Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

When I fixed mine I had two images on the sdcard, same file but renamed one to SmartQ5. Followed Bezeen instructions precisely.

And yeah, that chinese language to english. I knew of that instruction page, but took me ages to work out where that file was to change. :)

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Installation problem was the format on the card. Really strange -- I used cfdisk to make a new FAT32 partition, then mkfs.vfat to make a FAT32 file system.

Xubuntu saw the card, automounted it, copied files, etc. But when I redid the cfdisk, partition was missing. No matter how often I remade it, I couldn't keep a partition table.

But the SD card would work, appear in the file manager, mount, unmount etc. It even showed up as an exported Hard Disk when I connected the Q7 to my laptop via USB.

Weird.

Anyway, can't mount an SD card via my built-in card-reader to my Virtual Machine of Win2k to format it in Windows. What to do?

Answer: format the card in my digital camera, then ditch the folders. Voila.

Anyhow, once that was over with, Mer installed fine.

So far, it's alright. I've never loved Hildon. And Midori hangs on gmail -- just chokes. Probably because there's only 128 MB of RAM, I guess. Looking forward to the Tear browser -- I've heard good things.

I'll keep trying it out though. I'd like to pop more of the GPE environment on there. I assume it's not using GDM or the equivalent -- how is login managed?

Thanks for the suggestions; and thanks for Mer.

m a r

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

My apt-get tests
Fbreader works - enter key to fullscreen (i will look into key on this weekend)
cbrpager works - but the icons build a tower in the middle of the screen and leave very little space for the pics -should be fixable...
mplayer - No releases for mplayer in jaunty armel have yet been published.
gxine - error with libglu1-mesa (a think it was) on test build 2 (0.14) a will try again on test b7
vlc - just to big (couldnt -f install vlc) after installing mer was broken - could have been "-f remove gxine" if a cant get xine to work a will try vlc again
evince - installed and opened .cdr (rar comics) i played around and a got a error (perhaps doing a little much at the same time - trying to install things and...)
some small things like unrar was easy to install - only hardware intensive apps like videoplayer gave me problem - so - just look at launchpad

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/armel

and see if you find something you would like to try to install (sudo apt-get install *apps*)

a question:
has anybody any experience of libswfdec or gnash?
could you get youtube and other flash sites to work - i like to get my swedish tv site to work - it would be great to have this small device to catch up on the news...

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Gnash also gets a error on libglu1-mesa_7.4-ubuntu3_armel.deb
is this related to the hw drives (whats not optimized yet) or can it be fixed with the right libs?

(vlc seems to break mer - installed vlc-nox and then on reboot i get stuck on login (ubuntu 9.04 * tty1 - * login: )

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

I've tried;
mplayer
xine
vlc
does anybody knows any other videoplayer i could try...

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

My unofficial SmartQ board will be up this Sunday (beginning of next week if I'm late). If some of you are interested in writing FAQ's and Tutorials, it would be greatly appreciated. For the moment, I'm collecting bits of information wherever I can but as I don't own the device yet (will do at the end of June), it's still a bit blurry for me...:)

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Thank you, O pioneers!

I don't have a SmartQ tablet yet, but it is exciting to read about your struggles and successes.

Is this the best (only) place to read about the new SmartQ developments?

I will certainly check out DannyBiker's site when it is available.

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

The thread at mobileread.com is pretty good but targeted at a more general user: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47223.

I look forward to having you join the party!:D

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Try mplayer as follows:

Copy from original firmware three files:
/usr/bin/mplayer
/lib/modules/*/s3c-mfc.ko
/lib/modules/*/s3c-pp.ko

run ldd /usr/bin/mplayer
See what libraries are missing, find to which packages they belong, and apt-ger install them (all are available).
After every boot insmod the two modules, make sure the device files are accessible to the user, and then you can use mplayer.

If those instructions are not enough, I'll add the details in a few days, when I get the chance to do it again.

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Anyone know how to get a USB keyboard working at the command-line? Mer sometimes crashes out, and I'm left at the console, with no keyboard.

Is it a kernel module?

m a r

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

The Viliv 7 has been announced and the price of $600 is OK. It looks like it is a superb device but I would rather wait for about 9 months for the second generation Intel hardware to be incorporated and for Windows 7 to be installed.

Furthermore that will also allow time for Mer to show what it is capable of.

In the meantime, a SmartQ 7 for the PayPal amount of $251.80 delivered will see me through nicely. I have ordered one today and look forward to joining the groundswell of Mer support for the device.

Also it is likely to be only a short matter of time before it gets Android support and I suspect that will satisfy me too. WinCE is coming but that doesn’t really interest.

Isn’t it great to have such choice and potential though? This is more like it. And I can finally wave bye bye to Nokia! Exciting times for sure.

