Re: locked device
Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Austin! Boot it in unlocked mode, become root, get the lock code, reboot in locked mode, enter the lock code. worked very fine! Thanks a lot! could you explain what it does? I extracted a snippet from powerlaunch. It asks dsme for the lock code. One more quesiton, I had to charge device and when chargong I was not able se boot menu... is thi snormal? I don't think so. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: locked device
ext Arnau Bria wrote: I don't know how but a friend of mine has blocked my device and he doesn't know what pin has entered (I've probed many...) I have dual boot,so I'm still able to boot my device with original session, but not with the external one... Any guide for recovering the pin? Do I have to reinstall it? I guess the PIN is stored in CAL area. As you have dualboot, and therefore some way(?) to get root access to the device, it might be possible to recover it. run this program as root: http://austinche.name/maemo/getlockcode ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: locked device
I guess the PIN is stored in CAL area. As you have dualboot, and therefore some way(?) to get root access to the device, it might be possible to recover it. run this program as root: http://austinche.name/maemo/getlockcode from what session? I've not tried to login trough ssh server... is wireless connection down when device is locked? Thanks for your reply, Arnau Boot it in unlocked mode, become root, get the lock code, reboot in locked mode, enter the lock code. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Resetting the screen lock number on Nokia N8*
The device lock is implemented in software and so if you set it to require the code to boot up and you have no other way to boot up other than the default os, then you'll have to work a bit harder to find an alternative boot strategy (e.g. bootmenu, boot from usb, etc.) Once booted, you can reset/get the code as below. Neat. But supposing you don't have powerlaunch or a modified init, just the stock Nokia OS and flasher ? How exactly would you get past the lock ? You should be able to use the flasher to set the default root device to the external card and then put on the card an OS that ignores the device lock on startup. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: shift-notifier in osso-xterm on N810
Does anyone know if one can disable the shift notifier in osso-xterm ? On the N810, if I maximize osso-xterm and slide out the keyboard, I have the full screen available, which is almost as good as xterm on my desktop. But as soon as I hit a key, it takes about 5 lines worth of vertical to put a shift notifier (abc/Abc/ABC/Fn) in the corner, and leaves it there till I close and re-open the keyboard. Not that it isn't useful, I just begrudge it 15% of the screen. It might be better as a pop-up that goes away after a second or so. Control panel-Text input-Languages-Settings and uncheck word completion and next word prediction. You can also selectively show/hide it with shift-space. Unfortunately, shift-space only appears to work when that bar is shown by default (i.e. word prediction is on) which means that your two choices are to disable it completely with no easy way of bringing it back or to enable it and then hide it manually each time. Personally, I want the notifier very rarely and having tried the second option, I got tired of constantly re-hiding it so now I've just completely turned it off. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: List of Repository for OS2008
Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I really think this is papering over the cracks. We need to sort out the repository mess: all software should be in extras (or extras-devel for alpha/beta-level software), with no dependencies on any other repo unless it is installed by default. The current situation is untenable but anything but the most dedicated user and hacks like gronmayer, or Red Pill mode, don't help towards a user friendly solution. /soap-box I've asked for upload permissions to extras twice by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] with no response either time. For me, and most likely others, it's just simpler and less hassle to just copy packages on to a web server. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: List of Repository for OS2008
I know it's easier for the developer. But it's not easier for the user. Honestly, 1 developer n users; and I say that sitting in both camps. There are other good reasons to have a central repository but I don't really buy the ease of use argument for the user. The end user still has to enable the extras repository. It would be just as easy for a user to install a meta package, maybe call it maemo-universe, which adds every single repository in the universe to the sources list. For example, if it added all the repositories listed at http://www.gronmayer.com/it/, the end-user doesn't need to know the difference that n repositories were added versus one. The meta package could automatically update as new repositories are added/removed. Of course there are issues about trusting repositories, quality, etc. but that isn't an issue really solved with the extras repository unless some Nokia person is actually checking packages submitted to extras (which I doubt). I would trust a maemo-universe package with a repository list created by the community just as much as a random package in extras. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
