Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

That doesn't help with re-packaging it, though one can produce a more compatible version with something like:

on a deb-based system and test the result (not attaching here since I can't find licencing information anywhere in the package). It still needs an xmodmap package, and someone should probably rip out the parts that install the older kernel & xserver.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Interesting, which theme is that? Could you attach landscape & portrait screenshots showing the distortion?

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

funny, i tested it just now and it worked fine.

the theme is glasser, and the problem is the vertical bar where the running programs are listed. Could be that my attempt to correct by changing to a different theme and back again have made the issue go away.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Installed the SSU on my N810 and it went flawlessly.
Should this work as well on my N810 WiMAX edition?
I am afraid of messing up the WiMAX part.

Thanks

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Unfortunately I don't have one of those and AFAIK you're the first to try so it's completely untested so far :-(

Since you have one, could you post the output of df? I'm particularly interested in how much space is available on the initfs partition.

Understood. Please don't feel under any obligation to try it, but if you decide to do so see this post for how to roll back to the official version if anything goes wrong (and make sure you have a fresh backup of course).

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Installed the community SSU on N800, SD boot. Works flawlessly.
Thanks to the developers !

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

O.K. I have a WiMAX unit with the community SSU, so far no problems with the wimax (Clearwire).

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Umm how do I install the ssu? Some info in the first post would be appreciated:)

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

it's been a while since my last report. Just wanted to let lma know, no desktop crashes.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Here you go.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

a) After slowly reinstalling every app I found what I think caused the conflict with sliderotate for me - and it seems like slidelock was the guilty culprit (slidelock auto locks the screen when the keyboard is closed even if you have used the keyboard since it was opened).

After installing slidelock sliderotate stopped working. It took another reflash and re-install of sliderotate to get it to work again (I still can't get it to automatically go to portrait mode when keyboard is closed though..hmm..) - this was all without the SSU update. I later installed the SSU and the functionality that I had in sliderotate was untouched.

b) Would you PLEASE create a new thread for the SSU project with a subject that makes more sense and request it to be stickied here? Also that way with a thread creator that is active here things like the first post can be continously updated.

Thanks for the great job, will continue to see if I see anything odd in this SSU and am looking forward to the next where, I believe, we will all get cake!

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

(Probably another in a long line of ignorant posts.)

I've searched for a bit, and there's no "stable" Community SSU (vs. community-testing)?

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

true, right now its still testing.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

+1 for creating a new thread.

Also some pointers on what actions need to be taken if the osso-software-version-rx** has been removed would be really appreciated.

eg. taken from the wiki:

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

I waited a while to report this since I don't use my tablet that much but I think (and I may be wrong) that the SSU reduces battery life.
I have to say that I never had great battery life with my n800: when it was new I got max. 2 hours of use, now, with a non OEM battery, I have around one hour.
With the SSU in place the battery life is around 40 minutes, with the same kind of activity (browsing with tear and reading rss with the integrated reader).
Top doesn't reveal any evident cpu hog.
Of course it could be that the battery has deteriorated further, but the drop in capacity happened right after installing the SSU.
I accept suggestions about good enough non nokia batteries on ebay ;)

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Forget about ebay batteries. Buy a Mugen one (search the forum), they last at least as long as Nokia ones.
About the battery drain, make sure you didn't have metalayer-crawler disabled and now it is running.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

how would one check for and enable/disable metalayer-crawler?

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Open up the terminal (X-Terminal) and then use the top command to see if metalayer-crawler is running.

If you wish to properly remove it and you have the ability to gain root (via rootsh, easyroot, et al) then type:

update-rc.d metalayer-crawler remove

and you will disable it. It means that you will have to manually load any/all media into your media player and you will not (now) get shared files on other shared drives. But you can manually add those... I just hate the fact that metalayer-crawler continuously polls those locations, thus the battery drain.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Regarding metalayer: I saw the earlier comment by you in this thread about that, and tried the command (as root) but saw it still running in top.
This post:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=149492&postcount=2
suggests an additional command:
/etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 stop

Maybe issue the 'stop' before the 'remove' ?

This post indicates that perhaps metalayer isn't really such a big deal:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=183101&postcount=9

But this tool is probably better than a command line for controlling whether metalayer is running or not:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=21330

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

the tool in the last link have a bug where it do not set the correct priority when enabling services.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

I'm removing it from being a boot item. Once you reboot - which I consistently leave out it will not start back up again.

