivers Network my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 46 of 224 20 03 2007
284. the screen properly once it exits from fullscreen mode As a workaround you can run xrandr o normal to refresh the screen Alternatively you can simply press Home 5 to refresh the screen I have also compiled the latest version of mplayer 1 0rc1 with gmplayer enabled It runs slower but supports additional video and audio codecs my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 217 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Alternatively smplayer is a QT based mplayer frontend which I customised to be able to run atty s optimized mplayer bvdd In pdaXii13 mplayer is a wrapper script which calls the real mplayer binaries mplayer1 mplayer2 mplayer3 depending on the options set bvdd is the default and xrandr is automatically called to refresh the screen after mplayer exits Java Java is available through the jamvm and classpath packages and is roughly comparable to JRE 1 4 x but also implements some of the JRE 1 5 x features In addition a Java Plugin for Firefox which uses jamvm and classpath is also available gcjwebplugin 0 3 2_armv5tel ipk and enables many Java applets in Firefox 1 5 however not all applets will work my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 218 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 The jamvm and classpath packages gives you a Java compatable runtime however in order to develop Java applications you will need a Java compiler and other tools like jar java
285. to act like a USB drive or your PC runs Linux then you could just reformat the entire hdd3 to linux filesystem You might also consider creating a small swap partition while you are at it A swap partition is faster than a swapfile A swap partition between 64MB and 256MB should be fine depending on your usage and applications Also note that the default installer tool qinstaller won t let you install applications to either hdd3 or hdd4 ipkg will allow you to install to those locations but won t relink the applications for you so you will have to use ipkg link afterwards which is not included with the default Sharp ROM My xipk script which is part of my ipktools package enables you to install to hdd3 and or hdd4 and also relinks the files and directories for you In addition it uses the same mechanism as qinstaller and thus applications installed with xipk can be uninstalled using the qinstaller If you want to maximise the space on hdd3 and you don t care about the Japane se English dictionary and translator then you could remove the dictionary files under hdd3 dict1 and hdd3 dict2 If you later decide that you do want them simply copy them back from the CD ROM so don t loose your CD ROMs On the C3100 there is additionally the MobileMap application which has some files under hdd3 Documents sd_map You can uninstall the application and remove the sd_map directory to get more space You can re install MobileMap from the first CD an
286. tomatic mounting via etc fstab does not work in pdaXrom Also there are only two loop devices by default just like Sharp ROM I have created an automnt script to automaticaly create additional loop devices and mount cramfs and squashfs images as well as enabling swap I have linked etc rc d init d automnt to etc rc d rc5 d S90mount and etc rc d rc6 d K30unmount ftp and telnet The C3000 version of pdaXrom does not have telnet nor ftp pre installed The version of busybox that comes with it does not include telnet and the binary on the pre pivot root system is compiled with a newer version of glibc and thus won t run I have copied the binaries for ftp and telnet from the Sharp distro and they work if placed in the right location Since telnet really is busybox I had to rename the busybox binary to telnet and it needs to be placed into bin I placed ftp into usr bin Alternatively you can also install inetutils clients_1 4 2_armv5tel ipk from the unstable feed as well USB network The USB network module works in two modes similar to the Sharp distro It can either allow the Zaurus to share a disk or used as a virtual network adaptor The Zaurus can be mounted as a USB storage device when connected with the USB sync cable Copy the updated usbfunction py to usr bin which will allow you to either share the SD CF or internal MicroDrive Sharing the internal MicroDrive might be a bit tricky with a Windows machine since it is formatted as ext3