powerlaunch: complete mce/systemui replacement
powerlaunch 0.7 has now been released. This is the first release with a mce replacement and a goal of having the default install be a drop-in replacement for systemui/mce. Ideally, you should be able to just install the package and see no (or little) noticeable change in the UI. But underneath, both systemui and mce should no longer be running. Homepage and download: http://powerlaunch.garage.maemo.org/ There are two main programs. powered is the daemon that runs as root and replaces mce. It implements the entire mce dbus interface (plus additional functions) so in theory other programs shouldn't notice any difference. powerlaunch runs as the user and handles the GUI and responds to events. Even though powerlaunch was designed to emulate systemui/mce, I was not trying to emulate the software architecture. The goal was to make something much more customizable. powerlaunch itself is now completely general and knows nothing about the platform. Everything is specified via config files. This makes it trivial to add things to the menu, add different menu screens, etc. (e.g. turn on/off bluetooth, toggle usb host, launch programs, etc.). This code has only been tested on OS2008 on N800. It might work on a N810 but I don't have one to test. powered does have some low-level stuff like LED handling which I think may be different on N810. Also, key codes and such may be different on the N810. This is alpha code. It has been tested and used only by me. On the other hand, I think it's generally usable enough. If anyone wants to test it and let me know if there's anything different from default behavior, that would be great. The systemui features that should work: power key menu, touchscreen/keypad lock, online/offline mode, device lock, shutdown, reboot, softpoweroff, and acting dead. Some things from systemui that are not yet implemented include the alarm dialog (I never use it so I don't even know what that is) and the splashscreen (would be trivial). Powered should have more features than mce (e.g. you can selectively lock the screen) although there are some mce modules that I'm not sure exactly what they do. If you want to customize stuff, look at the home page and the existing config files, but documentation is currently a bit sparse. Note you can make your system unusable so I'd recommend being logged in remotely when installing/playing with it. I did put in a failsafe mode in powered which may help (like a ctrl-alt-del reboot). ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: File and Folder Encryption
I would really like to be able to encrypt sensitive files on my N800 running OS2008. I looked at Maemo Kcrypt in the Maemo Garage, but it demands some libe which my N800 claims are not available (even tho I do have the repositories installed which should have everything in them necessary) The packages which are missing are: hildon-fm1 hildon-libs0 libdbus-1-2 These packages are for OS2007 (bora) and don't exist in OS2008. It's not clear what you mean that you have the repositories necessary. Does that mean you added the bora repositories? It requires a bit more than just adding the old repositories as there are some dependencies to take care of. See this script: http://austinche.name/maemo/compat-os2007.sh ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: File and Folder Encryption
The packages which are missing are: hildon-fm1 hildon-libs0 libdbus-1-2 These packages are for OS2007 (bora) and don't exist in OS2008. It's not clear what you mean that you have the repositories necessary. Does that mean you added the bora repositories? It requires a bit more than just adding the old repositories as there are some dependencies to take care of. See this script: http://austinche.name/maemo/compat-os2007.sh Thanks for the response I am something of a noob so sorry for asking questions that may seem pretty obvious to others. I am sure you are right about the conflicts and from the script you noted, I can see the conflicts with hildon-lgpl0, hildon-libs0, hildon-fm1 I know I was taking a chance with bora repositories but as it says on the gronmayer site bora repository, but may have applications and libraries that still work on chinook so I thought it work a try. I have had to add at least one bora repo in order to get what I would call essential applications to install (mplayer for example). I forgot to also say that it does work to install the old libraries. Those conflicts aren't real conflicts so it's safe to run that script (as far as I know). This should allow os2007 applications to at least load and probably run successfully if it doesn't depend on too much other os2007 stuff. On a side note, I don't find it particularly nice for packages to use fake conflicts to force the removal of non-conflicting packages. There should be another way of asking the user whether they want to keep older packages. So I guess there is nothing of this kind compatible with OS2008 yet. I have no idea how to compile for OS2008 (and the learning curve for a mainly Windows person would be a little steep I think as I am fairly busy trying to earn a living on other things) so I guess I will have to hope someone has the time to do this at some point in the future. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008: beta version of Modest e-mail client available
