Here's an update to my (bottom) post on my Squeak on Zaurus SL-5500:

The 'zapmd' daemon (power management) for X11 conflicts with the Qtopia 
power manager.  The only solution I have found is to disable the 'zapmd' daemon.

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Using a terminal:

cd /usr/local/Xredir/etc/rc.d/init.d

Now edit the zapmd script.  Comment out the line that launches the 
daemon (it's the only executable line in the file).
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Of course, now I have the problem of no way to enter suspend mode while running X11/Squeak.



I played a bit more with the dynapad image.  I quite like it.  One 
problem I have, though, is that an attempt to bring up the "todo" list 
causes a DNU exception.  I can't tell what the message is that is not 
understood, because of the screen size, plus I can't bring up the 
debugger in that image.

Either of the above issues (the DNU with "todo", or the suspend issue) 
will keep me from using Squeak as the PDA.  But it looks tantalizingly 
close.

To solve the suspend problem, I can run "apm -s" from an Xterm, and the 
Zaurus will go to sleep.  I can then wake it up via the normal power 
button, but the Xterm that "apm" was run from is hung (even if I do it 
as "apm -s &").  I thought about writing a quick "Suspend" button from 
Squeak that would just kick off apm that way, but the OSProcess stuff 
isn't in that image.

Anyway, it looks tantalizingly close to useful *as* the primary PDA 
environment.  But not quite.

Nevin



Nevin Pratt wrote:

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> Tommy Thorn wrote:
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>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> just my two bits:
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>>> Dynapad Survey
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>
>>> Q1. Do you use Dynapad now?  Are you condiering using it in the future?
>>> If so, in what capacity?
>>>
>>
>> No, alas. Still pending a much needed better port of Squeak to 
>> Zaurus. Some day.
>>
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> I have Squeak on a Zaurus SL-5500.  I don't know if it is reflected in 
> the model number, but this is the American version, not the Japanese 
> version.
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> The SL-5500 is a Linux PDA.  I put in a 256MB SD RAM card, and loaded 
> XFree86 on the card.  XFree is at:
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>   http://killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=591
>          or also at the (preferred) location of:
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> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39939&release_id=75364 
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> The (preferred) location has the latest downloads of XFree86 and 
> associated "goodies", while the other site lists some better install 
> instructions.
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> I also loaded ICE from the (preferred) location above.
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> After loading XFree86 and ICE, I loaded the ARM Squeak VM and 
> TinySqueak image and changefile from:
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>   http://www.reasonability.net/ipaq/
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> I haven't (yet) tried the Dynapad image.
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> After doing this, I then created a shell script to start Squeak (with 
> the image name on the command line), and gave Squeak a "-memory 8m" 
> switch on the command line also (remember, the default memory 
> allocation for Squeak is 20MB, and the Zaurus can't allocate that much 
> to Squeak, so you'll get an error that it can't allocate heap memory 
> if you omit the switch).
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> Squeak worked fine when launched via the script from an Xterm from 
> within X-Windows.
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> If you want to be able to give Squeak more memory, you will need 
> something like the IBM 1GB Microdrive in the CF slot, and then put a 
> swap file on the Microdrive.  With the addition of the swap file, you 
> will have a larger virtual memory space.
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> Nevin
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