Re: Paging Dr. Moebius

2007-10-03 Thread Josh Smith
On 10/4/07, Steve Yelvington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Smith wrote: > > I just used apt-get in xterm: > > > > become root in xterm > > apt-get install ssh > > > > say yes to any questions that you are asked > I got a chuckle out of this, because the only way I've become root is to > ssh to

Source codes of simple mameo applcations

2007-10-03 Thread tharakan frency
Hi, I'm new to the maemo worldand I have set up the scratch box and maemo environment in my PC.Can somebody please tell me where I can get source codes of some simple maemo applications so that I can build and run them in my PC? I'm using Fedora Core 5... Thanx in advance

Re: Aisleriot broken

2007-10-03 Thread Quim Gil
This is a third party application i.e. don't look for maintainers in bugzilla. Are you clicking the install file available at https://maemo.org/downloads/product/gnome_games_aisleriot ? You have contact points in this product page. On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 00:45 -0400, ext Steve Yelvington wrote:

Aisleriot broken

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Yelvington
I'd put this into Bugzilla if I could figure out a category, or contact the maintainer if I could find an email address. Aisleriot won't install. The main .deb file is in the collection, but the helpfile and card themes are missing. Here is the output of apt-get install aisleriot: Some package

Paging Dr. Moebius

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Yelvington
Josh Smith wrote: > I just used apt-get in xterm: > > become root in xterm > apt-get install ssh > > say yes to any questions that you are asked I got a chuckle out of this, because the only way I've become root is to ssh to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) Yeah, I know there's a package. Somewhere.

Re: OpenSSH

2007-10-03 Thread Josh Smith
I just used apt-get in xterm: become root in xterm apt-get install ssh say yes to any questions that you are asked. good luck On 10/3/07, Gary Baribault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to install OpenSSH after re-flashing the latest version of > our OS. maemo.org ha

OpenSSH

2007-10-03 Thread Gary Baribault
Hi all, I am trying to install OpenSSH after re-flashing the latest version of our OS. maemo.org has links to once click installs that no longer work .. Anyone have a recent link that works? I've done the google thing with no success.. Thanks Gary Baribault __

Re: problem after re-flash

2007-10-03 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:00:31 -0700 John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > I re-flashed my N800 last night, because it wouldn't boot (not sure > how/why that happened, it just did). Today I was trying to install > various packages, including openssh. But, when I try to install > openssh,

Re: reinstall applications

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Bart
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:40:32 -0600 "Dr. Nicholas Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I certainly didn't know that - thanks! > I'm not sure how many of you know this trick given it is a debian > system you can save /etc/apt/sources.list and the output of 'dpkg > --get-selections' to a MMC card, do

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread DrFredC.com
Brad Midgley wrote: > Fred > > >> What I'm not understanding is the big rush to update for a few minor >> fixes, especially if there's the known potential of extra user overhead >> getting the update and apps all sorted out. If it aint broke, ... >> > but 4.2007.38 does fix a situation th

problem after re-flash

2007-10-03 Thread John Rudd
I re-flashed my N800 last night, because it wouldn't boot (not sure how/why that happened, it just did). Today I was trying to install various packages, including openssh. But, when I try to install openssh, it gets down to the last step and then says it can't find the file. I looked in appl

Nokia keyboard tablet?

2007-10-03 Thread DrFredC.com
Ditto about the keyboard.  I had a pair of Makos (yr 2000 Symbian black and white PDA) which was the same size as the N800, only it folded open to have a decent keyboard along with the screen.  It also had a WP and spreadsheet that integrated files with Word and Excel via USB.  The keyboard w

Re: Is anyone actually trying to use Bluetooth keyboards?

2007-10-03 Thread ktneely
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:47:02AM -0400, dasDasein wrote: > On 9/26/07, Johnny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A friend of mine has successfully built the power supply and has a USB > keyboard working. However, he complains that he is getting a lot of > duplicate key strokes. He has tried other

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Brad Midgley
Fred > What I'm not understanding is the big rush to update for a few minor > fixes, especially if there's the known potential of extra user overhead > getting the update and apps all sorted out. If it aint broke, ... but 4.2007.38 does fix a situation that can brick an sdhc card. Brad ___

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm pretty sure that the dist-upgrade is going to require tens of > MBs of free space to do e.g. because some of the packages are pretty > large (check for example the Browser packages in garage). Yep, but that doesn't sound unreasonable to me at all.

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Igor Stoppa
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:23 +0200, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Igor Stoppa wrote: > > > Bootloader, Kernel and initfs should be packaged, but technically > > nothing is preventing from reflashing them. > > > > Except that at least current version of OS keeps initfs mounted and runs > relative

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Igor Stoppa wrote: > Bootloader, Kernel and initfs should be packaged, but technically > nothing is preventing from reflashing them. > Except that at least current version of OS keeps initfs mounted and runs relatively critical stuff from it. In theory everything should be already cached in RA

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Fred C
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:36:10 -0700 Thomas Leavitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm not understanding here is that the tablet is a debian Linux > system, in it's essence... what's the issue with just making the > updated packages available, for the power users and tweakers willing > to go thr

Re: Is anyone actually trying to use Bluetooth keyboards?