287. top to work for hdd3 Documents unless you change etc hotplug usbdstorage agent and change the mount options to the appropriate filesystem type ie change fat to someting else like ext3 Installing SSH ssh client If you only want to ssh to other machines from your Zaurus install ssh client openssh client_3 6 1p1_arm ipk sshd If you want your Zaurus to be accessed via ssh as well then you need to install the following openssl openssl_0 9 7d_arm ipk openssh server openssh server_3 6 1p1_arm ipk openssh addon openssh addon_3 6 1p1_arm ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 52 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Enabling telnet telnet client There already is a command line telnet client pre installed on the Zaurus which you can use telnetd In order to enable the telnet daemon within inetd uncomment the telnet entry in etc inetd conf and restart inetd su vi etc inetd conf telnet stream tcp nowait root usr sbin tcpd in telnetd etc rc d init d inet restart Make sure you use tcp wrapper as it is slightly more secure Then enable tcp wrapper security by creating hosts allow and hosts deny as follows su echo ALL ALL gt etc hosts deny echo in telnetd 192 168 129 192 168 1 gt gt etc hosts allow Add any IP range you want to give access to in addition to the above Installing FTP ftp client A command line ftp client is already
288. ue to my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 181 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 hwclock sh under etc init d You also need to modify locale conf and change the timezone entry for OPIE Keymapping The default keymapping is defined in etc keymap 2 6 map You can customise this file to remap certain keys The most common change is to exchange with which is done by modifying keycode 51 ie keycode 51 slash comma The key grave seems to be missing I have assigned it to Fn q altgr keycode 16 grave Also since on Sharp Cacko ROM a common mapping for and is Fn o and Fn p I have added mappings to mimick those familiar key mappings altgr keycode 24 braceright altgr keycode 25 braceleft Since Fn d shows a dot on the physical keyboard but nothing is mapped for it I added a mapping altgr keycode 32 period I also remapped Fn k back to the yen character since that is what is shown on the physical keyboard altgr keycode 37 yen Keymappings common to both GPE and OPIE need to be done in keymap 2 6 map however there are also keymappings specific for GPE and OPIE respectively which need to be configured separately The GPE version of Hentges has fluxbox which uses home zaurus fluxbox keys GPE fixes The default window manager in GPE is matchbox which runs all applications in maximised mode In order to switch between several applications easily it
289. ult formatted as a FAT filesystem and can t handle symbolic links If you reformat it as ext2 or ext3 then you won t have that problem see later sections on home and loopback filesystems Some application that you install will be in Japanese Have a look at the Localisation section to see if you can change it to English Try the langswitch tool which can fix it for you in most cases Also if the application was written for an older Zauri model then you need to change the application s default screen orientation See the Screen Orientation section on how to do this Installing a terminal Connect the Zaurus via USB make sure to plug the USB cable into the PC first then the Zaurus Copy my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 19 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 the terminal ipk file qpe terminal ja_1 5 0 3_arm ipk from the CD ROM into the Documents Install_Files directory Disconnect the USB device on the PC The Zaurus will turn back to normal mode Click on the third TAB on the top and then click on the little disk like icon Then select the Install_Files folder Inside click on the ipk file should be the only file there and the installer will launch it Press install the big button at the bottom and then OK the button on the left on the dialog box that comes up If you have a SD or CF card and a card reader for it then you can also just copy the ipk file onto the SD card and insert the c
290. unter automounter c3000_0 5 0_arm ipk which automates the creation of additional loop devices and mounting of the cramfs images The java cramfs also has HdPad and HdCrawler pre installed as well as kopi and jikes compiler and tools from the GNU classpath project Java Alternatives There is a way to run Java 1 4 x applications on the Zaurus through a Java compatible runtime such as JamVM JamVM is not officially endorsed nor certified to be Java compliant but it is able to run most Java 1 4 x and even 1 5 applications JamVM uses libraries from the GNU classpath project to run Java applications jEdit can be run using JamVM my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 89 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 JamVM GUI applications AWT and Swing require a X Qt environment for display gcc If you want to develop and compile your own C C applications then you will need gcc There are basically two flavours of development for the Zaurus You can develop on the Zaurus itself using the on board or native gcc compiler to build your application binaries or use a cross compiler to build your applications from a PC The on board development is particular useful for small applications However for larger applications the Zaurus might not be powerful enough unless you want it sitting on a desk compiling your applications continuously for days In order to use a cross compiler you would need a x86 based PC or somet
