Aw: Problems with RSS feed reader in Diablo
Hi Did you also install the latest software updates? I had a similar problem at first but I think this issue was fixed. The current version is 4.2008.30-2 best regards krischan - Ursprüngliche Mitteilung - ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
maemo summit in berlin: i just can't wait :-)
Hi. Just a short note: I am looking forward to meet some of you during maemo summit in berlin. That will be a great opportunity for the community! See you there Krischan PS: sorry for ot-cross posting ;-) ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Rss-Feed-Reader - no automatic refresh of feeds (after appling backup): https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3335
Hi after flashing Diablo on my n810 I applied a backup. Since then the rss feed reader does not upgrade feeds. I filed a bug report: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3335 Did anybody else have similar results? Am I the onlyone? Please comment this one. Cheers Krischan PS: Sorry for cross posting ;-) But bugs drive me nuts. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: LCARS themes for ITOS2008
Hey Ian, That theme is great! Nice work. I am using lcars bridge on my n800. What are your plans? We definetly need more high quality themes for maemo. Krischan - Original message - LCARS v4.0 has been released: http://synthesize.us/LCARS_PADD Please be sure to read the release notes on the site before installing. We also put together a how-to, for anyone interested in modifying the themes: http://synthesize.us/LCARS_PADD/HOWTO_modify_these_hildon_themes Changelog: * Works on ITOS2008 (Maemo 4.0) only * Built with hildon-theme-tools * With patched hildon-theme-layout-4 (there is another changelog in the patch) * Most graphics recreated in SVG with Inkscape * Added black outlines to desktop applets, menus, dialogs, etc. * Updated desktop applets (with transparency) * Most icons are now themed properly, rather than diverted * Unthemeable files now have their own package (lcars-extras) * Replaced Nokia Hands startup graphic (lcars-extras) * New search applet for memory-alpha.org (search-memory-alpha) * Activated toolbar animations * Set color of text insertion cursor * Worked around text color issue in the browser (Maemo bug 1825) ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
synchronizing system clock with gps
Hi ag2, I read your announcement [2] and tried gps-clockd from [1]. It works well. Thank you very much! I have been wondering if gps-clockd also sets the hadware clock of the n810? I remember that we had a thread about using ntpdate on the 770 in 2006. In order to set the hardware clock one had to run /mnt/initfs/usr/bin/retutime --rtc-from-system Is this also required with gps-clockd? I would like to see ntp and gps-based time synchronization as a default function of itos. Best regards Krischan [1] http://maemostuff.com/ [2] http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16097 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Aw: Any way to rectify Internal error. Application 'Web' closed. ?
Hello Michael I think I had a similar problem with the Hacker Edition once. I got the hint from the list to change the browser back opera. There is a file in your home directory called .browser . Change the engine back to opera and restart the browser. Krischan - Ursprüngliche Mitteilung - Von: Michael R. Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: maemo-users@maemo.org Gesendet: So., 13. Jan. 2008 06:13:13 GMT Betreff: Any way to rectify Internal error. Application 'Web' closed. ? I'm running OS2007HE on a 770 I have in my possession. Just a bit ago, I was downloading a file to the removable memory card when the 770 crashed (in other words, it rebooted itself). Now when I attempt to run the browser (or if the browser is launched by other means from another app), I just get the Internal error. Application 'Web' closed. and the browser quits immediately. Is there some way to sort this out without reflashing the OS? Thanks, mike -- Michael R. Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding Anhang: smime.p7s ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Modest crashes
Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 schrieb Steve Yelvington: I updated Modest last night, connected and fetched mail. However, it later began immediately crashing when invoked. I've tried removing/reinstalling the application and deleting the .modest directory. Any other advice? Hi I had a problem with Modest after upgrading to 1.0-2008.02-2. I filed a bug report [1]. If your problem is related to this bug you could comment it. [1] https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2715 Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Missing OS2008 cmdline apps (was Re: how to install OS2007?)
I've built some today (less, links, mc, wget; made vim actually installable). I don't have upload privileges to maemo extras yet, so you can find them only at http://mg.pov.lt/770/ ... Marius Gedminas Hi Marius, thanks for providing mc. That makes remote working on the device much more convenient (at least for me ;-) Happy new year to you and the community Best regards Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: how to install OS2007?
Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2007 schrieb David Fass: Hi again. Someone here suggested I install OS2007. So I looked at http://maemo.org/news/announcements/view/new_os2007_he_for_the_nokia_770_wi th_mozilla_engine_and_memory_corruption_bugfix.html Great. But I don't understand how to install the thing. I download it on my PC and then what? If anyone could give me a pointer on what to do, I would appreciate it. Thanks again. -- Dave Hi Dave, am I correct that you own a 770? If so, I also recommend to use OS 2007 Hacker Edition. The Hacker Edition is not officially supported by Nokia. However it works great on my 770 ;-) In case you run Ubuntu (or another Linux flavor) you can flash the 770 with the latetest firmware: sudo flasher -F SU-18_2007HACKER_4.2007.46-3_PR_F5_MR0_ARM.bin -f Best regards Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: App downloads stats (was Re: chinook)
Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 schrieb Quim Gil: On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:40 +0400, ext Mikhail Sobolev wrote: The main FBReader author would happily make FBReader available from the extras repository. The main reason why it's not there yet is the lack of way to see how many installations are happening from it. :) The download numbers somehow help to prioritize checking/testing for various platforms. Good point. Please follow Downloads statistics in extras repository http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2155 Also, the new http://downloads.maemo.org will show downloads count as well originated from people clicking those big green install arrows. btw, there have been conversations about implementing in the future a popularity-contest like feature. Users would accept (or not) to share information about the software they have installed and this would help us identifying the areas where there is more interest/activity, and what are the most popular third part applications. This feature is common in Debian, Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distributions. Hi Quim, I thing a voting / rating mechanism is interesting as a way of quality management in order to decide which application could move up to a central repository. The question remains how should this rating mechanism be implemented? Is one rating category enough? Probable not. And how many different maemo members should have voted on an application before it can be considered to be part in the extra repository? I could imagine different categories which will sum up to an overall rating: * Stability * Usability ** Fingerfriendlyness ** Sylusfriendlyness * Integration in Hildondesktop * Performace * Eye candy * ... The overall rating would be calculated by a key which describes the influence of each criteria. (Stability 30%, Integration 20%, Usability 20% ...) In case the overall rating is above a certain value - let's say 60% than this application could be considered as a candidate to be part of the central repository (Also of course a question of licence etc...). So, how many different user with a maemo login membership will be needed to vote an app up to a repository? More than 10? I don't know. I think the advantage of having more and different categories is that it would also give the product owner (developer) an quick overview where he needs to improve the product to raise the overall rating above the magic line. Well, so far my ideas. I am looking forward to a consolidation of the repository situation. Best regards Krischan Keitsch ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support
Am Samstag, 20. Oktober 2007 schrieben Sie: ext Krischan Keitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a shame that there are so many broken APs on the market. I see lots of them when dealing with bug reports :( I guess WLAN Power Save Mode was really rare earlier, but fortunately nowadays it's getting more popular and AP manufactures have noticed the problem. Hi Kalle, I had a similar problem with my Siemens sx541 wlan dsl router using dhcp. The n800 keeps sending dhcp requests. That caused up to 20 - 30% cpu usage and drains the battery really fast. (See Bug 1627 Bug 1646) Switching to a fixed ip solved that problem for me. Yeah, if applications send lots of data, naturally that will increase power consumption dramatically. For these cases it would helpful if you could install tcpdump to the device and take a dump of traffic. You could do it like this: tcpdump -i wlan -w dhcp-1.cap And then attach dhcp-1.cap to the bug report. That would help a lot. Hi Kalle, I tried to add a comment to Bug 1627 [1] but maemozilla wouldn't let me login and refuses to send me a password. Hmm. I also have the tcpdump and will try later to attach that to the bug report. Regards Krischan [1] https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N810 is here -- whitout ogg support
Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Steve Greenland: According to John Rudd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And, no, it's not about open and free. Since the developers in question are Nokia (since the comment was directed at the release of the N810 itself, and not a request for more 3rd party development), it's about how much effort the developers need to put into supporting something vs. the amount of return they get from supporting it. Actually, it is about being open and free. Nokia promotes the tablet as an open platform, and is using huge amounts of free software as the basis for its product. To ignore ogg-vorbis support, which *is* an important feature for many of us (and far more valuable, to *me*, than WMA and AAC support), and is pretty much the only free-as-in-freedom codec, is a bit of a slap in the face. Some of us do have political agendas, such as promoting the use of free software. That Nokia uses our software (as is their right, according to our licenses), but then promotes non-free codecs/software, is a bit sad. Regards, Steve A