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Dear Larswad,

I am concern for further upgrades of the hostmode feature...
Should we update your procedure below with the pinning commands at the bottom of this message ?

Originally Posted by Larswad View Post
Well, as I had kernel power installed first, and never installed the beta usb host mode kernel, and since that kernel features landed in titans power kernel, this is what I did to install usb-hostmode gui.

Maybe it's obvious for most people, but for some it isn't.

First I installed the i2c-tools from the terminal using:
Code:
root
apt-get install i2c-tools
I then downloaded the latest hostmode gui package from here (currently 0.2-3).
Put that file on the N900 using usb.
Then to get it installed (without letting in the dependencies, host mode kernel, modules and flash) using x-terminal

Code:
root
cd /home/user/MyDocs
dpkg  --ignore-depends kernel-hostmode,kernel-hostmode-flasher,kernel-hostmode-modules -i hostmode-gui_0.2-3_armel.deb
That's it, it will install without errors. Guess we all should be highly aware that this usb host mode feature is still beta, even if it has landed inside titans kernel.


Should we also pin the kernel-hosmode packages for further updates of the hostmode-gui ?

should I apply this :
Code:
for x in kernel-hostmode kernel-hostmode-flasher kernel-hostmode-modules
do echo -e "Package: $x
Pin: release a=unstable 
Pin-Priority: 1001\n" >> /etc/apt/preferences
done
do you confirm ?

Also for information, I had kernel-power41 installed before.
so just to make sure my N900 would after update to kernel-power44,
I installed kernel-power-bootimg to version 44 : kernel-power-bootimg
2.6.28-maemo44
Code:
sudo gainroot
apt-get install kernel-power-bootimg
apt-get upgrade
and my N900 still boots with uboot and kernel-power44.

BR

Nerfiaux

Last edited by nerfiaux; 2010-11-10 at 19:43.