Stable Hybrid Release - SHR OS on N900
 

hello,

some guys from #openmoko-de gave me a hint that SHR is
running on the N900. maybe this is of interest for some of you:

background: "SHR is a community driven GNU/Linux distribution
for smartphones. It currently targets Openmoko models Neo 1973
and Neo FreeRunner, but is not designed for these only. "

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywkWbb_BetI

installation howto: http://wiki.freesmartphone.org/index...0/Installation

homepage of the shr project: http://www.shr-project.org/trac


Blues

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seems cool
thanks man .. I saw the video and the OS is wonderful than Android
is the calling and massage is working ???
and what files is the best to for us from this link ??
http://build.shr-project.org/shr-uns...ages/nokia900/

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Does the HW Keyboard work?

Re: Stable Hybrid Release - SHR OS on N900
 

Hey :) That's my video.

HW keyboard works - I typed "htop" on it in terminal on clip. Layout is correct, so blue chars work correctly too.

I got this system running just few days ago (as I got N900 just few days ago :) ) and others from SHR are now starting their work, so those images are highly experimental at the moment and sometimes need some manual tweaking in order to get something working. But we hope that will change really, really soon :)

There is no GSM support yet for N900, but we're going to use libisi from elektranox ( https://elektranox.org/n900/ ) and integrate it with fsogsmd. Though there are apps for calls, messaging etc. - just hardware support is missing in this case ATM.

Regards,
dos

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great work.. you may want to look at the nitdroid _android for n900_ project for details on getting the 3G working, i think they used ofono.

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We don't want to use ofono - we're using freesmartphone.org middleware, so ofono is competitor to us :P

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Yeah, I agree, NOLO doesn't seem to be really friendly for power users... Using u-boot image as kernels' one creates problems with automatic kernel updates in Maemo. I will try to find some nice solution and document it in installation guide - I described bootmenu only because that was the one I already tested :) But when we'll get our own kernel running correctly, then we'll have to find another solution.

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what about n8x0 support ?
--
http://rzr.online.fr/q/openmoko

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Well, the thing is that N8x0 are not phones, and SHR is mainly phone distro :)
But of course it can be built for N8x0 - we need some maintainer to do that, as we don't have any of those devices. If you (or someone else) want to do that, then you're welcome! How to build SHR is explained on our site, OpenEmbedded has support for nokia800 machine, booting it shouldn't be hard.

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n900 is .... AWESOME

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can i use 3g or phone network does the mic work with this linux so i can do a simple phone call with it?

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i haven't read the whole thread, but i bet this question has been asked and answered already in it.

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read the reply in page 1

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Hi! I followed the how-to (http://wiki.freesmartphone.org/index...0/Installation), but I have a problem with multiboot (I know, it says
"multiboot
WARNING: work in progress"
but I have NITDroid installed, so I have to use it...).

When I try to boot, I get an error message saying that It can't flash the kernel because some needed files are missing: are you using multiboot or bootmenu?

Re: Stable Hybrid Release - SHR OS on N900
 

hey man

I think that your problen
go to this link and search for "WARNING: work in progress" without "" :)
http://wiki.freesmartphone.org/index...tion#multiboot

Re: Stable Hybrid Release - SHR OS on N900
 

As I said:

I only want to know if someone else have tried to use multiboot. Please, don't answer if you have nothing to say :)

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just trying to help ....
Iam installing it on my device and i wish it work for me
i have android too

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Ok, let me know when you have done! :)

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I'm pretty sure that the problem lies in the R&D mode, that you have to put the phone in to boot SHR, wich wont work with the new builds of NITdroid?

Hopefully at some near future you'll be able to boot SHR without R&D ;)

Btw looks pretty cool, nice interface, really simple, thats allways welcome :D

Re: Stable Hybrid Release - SHR OS on N900
 

Actually, my N900 IS in R&D mode...and NITDroid works pretty well...

