Re: N900 consumes too much power

Hi, On 08/07/2012 04:20 AM, ext Cedric Cellier wrote: Of course offline mode is not normal. I suggested it for testing :) So that whatever software is the culprit it can no longer drain the battery very fast. If you can't stand several days in offline mode and without top reporting a process tha

Re: Reducing N900 RAM usage

Hi, On 03/18/2012 04:07 AM, ext Jan Knutar wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2012, Paul Hartman wrote: A freshly-flashed N900 is so much faster and more responsive compared to my N900 with all my favorite apps installed, mail accounts, MfE, chat accounts, themes, status bar widgets, and so on. I'm g

Re: Troubles with chrooted Debian

Hi, On 01/15/2012 05:26 AM, ext Pavel Řezníček wrote: But What I noticed during my experiments is that the loop mount support is somehow bad. When Easy Debian was mounted from an image file, as I started an I/O-intensive or CPU-intensive task such as copying the contents of the image to the card

Re: N900 microSD card I/O errors and corruption

Hi, On 03/29/2011 06:32 PM, ext Paul Hartman wrote: I've got three microSD cards. They work fine on my PCs, I've done read/write tests and data is not corrupted. But, in my N900, two of the three are not stable, leading to corruption. Does it afterwards show as corrupted on the PC too? Trans

Re: Is mail app using any rootfs space?

Hi, On 03/01/2011 04:45 PM, ext Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail wrote: Should I delete mails from my phone to free up rootfs? AFAIK mail data should be in the home partition, not rootfs. - Eero ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.o

Re: Pulseausio allocating +40Mo of RAM ?

Hi, On 07/17/2010 08:03 AM, ext ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: Hello ! I periodically run memstat on the N900 to check for apps that could leak memory (in order to find a culprit for some unresponsiveness issue), and I'm surprised to discover that every time pulse audio is the process that uses t

Re: Can I compile a new version of BusyBox?

Hi, ext Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail wrote: I wish to know if installing the new busybox would be possible and if I do it would it brick my phone or do something to scripts or is completely unknown and would be a nice thing to test? Upgrading Busybox has typically causes some issues that need

Re: My N900 has diffmo as an essential package; safe to remove?

Hi, ext Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Paul Hartman writes: So I suppose I have two questions: 1) What causes a package to become "essential"? The maintainer of that package has decided to make it essential and puts a "Essential: yes" field into debian/control. For Maemo, packages often become

Re: Navigation software

Hi, ext Mayuresh wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:15:48PM +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: Above is the most frustrating bug with N900 that I ever noticed. Just can't use a navigation app continuously for hours during a journey. Triggering the driver bug typically seems to indicate bad beh

Re: Navigation software

Hi, ext Mayuresh wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:20:10PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: The next morning my N900 was unresponsive and I needed to switch it off. After a restart Modrana would not show any map. This may be related to bug https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9150 (That has not

Re: Desktop icons disappeared after reboot

Hi, ext Christoph Eckert wrote: I'm running PR 1.2 on my N900. I'm mainly using it as a mapping device. Yesterday I replaced the battery. After the reboot, all desktop icons (shortcuts, widgets) have disappeard except for some bookmarks I saved on the desktop. Further, I now cannot add any de

Re: N810 slow since rebooting

Hi, ext Lucas Maneos wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 02:27:29AM -0700, Andrew Daviel wrote: PID USER STATUS VSZ PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND 1303 user DW 128M 354 0.0103.4 alarmd I cannot remember what is normal, e.g. if it is usual for alarmd to show such a large virtual size.

Re: reclaiming space on root filesystem

Hi, ext John wrote: The biggest culprit seems to be this file in the posix-locales package: $ du /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive 29068 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive Root file system (UBIFS) is compressed, whereas that's uncompressed size. To know compressed size, you can try what it's size

Re: Fwd: N900 is hot when charged & sucks battery life after updating to PR1.2

Hi, ext khalid khan wrote: I have attached the details that how it looks when i write top in X Terminal. Strangely you had multiple MEM & CPU lines, did you try to paste the output multiple times from a running "top" program? This output would also indicate that you did some extra activity (