product such as internet tablets needs users (many users, not just oss enthusiasts) in order to get some traction on the market and to evolve. Therefore it makes sense to include mainstream media codex for non-developer costumers. On the other hand the internet tablets are not just commercial products but also a commitment by Nokia to support open source development ( see upstream projects such as hildon etc.). The business unit at Nokia taking care of the internet tablets have realiced that it reduces costs on the long run to participate on the open source development - taking and giving. So, we have a strong commitment from Nokia towards open source and nice internet tablets aiming at average users as well as linux power users and developers. The average user might not care as much about ogg support or not (keeping in mind that the number of ogg content on the web increases) but we linux power users do. And we have been asking for ogg (dsp based) support since the early 770 OS2005 days! I think the comunity would accept a clear no, we will not support ogg because ... by Nokia when they would release desperately needed information about the dsp and the source of the proprietary media player. Then the comunity could put the peaces together. It is always refreshing to take a look at the openmoko project, their mailing lists and wiki. So far there is 'just' a developer version of that open phone available, but the community is extremely creative and enthusiastic. They know where they are at - maybe it is because it is all about openness? Regards Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N810 is here (ogg support)
Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2007 schrieb Frederic Crozat: Le vendredi 19 octobre 2007 à 11:59 +0300, Eero Tamminen a écrit : So, there shouldn't be any need for any Maemo specific specs, these things are documented in upstream projects. There should still be a tutorial how to do these things though. Tutorial is already available in Maemo 3.x SDK documentation, but we aren't sure it is working as expected, because of mediaplayer blackbox. If there are still some problems after codec has been correctly registered to gstreamer and mime-type database: - gstreamer not recognizing the file type correctly I don't think it is the case, using : gst-launcher filesrc location=test.ogg ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! dsppcmsink does work, so gstreamer is handling the file correctly. We are spinning in circles. We have been there too many times already! - mediaplayer not playing the file I think the problem is here, unfortunately :( Developper documentation is a little too scarce about media player, unfortunately. . Unfortunately. Am I wrong when I identify the missing source of the media player as part of the problem? Or has it been released yet? - file manager or browser not launching the media player properly This part works fine, mediaplayer is launched properly Please file bugs. sarcasm Like Bug 176, opened 2005-10-30? https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176 /sarcasm Before filling bugs against maemo, I think it would be better to only have one ogg support package available for 770 / n800 (and soon n810) to make sure efforts are not duplicated. Yepp! Convergence instead of parallel efforts! Time to puzzle should be over in order to mature this platform. As a sidenote, from my distribution persective (I'm GNOME maintainer at Mandriva), Maemo community fragmentation about packages and duplicated work is killing me :( There seems to be a lot of energy around there but often doing the thing or not using infrastructure available thanks to Garage (for instance, some people are only using garage as a way to ship files and don't store their source code in SVN). I have been wondering that as well many times. How come that this community is 'fragmented'? What is causing it? Regards Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N810 is here
Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007 schrieb Collin R. Mulliner: OGG is only a nerd feature and also has other problems, so Nokia (and other companies) just don't care. Maybe somebody can make a plugin (also this won't utilize the DSP). I don't agree with ogg = nerd feature. Linux as an open and free platform is way beyond nerd-state. Ogg is also about openness and freedom. They share the same philosophy. The OS of our internet tablets is based upon Linux, isn't it? So why is there no support for ogg? By the way: every time a new stylish personal media player from china is shown on engadget you will find more and more players with support for flac and ogg vorbis. Hmm, something is changing? Regards Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support
Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Steve Greenland: Background: I'm a long-time Debian user and developer, and have grown used to 'apt-get install somepackage' *working*. That's one of the reasons I purchased the n800; I naively expected that having adopted the best packaging *tools* available, the maemo community might also adopt the Debian packaging *practices*. You need *both* to get the Debian experience. Others have ranted about the general problems, and it appears that Nokia and the maemo devels have plans to try to fix the problems, so I won't repeat the rant here. Except as it applies to the specific packages, of course. Current state of ogg support, 17-October-2007. Summary: the good news is that you can play oggs with N800. The bad news? Read on...but let me first throw out a big thank you to all the people who have worked on this. I rant because it's more fun to write rants, and because if you don't write about the problems there's not much to say, but I *can* play oggs on my N800, and I appreciate that. ... Ah, now I feel better. Hey, don't complain. I told you it was a rant in the subject line. Regards, Steve Hi Steve, your review pointed out how redundant and chaotic development