2007-10-03 Thread dasDasein
On 9/26/07, Johnny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does everyone just not use BT keyboards and wire in through USB or SSH > into it remotely?? > Googling, You can find people who have used USB keyboards with a home built power supply using a battery. The Nokia 770 can't supply power to the USB keyb

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Josh Smith wrote: > There is a thread (or two) about this on ITT. > > http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10014&page=7 AFAIK only kernel changed. And it only fixed the MMC issue and should now detect some cards better. Basically if you were using the separate non-

RE: reinstall applications

2007-10-03 Thread Dr. Nicholas Shaw
I certainly didn't know that - thanks! Nick. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emil Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 7:06 AM To: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: reinstall applications On 2 October 2007, Gary Baribault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Updating software issues (was RE: 4.2007.38-2 available)

2007-10-03 Thread Dr. Nicholas Shaw
Gil, Thank you for that update, it cleared up a lot! Nick. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quim Gil Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:51 AM To: ext Dr. Nicholas Shaw Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Updating software issues (was RE

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Igor Stoppa
Hi, On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 16:33 +0300, ext Eero Tamminen wrote: > Some misc notes of upgrades. > > > I'm pretty sure that the dist-upgrade is going to require tens > of MBs of free space to do e.g. because some of the packages are > pretty large (check for example the Browser packages in garage)

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Simon Pickering wrote: >> As I said, the wine could be getting to me here in Montreal, but THAT'S >> why I bought this toy, and that translates to 90 minutes plus if I have >> to reconfigure it at each flash!! And I repeat, Nokia, I'm not >> bitching, thatks for the great toy, it's alread

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Eero Tamminen
ext Levi Bard wrote: >> From what I understand, it is enough to flash the kernel and initfs of >> 4.2007.38-2, no need to kill your rootfs. > > Is there a straightforward way to do this from a FIASCO image? Linux flasher at least has "--unpack" and "--kernel" options, so yes. - Eero

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Levi Bard
> From what I understand, it is enough to flash the kernel and initfs of > 4.2007.38-2, no need to kill your rootfs. Is there a straightforward way to do this from a FIASCO image? -- "Tak does not require that we think of Him, only that we think." --Grag Bashfullsson http://www.gnu.org/philosoph

reinstall applications

2007-10-03 Thread Emil
On 2 October 2007, Gary Baribault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK then, can I beat up on them? I agree, this is a lousy way of doing > the updates, I cannot suggest this device to anyone if every time there > is an update, all applications have to be re-installed!! Why can't the > update take a pro

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Gary Baribault
Thanks for the reply, I saw yesterday on another blog that the problem might be one of cutture .. Nokia people used to working on phones and not on a Linux OSS project. It's replies like this that show that Nokia cares! Gary Baribault Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key: 0x4346F013 GPG Fingerprin

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Tim
Simon, Sorry. The lib(s) are unknown. I updated three of them at one time and don't know which (or all) caused the problem. I will get you (and my blog) the names later today... Yes, it was a terrible oversight. Peace, Tim -- Weblog ~ http://tim.samoff.com Baby Blog ~ http://kc.samoff.com Photo

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Michael Wiktowy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This conversation has been had many times in the past and Nokia has > resisted it since it complicates updates in a huge way. It is a fact > that it is more difficult to do this on a resource constrained system > like the Internet Tablets than on

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Simon Pickering
> As I said, the wine could be getting to me here in Montreal, but THAT'S > why I bought this toy, and that translates to 90 minutes plus if I have > to reconfigure it at each flash!! And I repeat, Nokia, I'm not > bitching, thatks for the great toy, it's already making my life much > better, but

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Gary Baribault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK then, can I beat up on them? Sure, keep it coming! :-) It is good to see what people care about, and a good rant is always appreciated. It really does help keep my priorities sane, at least. > I agree, this is a lousy way of doing the update

RE: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Simon Pickering
> I think I have you beat. I just reflashed with the (now) previous > firmware because updating a lib in red-pill mode bricked my N800: > > http://sense-datum.org/tim/archive/2007/09/17/Sunburned_parched_and_otherwis/tim_samoff__weblog > > It took me an entire weekend to gett back up to speed. So

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Alan Williamson
> Anyone care to host a survey of all applications that we load and how > much time it takes to reflash/customize/restore? (Not to mention re-test > the restore!) The issue isn't how long it takes, is that many times you don't know which bits you have tweeked and which bits you have left alone.

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It took me an entire weekend to gett back up to speed. So, in > response, this new update is definitely _not_ cool. :( >From what I understand, it is enough to flash the kernel and initfs of 4.2007.38-2, no need to kill your rootfs. ___