Re: Fwd: N900 is hot when charged & sucks battery life after updating to PR1.2

Hi, ext khalid khan wrote: Thanks for your reply.I typed " top " in X Terminal there are so many processes running some are using less 10 - 30 % & few are using 70 - 80% & very hard to recognize the path & don't know exactly what are these & how to close it. "top" being started and running in

Re: PR 1.2 update over the air

Hi, ext Ove Nordstrom wrote: 2010/5/26 Xavier Bestel mailto:xavier.bes...@free.fr>> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 17:59 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: As usual, I didn't have enough free space on the rootfs, but the old trick of disabling all application catalogues to free up the space normally taken by

Re: Upgrade to PR 1.2 gone wrong

Hi, ext John Sullivan wrote: Alejandro López writes: operation). When the moment for the reboot came, the problems started: my N900 would start booting never asking for the security code, and when starting to show the desktop, it would reboot; and the loop started again. It was impossible to

Re: how memory management mechanism of maemo, where can I find information?

Hi, ext Rafael Rocha wrote: i'm actually just doing a job in college well, if I wanted to know where to find information about operation of the architecture, including memory management ie wanted to know how to read the maemo maximize memory management and gain relative to symbian too. Goog

Re: MADDE?

Hi, ext André Hänsel wrote: I'm new to Maemo development. So could someone clarify what is the difference/relationship between MADDE (http://wiki.maemo.org/MADDE) and the Maemo SDK (http://maemo.org/development/sdks/). Shortly MADDE is more for application development and SDK for other kind o

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

Hi, ext Dawid Lorenz wrote: To list pulseaudio clients, use "pactl list". Strangely: r...@n900:~# pactl list -sh: pactl: not found It comes from pulseaudio-utils package. - Eero ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://l

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

Hi, ext Michel Dänzer wrote: So if you ever see pulseaudio using non-0 CPU when there's no sound playing That will be hard to check without using SSH, unless one disables the touchscreen sounds... :-) - Eero ___ maemo-users mailing list mae

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

Hi, ext Dawid Lorenz wrote: I've had a look at top over ssh connection and seen /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --high-priority constantly floating around 1-3% of CPU time. Needless to say, device was lying on the desk next to me, doing nothing, not to mention anything media-related. I did killall

Re: Not enough memory

Hi, ext Craig Woodward wrote: Eero Tamminen wrote: Compression can make normal ASCII data into 1/3 of its size Yes, wonderful. Is a default N900 using a compressed filesystem? NO. Why are we talking about it? Moot point. Err? UBIFS used for rootfs is most certainly using

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

Hi, ext Dawid Lorenz (maemobile) wrote: - Original message - When this happens, do you see "SGX" mentioned in "dmesg" output? Don't know, but I'll try hard to not forget to check that next time round. If it's as low as on desktop, you can get hitches while using the device. Somethi

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

Hi, ext Dawid Lorenz wrote: Is this only my N900 @PR1.1 or others also experience overall device sluggishness after ~2-3 days of uptime? There is semi-identified problem with hildon-home hogging CPU time for few seconds on each wakeup from standby [1], however that's "fixable" by killall hild

Re: Not enough memory

Hi, ext Craig Woodward wrote: As for the rest, the tools certainly can know where the files are going. The paths are stored in the package, and a simple test-extract will tell you the paths and rough size of a file. I think dpkg tools check the size before packaging the data, whereas latest m

Re: Not enough memory

Hi, Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:02 +0100, Tamminen Eero (Nokia-D/Helsinki) ext Jason wrote: On a more technical, get-it-done approach, my problem with OOM was too much crap in /var/cache/apt/archive/ . There are two ways to handle this in a more user fr

Re: Not enough memory

Hi, ext David Greaves wrote: ext Jan Knutar wrote: Another nice feature would be if the application manager, or a web interface somewhere, could tell you beforehand how much space an app consumes on /... It cannot, for several reasons. The size for the package included to the binary package

Re: Not enough memory

Hi, ext Jason wrote: On a more technical, get-it-done approach, my problem with OOM was too much crap in /var/cache/apt/archive/ . There are two ways to handle this in a more user friendly manner. Instead of the OOM error message, offer to run 'apt-get clean', and/or symlink /var/cache/apt out

Re: Memory Error using mircob

Hi, ext Edward Johns wrote: Whenever I try to edit or add a bookmark in microb I get an error saying: "Operation temporarily disabled due to low memory" All I have to do is open the browser and try to edit an existing bookmark; it fails even when it's the first thing I do after a reboot. Immed

Re: N900: Finding power suckers ?

