Thread: DebiaN900 - A set of scripts to facilitate the installation of native Debian (WIP)
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2014-10-28 , 23:08
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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
What kernel are you using under Debian? charge_now is available for me with 3.16-rc1 and 3.17 kernels and I've just noticed the the battery level widget is actually working in E17.
3.16-rc1
But I just noticed that syslog is full with messages about missing battery calibration.
Maybe that's the reason why I have no full support here.

Originally Posted by wicket View Post
This should just be a matter of enabling CONFIG_RFKILL in the kernel config file. If you try it and it works, report here and I'll enable it in build_kernel.sh.
Sorry for the next part being vague, but I'm tired at the moment and I'm not really used to compiling kernels so I'm not sure about the right procedure.
I first tried setting this in freemangordons-linux-n900/.config:
Code:
CONFIG_RFKILL=1
CONFIG_RFKILL_REGULATOR=m
But it got overwritten during the run of build-kernel.sh.
Then I set it in freemangordons-linux-n900/arch/arm/configs/rx51_defconfig but that file got overwritten too.

So finally I set it in both and disabled this line in build-kernel.sh:
Code:
nice $NICENESS make -j $JOBS rx51_defconfig
Before the kernel was build I got some prompts about building some additional modules (e.g. IPv6) which I all confirmed because I thought some useless extra modules wouldn't hurt and after compiling the kernel I could actually find an rfkill.ko module in freemangordons-linux-n900/modules/lib/modules/3.16.0-rc1+/kernel/net/rfkill

So I copied the whole modules directory (the 2nd one under modules/lib/) and the kernel (by overwriting the old kernel) to the µSD and started the device N900 with it.
I got some error messages about the additional modules but the boot process suceeded. I could login via slim but once on the desktop the mouse didn't work and I had no way to check if the keyboard worked.
So I gave up and restord my backup of the µSD.



Originally Posted by wicket View Post
I got the brightness working in E17 as a regular user:

Code:
# chmod +s /usr/lib/enlightenment/utils/enlightenment_backlight
I'm on LXDE and I don't think the desktop provides an own CLI interface for brightness. I stumbled upon something on Google code that might help, but I haven't tried it yet:
http://code.google.com/p/backlight-applet/
 

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