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00:51.26jcurryI get 'ipkg: invalid magic' when I try to install an ipkg
00:52.01kergoththen the ipkg is correct
00:52.01kergother
00:52.02kergothcorrupt
00:52.06kergothsomething's wrong with it
00:52.06jcurrygrrr.
00:52.11jcurryok, cool.
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02:01.42jcurrywhy does opie-mediaplayer2 segault when I try to play something?
02:01.48kergothbecause it doesnt like you
02:01.49kergothheh
02:01.55kergothno, the media players are known broken in 3.5.1
02:01.57kergothits unfortunate
02:02.01jcurryaaah
02:02.18jcurryis there a fixed ipkg i could use, or is it a different kind of broken?
02:02.32kergothi dont know if its been fixed
02:02.37kergothi'll try it on my sl6k's opie image
02:02.51kergoth(in case you didnt know, 3.5.2 is due to release this weekend if we can get some final kinks worked out)
02:02.57jcurryawesome!
02:03.03kergothwith sl6k support :)
02:03.05jcurrywill most stuff, like, work?
02:03.06kergothas promised
02:03.12kergothfor some values of "work"
02:03.13jcurrywhat is s16k?
02:03.18kergothits a development branch, so its continually improving
02:03.27kergoththe sharp zaurus sl-6000
02:03.43jcurryso, shouldn't that be 6k?
02:03.51kergoth?
02:03.51jcurryoh, sl6k
02:03.55kergothheh
02:04.01jcurryi thought the L was a 1
02:04.10kergothfix your fonts :)
02:04.26jcurryi thought I had an awesome font
02:04.44jcurrya proggrammer's font, that wasn't supposed to have these problems
02:06.00jcurrywait, when is 'this weekend'?
02:06.05jcurrylike, next weekend?
02:06.12jcurryyou mean?
02:06.13kergothlike, tomorrow
02:06.16jcurryoh.
02:06.20kergothwe got hung up today on a couple bugs
02:06.22jcurryeven better :)
02:06.26kergoth(namely, some touchscreen related opie crash)
02:06.55jcurryaah.  is there any chance of oz switching to 2.6 in the future?
02:07.27jcurrycause it is supposed to have improved embedded device support, or something
02:07.32kergothit will, some day
02:07.34kergothits a ways out though
02:07.44kollamaybe a tuesday :)
02:07.47jcurrycool, just wondering
02:07.51jcurrylol
02:09.48jcurrydoes the default package manager work?
02:10.41kergoththe graphical ones? no idea
02:10.46kergothteh opie one i know is improving
02:10.53kergothdunno if its where it needs to be or not
02:11.21jcurryopie-aqpkg works fine, you should bundle that instead of opie-packagemanager
02:11.57kergothi'd rather see packagemanager fixed
02:12.11jcurryhow is it better?
02:12.22kergothit uses libipkg rather than calling out the ipkg binary, for one
02:12.30kergothsaving a  fork, and being less prone to failure due to ipkg output changes
02:12.37kergoththats one of the biggest ones
02:13.22jcurrycool.
02:13.25jcurrycan't wait
02:13.36jcurrydo the mediaplayers work?
02:14.00kergothis this de ja vu or what.
02:14.01kergoth19:53 < jcurry> is there a fixed ipkg i could use, or is it a different kind of broken?
02:14.04kergoth19:54 < kergoth> i dont know if its been fixed
02:14.07kergoth19:54 < kergoth> i'll try it on my sl6k's opie image
02:14.07kergothwas i unclear?
02:14.17kergothheh
02:14.26jcurrydid you try it yet?
02:14.30kergothno
02:14.35kergothits still being built
02:30.57jcurrystill building?
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02:33.19kergothjcurry: no, now i'm hitting the aforementioned touchscreen related crash
02:33.25kergothcant test multimedia until thats resolved
02:33.26kergothso working on that
02:33.32jcurryright...
02:33.39jcurrydevel work must be fun :)
02:33.48kergothit can be, yeah
02:34.09kergothyou should contribute. we can always use a hand doing things like maintaining package builds in OE
02:34.19jcurryi canna code :(
02:34.21kergothdont need to be a developer to do that, but helps reduce the load on the core devs
02:34.40kergothdont need to code to maintain packages. just make sure they compile going forward, and add new versions to the build when they come out
02:34.45kergoths/code/coder/
02:35.17jcurryi'd love to, but i'm caught up in several other projects
02:35.21jcurrynot to mention scool
02:35.24jcurryschool*
02:35.24kergothnp
02:35.35jcurrymaybe, when I have more time
02:35.46kergothi just have to solicit help where i can.  we've got over 1100 unique buildable packages in the system, and only like 5-10 of us maintaining them all
02:35.49kergothif that
02:36.10jcurrythat sucks...but you guys should advertise more
02:36.24jcurryget linux.com or newsforge.com to publish an article
02:36.25kergothyeah, we need a "how to contribute" page on the sites
02:36.31kergothOE is pretty low key right now
02:36.33jcurrythat too
02:36.41kergothonce we release 1.0 of it, then we'll work on increasing visibility
02:36.52jcurrymakes sense....