Hi, ext Xavier Bestel wrote: Now, I don't think spending 8hrs sleeping should have emptied the battery (correct me if I'm wrong), so I'd like to have a look at which application kept it working. What's the best method ? Htop & strace. Especially the Time column in Htop is nice. If something w

Re: X forwarding on Maemo 5 (N900 is the ssh server)

Hi, ext micu wrote: can anyone here tell me, how to establish X forwarding on the N900? Meaning: I see my N900/Maemo apps on my GNU/Linux machine forwarded to it. I can, of course, connect to my N900 via ssh (root on the N900)—but no X forwarding. Having the possbility to connect as a user

Re: Unable to upgrade maemo 5 44-1 because of not enough disk space

Hi, ext Johan Helsingius wrote: Reboot first. Ubifs runs its garbage collector on boot and sometimes manages to free up amazing amounts of space. That seems to have done it. Many thanks! Is there any way to run the garbage collector without booting? "sync". But I think the issue was appli

Re: N900 memory usage

Hi, ext Kevin Kempter wrote: > I've bought a 16G SD card for my N900. When I go to Settings --> Memory I see > this: > > Nokia N900: > 21.13 GB Available > > Memory Card: > 11.10 GB Available > > Memory for installable applications > 1.82 GB available > > > Can anyone tell me what the "Memo

Re: N900 - Problems with builtin apps

Hi, ext Tim Ashman wrote: > 6. Application List. - On the N810 and below I was able to take all of the > nokia apps that I would never use put then in the lowest menu option and > forget about them. Not as good as being able to uninstall but It was ok. On > the N900 I haven't figured out how

Re: Modest doesn't update one IMAP account anymore

Hi, ext Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 12.11.2009, 13:48 +0200 schrieb Kimmo Hämäläinen: > >> I had some problems with Modest before as well, but looking at the >> syslog (/var/log/syslog) helped me. If you don't have that file, you >> might want to "apt-get install klogd sy

Re: N900 versus N810

Hi, ext Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:40:17PM -0400, R. A. Bilonick wrote: >> I see that Nokia advertises the N900 as a mobile computer, not primarily >> as a phone. So I was wondering how the N900 compares to N810 in terms of >> processing speed, wireless connection speed, a

Re: N900 battery duration

Hi, ext Tuomas Kulve wrote: > Tuomas Kulve wrote: >> igor.sto...@nokia.com wrote: >>> There is a bug in the cellmo SW related to absence of SIM: the current is >>> higher when the SIM is not in. >>> So in real life use case (i assume people who will buy it will actually use >>> it as a phone) th

Re: N900 battery duration

Hi, ext Andrea Grandi wrote: Do you have RD-mode or RD-flags enabled? >>> how can I know it? I just installed the utility to become root (sudo >>> gainroot) >> cal-tool --get-rd-mode --get-rd-flags > > it replies: disabled > > by the way: I've seen that connecting to Simyo UMTS/HSDPA (which

Re: N900 battery duration

Hi, ext Andrea Grandi wrote: >> Do you have RD-mode or RD-flags enabled? > > how can I know it? I just installed the utility to become root (sudo gainroot) cal-tool --get-rd-mode --get-rd-flags - Eero ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@

Re: N900 battery duration

Hi, ext Andrea Grandi wrote: > 2009/10/17 Felipe Contreras : >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Andrea Grandi wrote: >>> 2009/10/16 Andrew Flegg : What widgets do you have on the desktop? RSS? Facebook? Foreca? >>> I've Facebook, Calendar, Forecast and two shortcut to start Phone and >>>

Re: 2Gb internal storage on N810

Hi, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: >> If you want swap, I would suggest a fast SD card with a separate >> _partition_ for swap > > AFAIK since version 2.4 of linux kernel, swapping to file no longer goes > via filesystem code at all and speed is similar/same to swapping to > block device directly.

