N810 built-in flash: unreliable?

2008-03-30 Thread Marius Gedminas
Something weird is happening to my N810's internal flash memory (the one with the VFAT-formatted 2 gig internal memory card, not the 256 meg jffs2 root filesystem). It appears as if writing near the end of the device wraps around and destroys the data at the beginning. I can reproduce it like

Re: N810 built-in flash: unreliable?

2008-03-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something weird is happening to my N810's internal flash memory (the one with the VFAT-formatted 2 gig internal memory card, not the 256 meg jffs2 root filesystem). It appears as if writing near the end of the

Re: N810 built-in flash: unreliable?

2008-03-30 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:57:37AM +, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something weird is happening to my N810's internal flash memory (the one with the VFAT-formatted 2 gig internal memory card, not the 256 meg jffs2 root

Re: N810 built-in flash: unreliable?

2008-03-30 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:17:10PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:57:37AM +, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something weird is happening to my N810's internal flash memory (the one with the

Re: Cross-compiling for the N800

2008-03-30 Thread Peter Flynn
Jason Edgecombe wrote: Peter Flynn wrote: I have downloaded a small C console utility which I'd like to compile for my N800. It doesn't have any dependencies outside itself. I have gcc on my Ubunty Gutsy system... You need a specially compiled gcc that can cross-compile for arm along

Re: Cross-compiling for the N800

2008-03-30 Thread Peter Flynn
Jason Edgecombe wrote: You need a specially compiled gcc that can cross-compile for arm along with the c library compiled for arm. All installed, but compiling the utility with cc -o foo foo.c bar.c produces a binary which executes perfectly inside the VMware dev img window, but whe uploaded

Re: Cross-compiling for the N800

2008-03-30 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Peter Flynn wrote: Jason Edgecombe wrote: Peter Flynn wrote: I have downloaded a small C console utility which I'd like to compile for my N800. It doesn't have any dependencies outside itself. I have gcc on my Ubunty Gutsy system... You need a specially compiled gcc that

Ogg support

2008-03-30 Thread James Knott
I've just installed ogg support on my N800, running OS2008. When I try to play an ogg file, I get asked what application to use. I select Media Player (ogg) and the file plays. I can also open mp3 files with the same player. However, whne in the regular player, I cannot play ogg. Is there

Re: USB adapter keyboard

2008-03-30 Thread Randall
Scott Kelso wrote: I'm using the Cables Unlimited USB-1260-02M micro-A to regular A ordered from Amazon [1]. It has the right pin shorted to put the N810 in to OTG mode...although it took me a couple days to figure out I needed to uninstall the usbcontrol application to get it working.

Re: Ogg support

2008-03-30 Thread Tuomas Kulve
James Knott wrote: I've just installed ogg support on my N800, running OS2008. When I try to play an ogg file, I get asked what application to use. I select Media Player (ogg) and the file plays. I can also open mp3 files with the same player. However, whne in the regular player, I

Re: N810 built-in flash: unreliable?

2008-03-30 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 01:52:10PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: I'm now trying to see if I can find a safe partition size that I can use without losing my data. I initially thought this might be related to https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2802 It seems like the tablets are plagued

Re: USB adapter keyboard

2008-03-30 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 08:03 -0700, Randall wrote: If you look through Cyberguys catalogue www.cyberguys.com (duh) you'll find for 20 smackers a morph cable that will make ANY end to ANY end Cat5 or USB. I've two of them so I can make any combination of USB cabling I need. It does mini USB

Re: Ogg support

2008-03-30 Thread James Knott
Tuomas Kulve wrote: James Knott wrote: I've just installed ogg support on my N800, running OS2008. When I try to play an ogg file, I get asked what application to use. I select Media Player (ogg) and the file plays. I can also open mp3 files with the same player. However, whne in

Re: USB adapter keyboard

2008-03-30 Thread Mark
On 3/30/08, Laurent GUERBY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 08:03 -0700, Randall wrote: If you look through Cyberguys catalogue www.cyberguys.com (duh) you'll find for 20 smackers a morph cable that will make ANY end to ANY end Cat5 or USB. I've two of them so I can make