Mer + LXDE on N900 = Ubuntu Mobile?
 

Not sure if this might be useful to anyone, but here it is. Try at your own risk.

I installed Mer onto my N900 micro-sd card in a dual boot configuration, as per the instructions here;

http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2010...okia-n900.html

The only difference was that I used the most recent image found here. http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0...sting11.tar.gz

This works, but due to waiting for the GL support is not really useable.

Then I configured network access, and followed these instructions for installing LXDE.

apt-get update
apt-get --no-install-recommends install lxde libgtkstylus onboard
echo "exec startlxde" >> ~/.xinitrc

and reboot!

Original instructions found here for N810, but it worked for me on my N900;
http://blog.linuxniche.net/?p=64

I haven't really done much testing yet, but it seems to work reasonably well!

Enjoy!

Re: Mer + LXDE on N900 = Ubuntu Mobile?
 

Wow.. that's cool to see my instructions still work on a new device and after this much time ;). But, Mer is Mer so no surprise there.

Awesome to see someone got LXDE on their N900.. Mer+LXDE on my N810 was extremely useful for a long time with all the debian packages that ran just fine when used with a stylus.

Too bad phone stuff wouldn't work (at least, I wouldn't think so)... until that gets sorted I'd still think running Easy Debian + LXDE would be a better solution.

Re: Mer + LXDE on N900 = Ubuntu Mobile?
 

Yep, the instructions work and thank-you as I use LXDE/Mer on my N810 as well! For some reason on the N900 if you omit the --no-install-recommends and allow GDM to install it wouldn't boot, so I re-installed Mer and started again.

Indeed, no phone stuff as yet, but sadly I find that I can't really use my N900 as a phone anyway, due to the poor signal reception I get with it (everywhere!). I have had to go back to using my N82 as my everyday phone and using the N900 purely as an Internet tablet, which is a real shame as I originally intended to replace my N810 and my N82...

Re: Mer + LXDE on N900 = Ubuntu Mobile?
 

There are screenshots or video as it looks on N900? How speed of operation?

Re: Mer + LXDE on N900 = Ubuntu Mobile?
 

Re: Mer + LXDE on N900 = Ubuntu Mobile?
 

That does run pretty fast. You need to get a human theme so it will look more like ubuntu tho.

Re: Mer + LXDE on N900 = Ubuntu Mobile?
 

apt-get update
apt-get --no-install-recommends install lxde libgtkstylus onboard
echo "exec startlxde" >> ~/.xinitrc

How is this done ?
I cant get the onscreen keyboard to work. I see it, i can type. but it does not show up in terminal.
On the N900 keyboard i can not find a button for the "-"

Re: Mer + LXDE on N900 = Ubuntu Mobile?
 

isnt it easier to download easy debian???


no need to do some dual boot config if you ask me....

Re: Mer + LXDE on N900 = Ubuntu Mobile?
 

easy debian runs "inside" of maemo.
so you need resources for both OS.

mer runs on its own and can use 100% of the resources.

so i would think that mer is noticable faster than easy debian. (:

Re: Mer + LXDE on N900 = Ubuntu Mobile?
 

Thats true, but I didn't notice any REALLY speed increase in the youtube video (couple post above this one)... :rolleyes: