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=Setup=
=Setup=
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Now that the device is debricked, I can use the thing again and "all" my data is there, but the repository setup is back to default and the applications I want are gone, amongst other things. To re-setup:
 
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I have [[User:Jebba/Setup| move setup]] to its own page. A bit antiquated already!
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==ssh server & keys==
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* Enable [[Extras]] [http://repository.maemo.org/ repository]: tap, tap, tap...
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* Install openssh client/server package
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* Install rootsh package
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* Set up keys and such for easy access (my device hostname is burger):
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* On laptop, ssh into the sucker:
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ssh root@burger
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* As root on N900, ssh to localhost as a quick/dirty way to setup /root/.ssh:
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ssh localhost
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* On laptop, copy over ssh key and log back in:
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scp -p ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@burger:.ssh/authorized_keys
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ssh root@burger
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*To allow ssh access for user "user", the passwd file needs to be edited.
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vi /etc/passwd
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* Change
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user:!:
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user:*:
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* Set a password for user "user" (I couldn't ssh in without doing this, but someone on IRC said it wasn't necessary):
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passwd user
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* Switch user to "user" and blow out the old known_hosts (or at least edit it) to remove the now bogus "localhost" entry:
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su - user
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rm .ssh/known_hosts
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* Quick/dirty way to set up /home/user/.ssh:
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ssh localhost
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* Then GTFO:
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exit
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exit
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* This should work happily
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ssh user@burger
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==Packages==
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===Set up Repositories===
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* Configure the repositories to set up things I like:
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# vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hildon-application-manager.list
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deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/apps/ ./
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deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/mr0 ./
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deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle free non-free
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deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/ fremantle free
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deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ fremantle free
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deb http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/tools free
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apt-get update
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Apparently the above gets blown out if you run the hildon application manager, so the repos need to be added via tap tap tap.
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===Install Needed Packages===
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apt-get install x11vnc
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apt-get clean && sync
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Mas y mas y mas
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apt-get install vim bash htop ogg-support less file strace
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apt-get clean && sync
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Perhaps
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apt-get install python-dbus python-gobject sysklogd klogd
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apt-get clean && sync
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Mas y mas y mas y mas y mas. The really big list...
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mkdir /home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache/archives/
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mkdir -p /home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache/archives/partial
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account-plugin-idle
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adblock-plus
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anki
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ankimaemi
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ankiqt
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attitude
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canola2
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canola2-lastfm-plugin
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canola2-tuning-plugin
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canola2-youtube-plugin
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canola-thumbnailer
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conboy
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decoders-support
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easy-deb-chroot
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emerillon
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espeak
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fmradio
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gcompris
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gcompris-sound-en
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gonvert
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google-album-art-downloader
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gpxview
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horizon
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kmplayer
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leafpad
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maemo-mancala
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maemo-mapper
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maemo-recorder
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maemo-recorder
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mancala
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mbarcode
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midori
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miniature
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mirror
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mplayer
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mtracker
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mytube
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pastebinit
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pidgin
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qik
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raeddit
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rapier
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recorder
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rsync
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sib
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supertux
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tuxpaint
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vncviewer
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xchat
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xournal
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zoutube
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==Configuration==
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Here's some configuration settings that got lost on reflash. I'm not sure where they are stored, so they need to be re-setup via tap tap tap.  Note: if you do a backup on the device you may be able to then run restore which refreshes this, making the below unnecessary; untested.
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The below are mostly stored in gconf under /system/osso/dsm/display, I believe these should be restored as per the back-up/restore application. - codeMonkey
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===Display===
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* Settings-->Display-->Backlight time-out: 2 minutes
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* Settings-->Display-->Lock screen automatically: uncheck
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* Settings-->Display-->Display stays lit when charging: check
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===Text input===
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* Settings-->Text input-->Word completion: uncheck
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* Settings-->Text input-->Insert space after word: uncheck
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* Settings-->Text input-->2nd language: Español (América Latina)
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===Time Zone===
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* Settings-->Date and time-->Time Zone: Buenos Aires (this is unfortunately wrong due to incompetence of Argentine government)
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* Settings-->Date and time-->Update automatically: leave unchecked for now. When timezone data gets fixed, check it.
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===Connectivity===
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* Settings-->Connectivity-->Internet connections-->Search interval: 5 minutes
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===General===
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* Settings-->General-->Device lock-->Change lock code (default is 12345)
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===Email Accounts===
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* Region: Argentina
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* Service Provider: Gmail -- I broke down and got a gmail acct :(
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* Account title: Gmail
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* Name: Jeff Moe
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* User name: jebbasan
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* Password: foo
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==Misc==
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echo ":syntax on" > ~/.vimrc
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* Uh, where should this be put, if no bash? In ~/.profile for busybox.
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export TERM=xterm-color
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* To remove the overcute hands shaking at bootup (and therefore boot faster), edit /etc/hildon-welcome.d/default.conf thusly:
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[hildon-welcome]
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#filename=Hands-v32-h264.avi
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You could also put in a different movie (playable by gstreamer), but a still image will not work.
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=Kernel=
=Kernel=

Revision as of 22:35, 28 December 2009

  • Name: Jeff Moe
  • Email: moe@blagblagblag.org
  • Nick: jebba, jebbajeb, jebba900, etc...
My old nokia
My old Nokia phone, replaced by N900. Makes a nice background :)


Usually I dot my laptop with READMEs in various ~/devel/ subdirs, but in this case I decided to write up some notes here. These are mostly for my own reference, but perhaps they will be of use to you.

Contents

Package Building HOWTO

The Package Building HOWTO now has its own page. :)

Debrick

Debrick without reflashing!

I have found a way to "de-brick" a device that does not require reflashing.

If your device is booting up and hung with the second dot lit, like: 

*  (*)  *  *  *

this may solve your problem.

1) Get the proprietary (gah!) Nokia firmware flashing program.

2) Power off your phone.

3) Hold down "u" on your fone and plug the USB cable into your phone and your GNU/Linux laptop. This will put it in the same mode as you need when you are flashing it.

4) Run this command as root (or preface with "sudo"). It will only take a second or two. 

./flasher-3.5 --enable-rd-mode

5) Unplug cables and your system will reboot (or poweroff).

6) Boot up your system, it is now in R&D mode. :) It will (possibly?) prompt you to enter time/data again.

7) Now that everything is fine, power off the system normally again. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR SYSTEM IN R&D MODE, as it eats babies.

8) With your phone powered off hold down "u" on the phone, and plug in the USB cables to the phone and your GNU/Linux laptop.

9) Run this command as root (or preface with "sudo"). It will only take a second or two. 

./flasher-3.5 --disable-rd-mode

10) Unplug cables and your system will reboot (or poweroff).

11) Boot up your system, it is now recovered and NO DATA LOSS! Yippeee.


More info

Photos of what the hang looks like using a kernel that has the framebuffer console enabled: [1]


Some bugs, maybe related: [2] [3]


If you found this post helpful, please vote for this bug: [4]


Too mucha programmaz

I bricked my N900 (December 3rd) by adding the extras-testing + extras-devel repos and then installing lots of applications. I hit 100% on / (root filesystem) and on reboot the system hung at the "dots" part, ala: 

  * (*) * * *

I had filled up to 100% a number of times before and rebooting the phone had cleared up space (e.g. 100% full before reboot, 96% full after reboot). This is likely because 5% or so is reserved for root. Anyway, the most recent time it didn't come back alive...

Gah, bricked again

I was "participating" in the "Bug day", when someone suggested installing gettext to look at translations. I installed this, but got up to 99% full. I then did an `apt-get clean` to empty the cache and this dropped me to 98% full. I've often booted gnulinux boxes with 99% (or even 100%) full, so I figured 98% was fine. I wanted to reboot because often when you reboot the N900, you get space freed, due to the icon cache being liberated. Anyway, on reboot, I got a brick exactly as described above with the second dot more lit than the others (which I have seen reported by others): 

  * (*) * * *

This time I have my handy kernel with a console, so I can actually see WTF is going on. The images here show some details. In sum, things booted up and the root filesystem check went fine. Then it got an error right after "Freeing Init memory 152K" like this: 

getbootstate: Unexpected reset count 50 exceeds maximum (51)
getbootstate: Entering state 'MALF'.
getbootstate: Houston, we have a problem, powering off...

The /sbin/getbootstate program is in the package "getbootstate". But look at this and hold back the tears: 

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/getbootstate] > apt-get source getbootstate
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for getbootstate

The getbootstate package appears to be closed source. :( That pretty much ends the debugging and my bug day. Gah.

Flashing N900 with 0xFFFF

Many parts of the N900 are Free Software, but lamentably, many parts are still closed proprietary shit. Nokia's maemo_flasher program is an example of a closed application that Nokia makes for use with the N900. I understand why some parts of their suite are still closed (e.g. pre-ofono GSM stack), but why the flasher has to be closed I have no idea. Gar.