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Sounds like you may have been making a filesystem on the whole-disk device, instead of the partition.
SD cards can be formatted with a naked filesystem (like a floppy disk traditionally is) or with a partition table and one or more partitions with filesystems in them (like a hard disk), with only minor usability implications for most purposes, but some special cases depend on having it one way or the other. If you do something like you put a partition table on, but then immediately overwrite the partition table with a whole-disk filesystem.
You should do something more like:to put the filesystem in the partitioned space.

SmartDevices SmartQ 7
 

Thanks for jumping in with your purchase of the SmartQ 7! The more folks who get involved, the stronger the base.

You may want to check this thread for information on hardware, software, and accessories: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48771.

I definitely recommend buying the listed 16GB MicroCenter SDHC card as a starter because of the very limited storage on the Q7.
Besides it's only $30 plus shipping.

I can vouch for this 16GB card but I'm not sure about the 32GB cards. Some users are having difficulty with them.

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

It's matchbox-keyboard, right? If so, no problem to add arrow buttons...

Matchbox-Keyboard README

In fact, the new Q7 firmware has arrow keys on the keyboard (matchbox).

Re: SmartDevices SmartQ 7
 

yes I take your point. It is probably best to keep this forum for Mer discussion and mobileread for discussion specific to the SmartQ.

See you over there.

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

The Q5 seems like a very interesting device - considering the price and all. But, I haven't been able to find any conclusive and/or in-depth reviews of the device (especially the hardware), leaving me with a lot of questions.

First of all, what's the status on hardware support under Linux at this point, specifically the audio/video acceleration parts and the 2D/3D acceleration parts? Should we expect good sound quality from this device, similar to dedicated MP3 players (Cowon comes to mind)?

What's the battery life on this thing? What's the runtime when using the Q5 exclusively as an MP3 player?

Does it feel flimsy or not? Any issues with the build?

The Q5 and Q7 would benefit greatly from having a central, english-speaking forum or wiki of some kind, some place where all available information could be gathered.

Also, thanks for working on Mer for the Q5. It certainly looks great!

:)

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Not enough for me - i need graphics :)
libs missing by download pack names (then you use "sudo apt-get install):

libxss1
libenca0 (last letter is zero)
libmad0 (last letter is zero)

I've done everything and i think mplayer works but i'm not a xterm person (i get the help text then a type mplayer in xterm)...

smplayer and gnome-mplayer doesnt see my mplayer install - so - howto fool ubuntu to accept my handmade install...

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

You saw the YouTube presentations, right, and the discussion on the Mobilread forums?

I just wrote to the site that sells 'em, and they were incredibly prompt with a response. I hardly had time to drum my fingers impatiently.

Of course a central english-speaking forum or wiki would be great. (Someone start a www.smartqtalk.com site and I will be there!) But if you wait till that happens, you will miss out on some of the fun.

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

That sounds like the answer. 'Course, a couple of times, I didn't mkfs.vfat at all, I did it in gparted and trusted it to handle things. It was definitely a pain -- but I'll keep what you say here in mind for the next time. Between this, and the SmartQ5 rename thing, it was a bad couple of hours... :)

m a r

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

mplayer - no sound - no video
i have the player going on on xterm (video and mp3) - seeing
starting playback...
A:153... and so on...

and yes - i've done insmod...

And i copy smplayer bin from smartq7 firmware and did the ldd - it needed
libqt4-core
but as i'm stuck with non working mplayer (and i cant get smplayer to work - the install doesnt see mplayer) i think i could be something missing in your (Matan) install instruction

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

If you are only reporting, OK.

If you ask for help, then "... and so on..." is not enough. Copy all the output text from running mplayer to where it is available and post a link.

No video - did you run mplayer as root, or made sure the user has permission to access (rw) the /dev/s3c-* files?

No audio - by default the speaker is disabled, either use headphones, or insert and remove headphones (which enables the speaker), or enable it by

echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/hhtech_gpio/speaker_en

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

I'm sorry if i gave a impression that i done this before - i have never ever been involved in any kind of linux or anything like code slaving...

I'm a total noob - sorry - i just wanted to help not to sink evolution.

And to the report - installing headphone gave me sound!
on both mp3 and video (no screen yet - just black . complains about some fonts missing (~/.mplayer/subfront.tff) i just found out that xterm has alot to tell after you close the program...

I will try to fix this - and not post anything more before a knows howto
(and i was kind of asking for help)

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

I can second this on my SmartQ7. I tried downloading the .deb from launchpad and same error. dpkg -x is able to extract the files from the .deb, but the install complains. I didn't try installing all the packages manually, which may work. No matching bugs posted in launchpad either.

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Hey, I'd be glad for such a place. What's the URL?

m a r

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

There it is :

http://www.smartqmid.com/

It is still in its early age (understand "empty") and well, I have to fill it with all sorts of FAQ's and Tutorials (you guys could be a great help...hem :D) but this could be a great place to gather the spread information that we find daily on the web.
I'm not trying to steal audience from here, I think it's great to still have several places to discuss SmartQ's. If I'll take information from here, I'll always complete it with a direct link to this thread anyway !

