Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

also, please make sure you use

If you don't use --no-install-recommends, you are probably installing a lot of extra packages that take up unnecessary space.

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

Not sure if anybody is still interested in old Diablo-related stuff, but I wanted to let everybody know that Libreoffice from wheezy repository installs over latest n8x0-v3c image... and works too :D

Just a small status update: while libreoffice does work, it can be run only from a chroot terminal, using the debbie command will give you this error : "Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).javaldx failed!"
My guess: wrong permission settings... still cool though!

Yep, permission error, deleted /home/user/.libreoffice directory (created on first libreoffice run, right after installation, made the mistake of running it while being root...) and issue "debbie libreoffice" as user in osso-xterm, now working fine :)
Too bad I lost the initial wheezy customization (but black theme was unreadable on n800 screen anyway!)

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

Still interested like on my girl 22 years after!

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

HERE in the EasyDebian wiki I read:
After the success with libreoffice from wheezy I wanted to try an apt-get upgrade with only Squeeze repository enabled in sources.list (let say I wanted a less hybrid new stable system :D)... it ended very well indeed: I just lost xkbd focus under LXDE de, but the chroot is still working :D

Isn't there a single decent maemo application to take screenshots? d'oh!

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

I've just reinstalled Easy Debian on my N810 and I have no sound within it. I don't know if I did before; I don't think I had any cause to test it. Is this normal?

I actually have two N810s, one running Community SSU and the other with CSSU plus Diablo Turbo. The CSSU one is running debian-n8x0-v3c.img.ext2 and the DT one is running debian-m5-v3e.img.ext2 (though sound didn't work on that one with v3c either). The results are pretty much the same in both cases.

I've tried the 'debbie, xmms2d -o pulse, debbie lxmusic' initialisation but no luck. The daemon starts, lxmusic loads but clicking 'play' on the music track does nothing but throw up an error from xmms2d. Aqualung crashes out, and the various audio config tools in LXDE appear to show no audio drivers present.

I've tried to apt-get install pulseaudio and alsa (or similar, that's from memory) but that didn't help either.

Am I missing something? Does sound not work on the N810 machines? It would be great if it could be fixed. In other respects I'm very impressed with Easy Debian. It should give my N810s a few more years of useful life.

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

OK, to answer my own question, because it may help someone else. Using the m5-v3e image, first I went through the steps detailed by qole here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=21719&page=6

Then I had to do the following:

From Maemo:
cp /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_dsp_ctl.so /tmp
cp /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_alsa_dsp.so /tmp

from ED chroot:
cp /tmp/libasound_module_ctl_dsp_ctl.so /usr/lib/alsa-lib/
cp /tmp/libasound_module_pcm_alsa_dsp.so /usr/lib/alsa-lib/

And sound worked on my N810.

Probably then run alsamixer and/or gnome-alsamixer to change the volume control, and alsactl store to save the settings, though at the time of writing it remains on max volume (perhaps a permissions problem). Just use normal Maemo volume control to quieten it.

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Incidentally, while the above method gives me sound in lxmusic, tuxpaint, etc., I can't get sound working in GCompris, which I think may be due to a gstreamer issue. I've removed/purged pulseaudio and edited the relevant gconf file for gstreamer to change the audio sink to alsasink, but still no joy.

If anyone can get GCompris working with sound on an N810 under Easy Debian, please let me know as my kids will thank me!

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Another self-reply which may help anyone else trying to use Gstreamer apps in Easy Debian.

Using the gst-launch-0.10 from gstreamer-tools I can play .wav files from the command line no problem, but if I play .ogg files (including those supplied with Tuxpaint, which play perfectly from within that program), all I hear is a faint, crackly sound, even with all the volume settings in gnome-alsamixer set to full. It's like listening to SW radio from another continent with the volume down low. The files do play, but badly and quietly.

My solution... erm. Dunno. I have the gstreamer-base-plugins installed, which claims to include OGG support, and the files do actually play, but not properly.

My work-around is probably going to be to convert the GCompris OGG files to WAV format (maybe leaving them with the same filenames so I don't have to edit all of GCompris' python scripts) and hopefully that'll do the trick. I'm not likely to use any other Gstreamer apps so this is a one-off thing.

If anyone knows of a more elegant solution, please let me know.

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

Hi alexc, I confess that it has been quite some time since I last looked, but I'm pretty sure that there's a GCompris in Maemo-extras already, so you don't even need Easy Debian for that.

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

Hi qole,

True, but the Debian version is newer and I read a note from the packager that the Maemo version was painfully slow.

My ffmpeg-based OGG-to-WAV conversion script seems to have worked, and I now have sound and music in GCompris under ED, so my kids are happy.

Cheers,
Alex

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download and install easy-deb-chroot... done

go to extras, click on debian image downloader.... nothing happens.

Running OS2008, diablo turbo, nokia n810, version 5.2010.33-1

i have extras, extras-devel enabled.

so how do i install it manually if i download the big image debian-squeeze-img.tar.bz2??

please help

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

Wow, it has been a long time!
I've looked at the install script in the git repo, and it looks like you just put the .tar.bz2 file in the directory where you want the image to be (internal or SD card), and then you run the installer. When it asks you where you want to download the image, choose the place where you put the file, and it will detect that the file has already been downloaded and proceed to install it.

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

Well... i figured out how to unzip it via xterm.. so i'm in the process of manually making it into:

debian-squeeze.img.ext2

via the xterm.

If that doesn't work.. i'll delete that one. and try your method of putting the .tar.bz2 file on the external SD card and running the installer from the extras section.

Thanks for the quick response though!

will post how it turns out. (ha ha ha.. after the image decompresses, i still need to figure out how to run debian stuff.. i'm so new to this!!)

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

Hi qole
Since a week i've almost read evrything you wrote but i didn t find a fix for my problem . I'm not too hot with linux .... I've got a nokia n800 and i've install the debian image 3 times ( yes , each time i've formatted the sd disk) and each time i try apt-get update it tells me that after everything , even 100% of reading package that the package list cant be perse or open .... i ve tried to rm the list but nothing change ..i just want to install it to use reaver .... when i download a package and try to install it it says again that the package list cant be read but it read it at 100%

Thanks for your time ... i didnt believe that peoples still use that tablet !!!!

Re: Easy Debian Diablo Beta Testing
 

Another problem: Easy Debian on a n810.

Somehow, Easy Debian believes that I use a n900. I had to move the keyboard mapping rx-51 to rx-51.orig and link the rx-44 (the one of the N810) to rx-51.

Now the only remaining problem is that ctrl-e in Easy Debian (lxde) brings up the search dialog of Maemo.

Any idea to solve this last problem would be very welcome.