291. ur Zaurus into the AC power Hold the OK key on the keyboard or the back of the Zaurus and turn on the device with the On Off button You should see the maintenance menu and select option 4 to update flash the ROM Select either 1 CF or 2 SD depending on where your update files are Confirm to proceed with the update by selecting Y Reset your Zaurus press the little reset button inside the battery compartment and then press the On key Install the kernel module ipk file that came with the kernel my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 43 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Zaurus Maintenance fsck needs to be run on the Linux filesystems from time to time to check for inconsistencies in the file systems and to fix it if there are any fsck is similar to the chkdsk or scandisk command in DOS and Windows Running fsck on a mounted filesystem is not recommended so the safest way to run it on the C3000 is from the maintenance menu Unmounting the partitions on the MicroDrive is much easier on the C3100 since it runs off the flash instead of the disk For FAT partitions ie hdd3 use fsck vfat instead of fsck To perform fsck via the maintenance menu do the following Shutdown Zaurus Remove battery lid and press the reset button Put battery lid back on and lock battery compartment Plug the power cable in Hold OK button and turn Z on Select Option 2 data check Select Option 2 run fsck Confirm l
292. urther info You can use gcc 3 4 5 to compile both console and X based applications however you cannot use it to compile the kernel or glibc You will need gcc 2 95 2 instead I have slightly modified the gcc image and added a few missing symlinks and also added some binaries and scripts required for compiling some gnome packages In addition I also re compressed it as a squashfs image rather than cramfs Furthermore I also added QT designer assistant and linguists and I recompiled qtconfig so it won t startup oversized Building your own Packages You can also build your own packages ipk files if you have written some useful scripts or written some applications that you want to distribute and let others install easily with the standard package manager I have build a package ipktools ipktools_0 2_armv5tel ipk which has a set of tools for manipulating ipk files on pdaXrom newipk creates a package template structure for you to add files to for packaging makeipk package up a directory that contains files in an ipk structure into an ipk file unpackipk extracts the contents of an ipk file into a directory structure for repackaging deb2ipk converts a deb file into an ipk file format needs perl zipipk zip up an ipk file and remove ipk file afterwards ipkg make index creates the Packages file for a feed my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 178 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Ther
293. urus wirelessly using the OBEX via bluetooth mechanism See the bluetooth section for more details Controlling the phone with the Zaurus The K750i also offers a virtual serial interface that can be used to issue AT commands or trigger other phone functions The serial line is accessible via the USB cable as well as via Bluetooth Once the link is established you can access the data of the phone interact with the user interface and manipulate the telephony functions Serial interface via USB Once you plug in the phone the Zaurus will not only recognize the USB storage device but also detects the built in modem It then should load the appropiate cdc_acm module which brings support for USB modems and ISDN adaptors The new device will be placed under dev ttyACM0 and dev ttyACM1 The devices can be opened with minicom or any other terminal program to gain access to the phone Serial interface via Bluetooth Instead of relying on a wired connection you can also use the Bluetooth interface to access this serial line my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 71 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Include the following section in the file etc bluetooth rfcomm conf rfcomm0 bind yes MAC address of your phone device 00 00 00 00 00 00 Now reload the Bluetooth subsystem with etc init d bluetooth restart If you already paired your computer with your phone accessing the device dev rfcomm0 wi
