Re: [maemo-users] Nokia 770 NO LONGER BOOTS

2005-12-12 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, While online, I installed a few apps (xterm, ssh, GAIM, etc.), and tried setting my path in /home/user/.profile to include the install directory, as well as \bin and . I didn't include \sbin, but my change to .profile didn't seem to have any effect anyway. Make sure that the paths are in

Re: [maemo-users] Chinese fonts

2006-02-09 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, Is there no way around this?! AFAIK there are two ways to fix this: - Replace the device font(s) with fonts that support all the glyphs you need. Downside is that as your font metrics are different, strings may not fit into screen, widget sizes may change etc. - Add support to Browser

Re: [maemo-users] Home Button

2006-05-03 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, is there a method for intercepting the pressure of the home key and avoiding to iconify the current window? My aim is to make a fullscreen application in a sort of kiosk mode but if the users can press that button they always can switch to desktop... If user is not supposed to be able

Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-13 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, The pre-packaged opera does not work as smooth as someone would expect of a consumer device (you harly can browser for 2 hours without restarting it several times) Have you tried disabling the Flash plugin (and restarting Browser)? Some of the Flash content on the web is not really ...

Re: [maemo-users] gcc compiler suite, linker, and make for ARM on ITOS2006

2007-01-24 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Paule Ecimovic wrote: Thanks for this link to the Maemo 2.1 SDK. This is full of useful programming examples, although I am looking for gcc to run from the Nokia 770 itself from within an osso-xterm in order to be able to compile, link, and run programs right from and on the

Re: [maemo-users] A scary story with a happy ending

2007-01-24 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Marius Gedminas wrote: Yesterday I installed a couple of games into my 770. And one of the games didn't fit--I've filled up the partition. Scary things started happening--the user interface became very nonresponsive, I couldn't switch between tasks, I couldn't open the task menu, I

Re: [maemo-users] Tips for best usage maintainance practices for N800 ?

2007-01-25 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Jonathan Greene wrote: Unlike the Palm, there is an actual power function, which you can opt to use if you like. I think it's a personal thing. I like that it's just on and ready to do what I ask, without having to wait the 1-2 min to start up. The startup time should be 1 min[1].

Re: [maemo-users] metalayer-crawler

2007-01-26 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext william maddler wrote: first of all I have to say that I am *very* impressed by the N800, great device! By the way, I just found metalayer-crawler0 is eating up a lot of CPU, I have 4 processes, and at least one is eating at least 50% of my CPU, all the time. How did you trigger

Re: [maemo-users] N800 screen protector

2007-01-29 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Mike Klein wrote: I've never needed screen protection for my stylus5yrs on my ipaq and display is just as good as my N800 after 2 weeks of usage. I guess I'll have to examine my stylus with a microscope or magnifying glass. CompUSA guy threw in free 1yr replacement policy...so

Re: [maemo-users] metalayer-crawler

2007-01-30 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext william maddler wrote: first of all I have to say that I am *very* impressed by the N800, great device! By the way, I just found metalayer-crawler0 is eating up a lot of CPU, I have 4 processes, and at least one is eating at least 50% of my CPU, all the time. How did you trigger that

Re: [maemo-users] [maemo-announce] New OS 2006 firmware released

2007-01-31 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, (this is not an official comment on anything, just my personal opinions) ext Gavin O' Gorman wrote: On 1/30/07, Karl Bellve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I wish Nokia would have went with thunderbird and firefox that could be improved by the outside community. Instead, they went

Re: [maemo-users] metalayer-crawler

2007-02-01 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Eero Tamminen wrote: If you reboot, can you get it again to consume that much CPU i.e. is the problem (easily) re-producable? It starts consuming CPU as soon as it starts, and keeps going. But only if your MMC is in when you reboot? Does dmesg tell anything? What happens if you

Re: [maemo-users] [maemo-announce] New OS 2006 firmware released

2007-02-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext James Sparenberg wrote: (this is not an official comment on anything, just my personal opinions) ext Gavin O' Gorman wrote: On 1/30/07, Karl Bellve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I wish Nokia would have went with thunderbird and firefox that could be improved by the outside