02:37.01kergothi know one guy is working on getting a series of articles on building embedded linux distributions using OE into linux journal (iirc)
02:37.05kergothwill see if that pans out
02:37.30jcurrythat would be awesome
02:37.49jcurrygetting something on slashdot would get you guys *high* visibility
02:37.59kergothi should try to submit a presentation for the ottawa linux symposium on it
02:38.20jcurrysomeone has to do something really cool with a z running oz.
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02:39.11jcurrydo it.
02:39.13jcurrythat would be aesome
02:39.13jcurryawesome*
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04:41.57ljpboo!
04:46.26kergothheh
05:25.48ljphmm.. too cold to swim today
05:36.10suleyhello all. I am wanting to install openzaurus but I am confused about what files to download
05:36.18kergothwhat device?
05:36.24suleysl-5500
05:38.19suleywhat is confusing to me is finding initrd.bin. I only found zImage and opie-image in download section
05:38.28kergothopie-image is the initrd.bin
05:38.29Pendalarrename opie-image to initrd.bin
05:38.30kergothas is gpe-image
05:38.43kergothyeah, just rename it
05:39.00suleyok thanks. I was wondering that. just figured I would ask first. thanks.
05:39.09suleyok next question-
05:39.17Pendalarhh.org still having problems?
05:39.22kergothyep
05:39.25suleyIt seems 3.5.1 is unstable
05:39.28Pendalar=-/
05:39.28kergothfrance is working on it
05:39.32suleyhow stable is it?
05:39.38kergothsuley: 3.5.2 is due to release *this weekend*. as in, today or tomorrow.
05:39.49kergothheh
05:40.00Pendalarit's got issues but it's the first to be built with OE... so it's partially fine and partially proof-of-concept
05:40.17kergothyep.  every release it'll stabilize more, until we're back on par with 3.2
05:40.29Pendalarthe only problem I have with it is the package manager (of issues that I can't easily overlook) .. but you can use the cli ipk program
05:40.31kergothand beyond, naturally ;)
05:40.40kergothPendalar: apparently drw has time to spend on opie again now
05:40.44kergothPendalar: he's the opie-packagemanager maintainer
05:40.47kergothso it should stop sucking soon
05:40.54suleyok yes I like the idea of something other than sharp image. currently running a cracko or crow image
05:41.14Pendalarwell I didn't mind that it didn't see local packages, because I ran boa and loop'd it
05:41.22Pendalarbut the memory leak blows
05:41.29kergothheh, you dont need boa man :)
05:41.38kergothfile:/mnt/cf or whatever
05:41.39PendalarI had boa running anyways, so it didn't hurt
05:41.41kergothyou can add local feeds
05:41.43kergothjust drop Packages in
05:41.45kergothah
05:42.00Pendalarbut like I can tap+hold on a package name to pull up it's info
05:42.10Pendalarcancel out.. repeat about 5 times.. and all the memory is gone
05:42.16suleywhat about using the cradle to connect to a linux box?
05:42.26PendalarI run the memory applet so after about 3 it'll go to yellow or red
05:42.40kergothyeah
05:42.52kergothzecke caught a couple of the leaks already
05:42.56kergothwill definately improve
05:42.59kergothsuley: what about it?
05:43.18Pendalarhave they been submitted to the OE packages bk?
05:43.32kergothdunno
05:43.40kergothask drw
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05:51.24dmakalskyHi everyone
05:51.31dmakalskyI just got my SL 5600
05:51.55dmakalskyand I want to install the openzaurus OS on it
05:52.03dmakalskywhat do I need to do to get started?
05:54.01Pendalargrab the opie-image or gpe-image .. rename that to initrd.bin, and the zImage
05:54.20Pendalarplace them on a Fat16 formatted CF card.. and follow the installation guide at openzaurus.org
05:55.45kergothno
05:55.49kergoth5600 needs updater.sh
05:56.07kergothyou want to read the 5600 instructions on the openembedded.org wiki
05:56.18PendalarI didn't say it didn't technically ;-) I said follow the instructions after those 2 files are on ;-)
05:56.28Pendalarreading the oe wiki might be hard..