for the n800 is at the moment. I would like to pick up two points from your review: a) the repository situation - Were are all the apps? b) ogg support - Time to join forces! to a) Were are all the apps? One thing that we are missing is a 'distribution' (the debian or ubuntu way) with primary repositories and additional repos. etc. At the moment there are many different sources for apps: different repositories, personal web pages from developers, maemo garage ... You name it. It is already difficult for me (as an experienced linux user) - so how does someone with less experience, time and motivation get along? Why is ubuntu so successfull? One reason might be the ease of installing apps and adding repositories offering thoughtands of apps. Don't you agree? My hope is, that we will see some kind of consolidation with chinook and the ubuntu mobil edition. The time is ready to get serious. Especially with the n810 and the expected mid's waiting! to b) Don't get me wrong: I believe that redundancy and creative chaos will automatically lead to innovations. Therefore I appreciate the efforts taken to bring ogg support to the maemo platform. I experimented a little myself early this year with tremor, vorbis and theora. Til then we did not get much further - still no dsp assisted tremor support for the maemo platform. Many attempts are out there I just wish they would join forces now (after individual experimentation) so that the n8x0 users have a sustainable solution to listen to their ogg files. Hmm, I hope I got my thoughts across. I just want to encourage everyone to help this platform to mature. I believe that we are close to a turning point where internet tablets and mobile internet device's as well as smarter phones (openmoko) with there open source software will reach a critical mass! Regards Krischan PS: Did I mention yet that I love my 770 with the latest hacker edition and the plankton theme? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N810 is here
Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: John Rudd wrote: Kahlil Johnson wrote: Wow, still no OGG when will maemo people ever learn. Who cares about AAC, give us OGG. Huh. I have many AAC files. I have no OGG files. Why should even remotely care about OGG? How weird. I have no AAC files but a big bunch of ogg files, why should I even remotely care about AAC? IOW: What is the point you are trying to make? Or is this one of those you absolutely need it for interesting content in Europe, but it's absolutely useless for content in the Americas type situations? Huh? What does it have to do with America/Europe? It's about *open* and *free* music codecs - neither AAC nor MP3 are free. And I don't really see the problem with supporting *also* ogg. Cheers, Ralph I couldn't agree more! Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: 770 Hacker Edition: browser fails on startup
Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 schrieben Sie: If I remember correctly, I had this problem when the engine entry in ~user/.browser was set to microb without microb installed. I set it to opera and the browser started up. Cheerio, Jan Hi Jan, that was exactly it! Thank you very much. I just don't get it why I missed this entry. I am getting old I guess ;-) Regards Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
770 Hacker Edition: browser fails on startup
Hi, I flashed my 770 with the latest Hacker Edition. Everything works very well - except for the browser. Suddenly I get a pop up message Internal error. when I try to start up a browser. The strange part is, that the browser comes up and then it does collaps with the mentioned message. What I tried so far: * empty the cache from /home/user/.opera/ * remove the entire directory /home/user/.opera * remove the /home/user/.browser * checked dmesg to see if there is a message from the kernel trying to access a corrupted file (seems to be not the case) Just in case you have an idea that prevents me from reflashing the 770 I would be really happy. What else can I try? Thanks in advance Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Setting rendering engine on browser
Am Samstag, 11. August 2007 schrieb Iñigo Illán Aranburu: Hi everyone! I have installed the microb engine for the browser, but I don't get any menu entry for switching between engines. I can launch the browser from a terminal with the option --engine=opera, and it works perfect, but no menu entry. Should I have to do something for getting it? Thanks! ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users If I remeber correcly you have to edit /home/user/.browser. Change the second line to hidden=true. good luck Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Hacker Edition for 770: ext2 automount
Hi 770 enthusiasts! I also flashed the Hacker Edition on my 770. It works way better than I thought - and also better than the last official it OS2006 :) I prefer to use the ext2 file system on my Linux powered internet tablets. Here is what I did – a little how to: I added to following lines to /etc/init.d/rcS to load the necessary kernel modules during boot up: /sbin/insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/current/mbcache.ko /sbin/insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/current/ext2.ko After a reboot you should see the modules with “lsmod”. Now the interesting part: if you load the modules on an n800 and you insert a ext2 formated mmc or sd card the ext2 file system will be mounted automatically. If you try this with the hacker edition on the 770 you get the message “filesystem brocken ...”. This is related to the script that mounts inserted cards: /usr/sbin/osso-mmc-mount.sh The script from n800 has a section for mounting ext2 file systems. This section is missing in the hacker edition version. Replacing the hacker edition version with the n800 version worked for me. Regards Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: Re: What has happend with ogg-vorbis in IT200?