I'd like to kill / not use the built in mail app as well. I thought I recall a post from Quim here that said the mail app will be replaceable in the same way that the microb browser was released within OS2007. Try: apt-get remove osso-email-engine osso-email-ui osso-email-*l10n* ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
libraries for running os2007 apps under os2008
I made a script to allow me to run OS2007 apps directly under OS2008 by installing the appropriate libraries. http://austinche.name/maemo/compat-os2007.sh I hand picked the compatibility libraries to install mainly from just testing various apps to see what they needed, so it's quite possible more libraries are needed. I've tested and successfully run several bora compiled programs including osso-xterm (the old, more usable version), fmradio, and aisleriot. There are some noticeable bugs in many apps but most seem usable at least and seems to me to be a good solution until more apps are ported. Of course, all os2008 apps should still run normally. Works for me but use at your own risk. Your deb packages and dependencies could be seriously screwed up. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
bluetooth keyboard with OS2008
I didn't notice these problems with OS2007 that I've started having in OS2008 using a bluetooth keyboard (sierra stowaway). Any solutions/thoughts welcome. - Ctrl-E anywhere appears to bring up the Search box. This makes using Emacs difficult and I can't figure out where this key is defined (and I can't think of a reason why this should be defined!) - Ctrl-D in the X terminal consistently freezes it and if I don't kill the window, appears to use up all memory. - I change the keyboard layout to dvorak with xmodmap. With OS2007, I could run xmodmap once and could connect/disconnect the keyboard and it would still be in the dvorak layout. Now, the keyboard reverts its layout upon keyboard disconnect/reconnect. And with the device not always maintaining a bluetooth connection when it sleeps/power saves, it changes my layout often back to qwerty. This also happens if I connect another keyboard (i.e. a usb keyboard) so something appears to be resetting the keyboard layout behind my back. It also is sometimes reset after some amount of time even when I'm pretty sure the keyboard hasn't been disconnected/reconnected. - In the X terminal, I sometimes get an extra bar (about same size as the toolbar) in the lower part of the screen with abc on the right. When this happens, when I type on the keyboard, I see word completions below similar to what happens with the virtual keyboard. But even if I disconnect the bluetooth keyboard, I can't get the onscreen keyboard to come back up. I have no idea how I got this bar in the first place or how to get rid of it. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: dual boot with 2007 from device and 2008 from MMC - possible?
Frantisek Dufka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luckily 2.6.21 already has kexec for ARM merged so in theory and with some tweaks (kexec for generic ARM does not mean it works on OMAP2) it may be possible to boot older kernel from newer one without flashing via kexec mechanism. I actually had been looking at back-porting kexec into the 2.6.18 kernel. But I just recompiled 2.6.21 with kexec on and patched kexec-tools with arm patches and it does not work for me (the screen just goes blank and eventually the whole device reboots). kexec seems to be really quite simple (code-wise) and so I can't imagine it being that difficult to figure out for someone with a clue about omap. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Problem in 2008 and looking for duplicate
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 07:32:20 pm James Sparenberg wrote: All, OK. Since I installed 2008 If experienced a marked decrease in batter life. As in total IDLE time is around 1 hour. This is of course not good. So I started looking and I've found that even after a reboot something called metaplayer-crawl is running my cpu constantly at around 94-98% ...However if i do something else like say hit a key on the keyboard. It will play nice release cpu and then climb right back up again. I can't kill it it comes right back at the same high levels. In short. my n800 is all but useless because of this. Is anyone else seeing this? James my bad that is metalayer not metaplayer. sorry. Ah ha. Thanks! I've been seeing the same thing all day with the device being unresponsive and not much battery life. Now I remember that I had disabled the bad metalayer-crawler daemon on os2007 as it really takes over when you have lots of media. I've just killed it again and the difference in usability of the interface is markedly increased: update-rc.d -f metalayer-crawler0 remove ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Patriot Class 6 8GB or 16GB SD card?