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If you're using multiboot, skip entering ITEM_KERNEL portion, SHR works with maemo kernel, try entering ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28-omap1 it works for me. FYI my N900 has 5 multiboots, Maemo, Nitdroid, Ubuntu, Debian and SHR all work well

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Thank you! :)

Now it boots, but touch doesn't work...maybe I have to change something in xorg.conf

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Actually touch is working, but it wasn't calibrated yet. When you prompted to select language, tap top of the screen above language window to click the next button. You can find the menu to calibrate the touch from the setting menu.

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Thank you again! :)

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Did you see that virtual keyboard on thing :eek:

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Finally installed SHR in my phone but .....!!!!!
when I boot it the boot screen of SHR appear and it says
Please wait Booting ...

and the screen turned black and nothing happened !!!
what should I do ???
reinstalling it from the 0 ???

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but how did arief got it and working well as he said ?? and MaddogG too
any help how to fix it ???

any keranl will develop and work for multiboot ??

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I simply followed the howto (I also installed udev, watchdog and libstdc++ and did an opkg upgrade, and I downloaded kernel modules for power and battery management). This is my shr.item:

ITEM_NAME="SHR"
ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28-omap1
ITEM_MODULES=ext3
ITEM_DEVICE=${EXT_CARD}p3
ITEM_FSTYPE=ext3
ITEM_FSOPTIONS=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=3

IMPORTANT: you have to use the standard kernel, NOT power kernel, during the installation process.

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!!!!!!!
i used power kernel while installing ...
so i guess I will format the partition and retry installing it with the standard kernel and I will back ...

Re: Stable Hybrid Release - SHR OS on N900
 

why it keep telling me Read only file system ??
Iam root .. :)
I have to umount the partition and re mount it then i can extract the system files

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the system is working..
but the touch is not working , I tried to touch around the screen trying to press next in language selection like arief said .. but no response
I had a few error in opkg commands
here it is




and the other command ....



any help ????

Re: Stable Hybrid Release - SHR OS on N900
 

I also had those errors, don't care about them.

The touch is working, but is upside down (up is down and down is up :D).

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thanks man
but as I said ...
any fix ???

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as a fix for touch screen : (i am not sure if this will work here , worked for me on debian installation)

ON MAEMO chroot into the SHR installation , and configure the usb network
load g_nokia by default ,add your specific network address to /etc/network/interfaces .
reboot into SHR , ssh into it from your pc , and call ts_calibrate .

TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event3 TSLIB_CONFFILE=/etc/ts.conf ts_calibrate

of course you need ssh server running in the first place (i don't know if open-ssh is installed , install it if it isn't there)

[Edit ] I will install it myself , and check if calibrating screen via ssh works .

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i know that trick in debian ...
but I cant get the system work cuz when I boot the system it want to select a language ... you can select it with up down keys on the keyboard but you cant press next to continue the system with the keyboard .
so you can press next just with touch input .

I will try to installing it again I hope it will work

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i got the screen calibrated successfully , simply ssh into SHR at the choose language screen from your pc and call : xinput_calibrator

as simple as that !

of course you need to correctly configure your network interface, before you can ssh into SHR .

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thanks for reply ....
did you configure the network interface to connect to a wireless internet
I have a wireless internet and I will try to connect to it and using ssh

can you put your /etc/network/interfaces here ... if you dont mind ?

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Can't wait for this to be capable of accepting and making calls/texts.

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any njus on the progress?

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A new verson is out:

http://build.shr-project.org/shr-uns...ages/nokia900/

I don't know if there is a changelog and where it is but I tried it:

• the system seems more responsive (maybe graphics acceleration?)
• GSM module is present, but I think it doesn't work (you can enable and disable GSM antenna, but I don't think you can make/receive calls or send/receive sms, I will test it)
• battery charging seems to work
• it continuously asks for PIN code even if my SIM has not a PIN code...