hi everyone
im going to install debian on my tablet.
but what are the lacks exactly
for example:
i heard sound is not working
what else?
and may it be a problem to install it onto internal memory which is 2gig

ohh sh*t i just reboot the device after installing
and now all i can see is a totally white screen
and notifications such as bluetooth is on

i tried to access to the internal mem. with usb cable but it is not accesable
i can only access to memory card

pleaseeee helppp meeee!!!

Sounds like something might have gone wrong with the bootmenu install if it's not even booting to a desktop? But then you said you see the bluetooth icon? A little confused here, but your best bet is probably to reflash:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

is flashing something you recommend all new tablets under go in general or just when problems like this are encountered...

In case you don't read the "book" is wrote on that thread of yours, flashing is the dark reality of the tablets. Yeah you should flash to the newest firmware (particularly if it is used), if you have one or more official images downloaded it really takes less than 5 minutes to flash the device with the included microusb cable.

And yes there are some buggy programs floating around in unmaintained repos (as well as Extras, I'm looking at you Carman) that may persuade or require you to reflash. Persuade is when Application Manager is giving errors that aren't true and you can't resolve dependency issues with apt-get because it thinks a package is installed but it isn't and you can't remove it because it isn't. While forcing flash is less subtle, device shuts off after Nokia logo. And in between would be the hard freezes that require removing and re-seating the battery.

In order to use screen rotate a modified kernel has to be flashed to the device.

NITdroid requires flashing the device (and flash the OS 2008 images to regain "Maemo")

Flash, flash, flash, how many times can that NAND be flashed....heh.

There's nothing wrong with flashing (although there is a limit to how many times you can - hopefully somewhere in the 100s of thousands) just remember to backup data (and keeping .debs on a SD card wouldn't hurt to help with re-installing packages). Oh I forgot to mention the Ubuntu port for the device in that other thread - I hear it's usable but slow. Now to sleep and stop being such an insomniac.

Deblet is discontinued and not worked on anymore, at all. Take a look at it's successor, Mer.

but it is working pretty cool
except sound problem
infact it seems it is solved but i couldnt do it as it is instructed on the forum

@linuxeventually sorry for that, i read the book... also i think i was trying to jump around from thread to thread so much i got the repies mixed up from this post to that one. I know now if i had read the wiki under new users that it was advised to just do it anyway.


Thank you for being nice about it, most would rip me apart at this point. I'm like a little kid asking all these questions, to the point where if i stopped to think question 3 and 8 are about the same... sorry