Re: 2Gb internal storage on N810

Hi, ext Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: >> While some express concern/fear about memory errors on flash cards, >> there seems to be little mention of such problems from n800 users who >> have been using replaceable flash cards for several years. So while >> there probably is some wall when these things

Re: Emacs

Hi, ext Peter Flynn wrote: > Peter Flynn wrote: >> Having fixed the ncurses-base dependency, I tried to install with >> >>> # mkdir /media/mmc1/emacs >>> # dpkg --instdir=/media/mmc1/emacs -i emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb >>> (Reading database ... 18457 files and directories currently installed.) >>> Unp

Re: ncurses

Hi, ext Peter Flynn wrote: > I've been rearranging my SD cards and I wanted to install Emacs_22.1-1 > (this is for OS-2008) to replace the older version. > > It's looking for ncurses-base and libxaw7 but I can't find any that > install. The package has or hasn't a dependency for ncurses-base?

Re: Where is telnet?

Hi, ext Matan Ziv-Av wrote: >> Telnet isn't something that's either: >> - Needed by the device itself >> - An essential (needed in installing most of Debian packages >> without them declaring a separate dependency) > > The same is true for chvt, netstat, uniq, and probably many others, yet > th

Re: Where is telnet?

Hi, ext Matan Ziv-Av wrote: >>> Unfortunately, I don't have it on my N810 and can't find a copy of it. And >>> the times I need it are when travelling and so I have not got around to >>> porting it myself! Have you tried whether "porting" it require anything else besides downloading the sources

Re: xresponse / cnee question re: mimic of multi-key event

Hi, ext Burke, James wrote: > Is there a way to use xresponse (or cnee) to mimic a multi-key event such as > Alt+F10 ? I haven't tried cnee, but I think it should be able to record Alt+F10 (and then replay it). With Xresponse it would go something like this: xresponse -k "ISO_Level3_Shi

Re: Browser Reload Tabs app?

Hi, ext Randall wrote: > As my N800 locks up sometimes, 2-3 times a day (I've got nothing > running on it but the latest OS) is there a proggy that will > re-open all my open Browser windows when I reboot the browser - ala > Firefox? If you press the power button, do you ge

Re: Browser Reload Tabs app?

Hi, ext Randall wrote: >>> As my N800 locks up sometimes, 2-3 times a day (I've got nothing >>> running on it but the latest OS) is there a proggy that will re-open >>> all my open Browser windows when I reboot the browser - ala Firefox? >> If you press the power button, do you get the power men

Re: Nokia device usage

Hi, ext Alejandro López wrote: > Eero Tamminen escribió: >> Skype video requires significantly more power than for example Gtalk >> video (which the device supports) and has quite strict latency >> requirements (the call drops if Skype doesn't get enough CPU). > >

Re: Browser Reload Tabs app?

Hi, ext Randall wrote: > As my N800 locks up sometimes, 2-3 times a day (I've got nothing running > on it but the latest OS) is there a proggy that will re-open all my open > Browser windows when I reboot the browser - ala Firefox? If you press the power button, do you get the power menu? (I.e

Re: Installing packages onto /media/...

Hi, ext Peter Flynn wrote: > I have a nicely-running N800, but the apps I use are taking up most of > the internal space. I want to add a couple of big ones (TeX is one) and > I have plenty of space on SD cards. Is there a command for package > installation that says, in effect, "install this a

Re: Nokia device usage

Hi, ext Mark wrote: >> Do you have some (e.g. 3rd party app) running in the background >> taking CPU? Or something that frequently polls network >> (Do you switch it to offline mode when you don't use it)? >> Or doesn't allow the display to blank when you don't use the device? > > I can't speak

Re: Nokia device usage

Hi, ext Alejandro López wrote: >> To assess whether this was a realistic expectation, were there other >> mobile devices[1] which provided Skype *video*calls when you bought >> the device? >> >> [1] mobile = ones that are same size or smaller, see my earlier >> mail about power consumption & h

Re: Nokia device usage

Hi, ext Alejandro López wrote: >> Agreed, and fully understandable. Can we draw up a list of what - >> exactly - the N8x0 fails to do out-of-the-box which it is advertised >> it *can* do; and requires hacker-like skills to enable? > > One thing that deceived me is that Skype was announced as and

