Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

Fn key is now working (recognised by Xmodmap).

if there's problems with enter, this worked for me:

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/osso/inputmethod/keyboard_available true

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

Thanks for all the great constant updates to Mer, its definitely very usable now with the keyboard fn fix. I just wanted to add that the keyboard leds can be turned on manually by changing the value of
/sys/class/leds/keyboard/brightness
I hope someone can make a little script to turn the lights on when the keyboard is open and off when its closed. The keyboard state is available at
/sys/devices/platform/gpio-switch/slide/state
Hope this helps get the keyboard backlight working for n810 users

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

Thanks a lot!

could the keyboard brightness file be symlinked to advanced-backlight value file (if any)? if so, where's the advanced-backlight value file?

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

I don't have advanced backlight installed as i am still tinkering with my xfce4. I will install it today when i get some time and try to locate the file for you.

EDIT: Ok i was thinking of advanced-power instead of the pre-installed advanced backlight :-) I think it can be easily implemented in a way that changing the brightness will write to to both files; screen brightness file and keyboard led one. Maybe be a different slider can be added to control the keyboard brightness. User rm_you maybe can shed more light on this.

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

when i try this in my N810 it says: No value to set for key: ´true´

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

double check your command, you probably forget to include -t bool in your command to define the type as boolean and then you can give it the true value

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/osso/inputmethod/keyboard_available true

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

weird... im doing just like you posted... now says nothing.. but enter still wont work :S

im trying being normal and root user, within xterminal...

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

You need to apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade , as this wasn't a feature in 0.7 (or wait until sunday for 0.8)

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

I seem to have a problem. I installed Mer according to the instructions in the wiki using the installer on my N810. After the final reboot....nothing. I dont seem to be able to boot onto Mer, neithe with holding the swap key nor otherwise. Any ideas?

PS.: it also seems to have f...ed up my keyboard (german keymap) *sigh* FN key doesnt work anymore...

PPS: ok, i found out what the problem was:
The "device" entry in /etc/bootmenu.d/mer-simple-ext.item was ${EXT_CARD}p3 instead of mmcblk1p3. I suppose that is a bug?
Keyboard is still f...ed up, though.

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

installer might make wrong .item files sometimes change mmcblk1 to mmcblk0 in /etc/bootmenu/mer*.item if you wanna use mer from external card

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

I can boot into Mer now. But the FN key is still not working. :( And i've got the american key map instead of the german, in Maemo as well as in Mer. SO currently the tablet is unusable....

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

You should run xev in a terminal and it should give u a keycode once you press ur fn key. Then check ur keyboard mapping file and make sure that this keycode is assigned to Mode_switch. and then xmodmap your mapping file to make sure it works.

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

Dont get me wrong: i want the hardware keyboard (german layout) to work correctly again in Maemo. The installation of Mer f..ed up the settings for Maemo, too. Although german keyboard layout is set in the control panel i instead have an english layout with lots of keys not working. i dont want to fix it using xmodmap (which doesnt seem to be installed in maemo by default btw.) which would be a hack instead of a fix, instead i want it to be back to its original state without having to reflash my tablet ;)

[Edit] Great, i cant even reflash my N810 because I get an Authentication Error. Obviously reflashing from a Win2K isn't an Option

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

hold your breath version 8 will be released probably today it might fix your issues a litle patience.

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

Yes - it will, but we have postponed it until tomorrow. Image is fantastic so far, but we have some minor quirks we want to fix first before publishing it (Enter not working on on screen keyboard, and keyboard detection so enter works when there is a keyboard..)

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

Does it also support different hardware keyboard layouts than the english one? Because that seems to be my problem here. I dont get, why the layout is damaged in Maemo, too. Something in the bootloader perhaps?

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

branitar, why do you think Mer f*cked up your keyboard settings in Maemo?
I have installed mer over 30 times (seriously, i have) using imager or installer and nothing have ever happened to my maemo installation (i have finnish keyboard layout).

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

Because I cant use the FN key anymore, neither in Mer nor in Maemo, thus don't have any of the numbers or special keys like the slash, german special letters don't work either (but instead i get the stuff that usually is there on the english keyboard, like colons, dashes and stuff). Aaaaand it worked before i installed Mer. So I assume that the installation of the Bootloader and Mer might have something to do with it....

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

i was about to install mer but i taught i should wait and start with version8 to avoid upgrade issues how easy it is to upgrade versions

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

Even if Mer messed up your keyboard shortcut a quick reflash of Maemo would fix it.

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

andrew, i reflashed and it worked ... until i had to reboot again. for some reason after the reboot its back to an english layout again.

what shortcut ard we talking about, is it something i could fix without reflashing


edit: i have xkbd installed and i just found out, that when i trz to start it my tablet gets rebooted...

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

if you reflashed and it still does it then it has nothing to do with Mer. Or at least I wouldn't think it would.

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

I think it does. after reflashing my last backup was loaded (that i made before i reflashed but after Mer was installed), so it's possible, that it is some wierd user setting that got reinstalled with the backup. And as i said: it worked all very nice before i installed Mer, and i didn't install anything else but Mer. so unless bad weather or full moon aren't counted in, i dont see what else could have done this.

i will reflash later without installing the backup and see how that works out,
then install the backup and see if i it screws up again. after that i will reflash, install Mer and see what happens. Then we will know, whether it is Mer (or the bootmanager) or not ;)

and btw. just saying "no, it cant be the stuff we made, because it worked fine on different model" is not a good way to find possible bugs ;)

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

First off I didn't make Mer I'm just trying to help you troubleshoot, but the backup should only reinstall Mer installer not Mer. When you process your backup you can tell it what programs to install and what not to install so just leave Mer installer off. I would suggest reporting it as a bug so the developers can see and and see about fixing it.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Sprints at the bottom of page it tells you how to report bugs for Mer.

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

Mer installer .install file gives you extras-devel repo. It might be that bad weather or full moon installed something else from extras-devel too, that killed you keyboard.

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

cant wait to test 0.8 !

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 

Well actually it was more of a general statement and not specifically meant for you, andrew ;) I just remembered some comment about Mer not screwing up keyboards with finnish layouts ;)

I left the Mer installer and the bootmanager out when i reinstalled the backup, but i still got that wierd behaviour, thus my comment about the user settings. I will test it first (as laid out in my last post) before i file a bug to make sure it's not something else. thanks for your input though.