05:56.30Pendalarheh
05:56.32kergothyep
05:56.43kergothdmakalsky: put the kernel, initrd.bin, and updater.sh on the card.
05:56.49dmakalskybut wait
05:56.56dmakalskyhow do I even put it on the card?
05:57.04kergoth?
05:57.06dmakalskyI got the hardware without the cdrom
05:57.10Pendalarpc side card reader?
05:57.25dmakalskyall I have is what came in the box
05:57.29dmakalsky(it's used)
05:57.30kergothi recommend you get a pcmcia or usb flash card reader
05:57.50kergothotherwise if the flash messes up, your Z wont turn on, and you'll have no way to get hte files to the card then
05:58.07dmakalskyok, so this card... is the built in flash mem?
05:58.08Pendalarand at that, they are getting uber cheap
05:58.16kergothno
05:58.24kergothyou put the files on a compactflash or sd or mmc card.
05:58.30kergothif you dont have one, you need to buy one
05:58.39dmakalskyoh, I see
05:59.12dmakalskybut is there any software I can download just to move some files to the device for the time being?
05:59.20dmakalskyuntil I get that device?
05:59.40Pendalaryou do have a CF/SD/ or MMC?
05:59.42kergothyou need a card.
06:00.37dmakalskyhow can I check?
06:00.40kergoth..
06:00.42dmakalsky(sorry I am a real newbie)
06:00.43Pendalarlol
06:00.52kergothif you dont know what a compactflash or sd or mmc card looks like, you're beyond my ability to help
06:00.53Pendalardo you know what a compact flash card is?
06:00.56kergothgoogle is your friend.
06:01.02kergothgo read. now. before i have to hurt you
06:01.11Pendalarnotice the slots on the device.. probably empty?
06:01.12dmakalsky:)
06:01.21Pendalarprobably a small slot and a large one
06:01.26Pendalarchippies go in them
06:01.31Pendalargo to walmart and buy one
06:01.31dmakalskythere's a slot up top... my Wireless card is in there
06:01.43kergoththat wireless card is compactflash.
06:01.49Pendalarok your wireless card is a compact flash card
06:01.51kergothyou can buy storage cards for that, or you can buy a card for the smaller slot
06:01.55Pendalarwe're refering to memory cards however
06:02.01dmakalskyI have something in the smaller one
06:02.02kergoth(sd or mmc (secure digital, or multimedia card, respectively)
06:02.02kergoth)
06:02.07dmakalskyshall I pull it out?
06:02.09kergothokay, you need to get the files onto that card.
06:02.17kergothpulling it out isnt going to help you, unless you can put files on it telepathically
06:02.20Pendalaris it a chip or that plastic decoy?
06:02.31dmakalskydecoy... unfortunately ;(
06:02.45kergothheh
06:02.49kergothwell then, you need a storage card.
06:02.49dmakalskyCan I pull one out of my digital camera?
06:02.51Pendalarthen go to walmart and buy a chip for that, or buy a compact flash memory card
06:03.02Pendalardepends on what type fits your digicam
06:03.17Pendalarmy digicams use XD and Memory Stick, and no they don't fit
06:03.28Pendalarif yours use SD/MMC/ or CF.. yes
06:03.48dmakalskychecking...
06:03.55kergothi recommend extensive use of google
06:04.00kergothand read the zaurus FAQ at zaurususergroup.com
06:04.19dmakalskyyes, sorry to bug you all
06:04.47dmakalskyyeah... it will only fit in the big slot
06:04.59dmakalskyok... I will read up and get back to you tomorrow
06:05.05dmakalskythanks all
06:05.54Pendalarreading will only help you so much, you need to go out and buy something if you don't already have it
06:06.17kergothwell, reading will give him the necessary background to be able to understand what he needs to buy and why
06:06.20kergothheh
06:06.36dmakalskyand will keep kergoth from trying to hurt me :)
06:07.05Pendalarjust buy kergoth some scotch later
06:07.18kergothyes! scotch goooood
06:07.25Pendalar=-}
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06:41.06dmakalskyhey guys... anyone know where I can download the Windows XP USB driver for the SL 5600
06:41.07dmakalsky?
07:32.57ljpon the cd?
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10:42.07Walmarhello. i got a c760 since yesterday and have a problem with OZ loosing the time everytime i reboot. hwclock doesn't seem to work. anyone can help me ?
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