Re: Nokia device usage

Hi, ext Mark wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM, gary liquid wrote: >> the bike comes with a subscription to a community repair shop and new >> elements are being created for it every day. > > Provided you *want* all kinds of addons you will never need... > >> it includes out of the box an

Re: Nokia device usage

Hi, ext OgnenD wrote: >>> It is too slow when browsing the net (compared to, for example, my Asus >>> EEE or my laptop). >> Oh great, you are comparing an ultra low-power 320MHZ ARM CPU (RISC) >> vs a 1Ghz x86 CISC. > > It is not about computational power comparison, it is about functionality. If

Re: Nokia device usage

Hi, ext Gary wrote: >> My N800 boots from a 16Gb SD card and I have plenty of space. > > Have you increased your swap size yet? > Settings -> Control Panel -> Memory -> Virtual Swap (file on memory card) is OK for temporary use e.g. to be able to use some www-site, but I wouldn't enable it perma

Re: Nokia device usage

Hi, ext Ognen Duzlevski wrote: > lead disappears and you have to set it up again (here is the problem: I > am driving and the unit shuts off the screen to conserve power In fullscreen mode Maemo mapper prevents screen blanking. > - when I need the screen, I touch it but then I loose the lead

Re: Screen rotation support

Hi, ext Tuomas Räsänen wrote: > Few questions about screen rotation in Maemo http://wiki.maemo.org/Rotation: > > - Why does the kernel need to know anything about rotation? Isn't it > just the X's business? Unless you don't care about rotation being dog-slow, you want it to be done by the HW (di

Re: damaged power connecter

Hi, ext Mike Sherman wrote: > The other day I tried to push my N810 out of the car mount forgetting > that I had plugged the charger in. After that stress on the power > jack the N810 won' t charge unless you apply a downward force on the > power cable. The jack in the N810 seems to be damaged.

Re: media-player library out of date

Hi, ext Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > Am Freitag, den 06.02.2009, 16:33 +0200 schrieb Eero Tamminen: > >> The issue is probably this bug: >> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3970 >> >> (package for a fixed version of crawler is attached to the bug.

Re: media-player library out of date

Hi, ext Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > Am Freitag, den 06.02.2009, 11:30 +0200 schrieb Eero Tamminen: > >> Which release do you have and > > OS2008 / diablo with the newest updates > >> is the crawler process >> (do "ps | grep crawl" in the termin

Re: media-player library out of date

Hi, ext Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > after nobody could help me here I tried to "reset" the library, but > eventhough I deleted .osso/mediaplayer-* it still use the wrong data. > Any hints? Did I asked the wrong way? Which release do you have and is the crawler process (do "ps | grep crawl"

Re: New battery?

Hi, ext Laura Conrad wrote: >> "Peter" == Peter Bart writes: > > Peter> I'm not sure whether it's battery related or not, but > Peter> I have a few tips that may help. Do you have virtual memory > Peter> enabled? > >> > >> No. I just tried enabling it, and it said "unabl

Re: Claws Mail won't start

Hi, ext Peter Bart wrote: >> I'm running (or at least trying to run) the latest updated version of >> Claws mail on an N810 with the latest version of Diablo (with all the >> latest updats). But it refuses to start. This started several weeks >> ago. I thought eventually updates would fix it but t

Re: Claws Mail won't start

Hi, ext Rick Bilonick wrote: > I'm running (or at least trying to run) the latest updated version of > Claws mail on an N810 with the latest version of Diablo (with all the > latest updats). But it refuses to start. This started several weeks ago. > I thought eventually updates would fix it but th

Re: Flashing and flashing the tablet

Hi, ext COURTAUD Didier wrote: > I am tired on flasing my tablet every week. > > Since the last release of Diablo, the system seems to be very unstable. > > One week ago, my tablet stopped working being unable to reboot ( the status > line at the bottom stops at 3/4 and the lamp at the top > le

Re: Unzip utility for endusers

Hi, ext Faheem Pervez wrote: > The existing ones are busybox ones which frankly suck. For example, > busybox's tar will not accept the j argument which is used to uncompress and > untar *.tar.bz2 archives. It seems that Busybox could support bzip2. File a bug and it could be enabled for Fremantl

Re: COMPLETE newbie with some questions.