Re: [maemo-users] [maemo-announce] New OS 2006 firmware released

2007-02-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, Some more private thoughts, please take them with a ton of salt... ext Scott G Kelly wrote: Eero Tamminen wrote: trimmed... If you accidentally remove something you would still need (which is not in the Maemo repositories), you will need to reflash the device to get it back though. And I

Re: [maemo-users] bug #978: metalayer-crawler

2007-02-06 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Laurent MARTIN wrote: In the /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0, as root replace line: dsmetool -f $DAEMON -F -U $USER with something like: dsmetool -n 19 -f $DAEMON -F -U $USER and then run: /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 stop /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 start This

Re: [maemo-users] bug #978: metalayer-crawler

2007-02-06 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Gary Mulder wrote: Here's the output from your script: ./numfiles.sh: ./numfiles.sh: 24: cannot create : Directory nonexistent .. ./numfiles.sh: ./numfiles.sh: 24: cannot create : Directory nonexistent 1 24 7 MP3 1325 _notype This is interesting, there are over thousand

Re: [maemo-users] repair/check JFFS2

2007-02-06 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext william maddler wrote: Feb 6 11:58:30 Nokia-N800-51 kernel: [ 10.911376] jffs2_scan_inode_node(): CRC failed on node at 0x06068404: Read 0xa7ac6c19, calculated 0x7a20ac5d Feb 6 11:58:30 Nokia-N800-51 kernel: [ 10.911682] jffs2_scan_dirent_node(): Node CRC failed on node at

Re: [maemo-users] bug #978: metalayer-crawler

2007-02-06 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Gary Mulder wrote: Here's the output from your script: ./numfiles.sh: ./numfiles.sh: 24: cannot create : Directory nonexistent .. ./numfiles.sh: ./numfiles.sh: 24: cannot create : Directory nonexistent 1 24 7 MP3 1325 _notype This is interesting, there are over

Re: [maemo-users] bug #978: metalayer-crawler

2007-02-06 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Laurent MARTIN wrote: And the script doesn't report any media files being open from the crawler although it takes most of CPU? Well, I don't know exactly what the script was supposed to do. It lists from the /proc/ at 5 sec intervals what files the crawler process(es) have open.

Re: [maemo-users] Internal Error. Application closed.

2007-02-09 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: Anyone see this before on an N800? I am getting it for Control Panel, Web, Bookmarks... etc etc... a! Do I need to reflash? Is there some other fix anyone can think of? I've found this and quite isolated the problem. This happens more

Re: [maemo-users] Random reboots

2007-02-12 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Sergey Udaltsov wrote: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ReportingRebootIssues Thanks for the link. The bootreason did not provide much info. Neither does /var/lib/dsme/stats/lifeguard_resets: Nokia-N800-51:/var/lib/dsme/stats# cat lifeguard_resets /usr/bin/maemo_af_desktop : 13

Re: [maemo-users] Internal Error. Application closed.

2007-02-12 Thread Eero Tamminen
message from Andre Magalhaes) - Eero Nick Shaw -Original Message- From: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:00 AM To: Dr. Nicholas Shaw Cc: Eero Tamminen; maemo users Subject: Re: [maemo-users] Internal Error. Application

Re: [maemo-users] Random reboots

2007-02-13 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext James Sparenberg wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007 09:51:17 Andrew Flegg wrote: On 2/12/07, Sergey Udaltsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/sbin/dsp_dld -p --disable-restart -c /lib/dsp/dsp_dld_avs.conf : 1 * [snip] It loolks like a bit odd solution - reboot the device if one command

Re: [maemo-users] Random reboots

2007-02-13 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Eero Tamminen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Rebooting] shouldn't (couldn't?) cause data loss, [...] Well, it is a clean reboot, which means no file system corruption on your MMC etc, I meant that the DSP handling issues in kernel shouldn't be able to cause data

Re: [maemo-users] Re: Bricked a third time

2007-02-13 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Marius Gedminas wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:13:47PM +, Neil MacLeod wrote: Richard Pickler wrote: The second time, I was installing some packages I built myself, and it crashed, which I could not recover from. (this one I'll take the blame for).