Thankfully, there is The 0pen Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher, which is designed for flashing Nokia tablets and is Free Software (GPLv3). Unfortunately, 0xFFFF doesn't work with the N900. There is some progress to support the device. You can grab the most recent code from the mercurial repository thusly: 

hg clone http://hg.youterm.com/0xFFFF

I sent the author of 0xFFFF the output of my crash. Hopefully it will soon be a usable tool for flashing the N900. I built RPMs for Fedora 12 x86_64 running the latest mercurial code--the ones in the Fedora repo aren't even the lastest tarball release (0.3.9 vs. 0.4.0).

0xFFFF for Fedora

  • NOTE: recently I checked out the code via Mercurial and saw that the 0xFFFF developer has added much more N900 specific code, but I haven't tried it yet.
  • UPDATE: I have built the latest and greatest code of 0xFFFF from today and made a Fedora 12 package. You can grab it here:

Binary:

Source:

  • The 0xFFFF GUI uses gtkamlc. This is not packaged in Fedora. I built it, but compiling the GUI is still barfing.

Flashing with Nokia's Proprietary maemo_flasher

I now have ONE non-free program installed on my computer  :( It's the only way I know how to debrick the phone.

See also: Updating tablet firmware on this wiki. 

yum -y install glibc.i686 libusb.i686
  • Untar the files....
  • Power off phone and unplug USB.
  • Hold down "u" on N900 keyboard and plug in USB cable between computer and N900. A USB icon will appear in the upper right corner--you can let go of "u" on the keyboard at this point.
  • Run this as root: 
./flasher-3.5 -F ~/devel/maemo/FLASH/RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R
  • Done.

Info from flasher

sudo ./flasher-3.5 --query-rd-mode
flasher v2.5.2 (Oct 21 2009)

USB device found found at bus 002, device address 008.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2101
NOLO version 1.4.13
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11_PR_MR0
The device is in production mode

Unpacking flash image

$ mkdir RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM-UNPACKED

$ cd RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM-UNPACKED/

$ sudo flasher-3.5 -u -F ../RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin

Setup

I have move setup to its own page. A bit antiquated already!

Kernel

The new kernel page

VNC

VNC allows you to view the screen of the N900 on your laptop so you can do things more easily that having to use the tiny little thing if you are working on it all day.

  • Set up the Extras-testing repository
  • Install x11vnc (I think it's in -testing).
  • Set up a password for VNC on on the N900: 
x11vnc -storepasswd
  • Run this script on your laptop (my hostname is burger and my laptop's IP is 10.0.0.3): 
ssh -n user@burger \
       "x11vnc \
       -usepw \
       -display :0 \
       -desktop burger \
       -allow 10.0.0.3 \
       -nolookup \
       -q \
       -bg \
       -o /home/user/vnc-log \
       "
  • This works fine with tigervnc on Fedora 12.
  • Running x11vnc with "-ssl" does not work--I think the problem there may be with tigervnc as x11vnc starts with it OK.
  • I usually do VNC in an ssh tunnel--I don't know if this would create too much of a load on the N900 or not. Will test.
  • VNC behaves differently whether the keyboard is slid out or not. Basically, you want the keyboard out.

Backups

Thankfully, pre-bricking, I had made a backup. There are a billion different ways to do this, but one quick way is good old rsync. This script backs up everything except the --excluded directories which are either things I don't want to back up (cities) or things you can't/shouldn't back up (/proc). 

#!/bin/sh

rsync \
       -avv -ult --progress --stats \
       --rsh=ssh \
       --exclude /home/user/MyDocs/cities \
       --exclude /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds \
       --exclude /proc \
       --exclude /dev \
       --exclude /sys \
       --exclude /syspart \
       root@burger:/ \
       /home/jebba/BACKUPS/burger/

Video

More space for talking about video at the new page.

DBUS

Now at User:Jebba/DBUS.

Gripes

I gripe over here now.

Bugs

Bugs now has its own page.

My Packages

There is now a separate Packages by Jebba page.

SDK

The SDK page.

VoIP

See: User:Jebba/VoIP.

sbdmock

Build tool

  • Install on topo 
(05:44:08 PM) tbf: jebba: just make sure to always run the beast with "--debug" switch to see what breaks

Random

Punted over to the new Random page.

Thanks!

Hope you enjoyed the show. Feel free to edit this page.

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