Questions for new Iliad owners!

[jæd]

Originally Posted by R2D2

Well I looked into the Zaurus bin directory, copied uptime onto the sd card, put the sd card into the iLiad and executed it using the ssh connection. As it did output me the uptime and the average load status I assumed that it worked. But I am really too stupid to do more than that.

But wait, maybe there is an uptime app already installed on the iLiad and I executed the original one instead of the Zaurus one. Hmmm...please someone else try it out.

EDIT: Hmmm..actually there is another uptime app on the iLiad and I do not know what I did execute. So I am out of here...

What does "whereis uptime" give you...? If you are in the same directory as *your* uptime, do "./uptime"

[tribble]

Originally Posted by Tscherno

If i understood it correctly, WiFi IS disabled all the time, except when it connects to iDS (when does it do this???).

As i see it, WiFi is constantly on, just the network connection gets turned on and off. Correct me if i am wrong.

[Tscherno]

Originally Posted by tribble

As i see it, WiFi is constantly on, just the network connection gets turned on and off. Correct me if i am wrong.

Could you post the WiFi-Start-Stop Script?

Edit: Let's move here ==> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7034

[ath]

Originally Posted by CommanderROR

Can anyone see a way to disable the WiFi yet? That would be a cool trick to extend battery-life until iRex comes up with some porper power-saving...

Presumably, an 'iwpriv' private command. (There is an iwpriv binary in there? Run it, and see what private commands it has.)

[arivero]

Originally Posted by b_k

which means, we have access to loads of Zaurus software. (if thats true) cool.

Hmm here I have the pnmtools/netpbm plus djvu page extraction, to be used from line interface, compiled for ARM with libc and libm 2.2.3, thus older libraries. I am not sure if there is compatibility between 2.2 and 2.3 but someone can try.

http://dftuz.unizar.es/~rivero/lbdjvu.tgz

Example:

ls -al | pbmtext | pnmdepth 255 | pnmscalefixed -width=600 -height=800> result.pnm
takes about 1.5 and 2.2 seconds in a machine with 98.09 bogomips loop.

[R2D2]

Originally Posted by jæd

What does "whereis uptime" give you...? If you are in the same directory as *your* uptime, do "./uptime"

Ok, I was wrong. :-(

./uptime: error while loading shared libraries: libproc-3.2.4.so:

[arivero]

Originally Posted by R2D2

Ok, I was wrong. :-(

./uptime: error while loading shared libraries: libproc-3.2.4.so:

Yeah, welcome to the wonderful world of dynamic linking.

[ali]

Another point: Most (graphical) Zaurus software is for Qtopia, not X11. The console stuff should run in a chroot.

[R2D2]

Originally Posted by ali

Another point: Most (graphical) Zaurus software is for Qtopia, not X11. The console stuff should run in a chroot.

There is a big X11 project running X on Zaurus: www.pdaxrom.org
They have a feed with compiled X11 apps...

[armadillo]

Hi,

I'm especially interested in using the iliad to read papers from scientific publications.
Can anyone post a picture/video/comment about viewing scientific pdf's (e.g. Nature, Science, etc...)?

Does one have to do any conversion before?

Does the iliad rescale the A4 page to fit A5?

Thanks,

Alex

[branko]

Originally Posted by masc

Another question: Is there now a sudoko game on iLiad or not?

I think that when Irex were talking about Sudoku, they were talking about a book of Sudoku puzzles, not about a Sudoku application. You can find many generators on the web, just Google for Sudoku generator. This one for instance creates a PDF book of puzzles for you, including a page with solutions.

[allovertheglobe]

My first post got probably lost in the shuffle, but one of my questions regarding the HTML-reader formats was answered with it being Minimo, which gives me a good idea of its capacities.

However there's still the other question:
- Is there a true, icon-free fullscreen mode in any of the current viewers?

Any answer much appreciated,
P.

P.S.: This thread "Questions for new Iliad owners" has become mostly focused on hacking it, perhaps it would be a good idea to split it into separate threads?

[arivero]

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[oliverbogler]

Originally Posted by armadillo

Hi,

I'm especially interested in using the iliad to read papers from scientific publications.
Can anyone post a picture/video/comment about viewing scientific pdf's (e.g. Nature, Science, etc...)?

Does one have to do any conversion before?

Does the iliad rescale the A4 page to fit A5?

Thanks,

Alex

Me too - a few weeks ago Henrycat, who was among the first to get an early test version (same hardware, several software versions ago) tried out a PNAS paper for me, and reported that the readability was good - i.e. the figs looked fine. PDF reader zoom is likely to be important, and I think that is comin soon, if it is not already there. The rotate feature has also been discussed, though not promised, perhaps. That would be great. When I get mine (am in the US, order #500) I will post pictures with scientific papers - if you have a specific one you want to see, post/PM me the PMID.

[arivero]

Originally Posted by oliverbogler

PDF reader zoom is likely to be important, and I think that is comin soon, if it is not already there.

It must be. The problem is that xpdf is full screen with no buttons. It is something related to the xresources but I can not find out what it is. It is clear than the people at iRex have mangled with it (they say win* instead of xpdf* in the iLiad settings file at /etc) but I do not know if it is at the level of config files or directly in the binary.

It should be worth to check if xpdf launched from the shell appears in full screen too and/or if it admits the -z option.

If it can be launched from the shell in a decent way, then we can put some separate launch icon in our pdf trick so people will not need to modify the config of their machines.