Re: N800 Locking up regularly, even after reimage

2011-03-12 Thread Tony Green


Am 10.03.2011 02:22, schrieb David Hagood:

I have a N800 that locks up on a far too regular basis, even though I've
reflashed it several times.

I normally run with root on the internal SDHC card, to save wear and
tear on the internal flash  to have a larger rootfs to install more
stuff.


Having root on the card may be something to do with it. I've noticed 
that after startup there's a significant delay before the cards are 
actually mounted and available.


I have a MySQL database which keeps its data files on the card. If I 
configure the startup script to start it at boot (like any other service 
in /etc/init.d) it will always fail because at that point the files 
aren't available to it. So I had to change the startup scripts to wait 
until the filesystem was actually mounted before actually trying to 
start the DBMS.


I'd suggest trying again with the normal root instead. If you need more 
space there for installs, you could always move some stuff to the card 
and they symlink it from root.


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Displaying my own telephone number

2011-02-17 Thread Tony Green
Probably I'm missing something obvious, but having just put a SIM card
in my N900, I thought the number would show somewhere (maybe on the
calling screen?) but can't find it.

Any pointers?
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Subject: Re: PR1.3 and Ogg-support

2010-11-04 Thread Tony Green
Erik Hovland wrote:
 I ran into the same problem. I did do the reinstall. But I had to also
 run 'tracker-processes -r' and then reboot to get my files seen. YMMV.

Curious...
While I was trying to diagnose the problem I looked at whether the
tracker was finding the files OK and on my machine at least, it was
 - they were appearing in /home/user/.cache/tracker/file-meta.db and
those already in a playlist could be played fine.
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PR1.3 and Ogg-support

2010-11-03 Thread Tony Green
Anybody who has Ogg-support may have noticed that their Ogg-Vorbis files
no longer appear in the media player (though it can still play them if
they're in a playlist).

Bug 11511 (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11511) refers to this.
The answer is to unistall and reinstall Ogg-support, though annoyingly
both Mappero and Extra decoders support are dependent on Ogg-support, so
they also need to be taken off and reinstalled.
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Re: SD photo backup app

2010-10-06 Thread Tony Green
On 06/10/10 10:00, maemo-users-requ...@maemo.org wrote:

 rsync is a terminal command.


 Not on my terminal.
 
 You can try rcp is another terminal command similar to rsync.

Rsync isn't installed as part of the standard build, but needs to be
installed from the repositories (Extras, I think).

Rsync is better for backups than rcp, because it will only transfer
files that have changed, whereas rcp (or scp, which I prefer) will
transfer everything, whether it's changed or not.
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Re: Media Player in N900

2010-03-15 Thread Tony Green
On Monday 15 Mar 2010 10:00:01 maemo-users-requ...@maemo.org wrote:
 From: fluke box gentoomail.d...@gmail.com
 
 Hi All,
Do we have something in Maemo File Browser, where we can add a file to
 current playlist ?
Moreover, in N900 media player, there is nothing like add file to current
 playlist :-( (Or may be i am unaware).
I would like to have nautilus like script based thing in maemo file
 browser for adding a file to current playlist.
Moreover,  i would like to write the same if that is not currently
 available.

You can add files to the current playlist within the media player by pressing 
on the title until a context-menu pops up (I suppose the equivalent of a 
right-click) and that gives you the option you're looking for. At a higher 
level, you can do the same thing with a whole album.
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N900 GPS Recalibration

2010-03-14 Thread Tony Green
Can the internal GPS on an N900 be recalibrated?

For some reason, mine always seems to show me as about 45 metres higher than I 
actually am. That's not just in the Maemo Mapper application, but apparently in 
the raw data (as shown by the location test application).

...or is GPS just inherently less accurate for height than it is for 
latitude/longitude? It seems generally able to even plot which side of the road 
I'm walking on, so it's good for the latter.
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Re: N900 Media player playlist

2010-03-04 Thread Tony Green
On Thursday 04 Mar 2010 10:00:01 maemo-users-requ...@maemo.org wrote:
 What is the output of dpkg -l | grep mp-fremantle?
 Wondering if you have mp-fremantle-generic-pr installed (ii) which is
 required for updating...