Hi, ext Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 02.12.2008, 07:18 -0500 schrieb Screamin Ike: >> One of my big pulls towards this particular device (which is the N810) >> was that it runs linux, so I'm operating under the assumption that it >> has a terminal emulator... > > It definitely has by

Re: Free42 Still not Installing on N800/OS2008

Hi, ext Tommy Persson wrote: >>> If I added the chinook extra repository manually I could install >>> it. So the question is why clicking on the install button did not add >>> the repository. >> Because you are using the Diablo version, and not the Chinook one. >> The logic is use Diablo repositor

Re: Headset plugged in disables ringtones

Hi, ext Henrik Frisk wrote: > On the other hand, if you are listening to music while the > phone is ringing, you will want to turn it off before answering the > phone which somewhat eliminates the problem... Device has so called "voip-mode" implemented by the media-server which AFAIK should take

Re: Abiword

Hi, ext Peter Flynn wrote: > Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: >> Hmmm... Interesting. Abiword was in my catalog and is installed on my 810 >> (running Diablo). The current version is 2.6.4. I've had no problems. > > Turns out it's still in extras-devel, which is (natch) not added by > default to a ne

Re: Headset plugged in disables ringtones

Hi, ext Luca Olivetti wrote: > El Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:48:35 +0200 > Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> So, in which all situations it in your opinion should switch? > > Always route the alarms to the loudspeakers and route "normal" > audio

Re: Headset plugged in disables ringtones

Hi, ext Henrik Frisk wrote: >>> This suggests it would be possible to reroute the audio of the ring >>> tone to the speaker while the headset is plugged in. >> But not to both at the same time (i.e. music to headphones, >> alarm to speaker). Would you remember to switch sound to >> speakers when

Re: Headset plugged in disables ringtones

Hi, ext Henrik Frisk wrote: > Just after sending the above off I found this in the > http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-users/2008-July/022127.html: > > "You're mistaken :) The fm radio ui has buttons to toggle between speaker > and headphone output. As for the bt headset case, dunno." > >

Re: App-Manager failure

Hi, ext Peter Flynn wrote: http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware >>> I'm about to flash to Diablo. Everything is backed up, but in case I >>> need it, whereabouts (what file) are my wlan connection data stored? I >>> know most of the dozen or so access points I use regularly but

Re: App-Manager failure

Hi, ext Mark Haury wrote: > Has either of them tried to flash the tablet? I think only power users do that. So called normal users would probably go to a Nokia service point...? > Had an update fail? I think the SSU related bugs in the pre-installed packages can be triggered only(?) by change

Re: App-Manager failure

Hi, ext Mark Haury wrote: > Ryan Abel wrote: >>> Yes, upgrade to Diablo, it has a much more useful Application Manager. :) > > ...and a bunch of other stuff is broken that previously worked... > >>> If that's not an option, running apt-get update as root in xterm will >>> give you more verbose

Re: the hell of Maemo repos

Hi, ext Mark Haury wrote: > As for reflashing, Chinook is still better than Diablo as far as > stability and certain apps working properly. I've had my tablet long > enough that it came with Bora, and there were compelling reasons to > upgrade to Chinook. The final Chinook upgrade was a nightmare

Re: N810 dead?

Hi, > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Mike Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> This morning I turned it on and the boot screen comes on and then the >> brightness drops (as usual) and then it goes black. Device is turned off, display isn't just very, very dark? Are you sure the device charged

Re: All applets dying

Hi, ext Eero Tamminen wrote: > I had recently updated my other device to latest Diablo and happened > just to install Statusbar load-applet (haven't used that earlier) to > it and after using it for a while, Desktop crashed. I haven't gotten > any Desktop crashes without

Re: All applets dying

Hi, ext Tommy Persson wrote: >> It could be any applet causing the problem. The only way to find it is to >> remove some applets and see if it recurs. > > Could a status bar application cause the problem? > >> Alternatively you can post your list of applets and see if anyone >> else has had

