Re: startup questions

2008-04-09 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Mark wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Juha Kallioinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and later (if you so desire) $ sudo flasher --disable-rd-mode The RD mode flag is saved to some part of the flash on the device and it's independent of the actual image so you won't lose any

RE: startup questions

2008-03-19 Thread Adam Parsons
Luca Olivetti wrote: It's easier and safer to just install the becomeroot package, then in a terminal issue sudo gainroot. Search for becomeroot here: http://www.gronmayer.com/it/ Found it for Bora. Is it available for Chinook? It didn't want to install the Bora version on my (OS2008) N800.

Re: startup questions

2008-03-19 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Adam Parsons ha escrit: Luca Olivetti wrote: It's easier and safer to just install the becomeroot package, then in a terminal issue sudo gainroot. Search for becomeroot here: http://www.gronmayer.com/it/ Found it for Bora. Is it available for Chinook? The bora version works on

Re: startup questions

2008-03-19 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Adam Parsons ha escrit: Luca Olivetti wrote: It's easier and safer to just install the becomeroot package, then in a terminal issue sudo gainroot. Search for becomeroot here: http://www.gronmayer.com/it/ Found it for Bora. Is it available for Chinook? The bora

RE: startup questions

2008-03-19 Thread Adam Parsons
Frantisek Dufka wrote: Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Adam Parsons ha escrit: Luca Olivetti wrote: It's easier and safer to just install the becomeroot package, then in a terminal issue sudo gainroot. Search for becomeroot here: http://www.gronmayer.com/it/ Found it for Bora. Is it available

Re: startup questions

2008-03-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Juha Kallioinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chuck, just to clarify the flashing part a bit. You can toggle the RD mode with the Linux flasher program without flashing the whole image. Just run $ sudo flasher --enable-rd-mode and later (if you so

Re: startup questions

2008-03-19 Thread Matt Emson
Mark wrote: That really is a huge pain. What if you're out somewhere away from your desktop and need to be root? And all these other workarounds may work, but we shouldn't be having to jump through these hoops to gain root on our own personal devices. Installing becomeroot solves this issue

Re: startup questions

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Gear
Luca Olivetti wrote: ... Lastly, is there some way to cause this machine to go into a sleeping mode, so it doesn't need full reboot? If I do that, how do I go about safely waking the machine back up again? It's usually enough to lock the touchscreen (power button and then central d-pad

startup questions

2008-03-18 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the last OS, before I updated, all I needed to do was the ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], and since I had set the root password, this worked fine and dandy. I'd heard something about the red pill mode (this some reference to the Matrix?) but I'd never

Re: startup questions

2008-03-18 Thread Mark
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, if I have the machine hooked up to the power supply, I want to have the machine NEVER dim the screen, NEVER have the machine go to sleep. Is there any way to go about this? Just tap on the screen brightness