gazza_d did you get chanmce to try the rootfs ? curious to weather it worked,

in a word Steve, No. did not get time last night, although I am hoping to tonight.

Really excited after seeing your recent post that wifi was working after all. May also have bash at chucking it on my N810 if the N800 is sucessful.

Really appreciate your efforts in all of this.

Just had a play, and changing the permissions as you suggested did not work, and neither did flattening and starting from scratch.

mounting P3 as /media/root
mounting P4 as /media/root/data
extracting the tarball to /media/root as root using on Ubuntu 9.10

Checked the permissions on /media/root/system/bin* using ls -al and the permissions are 755.

Reflashed as well, still no joy.

I got latest Android sources to build Dvalik VM directly on Maemo SDK.
My aim is to get Android Market applications run on N900/Maemo.
As I already know libc and linux kernel have been "tuned" in Android, my idea is to create a small library layer to wrap or divert method calls.
As a last step, maybe run Dvalik binaries from a Android ARM image with a dynamic library layer wrapping (like fakeroot does or ld_preload).
As Android experts, what is your "chance of success" estimation of these operations ?
Thank you for your advice and help

My opin would be very slim as android apps don't just use dalvik they depends on jus about every part of the os.

Ok this has not been tested yet (literally tared it up using ssh via me g1 while at work tonight) so imnot sure what may happen.. links below to android 2.1r2 rootfs wifi hopefully wifi and new kernel. Install same as above

Http://www.loadsofspace.net/nitdroid/mnt.tbz2
Http://www.loadsofspace.net/nitdroid/zImage-new

Latest gives the following...

Freeing init memory: 132K
Warning: Unable to open an initial console.
Failed to execute /init. Attempting defaults...
Kernel paninc - not syncing: No init found. try passing init= option to kernel.

That's certainly some form permissions.. what commands are you running to extract archive

in the top level of the root partition, then the following command

sudo tar -jxvf /home/gary/Downloads/mnt.tbz2

extracts fine with no errors.

the flash command is

sudo ./flasher-3.0 -f -k zImage-new --enable-rd-mode -R

and again works without errors, although to be fair to get it working I had to blacklist the phonat drivers, with it being Ubuntu

Have a look at this link:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=577

These guys have android running on multiple WinMo handsets. Maybe you can use some of the info.

For calibration they use a text file that is loaded at startup and automatically calibrates the screen.