294. us SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 166 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 In addition emelFM2 is also a good file manager with two panels Terminals aterm is the default terminal in pdaXrom It also supports transparent background To enable transparency copy Xdefaults to home root as Xdefaults my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 167 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Use rxvt as the terminal if you need to enter or view UTF8 encoded unicode characters Wallpaper Customisation The Look amp Feel tool in the Systems Tools can be used to change the default wallpaper as well as change many other aspects of how the GUI looks like The wallpaper can be any png image file but a resolution of 640x440 is ideal However if you changed your desktop to use rox filer instead of the matchbox desktop then you can right click Fn tap to activate the rox filer properties where you can drag and drop an image into the background section ScreenSaver Customisation For a X screensaver install xscreensaver_4 24_armv5tel ipk my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 168 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 zaurus user pdaXrom by default does not have a zaurus user and thus runs everything as root This would not be a problem if you don t connect to the net as the Zaurus is a single user environment and you are the only one using it Howe
295. ut not standalone X Qt applications then you can also install the Debian jumbo lite package instead of the full xqt jumbo package Since the xqt gtk jumbopack is quite large I have created the xqt debian jumbo lite package as an alternate package which only installs the X Qt libraries required for Debian PocketWorkstation but nothing else It is much smaller and only requires 11MB so it does not have gtk or other libraries required to run any of the X Qt applications mentioned above You will still be able to run the Debian versions of those applications from within PocketWorkstation just not directly from X Qt Debian itself is too big to be installed with an ipk file You can either install Debian using the instructions on my Zaurus website or install my xqt debian image file which comes pre installed with Firefox and Thunderbird and optionally OpenOffice with the add on debian openoffice image file The packages have been optimised in size so that it is possible to install everything on an ext2 formatted SD or CF card of 512MB The debian docs are in a separate tarball so you can leave them out if you want to save space OpenOffice binaries are compressed using a cramfs file image so that everything can fit onto 512MB Before installing Debian make sure you have installed X Qt yourself or installed one of the following my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 126 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 xqt gtk ju
296. v Display 640x480 144dpi 480x640 144dpi Run the TabSetting config app under Settings and press OK to save the new config This will result in the freeciv icon to be visible in the Games tab without rebooting or restarting Qtopia Installing pico Pico depends on the ncurses library so in order to install pico install the following packages in the given order libncurses_5 0_arm ipk pico_4 4_arm ipk Installing file Once you have installed file file_3 39 2_arm ipk it will not work until you do the following file C Installing Cacko packages my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 112 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Packages for Cacko and Sharp ROM are generally compatible and interchangable You can install Cacko packages onto the Sharp ROM and use Cacko feeds Cacko is basically an enhanced and customised Sharp ROM As such there are applications that are pre installed on Cacko but don t exist on Sharp ROM See the Cacko sub section under the Alternate Distros ROMs section for more details about the differences between Cacko ROM and Sharp ROM Here are some packages extracted from Cacko that can be installed to enhance Sharp ROM qtopia sysinfo_1 23_arm ipk enhanced sysinfo tool with process and mount controls qtopia addressbook_1 23_arm ipk addressbook with alphanumeric sorting support qtopia combbatteryapplet_1 0 6_arm ipk updated battery applet with overclocking underclocking