Hmmm... Looks like I haven't:
$ dpkg -l | grep mp-fremantle
ii  mp-fremantle-203-pr 2.2009.51-1.203.2

Doesn't even seem to be available to me:
# apt-get -d install mp-fremantle-generic-pr
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package mp-fremantle-generic-pr

I wonder if I've got a wrong repository configured?
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hildon-application-manager.list
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/apps/ ./ 
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/203 ./ 
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ovi/ ./ 
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle free non-free

The only things disabled in the app-manager are extras testing and extras devel.
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N900 Media player playlist

2010-03-02 Thread Tony Green
On the default media player, I can add tunes to the current playlist, but 
there doesn't seem to be a way of removing them (or even displaying the 
playlist to try to remove them). The playlist appears momentarily when I launch 
the player from the desktop widget, but that's the only time I can see it; it 
doesn't appear on the playlists menu.

Is there a way of manipulating it that I've managed to miss, or do I need to 
raise a bug to ask for it to be added?
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Re: maemo-users Digest, Vol 58, Issue 22

2010-02-22 Thread Tony Green
On Monday 22 Feb 2010 10:00:02 maemo-users-requ...@maemo.org wrote:
 I got:
 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xdxf/comn_sdict_axm05_Brazilian_Portuguese_English.tar.bz2
 and
 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xdxf/comn_sdict_axm05_English_Brazilian_Portuguese.tar.bz2
 
 Then I uncrompressed them into /home/user/.stardict/dic.
 
 And now I've this structure:
 ~ $ ls -l .stardict/dic/*
 .stardict/dic/Brazilian_Portuguese_English:
 -rw-rw-r--1 user users 1085012 Apr 22  2006 dict.xdxf
 -rw-r--r--1 user users 841 Apr 22  2006 icon16.png
 
 .stardict/dic/English_Brazilian_Portuguese:
 -rw-r--r--1 user users  897443 Apr 22  2006 dict.xdxf
 -rw-r--r--1 user users 868 Apr 22  2006 icon16.png
 
 But QStarDict doesn't recognize any word. There's no dictionary in Menu /
 Configure  Dictionaries.
 
 I think that they are in StarDict format as the file name has the sdict
 string.
 
 Am I missing any step? Why I can't see any word in the dictionary?

I think you got the wrong  format. You seem to have xdxf format rather than 
stardict, which has a .dz file extension. I just pulled an English/Brazilian 
Portugese Stardict format dictionary down and loaded it - worked fine.

The one sneaky bit is that when you've installed the right files, you need to 
enable the dictionary in the dictionaries menu. It's not altogether obvious, 
but there's a dot to the left of the line you have to click on, which changes 
the O to V which tells you it's enabled. No idea what the significance of O 
and V is though...

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Re: dictionaries for QStarDict

2010-02-21 Thread Tony Green
 how/where to download dictionaries for QStarDict?
 
 preferrable by the PC, cause my home wireless connection works badly with my 
 Nokia N900

Hi Alessio,

The best source seems to be http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down/ - you need to get 
them in Stardict format.

A few more sources and instructions on where to put them are on the QStarDict 
site: http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com/index.php (look in the Wiki for 
installation instructions).

It's a program I'm very pleased to see now on the N900 as I used it a lot on my 
N800.

Cheers
Tony

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N900 calendar widget

2010-01-02 Thread Tony Green
Is there anywhere that documents what events appear on the calendar widget? My 
assumption was that it would show the next few calendar events, but mine is 
showing apparently random events - one this month, one in March, two in August 
then one next December. But there are lots of events in-between.

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but it's not obvious enough for me...
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N900 Perl?

2009-10-21 Thread Tony Green
A quick question for people who've got an early N900. Does it have Perl 
installed?

As my N800's getting somewhat knackered, I'm on the point of replacing it, but 
I'll have enough work porting MySQL and Apache to Freemantle without needing to 
do Perl as well, so that's going to be an important factor in my decision.

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Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-05 Thread Tony Green
 
 I am curious to find out what people use their Nokias for. If anyone 
 could share their usage patterns, it would be appreciated.

For me it would never replace my desktop computer, but being a handy pocketable 
Linux computer means it's possible to run some applications when I'm out and 
about. That was the reason I ported Apache and MySQL to it, so  I can carry 
around copies of a couple of my websites - in particular Beermad, where I can 
make notes about beers and breweries on my N800 and have them automatically 
picked up and published on the live website when I get home and it connects to 
my wireless network.