Re: [maemo-users] Re: Bricked a third time

2007-02-13 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: On the tablet you just install apps. Why should the installer need to be root to do so? A properly configured device (as it should have been) should NEVER ask for root permissions. All programs just copy their own executables and write their own

Re: [maemo-users] Re: Bricked a third time

2007-02-13 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Frantisek Dufka wrote: Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: I mean, if my apps need to be called as helloworld and it looks at a conf file called helloword.conf, why I have to copy the executable in /usr/bin and the conf file in /etc while I can just copy it to

Re: [maemo-users] Re: Brocken a third time

2007-02-14 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Mac OS X is different. They have what they call Application Bundle. You just (as user) drag the application you want to install into the Application folder (owned by root, writable by admin). If you are an admin you can copy it with no problem, otherwise an

Re: [maemo-users] Re: Note to Nokia Maemo team... we need (ok, would really like) this

2007-02-14 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Neil MacLeod wrote: We all know the N800 struggles with Flash/youtube videos so a more appropriate conclusion would seem to be that the N800 Flash player simply isn't up to snuff for videos AND adverts. According to Ari Jaaksi's blog Flash speed will be improved in the next release:

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: [maemo-users] 'Locking down' software installation

2007-02-15 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Andy Mulhearn wrote: So are you looking to move away from the System Upgrade := reflash device model? If so, then GOOD! To be honest I prefer this route now, if only from the point of view that if I bork my device I can reflash an image and get it working again. I am not sure if there

Re: What works, what doesn't work

2007-02-22 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Jon A. Solworth wrote: VNC (or similar): I would like to be able to use the n800 from my notebook with its larger display and especially keyboard. (The most important is the keyboard---I don't want to buy and carry around a bluetooth keyboard when I always

Re: What works, what doesn't work

2007-02-22 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Luca Donaggio wrote: I use vncserver on n800 and vncviewer on my Linux box... this kinda works, *but*: - hitting the return button when typeing something triggers the n800 Thumb board and I have to quit it and use the return on the VKB instead, which renders the PC keyboard pretty

Re: What works, what doesn't work

2007-02-22 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Larry Battraw wrote: VNC (or similar): I would like to be able to use the n800 from my notebook with its larger display and especially keyboard. (The most important is the keyboard---I don't want to buy and carry around a bluetooth keyboard when I

Re: Nightly reboots

2007-03-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Marius Gedminas wrote: My N800 has been restarting each night sometime after 2am EST (that's as late as I've been up). I leave it plugged in either on my night table or on my desk and when I go to use it in the am, it's clearly been restarted (bluetooth off, no apps open). Mine does

Re: Nightly reboots

2007-03-05 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Michael Wiktowy wrote: On 3/2/07, Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My N800 has been restarting each night sometime after 2am EST (that's as late as I've been up). I leave it plugged in either on my night table or on my desk and when I go to use it in the am, it's clearly been

Re: problem starting n800

2007-03-05 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Michael Thompson wrote: When i turn on my n800 the progress bar doesn't come up and it never starts. If i remove one of sd cards then it starts. AFTer it booted i typed dmesg in the terminal [ 120.663482] JFFS2 warning: (1153) jffs2_sum_write_sumnode: Not enough space for summary,

Re: boot problem

2007-03-05 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Stefan Englhardt wrote: I've a power outage of my N800. Since that the device needs very long to start (30min). The Nokia Screen apears, the blue bar at the bottom goes 100% right. And then I've to wait for a very long time. Most likely this is JFFS2 file system garbage collecting the

Re: problem starting n800

2007-03-05 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Michael Thompson wrote: When i turn on my n800 the progress bar doesn't come up and it never starts. If i remove one of sd cards then it starts. AFTer it booted i typed dmesg in the terminal [ 120.663482] JFFS2 warning: (1153)

Re: Applications unexpectedly closing on n800

2007-03-07 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Ton Machielsen wrote: I have application that unexpectedly close on my n800. In the beginning it was only E-Mail. Now E-Mail doesn't want to launch at all anymore. Now also RSS Reader closes when I'm using it. Can this be because i replaced my original memory card with a 2Gb Kingston

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Coming back to Glade]]

2007-03-07 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, Added CC to the developers list as I think this belongs there too. ext Marius Gedminas wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:55:58PM +0100, Claudio Scordino wrote: Never generate code with glade. NEVER. It's evil. glade-2 developers recommend to use only .glade files and load them using

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Coming back to Glade]]

2007-03-08 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Claudio Scordino wrote: Is not possible to make glade-2 generate a .c file which then is _linked_ to my C code without any modification ? This way, the .c generated by Glade would never be modified... I think that, in principle, an approach of this kind should be possible...