I hope you guys will enjoy it...

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Nice job getting it up and running.

I've just joined.

m a r

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Thanks...I'm starting my "writing FAQ's" period...:D

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Good work

I am getting dizzy hopping from here to mobileread to mp4nation to J.T’s World to eletroworld.

Having a one stop resource is much better. I shall sign up as soon as my Q7 arrives (can’t be long now).

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

In case you're not following Alternatives forum or the forum outside this thread:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=29597 - Mer 0.14 released

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Hello,

I hope this is the appropriate place to be asking this question. I am hoping to get peoples insight into whether or not this device would be able to run the dosbox that has been discussed in the software section of this forum. Would that build work on a device other than the Nokias and might it work under mer installed on this device? How might the performance compare on the two different devices? I am aware that this is still a fairly new piece of hardware, but I was wondering if anyone here had some thoughts/ opinions on this matter. I apologize if this is not the right place for this question, but it seemed appropriate to me. Thanks for any help you may provide.

Thanks,
Geoque

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Hi, I am new at all this and I was wondering if you could explain this a bit more. I can't get my BT to work. Thanks

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Matan,

You say the details needed to write an accelerated graphics driver are available. Where would one go to find that information? - I need to get the opengl ES on the smart Q5/7 working with QT Embedded Linux. I cannot find any information about the Linux opengl api for the S3C6410 anywhere. Any information or pointers on how to go about this would be much appreciated. I am on a huge learning curve here, but I can normally pick things up pretty quickly once I can get my head around what actually needs to be done.

aerod :confused:

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Near the start of this thread:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=79

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Ok, I'll try, I am assuming you are able to get to a command prompt via ssh?

On the Q5, the bluetooth chip is connected internally via USB.
By default the Q5 is configured as a USB device rather than a USB host. This means that as far as the kernel is concerned there is no USB host available and therefore no USB devices can be attached to it. As the bluetooth chip is a USB device, it cannot be found by the kernel at startup and therefore is not available.

To solve this you need to tell the Q5 USB to be a host. This is archived by entering the following two commands:

echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/hhtech_gpio/usbhostpwr_en
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/hhtech_gpio/usbotgdrv_en

By echoing the number 1 to these two virtual files, you are telling the kernel to enable the usb host. If you were to send 0 you would be telling the kernel to disable host mode.

Once the device is disabled, you need to load in the appropriate kernel module, this would normally happen at boot, but because the USB host did not exist at boot, the module did not get loaded.

To load the module you just need to enter

modprobe ohci-hcd

This loads the ochi-hcd module into the kernel, which will, then register any attached USB devices it finds (i.e the bluetooth chip)

The dmsg command just shows the kernel log, it is not required to make bluetooth work, it just shows what has happened. If you are still having problems, post the last part of dmsg having performed the previous commands, it may give me some indication of what is happening on your system.

The hciconfig command just displaying the bluetooth device information, again, it is not required other than to show it is working.

Once the blue tooth is available, the normal bluetooth commands can be used to manage connection.

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Yes, I found that last night but it was not clear what I needed to download. Please could you elaborate?

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

The file

http://www.mt-system.ru/documents/s3....10_080822.pdf

contains the (chip related) information needed to write a 3D driver (chapter 42). Of course, you also need to know how to write OpenGL drivers.

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

Thanks, that was what I was looking for. I could not find that anywhere. probably looking too hard! Thanks for your help

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

I can't remember and as this site has a non useful search engine so this could be dubble post:

http://www.jiongtang.com/blog/html/s...ded-space.html

Both smartq5 and smartq7 have the same stupid setup - with 106 mb unused! (on the device)

And it's easy to get a extra 100mb of swapfile. I used smartq7 v3 (original) and installed gparted (change /etc/apt/sources.list - 192.... to repository.handhelds.org). To resize the swapfile - close all programs before you use gparted. Start gparted and highlight swapfile. Under "partition" you chose "swapoff" now resize.

My swap file is now 228 mb and it did make my device much more responsive.

and if you thinking of stay on smart.cn firmware use this to get a extra big swapfile;

http://www.jiongtang.com/blog/html/s...-to-384mb.html

I would like a similar howto on the mer install...

(I'm a noob - not a hacker)
Edit to make it little more understandable - I shouldn't post in the middle of the night TNX Tso - see later post - for my first version see next post

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

I'm confused, you say you were stupid and can't recommend it but then go on to say why don't they use all the memory and how much faster it makes your SmartQ.

Why are you stupid? please explain.

Re: Moses SmartQ 5
 

I didn't follow the instruction and deleted the swapfile in use and i made a new bigger one - i think gparted shouldn't allow it - but it worked fine for me (i think you should mess with the swapfile you're running on).
EDIT
As Tso has pointed out - gparted has a swapoff alternative - that i think i came up as a alternative then i tried to delete the partition (i was i little tired).

(And I'm sorry for the stupid post, i shouldn't post in the middle of the night - and my English isn't the best...)