I also use it as an MP3 player, though this has both advantages and 
disadvantages. Battery life is a lot shorter than it would be with a dedicated 
MP3 player, but having one would mean an extra thing in my pockets and it 
probably wouldn't be able to play the files I have in Ogg Vorbis and Flac 
format.

As an E-book reader it's excellent. Means I have hundreds of books with me 
wherever I go and I don't even need a light on to read. And as I'm currently 
reading Anna Karenina, it's a hell of a lot lighter than the book would be.

The standard Internet stuff isn't of much use most of the time, but when I'm 
travelling it's useful if I can pick up a WiFi connection  to send/receive 
emails and use the web for things like checking up-to-date travel details. When 
I was on holiday in Tilburg, I wouldn't have known that the Dutch railway had 
cancelled all the services on the line I was planning to use to get to Schiphol 
Airport if I hadn't checked their website. And that meant I could work out a 
working route to catch my plane on time.

Oh, and I get lots of geek points impressing people by being able to play 
videos on it...
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Re: Problem using ssh on N800

2009-02-11 Thread Tony Green
On Wednesday 11 February 2009 10:00:03 maemo-users-requ...@maemo.org wrote:

 When I try to connect to Debian or Kubuntu boxes from my N800 ssh
 hangs after successful authentication and eventually times out. They
 are running openssh 5.1p1. The N800 is running 4.7p1 and Diablo
 5.2008.43-7
 Never had any problem with my 770. Can anyone suggest a solution?

Seems an odd one. I'd suggest getting some debug output on the target machine 
to see if that shows up anything helpful.

kill the sshd daemon then run sshd -d. then try again and see what comes out 
(don't forget it only runs once in debug mode, so you'll need to restart it 
normally afterwards).

The only thing that stands out in your debug output is that you're having to 
type the password, so presumably you haven't copied your N800's public key to 
the target machine?
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Re: Browserd consumes too much CPU on N810 - OS 2008

2008-12-20 Thread Tony Green
On Saturday 20 December 2008 10:00:23 maemo-users-requ...@maemo.org wrote:

 2008/12/19 Ryan Abel rabe...@gmail.com:
  On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Andrea Grandi a.gra...@gmail.com wrote:
  If you try to load Facebook.com website, the situation is even worse:
  it takes about 85% CPU simply doing nothing.
 
 
  Is it _actually_ doing nothing, or do you just _think_ it's doing
  nothing and, in fact, it's _actually_ running a ton of crappy
  JavaScript and Flash applets? :)
 
  Have you tried turning off js and Flash and then looking at the CPU usage?
 
 without Flash, it still takes about 60% CPU
 without JavaScript the CPU usage goes to 1% or 2%.

I reckon this is because there's some Javascript chundering away in the 
background on whatever page you've got loaded. I had a similar problem when I 
added a news-ticker to my Beermad site. Because I have a local copy of the site 
running on my N800, the news-ticker ran all night after I'd finished using the 
tablet. Or at least for as much of the night as it took to run the battery down.

I don't think this is a bug in the browser as such, more a side-effect of the 
CPU used by Javascript on a device with limited battery life. The only answer I 
could see on the browser side might be if it stopped running embedded 
Javascript when the device was locked (or perhaps when the display had timed 
out). But then other people might have a reason why they need it to keep on 
running.

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Re: maemo-users Digest, Vol 44, Issue 1

2008-12-02 Thread Tony Green
On Monday 01 December 2008 10:00:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 From: Martin Grimme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Music Player Exasperation
 To: Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 I'm the the developer of MediaBox. Thanks for your mail. The next
 version of MediaBox will read FLAC tags and sort by track number, so
 that you don't have to encode the number in the filenames. Your mail
 reminded me to make track number sorting work with FLAC properly.
 
Hi Martin,

I'm glad you mentioned MediaBox here as somehow that had passed me by in my 
quest for a media player that will do what I want and not drain my battery 
(which most of them do) when it's idle (a test it's passed with flying colours 
overnight). And the fact that it even understands FLAC means I can cut out the 
convert-to-ogg step of the script I use to copy stuff to my Nokia.

