Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2024-01-01, 11:19
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,555
N900 battery calibration
I have followed this guide to calibrate the battery:
https://leste.maemo.org/Nokia_N900#Battery_calibration
Still the charging routine doesn't seem to work properly. When obviously fully charged...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-31, 16:25
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,666
Transition from Harmattan to Leste
I have started to utilize Leste on the N900 with some handy applications. One example: MPD + MPC + Command execution widgets = decent audio player. I've been wondering now a couple times, which of...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-29, 10:13
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,371
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-28, 18:38
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,371
Re: Emulators for Leste
ScummVM: OK, it's no emulator, but I guess it fits here...? Installation, adding games and starting them is no problem! I just had to use the command-line, because mouse (touch to mouse) isn't...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-27, 10:03
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,079
Re: Catalogs and Upgrades
Thanks! That might have been the culprit. I didn't know that a too high clock speed can have an impact of that kind.
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-26, 23:23
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,079
Re: Catalogs and Upgrades
Interesting! Could the errors I frequently get when using "apt-get update" be connected to the overclocking? When overclocked like this:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost
the system is...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-25, 08:07
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,079
Re: Catalogs and Upgrades
Merry Christmas everyone! :D
https://phoenix.maemo.org/job/leste-image-n900/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/arm-sdk/dist/
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-21, 18:19
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,079
Re: Catalogs and Upgrades
All seems to be running well now, many thanks!
Weird though that "apt-get update" sometimes works, but sometimes throws this error:
Err:1 https://maedevu.maemo.org/leste chimaera-devel InRelease...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-21, 16:41
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,079
Re: Catalogs and Upgrades
Oh man... yup... I must have sneaked it in and forgot about it.
Got rid of it by
dpkg --remove-architecture armel
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-21, 16:02
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,079
Re: Catalogs and Upgrades
You guys are gold - the signature errors are gone!
after some successful updating, apt-get update still produces a couple of lines like these though:
N: Skipping acquire of configured file...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-21, 15:18
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,079
Re: Catalogs and Upgrades
I used this one: maemo-leste-1.0-armhf-n900-20231203.img
Judging from the date it seems quite recent.
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-21, 15:17
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,079
Re: Catalogs and Upgrades
OK, but then mine looks good to me, except for the ascii ones. Or what do you say?
deb https://maedevu.maemo.org/leste chimaera-devel main contrib non-free n900
deb...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-21, 12:18
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,079
Re: Catalogs and Upgrades
To clarify: I don't mean running them at the same time. But can I run either without restrictions? In Fremantle I remember "don't do apt-get upgrade...".
Also I'm aware that you can't upgrade the...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-21, 09:41
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,017
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-21, 08:38
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,079
Catalogs and Upgrades
I'm a bit puzzled by the messages I get from the Application manager and running apt-get in the terminal. I've upgraded to devel - what should my /etc/apt/sources.list look like? Also - is it save to...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-21, 08:00
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,017
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-20, 23:08
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,017
Re: ZRAM and SWAP
Aaah, sorry! That I have to do a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade was not obvious to me! Running right now!
EDIT: The upgrade went without issues. For some reason the OC-tweaks stated above keep...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-20, 22:48
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,017
Re: ZRAM and SWAP
Thanks for the hint! I'm looking at this paraghraph:
https://leste.maemo.org/Nokia_N900#Overclocking
"Overclocking is now available in -devel using cpufreq boost.
It uses...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-20, 21:36
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,017
Re: ZRAM and SWAP
Ah, OK! Thanks for the warning! I was hoping for a slight boost of responsiveness, though... I guess I'll look into overclocking then.
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2023-12-20, 17:42
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Replies: 35
Views: 15,182
Re: Using the N900 in 2023
Wow!! Does this mean that finally we can browse the interwebs again? regarding "column" - I found a way not to use it. So thanks a ton, but I personally am fine without it, as of now.
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-20, 10:25
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,017
ZRAM and SWAP
I'm experiencing trouble activating zram.
During boot it says at one point:
Activating swapfile swap, if any...done.
Later it says:
root: Starting Zram
/usr/sbin/zramswap: line 53: echo: write...
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2023-12-19, 16:28
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Replies: 35
Views: 15,182
Re: Using the N900 in 2023
Huh... Back on Maemo 5: While this package is not listed on my device, I found that "nl" and "paste" are already present in /usr/bin/gnu - the shell just doesn't know that. For my application I still...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2023-12-18, 22:02
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Replies: 49
Views: 16,573
Re: Applications Wishlist
Queen Beecon Widget!!
Tried installing it by putting
sudo dpkg --add-architecture armel
and
sudo dpkg -i queen-beecon_1.3.3_armel.deb
but of course there were too many unmet dependencies....
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2023-12-18, 20:00
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Replies: 35
Views: 15,182
Re: Using the N900 in 2023
Thanks, I'll try this out! In the meanwhile I found a quick workaround: Install Leste and then the package
bsdmainutils
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2023-12-18, 16:16
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Replies: 35
Views: 15,182
Re: Using the N900 in 2023
Thanks for the info! I know I might be wrong here - but can you just point me towards a how-to...? Also - would I compile the tools separately or a whole package like coreutils?
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