Hello List, I followed these instructions (http://maemo.org/platform/docs/multimedia/getting_started.html) to get ogg support working. Compiling and installation went fine: when I tap on an ogg file the audio player starts (at least something ;-) ) followed by an error message about wrong format and than osso-media-server requires 100% cpu time. No ogg playback! :-( How can I find out what's going wrong? Had anyone success on this issue? I'm willing to learn more: any help is appreciated! Regards Krischan pgpusnH0KEtCO.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] can't write on mmc
Hi List, the filemanager as well as mc tells me that I can't write on my 1g mmc. It pretends to be 'write only'. How can that be? Even as root. mount doesn't tell me anything about ro or rw. Does it have to do with the vfat filesystem? Could I also use ext2 or even ext3? any help is aprechiated. Thank you! Krischan pgpmzYVWVE0v4.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Fwd: [maemo-users] Problems with audio-playback since IT2006 update
Hi Clemens, I don't know how it2005 behaved since I flashed it with it2006 right away. However I can confirm your experiences with mp3 playback (also streams). It often occurs when the n770 is under heavy io-load. The skips are annoying. The n770 'pleases' me with silence when listening to radio streams. Restarting the esp daemon helps: /etc/init.d/dsp-init restart (don't know if this one helps ;-) /etc/init.d/esd restart Maybe it helps to give esd a higher priority (real time) ? (don't know yet if that helps and how to do it ;-) Regards Krischan -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: [maemo-users] Problems with audio-playback since IT2006 update Date: Samstag, 12. August 2006 13:55 From: Clemens Eisserer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: maemo-users maemo-users@maemo.org Hi there, Since I updated to IT2006 audio playback is often very distorted. It happens from time to time, sometimes it goes away, sometimes I have to turn the device on/off to make it working again. It sounds more or less like MP3 at very low quality modes (32kbps or so). Has anybody else seen this behaviour, and has already a bug report filed? Thank you in advance, lg Clemens ___ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] mounting ext2
Some more words on this thread ;-) Preface I understand that a consumer product has to support the consumer de facto standard for a mmc which happens to be the vfat file system. So; that is Nokias point of view - which is okay – as long as I have the choice to use something different than vfat. One thing I don't like about vfat is its reliability. I happen to have a corrupted file system from time to time and I hate to know that I have no tools on board to repair the vfat file system. I miss fsck.vfat. I also checked for the package on the debian server and ran 'apt-get install dosfstools'. It said it had the newest version already installed. fsck.vfat seems to be missing. On a great Linux device such as the 770 I would rather like to use ext2 formatted mmc's with the same convenience as the vfat formatted ones. (The ext2 filesystem used to be the Linux de facto standard file system - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2 ;-) ) The 770 does not support ext2 or its successor ext3 by default. However the needed kernel modules are there. I will point out some steps so you can use ext2 formatted mmc's. Disclaimer Don't blame me if anything goes wrong! Unless you know what you are doing – don't do it! However; If you can't resist: make a complete backup or at least a backup from the files we are going to manipulate. Step 1) We need to load the ext2 kernel module. As root run: insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.16-omap1/ext2.ko If we want the 770 to load the module during boot up add this line at the top of '/etc/init.d/minircS'. Step 2) We don't want to manually mount the mmc when we plug it in. We change the following script instead:'/usr/sbin/mmc-mount' from #!/bin/sh mount -t vfat -o rw,noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid,utf8,uid=2,shortname=mixed $1 $2 /dev/null to #!