Questions for new Iliad owners!

[tribble]

lol, password works, you can login via ssh during the testing or update for ids. but you only have a short amount of time till network closes

[CommanderROR]

well...you'd need to do some kind of big download or limit the bandwidth of your connection so the process takes extra-long...

[CommanderROR]

but if you play around during update, you might very well brick your device...

[arivero]

Originally Posted by tribble

lol, password works, you can login via ssh during the testing or update for ids. but you only have a short amount of time till network closes

the standard trick now is to put the commands in a .shell before, and use the login to execute the shell. I still believe that the pdf should exec too.

of course the first command we want, is to get the network up again

[tribble]

yap, i dont want to risk breaking anything. so we have to find some gentle way.

But since irex put an sshd on the iliad, i bet it is just a little present for us. They must have some way to keep the network up and running for longer.

As for the pdf file. No luck there, it does nothing i can see.

and for the running modules:
mmc_pxa
mmc_bloc
mmc_core
mscd
pdc
usb-storage
scsi_mod
cf8385
cfio
phci
hal
ide-probe-mod
ide-disk
ide-cs
ide-mod

those are listed in /proc/modules

[DHer]

YAY

we can either add an init.d script to activate the network interface on startup or add a hourly cron job. I spend not enough time with linux to get one of those two right on the first try, but someone else can for sure. pretty please?

[Riocaz]

If I were iRex I would either be worried, or actively trying to recruit you lot.

[ath]

Originally Posted by ali

[*]render times are too long - flipping to page 2 of the abovementioned pdf takes 23 seconds (no joke, no decimal point forgotten). I guess I'll return to my idea of pre-rendered books.

Don't take too much account of this: it's not representative unless you include illustrations that must be rendered on the fly in your books. Page 2 has two of them (figure 1b and 1c): even on a pretty fast system that page feels slow. Other illustrations in the paper seem to be bitmaps, though, so page 2 is certainly worst case. (I think I find image masks in here as well: that almost certainly adds to processing time, especially if you remember that the iLiad does not have a FPP unit.)

The document is also unusual in that I count 22 typefaces in 10 A4 pages ...
I can't say for certain how much that does, but it is probably going to stress the font bitmap cache a bit -- though page 2 is hardly exceptional here.

Pre-rendering will improve speed for this document, no doubt about that. But I don't really think the document is representative for most iLiad users.
But it is a pretty good illustration that special care has to be taken in preparing iLiad versions of PDF documents.

[arivero]

Originally Posted by DHer

YAY

we can either add an init.d script to activate the network interface on startup or add a hourly cron job. I spend not enough time with linux to get one of those two right on the first try, but someone else can for sure. pretty please?

First one should wonder about this misterious /usr/bin/wireless.sh stop

[arivero]

Originally Posted by tribble

As for the pdf file. No luck there, it does nothing i can see.

perhaps they have patched it. It works in my xpdf (version 3.1 according xpdf -v) but it could be a compilation option.

and for the running modules:
mmc_pxa
mmc_bloc
mmc_core
mscd
pdc
usb-storage
scsi_mod
cf8385
cfio
phci
hal
ide-probe-mod
ide-disk
ide-cs
ide-mod

Seem pretty common. cf8385 is the one of the wifi, I guess. Wonder which the display is, but we do not need to worry, having X as we have. If the version of glibc is compatible, we could even try Nokia770 binaries directly.

[DHer]

erm. forget about what i wrote.

could you try to figure out where this line "/usr/bin/wireless.sh stop" is invoked? I think he's right, removing this should be sufficient.

why didn't i see it before? :?

How does it work, generally? A network interface deactivated when shutting down will be deactivated when restarting, a network interface activated wenn shutting down will be activated again?

[ali]

A stupid question: What if one screws his software up?

The Zaurus has a windows utility that could reflash the device to factory defaults, regardless how badly you destroy the filesystem.

Will we have to call irex, send the device, pay some money because fiddling with the software voids the warranty?

*scared*:
ali

[arivero]

Originally Posted by DHer

why didn't i see it before? :?

Because it was in tribble's third picture, and you concentrated sucessfully in the second one.

[tribble]

ill take a look at that file later.

[R2D2]

Oh look, what I have found...

;-)