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Thanks for the help! Yes, the files were hidden, I knew it but never thought this was the problem. I am still a Linux newb.
Qole I did a small donation as a token of my gratitude about this great software and I also voted for Easy Debian. Keep up the good work!!!

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taxaza: that was not a "small" donation. It was huge.

Thank you very much.

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You are welcome! Keep up the good work!

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Uhm, any news on my question about playing mp3s in Easy Debian? :)

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BN900: The v3b image file should be able to play mp3 files using the "Music Player" in the LXDE menu. It uses a great deal of processing power to do so, however.

You may need to install MP3 plugins for other apps. Use Synaptic or packages.debian.org to search for the appropriate plugins.

(Honestly, Easy Debian isn't a great media playing option. There's lots of good media players available for Maemo)

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 585864)

BN900: The v3b image file should be able to play mp3 files using the "Music Player" in the LXDE menu. It uses a great deal of processing power to do so, however.

I didn't have any need for sound in Easy Debian so far - Maemo satisfies all my needs there - but just out of curiosity: should the Music Player in LXDE with the one title "Lament ..." work out of the box? It doesn't for me. Also youtube videos don't play sound in iceweasel during the short intervals the videos are played at all. I'm just wondering whether I broke something by installing a lot of additional (and actually useful) stuff.

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 585864)

Thanks Qole :) Easy Debian rocks never the less. Absolutely the best app on a mobile phone of any kind.

@Rebhana, the sample did work once after pressing the song multiple times. It never worked again. So it does work, out of the box, somewhat.

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Originally Posted by rebhana (Post 585903)

...just out of curiosity: should the Music Player in LXDE with the one title "Lament ..." work out of the box? It doesn't for me.

It does for me, but it really uses the CPU. It uses so much CPU that any extra activity causes the sound to stutter. So I wouldn't bother using it for much.

There may be a setting you need to fix. Try firing up the xmms2 backend and explicitly setting the output to pulseaudio:

Code:

debbie 

xmms2d -o pulse

Leave that running. Open a second terminal.

Code:

debbie lxmusic

Does it play music now?

I found that you only have to set the output plugin for the xmms2d backend once, after that it sets your chosen plugin as the default.

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Also youtube videos don't play sound in iceweasel during the short intervals the videos are played at all. I'm just wondering whether I broke something by installing a lot of additional (and actually useful) stuff.

The Flash plugin for Easy Debian is the one from Maemo 4 (the N8x0 tablets). So it uses the old sound architecture, and I don't know how to get the sound to work for it on the N900.

I haven't been able to get the new N900 flash plugin to work inside Easy Debian at all, so video without sound is better than nothing.

We need a real hacker to get Flash working fully, I think.

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 587286)

Does it play music now?

I found that you only have to set the output plugin for the xmms2d backend once, after that it sets your chosen plugin as the default.

Yes, it works! :cool:
Curiosity satisfied...

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Originally Posted by mscion (Post 581805)

I've installed open office on the N900 and have had some success with it, especially when taking advantage of the excellent advice in this forum, but I have now hit a wall trying to get the equation editor to work. My guess is that that the equation editor is not properly
installed or I need to somehow turn this option on.

Appreciate the help!

To get a version of openoffice to work with equation editor
I had to use aptitude instead of apt-get to install openoffice.
as aptitude seemed to handle an incompatibility with the openoffice.org-core better. The openoffice equation editor now works fine in the Debian LXDE. However doing this update disabled the shortcut to openoffice so I had to change a line in ooo.desktop in the hildon directory by setting Exec = debbie ooffice. Anyways, I'm not very experienced at doing this type of thing and more or less stumbled on a solution. The danger is in getting the equation editor to work in this fashion I may cause other problems.

Overall this blog has been quite helpful as I've learned
quite a bit. Thanks for your efforts.