BTW does anyone know how to generate an ESC character from the Stowaway in such a way that it's passed to the application? The keyboard's ESC *function* (Fn-TAB) pops up the N800 menu, so it becomes impossible to exit text-entry mode in vi, for example. I use xmodmap to fix this problem by undefining keycode 117, i.e. keycode 117 = instead of the default keycode 117 = Menu I actually use xmodmap to use a dvorak layout but I have a qwerty layout here that should work also: http://austinche.name/maemo/xmodmap.qwerty http://austinche.name/maemo/xmodmap.dvorak I also I have some other changes in the xmodmap file such as remapping the caps lock key to control. So the simplest and most direct solution to your problem, if that's all you want to fix, is to run the following command: xmodmap -e keycode 117= The default has the Fn key mapped to Menu which causes the menu to pop up and none of the Fn keys working. By undefining it, all the blue Fn keys should work as intended. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Multi Profile Setup
Another issue is rebooting (it does too much and can help to kill your display with 770), this can be solved by modifying startup/shutdown sequence to not to reboot completely (i.e. go to bootloader and load linux kernel again) but to stop everything, go back to initfs and start again with different rootfs. Does it already have some of this functionality? I've noticed that neither reboot nor poweroff using the menu on the device is a truly clean reboot/shutdown. For example, on poweroff, if the device is on the charger, it doesn't even kill all processes. If I have music playing, it keeps on playing after 'poweroff'! And reboot appears to not be a hard reset as some state appears to be saved. I assume it's going to a different runlevel but I don't know exactly what it's doing. Does anyone know what the different init runlevels are used for? On first boot up, it appears to use runlevel 2, but after a 'poweroff' with charger and 'poweron' again, it doesn't go back to runlevel 2. I was already thinking about tweaking initfs and rootfs boot scripts to restart system without going through bootloader and kernel again but so far had no spare time for this. Adding unionfs to initfs and bootmenu options is next step. This could be useful also for developers, one could add another unionfs layer over rootfs, test some dangerous stuff and then remove the layer and go back to previous system. It certainly would be useful to be able to run, for example, both bora and chinook on a N800 for development purposes and easily switch between the two. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Found out why BT sound is choppy.
Not sure where to go next on this. (beyond bug filing) Kagu is definitely the culprit. in that something about updating the screen causes BT sound to cut out. If you shrink the screen and open for example the browser scrolling and surfing has no affect on sound. But if you are doing anything with the kagu UI sound cuts out. BTW anyone gotten any of the other apps to play sound over BT? mpd: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mpd Download the a2dpd package. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: powerlaunch - power key shortcuts
Kemal Hadimli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exciting stuff! A locked screen with unlocked keys is one of the things I've always wanted for music playback. Of course if wouldn't be the same batt usage as the softpoweroff mode (as softpoweroff also disables keyboard interrupts) but it would be acceptable and i'll leave it to Nokians to discuss anyway. I can't imagine the battery usage would change significantly (or at all) with unlocked keys if the keys aren't pressed. And compared with the current situation where I have to turn on the device from softpoweroff (including turning on the screen) to do something and then turn it back off, it certainly should save battery. I'll play with powerlaunch.conf in a bit, but asking just for the sake of more discussion in the list: would it work with overlapping profiles? ie. one power key press toggles softpoweroff, but one powerkeypress immediately followed by (ie. in 1500 msecs) another action does something else? Currently not as there's no notion of time. I was planning on adding timers so that one could fully implement the same touchscreen/key lock behavior found in the default system, i.e. powerkey + select unlocks the device only if the select occurs within some amount of time of the powerkey. Also, if it also detected Nokia 770 cover on/off events it'd make IT2007HE users (as well as regular IT2006 folks) really happy. In my 770 days I always wanted to use the volume buttons with the cover on. I don't have a N770 so I don't how to detect this. Is it a dbus message? All dbus messages that the program receives can be handled by the config file. It would just be a matter of making sure it listens to the right place. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: powerlaunch - power key shortcuts