Re: Applications unexpectedly closing on n800

2007-03-08 Thread Eero Tamminen
with the device, I don't know if/in which version it's fixed. Gustavo? - Eero Regards, Ton. On 07/03/2007, at 17:22, Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext Ton Machielsen wrote: I have application that unexpectedly close on my n800. In the beginning it was only E-Mail. Now E-Mail doesn't want

Re: Applications unexpectedly closing on n800

2007-03-09 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Neil MacLeod wrote: I have application that unexpectedly close on my n800. In the beginning it was only E-Mail. Now E-Mail doesn't want to launch at all anymore. Now also RSS Reader closes when I'm using it. I'd love to see some feedback against a recent bug[1] in bugzilla. The bug

Re: Applications unexpectedly closing on n800

2007-03-09 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Neil MacLeod wrote: If you try this with notes and write something (or use sketch and draw something) and then do the test-case, do you get a dialog which asks whether the file should be saved? (I'm wondering whether you're triggering the long escape/back keypress which requests app to

Re: Applications unexpectedly closing on n800

2007-03-09 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Neil MacLeod wrote: I've succeeded in causing the bug (ie. app to close) with the following combinations: 1. Back+Menu followed by Menu keypress 2. Back+Menu followed by Home keypress 3. Back+Menu followed by stylus/finger event 4. Back+Menu followed by Power keypress 5. Back+Menu

Re: problem starting n800

2007-03-13 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Neil MacLeod wrote: I deleted a video from the card and then it worked fine. So it seems a bad file can stop the device booting without any hint as to what the problem might be! Is this a bug that is fixed in the next firmware, if not what should i file this against? Yes, it should.

Re: Failure Rate of 770s update. now 17%

2007-03-14 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Andrea Trentini wrote: mine did not completely die, but it doesn't boot any longer (just tries, then switchs itself off), reflashing (more than once) didn't do good... Does it boot up if you enable rd mode with the flasher tool? - Eero

Re: N800 won't start

2007-03-19 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, (cross-posting to developers) Besides buggy 3rd party packages or software, there are several (rare) reasons why the N800 might not boot. Important things in the symptoms: - Does the device just turn itself off, or does it reboot? - Exactly how many seconds this happens after device is

Re: N800 won't start

2007-03-20 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, I removed developers list from CC. ext Neil MacLeod wrote: Below I'll go through all bootup problems found so far and tell how to deal with them before the next release (where these are fixed) is released. Thanks Eero - very helpful to have a concise list of workarounds. I've created a

Re: dead N800

2007-03-28 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to upgrade to the new version (3.2007.10-7). It might be enough to fix the problem. In trying to flash, I never got beyond the Suitable USB device not found, waiting point. Did you: - plug in USB cable - keep home key pressed down - press

Re: [ANN] SyncEvolution 0.6pre1 for addressbook and calendar synchronization

2007-03-28 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Patrick Ohly wrote: Caveats Under /var/tmp/SyncEvolution-user-scheduleworld a dump of the address book before and after synchronization is created together with a log of the last synchronization. This log is rather verbose and can get large (several MB

Re: dead N800

2007-03-28 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Willie McKemie wrote: I was using a not-Nokia charger and it apparently wasn't charging reliably even though the N800 was telling me that it was charging. Hm. I would have thought that it could be able to tell whether charging actually happens or not. Maybe you could file a bug

Re: Debugging on the device (was: GPS receiver problem after N800 flash)

2007-04-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Benjamí Villoslada wrote: El Diumenge 01 Abril 2007 22:32, Marius Gedminas va escriure: Anyway, gdb /usr/bin/maemo-mapper 1234 will attach itself to the running process (replace 1234 with the real PID), and then 'bt' will show the stack trace. At least that's how you do it on a

Re: N800 won't boot nor run on external power alone

2007-04-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Lionel D. Hummel wrote: My N800 is showing the white screen reboot loop problem: Constant white logo with a flicker once or twice every minute. Others have talked about non-stock chargers and installing software that has disrupted the boot process. The hardware on mine is all stock,

Re: GPS receiver problem after N800 flash

2007-04-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Marius Gedminas wrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 05:10:27PM +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: El Dissabte 31 Març 2007 21:15, Benjamí Villoslada va escriure: When I enable GPS, then establish connection and Maemo Mapper doesn't respond anymore. More info: With GPS enabled: -