Just a couple of things that would improve this impressive player a little more 
- it would be very useful if a playlist I've populated were saved to disc so 
that I don't have to re-populate it after a restart (saving the position would 
be a bonus, but less important) and it could do with a way to control the 
volume (being full-screen means the normal volume control isn't quickly 
available).
Of course it might already have these features and I haven't found them yet :-)
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Re: Help : Big pb with apache on Maemo Diablo

2008-11-05 Thread Tony Green
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 14:13:51 COURTAUD Didier wrote:
 Hi all
 
 I have just tried to install Apache on my N 810 tablet running Diablo.
 
 Everything worked fine after clicking on the green arrow at : 
 http://maemo.org/downloads/OS2008/internet/
 until the end of installation that said Installation of httpd is impossible.
There must be a way to find out why, presumably in some log somewhere, but I 
don't know where. Have you got sufficient space free?
 
 Nevertheless I see httpd as an installed package in the Application Manager
 but when I click on Details I see :
 
 State; Defectuous but upgradable
I hope that means something to someone.
 Installed version : 2.2.8.1
 Size : 14,9 Mo
That's about the right size for the package.
 Available version : 2.2.8.1
 Size of the download : 0 ko
 
 
 I so tried to uninstall httpd but I got Impossible to uninstall httpd !
 
 At the end, whhen I ask for the upgrades in the Application Manager I get
 
 http 2.2.8.1 available
 Size : 0 ko
 
 and of course it fails to install
 
 I have also tried to reinstall httpd from the Maemo Web site but I  was said 
 that there is Nothing to install
 
 Please help ! How can I uninstall httpd !!!
Possibly from the command-line as root. At the very least that might provide 
some error messages that will give a clue as to what's wrong.
dpkg -r httpd
is the command you need for that.

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Re: Help : Big pb with apache on Maemo Diablo

2008-11-05 Thread Tony Green
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 14:51:40 you wrote:

Hi Didier,

 # dpkg -r httpd
 
 ( Reading database  18880 files and directories currently installed )
 Removing httpd 
 invoke-rc.d: not a symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S20httpd
 invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S20httpd
This is strange. First it says it's not a symlink, then it's saying it IS a 
symlink, but (I assume) it's saying that the file it's linked to doesn't exist.

If you issue:
ls -al /etc/rc2.d/S20httpd
it should show it as a symlink to /etc/init.d/httpd, which should exist.
If it DOESN'T show as a symlink, it might be worth removing it and recreating 
it as a symlink to the right place and trying again.

Failing that, perhaps someone else on the list can suggest a way to either 
force an unistall or at least convince the OS that it's been uninsalled so you 
can try another install. Beyond that I'm afraid I'm stumped...

 dpkg: error processing httpd (--remove):
  subprocess pre-removalscript returned  eroor exist status 102
 invoke-rc.d: not a symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S20httpd
 invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S20httpd
 dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 Errors were encountered while processing: httpd
 
 #
 
 
 

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Re: Offline mode from the command-line?

2008-10-01 Thread Tony Green
Thanks to all who replied.

Faheem's 
/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --type=signal /com/nokia/mce/signal
com.nokia.mce.signal.sig_device_mode_ind string:[normal|flight]
works a treat.

Had to live with a bit of a hack to get it to wake up again in the morning 
until I can find some documentation for alarmtool (though it seems the alarm's 
not that reliable anyway) but my battery was a lot fuller this morning ;-)

In case it's of help to anybody, this is the script that I'm now running. I 
start it via SSH from my server at the end of the backup. The downside is that 
the SSH session stays up until it restarts, but it's less of an overhead than 
staying connected (I've backgrounding the script, but SSH seems determined to 
stay.)

# Switch to offline mode
/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --type=signal /com/nokia/mce/signal 
com.nokia.mce.signal.sig_device_mode_ind string:flight

# wait 8 1/2 hours so the device will reconnect in time for when I'll need it 
online again
sleep 30600

# Switch back to online mode and reconnect to the default access point
/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --type=signal /com/nokia/mce/signal 
com.nokia.mce.signal.sig_device_mode_ind string:normal

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Is it possible to digitally sign messages sent with Modest?

2008-07-19 Thread Tony Green
The subject says it all really.

Is there a way to configure Modest so I can sign messages with my GPG key?
In a similar vein, can it verify messages from known senders whose public keys 
I have?

There doesn't seem to be anything in the Wiki at the moment :-(
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Re: Send-Only Accounts in Modest

2008-07-09 Thread Tony Green
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 As long as there was some way to at least delete the send-only accounts 
 (like listing them in the account list), that would work very well in my 
 opinion.  Having an account-edit UI for them would be nice, but 
 send-only accounts are simple enough that delete/recreate is a viable, 
 if awkward, option.