297. ver if you intend to connect your Zaurus to another computer or a network or even the internet then creating a zaurus user to run things as would be a good idea You should also consider a firewall To create a zaurus user use the adduser command to add the zaurus user and then set the suid bit on busybox so the zaurus user can su and do other things Resume and Suspend The suspend and resume is a bit flakey Sometimes the hard disk light does not turn off but a subsequent resume and suspend will make it suspend with lights off fscking the disk will often allow clean suspends Also when the Z is suspended while xmms is active then the sound device is locked until a reboot Please ensure that you add esdctl suspend into the apm suspend script and have esdctl resume in the corresponding resume script to automatically suspend and resume the sound daemon MMC driver There is a new OpenSource SD MMC driver for the C3100 C1000 In order to test it on the C3000 as well install mmc driver_2 4 20_arm ipk This driver works but currently does not automount nor does it unmount cleanly from the taskbar Use etc sdcontrol insert eject to mount and unmount the SD card Alternatively a fully functional SD driver that supports 2GB cards has been made by Sharp and released with the SL C3200 This driver sdmmc module_2 4 20_arm ipk also works on pdaXrom beta1 because it is using the same kernel as the Sharp ROM ie 2 4 20 auto mounting Au
298. will see something like this hci0 Type UART BD Address xx xx xx xx xx xx ACL MTU 672 10 SCO MTU 64 0 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 63 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes 250 acl 0 sco 0 events 12 errors 0 TX bytes 446 acl 0 sco 0 commands 12 errors 0 Then you need to search for bluetooth enabled devices you want to use and do the pairing hcitool scan Note that unless the other bluetooth devices are configured to be visible you won t be able to find them Write down their mac addresses xx xx xx xx xx xx is the format for the mac addresses and each device will have a unique address eg xx xx xx xx xx xx K750i xx xx xx xx xx xx OQOU1 xx xx xx xx xx xx C3000 To find out the capabilities of those devices do the following with their corresponding mac address sdptool browse xx xx xx xx xx xx You can initiate the pairing from each of those devices and make sure the PIN matches The Zaurus stores its PIN in etc bluetooth getpin and etc bluetooth pin etc bluetooth pin contains the pin number that you enter in any other Bluetooth device that pairs with the Zaurus etc bluetooth givepin contains the pin number that your Zaurus will automatically give to another Bluetooth device if pairing from the Zaurus givepin is a script which must print out a string of the format PIN 1234 where 1234 is the pin number so you only change that part of the
299. work adaptor The Zaurus can be mounted as a USB storage device when connected with the USB sync cable It will allow you to either share the SD CF or internal MicroDrive partition 3 which is mounted as data Alternatively the USB network mode will allow you to connect the Zaurus via a virtual ethernet network and thus will allow you to share files via Samba and also allow you to use any TCP IP dependant network services if enabled If for example the PC or Laptop you connect to via USB cable has internet sharing Windows ICS or iptables on Linux configured then the Zaurus can access the internet through that connection See the networking section of my customisation guide for Sharp ROM on how to do that I have also written a basic script usbnet which automatically configures the usbd0 interface to use the Windows ICS Internet Connection Sharing Similarly I have also added a script called usbstorage which quickly switches the USB mode back to storage mode using the previously configured options Using usbnet and usbstorage you can quickly switch between USB network and USB storage mode without going into the USB config GUI Samba Samba is pre installled and configured to work on the defined interfaces as a server so you can mount the Zaurus as a samba windows share It may need to be reloaded if you create additional network connections in order to share files on those newly created connections as well To restart the samba service you ca
300. work under Qtopia however with this set of libraries you can easily run Firefox and Debian PocketWorkstation You can either follow the instructions below or use the jumbo package instead The jumbo package section is more up to date Install the following packages in the the given order xqt fonts misc xqt fonts misc_4 3 0 3_all ipk xqt fonts 100dpi xqt fonts 100dpi iso8859 1_4 3 0 3_all ipk xqt fonts 75dpi xqt fonts 75dpi iso8859 1_4 3 0 3_all ipk xqt server xqt server_1 9 0_arm ipk xbase etc xbase etc_4 3 0 3_all ipk zlib zlib_1 2 2 1_arm ipk xlibs xlibs_4 3 0 3_arm ipk xbase client xbase clients_4 3 0 3_arm ipk gdk pixbuf gdk pixbuf_0 22 0 2_arm ipk glib glib_1 2 10 0vl3_arm ipk glib additional glib additional_1 2 10 2_arm ipk glibc locale ja eucjp glibc locale ja eucjp_2 2 2 1_arm ipk glibc locale ja utf8 glibc locale ja utf8_2 2 2 1_arm ipk glibc gconv ja glibc gconv ja_2 2 2 1_arm ipk glib2 glib2_2 4 7_arm ipk libgcc1 libgcc1 zaurus_3 2 2 0_arm ipk freetype freetype_2 1 5 1_arm ipk fontconfig fontconfig_2 2 1 1_arm ipk fontconfig etc fontconfig etc_2 2 1 1_all ipk xqt fonts encodings xqt fonts encodings_4 3 0 3_all ipk atk atk_1 6 1_arm ipk gtk gtk_1 2 10 1_arm ipk gtk2 gtk2_2 4 13_arm ipk libpng3 libpng3_1 2 4 1_arm ipk libtiff libtiff3 6 1 1_arm ipk pango pango_1 4 1_arm ipk blackbox blackbox_0 65 0 2_arm ipk rxvt rxvt_2 6 4 1_arm ipk xqtclip xqtclip_0 0 2_arm ipk x
