BREAKING NEWS! REBOOTING DURING SYNAPTIC INSTALL SOLVED

w0000t!

Now you can install as many applications as you want in one go , of any size without your phone rebooting!

steps:

1. upgrade dpkg to the latest version
2. make sure the debian.ext2 file is in your mydocs folder
3. PHYSICALLY REMOVE YOUR EXTERNAL MMC CARD FROM THE PHONE
4. Install all your software via synaptic, go on a software install binge
5. put your external memory mmc card back into the phone

why?

there is a bug in dpkg which is nothing to do with easy debian or the n900 where it can hang your computer if an external usb drive is plugged in during a software install.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...kg/+bug/624229

That's it!


Problem fscking solved!

Can't change your easy debian font or icon theme?

edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and comment out the line that says '@lxde-settings-daemon' by putting a # before it.

i've installed x11vnc on maemo and also on easy debian. my windows xp laptop obviously has a greater resolution than the n900 but i'd like easy debain / X / vnc to take advantage of this and display a nice large screen on my laptop. i'm not talking about 'magnifaction' but full use of the larger screen real estate. has anyone attempted this? is vnc a dead end for this, is so is there any other pc client side tools that might work?

leetnoob: you can do what you're talking about if, when starting LXDE, you start a vncserver session with bigger screen dimensions instead of using Xephyr. Then you connect to your LXDE vncserver. There's a benefit to this if you use it locally, too. You have a bigger virtual screen that you can pan around on.

hi, before i read your post i managed to do it, but it was eeerily simple..

1. start up easy debian. full screen
2. run x11vnc from roxterm/whatever
3. open up another roxterm terminal

4. go to your pc , connect using tightvnc to , in my case, 192.168.1.1:0
5. when the screen appears on your pc, enable numlock on your pc
6. in the spare roxterm window type 'xrandr' to see available resolutions

xrandr

7. then change your resolution type e.g.

xrandr --size 1400x1050

(small 'x')

you need to use the numeric keypad to type the numbers

then hey presto, it resizes the pc vnc window in real time.

maybe this would have been the future if ms/nokia didn't happen.. no laptops just powerful phones connecting to dumb docking stations.

I'm experimenting with client side connection settings and some give quite a good performance and some are dog slow.

leetnoob: It would be faster to not start Easy Debian LXDE first. Get into Easy Debian by running "debbie" at a Maemo terminal, then start VNC server first as display :1, with the dimensions you want, and then run "startlxde1" to start LXDE in the vncserver display. This creates a second virtual display that can only be seen when logging in to the N900 via VNC clients. The Android Debian project has to use this method because they don't have an X Server on Android.

I was using x11vnc and it doesn't like -display :1 are you talking about tightvnc server? I'd be quite interested in getting it to work.

also I've noticed a "feature" of my method above, if you start up apps before changing resolution using xrandr all is fine but afterwards the fonts are scaled and become huge.

ok , got it working. it's much better than my method above as

1. the pc keyboard is mapped properly, could even use the scroll rocker
2. there is no issue with post connection launched apps having huge fonts.

here's what i did in case anyone else wants it:

1. install tightvncserver via symantic
2. go to maemo terminal
3. type : debbie
4. type : tightvncserver -geometry 1400x1050 :1 (or whatever resolution your pc has)
5. type startlxde1

you will be asked to enter a password for users to use when connecting at step 4

when you connect from your pc specify ipaddress:1 e.g. 192.168.1.1:1

amazing stuff.

Wow. This is great! But for me, line 4 only worked if I did:

tightvncserver :1 -geometry 1400x1050

You can also use this method to access a big virtual screen on the N900 itself with localhost:5901 as the server name.