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Re: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 268635)

I'm looking forward to your update. I need a virtual keyboard since I've only got an N800.

I'll be running E17 in my usual way, in Xephyr, on top of Maemo, so it should be ... interesting...

I updated the post. Thanks for your help!

I'll try and build the package this evening. Hopefully, they'll all be ready to go soon.

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800

I'll keep posting here, although this is technically a Mer 0.8 chroot thing...

I found, through trial and error, I had to install a few more items:

Code:

apt-get install libevas0-loader-png libevas0-saver-png 

apt-get install libevas0-loader-jpeg libevas0-saver-jpeg

apt-get install libevas0-loader-eet libevas0-saver-eet libeet1=1.1.0+svn38845-maemo1

I also had to remove hildon-desktop and hildon-desktop-env in order to install gnome-menus. And without gnome-menus, the Enlightenment desktop is pretty empty.

UPDATE: So the big show-stopper for E17 in the Mer chroot is the very thing that makes Mer so attractive for a Maemo chroot; the hildon-input-method stylus keyboard tries to pop up when you click on a GTK text area and it brings E17 crashing down... Also, the Liberty theme is a bit of a disaster in E17...

UPDATE2: I put some screenshots in my flickr account:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3383/...a9c853a8_m.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3367/...571f54c4_m.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3655/...c3cb014f_m.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3373/...c3764be3_m.jpg

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 268818)

I'll keep posting here, although this is technically a Mer 0.8 chroot thing...

I found, through trial and error, I had to install a few more items:

Code:

apt-get install libevas0-loader-png libevas0-saver-png 

apt-get install libevas0-loader-jpeg libevas0-saver-jpeg

apt-get install libevas0-loader-eet libevas0-saver-eet libeet1=1.1.0+svn38845-maemo1

That's interesting. . . I wonder what is causing the crash? Did you try disabling the e17 keyboard and/or hildon keyboard? It might be a conflict of some sort. Anyway, I'm hoping to get a better version of e17-data posted soon with a working keyboard of it's own.

I'd recommend the B_and_W theme which you can get from gnome-look.org as a theme.

Also, you could try alternative menu building apps to gnome-menu. It's just one that I knew worked. There's on called "menu" and a few others that do the same thing. Maybe one won't have the dependency problems.

Edit: It looks like you had to install a verson of eet from the ubuntu repos. Could this be part of the problem? Maybe the version of eet I put in isn't working or is missing some packages? Either way, I'm in the process of adding a building a new version and it should be uploaded to the mer repos soon!

*Out of curiosity: Did you have problems with the backgound having sort of "lines" going across them? I had this problem with these packages in my install, but I'm not sure what caused it. The background wallpaer should be a smooth gradient.

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800

I think we should take the E17 discussion elsewhere... This really isn't the thread for it...

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Originally Posted by neatojones (Post 268832)

Did you try disabling the e17 keyboard and/or hildon keyboard?

I didn't ever see an E17 keyboard. And you can't really "disable" the hildon keyboard while in my chroot system, because that would disable it for Maemo, too.

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Originally Posted by neatojones (Post 268832)

Anyway, I'm hoping to get a better version of e17-data posted soon with a working keyboard of it's own.

That would be good!

Quote:

Originally Posted by neatojones (Post 268832)

I'd recommend the B_and_W theme which you can get from gnome-look.org as a theme.

Also, you could try alternative menu building apps to gnome-menu. It's just one that I knew worked. There's on called "menu" and a few others that do the same thing. Maybe one won't have the dependency problems.

The more I see these problems, the more I think this is a project for a vanilla, non-Mer version of Ubuntu.

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Originally Posted by neatojones (Post 268832)

Edit: It looks like you had to install a verson of eet from the ubuntu repos. Could this be part of the problem? Maybe the version of eet I put in isn't working or is missing some packages? Either way, I'm in the process of adding a building a new version and it should be uploaded to the mer repos soon!

Interestingly, the Diablo repositories (which have been activated in Mer) are the culprits. We have newer svn versions of most of the Enlightenment libraries, probably due to Canola. Maybe you could use those when building your package?

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Originally Posted by neatojones (Post 268832)

*Out of curiosity: Did you have problems with the backgound having sort of "lines" going across them? I had this problem with these packages in my install, but I'm not sure what caused it. The background wallpaer should be a smooth gradient.

Yeah, I saw the banding. I assumed that was a problem with the 16-bit colours on the tablet.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3655/...28849d89_o.png

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 268928)

I think we should take the E17 discussion elsewhere... This really isn't the thread for it...

Yeah, I saw the banding. I assumed that was a problem with the 16-bit colours on the tablet.

Agreed. Sorry, for the thread hi-jack, b-man. New thread here: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=27289

BTW: The banding only occurs in the deb version of the e17. My manually built and installed version looks perfect. So, I'll have to look into that problem some more. I believe it is related to the 16bit factor, but not sure how.

Also, my packages are actually newer than the Diablo ones (they are fresh from svn as of the day I build them), I'm just not marking the versions as high as them, apparently.

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800

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Originally Posted by neatojones (Post 268951)

Agreed. Sorry, for the thread hi-jack, b-man. New thread here: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=27289

No problem :)

Btw, i'm working on getting Adobe Flashplayer 9 into the ubuntu-n8x0 repo allong with osso-esd-support (support for osso-esd), osso-esd, libxsp, osso-dsp-loader, taket-hwclock (hardware clock support), tslib, ubuntu-flashplayer (metapackage for Adobe Flashplayer), xsession-gtkstylus (right-click support), xulrunner-plugin-ubuntu-flashplayer (plugin for flashplayer support in firefox), upstart and, xorg-config (package that automaticly configures xorg.conf, Xwrapper.config, and rc.local for the tablets).

and i'll be providing updates for sys-env-base, sys-env-x, and tablet-x ;)

UPDATE: Updated the ubuntu-n8x0 repo to include the above changes :D

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800

just curious -- does the webcam work with ubuntu jaunty?

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800

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Originally Posted by alexey (Post 264638)

Oh dang, I seem to be the one person that noting works for. Deblet's bootmenu starts good, gives me some good messages from the linuxrc file, drops to the splash screen, but then says "Incompatible bootmenu used", like in the screenshots. Can you tell me in which cases it says that? I've checked and rechecked all the options :-( ...

you're not alone :( did you resolve this issue? could someone more skilled than me point me in the right direction? i'm fighting with non-booting jaunty from a lot of hours without success... system seems to start and then "Incompatible bootmenu used". device is a n810, i've installed jaunty with the debootstrap method in first and second posts of this thread. thanks in advance for the help.
i must leave now, i'm going to genuflect myself in front of my wife to (maybe) prevent divorce :)

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800

The sfdisk command in the first post is wrong.
On mine (N810, with latest Diablo) is:

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sfdisk <device>
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Re: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800

Thanks for pointing that out, i'll fix the first post :D

EDIT: What i had originally was actually right, the reason i used '-uM' in that command was so you would be partitioning with megabyte units. :P