It would be handy to have the option of defining an account that COULD receive 
messages with the option of disabling receiving in the setup (a simple 
checkbox, enabled or disabled, for example.)

Normally I want incoming emails to go to my desktop machine and just have the 
option of sending the odd message from my N800. But when I'm away on holiday, 
for example, it would be useful to pick up messages so I don't have to wait 
until I get home.

In fact, something like Kmail has would work well. Each receiving account has 
the option to include or exclude it from being checked at intervals and it's 
possible to configure it to check for mail when it starts up or not to, 
whichever is preferred.
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Re: Send-Only Accounts in Modest

2008-07-06 Thread Tony Green
On Sunday 06 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Back on topic, am I really the only one with a mail setup like this?  I 
 thought it was a moderately common arrangement.  Or do other folks have 
 the same issue and are just being quiet because they don't have a solution?
 
Keeping quiet because I don't have a solution, but watching in case someone 
has one :-)

For me, the ideal is to have a send-only account on the N800 so I can generate 
messages when I'm out and about that will be sent when I connect to a 
network. But I don't normally want to collect incoming messages as I prefer 
to leave that to my desktop machine. Though it would be useful to be able to 
enable/disable receiving so that when I'm on holiday I can pick messages up 
when I find a network I can use.


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Re: Display

2008-06-27 Thread Tony Green
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I jsut flashed my N810 to Diablo with no problems, but I've since
 noticed the display switches off.
 
 I have the setting Display Stays Lit: When Charging but it seems to
 ignore that and use the  default settings.
 

It seems to be intermittent on my device. I haven't managed to work out what 
conditions it works right in and what conditions is doesn't.

If anybody having the same problem manages to spot anything that might give a 
clue as to when it's happening or not, please stick something in the bug: 
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3300

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Re: Display

2008-06-25 Thread Tony Green
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Message: 7
 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:36:16 +0100
 From: Barry Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Display
 To: maemo-users@maemo.org
 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
 
 I jsut flashed my N810 to Diablo with no problems, but I've since
 noticed the display switches off.
 
 I have the setting Display Stays Lit: When Charging but it seems to
 ignore that and use the  default settings.

Mine too.

Looks like a bug - No. 3300 raised on Bugzilla.

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Re: Browser location field showing when I click on a text input field

2008-06-24 Thread Tony Green
On Monday 23 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I don't recall my N800 ever acting differently than this. I've always
 kept it updated to the latest OS version.
 
 Mark

The bug I raised has been closed on that basis, but mine was definitely not 
doing it until this re-flash. It was the sudden reduction in how much of the 
form I was filling in I could see that immediately struck me.

It's almost as if there's a setting to disable it for forms that was available 
when I got my N800 a year ago but isn't there now (I preserved my /home/user 
directory across versions so I shouldn't have lost any config).

Looks like I'll have to settle for having the address bar disabled all the 
time - fortunately most of what I use it for is my on-board web app anyway...

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Re: Browser location field showing when I click on a text input field

2008-06-22 Thread Tony Green
On Saturday 21 Jun 2008, Tuukka Tolvanen wrote:

Thanks for the ideas, Tuukka.

 You might want to find / file a bug on https://bugs.maemo.org/ -- but 
 first: what version are you using (Control Panel  General  About 
 product), 
OS2008 Version 2.2007.51-3
The 2007 bit worried me at first, but it seems correct looking at the download 
page

  does this happen on all sites or a particular site (example
 url and specific field required either way)
All sites as far as I can see; in simple text input fields and textareas as 
well. Obvious example: http://maemo.org - click in the search field top-right 
and the keyboard pops up with the location field still showing.

  fullscreen or normal view 
 or both,
Both
 
  settings in browser's menu - view - toolbar
Ticked for both normal screen and full screen. Un-ticking stops it showing 
when I click in a text field, but of course means that the address bar 
doesn't show at all (actually not too big a problem for my main use of the 
browser, which is a web database app installed onboard.)

  does closing 
 browser and rebooting (no charger) happen to resolve the problem? 
First thing I tried :-) 
 
