Re: Quetions about Opie

Erik,

On Monday 12 March 2007 15:54, Erik Hovland wrote:
> > 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.

Sorry. I asked this question because on GPE there is a
folder that shows which programs are running. That seems
to be usefull specially when the graphic interface gets
slow.

Another good thing GPE has and Opie has not is an applet
to display CPU load. I tried top when everything was getting
slow, but could see no process above 14% CPU. I just could
not understand why the interface was taking so long (more
than 2 seconds) to respond.

>
> > 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).

I'll try it. Thanks.

> ... 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.

I have a h2215. Sorry for not saying that before.

>
> > 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?

I'm using opie-console.

One more issue:

The pointer is quite unstable. I calibrated it carefully,
but sometimes I have to click many times on a button
to press it. And some other times, when using the drawpad,
the cursor just vanishes or jumps far away from the region
the stylus is. Also, if I keep the stylus on the same spot,
the cursor vibrates around that position. This happens
in GPE also, but not in WinCE.

Can this be calibrated somewhere?

Regards,

Eduardo.

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