Re: All applets dying

Hi, ext Graham Cobb wrote: > It would be useful to have a debug mode in the desktop process where it would > produce a log of interesting events (and all Glib logging messages) One can install syslog to the device and restart hildon-desktop. (Just remember to uninstall or at least disable syslo

Re: slow N800

Hi, ext Jason Edgecombe wrote: > I watched the fennec demo and tried out the program, but my N800 was > about 3-5 times slower than the demo. Did you visit the same www-sites? I haven't tried Fennec myself, but I've understood it to be a bit of a memory hog and if you're not using sites benefiti

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

Hi, ext Ryan Abel wrote: > On Oct 21, 2008, at 9:09 AM, John Holmblad wrote: >> If The ~6.5x performance gain of Fennec over Microb as asserted in the >> Aris Technica article holds as this product moves to production then I >> will vote with my "install apps" button soon thereafter. > > It's onl

Re: Write access for MMC

Hi, ext Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote: I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card. Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from the File Manager. I tri

Re: WiFi borked after update

Hi, ext Marius Vollmer wrote: >> True. Perhaps we (as a community) should try pushing this message >> more: red-pill mode is intended as a rescue environment in the event >> of b0rkage; not for every day use (even by power users)? > > Yes. What about making red-pill mode non-persistent: on the n

Re: WiFi borked after update

Hi, Marius Vollmer wrote: > Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Unlike apt-get, the AM tries to ignore broken packages so that, for >>> example, a broken maemomapper installation does not prevent a OS >>> upgrade. >> Um, wouldn't a &

Re: WiFi borked after update

Hi, ext Marius Vollmer wrote: > "ext Tommy Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I suspected I did not have enough space to install but I suppose the >> reason for the failure could have been something else. > > There is one stupid bug in the Application manager that I suspect might > be to

Re: Insufficient Space to upgrade

Hi, ext Scott wrote: Along these same lines, is there a file browser that will see the entire "disk" including the hidden folders so I can see where the files are piling up and which temp ones can be deleted? Or is there a utility for the n810 similar to TreeSize (windoze program) that will

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

Hi, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is a project to combine the Bluetooth and WiFi applets into a >> single applet (an "Advanced Connectivity" of sorts), but it hasn't >> really gotten off the ground lacking anybody with real

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

Hi, ext Mark wrote: > Wonderful... yet another "wontfix" response to usability issues... If I understood this correctly, the enhancement requested that for a set of users who use separate bluetooth keyboard, the pre-installed device software usability would be improved by changing the UI as propo

Re: N810 : Locking the virtual keyboard

Hi, ext COURTAUD Didier wrote: > Is there a way to lock the virtual keyboard to uppercase and numbers ? > > When I put it in "upper case mode" to type a lettre in Capital, it falls back > immediatly to lower case > and it is very difficult to enter a text entirely in upper case ! You need long-

Re: Problems with RSS feed reader in Diablo

nd for the RSS issue. Could you first try that and see whether it works for you and add comment about that to the bug? - Eero > Mike > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> ext Michael Conklin w

Re: Problems with RSS feed reader in Diablo

You could also install "strace" according to instructions here: http://maemo.org/development/tools/ Check with that what RSS feed reader does when/after it gets stuck: strace -p $(pidof osso_rss_feed_reader|cut -d' ' -f1) And attach that information to the bug

Re: Problems with RSS feed reader in Diablo

Hi, ext Michael Conklin wrote: > I recently reflashed my N800 with Diablo on Saturday Sept 6th and my RSS > posts and subscriptions continued to show. As of Sept 17th at 9:21 pm my > tablet was able to update its RSS feeds for the last time. Since then all > feeds are dead. When I try to update th

Re: Diable/Modest - No delete from server solution

Hi, ext Tim Ashman wrote: > 5. Modest STILL loads even though I have deleted all accounts, and turned off > automatic check for mail. I checked the modest bug tracker and this is a > reported bug. I'm so disgusted with Nokia for one for switching the email > client and for whatever is causing

Re: Remarkable community projects

Hi, ext Eric Warnke wrote: > Barring any objections I will start a new page designed to be updated > over time to highlight new and upcoming projects based on a number of > simple criteria. Based on the existing criteria. > > *Alive: Maintained regularly and available in the last stable rele

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