 Also the contents of /home/user/.browser may be of interest.
-
[Settings]
First_Start=false
Full_Screen=true
Norm_Screen=true
Optim_View=false
Merge_Frames=false
Global_Ltd_Js=false
Google_Ltd_Js=false
Find_Toolbar=false
Image_Policy=3
JS_Stoped_By_Low_Mem=true
Dirty_State=false
Enable_PopUp_Windows=0
Load_Pref=false
Saveas_Location=file:///media/mmc2
engine=microb
hidden=true
Total_Dis_Shortcuts=0
---
I hadn't spotted that file before, so I tried closing the browser and renaming 
it in case something in it was causing the problem, but that made no 
difference. Neither did renaming /home/user/.mozilla
 
  http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html for more information.
 
 this is 404.
Drat! Time to hunt for another explanation for hardly anybody to bother 
reading :-)



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Re: Browser location field showing when I click on a text input field

2008-06-22 Thread Tony Green
On Sunday 22 Jun 2008, David Greaves wrote:
 Hi Tony
 
 That's how it works on my N800 too - I've only had it a few weeks and it's 
the
 latest OS2008.
 
 Possibly it's new behaviour and you upgraded recently?

FX: enormous crash as penny drops! 

The most recent image was a minor bugfix for OS2008 which I didn't bother 
installing because I wasn't suffering from the problem it was supposed to 
fix. So having re-installed after I had problems a month ago, I've got a 
different version to the one I had before. Time to raise a but I think.

Well spotted David.
 
 David
 PS Did you used to work on 'Portal2' for BTOW? If so ... hi :)

Hi David, yes that was me. Are you still with the company or are you one of 
the thousands like me who've taken the money and jumped ship?
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Browser location field showing when I click on a text input field

2008-06-20 Thread Tony Green
For some strange reason, my N800's on-screen keyboard has started acting 
strangely.

When I click on a text input field in the browser, the keyboard pops up, as it 
should but now the location field (where you can type a URL to go somewhere) 
and its associated buttons is appearing at the top of the keyboard as if I'd 
clicked on the location field, whereas it used to just be replaced by the 
keyboard. This means I've got even less usable screen area :-(

Obviously I've managed to change a setting somewhere, but I can't work it out.

Has anybody come across this problem? More to the point, has anybody found a 
solution for it? ;-)
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Re: Screwed up my battery status

2008-06-19 Thread Tony Green
On Thursday 19 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Message: 3
 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:35:29 -0600
 From: Denis Dimick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Screwed up my battery status
 To: maemo-users@maemo.org
 Message-ID:
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
 
 I was trying to delete my non-needed local files and ended up deleted
 hildon-status-bar-battery and osso-dsm-ui
 
 anyone know where to get these without doing a full install?

dpkg -S filename
will tell you which package contains any particular file. Once you know that, 
all you need to do is reinstall that particular package.
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Re: Lock, sleep, power-down

2008-06-13 Thread Tony Green
On Friday 13 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I reflashed last weekend, and have only added OpenSSH and FBREADER since
  then.  I could part with OpenSSH easily in the short run.
 
 Ssh hasn't been a problem for me.
 

I have FBReader constantly loaded and my server polls my N800 every 5 minutes 
via SSH for MRTG stats. No battery problems from either of these.

Biggest battery-drainers I've experienced were the Ogg-Vorbis Player,which 
would kill my battery overnight and Canola, which can do the job in a couple 
of hours.

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FM Radio broken after re-flash

2008-06-11 Thread Tony Green
I had to re-flash my N800 because (I think) the GPE Calendar applet was 
causing it to go into a reboot loop. Since re-flashing and re-installing 
everything, all my apps are working except the FM radio. Initially it was 
complaining about being unable to access /dev/radio0, which is owned by root 
and only accessible to users in the video group, but this seems to have been 
fixed by purging the package and re-installing it, but I'm still getting no 
sound out of it. Audio works fine from other apps, such as the media player.

Running /usr/bin/fmradio from the command-line gets the following output:

snd_hctl_open(master) failed: Permission denied
fmradio[1333]: GLIB DEBUG default - dbus call force_loudspeaker_off 
sucsess
snd_hctl_open(master) failed: Permission denied
snd_hctl_open(master) failed: Permission denied
fmradio[1333]: GLIB DEBUG default - Set volume failed
snd_hctl_open(master) failed: Permission denied

Suggesting something to do with snd_hctl, which I can find no reference to on 
the Maemo site (amazingly, Google only returns a single entry for snd_hctl!)

