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2008-01-15
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I love it; I am sort of addicted to the tetris and tron games, though.
I can't seem to install my MFC-5440 Brother Network Printer, which is supposed to be linux-friendly. I try generic profile on cups, but it asks for a mystery username and password.
KDE is for all intensive purposes functional; it really does turn my N800 into a little laptop! I have yet to check if my bluetooth keyboard works with it.
p.s. the connection manager always says "connecting" even after it finds my wireles LAN and successrully transmits. (you probably already know that, penguinbait...)
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2008-01-15
, 04:33
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2008-01-15
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The Nokia OS installs in a 256MB Area of Flash memory.
KDE tarball compressed is 322MB round about, and uncompressed 975MB or more. So you can see this will not fit in flash memory with the Nokia OS.
So KDE is available to be installed two ways
Option #1
Create a minimum 1.5GB ext2 partition on SD card and copy OS from flash onto ext2 partition. Then un-tar kde on top of that.
Option #2
copy all the debs and tarball to SD card can install.
The DEB install creates a 1.2GB partition in a file on your SD card. It will format the file as an ext2 partition and mount it as /usr/local
Then the debs will untar the files and setup KDE.
Does this clear up your confusion?
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2008-01-15
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Pengiunbait. After today and my 9th reinstall since OS2008 came out (yes i'm counting, has to with lockups of the UI and lost widget graphics) I desperately need a stable UI. Some questions to set expectations.
1. Which do you prefer from boot or from icon launch method?
2. How hard would it be to use the rest of the mmc's as /home (yes I know I'd need to format ext2/3)
3. Do Debian arm debs install?
4. Can I use/install/other maemo built apps (like xmms)
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2008-01-15
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2008-01-16
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Then you will be very happily surprised, I am not saying its superfast or anything, but its very useable. Also KDE installs on SD card, and a little in flash, mostly printing services about 20MB
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2008-01-16
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Indeed Sir, I *AM* quite happily surprised!
Installed it this afternoon and it took me less time than what was written up by about half or better.
Going to be playing with this but it sure is a major improvement for the n800 in a LOT of areas!
That 16G card may come sooner than I expected :-).
Going to see if I can transfer stuff from ~/.kde/share/apps over so kontact (etc) has what my desktop does and then I can leave the palm at home .
Quite exciting, THANK YOU SIR! :-).
KDE on a portable that doesn't require a truck to move :-) and in my shirtpocket, just too TOO COOL :-).
Happy Dance(TM)!
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2008-01-16
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Nokia-N800-50-2:/media/mmc2# dpkg -i kde-3.5.8-mmc2.deb (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kde-mmc2' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 20396 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kde-mmc2 3.5.8-PB2 (using kde-3.5.8-mmc2.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kde-mmc2 ... dpkg: error processing kde-3.5.8-mmc2.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/bzip2', which is also in package bzip2 rm: cannot remove '/etc/nss_mdns.conf': No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: kde-3.5.8-mmc2.deb Nokia-N800-50-2:/media/mmc2# Nokia-N800-50-2:/media/mmc2# dpkg -i kde-3.5.8-mmc2.deb -sh: Nokia-N800-50-2:/media/mmc2#: not found
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2008-01-16
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I can't seem to install my MFC-5440 Brother Network Printer, which is supposed to be linux-friendly. I try generic profile on cups, but it asks for a mystery username and password.
KDE is for all intensive purposes functional; it really does turn my N800 into a little laptop! I have yet to check if my bluetooth keyboard works with it.
p.s. the connection manager always says "connecting" even after it finds my wireles LAN and successrully transmits. (you probably already know that, penguinbait...)
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