301. x config menu However the rox pinboard will take over the control of the menus and you will not be able to access the FluxBox menu anymore unless you configure rox to run in blackbox fluxbox compatability mode You will need to check both Pass all backdrop mouse clicks to window manager and Blackbox root menus hack in order to get the FluxBox menu back pdaXqtrom also has multilingual support built in as well It has uim and anthy as well as scim embedded Some Japanese and Chinese fonts are also included You can add additional fonts by copying them to usr share fonts or fonts under the user s home directory ie home zaurus fonts my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 142 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 scim is activated by pressing Ctrl space You will get a scim menu at the bottom of the screen You might need to switch X Qt to fullscreen mode to see it From the scim menu you can select the input language you want to use I have customised it for Chinese and Japanese primarily but other languages can also be used with it If you want to prevent scim from loading and thus start up faster and use less resources then use the monolingual command or create a file called monolingual under etc X11 su touch etc X11 monolingual The applications for pdaXqtrom are mostly the same version as the ones from pdaXrom However I tweaked and hacked a few of them to make them more user friendly
302. xpansion usr local hdd2 usr local Once you have tested that everything still works you can remove hdd2 usr local bak On C3100 mkdir p home expansion usr local cd usr local tar cvf tar xvf C home expansion usr local mv home root usr local home root usr local bak ln s home expansion usr local home root usr local Once you have tested that everything still works you can remove home root usr local bak Make sure you install the automounter package automounter c3000_0 5 0_arm ipk or else your loopback filesystem might not get automatically mounted after a reboot Alternatively instead of moving files manually after they have been installed you can also just install files to the loopback filesystem directly The default installer won t let you do it but my xipk install script which is part of my ipktools package does allow it By default xipk installs to hdd3 programs so you should mount your loopback filesystem as hdd3 programs or change etc xipk conf to contain the mount point of your loopback filesystem Then you can do the following to install applications to hdd3 xipk ipkfile Enable large SD cards The default SD MMC driver only supports SD and MMC cards of sizes up to 1GB Using the updated driver which is taken from the C3200 it is possible to use larger SD cards 2GB and 4GB SD cards are recognised and can be used once this updated driver is installed However some applications have 1
303. xyftp_0 5 1_armv5tel ipk FTP Client bluefish_0 13_armv5tel ipk Text Editor denemo_0 5 3_arm ipk Sheet Editor dia_0 92_armv5tel ipk Diagrams dillo xft_0 8 5_arm ipk Web Browser dosbox x11_0 6 3 3_arm ipk DOS Emulator epdfview_0 1 2_arm ipk PDF Viewer ethereal_0 10 9 1_armv5tel ipk Packet Analyzer firefox_1 5_arm ipk Web Browser fltdj utf8_0 7_armv5tel ipk PIM free42_0 3_arm ipk HP Calculator gaim_2 0 b3_arm ipk IM Client galculator_1 2 5_arm ipk Calculator gftp_2 0 18_arm ipk FTP Client gimp_2 3 4_arm ipk Graphics Tool gnumeric_1 6 0_arm ipk Spreadsheet gpaint2_0 2 3_arm ipk Image Editor gpe edit_0 13_arm ipk Text Editor gpe filemanager_0 23_arm ipk File Manager gpe gallery_0 97_arm ipk Image Viewer gpe soundbite_1 0 6_arm ipk Image Viewer gpe word_0 2_arm ipk Word Processor gplflash_0 4 13_arm ipk Flash Player gps_1 1_arm ipk Graphical ProcessView gpsdrive_2 10pre3_arm ipk Global Positioning gqview_2 1 1_arm ipk Image Viewer grisbi_0 5 9_arm ipk Personal Finance gtkyahoo_0 18 2_arm ipk Yahoo IM Client gyach_0 9 4_arm ipk Yahoo IM Client hp48_0 2_arm ipk HP48 Emulator knowde1 8 0_arm ipk Knowledge Management leafpad_0 7 9_arm ipk Note Pad links_2 1_arm ipk Web Browser mc_4 6 1 pre1_arm ipk File Manager minimo_1 7 12_armv5tel ipk MiniMozilla mplayer 1 1pre8_arm ipk MPlayer for X multi aterm_0 2 1 T