Any suggestions gratefully received - it's not an app I use every day, but 
it's very useful at times...
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SOLVED! Re: FM Radio broken after re-flash

2008-06-11 Thread Tony Green
Trying a few more ideas this afternoon and I've solved this problem.

For the record, in case anybody else hits this problem, for some reason 
the user user wasn't in the audio group. After I added the necessary entry 
in /etc/group it works.

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Re: jffs2 on mmc?

2008-05-19 Thread Tony Green

 Message: 2
 Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 23:12:43 +0200
 From: Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: jffs2 on mmc?
 To: maemo-users@maemo.org
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 Content-Type: text/plain;  charset=iso-8859-1
 
 Hi,
 
  I've been looking into booting from the sdcard and was wondering why
  none of the how to's suggest formatting the card with jffs2. There's
  lots of debate between using ext2 or ext3, but nothing on using jffs2.
  ?Is there a simple reason for this I'm missing?
 
 as we are at it: as I configured my card, I noticed that there was no mke2fs 
 on my N810. So I partitioned and formatted the card using my desktop 
machine. 
 But anyway, is there a mke2fs binary available for ITOS 2008? If not, maybe 
 the tutorials could be updated?
 

You'll find it in the e2fsprogs package.

I don't think it appeared in the list of installable packages in my package 
manager, but apt-get install e2fsprogs did the job for me.
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N800 FM Tuner Applet stations list

2008-04-23 Thread Tony Green
The Tuner Applet has a facility to download station names and frequencies for 
a particular area.

Since the list in my home area is virtually un-populated but I've got a good 
list of available FM stations here, I'd like to contribute it so it's 
available to other N800 users.

Does anybody know where I can do this? There doesn't seem to be anything in 
the applet's help screen.
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Re: Garnet VM PIM

2008-04-22 Thread Tony Green
On Tuesday 22 Apr 2008, Mark wrote:
 On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Jonathan Markevich
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  It's contained all in one big file in the /home/user/.gvm/ folder called
  gvm.store. you can't really access it easily.  It could be a loopback
  device, but even if it is, they haven't said anything about what 
filesystem
  is on there.
 
 This directory doesn't seem to exist on my device. It has to be
 storing data somewhere else that doesn't get deleted when the app is
 uninstalled. Otherwise, an uninstall and reinstall should bring it
 back to working order.

Not necessarily. If the package is just removed (dpkg -r packagename), 
configuration files are left in place. If the package is subsequently 
re-installed, dpkg assumes those files will still be there so doesn't 
re-install them. To be certain that the next re-install will definitely 
install config files you need to purge the package (dpkg -P packagename).

I don't know for certain which option the application manager uses, but I have 
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Re: Battery life VERY short on N810, last OS2008...

2008-04-21 Thread Tony Green
On Monday 21 Apr 2008, Giacomo Tufano wrote:
 After installing the last revision of OS2008 (I don't really know why I did
 it, because I had no problem on startup) battery life is very, very short. I
 go from full battery down to automatic shutdown in a night...
 I tried reinstalling the OS, then I tried reinstalling the OS and not
 restore backup (but Favorites, but I suppose this will make no difference).
 No luck.
 In system log I have *many* couple of lines saying:
 EAC mode: play enabled, rec enabled
 followed by
 EAC mode: play enabled, rec disabled
 Repeating every 5-10 seconds and never stopping...
 
 The lines are starting after the MMU and omapdsp init (after ca. 20 seconds
 from log startup) and never ends.

It certainly sounds like it's doing a lot of work. I've found that some 
applications hammer the battery just because they're loaded, even if they 
aren't apparently doing anything; the Ogg Vorbis player being a case in 
point. If I didn't close it after use in the evening, I'd wake up to a flat 
battery in the morning.

A good way to see what's actually causing the problem is to open a terminal 
and run top - that will show you the CPU usage of the various processes.

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Re: Battery life VERY short on N810, last OS2008...

2008-04-21 Thread Tony Green
On Monday 21 Apr 2008, Giacomo Tufano wrote:

 Btw (as a comment to a previous message): everyone have a system log,
 do 'dmesg' on a terminal to see it.
 Have a nice evening, gt

So I do! Much quieter than yours though - just a few messages about voltage 
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Re: Move from 2007 to 2008 Questions

2008-04-15 Thread Tony Green
On Monday 14 Apr 2008, Mark wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Dr. Nicholas Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

  And, lastly, for the applications that require no changes, e.g. no new
  binaries, will they show up after I upgrade or do I have to re-install
  them?