I'll play with powerlaunch.conf in a bit, but asking just for the sake of more discussion in the list: would it work with overlapping profiles? ie. one power key press toggles softpoweroff, but one powerkeypress immediately followed by (ie. in 1500 msecs) another action does something else? I've added simple timer support to powerlaunch and uploaded a new version at https://garage.maemo.org/projects/powerlaunch/ It now has a decent imitation of the touchscreen/keypad lock mode where the power/select key combination have to be followed within short time of each other. Overlapping profiles, as you put it, should now also be possible. In the default example config, if you press power,right,select, you'll be put into a mode where pushing the up button does something different depending on whether it's pushed in 1 second, between 1 and 2 seconds, or 2 seconds. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
powerlaunch - power key shortcuts
I'm releasing an initial test version of powerlaunch: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/powerlaunch/ It's trying to go for a different type of launcher and system interface. Some of the reasons that motivated me to work on this came from issues I've had with the default UI: - I want a way to be able to play and control music playing while the device is in my pocket. - Launching programs quickly is not as easy as it could be. Finding the right button on the screen to push is difficult to do quickly and I'd rather use hardware keys with feedback. - In bright light, it's difficult to see the screen well enough to turn up the brightness of the screen so I can see. Other devices have had buttons I could hold to at least temporarily turn on a backlight. - I've realized I don't use any of the functions of systemui at all. I map the long powerkey to softpoweroff and that's the only thing I need to turn on/off the device. So the short power button press is completely wasted for me. What powerlaunch does: It replaces systemui. It actually pretends to be systemui so that it can interact with the rest of the system properly. It intercepts the powerkey press that normally brings up the system menu and gives the user the option to display whatever they want instead. All of the hardware keys (including power and home) can be bound to do what the user wants (such as launch programs, lock the device, reboot, whatever). It is extremely customizable via the config file. The interface is also designed to be configurable using glade. There's an unlimited hierarchy/nesting of modes. For example, you could map some arbitrary combination of keys like left,right,up,right,right to launch your favorite program. Or you could implement a device lock that requires entering the right combination of keys to unlock. It's probably easiest to just install it to see what it can do. For example, I use it to go into pocket music mode by pressing power,select. This immediately blanks the screen, locks the screen, but leaves the keys unlocked. In this mode, I can start/stop, change songs, and change volume using the hardware keys (uses mpc to control mpd). Whenever I hit the cancel button, it locks the keys also and is then in full softpoweroff mode. All of this functionality is specified in the config file. Installation: I would recommend making sure you can log in via ssh to kill the program if necessary, as it is possible to edit the config file in such a way to make it impossible to close the program. And edit /etc/mce/mce.ini to enable softpoweroff with the long power press as softpoweroff will normally close powerlaunch (unless you have told it otherwise). - Install the deb package from https://garage.maemo.org/projects/powerlaunch/ - Stop systemui as root with sudo /etc/init.d/osso-systemui stop - Look at and edit /etc/powerlaunch/powerlaunch.conf (or you won't have any ideas of what keys to press). Most of the documentation that currently exists is inside the config file as comments. - Start powerlaunch as a regular user - If you want to start it and run it in the background, try dsmetool -o /usr/bin/powerlaunch If you decide you don't need systemui like me, you can remove the two init links /etc/rc2.d/*osso-systemui* (nothing bad seems to happen). You can edit the interface by using glade to edit /etc/powerlaunch/powerlaunch.glade and specifying the particular layout you want in the config file. This is probably the least developed part of the program, but the eventual idea is to have templates in the glade file and ways to fill in the template from the config file (e.g. setting images of buttons to correspond to the programs that keys launch as mnemonic aids). The example setup has a not so pretty test interface that should show how buttons can be handled in the config file. Comments and ideas welcome. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N800 Power Problems
James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] cackled crazily: Ryan Pavlik wrote: James Knott wrote: Mike Klein wrote: Do NOT buy a new chargerat least for me I've found usb recharging more versatile...I only use AC for my tabletpcthe big guns...all else is in orbit around it. Does the N800 charge from the USB cable? No. That's what I thought. The post I replied to threw in a lot of claims and so on, but nothing sensible. He was not saying that you should charge the N800 via its USB port but rather that you can use a USB charger, i.e. a cable that has USB on one end and a power adapter plug on the other end to plug into the standard power port of the N800. With such a cable, you can charge the device with anything that provides USB power, such as a computer, wall or car adapters, battery packs, etc. I personally use Proporta's USB mobile device charger which is basically a battery with USB output to charge my N800. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