304. y impressed with the speed I can run both quake and quake2 in fullscreen 320x240 mode This makes me very happy since Doom2 and Quake2 are my favourite games and having them run on the Zaurus is just great There is also an on board compiler available for pdaXrom which can be used to compile your own packages or develop new applications There were also a few minor problems I encountered with the C3000 beta2 The boot process is much cleaner than the Sharp distro and it looks much more like a Linux boot process Yet there were a few small annoying error messages which would had otherwise made it perfect Those error messages were easily fixed The default keyboard mapping is a bit odd for my taste so I customised it to my liking Also the suspend feature seems to be a bit buggy Some of the applications from the feeds need to be customised before they can be used effectively AbiWord for example installs with a default screen size that is larger than what the C3000 and C3100 have 640x480 so you won t see part of the application that extend beyond the screen This can be fixed by manually editing the default config files for those apps and changing their default screen size This is a screenshot from the pdaXrom 1 1 0 beta1 on the C3000 after a bit of tweaking with the look and feel See my custom pdaXrom page to see a list of customisation fixes that I have applied to my C3000 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hlu
305. y since it lacks major applications and is not backwards compatible with existing non opensource applications GPE seems unfinished and looks rather plain One option would be to continue work on pdaXrom beta3 and enhance its stability The other option would be to enhance the Hentges OZ GPE image For the time being I will refer to the stable pdaXrom beta1 beta3 based distro as pdaXii13 pdaXrom improved and integrated beta1 and beta3 and the OpenZaurus based distro as OZii31 OpenZaurus improved and internationalized 3 5 4 1 Both of these possibilities would be X11 based I have decided to build pdaXii13 for my SL C3000 which is based on the C3000 beta2 but much more polished I have fixed all the shortcomings and bugs that annoyed me and now my C3000 has a real stable and perfectly working distro See my pdaXii13 page on all the enhancements and features In the future I plan to work on pdaXiiNG which will be the next generation of pdaXii13 but based on the 2 6 kernel my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 156 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 pdaXrom customisation The pdaXrom is a complete X windows environment for the Zaurus It makes the C3000 and C3100 a true mini laptop Note Development for 2 4 20 kernel based pdaXrom 1 1 0 beta1 beta3 has been discontinued by the developers in favour of a 2 6 x kernel based release The following section covers implementing workarounds for bugs and impr
306. y split up every component into a separate package So while some distros convenniently have one single package for an application OZ would split it up into several dozen packages Thus they need to heavily rely on their package dependency to pull all these packages together Needless to say that not all their packages are up to date and not all dependencies resolve properly Some packages have not been updated for quite some time I believe that OZ has a lot of potential to be the best distro eventually See my custom OZ page to see a list of customisations that I have applied However in its current state it can be summarised as fast but useless OPIE looks good enough and is quite fast but it lacks most of the essential applications like a decent browser and office applications and it is not backward compatible and thus cannot run applications from Sharp Cacko GPE is quite ugly but pretty fast as well However it is buggy and unstable too In theory OZ can do everything perfectly however in practice it is quite a long way from that goal Zaurus users generally want to take advantage of all the features available on their superior devices and not lose functionality that is standard and working quite nicely with the stock Sharp ROM distro One thing the OZ team needs to do to woe more Zaurus users is to provide at least the same feature rich applications and functionality as the other distros already have They should expand their repository to
307. you have a CF bluetooth card or a bluetooth USB dongle then you can set up a PAN Personal Area Network with other bluetooth enabled devices my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 49 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 In the case you have a bluetooth enabled mobile phone with GPRS service then you can even use bluetooth to connect to your phone using dialup networking DUN to use the phone s GPRS service However the default Sharp ROM does not have bluetooth drivers or tools installed out of the box and you will need to setup and install those first before you can use bluetooth See the bluetooth section for more details File Sharing and Services Enabling Samba over wireless or ethernet By default a Samba service is already installed on the Zaurus It is used when you synchronise your Zaurus with your PC while the USB cable is plugged in You can also manually start and stop the Samba service and allow it to go over your wireless and ethernet network instead of just the USB cable If you use the USB cable in advanced mode with TCP IP enabled then you will be able to access all your devices MicroDrive SD card CF card and USB disk at the same time instead of being able to only chose one at a time in normal sync mode To allow Samba to be accessed via the WLAN wlan0 wifi0 or LAN eth0 interface edit the following file usr lib samba smb conf my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www u