Re: GPS receiver problem after N800 flash (SOLVED)

2007-04-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Benjamí Villoslada wrote: Here one top sorted by mem % (M key) after metalayer-crawl stop (0% CPU) PID USER STATUS RSS PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND 1121 user S N 14M 319 0.0 11.7 metalayer-crawl 1128 user S N 14M 1121 0.0 11.7 metalayer-crawl 1008 user

Re: N800 wifi power usage

2007-04-03 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Michael Wetherell wrote: I use wifi nearly 7x24 without issue. I also use the Internet a good deal during the day and night, again, without issue. Thanks, it could be I should return this machine and get another then. Have you flashed the latest N800 release and does the problem

Re: kind of off-topic, but not completely: some questions about the N800

2007-04-03 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext andrei raevsky wrote: I have just acquired the N800 and I love it. I do have a number of questions about it which are not really maemo-related, but since this list is one of well-informed N770/N800 users I thought I might at well ask here. 1) Xterm: I have installed xterm and even

Re: GPS receiver problem after N800 flash (SOLVED)

2007-04-03 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Benjamí Villoslada wrote: metalayer-crawler is definately taking more memory than it should (FYI: AFAIK it's two threads, not two processes). On my device it takes after boot ~4MB of RSS. 10MB additional memory usage is huge... I use two 4GB SD cards with music, videos, ebooks and

Re: kind of off-topic, but not completely: some questions about the N800

2007-04-03 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext andrei raevsky wrote: ... 3) metalayer-crawler0: how do I disable this and could I simply let the unit sit for 5 minutes after boot-up instead? Search Maemo Bugzilla, there's some env variable which controls what directories it searches. Without crawler you wouldn't see anything in

Re: GPS receiver problem after N800 flash (SOLVED)

2007-04-03 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Benjamí Villoslada wrote: Could you run the attached script on the device for /media/mmc1 and /media/mmc2 directories? It lists how many files and of what type (with what filename extention) you have under given directory structure. mmc1: ... 9 jpg 20 ogg 29 pdf

Re: N800 switches on by itself while recharging

2007-04-16 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Roberto Resoli wrote: I noticed this after upgrading to latest (3.2007.10-7) firmware. I cannot anymore make n800 to stay in the recharging (black background with Charging Icon) mode, after some time device boots. Changes to normal device mode or *re*boots? Anyone is also

Re: N800 switches on by itself while recharging

2007-04-16 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Roberto Resoli wrote: I have filed bug 1215: https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1215 Thanks. ext Roberto Resoli wrote: [...] I cannot anymore make n800 to stay in the recharging (black background with Charging Icon) mode, after some time device boots.

Re: N800 switches on by itself while recharging

2007-04-17 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Laurent GUERBY wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:59 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: ext Eero Tamminen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ~ $ cat /var/lib/dsme/stats/lifeguard_resets /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -k -i lo -a 127.0.0.1 -z : 1 * [...] Seems that at some point dnsmasq has caused device reboot

Re: N800 switches on by itself while recharging

2007-04-17 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, Kalle Valo wrote: Is there a way to enable core dumps for selected applications? If so that may be a solution. You can enable them for all applications by creating a core-dumps directory to the external MMC. Unfortunately the cards are mounted with user user, so processes like dsnmasq

Re: N800 switches on by itself while recharging

2007-04-18 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, (I cross-posted this to devel as this is interesting also to them. When replying, you could remove e.g. users list as I don't think this applies that much to normal users anymore.) ext Laurent GUERBY wrote: You can enable them for all applications by creating a core-dumps directory to the

Re: claws mail program

2007-04-19 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Jean-Luc Biord wrote: If a previous version is already installed, the new 2.9.0 doesn't appear in applications manager. Uninstall the previous version to have the new version in applications manager. It's not really a problem because the parameters and the mailboxes are not deleted.

