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sulu is offline sulu
2013-11-22 , 23:18
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#3008
Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Probably a silly question, but... Would installing the flash plugin that we know and love from Maemo work in Iceweasel if we installed it in ED?
Afaik Maemo's flash relies on GPU acceleration. At least that's the only way I can imagine how it's able to play videos.
GPU acceleration is not available in ED, and never will be unless we get a Free (as in speech) PowerVR driver, which I expect to happen the day after hell has frozen over.


Originally Posted by Darkice View Post
The reason I was asking for Firefox with flash is because I would like to install on it my personal bank certificates and to deal with my account. On first tought I decided the site is flash based, but maybe I am wrong.
If you don't want flash to watch videos then performance might not be that important.
In that case you could try the Debian package browser-plugin-gnash [1]. I guess that's what's installed in ED images that claim to have Flash working. It might or might not work for your task.

Originally Posted by Darkice View Post
Just to ask if Iseweasel has the same ability as Firefox. I mean to put master password and to install certificates in it.
Basically yes, Iceweasel has the same functionality as the corresponding Firefox version.

Originally Posted by Darkice View Post
Now ... I have placed the ed-squeeze-final.ext3 in folder /home/user/MyDocs/tmp
I have created the following folder /mnt/debian to use it and to mount on it the 4G partition mmcblk0p4
The folder /media/ed is created to mount the image.
Then the sequence should be:
mount -o loop /home/user/MyDocs/tmp/ed-squeeze-final.ext3 /media/ed
mount /dev/mmcblk0p4 /mnt/debian
cp -a /media/ed/* /mnt/debian/
Up to this point it looks right.

Originally Posted by Darkice View Post
After that I have to edit .chroot directing to /dev/mmcblk0p4
Am I on the right way?
I've never actually used ED from a partition, only from image files. But I think you have to specify the mount point, not the device name. If I'm right it should be /mnt/debian instead of /dev/mmcblk0p4.
edit: Nope, I think /dev/mmcblk0p4 is correct because when you use image files you also specify the image file name, not its mount point.

Originally Posted by Darkice View Post
P.S. After some reading here http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=2821 I have decided to use debian-wheezy-sulu-Sci.img.ext2 image. Then I just need to change the names of the above written command lines and that is all.
Yes, changing the image name is the only thing that has to be done.
btw: Please note that although this image is based on one of my images, it was not created by me, and I never had a look at it. So I won't be able to answer any image-specific questions.


Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
But you may expereince the device rebooting halfway through the copying due to cp taking too much CPU time and the watchdog kicking in (trust me, it has happened to me). You can eliminate that by reducing the cp priority with nice.
That's a very good point! However, I found out that sometimes even nice -n 19 is not enough, because although the process that stresses the CPU is niced it may still create enough I/O to block the emmc/µSD in which case the watchdog might still kick in because some other process that is not niced stresses the CPU while desperately trying to read or write its data.
Therefore I usually use ionice as well, so that lots of my commands look like this:
Code:
nice -n 19  ionice -c 3 <command>

[1] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/browser-plugin-gnash
Last edited by sulu; 2013-11-22 at 23:21.
 

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