/bin/sh mount -t ext2 -o rw $1 $2 /dev/null Step 3) On your Linux desktop box format a mmc with ext2. Run as root 'mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdx1' where x is the appropriate dev. Make sure you set the permissions right in order to let the 770 default user access the mmc! [Can some Linux guru help me out here for the command line? I used the konqueror for this ;-) ] Insert the mmc and find out if it worked. Check with 'dmesg' and 'mount'. Step 4) This step is optional but recommended. One reason for using ext2, is to have the the necessary tools on the n770 in order to repair the mmc's file system. What we need is called 'fsck.ext2' As root run: 'apt-get install e2fsprogs' If your repositories are set up properly (check http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationRepositories ) you will then be able to maintain your ext2 formatted mmc. Conclusion Was it worth it? In one word: Yes! My 770 penguin feels much better since it got its 'default' file system back! And I feel saver leaving my desktop pc with the card reader behind ;-) Of course you can use ext3 also. I just don't know if there are any benefits from this. This solution is not perfect: The 'mmc-mount' script should use different commands depending on the file system used. Then using vfat mmc's would also work. So far I don't know how to do this ;-( Please let me know if it worked for you and give me some feedback! Regards Krischan PS: @Kimmo: Thank you very much for pointing me the direction! -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [maemo-users] mounting ext2 Date: Montag, 14. August 2006 11:31 From: Kimmo Hämäläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 21:40, ext [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kimmo, thanks for sending a reply. I had a look at /usr/sbin/mmc-mount and changed it from mount -t vfat ... to mount -t auto ... It works as usual with vfat formated mmc's ;-) However, ext2 formated mmc's are still not accepted. Manual mount works (see mail below) So, if you have more ideas on this subject - let us know! Try without the options (after -o), because some of the options might be FAT-specific. There is no reason why it would not work if it works manually... You just have to use the same command line in mmc-mount as you use when manually mounting it. BR; Kimmo Regards Krischan -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: [maemo-users] mounting ext2 Date: Freitag, 11. August 2006 13:52 From: Kimmo Hämäläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 21:30, ext [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I formated a small rs-mmc with ext2 filesystem. I believe that it is much more reliable than vfat which seems to be a standard filesystem for mmc (even on an linux powered device -- very strange ;-). After loading the kernel module as root: insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.16-omap1/ext2.ko and mounting the mmc manually: mount /dev/mmcblk0 /media/mmc1 it worked well. However I noticed that the n770 seems to expect vfat formated mmc since it did not
[maemo-users] mounting ext2
Hello I formated a small rs-mmc with ext2 filesystem. I believe that it is much more reliable than vfat which seems to be a standard filesystem for mmc (even on an linux powered device -- very strange ;-). After loading the kernel module as root: insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.16-omap1/ext2.ko and mounting the mmc manually: mount /dev/mmcblk0 /media/mmc1 it worked well. However I noticed that the n770 seems to expect vfat formated mmc since it did not show the ext2 formated mmc in the build in filemanager and complained about a corrupt mmc. Question is: How can I convince n770 to also accept ext2 formated mmc as well as vfat including support for swap file? There must be a tweak, eh? Regards Krischan zipUvXScg5KVO.zip Description: Zip archive pgpO7jKI9baKL.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] maemo mapper vs. satellite
Hi Chaim This matter has been up @ http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1947 Maybe that helps. Cheers Krischan Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 20:44 schrieb Chaim Sanders: How do you get google maps into maemo mapper? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] 770 reboots after startup
Hi, I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade today. The pad rebootet suddenly during the apt setup procedure. So apt-get upgrade got interupped, I guess. The result is, that the maschine reboots right after the desktop comes up. The sudden reboot occurs so fast that I can not get any information from the xterm (top, dmsg, ...). Any ideas? Krischan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
