Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

Installation problem was the format on the card. Really strange -- I used cfdisk to make a new FAT32 partition, then mkfs.vfat to make a FAT32 file system.

Xubuntu saw the card, automounted it, copied files, etc. But when I redid the cfdisk, partition was missing. No matter how often I remade it, I couldn't keep a partition table.

Originally Posted by Rebski

In the meantime, a SmartQ 7 for the PayPal amount of $251.80 delivered will see me through nicely. I have ordered one today and look forward to joining the groundswell of Mer support for the device.

Originally Posted by kekegg

I just realized that other devices have arrow keys but there are no such on Smart Q7. Is it possible to map '+' '-' to arrows or add them on top of soft keyboard?

Originally Posted by celtica96

Thanks for jumping in with your purchase of the SmartQ 7! The more folks who get involved, the stronger the base.

You may want to check this thread for information on hardware, software, and accessories: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48771.

I definitely recommend buying the listed 16GB MicroCenter SDHC card as a starter because of the very limited storage on the Q7.
Besides it's only $30 plus shipping.

I can vouch for this 16GB card but I'm not sure about the 32GB cards. Some users are having difficulty with them.

Originally Posted by Matan

Try mplayer as follows:

Copy from original firmware three files:
/usr/bin/mplayer
/lib/modules/*/s3c-mfc.ko
/lib/modules/*/s3c-pp.ko

run ldd /usr/bin/mplayer
See what libraries are missing, find to which packages they belong, and apt-ger install them (all are available).
After every boot insmod the two modules, make sure the device files are accessible to the user, and then you can use mplayer.

If those instructions are not enough, I'll add the details in a few days, when I get the chance to do it again.

Originally Posted by B_Lizzard

The Q5 seems like a very interesting device - considering the price and all. But, I haven't been able to find any conclusive and/or in-depth reviews of the device (especially the hardware), leaving me with a lot of questions.

First of all, what's the status on hardware support under Linux at this point, specifically the audio/video acceleration parts and the 2D/3D acceleration parts? Should we expect good sound quality from this device, similar to dedicated MP3 players (Cowon comes to mind)?

What's the battery life on this thing? What's the runtime when using the Q5 exclusively as an MP3 player?

Does it feel flimsy or not? Any issues with the build?

The Q5 and Q7 would benefit greatly from having a central, english-speaking forum or wiki of some kind, some place where all available information could be gathered.

Also, thanks for working on Mer for the Q5. It certainly looks great!

Originally Posted by Benson

Sounds like you may have been making a filesystem on the whole-disk device, instead of the partition.
SD cards can be formatted with a naked filesystem (like a floppy disk traditionally is) or with a partition table and one or more partitions with filesystems in them (like a hard disk), with only minor usability implications for most purposes, but some special cases depend on having it one way or the other. If you do something like

Code:

cfdisk /dev/sdc
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc

you put a partition table on, but then immediately overwrite the partition table with a whole-disk filesystem.
You should do something more like:

Code:

cfdisk /dev/sdc
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1

to put the filesystem in the partitioned space.

Originally Posted by bezeen

Not enough for me - i need graphics
libs missing by download pack names (then you use "sudo apt-get install):

libxss1
libenca0 (last letter is zero)
libmad0 (last letter is zero)

I've done everything and i think mplayer works but i'm not a xterm person (i get the help text then a type mplayer in xterm)...

smplayer and gnome-mplayer doesnt see my mplayer install - so - howto fool ubuntu to accept my handmade install...