Re: Quetions about Opie

Many of your questions are Opie specific.

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:55:41PM -0300, Eduardo N. Hering wrote:
> 1 - I tried to start GAIM using Opie, but could not find how.
> How do I launch it?
>
> 2 - I guess the way to install gaim on Opie is by adding the
> libgaim0 package, plus the protocol packages. Is this right?

GAIM in Opie is badly out of date. Please don't use it. If you are a
student or know a student, we are considering a project to spiff up IM
on Opie.

> 3 - How do I see the running applications on Opie? Is there a
> list somewhere? After opening and closing some applications
> the whole interface starts to respond very slowly. It seems
> that the background processes are taking all the CPU. Is this
> normal?

ps -aux at the command line.

> 4 - I tried to install opie-remote, but it complained about a
> missing dependency called lirc. I cound not find any package
> with this name. Do you know which package satisfies this
> dep?

We definitely know that opie-remote is a problem. The Opie cvs HEAD
repository has what amounts to almost a rewrite to make it work. And
there is a lirc unstable package in the familiar unstable feed to make
lirc work better on handhelds.

The name of the lirc package is 'lirc'. Typing 'ipkg install lirc' ought
to find it (but please try the unstable package).

> 5 - Even after installing the atlantic timezones and the america
> timezones package, the Sao Paulo timezone does not appear
> in the option box. As Sao Paulo is in south america, it should
> appear there. Is there a way to solve this?

The tzdata packages installs a Sao_Paulo timezone:
root_at_kenaz:/usr/share/zoneinfo# uname -a
Linux kenaz 2.4.19-rmk6-pxa1-hh37 #1 Thu Apr 7 14:15:23 CEST 2005 armv4l unknown
root_at_kenaz:/usr/share/zoneinfo# pwd
/usr/share/zoneinfo
root_at_kenaz:/usr/share/zoneinfo# ls -l America/Sao_Paulo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1983 Mar 8 18:46 America/Sao_Paulo

Sao Paulo does show up in my zone.tab file:
root_at_kenaz:/usr/share# grep Sao_Paulo zoneinfo/zone.tab
BR -2332-04637 America/Sao_Paulo S & SE Brazil (GO, DF, MG, ES, RJ, SP, PR, SC, RS)

But we have not been able to verify that all of the cities show up in
the Opie dialogues because I think the files are not the same. But
please, make sure you reboot and try again.

> 6 - The clock sometimes shows wrong times after a suspend.
> Am I doing something wrong?

It may not be. But we don't know what handheld you have. Some handhelds
have trouble keeping time occassionally. It could also mean that your
battery is getting old.

> 7 - The joypad shows numbers in the console, instead of
> behaving as the arrow keys like GPE. Can this be changed?

On my handheld (an h3800) the joypad does behave like arrow keys in
opie-console. Are you using that or EmbeddedKonsole?

> 8 - Backspace does not work on vi. Is this a termiina emulation
> problem? How can I solve it?

Known issue:
http://opie-bugs.oszine.de/view.php?id=1572
http://opie-bugs.oszine.de/view.php?id=1379

The workaround is easy. We hope to have this solved in the next version
of familiar.

E

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