Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

you can't.

wine is for x86 environments, but the N900 is based on an ARM architecture. there's no way to make it work.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

@barbox: no you cannot install wine on easy debian. n900 runs on ARM processor. wine only runs on intel x86 processor.

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Basically, xmodmap binds single keys to single keys... while xbindkeys binds key-sequences to actions.

For programming foreign characters and additional symbols, xmodmap should suffice. But the X-Server interface that xmodmap uses is broken in Fremantle.

Xbindkeys, as I understand it, can't deliver single keys... it delivers commands that are followed by CR. To program delivery of single / multiple keys with Xbindkeys one would need to supplement it with the Xmacroplay utility. Given the shortage of free keys in the N900 keyboard, I suppose mimicking something like a "compose key" with xbindkeys and xmacroplay ought to be feasible.

--denis

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

Just curious, can I then run Lazarus/FPC under EasyDebian?

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Maybe... with a lot of effort...

there are no ARMel packages for the lazarus ide or the freepascal utilities. they do exist for several other platforms though, so maybe you can cross-compile.
although i imagine cross-compiling a compiler to be a non-trivial task.

and to make things worse, the lazarus and fpc packages don't exist in the "Lenny" Branch, which is what Easy Debian is based on. so apart from having to port lazarus yourself, you probably would have to do that for a ton of dependencies as well. if it's possible at all (libc dependencies can kill you *g*).

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

I looked at the freepascal website they have this:" ARM architecture
16 MB of RAM is required. Runs on any ARM Linux installation".

Maybe the best thing to do is give it a try and see what happens:cool:

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delaroca and Addison:

You can use xbindkeys to deliver single keypresses by combining it with xvkbd -text, which is also installed in Easy Debian. I think I give details about that above. Look for "[F5]". I think it is in the Extras-devel version, check the ~/.xbindkeysrc after installing.

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hello here ! just tried easy debian and i found it quite good ! althought i don't really know how to tweak prefs to make it run faster lol
i find good openoffice but i don't understand why when it's been loaded without easy debian you can't turn on usb mass storage...
and i also have an issue with loading synaptic into easy debian, i need to use the command line "sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic" to run it because it was asking root password :S
but works well on maemo directly lol

my question is, has someone tried vlc on it ?? and what great apps is there to try ?

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@titi974
I tried vlc but it (video) didn't work! I didn't spend much time on it...

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>my question is, has someone tried vlc on it ?? and what great apps is >there to try ?

but mplayer/mencoder run fine.

one of my favourites so far was pitivi a video-editor. i managed to render a small video (5seconds) in dvd-quality. did cost me around 10 minutes render-time. :)