Re: more trouble with repositories
On 7/30/07, Paul Klapperich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #maemo:name repository.maemo.org deb http://repository.maemo.org/ mistral free non-free This repository is broken, from what I can tell. One receives 404 errors when attempting to download *.deb packages by browsing the repository manually. Change this to gregale and you should be fine. --Paul Brilliant, thanks a million Paul, that sorted it. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Newbie cannot install osso-xterm
I'll second that. There's currently a bunch (perhaps 50%) of supposedly n800 software at maemo that doesn't install on a fresh N800 because some assumed files on the N800 are missing. Most of these seem to be from the same core files, however I was unable to locate much info about these missing files at the maemo site -- I gather folks are supposed to be born with this knowledge? I have encountered these problems with a fresh install of OS2006 on the 770. After enabling red-pill mode (ridiculous procedure) I attempted to install (all listed on the maemo downloads site) : openssh from the .install file. Package not found evince: Nothing happens in the Application Manager when the .install file on maemo.org applications is downloaded. The .install link defaults to the n800. So I google for evince and download it from the developer site using the correct install file. It appears to download, and then I am told Package not found canola: Unable to install. Installation file corrupted Success. Osso-xterm advanced and fbreader install. Mplayer, installs but then Application manager crashes. Python 2.4 runtime: Download failed Python 2.5 runtime: Download failed and application manager crashes. At this point I am giving up and going to bed. It is really quite frustrating. I have some familiarity with the device, I can only imagine the annoyance of someone who has just bought one. Gavin ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Manaos
Hello, I was wondering what the situation was with this browser. I hadn't heard of it before, just chanced across it when I was googling for Nokia 770 and Tiddlywiki. There seemed to have been a lot of development on it, http://tonikitoo.blogspot.com/2006/01/just-little-taste-of-manaos-update.html but nothing public from around April 06. Has this been abandoned, or is it still being worked on ? It certainly looked like an excellent piece of software as an alternative to Opera. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Bad Freedom Input keyboard or poor kbdd driver on N800?
On 10/02/07, centipede [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: functions less than stellar on N800. I almost has to punch down the keys and hold them for a short while. The keys seem to soften up a bit, when used. But still a lot of keypresses are missed. I've watched the output of kbdd in the shell, and it seems like the driver skips more keys the faster I type. How fast can you type with that keyboard? I'm almost as fast with the on-screen keyboard... Just my experience with the driver on the 770. It's far more stable than it used to be, for whatever reason. The keyboard itself is not the best quality, some keys do require quite a bit of force to be registered. There is some lag, akin to a ssh session over a modem perhaps and on the rare occasion the keys do repeat. Having said all that however, I can type reasonably quickly with it, certainly much faster than the on screen keyboard. I have yet to test it for extended sessions. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Re: Charge from a USB port.
Chris Caldwell wrote: Has anyone found an adaptor to charge the 770 from the USB port? I Just got one in the post this morning off ebay. Briefly tested it and works fine. http://tinyurl.com/3bsy8t Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] [maemo-announce] New OS 2006 firmware released
On 1/30/07, Karl Bellve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I wish Nokia would have went with thunderbird and firefox that could be improved by the outside community. Instead, they went with buggy pieces of proprietary code that Nokia can't seem to fix on its own. My other big complaint is that the entire device has to be reflashed in order to run the new version of the OS. Why can't they update different pieces, like the browser, or the kernel? Since the browser and flash player hasn't been updated, I don't think I will update my Nokia 770. I agree wholeheartedly with these points ! I would extend them further to ask why the 770 OS cannot be as open as a standard debian distribution. That is, comprised of a standard kernel that gets the device up and running, with proprietary drivers available as binary .debs. All the various applications distributed and installable as seperate .debs. This way unwanted applications can be removed, for example, the ridiculous email client etc. Kernels should be upgradable with a simple apt-get, the package management mess should be cleaned up and fixed. The advantage of opensource is in its flexibility and customisation. Nokia have negated this by imposing a very rigid structure around the 770. That's fine in itself, but don't pitch the device as opensource and be surprised when people get annoyed with the lack of control they have over it. Luckily for me, the one application I use very regularly, the opensource FBreader, is highly stable. Otherwise I'd get very annoyed with the device. Gavin ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] N800 as e-book reader
Would anyone have any thoughts about how to improve PDF handling? I would prefer to avoid DjVu, if at all possible. If there was a way to optimize PDF Reader, I think we have a wonderful e-book platform here. Have you tested Evince ? Although, I don't know if it's available for the n800 come to think of it. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Unison and large transfers
method of transferring files to and from the 770. However, when I move a large volume of data (for example a 300MB audio book from librivox.org, or a recompressed movie from archive.org) I find that it often fails or behaves erratically. Transfer speeds fluctuate wildly, the device gui often becomes unresponsive, and occasional reboots occur. Is anyone else experiencing similar behavior? Thanks, Mike I have experienced something similar when I ran wget on the device to download a film from a local web server to the mmc. It would get around 30mb or so, then the device started to act as you say, CPU usage goes up and the download stalls. I ended up having to use the USB to copy the file over, which was rather painful given the usb 1.1 speed. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] power management
On 11/8/06, Lionel Besson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You can find the parameters timeout_wlan, timeout_dun_cs and timeout_dun_ps in /system/osso/connectivity via gconftool. These parameters are accessible via the Connection manager Tools Connectivity settings Idle times and seems to be related with your problem (but i haven't tried them enough to assure you that it's gonna work) Ok, Thanks for those replies, I'll play around with them and see what I can achieve Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] power management
Hey, I've been playing with kismet in combination with a bluetooth GPS and GPSD. Unfortunately I'm finding that kismet stops working a minute or two after the device blanks the screen. I assume that the device is disabling either the bluetooth connection, or the wifi. Perhaps because kismet is accessing the wifi chip directly and not via the maemo api, it is being forced into sleep mode ? Is there any way of disabling the power management, of a more fine grained control of it ? Cheers, Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Proxies
Hi, Just wondering if there is a way of setting the proxy for the RSS reader or Google Talk client ? Setting a HTTP proxy via the Connection Manager just works for the Opera browser, not the RSS reader. There also appears to be no option for a SOCKS proxy, perhaps tsocks could be utilised for GoogleTalk. For a device designed to be portable and used in different network environments, I would have though that more effort would have gone into an efficient proxying system. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
