IMPORTANT: This ROM requries a flash partition at least 27 MBytes in size! Make sure to repartition your internal flash before updating ROM! Installation: 1. Extract the 3 files - initrd.bin tools.tar updater.sh - to the root of your CF or SD/MMC card. 2. Make sure that Zaurus isn't plugged into AC power. 3. Remove battery for at least 5 seconds. 4. Replace battery (replace battery cover, lock cover), plug in AC power. 5. Press and hold the "OK" button on the keyboard. 6. Turn the power on, you should see the Japanese service menu. 7. Now Plug in the Power Cord. (You will get an error if it isn't plugged in!) 8. Select option 4 (flash/update). 9. You then have four options (1. USB, 2. CF, 3. SD, 4. Back) 10. Choose either option 2 or 3, depending on which media you put the files on. 11. Select "5 Flash repartition", enter 27 when prompted for root partition size. 12. Flash will be repartioned and Zaurus will reboot. 13. Repeate steps 2-10 again and wait for the menu start menu. 13. Now select "1 Install new ROM" and wait - Zaurus will reboot. ------------- Release Notes: Version 1.21: Kernel: - Reverted to default floating point emulator. FastFPE emulator happen to be way too inaccutrate... - Added support for ext3 filesystem - Added support for USB devices (via Ratoc CF USB Host) - Added patch from Albert Rybalkin to fix problem with serial PCMCIA cards (including bluetooth) staying suspended after resume Bluetooth: - Fixed startup/shutdown scripts to proper handle Bluemonkey card - Updated pcmcia scripts to properly handle Socket rev. G cards - Added new driver for BT2000E cards from Albert Rybalkin. This new driver should now handle suspend/resume event properly. USB: - Added support for Ratoc CFU1 USB Host CF card. USB Mass Storage and keyboard drivers included. Drivers for other devices need to be installed separately. Use /etc/usbmgr/plug.sh script to add new device definitions. Thanks to Alex Gorbatov for extensive testing of USB card support. Qtopia: - Added support for outgoing UTF-8 encoding to the QtMail application - Added cyrillic fonts for Qtopia console - Fixed typo on Qtopia startup screen - Fixed broken link to libncurses.so.5 - Incorporated KeyHelper into Cyrillic input method. Now all keyhelper settings are supported! Default configuration includes Shit + Home and Shift + Menu to switch between running applications. - Updated ATI W100 driver for mplayer. Now QVGA overlay does not display garbage at the buttom of the screen - Updated kino2 to v0.3 - Added LUS ScreenSaver. Several screensaver plugins included. Thanks to Alex Gorbatov for Japanese to Emglish tramslation. - Latest Opera 7 build included (7.30.9965), updated style for Small Screen Rendering - Added Brightness applet - Added phonetic cyrillic keyboard layout - Fixed problem with HancomWord not saving MSWord and text files - Added Media Player from SL6000 - Added OGG Vorbis audio codec for Media Player - Added CF VGA card support application ROM: - Configured samba to properly support cyrillic file names - Added unrar utility to unpack RAR file archives - Added diff, bzip2, file, ar, zip, unzip, lha utilities - Added version of tune2fs utility supporting ext3 file system - Added cyrillic support to the pure linux console. Many thanks to SergL for providing nessesary files, utils and keymap layouts! KOI8-R and CP1251 keymaps are available, inluding phonetic variants. CP1251 is used by default. Calendar button switches between Cyr/Lat. Alt+Shift switches between different layouts. - Automaticaly mount/umount swap file (/mnt/card/.swapfile) upon insertion/ejection of SD card if swapfile is present PC Connectivity: - You may be prompted by Windows to install USB device drivers when connecting to your PC with the new ROM installed. Simply reinstall existing drivers, they are still compatible. ------------- Version 1.20: Kernel: - PXA250 Cache workaround disabled, effectivly doubling the speed of SL-C700 device - Fast context switch extention is enabled - Touch Screen pressure read added Do "echo 1 > /proc/tspressure" to enable - LCD is bufferable enabling faster console - Enable CPU frequency change: Default frequency is used at boot time. Use provided applet to change frequency. Current CPU/Memory and Bus speeds are displayed in Sysinfo application - Enable more accurate display of battery chanrge percentage. Still not perfect but much better than on stock kernel. - Enabled FastFPE math emulation - Disabled CONFIG_FS_SYNC option to greatly improve performance writing to SD/CF cards - Added patch to (possibly) fix IRDA GPRS connection issue with some Ericsson phones - thanks to Alex Gromov Doing ... echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/max_tx_window echo 1000 > /proc/sys/net/irda/min_tx_turn_time ... should make connection to the phone reliable - Assigned Ctrl and Alt to the two Japanees keys left to Space key Note that preemptive patch IS NOT enabled in this kernel due to potential compatibility issues with existing kernel modules and applications. Bluetooth: - Latest bluetooth drivers and utilities added, including high speed drivers for Ambicom, Pretec and Anycom CF cards - Updated bluetooth drivers to only load upon CF card insertion Wireless: - Latest orinoco/spectrum wireles drivers with monitoring patch added - HostAP drivers provided as a separate package ROM: - Fixed missing card monitor icons - Samba is started on demand, added missing samba config file - Opera updated to version 7.30 - Calculator replaced with free version of Neocal - Embeddedconnsole replaced with QConsole - Updated ncurses, menu, panel libraries - Updated sysinfo - Improved general performance by using cramfs instead of cloop - Italic fonts were removed from ROM and packages into a separate ipk. - Added option to boot into a "true" Linux console at runlevel 2: When "Wait..." message appears during boot, click "/," button and select "C". You can switch between tty1-tty6 using Alt + Arrow keys or typing chvt [1..6] To return to Qtopia, type "init 5" as root