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jamesgloucester	2011-05-17 , 02:05
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Originally Posted by Gi0

Had an idea about the keyboard(..wonder why i havent checked earlier). I checked Text Input on my N900 settings. I had Hardware Keyboard set to Greek. Turned it to English,Netherlands full of hope but still no luck. Messed up characters.

To those without a keyboard problem, whats your Text Input Settings on your N900?

@jamesgloucester
Answer the above question pls

Edit:Also, does anyone have UKeyboard installed ?

Sorry for not getting back sooner.

Keyboard settings are UK, Nederlands
1st language UK, dictionary UK
No 2nd language

I can fix the locale issue using the method described by sequel7 (tried both US and GB)

Still getting keyboard issues though

I don't have ukeyboard installed (could installing this help?)
EDIT: I'm using presenceVNC

Last edited by jamesgloucester; 2011-05-17 at 02:12.

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	Gi0	2011-05-17 , 02:33
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Same here,tried a couple of compinations on Locale and Text Input, nothing seems to work. I have the UKeyboard installed, no help also.
I ve also tried presenceVNC besides VNC Viewer on my N900. I ve also tried RealVCN while connecting from my windows machine, no luck again.
/me puzzled

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mr_pingu	2011-05-17 , 05:27
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Originally Posted by arnoldux

even so, for the people that have problem with the swap, you can hex edit the iso emmc file to get a lot more swap memory and app install memory, i did that when i flashed, i gues you guys wont flash but its the easiest way to get more mem wihtout the trouble of gparted and otther partition apps

cheerrs

Well, that's not really the problem. Its more like when I run free in the chrooted xterm I see only 2-4 mb free of RAM and about 500 mb free of swap but still Backtrack/ presence VNC crash constantly...

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maxxdout	2011-05-17 , 12:35
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Originally Posted by mr_pingu

Well, that's not really the problem. Its more like when I run free in the chrooted xterm I see only 2-4 mb free of RAM and about 500 mb free of swap but still Backtrack/ presence VNC crash constantly...

FYI real vnc doesnt seem to crash very often, it runs nicely in fullscreen. also im thinking this meego n900 keymap possibly be made to work with bt5. look here https://meego.gitorious.org/meego-de...rge_requests/4
[/URL] looking more into this after work, my eyes were burning last night and i had to stop

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maxxdout	2011-05-17 , 13:14
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those keymaps i was just talking about are used in this kubuntu ARM setup script!!! https://wiki.kubuntu.org/ARM/n900/ as part of nokia-n900-configs. looks promising!

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sequel7	2011-05-17 , 14:12
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Originally Posted by maxxdout

FYI real vnc doesnt seem to crash very often, it runs nicely in fullscreen

do you mean a real vnc client on the N900? I didn't see an install package for it, was I just not looking hard enough?

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maxxdout	2011-05-17 , 14:44
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sorry, the default vnc viewer. it has same symbol as realvnc. it doesnt have the nice toolbar like presence but once we figure out the keyboard issue mapping custom keys shouldnt be an issue

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sr00t	2011-05-17 , 14:50
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Getting this error guys.

Code:

Nokia-N900:~# qchroot /home/user/MyDocs/downloads/BT5-GNOME-ARM/bt5.img /mnt/bt5/
..stripping trailing slash...
Mounting...
using image file: /home/user/MyDocs/downloads/BT5-GNOME-ARM/bt5.img
fs type is img
Don't know img: Using ext2 file system
Using ext2 file system
mounting /home/user/MyDocs/downloads/BT5-GNOME-ARM/bt5.img on loop
Mount failure!
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /mnt/bt5 failed: Invalid argument
Cancelling chroot...

Code:

Nokia-N900:~# md5sum  /home/user/MyDocs/downloads/BT5-GNOME-ARM/bt5.img
4f378f01b35b598d0b7f7b8177499cb2  /home/user/MyDocs/downloads/BT5-GNOME-ARM/bt5.img
Nokia-N900:~#

Searched through the post and I didn't find any solution.. I don't see any missing files..
Please help me!

Last edited by sr00t; 2011-05-17 at 14:56.

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sequel7	2011-05-17 , 15:00
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Originally Posted by sr00t

mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /mnt/bt5 failed: Invalid argument
Cancelling chroot...[/CODE]

...

Searched through the post and I didn't find any solution.. I don't see any missing files..
Please help me!

Does /mnt/bt5 exist?

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misiak	2011-05-17 , 15:46
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Originally Posted by sr00t

Getting this error guys.

Code:

[...]
using image file: /home/user/MyDocs/downloads/BT5-GNOME-ARM/bt5.img
fs type is img
Don't know img: Using ext2 file system
Using ext2 file system
mounting /home/user/MyDocs/downloads/BT5-GNOME-ARM/bt5.img on loop
Mount failure!
[...]

Please help me!

Well, maybe not very creative, but what if you try to rename bt5.img to bt5.ext3 for example? I haven't checked if bt5.img is ext2 or ext3, I just mounted it on my PC and copied all files to my custom ext3 formatted sd card and forgot about .img file :P

You should be able to rename bt5.img to bt5.ext3 via file manager, then just replace in the command bt5.img to bt5.ext3

If it doesn't work, just rename bt5.ext3 back to bt5.img (to avoid future confusion).

Btw, after some tweaking and copying scripts from Easy Debian (and "apt-get install xserver-xephyr wmctrl") I've managed to run gnome desktop in chroot, but it crashed in less than 10 seconds - there were parts of BackTrack desktop and Maemo desktop visible alltogether on the screen - and all apps totally lost all focus, could not click anything and had to reboot... happened 3 times in a row while trying to use different DISPLAY variable values. I stopped trying again due to lack of time. And "apt-get install lxde" and trying to use unmodified Easy Debian scripts crashed on installing some packages (lxde-icon-theme or something similar was the problem, it returned errors with "broken pipe" and could not continue). Tried with both uncommented Ubuntu repositories (it looks like this image is just modded Ubuntu arm...? look at /etc/apt/sources.list) and copied repositories from Easy Debian's /etc/apt/sources.list, both seem to fail at installation.

About my attempts to run desktop in chroot: if anyone wants to try, that's what i made:
- uncommented repostitories in /etc/apt/sources.list
- "apt-get update" and "apt-get install xserver-xephyr wmctrl"
- copied scripts from Easy Debian - /usr/bin/xephwm5 and other which it uses and tweaked them
Then it was trying to start but showed some strange things on screen and had to reboot phone.
- tried "apt-get install lxde" and copying all /usr/bin/xeph* and /usr/bin/set-focus and /usr/bin/startlxde* scripts (and few others maybe, I don't remember) and run it without modification - on my phone the installation of lxde failed.