About it not being a problem, I've seen way too many times where the CPU is pegged only by it.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

when i try to install the ssu, i got a message that lots of packages are missing, do i have to install them by hand or is there some tricky way to solve it?

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

metalayer-crawler was the first thing I disabled when I got my tablet and I never ran it.
Thanks to tear and browser-switchboard I also got rid of browserd, good riddance.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Given that the original nokia battery lasted less than two hours and it was dead in a year and a half, that's not a really good endorsement :p

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

It lasted about 5-7 hours for me, 2 on very heavy usage. Now it is dying, and I have bought a Mugen one, and it lasts the whole day.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Installed the SSU on my N810 WiMAX edition. No problems yet except with the install which I don't think was related to the WiMAX version but rather with something I was doing wrong. I couldn't get the .install package to download when I used the microb browser to go to the URL. I had to download it onto the windows computer then send it via bluetooth to the N810. Long way around but it works.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

I don't know what I was writing when I wrote this but it must have involved some hallincinogens as this post made no sense.
I meant I noticed the modest update(s). The screen rotation is nice, but virtual keyboards don't work with it and menu items and the application menu's are terrible.
A2DP is supported by most phones these days. It gives wired quality headphones over bluetooth, and it's amazing if you have a good pair of BT headphones. Like me... or I used to until Motorola F'ed up my product replacement with the wrong item :@

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

("diablo-community-updates" Extras product has been created in bugs.maemo.org.)

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Updated the wiki, feel free to add anything that I may have missed.

@Stskeeps: could you add this link to the first post?

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Done! Hope text is okay.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

That's the 3rd such report so far if I'm counting correctly :-(

That sounds rather bad :-( I did get more than the advertised 3.5 hours for a long time while the battery was relatively new.

What does htop (from the tools repo) show if you sort on the TIME+ column?

Does the battery level drop gradually or is there a sudden drop to near-zero? The latter would indicate a worn-out battery.

I don't think any of the "userland" packages would have an effect on battery life, so if there is a problem it's probably on the kernel or X server. Do you feel like downgrading to the Nokia versions (kernel-diablo-flasher=2.6.21-200842maemo1 & xserver-xomap=1:1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20083801, note that this will uninstall osso-software-version so you'll have to re-install it manually after testing) and comparing battery life?

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

.install files are not packages. When you click on such a file in microB, choose 'open', and the application manger will open and ask you if you wish to download and install the actual package.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

I had time to backup install some new things including the Community SSU. No problems at all, nice work! Thank you. If I wanted to request an applet to be made where is the best place for that? I would love to have a terminal applet that was a lot like Yellow Notes for quick tasks rather than keeping one open in the BG.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Yes that's probably it, it goes suddenly to "replace battery".

I'll see if I can try it

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Haven't gotten around to installing the SSU since being kicked off of my SD-boot (which had the SSU installed), and as the 2nd battery complainer, I must say that the battery is again giving me the expected results . On my SD boot, after installing the SSU, I noticed my battery having some trouble lasting through the day with fairly light usage (for the first time in months, my battery had actually died). After what my n810 has been through today (quite a bit of browsing, and, oddly enough, some netbeans usage), I can say with some confidence that the battery is fine, so it must have been something else to have caused the battery drain (the SSU or telescope are the main suspects, but it could be a number of things).

Once I finally get my SD-boot back up and running, I'd be willing to run tests before and after installing the SSU on the internal flash to see if it has significant effects on idle-usage so we can finally settle this

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

Ima, I'll be honest with you. After the SSU, the biggest drain for me was indeed the metalayer-crawler. I mean, it just pegged the CPU in a way that I couldn't recall it had ever done before. Even before non-SSU levels, it was draining the battery rather rapidly.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

I haven't experienced any real difference in power drain. Though, metalayer-crawler was never running for me, even after I installed the SSU.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

If anything I felt my battery life improved after installing the SSU.
Alas I don't have any metrics to prove this - just an impression that it seemed to last longer.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

No indication of battey drain here.

Re: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
 

I am seeing this on dmesg:

cx3110x: WARNING prism_softmac_frame_tx_done() returned an empty frame.

I don't remember having this before. The connection itself is fine, there is no problem with browsing or with Transmission. Can someone please look into his dmesg with/without Transmission ?