308. your security tools It also shows you detailed error messages if something goes wrong unlike the qinstall tool which just reports an error but nothing else useful However the ipkg tool does not generate the required links for you if you want to install to SD or CF card Qinstall the GUI Package Installer does that for you during the installation if you select either SD or CF for the destination location You will need to run ipkg link after installing to SD or Cf card in order to relink the applications you install with ipkg However ipkg link does not get shipped with the C3000 nor the C3100 by default I have included ipkg link in my ipktools package By default the package installer expects package files to be located under hdd3 Documents Install_Files mnt card Documents Install_Files and mnt cf Documents Install_Files ipkg exspects all the packages to be in the same directory Additional sources and package feeds can be configured by modifying etc ipkg conf and adding source location like the following example src zug http www zaurususergroup org feed I have created a script called xipk part of my ipktools package which allows you to install packages to virtually any location you like This allows you to install packages to hdd3 where the bulk of the MicroDrive s space is instead of the default main memory which is hdd2 on a C3000 and home on a C3100 However not all applications can be installed to hdd3 because it is by defa
309. ything that was on it su umount mnt card mkfs ext2 dev mmcda1 mount t ext2 dev mmcda1 mnt card mkdir mnt card debroot You can also leave your SD as FAT and not format it as ext2 You will need to create a loopback filesystem on your SD similar to the above sample for creating a loopback filesystem on hdd3 Also create a 128MB swapfile for Debian if you haven t got one yet su dd if dev zero of hdd3 swapfile bs 1048576 count 128 mkswap hdd3 swapfile Now we are ready to install Debian zaurus debian big v0 17 tgz We will now assume installation into hdd3 debroot Replace with mnt card debroot as appropriate Change to the directory where zaurus debian big v0 17 tgz is located and then do the following zcat zaurus debian big v0 17 tgz tar xvf C hdd3 debroot su cd hdd3 debroot pwd gt etc debroot chown R root root etc chown R root root var chown R root root home mkdir p mnt card mkdir p mnt cf cp etc hosts etc cp etc resolv conf etc vi startd bin sh startup commands export DISPLAY 0 0 my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 95 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 usr bin icewm session shutdown commands umount mnt card 2 gt dev null umount mnt cf 2 gt dev null umount proc chmod 755 startd cd home ln s root root mkdir zaurus cd cp R INSTALL d debroot root icewm home zaurus
310. zilla Firefox thunderbird_0 6 3_arm ipk Mozilla Thunderbird xqt gimp_1 2 5 3_arm ipk The Gimp abiword_2 0 0 2_arm ipk AbiWord X Qt Jumbo and Application compressed images xqt gtk jumbo cramfs X Qt jumbo image xqt apps cramfs X Qt applications image xqt mozilla cramfs Firefox and Thunderbird image xqt openoffice cramfs OpenOffice image java cramfs Blackdown JRE 1 3 1 image xqt install sh the installer for the X Qt images my Zaurus SL C3000 and SL C3100 http www users on net hluc myZaurus zbook html 14 of 224 20 03 2007 15 17 Debian PocketWorkstation and OpenOffice xqt debian jumbo lite_4 3 0 7 1_arm ipk X Qt jumbo lite for Debian xqt debian install sh X Qt Debian install script zaurus debian jumbo v18 b01 tar gz Debian tarball zaurus debian doc v18 tar gz Debian docs tarball zaurus debian openoffice114 tar gz OpenOffice tarball In addition I have updated and enhanced the X Qt packages with additional and newer libraries so that they can run the latest pdaXrom applications A separate section for these new updated packages can be found in a dedicated X Qt super jumbo pdaXQtrom section This section is also generic and not just for the SL C3000 and SL C3100 models With these packages installed you can run the latest X based applications under Sharp Cacko pdaXQtrom Application packages abiword_2 4 0 2_arm ipk Word Processor aspell_0 60 4_arm ipk Spell Checker a

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