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Originally Posted by nanomu View Post
8GB External card
- 8GB ext3 partition - for user files

I've read it's recommended to have at least some vfat on the drives, but I don't really see the point, as long as /etc/fstab is set up correctly.

That said, I've noticed a few quirks:
- The external card sometimes auto-mounts to both /media/mmc1 and /media/mmc2. Is there some auto-mounting service that should be disabled in this case?
By leaving a small vfat partition on the external card, you give Maemo something to automount. And it does like to automount!

Originally Posted by nanomu View Post
What doesn't work at all:
- The Fn key does not work in debian. using 'Set Debian HW Keys' seems to have no effect. Is there a hack around this?
try "touch .synchroot" from ~ before initializing your chroot; this should copy things like the N810's keyboard map to the chroot.

Originally Posted by nanomu View Post
- Switch-lxde is really outdated. I've tried doing a simple mount /usr/bin /debian/usr/local/bin, but most apps just throw errors. Is there another clever way to make maemo apps work within the debian chroot (particularly maemo-mapper)?

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My todo list:
- find statusbar app(s) for things like network and battery status (any recommendations here?).
This is a very confusing paragraph. The switch-lxde script (from my repository) is designed to shut down the Hildon desktop and start up the LXDE desktop in its place. It doesn't have anything to do with getting maemo apps working in the chroot. As far as I know, it isn't "outdated"... What's outdated about it? Can you give clear bug reports, so I can fix things? If you can help me fix / update the LXDE desktop replacement project, please post in that thread. The basic Easy Debian package has no scripts for doing anything like that.

I posted two little python scripts that work in conjunction with my Easy Mer project, one for the battery and one for the wlan. You can find them attached here. There's also a menu in the Easy Mer package that lets you run Maemo apps from within the chroot desktop. Install the Easy Mer package to get all three of the scripts.

If you are running LXDE as a secondary desktop, on top of Maemo, you can't really run Maemo apps in the LXDE desktop because they resist being run in display :1.

Originally Posted by nanomu View Post
- Flash in iceweasel does work, but youtube videos don't play properly. Originally I thought "I'll just upgrade flash", but then remembered this is arm, not x86.
YouTube used to work in my Easy Debian chroot. Maybe something has changed?

Originally Posted by nanomu View Post
- Get USB host mode to *actually* work in both maemo and debian. Being able to mount an external drive would be very cool (yes I know the onboard usb has very low power output).
It should work fine as long as you plug it in before opening your chroot.

Originally Posted by nanomu View Post
Things that would be nice, but are a little unrealistic:
- See if the onboard camera works in debian (any recommended apps to test this with?)
It works if you find an app that can do V4L2 (and there are surprisingly few apps that can!) and point the app to /dev/video0.
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