Re: Choice of Programming Languages

2007-04-26 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Marius Gedminas wrote: About UI, if you want simple interfaces to automatize process, and that should be the main need for Maemo right now, due limited input and interaction with device, you can try to use my wrapper around toolkits (it's just GTK now, but can/will be extended), it's

Re: confused about scratchbox UIDs

2007-04-30 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext tj wrote: I am confused about scratchbox and UIDS. I am logged in as user armdevel on Ubuntu and I have added user armdevel to scratchbox. I run /scratchbox/login and I am in scratchbox. However, when I do this: [sbox-SDK_ARMEL: ~] whoami whoami: cannot find username for UID 1003

Re: Garage project news (was RE: Plugins available for MaemoClaws-mail 2.9.2-1)

2007-05-14 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Kevin T. Neely wrote: I agree with Jean-Luc. Daily e-mail from the list rarely tops 20 (which includes notices of new releases), I don't see a problem. I learned about MaemoClaws here and when the notice came out (just using this as an example) I decided to give it a try. I would

Re: 770 crashes when charger connected

2007-05-21 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Antti Saarto wrote: I've been told that I'm not the only one with a 770 that quite often crashes when charged.. I enabled logging and here is what happens before it reboots: May 19 12:21:13 bender DSME: process '/usr/bin/bme' with pid 279 exited with signal: 11 May 19 12:21:13

Re: Bluetooth file transfer

2007-05-27 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Hans J. Koch wrote: I'd like to transfer files FROM my mobile phone TO my N770 (OS2006). On my desktop, I use obexftp for that. For the 770, I found btxfer and menush in the application catalog. Doesn't it work out of the box? Just pair your phone and in File manager browse to your

Re: https client auth failing after firmware upgrade?

2007-08-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Mike Klein wrote: I didn't restore from backup after firmware upgrade...but yes I tried clearing all stored data in opera...no go. Made sure redirect was checked in addition to ssl2...tried all combos and get same results. CertMgr definitelys shows 2 good (unexpired) user certs

Re: Virtual keyboards

2007-08-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Marius Gedminas wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:09:28PM +0300, Tomas Junnonen wrote: ext James Knott wrote: I have demonstrated with two different virtual keyboards, that it is indeed possible to run an X app via ssh, with a virtual keyboard. Now that this fact has been

Re: Arg! My backup doesn't work!!!

2007-08-06 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Tim wrote: Ok, so, I made my bsckup before flashing the new firmware... I checked the backup directory on the MMC -- everything appeared ok (although, I didn't look any deeper). Now, after upgrading, the Backup/Restore app doesn't see the backup. So, I checked the contents of my

Re: Arg! My backup doesn't work!!!

2007-08-08 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Paul Klapperich wrote: On 8/7/07, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that works for everything but App settings/preferences and information that's not document-based (e.g., where applications should be organized) -- which was my main concern. It probably took me three days to restore

Re: 770 brick

2007-08-10 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: DJ Delorie wrote: Maybe the lithium battery is too weak to even boot far enough to turn the charger software on? That would be strange. Once you plug in the charger device should be powered from charger, not battery, so even if battery is empty it should

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-16 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Michael Thompson wrote: Hi, The battery life of the N800 seems to depend a lot on the applications that are running, I guess in particular when it is idling. The result of this is that the battery indicator can be very inaccurate, telling me it should last for days and it will

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-16 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Michael Thompson wrote: IIRC, one of the Nokia engineers stated that apps are basically stopped (like hitting Ctrl+Z in bash) when they are minimized, and resumed when they're foregrounded. I might have made this up, but based on the CPU monitor it certainly would appear that

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: True. But still seeing power consumption could help and having actual current drawn from battery somewhere in /proc would be very useful in many situations. Even if I agree with things you said I still think your response is influenced by the fact that Nokia

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Michael Thompson wrote: On 17/08/07, Eero Tamminen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: True. But still seeing power consumption could help and having actual current drawn from battery somewhere in /proc would be very useful in many situations. snip These were just

Re: NFS client on OS 2007

2007-08-29 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Jeffrey Barish wrote: I also checked to see what would happen if I were to install the real mount command, as per the posting from Kalle Vahlman: ... This really doesn't seem right. Maemo != Debian. Busybox provides many Debian Essential packages. If you replace some package that

Re: Blinking backlight and no sound

2007-09-03 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Ryan Campbell wrote: On 1-Sep-07, at 11:07 AM, Brian Litzinger wrote: My N800 sits on my desk and has all its life. I do no carry it around with me. It is always plugged into the AC. This morning the backlight was blinking every 5 to 10 seconds and the audio seems to be gone. Did