 You'll have to reinstall them. When upgrading within a major release
 (e.g. from 2.2007.50-2 to 2.2007.51-3) you can use the backup function
 to backup and then reinstall everything. However, when upgrading from
 one major release to another (e.g. OS2007 to OS2008), you'll probably
 have to reinstall everything manually, and not every app has been
 migrated to OS2008. The application manager won't allow you to install
 2007 apps on a 2008 OS.

The main problem with apps that haven't been released for OS2008 is the 
install file you get when you click on the icon on the Maemo site. That 
checks the OS version and chokes if it's wrong. You'll find a lot of apps can 
be installed by going straight to the .deb file instead.

It took me a while to get round to putting MySQL and Apache on the repository 
because I'd just installed from my own builds and hadn't noticed that I 
needed a new install file.



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Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008

2008-04-15 Thread Tony Green
Has anybody else noticed that the web browser seems to take an awful lot of 
memory up on OS2008?

Running top shows the browser process usually using more than 85% of memory, 
frequently well over 90%.

Not that I've any idea what it used on OS2007, as I don't think I ever looked. 
But it seems rather excessive - any suggestions as to how to reduce the 
footprint? As I'm using the browser to display  pages from the on-board 
Apache server, built from the on-board MySQL database, I must be swapping an 
awful lot...
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Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008

2008-04-15 Thread Tony Green
On Tuesday 15 Apr 2008, Erik Hovland wrote:
 On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:42:42PM +0100, Tony Green wrote:
  Has anybody else noticed that the web browser seems to take an awful lot
  of memory up on OS2008?

 I've noticed it too. This gets especially worse with embedded flash,
 like youtube and its ilk.

 Help should be on the way:
 http://gizmodo.com/378045/mobile-firefox-is-six-times-faster-than-nokias-br
owser-on-the-n810

Sadly not. I tried Fennec earlier today and unfortunately I found it an even 
bigger memory-hog than the current browser. In fact it actually managed to 
top 100%, which could have been entertaining without a swap-file.



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Re: Move from 2007 to 2008 Questions

2008-04-15 Thread Tony Green
On Tuesday 15 Apr 2008, Mark wrote:
 On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   The main problem with apps that haven't been released for OS2008 is
  the install file you get when you click on the icon on the Maemo site.
  That checks the OS version and chokes if it's wrong. You'll find a lot of
  apps can be installed by going straight to the .deb file instead.

 Unfortunately, the .deb files can be very difficult to track down. I
 realize that they're trying to protect novices from themselves, but it
 sure isn't very user-friendly. Can you explain how to extract a .deb
 file from the repository? I've tried every trick I can think of, and
 some apps simply don't give any access to the .deb file.

If you're lucky, it might be available from the Mamo Garage 
(http://garage.maemo.org) - at least if developers are hosting the files 
there like I am with my ports.

Failing that, you should be able to track the file down, albeit with a bit of 
fiddling about, by looking in the install file. If you point a browser at the 
value given in the line starting uri there's a chance you'll find a small 
number of directories under that location. Hunt through those and you should 
find the file. There's probably an easy way to predict where to go, but I 
don't understand the structure enough to say what it is.

 Regarding the touch screen: I have the newest version of OS2008 on my
 N800, and there definitely are issues with the accuracy. I've tried
 calibrating many times, but it doesn't seem to help. I'm constantly
 frustrated with getting spaces instead of bottom-row keys when using
 the stylus with the on-screen keyboard. Clicking on links on Web pages
 can be challenging as well.

Another problem I've found with it is that there are a lot of repeated 
characters. Annoyingly, it seems most keen on them in password fields where 
they're instantly replaced by stars, so you can't see whether or not it's 
happened.
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Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008

2008-04-15 Thread Tony Green
On Tuesday 15 Apr 2008, Gary wrote:
 Have you tried using adblock plus for MicroB?
 http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.org/news/5/

Interesting to see that it exists (I was unaware) but I can't see how it would 
help unless there are ads on the page that can be blocked. I'm getting high 
memory use even on my own content, which obviously doesn't have anything I 
want to block...



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