Re: Blinking backlight and no sound

2007-09-04 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Ryan Campbell wrote: On 3-Sep-07, at 4:42 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote: ext Ryan Campbell wrote: On 1-Sep-07, at 11:07 AM, Brian Litzinger wrote: My N800 sits on my desk and has all its life. I do no carry it around with me. It is always plugged into the AC. This morning the backlight

Re: UI-Performance experience with N800

2007-09-06 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: Eero Tamminen wrote: ext Clemens Eisserer wrote: As soon as you moove something you see/feel the stuttering, and destroyed areas are repainted really slow (more complex windows like the info-dialogs of the audio player take 300-600ms to repaint!) It may

Re: Canola never finds any media

2007-09-10 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Steve Yelvington wrote: The problem is not with Canola per se, but rather with the overall sloppy condition of the Maemo repositories, both on maemo.org and on other sites. Software often depends on other packages not in the same repository, and that's not documented or handled

Re: Updates in red-pill mode

2007-09-14 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Thomas Leavitt wrote: I will note, however, and I'm not entirely sure why, that with no applications running (other than the notice bar stuff at the top), my system consumes 60 megs of memory... I just got a new 2 gb MMC card, so I've enabled 64 mb of virtual memory (I had 24

Re: Questions #3: root

2007-09-14 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Thomas Leavitt wrote: Very cool - I'm in as root! Now this is a *real* Linux box! ... although, from another perspective, I find it incredibly uncool that I've been walking around with a machine with a widely known default root password, not knowing that I'd enabled remote access

Re: Backing up an image...

2007-09-14 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext James Sparenberg wrote: On Thursday 13 September 2007 00:16:14 Thomas Leavitt wrote: So, like, when my box locked up (for no particular reason I could tell) and I had to wipe and re-install, three days after I got the thing, it wasn't that big a deal... just a few wasted hours... but

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=10014page=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

Re: The MMC issues (was: 4.2007.38-2 available)

2007-10-04 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext DrFredC.com wrote: 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

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-04 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Eero Tamminen 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. But one should note

Re: N810 is here (touch screen)

2007-10-19 Thread Eero Tamminen
ext Alan Williamson wrote: Maybe a silly question, but is the N810 still a touch screen device? Yes. - Eero ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: N810 is here (ogg support)

2007-10-19 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Krischan Keitsch wrote: Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007 schrieb Collin R. Mulliner: OGG is only a nerd feature and also has other problems, so Nokia (and other companies) just don't care. Maybe somebody can make a plugin (also this won't utilize the DSP). I don't agree with ogg = nerd

Re: N810 is here (ogg support)

2007-10-19 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Krischan Keitsch wrote: - mediaplayer not playing the file I think the problem is here, unfortunately :( Developper documentation is a little too scarce about media player, unfortunately. . Unfortunately. Am I wrong when I identify the missing source of the media player as part

Re: Brick after battery dying?

2007-10-26 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: I must say I'm not exactly loving my n800... Battery died while in sleep mode over night (sayd it had days of idle time available but I guess waking up every 10min to scan for wireless killed it). This morning after hours of charging and while plugged in

Re: Brick after battery dying?

2007-10-29 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: I did remove the mmc's didn't help. I did reflash which did help. The restore from the Nokia Backup/Restore program backup didn't seem to restore any of the applications I had installed, is this the expected behavior, is there a better method to backup?

Re: N800 Disk Full? Erratic Behavior SOLVED

2007-10-29 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext James Sparenberg wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2007 21:35:38 you wrote: Ok rundown one section at a time. snip Thank you for going through one at a time. It has helped me to understand. Alright. The following might go a long way to improving things for you. 1. Don't save

Re: N800 Disk Full? Erratic Behavior SOLVED

2007-10-29 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: Note: due to how JFFS2 filesystem (on the device root filesystem), the fuller the filesystem is, the more RAM it also uses (use 50MB of your root file system and the amount of your free RAM goes down a few MB too). Oh, few MBs, really? How does it compare to

Re: Brick after battery dying?

2007-10-30 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 14:39 +, ext Alan Williamson wrote: 2. The device does not charge; i plug in the power supply and nothing! i have to wiggle and *sometimes* it churps that the battery is charging That sounds like a broken charger plug. Try a

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